HL Deb 09 December 1931 vol 83 cc434-5
LORD PONSONBY OF SHULBREDE

My Lords, may I ask the Leader of the House what his intentions are to-morrow with regard to the Horticultural Products Bill?

VISCOUNT HAILSHAM

My Lords, I am very much obliged to the noble Lord for asking me that question. I had hoped to have concluded the debate on the Indian Resolution this evening. But I think it is apparent to your Lordships that it would not have been convenient to get all the speeches in without cutting them short in a way which would certainly be undesirable in so important a matter. Therefore I am proposing that we shall meet again at three o'clock to-morrow. I am glad to say that the Judicial authorities have been good enough to meet me in that matter. I do not think that this debate on the Indian Resolution ought to take much longer; so far as I know, I am hoping it will be finished by about half-past four. Then I was proposing to take the Horticultural Products (Emergency Customs Duties) Bill through all its stages. It will be a certified Bill, so that presumably the one debate will be on the Second Reading. Assuming we are successful in passing it we ought to be in a position to get the Royal Assent on Friday when Parliament adjourns.

LORD PONSONBY OF SHULBREDE

Will there be any other business on Friday except the Royal Commission?

VISCOUNT HAILSHAM

I believe not, I know of none. There may be some formal Special Orders to be approved or something of that kind, but there is no contentious business, I think, on Friday at all.

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