HL Deb 13 September 1939 vol 114 cc1055-6

3.57 p.m.

EARL STANHOPE

My Lords, there is at present no business for to-morrow except a draft statutory order from the Ministry of Supply which will be reported to the House from the Special Orders Committee, but I understand the noble Lord, the Leader of the Opposition, would like to put a Motion down, and in any case there will be, no doubt, a discussion on various matters in the statement which I made to your Lordships to-day. Therefore I propose that your Lordships should meet to-morrow at three o'clock. It may be that we shall get an important Bill from another place, the Control of Employment Bill, in which case I should propose that we read that a first time to-morrow. Then I should ask your Lordships to sit on Friday morning, probably at eleven o'clock, in order to pass it through all its stages forthwith. It is a measure which is being put through all its stages in another place and it is of the greatest possible importance to get it passed into law.

House adjourned at one minute before four o'clock.