STATUTORY ORDERS (SPECIAL PROCEDURE) BILL. Memorandum by the Lord Chancellor

6. The Bill is not likely to provoke much serious opposition in view of its backing by the previous Coalition Government. I understand, however, that some objection has been raised by private interests who fear that they will not get justice on the Floor of the House, and would like all Orders to be referred to a Committee. The following reasoned amendment to the Motion for Second Reading was put down by a number of Conservative Members:- "That this House declines to give a Second Reading to a Bill which fails to expedite or improve the present long-established Provisional Order procedure, but deprives the subject of his present absolute right to have his petition heard by an impartial Committee of this House and moreover diminishes the control of Parliament over delegated legislation.