§ Mr. LANSBURYMay I ask the Prime Minister what Business he proposes to take to-night if the Motion to suspend the Eleven o'Clock Rule is carried?
§ The PRIME MINISTERWe want to-night to get the first and third Orders, that is Supply and the Third Reading of the Transitional Payments Prolongation (Unemployed Persons) Bill, and we should like to make progress with the fourth and fifth Orders, the Grey Seals Protection Bill [Lords] and he Chancel Repairs Bill [Lords]. But we are not suspending the Eleven o'Clock Rule in order to make provision for these two Orders. We shall not sit late.
§ Mr. MAXTONMay I ask if it is going to become the established practice to suspend the Eleven o'Clock Rule? The Rule was suspended yesterday and the House rose at three Minutes after Eight o'clock. Cannot the right hon. Gentleman make some better arrangement for business and the convenience of Members?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI should be very glad indeed to enter into some agreement to get business through without suspending the Eleven o'Clock Rule. All we want is to make it perfectly certain that we get the business set down. We do not want to use the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule in order to get an unfair amount of business through the House.
§
Ordered,
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.]