Iau, 12 Mehefin 1947
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read the Third time, and passed.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will reconsider the refusal of his Department to grant the issue of supplementary coupons to the Manchester City Mission for the provision of...
asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) what percentage of our exports for the first quarter of this year was represented by N.A.A.F.I, and U.N.R.R.A. supplies; (2) what percentage of our...
asked the President of the Board or Trade if he is aware that Government surplus officers' field boots, sold by the Government at £1 7s. 6d. per pair under condition of sale that the boots...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the shortage of 25 by 6 tyres required by many local authorities for vehicles engaged in refuse disposal and cleansing work; what...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any decision has yet been made with regard to the right of British firms to trade with Japan; and what arrangements have been made so far as the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade, why tailors and clothing outfitters in Liverpool are unable to obtain supplies of men's flannel trousers; and why there is an abundance of women's...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that large quantities of new rubber Wellington boots have been cut up and delivered to mills for fuel in recent weeks; under what...
asked the President of the Board of Trade by how much tobacco consumption has been reduced since the Budget; whether the reduction is as great as was anticipated; and what steps is he taking to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what action he is taking to ensure increased production of soda ash; whether he is aware that woolcombers in the wool textile industry cannot increase...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what procedure is now in force in regard to the separation of paper from other refuse col- lected by local authorities; and by what regulations it is...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what are the maximum amounts of expenditure allowed to be incurred for alterations to ready-made, utility, and non-utility garments, respectively; by...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the shortage of shirts and scarves for Boy Scouts; and whether material can be diverted from army purposes to help alleviate the...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power how much coal from the U.S.A. is to be imported into the United Kingdom by the end of 1947.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power under what authority a local fuel overseer acts in forbidding a consumer from changing his coal merchant; and if any appeal lies against the decision of the...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he is aware of complaints by retail coal merchants that trucks are arriving seriously short of the declared amount carried; that this is adding to the...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. Bossom: 26. To ask the Minister of Fuel and Power how much coal Great Britain is arranging to purchase from the U.S.A.; and...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he will give the number of cases, showing acreages and periods in excess of four weeks, where opencast coalmining has ceased and restoration has not begun.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power how much coal has been carbonised per week in Yorkshire ovens owned by the National Coal Board since 1st January, 1947.
Lieut.-Commander Clark Hutchison: asked the Minister of Fuel and Power (1) why, in view of the great public interest in coal production, he has instructed the National Coal Board to discontinue...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the reason given by Mr. Hobson for declining the position of Deputy Chairman of the British Electricity Authority.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he has any further statement to make regarding conversion from coal to oil.
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the increasing number and variety of officials who have been given rights by the Government to demand...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the Cambridge County Council is inviting applications for the post of children's officer at a salary of £360 per...
asked the Prime Minister if he is aware that it is the practice of Ministers of His Majesty's Government to decline to disclose to Parliament the salaries and allowances paid to members of the...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Labour what plans and arrangements he has made for the absorption of the 2,000 people who are at present employed by the Ministry of Food in the...
asked the Minister of Labour if his talks with the football pool promoters are now completed; what labour they expect to employ in the coming season; what reductions they have made in their...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the continuing reductions in the period of service in the Armed Forces, it is proposed that grants for further education and training will be...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the need for attracting more women workers to the wool-textile industry, any negotiations have yet been made, and with what success, to give women...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has yet fixed the date for the introduction of the new Interim Index of Retail Prices as recommended by the Cost-of-Living Advisory Committee.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many candidates entered for the Open Reconstruction Competition for the clerical class of the Civil Service in November, 1946, and how many were...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many policemen were sent on 3rd June to delete the words "Tinker's Palace" from a house in Beechcroft Road, Tooting; and what are the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what report he has received from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police upon the disorders which arose at the Royal Albert Hall on the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visas have been granted to Swiss citizens in the last three months to enable them to visit this country; and how many refused.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if evidence has been obtained to prove what body is responsible for sending letter bombs recently to certain citizens in this country.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will arrange to have civilian respirators collected and the materials utilised for more useful purposes by the salvage organisation.
