§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the doctrines, articles, rules, rites, and discipline laid down in the Book of Common Prayer will be binding upon the Church in Wales after the passing of the Established Church (Wales) Bill and upon all its members, lay and clerical; 573 whether the Representative Body established by the Established Church (Wales) Bill will have power to alter the Book of Common Prayer with or without the assent of Parliament or Convocation; whether in the event of any alteration being made by the Representative Body the Church in Wales will still be in full communion with the Established Church; and whether the privileges entitling the clergy of the Church in Wales to promotion to benefices and ecclesiastical offices in England without reordination in the event of the Book of Common Prayer being altered by the Representative Body in Wales will remain?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The answer to the second part of the question is that the Synod, not the Representative Body, will have power to alter the Book of Common Prayer without the consent of Parliament or Convocation, if such a power be conferred on it by the constitution of the Church of Wales. The answer to the third part of the question will depend on the decision of the Established Church and the Welsh Church. The answer to the fourth part of the question is that it will depend on the nature of the alterations.
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREWill the Synod consist of laymen as well as clergy?
§ Mr. McKENNARepresentative laymen.
§ Mr. EDGAR JONESWill there be a majority of laymen on the Synod?