§ Mr. LANSBURYMay I ask the Prime Minister what will be the business when we reassemble?
§ The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)Monday, 28th January, and Tuesday, 29th January: Committee stage of the following Supplementary Estimates:
Wednesday, 30th January, and Thursday, 31st January: Second Reading of the Housing Bill, and Committee stage of the necessary Financial Resolution.
- Class V., Vote 8A—Unemployment Assistance Board.
- Class V., Vote 1A—Grants to Local Authorities in Distressed Areas in England and Wales.
- Class V., Vote 13, being a similar Estimate for Scotland.
- Class V., Vote 14—Depressed Areas Fund.
Friday, 1st February: The business will be announced when the House reassembles after the Recess.
On any day, if there is time, other Orders may be taken.
§ Mr. LANSBURYAs there is a little doubt about when the Housing Bill will be circulated, can the right hon. Gentleman tell us when Members will be able to see that Bill; and can he tell us when the India Bill will be ready and available to Members? Can we also have any information about the Herring Fishery Bill?
§ The PRIME MINISTERAs regards the Housing Bill, we hope to get it out on or about the 16th January. As regards the India Bill, we hope it will be out on the 22nd January. That will be in very good time for a full consideration of the Bill before Members are asked to discuss it. As regards the Herring Fishery Bill, I am very sorry I cannot commit myself to a date, but it will be out during the Recess, in time to take it early after we resume.
§ Mr. N. MACLEANWill the Scottish Herring Fishery Bill be circulated at the same time as the Bill for England and Wales?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThat is so.
§ Mr. ISAAC FOOTIs the statement which has appeared in the Press that the 1344 Second Reading of the India Bill is likely to be taken on 4th February authoritative, and is that the time when we are likely to discuss it?
§ The PRIME MINISTERWhile I have seen nothing in the Press about it I can assure the hon. Member that no date has yet been fixed.
§ Sir NICHOLAS GRATTAN-DOYLEIs it the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill dealing with the question of ribbon development?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI have nothing to add to what I have said on that subject.
§ Mr. BUCHANANIs it the intention, when we meet again, to suspend the Eleven o'Clock Rule to take any further Measures than those announced? When does the right hon. Gentleman intend to take the Measure dealing with the judges, after it has received authorisation in another place?
§ The PRIME MINISTERRegarding the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule, it is never suspended unless there is immediate need.
§ Mr. BUCHANANDoes the right hon. Gentleman intend to suspend the Rule for this judiciary Measure?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI am afraid that I do not understand. Does the hon. Member suggest that the Bill should be taken after Eleven o'Clock?
§ Mr. BUCHANANI do not want you to take it at all.
§ The PRIME MINISTERWe shall take it in just the ordinary way in relation to the importance of the Bill.
§ Mr. MABANEWill the Prime Minister assure the House that he will do his best, in drafting the Money Resolution of the Housing Bill, to see that the House is not unduly restricted in its power to move Amendments to the Bill?
§ Mr. LANSBURYWill the right hon. Gentleman tell us how long he proposes to keep the House to-night, and what is the object of suspending the Rule?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe Government are asking the House to suspend the Eleven o'Clock Rule in order to get the first two Orders of the Day—the 1345 Electricity (Supply) Bill and the British Shipping (Assistance) Bill. It would be very advantageous for these Bills to be disposed of.
§ Mr. LANSBURYDoes the right hon. Gentleman want the Report and Third Reading of the Electricity Bill?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThere are the Lords Amendments to the Depressed Areas Bill. Those three Bills ought to be finished.
§ Mr. LANSBURYFinished? Surely the right hon. Gentleman only wants the Committee stage of the Shipping Bill,
§ and does not propose to take the Report and Third Reading? I only ask in order to request the right hon. Gentleman and the Patronage Secretary to use their influence with their hon. and right hon. Friends to expedite business in regard to the Electricity Bill.
§
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, 191; Noes, 39.
