House of Commons debates
Thursday, 16 November 1944
- Preamble (0 speeches)
The House met at Eleven o' Clock
- Prayers (0 speeches)
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
- Oral Answers to Questions — National War Effort (0 speeches)
- Directed Mineworkers (16 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour if he will consider granting an option to young men directed to mining work to accept instead work on the repair of bombed houses, particularly if they had been...
- Merchant Seamen (Reinstatement) (5 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the decision of the Umpires Court in Manchester whereby Michael Patrick Giles, of Hull, was refused reinstatement under the Civil Employment...
- Unemployment and Redundancy, Cornwall (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour the figures to the latest date for unemployment and redundancy in the Camborne-Redruth district.
- Admiralty Contract, Helston (Eire Workers) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour the number of workmen who have been dismissed during the last four weeks by an Admiralty contractor engaged on work near Helston; whether any workmen from Eire are...
- Industrial Disputes (Use of Military) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour the number of occasions, during the present war, when the military have been called upon to perform civilian tasks during strikes; and will he give a list of those...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Industrial Reconversion (0 speeches)
- Rehabilitation Facilities (Women) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether it is proposed to open any rehabilitation centres for women.
- Government Factory (Displaced Workers) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour what plans have been made for the employment of 1,000 displaced workers at present engaged on Government plant at a factory, of which he has been informed, when that...
- Civil Defence and Fire Service Volunteers (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour what arrangements he is making to secure a fair chance of jobs after demobilisation for men who, having entered Civil Defence or the Auxiliary Fire Service as...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Higher Appointments (Hankey Committee's Report) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to state when the report of Lord Hankey's Committee on Higher Appointments will be published, in view of the keen interest taken in...
- Oral Answers to Questions — London Hospitals (Staffs) (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the continued shortage of cooks, porters, laundry workers, waitresses, wardmaids, office cleaners and housemaids at the London Hospital and...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Catering Wages Commission (7 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether information with regard to proceedings of the Catering Wages Commission, which is denied to the Press and to private persons, is available to officers of his...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Channel Islands (Food and Medical Supplies) (6 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action is being taken by His Majesty's Government to provide food and medical supplies, including anaesthetics, to the inhabitants of the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Parliamentary Elections (Service Voters) (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the probable postponement until next summer or autumn of a general election, he will endeavour to make it possible for Service...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Police (Pay and Pensions) (7 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the Corporation of London has made a decision in favour of police who joined their Force before 28th July, 1921; and...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Defence Workers (Deferred Pay) (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will authorise payment of deferred pay to members of the Civil Defence who have been stood down and who are old age pensioners.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Detainees (Release Conditions) (6 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the conditions imposed on those 18B detainees who have been released conditionally include the requirement that they shall abstain from...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Palestine (0 speeches)
- "Jewish Standard" Editor (Speech) (7 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has considered the speech of Mr. Abrahams, editor of the "Jewish Standard," at a recent public meeting in London, a copy of which has...
- Terrorist Acts (Debate) (2 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister if he will afford the House an early opportunity to discuss terrorist outrages in and emanating from Palestine and the measures to be taken to deal with the situation.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Road Safety (Allied Forces' Vehicles) (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many proceedings have been taken or charges laid against the drivers of Allied vehicles for driving dangerously or exceeding the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Neglected Children (Homes) (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to numbers of cases of children living under neglect in insanitary conditions for whom 'no...
- Oral Answers to Questions — L.C.C. Remand Home (Magistrate's Statement) (14 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has considered the statement of the magistrate of the Juvenile Court, Tower Bridge, on 14th November, that a child of seven removed...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Aliens (Relaxation of Restrictions) (3 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the change in the war situation, he is now prepared to review such of the special war-time restrictions upon aliens as can...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prisoners (Confinement in Cells) (6 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will relieve the situation in those prisons where prisoners are kept locked in their cells for 17 hours on week-days and 22 on Sundays.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Approved School (Allegation) (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has now inquired into the allegation made in a juvenile court that boys sent back to a certain approved school got the birch for...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Discharged Prisoners' Aid, Liverpool (6 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he proposes to take to put and end to the existing unsatisfactory position in Liverpool in regard to prisoners' aid.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Belgium (Business Visits) (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether permits to visit Belgium on business grounds are now being granted; and how many applications have been received for leave to travel...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Medical Referee, Nottinghamshire (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the necessity for economy in transport, he will appoint a resident medical referee in Nottingham on whom workers in...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education (0 speeches)
- Teachers (Recruitment) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education whether the facilities to enable members of the Forces to become teachers on demobilisation can be extended to boys who have been conscripted for the pits.
- Central Advisory Councils (3 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education whether he has yet appointed the Central Advisory Councils for England and Wales; and, if so, can he state the names of the members.
