§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that His Majesty had (by Comission) revoked certain Letters Patent and had appointed the Chairman of Committees for the time being and Viscount Hutchinson (Earl Donoughmore), the Lord Stanmore, the Earl of Drogheda, any person who shall have been Chairman of Committees, the Lord Denman, the Earl of Granard, the Earl of Clarendon, the Viscount Hailsham, the Earl of Lucan, the Viscount Mersey, the Viscount Sankey, the Viscount Maugham, the Viscount Caldecote, the Lord Temple-more, the Viscount Simon, the Viscount Addison, the Lord Hare (Earl Listower), the Viscount Southwood, the Lord Jowitt, the Earl Fortescue, and the Lord Ammon to be Speaker of the House in the absence of the Lord Chancellor. The said Commission was read.
§ DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE (DISSOLUTION) ORDER, 1946.
§ MINISTRY OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION (DISSOLUTION) ORDER, 1946.
§ MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT (DISSOLUTION) ORDER, 1946.
§ Report from the Special Orders Committee: That they examined the Special Orders as required by the Standing Orders of the House; that in their opinion the Orders raise questions of policy and principle which have been already accepted by the House when passing the Ministers of the Crown (Transfer of Functions) Act, 1946, under which the Orders are submitted for approval; that the Orders are not founded on precedent inasmuch as they are the first Orders which have been presented to Parliament under that Act; 89 that in the opinion of the Committee the Orders can be passed by the House without special attention, and that no further inquiry is necessary before the House proceeds to a decision on the Resolution to present an Address to His Majesty praying that the Orders be made.
§ Read and ordered to lie on the Table.