Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 1 Awst 1924.
When I asked that the Bill should be taken through all its stages to-day and pressed for it, I was not aware that it had not been printed. The Bill is very much wanted by the insurance societies of the country, who are very anxious to have the law consolidated so that they can get to work upon it. I quite agree that, seeing the Bill is not printed that we ought to have it printed. My right hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge University (Mr. Rawlinson) is as interested as I am, but under the circumstances he has suggested that we should not take it any further than the Second Reading. I trust that this will be arranged and that the right hon. Gentleman opposite will see that the Bill is properly printed before we take it through its other stages. The matter is not likely to be much delayed, because there will be a certificate given that there is no alteration in the law, and, seeing that this is simply a matter of consolidation, I do not think we shall be any worse for not going beyond the Second Reading. But there is a good deal in what my right hon. Friend has said, and so far as I am concerned, I am quite prepared that the Bill should have its Second Reading, but we ought not, I think, to go beyond that to-day.