1347| Division No. 29.] | AYES. | [4.4 p.m. |
| Adams, Samuel Vyvyan T. (Leeds, W.) | Elliot, Rt. Hon. Walter | Mills, Major J. D. (New Forest) |
| Agnew, Lieut.-Com. P. G. | Ellis, Sir R. Geoffrey | Milne, Charles |
| Albery, Irving James | Elliston, Captain George Sampson | Mitchell, Sir W. Lane (Streatham) |
| Allen, Lt.-Col. J. Sandeman (B'k'nh'd) | Elmley, Viscount | Moore-Brabazon, Lieut.-Col. J. T. C. |
| Allen, William (Stoke-on-Trent) | Emmott, Charles E. G. C. | Moreing, Adrian C. |
| Allen, Lt.-Col. Sir William (Armagh) | Emrys-Evans, P. V. | Morris-Jones, Dr. J. H. (Denbigh) |
| Anstruther-Gray, W. J. | Fielden, Edward Brocklehurst | Morrison, G. A. (Scottish Univer'ties) |
| Applin, Lieut.-Col. Reginald V. K. | Fleming, Edward Lascelles | Muirhead, Lieut.-Colonel A. J. |
| Apsley, Lord | Fox, Sir Gifford | Nail, Sir Joseph |
| Assheton, Ralph | Gilmour, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir John | Oman, Sir Charles William C. |
| Astbury, Lieut. Com. Frederick Wolfe | Goff, Sir Park | Ormsby-Gore, Rt. Hon. William G. A. |
| Atholl, Duchess of | Goodman, Colonel Albert W. | Orr Ewing, I. L. |
| Baillie, Sir Adrian W. M. | Grattan-Doyle, Sir Nicholas | Peake, Osbert |
| Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley | Gretton, Colonel Rt. Hon. John | Pearson, William G. |
| Barclay-Harvey, C. M. | Grimston, R. V. | Peto, Geoffrey K. (W'verh'pt'n, Bilston) |
| Beaumont, Hon. R. E. B. (Portsm'th, C.) | Guinness, Thomas L. E. B. | Pike, Cecil F. |
| Bennett, Capt. Sir Ernest Nathaniel | Gunston, Captain D. W. | Potter, John |
| Bernays, Robert | Guy, J. C. Morrison | Pownall, Sir Assheton |
| Blindell, James | Hannon, Patrick Joseph Henry | Procter, Major Henry Adam |
| Bower, Commander Robert Tatton | Harbord, Arthur | Pybus, Sir John |
| Bowyer, Capt. Sir George E. W. | Harvey, George (Lambeth, Kenningt'n) | Ramsay, Capt. A. H. M. (Midlothian) |
| Braithwaite, J. G. (Hillsborough) | Harvey, Major S. E. (Devon, Totnes) | Ramsay, T. B. W. (Western Isles) |
| Broadbent, Colonel John | Hellgers, Captain F. F. A. | Ramsbotham, Herwald |
| Brocklebank, C. E. R. | Herbert, Major J. A. (Monmouth) | Ramsden, Sir Eugene |
| Brown, Ernest (Leith) | Hore-Belisha, Leslie | Rawson, Sir Cooper |
| Buchan-Hepburn, P. G. T. | Howitt, Dr. Alfred B. | Reed, Arthur C. (Exeter) |
| Burgin, Dr. Edward Leslie | Hudson, Capt. A. U. M. (Hackney, N.) | Held, Capt. A. Cunningham- |
| Burnett, John George | Joel, Dudley J. Barnato | Rhys, Hon. Charles Arthur U. |
| Campbell, Sir Edward Taswell (Brmly) | Karr, Hamilton W. | Ropner, Colonel L. |
| Caporn, Arthur Cecil | Keyes, Admiral Sir Roger | Rosbotham, Sir Thomas |
| Carver, Major William H. | Kirkpatrick, William M. | Runelman, Rt. Hon. Walter |
| Cautley, Sir Henry S. | Knight, Holford | Russell, Alexander West (Tynemouth) |
| Cayzer, Sir Charles (Chester, City) | Lamb, Sir Joseph Quinton | Samuel, Sir Arthur Michael (F'nham) |
| Cayzer, Maj. Sir H. R. (Prtsmth., S.) | Lambert, Rt. Hon. George | Sandeman, Sir A. N. Stewart |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. N. (Edgbaston) | Law, Richard K. (Hull, S. W.) | Sanderson, Sir Frank Barnard |
| Chapman, Col. R. (Houghton-le-Spring) | Leech, Dr. J. W. | Sassoon, Rt. Hon. Sir Philip A. G. D. |
| Chapman, Sir Samuel (Edinburgh, S.) | Leighton, Major B. E. P. | Savery, Samuel Servington |
| Chorlton, Alan Ernest Leofric | Lennox-Boyd, A. T. | Shepperson, Sir Ernest W. |
| Clarke, Frank | Levy, Thomas | Simmonds, Oliver Edwin |
