§ Mr. MOONEYasked the Chairman of Ways and Means whether, in view of the fact that Provisional Order Confirmation Bills are really Private Bills attached to a Public Bill in the form of a schedule, he can take steps to provide that, in all cases where amendments are made in such Provisional Order Confirmation Bills by the other House, printed copies of such amendments shall be laid in the Vote Office or Library of the House of Commons, as in the case of ordinary Private Bills, before the time set aside for the consideration by this House of such amendments?
§ The CHAIRMAN of WAYS and MEANS (Mr. Emmott)I need hardly remind my hon. Friend that Lords amendments to Provisional Order Confirmation Bills are, as a rule, of the nature of drafting amendments and are rarely important. To print them in all cases would involve a useless expenditure of public money, but in cases in which important amendments are made they will in future be printed. In reply to the latter part of the question, if the amendments are printed they will be circulated with the Bills in the usual way.