§ 11.36 p.m.
§ The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Herbert W. Bowden)I beg to move,
That Mr. Andrew Faulds, Sir George Sinclair. Mr. G. R. Strauss and Sir John Vaughan-Morgan have leave of absence to present, on behalf of this House, a Speaker's Chair to the National Assembly of Malawi.It may be for the convenience of the House if this and the following Motion be considered together.The House will no doubt recall that in continuation of the tradition of presenting gifts to newly independent Commonwealth countries it has approved Motions giving a Speaker's chair to the National Assembly of Malawi and a bookcase to the House of Representatives of Kenya. The Motions, if approved, will give leave of absence to the delegations which are to take the gifts to Malawi and to Kenya.
The House may wish to know that the composition of the delegations to carry out these agreeable tasks has been arranged in consultation with you, Mr. Speaker, and that Mr. J. F. Sweetman, a Senior Clerk of the House, will accompany the Malawi delegation, and Mr. H. R. M. Farmer, Clerk Administrator (House of Commons Services) will accompany the delegation to Kenya.
§ Question put and agreed to.