The outstanding business is as follows: To-day, it is desired to obtain the remaining stages of the Foodstuffs (Prevention of Exploitation) Bill and of the Sunday Performances (Temporary Regulation) Bill; the Motion to carry over the London Passenger Transport Bill until the next Session of Parliament, and the Second Reading of the Appropriation Bill. The Government hope that it will be possible to obtain this business by a reasonable hour. Then to-morrow we shall meet at the usual time, 2.45 p.m., and I hope conclude the remaining business before the House, and, when the Measures which I have mentioned have been passed in another place, there will he a Royal Commission to give the Royal Assent to the Acts passed by both Houses, and the present Session will be terminated by Prorogation.

I should add that I had an audience with His Majesty this morning and asked for a Dissolution. His Majesty empowers me to announce that he has consented.