Llun, 27 Ionawr 1964
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
I regret to have to inform the House of the death of Richard Charles Brooman-White, esquire, Member for Rutherglen, and I desire on behalf of the House to express our sense of the loss we have...
asked the Minister of Labour what is the current programme of his Manpower Research Unit.
asked the Minister of Labour what has been the cost of advertising to promote interest in industrial training as set out in Command Paper No. 1892.
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is satisfied that the present official studies of the development of automation and its consequences are sufficiently wide in their scope; if he is...
asked the Minister of Labour if he will give the figures of insured male workers who have migrated from Blaydon and the Chopwell sub-office area of Consett employment exchange to other parts of...
asked the Minister of Labour how many persons in insurable occupations have left the Consett and Stanley employment areas to obtain employment elsewhere in each of the last two years; and how...
asked the Minister of Labour how many youths and girls below the age of 20 years are registered as unemployed at the Clydebank employment exchange.
asked the Minister of Labour how many youths and girls below the age of 20 years are registered as unemployed at the Kirkintilloch employment exchange.
asked the Minister of Labour how many school leavers in Dorset left the county to take up their first employment.
asked the Minister of Labour how many bank employees in Great Britain attend day-release classes.
asked the Minister of Labour what measures he will take to encourage long-term additional employment in the Rotherham area in view of the statement on employment prospects sent to him by the...
asked the Minister of Labour what percentage of boys leaving school entered apprenticeships in 1961, 1962, and 1963, respectively; and what were the comparable figures for girls.
asked the Minister of Labour what was the average number of weekly hours worked and the weekly earnings gained by men over 21 years of age in the United Kingdom in 1963; and how these figures...
asked the Minister of Labour what was the average monthly rate of unemployment in Scotland in 1951, the monthly average for the entire period 1952–62 inclusive, and the comparable figure...
asked the Minister of Labour how many youths under the age of 18 years were unemployed, at the latest available date, in the Mexborough and Wombwell employment exchange areas.
asked the Minister of Labour if he will now state the number of employees who have lost their employment as a result of the merger of the Edinburgh Evening News and Edinburgh Evening Despatch.
asked the Minister of Labour how many industrial stoppages occurred in the United Kingdom in 1963; how this figure compares with 1962; and how many of these stoppages required the intervention of...
asked the Minister of Labour how many apprentices are attending the first-year apprenticeship training courses in Glasgow; and what are the plans for increasing these facilities in the next few years.
asked the Minister of Labour what is the latest figure available for registered disabled unemployed in Glasgow; and how many of these have been unemployed for more than twelve months.
asked the Minister of Labour what consultations his Department has with the National Assistance Board on assessing the earning capacities of different categories of workmen, with a view to the...
asked the Minister of Labour what are the estimated average weekly earnings of men, classified by his Department as light labourers, in Glasgow, Birmingham and London, respectively.
asked the Minister of Labour what were the ratios of wholly-unemployed boys to unfilled vacancies for boys in Scotland and the Midlands at the relevant dates in January.
asked the Minister of Labour what alterations there have been over the last few months in the number of unfilled vacancies notified to his local officers.
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in order to increase the efficiency of British industry, he will now introduce legislation to make illegal all those practices artificially restricting the...
asked the Minister of Labour the average adult wage for manual workers at present being paid in Remploy factories in Scotland.
asked the Minister of Labour what plans he has for securing employment for the school leavers in Scotland, in view of the continuing discrepancy between their number and the vacancies available,...
asked the Attorney-General if he is aware of the inconvenience caused to historians and other users of the Public Record Office by shortage of staff, inadequate search rooms and facilities,...
asked the Attorney-General what estimate he has made of the cost of the prosecution of the defendants in the train robbery trial to be held at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; and whether the cost...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will state the policy of Her Majesty's Government with regard to the proposed increase in the size of the United Nations Security Council.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will now review the procedure under which sanction is given for the supply of military equipment to South Africa.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what limitations are placed by the Government of the Republic of South Africa on citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonial Territories who wish...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the facts that 10 of the 51 recent underground nuclear test explosions in the United States of America have caused radioactive...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what further reply has been given to the request of the Government of Cambodia for the summoning of a conference representing the interested...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations whether he will make a further statement about the use of British troops in East Africa.
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Labour if he will make a statement on the industrial dispute at the Steel Company of Wales.
On a point of order. On Thursday, the Leader of the House undertook to convey to his colleagues the Foreign Secretary and the Secretary of State for Air my request that a statement should be made...
Bill read a Second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House.
3.48 p.m.
10.9 p.m.
Resolution reported,That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for the granting of proprietary lights to persons who breed or discover plait varieties, it is expedient to...
Resolution reported,That for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the law relating to dealers in scrap metal and similar goods, and to dealers in marine stores, it is expedient...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Ian Fraser.]
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