Oral Answers to Questions — Russia. – in the House of Commons at on 6 July 1925.
Mr Oliver Locker-Lampson
, Birmingham Handsworth
asked the Prime Minister whether he will receive a deputation from British creditors of Russia before the Adjournment of the House?
Mr Stanley Baldwin
, Bewdley
Unless the British creditors in question have any new point to raise, I do not think any useful purpose would be served by them repeating to me views of which I am fully cognisant and which moreover have been, and are being, exhaustively discussed by them with the officials of the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade.
Mr George Hardie
, Glasgow Springburn
Is there any arrangement between this Government and the Russian Government on behalf of the British creditors?
Mr Stanley Baldwin
, Bewdley
The hon. Member should address that question to the Foreign Office.
An adjournment is a break in the course of parliamentary business.
The House adjourns at the end of each day's business.
On a daily basis the House adjourns, or breaks, half an hour after the moving of the adjournment debate.
The House is also adjourned for several holiday periods during the session.
The more lengthy adjournments - often coinciding with the academic calendar - are known as recesses.
