HL Deb 22 July 1959 vol 218 cc380-1

2.58 p.m.

EARL ST. ALDWYN

My Lords, I think it would be for the general convenience of your Lordships if I took this opportunity of making an early announcement of the changes in our programme for next week which are made necessary in order to meet the general wish that, before rising for the Summer Recess, the House should be able to debate the proposals for a Commission of Inquiry into the Central African Federation, the Report of the Devlin Commission on the troubles in Nyasaland and the Report of the Kenya detention camps inquiry.

I should like to pay tribute to the willing co-operation that we have received from all noble Lords who had Business already on the Paper, and whom we have had to approach in order to make the changes possible: they have been most generous. It has been arranged now, through the usual channels, that on Monday next we should discuss the Report of the Colonial Development Corporation on the Motion of the noble Viscount opposite, which will be followed by a debate on the Government proposals for the Commission of Inquiry into Central African Federation. Then on Tuesday the House will meet at 11.30 in the morning in order to take the three Cotton Industry Orders, the Second Reading of Lord Stonham's Leasehold Enfranchisement and Restrictive Covenants Bill, followed by the Motion in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Amulree, on the care of the elderly sick. We hope that it will be possible to finish this business before adjourning for lunch about one o'clock.

The House will then resume at the usual hour of 2.30 when we shall take Lord Swinton's Motion on the Common Market, followed by Lord Winster's Motion on the Mercantile Marine. On Wednesday we shall have a debate on the Devlin Commission's Report on Nyasaland, and that will be followed by a debate on the Report of the proceedings of an inquiry under Colonial Regulation 60 into the charges against Sullivan and Coutts. I am afraid that we are asking your Lordships to face a rather heavy programme, but I hope that it will enable the House to rise for the Summer Recess on Wednesday. July 29.