§ Mr. G. Longdenasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce Summer Time during the first week-end in April, and not, as hitherto, during the last week-end in that month.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeThe Summer Time Acts, 1922 and 1925, provide that Summer Time shall come into operation on the day following the third Saturday in April. Under the Summer Time Act, 1947, a different date may in any year be prescribed by Order in Council, but as I indicated in reply to a Question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Totnes on 11th December, 1952, the Government have decided not to propose any alterations in the statutory dates for 1953.