Mawrth, 14 Ebrill 1964
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified]
Read the Third time and passed.
Read a Second time and committed.
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Postmaster-General whether he will arrange for the limit on weekly withdrawals from Post Office savings accounts to be raised from £10 to £20 so as to...
asked the Postmaster-General what is his policy regarding the refitting of cable ships; and how much work of this nature has been undertaken in the North-East in the last three years.
asked the Postmaster-General whether he is satisfied that the removal of the head office of the Post Office Savings Bank to Glasgow will not mean that all the money deposited is deemed to be...
asked the Postmaster-General if he will make a statement on the discussions that have taken place between his Department and the American Satellite Communication Corporation regarding the...
asked the Postmaster-General what would be the weekly extra cost to his Department of meeting the wage demands of the postmen over and above what he has already offered them; and what estimate he...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he will install a stamp cancelling machine at Bala, Merioneth, Post Office.
asked the Postmaster-General if he will make a special stamp issue to mark the opening of the Forth Road Bridge later this year.
asked the Postmaster-General what proportion of dialled telephone calls fail to connect first time.
asked the Postmaster-General when the facilities at telephone exchanges where dialling from London is only possible to the local exchange will be extended so that the exchange and number can be...
asked the Postmaster-General how many applications for telephone installations were outstanding at the last convenient date; and the average waiting period in England and Wales and in Scotland.
asked the Postmaster-General how many telephone subscribers questioned the accuracy of their accounts during each of the years 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963; and in how many cases the...
asked the Postmaster-General if the committee studying the economics of Post Office telephone kiosks has yet reported; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Postmaster-General how many applications for telephone installations are outstanding in Clydebank, Bearsden, Milngavie, Kirkintilloch and the new town of Cumbernau1d.
asked the Postmaster-General if he will now state the system to be adopted by Great Britain for a colour television service.
asked the Postmaster-General if he will give a direction to the British Broadcasting Corporation under Section 14(4) of the Licence and Agreement to refrain from transmitting on sound party...
asked the Postmaster-General when a third television programme will be made available to Scottish viewers.
asked the Postmaster-General what action he has taken to dissuade advertisers from making use of Radio "Caroline"
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs how many buildings in the rural districts of Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and...
Mrs. Butler: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will send a circular to local planning authorities encouraging them to follow a policy of...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs when he expects to make his decision on the report of his inspector on the public inquiry into the future status...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will consider including the Sculthorpe Air Base, Norfolk, which will soon be vacated by the United States...
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what action he is taking to improve standards of sound insulation in the construction of flat...
asked the Prime Minister when he will announce the conclusions of the Government on the future of the Nuclear Power Programme, arising out of their studies of the Report of the Powell Committee.
asked the Prime Minister on what occasions and in what form Mr. Khrushchev has given him information regarding the attitude of the Soviet Government in regard to the abandonment of its forward...
asked the Prime Minister whether Her Majesty's Government have now considered the implications of the judgments in the Court of Appeal in the case of Merricks and Another v. Nott-Bower and...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will authorise the construction of a nuclear-powered fleet replenishment tanker or other naval surface vessel in a shipyard in the United Kingdom.
asked the Prime Minister by what criteria he judges whether announcements of Government policy should be given to the House of Commons in the first instance, before being released either to the...
asked the Prime Minister if he will take steps to stop the drift of trade, industry, commerce, employment and population south from Scotland by appointing a Minister whose sole task will be to...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will appoint an inquiry to consider the proper timing of the publication of reports of courts of inquiry set up by various Government Departments.
asked the Prime Minister when the Report by the Committee on Members of Parliament and Ministers' remuneration will be presented to the Government.
I beg to give notice that on Monday, 27th April, I shall call attention to the measures to combat juvenile delinquency and hooliganism, and move a Resolution.
I beg to give notice that on Monday, 27th April, I shall call attention to the provision of housing for the elderly, particularly in redevelopment areas, and move a Resolution.
I beg to give notice that on Monday, 27th April, I shall call attention to Government reorganisation in Wales, and move a Resolution.
Considered in Committee.
3.35 p.m.
There are three changes to be made this year which have already been foreshadowed.
First, we have agreed, as part of the obligations to our partners in the European Free Trade Association, to abolish the present arrangements by which a lower duty is charged on indigenous light...
By the abolition of the Excise preference on light oils we have fulfilled the most important outstanding obligation under the E.F.T.A. Convention, but there are other Customs duties which still...
Thirdly, the Finance Bill will provide for the repeal of the Television Advertisement Duty at midnight of 29th July, that is, on the eve of the introduction of the additional rental payments to...
Next, the Committee will recall that last year I acknowledged the strong case for giving relief from the hydrocarbon oil duty in respect of light oils used as raw materials, as solvents or for...
I propose, also from the same date, to give some further assistance to industry in an experimental field concerned with the use of oils as fuel in industrial furnaces. Recent technical...
I propose to amend the Customs and Excise Act, 1952, to enable the Customs to permit reasonable quantities of duty-free stores for sale on board ships and aircraft as well as for use. The...
I come to a proposal about the sugar duties. I also propose to include in the Finance Bill a clause changing the present arrangements for distribution payments on imports of foodstuffs containing...
