Lords Sitting of 21 March 1940

Preamble
The House met at a quarter before twelve of the clock, The LORD CHANCELLOR on the Woolsack.
AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.
Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to.
OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.
Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to.

CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.
Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
LORD TEMPLEMORE: My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time.
Moved, That the Bill be now read 2ª.—(Lord Templemore.)
On Question, Bill read 2ª; Committee negatived.
Then, Standing Order No. XXXIX having been suspended, Bill read 3ª, and passed.
House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed.

ROYAL COMMISSION.
The following Bills received the Royal Assent:

Consolidated Fund (No. 1),

Rating and Valuation (Postponement of Valuations),

Old Age and Widows' Pensions,

Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions),

Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Canterbury),

Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Ilkley).

House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (EARL STANHOPE): My Lords, before we adjourn, I should like to say that except for a meeting of the Special Orders Committee there are no Notices or Orders on the Paper for April 2, the day on which we come back. But it is proposed nevertheless that the House should meet on that day, in case some business should arise in the interval or in case the Government should wish to make a statement on the re-assembly after the Recess.
House adjourned at twelve minutes past twelve o'clock.