Mawrth, 23 Gorffennaf 1963
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Motion made, and Question proposed,
SALVATION ARMY BILL
asked the Postmaster- General if he is aware of the concern in the Longbenton Urban District Council area about the erecting of telegraph poles; and if he will consider the laying of underground...
asked the Post master-General what is the maximum delay that a subscriber on a London exchange should expect to experience in dialling 100 at an off-peak period; and what instructions are given...
asked the Postmaster-General in what circumstances applications for the placing of overhead telegraphic lines were forwarded recently by him to the borough of Gateshead.
asked the Postmaster- General what was the number of new telephones installed in the Blyth constituency during 1960, 1961, 1962, and at the nearest available date in 1963; how many remain on the...
asked the Postmaster-General what further action he has taken to meet the increasing demand for telephones in the Reading area.
asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that when a number is dialled the engaged signal comes through if all the junctions are busy between the two exchanges, and that this gives a...
asked the Postmaster-General, in view of the increasing noise caused by heavy traffic on main roads, if he will reconsider his policy of erecting telephone kiosks at the side of main roads, and...
asked the Postmaster-General if he will now reconsider his decision to remove the public telephone kiosk at Harcombe, Sidbury, Devon; and what the distance is from there to the nearest public...
asked the Postmaster-General how many telephone installation applications at the Oldham main exchange were outstanding for more than three months at the latest convenient date; and when he...
asked the Postmaster-General what additional income from the telephone services he estimates will arise from the expenditure of £250,000 in the current year on advertising specifically...
asked the Postmaster-General how many applicants in Wembley are still waiting for the telephone service; and what is the longest time for which any have waited.
asked the Postmaster-General what has been the change in the waiting list for telephones since 1951.
asked the Postmaster-General what has been the increase in the number of telephones since 1951; and how many new telephone subscribers have been connected in 1963.
asked the Postmaster-General if he will state the total number on the waiting list for telephones in South Yorkshire in 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, and 1962, respectively.
asked the Postmaster-General if he has now completed his review of applications for pay television experiments; which companies have been successful; what areas are to be recognised; and if he...
asked the Postmaster-General to what extent the terms of appointment of the Chairman of the Independent Television Authority require the holder of that post to retire from active politics.
asked the Postmaster- General when he proposes to replace the unsatisfactory post office premises in Airdrie with new offices; where he pro poses to site them; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Postmaster- General whether he will grant a licence for a sub-post office to serve the Carey Estate, Wareham.
asked the Postmaster-General whether he will reconsider his decision on the resiting of the Walton St. Mary sub-post office, Clevedon.
asked the Postmaster-General what proposals he has to improve the transmission of money through post offices.
asked the Postmaster-General what action he is taking to eliminate delay in delivery of mail from the Sale, Cheshire, area.
asked the Postmaster-General if he will restore the second postal delivery on Saturdays.
asked the Postmaster-General how the experimental reorganisation of the parcel post service in East Anglia is working.
asked the Prime Minister what arrangements are now being made to inform Members of Parliament of the decisions taken arising from the report on the North-East by the Lord President of the...
Mr. Stone house: asked the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on the progress of the test ban talks in Moscow.
asked the Prime Minister whether he intends to lead the British delegation to the September meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
asked the Prime Minister which Minister will now be responsible for civil aviation.
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper.
asked the Prime Minister if he will agree to meet the hon. Member for Tynemouth to discuss the problems of widowed mothers and the earnings rule, and the extension of the widowed mothers'...
asked the Prime Minister what steps he has taken to co ordinate the action of Ministers concerned in order to ensure the publication, without delay, of official fuel and power targets, allocated...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will make a statement about the recent conversations between members of Her Majesty's Government and Mr. Paul Hoffman, head of the United Nations Special Fund;...
3.30 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed.That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the...
Order for consideration, as amended (in the Standing Committee), read.
I beg to move, in page 34, line 30, at the end to insert: Provided that where the offence with which the accused is charged is an offence for which imprisonment without the option of a fine is a...
For the removal of doubt if is hereby declared that it is competent for any Scottish court to defer sentence after conviction for a period and on such conditions as the court may...
Sentence to an approved school shall not be considered as suitable treatment for— (a) children who are certified as mental defectives,(b) children who are found to be in need of care and...
On committing a child or young person to an approved school, the mental age as well as the chronological age shall be taken into consideration in determining the category of approved...
The next Amendment is that in page 2, line 9.
9.0 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 5, line 49, at the end to insert: (4) The powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by the last foregoing subsection may be exercised in the case of a person who has not...
I beg to move, in page 7, line 8, after "State", to insert: shall review each case at the end of six months and". The Amendment refers to the supervision of persons released from detention...
I beg to move, in page 9, line 1, to leave out lines 1 to 8 and insert: (2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (4) thereof, this section applies— (a) to any person serving a sentence...
I beg to move, in page 10, line 2, after "made", to insert: after the passing of this Act". We now come to what I regard as one of the continuing blemishes of the Bill. My hon. Friend the Member...
I beg to move, in page 13, line 32, to leave out "two hundred and fifty" and to insert "one hundred and fifty".
I beg to move, in page 14, line 20, to leave out paragraph (c). In order to meet the possibility of people going to prison because of not being able to pay fines, the Clause enables the...
I beg to move, in page 18, line 15, to leave out "less than" and to insert "not exceeding".
10.45 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 23, line 27, to leave out "fifty" and to insert "twenty-five". When we came to this Clause and this part of the Bill in Committee we were on the last day allocated to us...
I think it would be to the convenience of the House to discuss with the Amendment in page 23, line 45, the next three Amendments: In page 23, line 46, leave out "eighteen" and insert "seventeen"....
I beg to move, in page 25, line 22, to leave out "40 and 41" and to insert "39 and 40". The purpose of the Amendment is to correct an error made in the editing of the Report stage print of the...
I beg to move, in page 37, line 4, to leave out "sections 53 and 69" and to insert "section 53". If I might, Mr. Speaker, deal at the same time with the next Amendment, these two Amendments are...
Third Report from the Select Committee to be considered forthwith.—[Mr. lain Macleod.]
Resolved,That, subject always to the discretion of the Chair and to the right of the House to legislate on any matter.(1) matters awaiting or under adjudication in all courts exercising a...
Resolution reported,
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Chichester-Clark.]
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