§ Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALDCan the Prime Minister say what is the business for next week? Will he also say how far he proposes to go with the Orders to-day?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI hope to get the business which I have already stated to the House for to-day and to-morrow carried in the two days. I do not think it is possible to carry everything that appears on the Paper for to-night. The business for next week will be:
Monday: Importation of Animals Bill, Committee, and, if there should be anything left over from Friday, I hope we shall be able to take it.
Tuesday: Importation of Animals Bill, Report and Third Reading; Supplementary Estimates, Reports of the 7th and 8th December, if not taken on Friday.
Wednesday and Thursday: Consolidated Fund Bill, Second and Third Readings.
Friday: Lords Amendments to Bills, and Prorogation.
§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYCan the right hon. Gentleman say whether if the first two Orders take until midnight it is proposed to take Supplementary Estimates to-night?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe Government are meeting the general convenience of the House in finishing our business on Friday in next week. That cannot be done unless there is good will in the House. I hope we shall have it.
§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYIs it not essential that Estimates should be taken at a reasonably early hour, and could not some of the other Orders be taken later, if necessary, so that the Estimates could come on at a reasonable time?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI can assure the hon. Member that it is the desire of the Government, that everything should be taken at a reasonable time, but we have made what seems to me the best arrangements possible if we are to finish next week.
§ Mr. MacDONALDCan the Prime Minister give the House any idea now as to when he proposes to ask us to come back for the next Session?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI would rather that the hon. Gentleman would ask me that question some day next week.
§ Mr. PRINGLECan the right hon. Gentleman arrange that, as far as possible, the Supplementary Estimates which are taken late to-night should be those of lesser importance, so as to enable us to deal with the more important Estimates to-morrow?
§ The PRIME MINISTERAs a rule it is the practice—and I am sure that it will be done in this case—to take them in the order in which they are announced.
§ Mr. MACPHERSONOn a point of Order. May I ask a question as to questions affecting Scotland? On no day, so far as I can gather, during this Session have Scottish questions been reached. Would it not be possible that on at least one day in the week Scottish questions should appear earlier on the Paper so that they can be reached?
§ The PRIME MINISTERMy hon. Friend has already drawn my attention to the fact that Scottish questions were
§ not being reached at all, and he has arranged to take them third on Tuesdays.
Captain BENNAre not Scottish Members under the double disadvantage that they have no Scottish Minister to interrogate, and no day on which to interrogate them?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIf the hon. and gallant Member wishes to press the matter further, there is also the disadvantage that we have a Government in which there are not enough Scotchmen.
§
Ordered,
That the Proceedings on the Importation of Animals Bill and the Trade Facilities and Loans Guarantee Bill have precedence this day of the Business of Supply."—[The Prime Minister.]
§ Motion made, and Question put, "That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted at this day's Sitting from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House).—[The Prime Minister.]
§ The House divided: Ayes, 256: Noes, 146.
