Llun, 15 Rhagfyr 1947
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the figures of trade between the British and Russian zones of Germany in the year 1946–47.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many new British cars have been supplied to the Control Commission in Germany during the past 12 months.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has considered the correspondence that has been sent to him concerning maladministration among the personnel of the Control Commission in...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that in September last a German was permitted to enter a British Army building in Brunswick, entry to which is normally forbidden...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many British personnel, in convenient categories, are employed in the British zone in Germany.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davies, 14, Albert Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, were refused permission to travel to Germany at their own expense to...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what complaints were made by the participating authorities in the Allied Kommandatura as to the work of the Kulturbund zur demokratischen...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has considered the statement sent to him concerning the use of motor cars by German civilians to enable them to attend sporting functions...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will instruct the British representative on the Austrian Control Commission to make representations in regard to Austrian railwaymen...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will arrange with the editors of "Documents in British Foreign Policy 1919–39," to publish a further volume covering the period...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make a statement about the new regulations for pay and allowances for members of the Diplomatic and Consular Service serving...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why over 500 notices have recently been issued to British subjects interned in Shanghai during the war, demanding repayment of the £I a week...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the breaking-off by Yugoslavia of the Anglo-Yugoslav agreement on the repatriation of displaced persons.
asked the Minister of Food whether he will extend the extra cheese ration to all those who work in the open including lorry drivers in rural areas if their employment makes it necessary for them...
asked the Minister of Food what facilities are available to children at boarding schools to secure their allowance of school milk during holiday periods.
asked the Minister of Food what representations he has received from trade organisations as to the encouragement which is likely to be given to foreign shippers of edible nuts in shell to raise...
asked the Minister of Food what is holding up the food negotiations with Denmark; and when he expects to resume them.
asked the Minister of Food why the Bristol Port Authority do not mark cases of imported fruit according to grade or type; and, as this failure to mark results in retailers sometimes having to pay...
asked the Minister of Food why fruit traders in the Weston-super-Mare District of Somerset are only just receiving allocation No. 10 of oranges, whereas other parts of the country have already...
asked the Minister of Food what complaints he has had recently of the damage through frost to Scotch seed potatoes in transit to England; what representations he has made to prevent undue...
asked the Minister of Food if he will make facilities to enable British Restaurants to organise mobile meals services.
asked the Minister of Food what imports he received in return for the 9,500 tons of chocolate exported between 1st January and 31st October, 1947; and how many dollars did this export earn.
asked the Minister of Food if he will state the estimated total cost 1947–48 of subsidies on animal feedingstuffs, welfare foods, milk in schools and national milk schemes, respectively.
asked the Minister of Food, on what grounds he has refused a licence for the establishment of a fried fish shop in the village of Easington, East Yorkshire.
asked the Minister of Food whether his attention has been called to the latest report of the Medical Officer for the Port of London which calls attention to the marked deterioration in the...
asked the Minister of Food if the bigger acreage of potatoes which farmers are being asked to grow in 1948 takes into account an increased demand for potatoes as other foods become scarcer.
asked the Minister of Food in view of the spread of fowl pest what precautions he is taking to prevent further infection; and whether he will limit the import of poultry from countries where this...
asked the Minister of Food, in view of the fact that in 1938 imports amounted to 1,549,761 tons, why there have been no wheat imports from Australia during the years 1946 and 1947
Mr. E. P. Smith: asked the Minister of Food if he is aware that there is a large percentage of breakages in shipments of imported eggs during unloading; to what extent this is due to piece rates...
asked the Minister of Food whether, in the interests of small households with relatively few points, he will arrange for certain types of tinned food, and especially fruits, to be put up in...
asked the Minister of Food if full rations are provided in the canteens for the miners and when a six or seven day week is worked in North Staffs are full rations provided for every day worked.
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of recent changes in the sphere of economic planning, he will publish in convenient form a summary of the present arrangements, setting out the chain of...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what research work as distinct from development and testing work is being carried out by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering.
asked the Minister of Agriculture the total acreage occupied by aerodromes in Norfolk and the total acreage which is now being cultivated by farmers or the War Agricultural Executive Committee.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that the Norfolk War Agricultural Executive Committee have been requested to erect six new hostels to accommodate members of the Women's Land...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that nearly 500 farm workers are registered as unemployed in Norfolk; and that the number is increasing; that over 300 of the men have been...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he has now received assurances from all the county agricultural executive committees in England and Wales that the required acreages of potatoes will be grown...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if supplies of potash fertilisers will be sufficient to meet in full the needs of the 1948 potato crop; and whether more sulphate of potash will be available...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the criticism concerning the disposal of "Blue Train" by the National Stud, he will say the terms on which this horse was sold; and state the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture how many cases of fowl pest there have been in each of the last six convenient months; and what precautions are being taken to combat this disease.
asked the Minister of Agriculture when he will make known his plans for increased grass conservation.
Mr. Amory: asked the Minister of Agriculture by what date he expects that the supply of ploughshares will be adequate to needs.
asked the Minister of Agriculture what facilities are available to farmers to borrow money for working and development purposes; and at what rates of interest.
asked the Minister of Agriculture why cultivation on land in the Stanford Battle Training Area was stopped for a while, in view of the urgent need to crop as much land as possible for 1948; and...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what schemes of an important capital nature he has received from the North Norfolk Rivers Catchment Board, the East Norfolk Rivers Catchment Board and the River...
asked the Minister of Agriculture how many officials of the Labour Department of the Norfolk War Agricultural Executive Committee, serving in West Norfolk, have recently been dismissed or...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the feeling of farmers throughout the country that in spite of being requested by the Government to increase production,...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what is the amount of lime subsidy which his Department has paid on shell lime taken from the coast of Cornwall in each of the past five years; and the tonnage...
I wish with your permission, Mr. Speaker, to make a statement in connection with the publication of details of the Report of the Boundary Commission for England in the "Northern Echo," the...
I beg to move, "That this House do now adjourn." The House will have learned with great regret of the death of Lord Baldwin, and will, I am sure, desire to have the opportunity of paying tribute...
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