- School Text Books (Shortage) (7 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education whether he has considered a communication from the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes complaining that there is such a shortage of school text-books that...
- Teachers' Training Institutions (Vacancies) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education how many vacancies exist in training colleges and departments of education at the present moment.
- Educational Reconstruction (United Nations) (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education how many Governments have ratified the tentative draft constitution circulated among them some seven months ago for a United Nations Organisation for Educational...
- Schools (Attendance Statistics) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education if he will state the number of pupils at direct grant-earning secondary schools, at aided secondary schools and at schools maintained wholly by education authorities.
- Teachers' Salary Scales (Equal Pay) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education whether he will give an assurance that before approving the new salary scales for teachers he will make it clear to the Burnham Committee that, in the light of any...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Members of Parliament (Official Posts) (6 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister what is the total number of Members of Parliament holding official posts as well as the number of Parliamentary Private Secretaries.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Women's Services (Post-War Continuance) (4 speeches)
Viscountess Davidson: asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the delay in reaching a decision as to whether there will be a permanent women's service as part of the regular armed...
- Oral Answers to Questions — United Nations Leaders (Meeting) (5 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister if he will endeavour to arrange that the next meeting between himself, President Roosevelt and Premier Stalin should be held in this country in view of the fact that he...
- Oral Answers to Questions — War-Time Controls (Relaxation) (15 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister if he can make a statement about the continuance of controls after the end of the German war.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Troops, Italy (English Beer) (4 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister whether transport conditions will now permit the supply of English beer, in large and regular quantities, for consumption by troops in Italy.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Mediterranean Forces (Home Leave) (2 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister whether it will be possible to make the necessary arrangements for the commencement of home leave from the Mediterranean theatre, even on a limited basis, for troops who...
- Oral Answers to Questions — King's Badge (National Fire Service and Civil Defence) (4 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister if, in view of the end of the Parliamentary Session, he is now able to state whether a decision has been taken as to the issue of the King's Badge to personnel discharged...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Government Departments (Security Control) (5 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister whether, when information to Members of Parliament and the Press is refused on security grounds, departmental security officers are obliged to justify a negative attitude...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture (0 speeches)
- Prisoner of War Labour (Norfolk) (13 speeches)
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware of the shortage of labour for sugar-beet and potato lifting in North Norfolk; and whether it is possible to increase the number of prisoners of...
- Women's Land Army (Uniform) (3 speeches)
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether land girls on being released have to return every item of uniform; and whether any money grant is made to help them refit with civilian clothes.
- East Mommerton Farm, Longford (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Agriculture the amount of money expended on structural alterations and additions to East Mommerton Farm, Longford, by the Derbyshire War Agricultural Committee; and if the...
- River Severn, Lydney (Land Erosion) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that, owing to a sudden change in the course of the Severn near Lydney, serious erosion of the bank has taken place, threatening a...
- Ex-Servicemen (Training) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he can make any statement on the Government's intentions as to training schemes for ex-Servicemen desiring to enter the various branches of agriculture.
- Potatoes and Wheat (Acreage Payments) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is yet able to make an announcement about the potato and wheat acreage payment for the 1945 crop.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Urban District Council Chairmen (Title) (5 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health if he will consider the advisability, in connection with post-war local government reform, of giving to the chairmen of urban district councils some dignified and...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Housing (0 speeches)
- Married Ex-Servicemen (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health whether he will instruct local housing authorities when choosing tenants to give a preference to married men coming out of the Services.
- Requisitioned Property (Weymouth) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health how many premises in Weymouth have been requisitioned by Government departments and the local authority; how many of these are now unoccupied; and whether he will...
- Building Permits and Regulations (7 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health, as the war is ending and owners and others all over the country are considering the redevelopment of property for post-war uses, has he instructed all authorities...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Old Age Pensions (2 speeches)
Mr. Murray: asked the Minister of Health how many old age pensioners in the country are still receiving 10s. per week basic pension and not receiving any supplementary allowance.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Well Sinking (Regulations) (2 speeches)
Mr. Rostron Duckworth: asked the Minister of Health whether any Regulations exist to debar a person from sinking a water-well in any part of the country which he owns or occupies.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Greater London (Regional Plan) (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning whether he can now say when it is expected that the regional plan for Greater London will be published.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Pension Appeals (13 speeches)
asked the Minister of Pensions if he will state the number of applications for hearing at a pensions appeals tribunal received from the East Midlands area which have not yet been passed on to the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Family Allowances (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that the increases in family allowances for men in the Forces have been offset by corresponding reductions in war Service grants; and how, in view of...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Service (Post-War Recruitment) (3 speeches)
The following Question stood on the Order Paper in the name of Mr. GEOFFREY HUTCHINSON: 89. To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is yet in a position to make any further statement...