2001| Division No. 22.] | AYES. | [3.53 p.m. |
| Agg-Gardner, Sir James Tynte | Cassels, J. D. | Fawkes, Major F. H. |
| Alexander, E. E. (Leyton, East) | Cautley, Henry Strother | Fermor-Hesketh, Major T. |
| Allen, Lieut.-Col. Sir William James | Cayzer, Sir C. (Chester, City) | Fisher, Rt. Hon. Herbert A. L. |
| Amery, Rt. Hon. Leopold C. M. S. | Cecil, Rt. Hon. Sir Evelyn (Aston) | Ford, Patrick Johnston |
| Apsley, Lord | Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J. A. (Birm. W.) | Foreman, Sir Henry |
| Astbury, Lieut.-Com. Frederick W. | Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. N. (Ladywood) | Forestier-Walker, L. |
| Astor, J. J. (Kent, Dover) | Chapman, Sir S. | Foxcroft, Captain Charles Talbot |
| Baird, Rt. Hon. Sir John Lawrence | Churchman, Sir Arthur | Fraser, Major Sir Keith |
| Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley | Clarry, Reginald George | Fremantle, Lieut.-Colonel Francis E. |
| Balfour, George (Hampstead) | Clay, Lieut.-Colonel H. H. Spender | Ganzoni, Sir John |
| Barlow, Rt. Hon. Sir Montague | Clayton, G. C. | Gardiner, James |
| Barnett, Major Richard W. | Cockerill, Brigadier-General G. K. | Gates, Percy |
| Becker, Harry | Colfox, Major Wm. Phillips | George, Major G. L. (Pembroke) |
| Bellairs, Commander Carlyon W. | Colvin, Brig.-General Richard Beale | Gilbert, James Daniel |
| Benn, Sir A. S. (Plymouth, Drake) | Conway, Sir W. Martin | Goff, Sir R. Park |
| Bennett, A. J. (Mansfield) | Cotts, Sir William Dingwall Mitchell | Gould, James C. |
| Bentinck, Lord Henry Cavendish- | Courthope, Lieut.-Col. George L. | Gray, Harold (Cambridge) |
| Berry, Sir George | Craig, Captain C. C. (Antrim, South) | Greaves-Lord, Walter |
| Betterton, Henry B. | Craik, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry | Greene, Lt.-Col. Sir W. (Hack'y, N.) |
| Birchall, Major J. Dearman | Crooke, J. S. (Deritend) | Greenwood, William (Stockport) |
| Bird, Sir R. B. (Wolverhampton, W.) | Curzon, Captain Viscount | Gretton, Colonel John |
| Blades, Sir George Rowland | Dalziel, Sir D. (Lambeth, Brixton) | Guinness, Lieut.-Col. Hon. W. E. |
| Blundell, F. N. | Davidson, J.C. C. (Hemel Hempstead) | Gwynne, Rupert S. |
| Bowyer, Capt. G. E. W. | Davies, Alfred Thomas (Lincoln) | Hacking, Captain Douglas H. |
| Boyd-Carpenter, Major A. | Davison, Sir W. H. (Kensington, S.) | Hall, Rr-Admi Sir W.(Liv'p'I, W.D'by) |
| Brass, Captain W. | Dixon, C. H. (Rutland) | Halstead, Major D. |
| Brassey, Sir Leonard | Doyle, N. Grattan | Hamilton, Sir George C. (Altrincham) |
| Bridgeman, Rt. Hon. William Clive | Du Pre, Colonel William Baring | Hannon, Patrick Joseph Henry |
| Briggs, Harold | Edge, Captain Sir William | Harmsworth, Hon. E. C. (Kent) |
| Brittain, Sir Harry | Edmondson, Major A. J. | Harrison, F. C. |
| Brown, Brig. Gen. Clifton (Newbury) | Ednam, Viscount | Hawke, John Anthony |
| Brown, J. W. (Middlesbrough, E.) | Elliot, Capt. Walter E (Lanark) | Hay, Major T. W. (Norfolk, South) |
| Bruford, R. | Ellis, R. G. | Henderson, Sir T. (Roxburgh) |
| Bruton, Sir James | Elveden, Viscount | Henn, Sir Sydney H. |
| Buckingham, Sir H. | England, Lieut.-Colonel A. | Hennessy, Major J. R. G. |
| Buckley, Lieut.-Colonel A. | Erskine, Lord (Weston-super-Mare) | Herbert, S. (Scarborough) |
| Burn, Col. C. R. (Devon, Torquay) | Erskine-Bolst, Captain C. | Hewett, Sir J. P. |
| Burney, Com. (Middx., Uxbridge) | Evans, Capt. H. Arthur (Leicester, E.) | Hiley, Sir Ernest |
| Butler, H. M. (Leeds, North) | Evans, Ernest (Cardigan) | Hinds, John |
| Butt, Sir Alfred | Eyres-Monsell, Com. Bolton M. | Hoare, Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. J. G. |
| Button, H. S. | Falcon, Captain Michael | Hogg, Rt. Hon. Sir D. (St. Marylebone) |
| Campion, Lieut.-Colonel W. R. | Falle, Major Sir Bertram Godfray | Holbrook, Sir Arthur Richard |