Lieut.-Colonel Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the report of the Parliamentary Boundaries Commission, extracts from which were recently...
asked the Minister of Health if he will state the number of unoccupied houses and flats in the Metropolitan boroughs of St. Marylebone, Chelsea, Kensington, Paddington and Westminster.
asked the Minister of Health how many families made homeless as a result of court orders are now accommodated in public assistance institutions in the London and Greater London areas.
asked the Minister of Health why the Mangotsfield Urban Council has issued 126 licences to private builders for houses for sale, of which 72 have been completed, whereas only 16 to let have been...
May I ask the Leader of the House to tell us the Business for next week?
I desire to bring a matter to your notice, Mr. Speaker, affecting this House, and I would ask if you have any comment to make upon it. On 15th May of this year the following letter was issued, as...
The Minister of State (Mr. McNeil): With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a short statement on the situation in Hungary. As the House was informed on 9th June His Majesty's...
Motion made, and Question put, That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted, at this day's Sitting,
Order for Consideration, as amended (in the Standing Committee), read.
I beg to move, in page 4, line 25, at the end, to insert: (f) to employ the fire brigade if requested so to do by the Health Committee of the local authority in running the local authority's...
I beg to move, in page 5, line 24, at the end, to insert: Where, on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, the population of a non-county borough, as estimated by the...
I beg to move, in page 6, line 26, to leave out from "incurred," to" as," in line 27, and to insert: in connection with the provision of fire services. Clause 5 (2, d) deals with the transfer...
I beg to move, in page 14, line 16, at the end, to insert: and for the making, by any such authority to an authority which in pursuance of this paragraph is substituted therefor for the purposes...
I beg to move, in page 18. line 43, at the end, to insert: References in this Section to the conditions of service of persons employed as aforesaid include references to welfare arrangements for...
I beg to move, in page 24, line 6, to leave out "transfer to,' and to insert" entry on service with." Here, again, I think it would be convenient if I dealt also with the next Amendment, in line...
5.45 p.m.
(1) Every fire authority (other than the London County Council) which is the council of a county shall constitute a fire brigade committee in accordance with the following provisions of this...
I beg to move, in page line 6, to leave out "Great Britain," and to insert "England and Wales." There are three other Amendments on the Order Paper in my name and in the names of other hon....
I beg to move, in page 4, line 13, to leave out from the beginning to "and," in line 15. I suggest that it would be for the convenience of the House if we were to take together this Amendment...
I beg to move, in page 5, line 25, to leave out Subsections (2) and (3). The new Clause which we discussed at the beginning of the Report stage this afternoon provides for all the things that we...
I beg to move, in page 7, line 26, after "any," to insert "area or areas of a." This is a drafting Amendment. There can be no population of a fire authority. The population is of the area...
I beg to move, in page 8, line 29, to leave out from "scheme," to the end of line 31. This Amendment is also consequential on the new Clause moved at the beginning of the Report stage.
I beg to move, in page 12, line 32, after "may," to insert: after consultation with such associations representing local authorities as appear to him to be concerned. We had a discussion on this...
I beg to move, in page 20, line 9, to leave out from "officers," to the first "of," in line 11. I think it would be convenient if we took with this Amendment the next Amendment, in page 20, line...
I beg to move, in page 21, line 14, at the end, to insert: and if in connection with the making of a scheme under paragraph (b) of Subsection (5) of this Section the fire authority so requires,...
I beg to move, in page 22, line r, to leave out Subsection (2), and to insert: (2) The arrangement to be made for the central training institution established under this section shall secure that...
I beg to move, in page 30, line 9, after the first "fire," to insert "wheresoever it may occur." I have put this Amendment down to raise a point which is a matter of concern to the Fire...
I beg to move, in page 33, line 43, to leave out "fire authorities," and to insert "councils." This Subsection is for the purpose of making it clear that a fire authority cannot really be a fire...
Amendment made: In page 38, line 20, leave out "land," and insert "lane."—[Mr. Ede.]
Amendment made: In page 38, line 38, leave out "paragraph (f)" and insert "paragraphs (f) and (g)."—[Mr. Ede.]
I beg to move, in page 40, line 3, at the end to insert: "AND MANAGEMENT SCHEMES." This Amendment, and all the remaining Amendments on the Order Paper in my name, are consequential on the new...
Amendments made: In page 40, line 36, at the end, insert "AND MANAGEMENT SCHEMES."
Considered in Committee; reported without Amendment.
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [9th June], "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Snow.]
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