THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAPHMy Lords, I desire to ask the noble Marquess the Lord President a Question of which I have given him private notice. In common with many others, I should be thankful if he could inform me how the question of the coming into operation of the Welsh Church Act exactly stands to-day.
THE MARQUESS OF CREWEMy Lords, I have to thank the right rev. Prelate for giving me private notice of his intention to put this Question to-day. I am able to state, for his information and for that of the House, that this morning an Order in Council received the Royal approval drawn in the following terms—
The date of Disestablishment under the Welsh Church Act, 1914, shall be postponed until the end of the present war.I think that supplies the information which time right rev. Prelate desired to have.