DEBATES ON DOMESTIC AND ON OVERSEAS AFFAIRS

HL Deb 19 March 1964 vol 256 cc1033-4WA

LORD CASEY

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many debates, apart from Questions, have taken place in the House of Lords on domestic United Kingdom matters and how many on Commonwealth and international matters in the last five years.

LORD CARRINGTON

There have been 256 debates on Motions for Papers or on Resolutions during the last five years. As the following table shows, 200 of these were principally concerned with domestic affairs and 56 with international and Commonwealth affairs.

	Domestic	International and Commonwealth
1962–63	36	11
1961–62	40	11
1960–61	40	12
1959–60	41	9
1958–59	43	13
Total	200	56

These figures do not take account of a number of substantial debates on International and Commonwealth affairs which took place on various stages of Public Bills and on Orders.