§ Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn presented a Bill to provide for the holding of a national referendum, and for the procedure for the subsequent decision of the House of Commons, on the question of British membership of the European Communities before Her Majesty's Government may lawfully adhere to the Treaty of Rome on behalf of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and for purposes connected therewith: And the same was read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday next and to be printed. [Bill 170]