Iau, 15 Rhagfyr 1949
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Mr. POPPLEWELL) reported His Majesty's Answers to the Addresses, as follows:
I have received your Address praying that the Regulation 76 of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939, which was continued in force until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and...
I have received your Address praying that section eight of the Emergency Laws (Transitional Provisions) Act, 1946, which was continued in force until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen...
I have received your Address praying that the National Youth Employment Council and Advisory Committees for Scotland and Wales (Membership) Order, 1949, be made in the form of the draft laid...
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations whether he has any statement to make about the discussions which he recently had with visiting Southern Rhodesian Ministers about the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade why he inquires into the personal political beliefs of members of his Department who desire to stand as candidates at local authority elections; and if...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can now announce the date from which the timber trade will be allowed to resume the purchase in Scandinavia and elsewhere of softwood of suitable...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is now in a position to fix a date at which the present restrictions on magazines and periodicals will be removed.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what is the present position regarding the proposal to set up a development council for the pottery industry.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if, in view of the recent increasing demand in hard currency areas for finished silk products, he will increase the allowance of raw silk importations.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware of the acute shortage of babies' diapers or material for making the same in the area of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford, Epping and Chingford;...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what is the largest number of summonses for which application was made by his Department at Bow Street, on any one day this year, in respect of failure...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any further statement to make about import relaxations in view of the decision by the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation on...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any further de-control of the hardwood trade is in prospect.
asked the President of the Board of Trade to what extent he has arranged for publicity to be given to the facilities which the Export Credit Guarantee Department are prepared to offer to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade how soon he anticipates that it will be possible to export to Argentina goods listed under Category 3 of the Agreement with the Argentine Government,...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps he intends to take to offset the adverse effect on the price of export goods resulting from the increase in transport costs.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the long delay in passing British samples through the Customs in New York; and whether he will consult with the Foreign Secretary...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he is proposing to make a further revision of the memorandum on the abstract of the laws relating to London cab drivers in view of its...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recruits have now been enrolled for Civil Defence in England and Wales up to the last convenient date.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that, in connection with the electoral register now being compiled in Bedford and elsewhere, private persons are purporting...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. KEELING:
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what qualifications as shorthand-writers are required of Metropolitan police officers attending political meetings for the purpose of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the statements in the Oaksey Report, what steps he now proposes to take to provide new houses for the police.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent improvements have taken place in regard to accommodation in remand homes and approved schools; whether this is now adequate;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young persons absconding from approved schools have been imprisoned during the past six months without any charge having been...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of public disquiet he will introduce legislation which will have the effect of making the doping of racehorses an indictable offence.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has yet reached a decision on the supply of morphia in collapsible tubes for emergency use to accredited mountain-rescue parties.
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that under his regulations the future weekly charge for private rooms at Moretonhampstead Cottage Hospital will be, without medical attendance, 17...
asked the Minister of Health, if he has now discovered the percentage of persons who cannot be fitted with the Medresco hearing aid; and if he now proposes to allow distributing centres of aids...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered cases submitted to him showing delays in fixing sites for proposed housing owing to differences of view amongst Government Departments and...
asked the Minister of Health what progress has been made with reconditioning farm workers' cottages since the passing of the 1949 Housing Act.
asked the Minister of Health how far his Department's recent estimate of the share of the Government's capital investment programme available for housing, took account of any increase in railway...
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Labour whether he has any further statement to make about the situation in the electrical power industry.
Any further Proceedings on the Parliament Square (Improvements) Bill exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House).—[The Prime Minister.]
Lords Amendments considered.
Lords Amendment: 'In page 3, line 3, at end insert: (7) Where any German enemy property, on or at any time after the third day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, belonged to, or was...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. R. J. Taylor.]
6.33 p.m.
Lords Amendment in lieu of one of their Amendments to which the Commons have disagreed, considered.
Lords Amendment: In page 4. line 31, at end, insert: Provided that if the Minister considers that it would be preferable to re-erect the said fountain on a site not being a site within either of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Snow.]
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