§ * SIR CHARLES DILKE Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the fact that the London Elections Bill deals with the re-arrangement of areas for Parliamentary elections, with which it has not hitherto been customary to deal except at the time of and in connection with a general redistribution of Parliamentary seats, and whether he was informed by the Local Government Board of the intention 1129 so to deal with Parliamentary areas before the Bill was introduced under the new Rule, all question or division on the matter being thus precluded.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI think the Bill to which the right hon. Baronet refers hardly comes under the description of a redistribution Bill. As I understand, it was pressed on my right hon. friend the President of the Local Government Board by both Parties, and has no political significance whatever. Under those circumstances I hope it will pass through the House without difficulty.