§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINMay I ask the Prime Minister whether he can give us to-day the answer which he foreshadowed to the question of my right hon. Friend yesterday, in relation to the commencement and duration of the Easter Recess?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIt is proposed to ask the House to meet at Eleven o'Clock on Thursday, the 17th April, and to rise not later than Five p.m. on that day for the Easter Recess. Unless any unforeseen and untoward circumstance arises, we propose to reassemble on Tuesday, the 29th April.
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINMay I ask the Prime Minister, for purposes of record and clarity, how far he proposes to go to-night?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI hope that it will not be necessary to sit late. We are proposing the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule merely in order to 1078 ensure that we can definitely carry out the arrangement under which the Third Rending of the Coal Mines Bill will be disposed of not later than half-past Seven on Thursday.
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Ordered,
That the Proceedings on the Coal Mines Bill be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[The Prime Minister.]