§ Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, supported by Mr. Paul Channon, Mr. Ian Gilmour, Mr. Patrick Jenkin, Mr. John Nott and Mr. Kenneth Baker presented (under standing Order No. 91 (Procedure upon Bills whose main object is to create a charge upon the public revenue)) a Bill to enable certain services of the Crown to be financed by means of trading funds established in pursuance of orders made by the responsible Minister with Treasury concurrence; to make consequential provision (in the event of a trading fund being established for the Mint) as to sums received by, or due from, the Treasury in respect of the coinage; and to amend the Coinage Act 1971 in respect of the establishment and operations of the Mint: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time Tomorrow and to be printed [Bill 143].