Lords Sitting of 6 May 1924

Preamble
Reassembling after the Easter Recess, the House met at a quarter past four of the clock, The LORD CHANCELLOR on the Woolsack.
HASTINGS CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
Bill read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.

TRADE FACILITIES BILL.
Brought from the Commons, read 1a, and to be printed.
THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (LORD ARNOLD): My Lords, this Bill is a Money Bill, and its passage is rather urgently required. I hope it will be agreeable to your Lordships if I put the Second Reading down for to-morrow.

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (COST OF MEDICAL BENEFIT) BILL.
Brought from the Commons, read 1a, and to be printed.
PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.
Brought from the Commons, read 1a, and to be printed.

MINISTRY OF HEALTH PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 7) BILL. [H.L.]
EARL DE LA WARR: My Lords, I beg to present a Bill to confirm certain provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Blackpool, Denton, Derwent Valley Water Board, North Cornwall Joint Water District, Poole and Wimbledon; and to move that it be read a first time.
Moved, That the Bill be now read 1a.—(Earl De La Warr.)
On Question, Bill read 1a, and to be printed.

TOWN PLANNING BILL. [H.L.]
Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
LORD MUIR MACKENZIE: My Lords, this is a pure consolidation Bill, and if your Lordships think fit to read it a second time it will go automatically to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills. That Committee will meet to-morrow, and if this Bill is read a second time to-day the Committee will be in a position to take it at once. I therefore hope that you will read it a second time now.
Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a—(Lord Muir Mackenzie.)
On Question, Bill read 2a, and referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.

TOWN PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL. [H.L.]
Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
LORD MUIR MACKENZIE: My Lords, what I have said about the English Town Planning Bill also applies to this Bill relating to Scotland, and I beg to move that it be read a second time.
Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(Lord Muir Mackenzie.)
On Question, Bill read 2a, and referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.

ELECTRICITY SPECIAL ORDER.
LORD MUIR MACKENZIE: My Lords, I beg to move the Motion which appears on the Paper in my name. Immediately before the Easter Recess this Motion was before the House, but intimation was given that there was some opposition to the confirmation of the Order referred to, and at the suggestion of the Chairman of Committees I postponed the Motion until to-day. Notice has now been received that the opposition has been withdrawn. I therefore beg to move the Motion standing in my name for the confirmation of this Order.
Moved, That the Special Order made by the Electricity Commissioners under the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1922, and confirmed by the Minister of Transport under the Electricity (Supply)
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Act, 1919, in respect of the urban districts of Awre, Coleford, Nailsworth, Newnham, and Westbury-on-Severn, the rural districts of West Dean, East Dean, and United Parishes, Wheatenhurst, Dursley, and Stroud, and parts of the rural districts of Thornbury and Lydney, all in the County of Gloucester, and for other purposes, which was presented on the 1st day of April, 1924, be approved.—(Lord Muir Mackenzie.)
On Question, Motion agreed to.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
THE MARQUESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON: My Lords, perhaps the noble Lord, the Lord President of the Council, will allow me to ask what are the views of the Government, apart from what we see on the Paper, as to future business. For instance, there is a Bill which, I think, has passed the House of Commons, and which has come to your Lordships' House—the Prevention of Evictions Bill. I do not know whether the Government can give us any idea as to the day when they propose to put it down on the Paper. Then there was the Bill which was mentioned before I came into the House, the Trade Facilities Bill, which it is contemplated to take to-morrow. Do I understand that that will be put down for Second Reading to-morrow?
LORD ARNOLD: That is what was desired. It is a Money Bill.
THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (LORD PARMOOR): It was explained that that was a Money Bill. As regards the other question which the noble Marquess has asked me, perhaps he will allow me to give him an answer to-morrow. I am not quite sure what is the best day.
THE MARQUESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON: Then there is a Bill in the name of the Secretary of State for India—the Bill which contemplates giving leave to certain high officials in India, the Second Reading of which was. to be taken on an early day after the Recess.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (LORD OLIVIER): I have given notice for Thursday next.
House adjourned at twenty-five minutes past four o'clock.