BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 3

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

BIG PROGRAMME AHEAD

PRE-CHRISTMAS PERIOD

(9 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. 17

There will be no slackening in the tempo before Parliament gdjourns for Christmas, says the Press Associv 1 ion’s Parliamentary correspondent. When Parliament resumes to-day the business before the adjournment debate on Thursday concludes, first the restaging in the House of Lords of the fight over the American lean settlement and the Bretton Woods Bill: secondly, the publication of the bill to nationalise (he coal mines;, thirdly, the White Paper outlining the Government’s civil aviation schemes: fourthly, lifting the ban on everything said during the 57 wartime Parliamentary secret sessions; fifthly, the final stages of the bill nationalising the Bank of England; sixthly, announcements of better pay and allowances for tiie services; seventhly, measures regularising the positions of several members of the House ot Commons whose legal rights to be members may be in doubt because they Held minor appointments which may be construed ‘‘offices of profit under the Crown.”