§ Mr. CLYNESMay I ask if the Leader of the House will announce the business for next week; and also what are the Government's intentions as to the length to which they propose to carry the Finance Bill to-night?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI cannot answer the last question of my right hon. Friend, as that is a matter which must be left to the discretion of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be exercised in the light of the course which the proceedings take to-night.
§ The business we propose to take next week is as follows:
§ Monday and Tuesday: Further stages of the Finance Bill.
§ Wednesday: Church of Scotland Bill, Second Reading; Indian Divorces (Validity) Bill, Second, Reading; National Health Insurance Bill, Second Reading; and Motion to set up Estimates Committee.
§ Thursday: Supply, Cabinet Offices Vote, including salary of Minister without Portfolio; Railway and Canal Agreement Vote and Supplementary Estimate to this Vote; Treasury and Subordinate Departments Vote (Class II 4) Parliamentary Secretaries Salaries.
§ Friday: The business will be announced next week.
§ Ordered, "That the Proceedings on the Finance Bill have precedence this day of the Business of Supply."—[Mr. Chamberlain.]