House of Commons debates
Thursday, 20 December 1945
- Preamble (0 speeches)
The House met at Eleven 0'Clock
- Prayers (0 speeches)
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
- Message from the King (0 speeches)
The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Captain SNOW) reported His Majesty's Answer to the Address, as followeth:
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education (0 speeches)
- Teachers' Training (Universities' Contribution) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education what arrangement has been made with the universities with regard to their contribution towards the training of future teachers.
- One-Teacher Rural Schools (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education whether, in view of the attitude being adopted by certain county local educational authorities towards the closing of one-teacher rural schools, she will make it...
- Demobilisation (10 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education how many trained certificated schoolmasters are known by her Department to have entered the Armed Forces; and how many have returned to the schools under Class A...
- Maintained Schools (Freedom) (4 speeches)
askedthe Minister of Education whether she has yet sent out any circular to local education authorities and governing bodies advising them to accord the maximum freedom to individual schools.
- Malvern College (Release) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education whether she will give an assurance that Malvern College will be enabled to return to its own buildings at Malvern in September, 1946, as was promised by her...
- Boarding Schools (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education whether, having regard to the fact that the responsibilities of local education authorities are confined to children in their own area and that it is now generally...
- Development Plans (Publication) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education whether she will ensure that education development plans which are submitted to her by local education authorities, will, at the same time, be made avail able to...
- Ex-Service Personnel(Applications) (13 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education whether she is aware that many applicants from the Services to be teachers are being discouraged by the long delay in receiving from her Department any thing but a...
- National Foundation for Educational Research (3 speeches)
Mr. Lindsay: asked the Minister of Education whether she is in a position to make a statement on the recently constituted National Foundation for Educational Research; what relationship exists...
- Married Women Teachers, Wales (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Education the names of the Welsh edu- cation authorities to whom she has made representations on the question of the employment of married women teachers.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Radio Transmission(Amateurs) (4 speeches)
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General when he proposes to permit radio amateurs to commence transmission.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office (0 speeches)
- Demobilisation (4 speeches)
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General whether he will request the release under Class B of the large number of former Post Office employees urgently required to increase the efficiency of his...
- Charges (5 speeches)
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General if he will give any indication as to how soon he can contemplate a reduction to prewar rates of postal and telephonic charges.
- Telecommunications Research and Development (4 speeches)
asked the Assistant Post master-General what sum of money was paid by the G.P.O. to the telecommunications industry for research and development, respectively, in the 12 months ended June, 1937,...
- Hong Kong (Postal Facilities) (5 speeches)
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General if normal postal arrangements have yet been established with Hong Kong; and how long does it take for a letter to reach Hong Kong from this country.
- Telephone System (Accounts) (9 speeches)
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General why he does not make public the accounts of the national telephone system; and if he will do so regularly in the New Year.
- Cable Rates (4 speeches)
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General why the G.P.O. has never permitted Cable and Wireless, Limited, to reduce rates for cables to the same level as those charged by the G.P.O. for telegrams to...
- Automatic Telephones (4 speeches)
Lieut-Colonel: Sir Ian Fraser asked the Assistant Postmaster-General if he will arrange for an experiment in one automatic exchange area whereby a red light shows on the telephone instrument of...
- Priority Trunk Calls (Discontinuance) (2 speeches)
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General what categories of Government official and what classes of private subscriber are registered as entitled to priority trunk calls; and whether he will extend...
- Oral Answers to Questions — National Insurance (0 speeches)
- Redundant Staffs (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of National Insurance if he will agree to absorb any staff of local authorities' public assistance departments that may be made redundant as a result of the passing of the...
- Contributions (Refund) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of National Insurance when the Emergency Regulation of 1939, prohibiting the payment of claims for the refund of unemployment insurance contributions paid in error, is to be...
- Proposed Legislation (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of National Insurance whether he will publish before Christmas, or, at latest, a week before the resumption of Parliament in 1946, the terms of his promised measure of social...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Channel Islands (War Damage) (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether residents in the Channel Islands are covered by War Damage Insurance: and whether, in view of the fact that their rehabilitation and...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Metropolitan Police Courts (Rate Contributions) (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he is aware that ratepayers in Surrey, living within the Metropolitan police area, are, under existing legislation, liable to contribute...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Wild Birds Protection Act (1 speech)
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of EARL WINTERTON:-
- Oral Answers to Questions — Coloured British Subjects (Hotels and Restaurants) (7 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will instruct the Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police to oppose annual licence courts in the Metropolitan Police district from...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Juvenile Delinquency (6 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is prepared to publish a Report on the incidence and cause of juvenile delinquency in the war years, in view of the importance of...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Parish Council Elections (2 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to abolish voting by show of hands at parish council elections, and substitute a secret ballot, as in the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — His Majesty's Prisons (0 speeches)
- Disturbances (Inquiries) (2 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will ensure that future inquiries into disturbances in any of His Majesty's prisons shall be conducted in public.
