Iau, 18 Rhagfyr 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Ordered,That there be laid before this House, an Account relating to Overseas Trade of the United Kingdom for each month during the year 1970.
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for reports from chief constables as to how many police have been injured and how much costs has been...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in the time available before legislation is introduced to implement the Report of the Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress he has made in putting to use funds available under the urban aid programme; and what part the Community Relations Commission...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement about new design principles to be embodied in the prison building programme announced in the White Paper, People...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now implement Recommendation No. 34 of the Report of the Estimates Committee on Prisons, Borstals and Detention Centres.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will investigate the problem of vandalism in areas where extensive house demolition is taking place.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his policy on bail applications and the position of the police.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will hold consultations with the Department of Health over the distribution and treatment of psychopathic and mentally disturbed...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what further steps he is taking to increase the recruitment and retention in service of police officers.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the percentage of persons ultimately arrested and convicted for reported crimes of housebreaking and house burglary for the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements have been made to carry out plastic surgery on an ear of a constituent of the hon. Member for Macclesfield, which was...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what further representations he has received in regard to British Standard Time in winter months; and what replies he has sent.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what reports he has received from the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis about hooliganism on late buses between Loughton and Epping;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has received the communication and Press cutting sent to him by the hon. Member for St. Helens about the case of the late Mrs....
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will define the nature and topographical jurisdiction of the new section in his Department for improving the efficiency of the police;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements he has made under the relevant amalgamation schemes for the local supervision of police forces in the 36 areas in which...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive the report of his Department's committee on death certification.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to reduce the risk of addictive drugs being stolen from chemists' shops, hospitals and doctors' surgeries.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Government will undertake not to accept or ratify any article in the Treaty of Rome which would have the effect of providing...
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to amend the Obscene Publications Act.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that in the present state of the law it is lawful to advertise for a French waiter to work in Great Britain, but it is...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the six areas set out in his Department's Press statement of 9th December, from whom the Gaming Board of Great Britain is seeking the views...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the last occasion on which the pay of a police constable conformed with the Willink formula; what has been the shortfall in each...
asked the Secretary or State for the Home Department what has been the total number of resignations and retirements from the police service in each month in the latest convenient year; how many...
asked the Prime Minister if he will invite the Prime Minister of Sweden, Mr. Olav Palme, to London for talks.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will set up a Royal Commission to examine the problems of caring for the disabled.
asked the Prime Minister what further steps he is taking in the light of the discussion at the National Economic Development Council meeting on 16th December, to improve the co-ordination of...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will set up an inter-departmental inquiry into the extent to which the advertising industry is controlled by United States companies.
asked the Prime Minister if, in his forthcoming meeting with President Nixon, he will discuss cooperation between the British and the United States Governments with a view to the introduction of...
asked the Prime Minister if he is satisfied with the coordination between the various Government Departments in their relations with the Confederation of British Industry.
asked the Prime Minister if he is satisfied with the working of the Official Secrets Acts; and if he will make a statement.
May I raise a point of order of which I have given you notice, Mr. Speaker? Yesterday afternoon, after Questions, the Minister of Agriculture made a statement relating to the Wilson Report. You...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will state the business of the House for the first week after the Christmas Recess.
I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act, 1967, that the Queen has signified Her Royal Assent to the following Act:
The House will remember that yesterday the hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. Mackintosh) raised a question of privilege concerning a report which appeared in The Times of 17th...
Mr. Roy Mason, supported by Mr. William Rodgers, Miss Jennie Lee, and Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody, presented a Bill to amend the enactments relating to the financing and exhibition of films: And the...
Mr. Secretary Ross presented a Bill to amend the Building (Scotland) Act 1959, and for purposes connected therewith: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time...
Mr. Jasper More presented a Bill to amend the law of contempt, defamation and official secrets: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be a Second time upon Friday, 23rd January and...
Order for Second Reading read.
Ordered,That at this day's Sitting the Proceedings on the Motion relating to Ways and Means may be entered upon and proceeded with at any hour, though opposed, and that the Proceedings on the...
Queen's Recommendation having been signified—
Resolved,That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make, for Great Britain, further provision with respect to the improvement, maintenance and management of harbours and the...
Motion made, and Question proposed,That in the opinion of this House, it is expedient that further provision as regards facilities for Members of this House should be made as follows:— (a)...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. James Hamilton.]
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