HL Deb 27 May 1889 vol 336 cc1057-8

First Report from the Select Committee, considered.

THE EARL OF MORLEY: My Lords ,

in moving that your Lordships should agree to the first Report from the Select Committee on the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and the Office of the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, it may be convenient to your Lordships that I should inform the House of the decisions which have been arrived at by the Committee. It was decided that if any noble Lord shall, at the commencement of the Session or at any other time, desire to have all the Papers printed supplied to him, he can obtain them on application at the Paper Office; but if no such applications are made, the Papers that will be received in the ordinary course will be the proceedings of the House, Reports of Select Committees and Commissions, without the evidence, Bills, and proposed Amend ments, and all Papers laid before the House. To enable noble Lords to obtain any Papers they may want, and in order that your Lordships may know what Papers are printed, it has been determined that at certain periods classified lists shall be printed and circulated.

Report agreed to.