Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL [Lords].

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 25 July 1922.

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Photo of Mr Arthur Neal Mr Arthur Neal , Sheffield, Hillsborough

I certainly have never said, either in Committee or in private or here, that the Government will withdraw from Clause 15 at all. What I said—and let there be no misunderstanding about lt—was that there was a great agitation growing against. Clause 15, and that the House might defeat it. But the position of the Government has always been perfectly clear. We stand by the pledge we gave to the House of Lords in Clause 15.