§ LORD SNELLMy Lords, I should like to ask whether the Government can give us any information about the future business of the House.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (THE MARQUESS OF ZETLAND)My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving me this opportunity of explaining the arrangements with which we propose to ask your Lordships to fall in. We are proposing to take the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill to-morrow at 3.45 p.m., when we expect that the debate will centre round the proposal to continue the Special Areas Act contained in that measure. Various Motions in the names of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop j of Winchester, and the noble Lords, Lord Davies and Lord Mansfield, which have appealed upon the Paper, have been withdrawn with this in view. It will be necessary also, I am afraid, to ask the 724 House to meet on Friday afternoon next, the 11th, at 3 o'clock, to give the Royal Assent to the Railway Freight Rebates Bill, after which we propose to take the Second Readings of the Public Order Bill and a small measure clarifying a point of doubt which has arisen under the Government of India and Government of Burma Acts. In view of the approaching Christmas Adjournment, it may be to the advantage of your Lordships to know that we shall meet again on Monday next week at the hour of 4.15, when the principal business will be the Committee stage of the Trunk Roads Bill.