§ 2.35 p.m.
§ LORD AMMONMy Lords, we propose to interrupt the debate and adjourn for dinner after my noble friend the Leader of the House has spoken this evening. The debate will be resumed after a suitable interval.
I should also tell your Lordships that, after consultation through the usual channels, it has been agreed that the sitting for public business to-morrow, Wednesday, should begin at 11.30 in the morning when we hope to get through the proceedings on the Statistics of Trade Bill and on the Second Reading of the Fire Services Bill before luncheon. The House will then adjourn during pleasure and the sitting will be resumed at 2.30, when the first business will be the debate on Lord Hailey's Motion on the recommendations of the Inter-departmental Commission on Oriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies. This will be followed by the Report stage of the National Service Bill. We shall hope to reach the Committee stage of the Transport Bill between 3.30 and 4 o'clock.