§ Queen's Recommendation having been signified—
§
Resolved,
That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make provision as to the payments to be made to the Independent Broadcasting Authority by television programme contractors, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of amounts falling to be paid to programme contractors by way of adjusting overpayments made by those contractors.— [Mr. Alexander W. Lyon.]
Bill ordered to be brought in upon the foregoing Resolutions by the Chairman of Ways and Means, Mr. Roy Jenkins, Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Dr. John Gilbert and Mr. Alexander W. Lyon.