HC Deb 05 November 1930 vol 244 cc851-2
Mr. DOUGLAS HACKING

asked the Prime Minister when he intends to introduce the Trade Disputes Act Amendment Bill?

Mr. P SNOWDEN

The Prime Minister is not yet in a position to name a date.

Mr. HACKING

Is it still the determination of the Government that this Bill should be well on the way to the Statute Book before Christmas?

Mr. SNOWDEN indicated assent.

Sir K. WOOD

What is the reason for the delay, in as much as the Solicitor-General in the last Session said that the Bill was in draft; and does not the right hon. Gentleman think, in view of the letter of the right hon. Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon) to-day, that the matter ought to be expedited?

Mr. SNOWDEN

I have not seen the letter of the right hon. Member for Spen Valley, but I think that the right hon. Gentleman is a little bit precipitate. It was only last night that we finished the general debate on the Address.

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