HL Deb 01 June 1954 vol 187 cc1030-1

2.39 p.m.

Amendments reported (according to Order).

THE CHAIRMAN OE COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF DROGHEDA) moved, after Standing Order 14, to insert the following new Standing Order: The printing or publishing of anything relating to the proceedings of the House is subject to the privilege of the House. and a further Amendment to leave out Standing Order 74.

The noble Earl said: My Lords, the House will remember that when we last considered the Standing Orders, Standing Order No. 74 was left over, and it was agreed that the noble Marquess, Lord Salisbury, the noble and learned Earl, Lord Jowitt, and the noble Viscount, Lord Samuel, should meet and consider whether some satisfactory formula could not be arrived at. This Amendment is a result of their meetings with myself and the Clerk of the Parliaments, to whose ingenuity we owe the wording of this Standing Order which I now recommend to your Lordships. This wording seems to us to avoid the difficulty of the existing Order while still stating quite clearly that the printing and publishing is subject to the Privilege of the House. It was thought better that this new Order should appear as Standing Order No. 14, after the Order relating to Secret Sessions, instead of at the end of the Standing Orders. If the House accepts this new Order, the second Amendment will, of course, be consequential. I beg to move the Amendments standing in my name.

Amendments moved—

Page 14, after Standing Order 14, insert the following Standing Order— The printing or publishing of anything relating to the proceedings of the House is subject to the privilege of the House.

Page 50, leave out Standing Order 74.—(The Earl of Drogheda.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.

THE EARL OF DROGHEDA

My Lords, I beg to move that the Standing Orders, as revised by the Select Committee on the Procedure of the House, and subsequently amended by the House, be the Standing Orders of the House for the conduct of Public Business.

Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to: the said Standing Orders to be printed.