Mr. PIKE PEASE (for Mr. Hicks Beach)asked the Prime Minister when the second reading of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture Bill will be taken?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIf this Bill could be regarded as non-controversial, I should be prepared to move the second 2004 reading on an early day; but if the Bill is to be debated on the second reading I cannot name any date before Whitsuntide.