| Hood, Sir Joseph | Morrison-Bell, Major A. C. (Honiton) | Shepperson, E. W. |
| Hopkins, John W. W. | Murchison, C. K. | Skelton, A. N. |
| Houston, Sir Robert Patterson | Newman, Colonel J. R. P. (Finchley) | Somerville, Daniel (Barrow-in-Furness) |
| Howard, Capt. D. (Cumberland, N.) | Newman, Sir R. H. S. D. L. (Exeter) | Sparkes, H. W. |
| Howard-Bury, Lieut.-Col. C. K. | Newton, Sir D. G. C. (Cambridge) | Spears, Brig-Gen. E. L. |
| Hudson, Capt. A. | Nicholson, Brig.-Gen. J. (Westminster) | Stanley, Lord |
| Hughes, Collingwood | Nicholson, William G. (Petersfield) | Steel, Major S. Strang |
| Hurd, Percy A. | Nield, Sir Herbert | Stewart, Gershom (Wirral) |
| Hurst, Lt.-Col. Gerald Berkeley | Norton-Griffiths, Lieut.-Col. Sir John | Stott, Lt.-Col. W. H. |
| Hutchison, G. A. C. (Peebles, N.) | Oman, Sir Charles William C. | Strauss, Edward Anthony |
| Hutchison, W. (Kelvingrove) | Ormsby-Gore, Hon. William | Stuart, Lord C. Crichton- |
| Jackson, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. F. S. | Paget, T. G. | Sueter, Rear-Admiral Murray Fraser |
| James, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Cuthbert | Parker, Owen (Kettering) | Sugden, Sir Wilfrid H. |
| Jarrett, G. W. S. | Parry, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Henry | Sutherland, Rt. Hon. Sir William |
| Jephcott, A. R. | Pease, Rt. Hon. Herbert Pike | Sykes, Major-Gen. Sir Frederick H. |
| Johnson, Sir L. (Walthamstow, E.) | Pennefather, De Fonblanque | Terrell, Captain R. (Oxford, Henley) |
| Joynson-Hicks, Sir William | Penny, Frederick George | Thomson, Luke (Sunderland) |
| Kennedy, Captain M. S. Nigel | Peto, Basil E. | Thomson, F. C. (Aberdeen, South) |
| King, Capt. Henry Douglas | Pielou, D. P. | Tryon, Rt. Hon. George Clement |
| Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Pilditch, Sir Philip | Tubbs, S. W. |
| Lamb, J. Q. | Pownall, Lieut.-Colonel Assheton | Turton, Edmund Russborough |
| Law, Rt. Hon. A. B. (Glasgow, C.) | Pretyman, Rt. Hon. Ernest G. | Vaughan-Morgan, Col. K. P. |
| Leigh, Sir John (Clapham) | Privett, F. J. | Wallace, Captain E. |
| Lloyd-Greame, Rt. Hon. Sir Philip | Raeburn, Sir William H. | Waring, Major Walter |
| Locker-Lampson, Com. O. (Handsw'th) | Raine, W, | Watson, Capt. J. (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Lorimer, H. D. | Rawson, Lieut.-Com. A. C. | Watts, Dr. T. (Man., Withington) |
| Lowe, Sir Francis William | Rees, Sir Beddoe | Wells, S. R. |
| Loyd, Arthur Thomas (Abingdon) | Reid, Capt. A. S. C. (Warrington) | Weston, Colonel John Wakefield |
| Lumley, L. R. | Rentoul, G. S. | Wheler, Col. Granville C. H. |
| M'Connell, Thomas E. | Reynolds, W. G. W. | White, Lt.-Col. G. D. (Southport) |
| McCurdy, Rt. Hon. Charles A. | Richardson, Sir Alex. (Gravesend) | Whitla, Sir William |
| Macnaghten, Hon. Sir Malcolm | Richardson, Lt.-Col. Sir P. (Chrtsy) | Windsor, Viscount |
| McNeill, Ronald (Kent, Canterbury) | Roberts, Rt. Hon. Sir S. (Ecclesall) | Winterton, Earl |
| Macpherson, Rt. Hon. James I. | Robertson, J. D. (Islington, W.) | Wise, Frederick |
| Makins, Brigadier-General E. | Roundell, Colonel R. F. | Wolmer, Viscount |
| Malone, Major P. B. (Tottenham, S.) | Ruggles-Brise, Major E. | Wood, Major Sir S. Hill- (High Peak) |
| Martin, A. E. (Essex, Romford) | Russell, Alexander West (Tynemouth) | Woodcock, Colonel H. C. |
| Mason, Lieut.-Col. C. K. | Russell, William (Bolton) | Worthington-Evans, Rt. Hon. Sir L. |
| Milne, J. S. Wardlaw | Russell-Wells, Sir Sydney | Yate, Colonel Sir Charles Edward |
| Mitchell, W. F. (Saffron Walden) | Samuel, A. M. (Surrey, Farnham) | Yerburgh, R. D. T. |
| Mitchell, Sir W. Lane (Streatham) | Sanders, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert A. | Young, Rt. Hon. E. H. (Norwich) |
| Molson, Major John Elsdale | Sanderson, Sir Frank B. | |
| Moore, Major-General Sir Newton J. | Shakespeare, G. H. | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.— |
