Orders of the Day — Housing Bill.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 16 May 1935.

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seems to me that there is all the difference in the world between recommitting the Bill for the purpose of carrying out some general agreement which was arrived at in Committee and recommitting the Bill to reconsider something which has already been fully discussed and decided in Committee. It seems to me that before that action is taken a very strong reason should be brought before the House as to why a matter which has been decided in Committee should be reopened for discussion in this House. I cannot help feeling that the Minister made a mistake, which I think a great many people on the spur of the moment would probably have fallen into, but, if this is to be looked on as a precedent, it may lead to a great many difficulties in regard to future Bills, which really will have arisen over a slight misunderstanding. I hope that this Motion will not be taken as a precedent for the future, and that the whole. House will realise that it may possibly be a mistake.