§ LORD KNUTSFORDMy Lords, I should be glad to know whether the Lord President can give the House any information as to the arrangements which the Government propose to make with regard to the commencement of the Easter Vacation and its termination?
THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (The Earl of KIMBERLEY)My Lords, the day when the House adjourns must depend upon when the Money Bills come up to this House. It will be necessary that we should meet one day in Holy Week in order to pass a Money Bill which must receive the Royal Assent before the Adjournment; but we do not propose to take any contentious business after next Friday. Whenever the House adjourns, we do not propose that it should reassemble until Tuesday, the 18th April. I have communicated with Lord Salisbury, whose absence from illness I greatly regret, and he informs me that he has no objection to that arrangement.