| Morden, Col. W. Grant | Sheffield, Sir Berkeley | Colonel Gibbs and Major Barnston. |
| Morrison, Hugh (Wilts, Salisbury) | ||
| NOES. | ||
| Adamson, W. M. (Staff., Cannock) | Falconer, J. | Lee, F. |
| Alexander, A. V. (Sheffield, Hillsbro') | Foot, Isaac | Linfield, F. C. |
| Asquith, Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry | Graham, W. (Edinburgh, Central) | Lowth, T. |
| Attlee, C. R. | Gray, Frank (Oxford) | MacDonald, J. R. (Aberavon) |
| Barker, G. (Monmouth, Abertillery) | Greenwood, A. (Nelson and Colne) | M'Entee, V. L. |
| Barnes, A, | Grenfell, D. R. (Glamorgan) | McLaren, Andrew |
| Batey, Joseph | Groves, T. | Maclean, Neil (Glasgow, Govan) |
| Benn, Captain Wedgwood (Leith) | Grundy, T. W. | March, S. |
| Berkeley, Captain Reginald | Hall, F. (York, W. R., Normanton) | Marshall, Sir Arthur H. |
| Bonwick, A. | Hall, G. H. (Merthyr Tydvil) | Martin, F. (Aberd'n & Kinc'dine, E.) |
| Bowdler, W. A. | Hamilton, Sir R. (Orkney & Shetland) | Mathew, C. J. |
| Bowerman, Rt. Hon. Charles W. | Hancock, John George | Maxton, James |
| Broad, F. A. | Harbord, Arthur | Middleton, G. |
| Brotherton, J. | Harris, Percy A. | Millar, J. D. |
| Brown, James (Ayr and Bute) | Hay, Captain J. P. (Cathcart) | Morel, E. D. |
| Buchanan, G. | Hayday, Arthur | Morrison, R. C. (Tottenham, N.) |
| Buckie, J. | Herriotts, J. | Mosley, Oswald |
| Burgess, S. | Hill, A. | Muir, John W. |
| Burnie, Major J. (Bootle) | Hillary, A. E. | Murnin, H. |
| Buxton, Charles (Accrington) | Hirst, G. H. | Murray, R. (Renfrew, Western) |
| Buxton, Noel (Norfolk, North) | Hodge, Rt. Hon. John | Nichol, Robert |
| Cairns, John | Hodge, Lieut.-Col. J. P. (Preston) | O'Connor, Thomas P. |
| Chapple, W. A. | Hogge, James Myles | Oliver, George Harold |
| Charleton, H. C. | John, William (Rhondda, West) | Phillipps, Vivian |
| Clarke, Sir E. C. | Johnston, Thomas (Stirling) | Ponsonby, Arthur |
| Clynes, Rt. Hon. John R. | Jones, J. J. (West Ham, Silvertown) | Pringle, W. M. R. |
| Collins, Pat (Walsall) | Jones, R. T. (Carnarvon) | Richards, R. |
| Cowan, D. M. (Scottish Universities) | Jones, T. I. Mardy (Pontypridd) | Richardson, R. (Houghton-le-Spring) |
| Darbishire, C. W. | Jowett, F. w. (Bradford, East) | Riley, Ben |
| Davies, Evan (Ebbw Vale) | Kelley, Major Fred (Rotherham) | Ritson, J. |
| Davies, Rhys John (Westhoughton) | Kenworthy, Lieut.-Commander J. M. | Roberts, C. H. (Derby) |
| Davison, J. E. (Smethwick) | Kenyon, Barnet | Roberts, Frederick O. (W. Bromwich) |
| Duncan, C. | Kirkwood, D. | Robertson, J. (Lanark, Bothwell) |
| Dunnico, H. | Lambert, Rt. Hon, George | Rose, Frank H. |
| Edmonds, G. | Lansbury, George | Salter, Dr. A. |
| Edwards, C. (Monmouth, Bedwellty) | Lawson, John James | Scrymgeour, E. |
| Emlyn-Jones, J. E. (Dorset, N.) | Leach, W. | Sexton, James |
| Shaw, Hon. Alex. (Kilmarnock) | Sullivan, J. | Westwood, J. |
| Shaw, Thomas (Preston) | Thomson, T. (Middlesbrough, West) | Wheatley, J. |
| Shinwell, Emanuel | Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton, E.) | White, Charles F. (Derby, Western) |
| Short, Alfred (Wednesbury) | Thorne, W. (West Ham, Plaistow) | White, H. G. (Birkenhead, E.) |
| Simon, Rt. Hon. Sir John | Thornton, M. | Whiteley, W. |
| Simpson, J. Hope | Tout, W. J. | Wignall, James |
| Sitch, Charles H. | Trevelyan, C. P. | Williams, David (Swansea, E.) |
| Smith, T. (Pontefract) | Warne, G. H. | Wilson, R. J. (Jarrow) |
| Snell, Harry | Watson, W. M. (Dunfermline) | Wood, Major M. M. (Aberdeen, C.) |
| Snowden, Philip | Watts-Morgan, Lt.-Col. D. (Rhondda) | Young, Robert (Lancaster, Newton) |
| Spencer, George A, (Broxtowe) | Webb, Sidney | |
| Stephen, Campbell | Wedgwood, Colonel Josiah C. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.— |
| Stewart, J. (St. Rollox) | Weir, L. M. | Mr. Lunn and Mr. Morgan Jones. |