| Clayton, Sir Christopher | Lindsay, Kenneth (Kilmarnock) | Skelton, Archibald Noel |
| Clydesdale, Marquess of | Lindsay, Noel Ker | Smith, Bracewell (Dulwich) |
| Cochrane, Commander Hon. A. D. | Lloyd, Geoffrey | Somerville, Annesley A (Windsor) |
| Collins, Rt. Hon. Sir Godfrey | Locker-Lampson, Rt. Hn. G. (Wd. Gr'n) | Sotheron-Estcourt, Captain T. E. |
| Colman, N. C. D. | Lockwood, John C. (Hackney, C.) | Southby, Commander Archibald R. J. |
| Colville, Lieut.-Colonel J. | Loftus, Pierce C. | Spears, Brigadier-General Edward L. |
| Conant, R. J. E. | Lovat-Fraser, James Alexander | Stanley, Rt. Hon. Lord (Fylde) |
| Cooke, Douglas | Lumley, Captain Lawrence R. | Stones, James |
| Cooper, A. Dull | Mabane, William | Stourton, Hon. John J. |
| Copeland, Ida | MacDonald, Rt. Hon. J. R. (Seaham) | Strickland, Captain W. F. |
| Courthope, Colonel Sir George L. | Macdonald, Capt. P. D. (I. of W.) | Sueter, Rear-Admiral Sir Murray F. |
| Crookshank, Capt. H. C. (Gainsb'ro) | McKie, John Hamilton | Sugden, Sir Wilfrid Hart |
| Croom-Johnson, R. P. | Maclay, Hon. Joseph Paton | Sutcliffe, Harold |
| Cross, R. H. | Makins, Brigadier-General Ernest | Tate, Mavis Constance |
| Crossley, A. C. | Margesson, Capt. Rt. Hon. H. D. R. | Thomas, James P. L. (Hereford) |
| Culverwell, Cyril Tom | Marsden, Commander Arthur | Todd, A. L. S. (Kingswinford) |
| Dawton, Sir Philip | Martin, Thomas B. | Touche, Gordon Cosmo |
| Danville, Alfred | Mayhew, Lieut.-Colonel John | Train, John |
| Dickie, John P. | Meller, Sir Richard James | Tryon, Rt. Hon. George Clement |
| Dugdale, Captain Thomas Lionel | Mills, Sir Frederick (Leyton, E.) | Tufnell, Lieut.-Commander R. L. |
| Wallace, Captain D. E. (Hornsey) | Weymouth, Viscount | Worthington, Dr. John V. |
| Ward, Lt.-Col. Sir A. L. (Hull) | Whiteside, Borras Noel H. | Young, Rt. Hon. Sir Hilton (S'v'noaks) |
| Ward, Irene Mary Bewick (Wallsend) | Williams, Charles (Devon, Torquay) | |
| Ward, Sarah Adelaide (Cannock) | Williams, Herbert G. (Croydon, S.) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.— |
| Warrender, Sir Victor A. G. | Willougby de Eresby, Lord | Sir Frederick Thomson and Sir |
| Watt, Captain George Steven H. | Womersley, Walter James | George Penny. |
| NOES. | ||
| Addison, Rt. Hon. Dr. Christopher | George, Megan A. Lloyd (Anglesea) | Mallalieu, Edward Lancelot |
| Attlee, Clement Richard | Graham, D. M. (Lanark, Hamilton) | Milner, Major James |
| Batey, Joseph | Griffith, F. Kingsley (Middlesbro', W.) | Parkinson, John Allen |
| Brown, C. W. E. (Notts., Mansfield) | Grundy, Thomas W. | Rea, Walter Russell |
| Buchanan, George | Hamilton, Sir R. W. (Orkney & Zetl'nd) | Roberts, Aled (Wrexham) |
| Daggar, George | Jones, Morgan (Caerphilly) | Sinclair, Maj. Rt. Hn. Sir A. (C'thness) |
| Davies, David L. (Pontypridd) | Kirkwood, David | Strauss, G. R. (Lambeth, North) |
| Davies, Rhys John (Westhoughton) | Lansbury, Rt. Hon. George | Thorne, William James |
| Dobbie, William | Leonard, William | Tinker, John Joseph |
| Evans, Capt. Ernest (Welsh Univ.) | Logan, David Gilbert | West, F. R. |
| Evans, R. T. (Carmarthen) | Lunn, William | Wood, Sir Murdoch McKenzie (Banff) |
| Foot, Isaac (Cornwall, Bodmin) | Macdonald, Gordon (Ince) | Young, Ernest J. (Middlesbrough, E.) |
| Gardner, Benjamin Walter | McEntee, Valentine L. | |
| George, Major G. Lloyd (Pembroke) | Maclean, Neil (Glasgow, Govan) | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.— |
| Mr. John and Mr. Paling. |
Bill read the Third time, and passed.