Why did the UK Parliament sit on Saturday 30 July 1949?
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The statement regarding the Business of the House given the previous week (on Thursday 21 July 1949) seems to suggest that there was just too much to get through in the normal 5 working days, and that the government didn't want House business to run into a new working week.
Parliament allocates time for debates, and this appears to have taken the full program from Monday 25 July 1949 to Friday 29 July 1949. The adjournment debate was thus scheduled for Saturday 30 July, together with other business including:
"... an occasion when hon. Members like the hon. Member for Norwood (Mr. Chamberlain) have an opportunity to raise matters affecting their constituents."
In the event, according to Hansard the Commons sitting on 30 July 1949 actually ended up including the following items of business:
- Preamble
- PRAYERS
- ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)
- TELEVISION (SCOTLAND)
- ROYAL ASSENT
- TELEVISION (SCOTLAND)
- B.B.C. RUSSIAN BROADCASTS (JAMMING)
- FRUSTRATED EXPORTS
- EDUCATION, CARDIFF
- ARMY HUTS, LLANDEFEILOG (SALE)
- CIVIL SERVANTS (POLITICAL ACTIVITIES)
Which all presumably needed to be cleared before the Parliamentary recess.
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