HL Deb 14 May 1959 vol 216 c447

LORD REA had given Notice of the following Question:

[To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they would be willing to give consideration to the following suggestions:

  1. (a) that the fiscal year should in future end on 31st December, instead of on 5th April, and that the annual Budget statement accordingly be made in January, instead of in April; and
  2. (b) that the Parliamentary Summer Recess should normally take place during the period of May to September, instead of during the period of July to November, as at present.]

LORD AMULREE

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Rea is, unfortunately, at the last moment prevented from being in his place this afternoon, and he has asked me to say that he proposes to postpone his Question for the time being, for answer at some later date.