- Flogging (Cardiff Gaol) (2 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will now state the age of each of the persons sentenced to flogging after the recent disturbance in the Cardiff gaol; and the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Germany (0 speeches)
- Disbanded Troops (2 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancasterhow many German troops disbanded in the British zone have been refused admission to their former home areas now in the Russian and French zones.
- Displaced Persons(Treatment) (13 speeches)
(by Private Notice)asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he can now make a statement concerning the treatment of Jewish displaced persons in the British Zone in Germany.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Employment (0 speeches)
- Staggered Holidays (Co-ordination) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to announce what action he will take to secure the staggering of holidays as recommended by the Catering Wages Commission.
- Disabled Persons (Registration) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour how many persons have applied for registration under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act since 25th September of this year; and what percentage of the estimated...
- Catering Wages Commission (Report) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will now publish the final Report from the Catering Wages Commission concerning the rehabilitation of the catering industry.
- Unemployment Statistics (2 speeches)
Mr. Scott-Elliot: asked the Minister of Labour whether a count of unemployed insured persons was taken in November; and whether he will make the figures available.
- Labour Control (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour what labour controls now apply to men under 30 years of age demobilised in Class A.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Demobilisation (0 speeches)
- Statistics (8 speeches)
(by Private Notice)asked the Minister of Labour whether he will give the House the latest figures of
- Dustmen (5 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour if he will arrange for the demobilisation of dustmen under Class B, in order to remove the anxiety felt by housewives in some areas, owing to the fact that local...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Service (Temporary Clerks) (4 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether Civil Service temporary clerks, aged 30 to 40 years, with two years or more of continuous service and appropriate educational qualifications, who...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Anglo-American Reciprocal Aid (4 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, having regard to paragraph 6 of the Joint Statement on page 7, Cmd. 6708, he will state the nature of the educational programmes for which, as well...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Government Industrial Employees (Paid Holiday) (3 speeches)
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether industrial employees in Government establishments will receive a paid holiday on Christmas Eve.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Irish Citizens (Imprisonment, England) (7 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will reconsider the circumstances through which 60 Irish men and women were given long-term prison sentences for political offences,...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Metropolitan Police (Training) (6 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he willorganise specialised training for the London police in up-to-date methods of unarmed combat and special counter measures, to....
- Oral Answers to Questions — Aliens (Stateless Persons) (6 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will define his policy regarding the forcible repatriation or deportation of persons claiming to be Stateless; does he send back to...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Distressed Persons, Europe (9 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he is now in a position to make a further statement with regard to the immigration into this country of distressed persons in Europe;...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Irish Constabulary Pensioners (4 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take into consideration the sufferings of former members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and widows of constables who were killed,...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Fascist Activities (44 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will define the conditions under which Sir Oswald Mosley was released; and whether these conditions were infringed by his meeting held...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Borstal Allocation Centre (Ham Common) (2 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what purpose Latchmere House, Ham Common, is now being put; and whether it is classified as a civilian or military place of detention.
- Bill Presented (0 speeches)
- National Insurance Bill (0 speeches)
" to establish an extended system of national insurance providing pecuniary payments by way of unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, maternity benefit, retirement pension, widows' benefit,...
- Land Settlement (1 speech)
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn." — [Mr. Whileley.]
- Royal Assent. (0 speeches)
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
- Land Settlement (18 speeches)
Question again proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."
- Army Officers (Deferred Release) (7 speeches)
1.40 p.m.
- Weedon Ordnance Depot (1 speech)
2.8 p.m.
- O.C.T.U.'s (COMMANDING OFFICERS' VISITS) (25 speeches)
2.24 p.m.
- Borstal Inmate's Death (8 speeches)
3.3 p.m.
- Civil Service (Control of Employment) Order (24 speeches)
3.33 p.m.
- Paper Supplies (Allocation) (29 speeches)
4.17 p.m.