I now turn to measures in the field of direct taxation.
The second measure relates to a new and serious form of tax avoidance, involving the use of leasing devices. One device is for a trader who owns business premises to lease them for a long period...
Next in these matters, which I referred to as being extraneous to the main theme, but right to deal with at this stage, I come to two relieving provisions that have been put forward as desirable...
I have one small Stamp Duty proposal. Under the Contracts of Employment Act, 1963, which comes into effect in July, an employer is required to give each of his employees a written statement of...
I intend to include provision in the Finance Bill for two small National Debt matters: first, for payments to be made from the Consolidated Fund to Trustee Savings Banks for the management...
My final proposal in this field of minor items relates to invalid vehicles. During the Finance Bill debates last year I listened with great interest to suggestions which had been made for...
I come now to a subject which has aroused a good deal of discussion: betting and gaming. The Committee will have seen the information published earlier this year as a result of the Customs'...
I turn now to two questions of tax reform to which I referred last year.
The Committee will recall that last May we published a White Paper on the Reform of the Exchequer Accounts. This was intended as a basis for informed discussion rather than as a set of specific...
I turn to the Exchequer out-turn for 1963–64, and the Exchequer prospects for 1964–55. The main details of the out-turn are shown in the first three tables of the Blue Paper.
I now turn to the Exchequer figures for the coming year on the basis of the present tax rates.
I turn now to the main part of my statement. This will take the form of a review of the general state of the economy and an explanation of the reasoning by which I have arrived at the proposals...
As I said earlier, the past year has seen great economic progress. Production has risen by about 5 per cent. overall and by about 8 per cent. in manufacturing industry. The expansion has been...
In the coming year all the major components of demand should be increasing or, in simpler language, the demand for British goods should continue to rise vigorously, with all that this means for...
The level of incomes from employment and from investment is by far the most important element affecting costs and prices. The total effect upon costs of the level of incomes is about four times...
It is against this general background that I wish to set out the basis of my Budget proposals. This basis must clearly be twofold: the level of public expenditure and the pressure of demand. I...
The White Paper on Public Expenditure up to 1967–68, published last December, represents an important new step forward in public policy. It was based on the concept put forward by the...
Against this background of public expenditure I have to consider the pressure of demand in the coming 12 months. The rate of growth of real output in recent months of around 6 per cent. has been...
Before explaining how I intend to raise the additional revenue, I wish to tell the Committee how I propose to encourage savings.
In deciding how to raise the additional £100 million of revenue—
I have, therefore, decided to raise the additional money by increasing the duties on tobacco and alcoholic drinks by amounts broadly equivalent to 10 per cent.
These, then, are my major proposals for financing the cost involved in the great extension of the public services. They should be seen alongside my earlier proposals, for encouraging savings, for...
Public expenditure this year, current and capital, will be rising fast. This is necessary to pay for the houses, the schools, the universities and colleges, the hospitals that as a country we...
Motion made,That— (a) as from 15th April 1964 the duties of excise chargeable on spirits, and the duties of customs chargeable on spirits other than perfumed Spirits, shall respectively be...
Motion made, and Question,That— (a) as from 15th April 1964 the duties of excise and customs chargeable on beer shall respectively be at the rates shown in the Table below, and drawback...
Motion nude, and Question,That— (a) as from 15th April, 1964, the duties of customs chargeable on wine, including lees of wine, shall be at the rates shown in the Table blow;(b) the duties...
Motion made, and Question,That as from 15th April, 1964, the duty of excise chargeable on British wine shall be at the rates shown in the Table below, instead of at the rates shown in Table II in...
Motion made, and Question,That— (a) as from 15th April, 1964, the duties of customs and excise chargeable on tobacco shall respectively be at the rates shown in Table 1 and Table 2 below,...
Motion made, and Question,That— (a) the rate of excise duty on hydrocarbon oils produced in the United Kingdom shall be increased so as to equal the rate at which the customs duty on...
Motion made, and Question,That, as regards bets made at any time by reference to events taking place on or after 3rd August, 1964,— (a) provision may be made for extending the amount on...
Motion made, and Question,That the period after which orders under section 9 of the Finance Act 1961 may not be made or continue in force shall be extended until the end of August 1965, and that...
Motion made, and Question,That income tax for the year 1964–65 shall be charged at the standard rate of 7s. 9d. in the pound, and, in the case of an individual whose total income exceeds...
Motion made, and Question,That income tax for the year 1963–64 shall be charged, in the case of an individual whose total income exceeded £2,000, at the same higher rate in respect of...
Motion made, and Question,That further provision shall be made for charging income tax in the case of bodies corporate carrying on a business which consists in whole or in part of mutual...
Motion made, and Question,That, where transactions are carried out which involve payments in respect of any description of property or rights (whether payments by way of rent, or payments for the...
Motion made, and Question,That it is expedient to authorise charges to the profits tax which arise from provisions for that tax corresponding with amendments of the law relating to income tax or...
Motion made, and Question,That it is expedient to authorise any incidental or consequential charges to any duty or tax which may arise from provisions designed in general to afford relief from...
Motion made, and Question proposed,That it is expedient to amend the law with respect to the national debt and the public revenue and to make further provision in connection with finance, so,...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. MacArthur.]
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