HL Deb 12 March 1959 vol 214 c1152

4.50 p.m.

House in Committee (according to Order) on Report from the Select Committee.

[The EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE in the Chair.]

THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES

My Lords, I understand that there are no Amendments, apart from those made by the Select Committee. I therefore call upon the noble Lord, Lord Chesham.

LORD CHESHAM

My Lords, in asking your Lordships to agree to the Amendments which were made upstairs I can be very brief; for, so far as the Post Office is concerned, if your Lordships approve of these Amendments the Bill as amended will be entirely satisfactory to us. I need only say that the first two Amendments are improvements, from the owners' point of view, on the subject of compensation, about which the noble Lords, Lord Silkin and Lord Lucan, expressed some doubt on Second Reading. Any doubt they had was also expressed by the Petitioners, and those two clauses improve the compensation aspect. The third Amendment is a formal agreement saving an agreement previously made with the Prudential Assurance Company about one of their sites. I beg to move that the Amendments made by the Select Committee be agreed to.

Moved, That the said Amendments be agreed to.—(Lord Chesham.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

House resumed.