§ Mr. DICKINSONasked the Secretary to the Treasury the number of Bills brought in by private Members in each of the years from 1896 to 1912, and the estimated cost of printing them; how many obtained a Second Reading; how many were reported to the House by a Committee; how many obtained a Third Reading; and how many were passed into law?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI would refer the hon. Member to the Annual Returns on this subject, of which the latest was Parliamentary Paper, No. 186, of 1912. The total estimated cost of printing Bills brought in by private Members in both Houses from 1896 to 1912, was, House of Lords, £2,418; House of Commons, £12,229.