§ SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANasked as to the arrangements for business, and especially as to the Unemployed and Workmen's Compensation Bills.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURIt is clear that we can take neither the Workmen's Compensation Bill nor the Unemployed Bill until we have disposed of the Committee stage of the Aliens Bill, and until we have made much further progress with the Scotch Bill I can enter into no pledge with regard to either of these Bills except the negative statement which I have just made. I think it is too early to ask about Mondav. I do not know precisely what 792 progress the House will be able to make with the Aliens Bill.
§ MR. CROOKS (Woolwich)Are we to understand that the Unemployed Bill is absolutely dead? We might have an Answer; we shall be out of our misery sooner.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI do not think the hon. Gentleman should be in too great haste to deliver a funeral oration. No doubt the time of Parliament is running short, but the amount of business that can be done in the time that remains depends mainly, indeed, almost entirely, upon the good will of Members on both sides of the House, and I am not in a position to measure the degree of that good will at present.