- Oral Answers to Questions — National Expenditure (0 speeches)
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Reports from the Select Committee, brought up, and read; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed [Nos. 120 to 124].
- Business of the House (0 speeches)
Ordered: That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[The Prime Minister.]
- Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning Bill (5 speeches)
Order read for consideration of Lords Amendments.
- Clause 1. — (Designation of areas of extensive war damage, and of land needed for re-location of population and industries of such areas.) (1 speech)
Lords Amendment: In page 4, line 43, at end, insert: and giving the prescribed particulars of his interest.
- Clause 2. — (Power to purchase land for redevelopment of areas of extensive war damage, or needed for re-location of population and industries of such areas.) (37 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 5, line 24, leave out "two," and insert "three."
- Clause 10. — (Power to purchase land for certain planning purposes.) (10 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 16, line 8, leave out the second "a," and insert "any."
- Clause 11. — (Power to authorise purchase by local planning authority for area where land is in lieu of by another authority.) (7 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 17, line 31, after "authority," insert: in this Section referred to as 'the promoting authority'.
- Clause 13. — (Restriction on purchase of commons and open spaces.) (19 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 20, line 39, at end, insert: (2) A local planning authority may be authorised, by an order made by the authority and submitted to the Minister and confirmed by him, to...
- Clause 15. — (Validity and date of operation of orders, etc.) (1 speech)
Lords Amendment to page 22, line 7, agreed to.
- Clause 17. — (Disposal or appropriation by local planning authority of land held by them for purposes of this Part.) (4 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 25, line 27, after "by," insert: an arbitrator agreed between the Minister and the authority, or, in default of agreement, by.
- Clause 18. — (Power of planning authority to carry out development of land held by them for purposes of this Part.) (5 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 27, line 5, at end, insert: on the assumption that the land in question will be made available to him on such terms and subject to such conditions as may be agreed...
- Clause 20. — (Authorisation of development on land acquired for purposes of this Part, notwithstanding interference with easements, etc.) (1 speech)
Lords Amendment: In line 43, after "planning," insert "or highway."
- Clause 21 — (Power to extinguish highways over land acquired for purposes of this Part.) (4 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 29, line 26, at end, insert: () Where the Minister is satisfied that the construction or improvement of a road is or will be needed in consequence of the extinguishment...
- Clause 26. — (Provisions as to burial grounds.) (2 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 34, line 45, at beginning, insert: (1) Any consecrated land, whether or not including any building, which has been acquired or appropriated by a local planning authority...
- Clause 31. — (Obligation to purchase war-damaged land where development permission refused.) (2 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 42, line 13, at end, to insert: (d) if he is satisfied that, having regard to the probable ultimate use of all or any part of the land as respects which the notice is to...
- Clause 40. — (Designation of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.) (9 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 48, line 29, at end, insert: and may amend any list compiled or approved under this Section.
- Clause 41. — (Preservation of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.) (19 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 49, line 12, at end insert: (3) An Order giving or adding such a direction as aforesaid shall not be made by the authority or approved by the Minister unless the...
- Clause 42. — (Extension as respects war period of protection for existing buildings and uses.) (1 speech)
Lords Amendment: In page 51, line 29, at end, insert: (d) by reason of the entry of the occupier of the building into whole-time service in the Armed Forces of the Crown or in the merchant navy...
- Clause 44. — (Provisions as to borrowing for purposes of this Part.) (1 speech)
Lords Amendment: In page 53, line 9, after "authority," insert "or a county council."
- Clause 48. — (Provisions as to local inquiries.) (1 speech)
Lords Amendment: In page 54, line 38, at end, insert new Clause D (Provisions as to ecclesiastical property). (1) Where the fee simple in any ecclesiastical property is in abeyance it shall be...
- Clause 50. — (Service of notices.) (1 speech)
Lords Amendment: In page 55, line 34, leave out paragraphs (f) and (g), and insert: Provided that a notice or other document that is required or authorised to be served on or given to a person as...
- Clause 51. — (Definition of "local planning authority"; and joint committees.) (2 speeches)
Lords Amendment to page 56, line 9, agreed to.
- Clause 53. — (Supplement to compensation in case of owner-occupier.) (24 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 60, line 16, at end, insert: ,so however that a person shall not be treated under this paragraph as in occupation of a building or property by virtue of his occupying a...
- Clause 54. — (Supplement to compensation in case of improvements.) (2 speeches)
Lords Amendment: In page 60, line 42, leave out from "improved" to "by," in line 44.
- Eighth Schedule (3 speeches)
(Ascertainment of Compensation for purchase of land valued under the War Damage Act, 1943.)
- Orders of the Day — Long-Service Soldiers (Widows' Pensions) (6 speeches)
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Drewe.]
