§ Lieut.-Colonel Price-Whiteasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if it is intended to make an early Order in Council relating to the Welsh Church Commissioners, who have now been in existence for 31 years, and to the sum of £529,969 held by the Commissioners at the end of 1944 on behalf of beneficiaries of the Commission; and will he indicate the general terms of such an order.
§ Mr. EdeAn Order in Council suspending the dissolution of the Commission until the end of the year 1946 will be made very shortly, in the expectation that this prolongation of the life of the Commission will be final. The distribution to the beneficiaries of the property is effected by the Commission under the provisions of the Welsh Church Acts, 1914 to 1945, and is not dependent upon the Order in Council.