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§ LORD AMMONMy Lords, owing to the expeditious manner in which your Lordships dealt with the Amendments on the recommittal of the Companies Bill yesterday, it has been found convenient to make some readjustment of the business set down for to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon and Monday next. It will no longer be necessary to ask the House to meet tomorrow, Thursday, at 2.3o p.m., because the work that was expected to occupy us then has already been completed. We shall meet instead that afternoon at the accustomed hour for Thursdays, namely, four o'clock, when after the Consolidation Bill has been taken formally through all stages, the debate on the Motion of the noble Marquess, Lord Reading, on the Denning Report will take place. The Royal Commission is timed for 6 o'clock. On Monday next, March 31, we shall meet for public business at 2.30 p.m. instead of the usual 4 o'clock, when we shall take as first business the Third Readings of the Crown Proceedings and Penicillin Bills. When they have been concluded we shall take the Second Reading of the Local Government (Scotland) Bill. I hope these arrangements will be convenient to your Lordships generally.