HC Deb 01 August 1906 vol 162 cc1068-9
MR. JOHN REDMOND (Waterford)

It would be convenient if the right hon Gentleman the Prime Minister would now give us the terms of the Resolution that he will move on Saturday for the rising of the House, giving us first the date of the reassembling and telling us whether the Resolution will provide for the taking of the whole of the time of the House by the Government and what business the Government intend to put down on the first day the House reassembles.

SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN

The date of the reassembling of the House will be October 23rd. The Motion which I shall propose for suspending the sittings until that date will include the Resolution to give all the time of the autumn sittings to Government business. The business on the first day will be the Merchant Shipping Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill.

MR. JOHN REDMOND

I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman will consider the desirability for leaving a part of the first day upon which we reassemble for private Members' Motions. The reason I ask the Question is that owing to a misunderstanding with reference to Irish Estimates we were prevented from raising most important questions with regard to Irish education which could under the circumstances be taken as a private Member's Motion.

SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN

I do not think I can make any exception for any individual case.

MR. WALTER LONG

On the reassembling of the House, will the eleven o'clock rule be suspended all through the sittings?

SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN

I do not know what we may come to, but we certainly shall not start with the suspension of the eleven o'clock rule. All that will be done will be to give precedence to and limit the sittings to Government business.

MR. MORTON

May I ask at what hour this House will meet on Saturday morning?

SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN

I think on such occasions it usually meets at ten o'clock.

*MR. MORTON

I beg to give notice that at an early date I intend to call attention to the appointment of magistrates in the counties of Scotland, and to move a Resolution thereon.