HL Deb 04 March 1937 vol 104 cc528-30
LORD SNELL

My Lords, is the noble Marquess able to give us any information about the further business of the House?

THE MARQUESS OF ZETLAND

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving me an opportunity to inform your Lordships of the proposals for business next week. It is proposed that the House should sit formally on Monday next to receive the Defence Loans Bill from another place. That will be only a formal sitting. On Tuesday, March 9, we hope to be able to present to your Lordships for a First Reading the Merchant Shipping (Spain) Bill to which my noble friend the Leader of the House alluded in his speech to your Lordships in the foreign affairs debate last night. That Bill is, as my noble friend then said, a measure of some urgency, and we propose to ask your Lordships to give it a Second Reading on Wednesday next, and to pass it through its remaining stages on the following day, Thursday, in order that may receive a First Reading in another place on the Friday. We hope that it may receive Royal Assent on or before Friday, March 19.

On Tuesday, the 9th, we shall also take the Committee stage of the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) (Scotland) Bill and the Second Reading of both the Merchant Shipping and British Shipping (Continuance of Subsidy) Bills. On Wednesday, besides the Second Reading of the Mer- chant Shipping (Spain) Bill, we propose to take the Second Reading of the Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Bill. Lord Elton's Motion on road casualties is also on the Paper for that day. On Thursday, besides the remaining stages of the Merchant Shipping (Spain) Bill, we propose to take the Committee stage of the Empire Settlement Bill and the Second Reading of the Defence Loans Bill. We shall ask your Lordships to sit on Monday, March 15, in order to take the Second Reading of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Bill, to which we have just given a First Reading. I should add that my noble friend will move the suspension of Standing Orders on Thursday, the 11th, in order to permit the remaining stages of the Merchant Shipping (Spain) Bill to be taken on that day.

LORD MARLEY

My Lords, do I understand that the Draft Unemployment Insurance (Additional Days and Waiting Period) Order, 1937, is coming on on Tuesday?

THE MARQUESS OF ZETLAND

Yes, I understand that that Order has just been put down for Tuesday next.

House adjourned at four minutes before five o'clock.