Llun, 20 Hydref 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
WALSALL CORPORATION BILL
I regret to have to inform the House of the death of Emrys Hughes, esquire, Member for South Ayrshire, and I desire, on behalf of the House, to express our sense of the loss we have sustained and...
asked the Minister of Overseas Development what will be the gross and estimated net cost of the British Overseas Aid and Development Programme in 1970–71 and 1971–72; and what will be...
asked the Minister of Overseas Development what is the extent of the aggregate private investment, bilateral portfolio investment, multilateral portfolio investment and export credit contribution...
asked the Minister of Overseas Development what plans she has for ensuring that the proposals of the Pearson Report on aid to under-developed countries are implemented by Her Majesty's...
asked the Minister of Overseas Development in which of the years 1965 to 1968, inclusive, there was a drop in disbursements of official aid net of interest payments and amortization, in official...
asked the Minister of Overseas Development, in view of the continuing delays in the transmission to pensions in Great Britain of pensions paid by the Nigerian Government to bank accounts in...
asked the Minister of Overseas Development whether she will take steps designed to improve negotiating procedures for the replenishment of the International Development Association.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what has been the result of his negotiations on the subject of abatement with the representatives of the pensions funds in connection with his...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will now publish the results of his investigation into the large increases in the financial year 1968–69 in the cost of sickness...
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much was paid out in total and per head by way of supplementary benefits to those on strike and those thrown out of work...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what additional steps he is taking to check abuses of the Supplementary Benefits Scheme.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will seek to amend the law so that capital resources of less than £325 are not taken into account when reasonable household removal...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the administrative machinery within the children's allowance arrangements to ensure that such allowances are transferred to the children's...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what has been the aggregate cost to date of payments of supplementary benefit made to the families of dustmen on strike; and what has been the...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services to what extent the introduction of prescription charges has brought about a decline in the number of prescriptions combined with an increase in...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a large Government grant available to the Family Planning Association, with a view to extending advice on contraception more...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will announce the composition of the Medicines Commission.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what consultations have taken place between his Department and the dental profession regarding the payment of a weighting allowance for general...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give an assurance that it is his policy that those who suffer from dental decay are to be treated as separate and individual patients...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what action he proposes to take to relieve overcrowding at Chelmsley and Coleshill Hall hospitals; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to increase the staffs of accident units in hospitals and to improve the position of nurses and junior hospital doctors in...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he is aware that the difficulties in the reception and treatment of subnormal patients in East Hertfordshire have been aggravated by the...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what additional money has now been allocated to mental subnormality hospitals; and what steps are being taken to improve conditions for the staff.
asked the Attorney-General whether his consent has to be obtained before civil servants threaten or institute legal proceedings for libel or slander against Members of this honourable House in...
asked the Attorney-General what is the machinery for consultation between his Department and solicitors attached to other Government departments on the form of letters written in on legal matters...
asked the Attorney-General when he expects to get the report on the practice known as cube-cutting; what is the reason for the delay in completing these investigations; and whether he will make a...
asked Mr. Attorney-General whether he will now make a statement on how much public money was expended on the various investigations and legal charges in connection with the trial of John Bloom;...
asked the Minister of Technology whether he will make a statement about the immediate effect of the miners' strike on the supply of coal for the wool, textile, steel and other industries.
asked the Minister of Transport whether he will make a statement on the strike affecting London underground services today.
3.44 p.m.
As amended, considered.
Section 153 of the Judicature Act 1925 (which limits the district probate registries in which second and subsequent grants of probate and administration may be made) shall cease to have...
We now come to Amendments No. 1, which I suggest we take with Amendments Nos. 2, 4, 5 and 7, all on the same question of amending sums of money mentioned in the Bill.
Amendment made: No. 2, in page 2, line 33, leave out '£150' and insert '£100'.—[The Solicitor-General.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 9, in page 6, line 8, leave out '52'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 11, in page 6, line 38, at end insert: 'and(c) that all the parties to the proceedings consent to the grant of a certificate under this section,'. The object of the...
I beg to move Amendment No. 12, in page 13, line 7, leave out 'in such circumstances as may be specified in the rules'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 14, in page 22, line 30, after "brought", insert "by or",
Before I call the Minister to move the second Motion on the Order Paper—Agriculture (No. 1)—I think that it will help the House if I inform hon. Members that I have selected the...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Ernest G. Perry.]
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