§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if ministers of the Episcopal Church in Wales will be eligible to sit in the House of Commons after the passing into law of the Established Church (Wales) Bill, and, if so, under what Clause of the Bill is the present disqualification removed?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The disqualification is removed under Clause 2 (3).
§ Colonel PRYCE-JONESasked the Home Secretary whether the date 1662 of Section 7 of the Established Church (Wales) Bill will leave to the Church churchyards acquired and paid for by Churchmen in modern times, say within the last seventy years, or notwithstanding of the date 1662 are such churchyards by Section 8, Sub-section (b) transferred to some other authority?
§ Mr. McKENNAAll burial grounds which are the proceeds of private benefactions since 1662 will be retained by the Church under the provisions of the Bill.