House of Commons debates
Monday, 10 July 1961
- Preamble (0 speeches)
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
- Prayers (0 speeches)
[Mr. SPEAKER in the chair]
- Death of a Member (1 speech)
I regret to have to inform the House of the death of James Watts, esquire, Member for Manchester, Moss Side, and I desire on behalf of the House to express our sense of the loss we have sustained...
- Private Business (0 speeches)
- Oral Answers to Questions — Government Information Services (0 speeches)
- Overseas Visitors (Tours) (8 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many tours for visitors from Commonwealth countries, respectively were arranged by the Central Office of Information during the last twelve...
- Low-Priced Books (10 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether the consortium of publishers assisting him with his scheme of low-priced books for overseas is considering the establishment of warehouse...
- Drogheda Committee (Report) (4 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how far he has implemented the recommendations of the Drogheda Committee that all overseas information work should be based on a long-term plan...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Pensions and National Insurance (0 speeches)
- Graduated Pensions Scheme (12 speeches)
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance whether he will arrange for the total earnings of an employee in any one week to he aggregated for purposes of assessing this right to...
- Prescription Charges (9 speeches)
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what is the number of cases, at the latest date, in which refunds of prescription charges have been made to applicants not in receipt of...
- Local Offices (Closures) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance how many local offices of his Department have been closed during the last three years; in how many cases he received representations against...
- National Assistance (Blind Persons) (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance by what percentage the National Assistance scale rate for a husband and wife, one of whom is a blind person, has increased over the period...
- Payroll Tax (16 speeches)
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance if he will estimate the expenditure that will be incurred preparatory to the introduction of the payroll tax.
- National Insurance (Departmental Staff) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what was the cost to this Department of employer's contribution to the National Insurance schemes in respect of all staff in the year...
- Prisoners (National Insurance) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance whether he will discuss with the Secretary of State for the Home Department the desirability of ensuring that men and women serving sentence...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Power (0 speeches)
- Electricity Boards (Credit Facilities) (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Power if he will give a general direction to the electricity boards to offer the same credit facilities to consumers of electricity as are offered by private commercial...
- Iron and Steel Board (Chairman) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Power whether he will define the new responsibilities and the extent of the duties of the Chairman of the Iron and Steel Board now that he is part-time; and what...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Coal (0 speeches)
- Miners (Certificates of Competency) (7 speeches)
asked the Minister of Power what steps he proposes to take to guarantee equal opportunity to all mine workers to obtain a first class certificate in mine management or second class certificate in...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Aviation (0 speeches)
- London Airport (Passenger Delays) (17 speeches)
asked the Minister of Aviation what is the average number of minutes between the time that arriving passenger aircraft from abroad come to a standstill at London Airport and the completion of...
- London Airport (Advertisement) (5 speeches)
asked the Minister of Aviation how much money he has received in rental for the site of the large whisky bottle advertisement at London Airport.
- Southampton-Jersey Service (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Aviation when he anticipates it will be possible to resume a direct passenger air service between Southampton and Jersey.
- Space Vehicle Launchers (European Co-operation) (11 speeches)
asked the Minister of Aviation if he will now announce the terms on which European Governments have accepted Blue Streak.
- Cheap Night Flights (Belfast) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Aviation what applications the Air Transport Licensing Board have received for the operation of cheap night flights to Belfast; and if he will make a statement.
- Supersonic Aircraft (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Aviation if he will make a statement on the progress being made by the British Aircraft Corporation in the research contract for supersonic aircraft.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Health (0 speeches)
- Habit-Forming Drugs (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health what steps he is taking to promote research into prescribing patterns with particular reference to habit-forming drugs such as the amphetamines and phenmetrazine, as...
- Prescriptions (8 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that his advice to pharmacists with regard to prescribed items with a retail price of less than 2s. is in conflict with their professional duty neither...
- Orange Juice Supplies, Willesden (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health what was the last date on which it was possible to buy orange juice at the old price at St. Martins Hall Clinic, Purves Road, N.W.10.
- Ferrous Sulphate Tablets (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health to what extent there has been any marked decrease since 1st March, 1961, in the number of ferrous sulphate tablets dispensed to ante-natal clinic patients attending...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Hospitals (0 speeches)
- Mental Patients (Reclassification) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health how many patients, up to the latest convenient date, have, under Schedule VI of the new Act, been reclassified as informal patients; and how many of these have...
- Ronald Derek Sowle (13 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health if he will now make a statement on the result of his inquiries into the reclassification of Ronald Derek Sowle.
- Crimes of Violence (Mental Patients) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health if he will now make a statement on his inquiries into crimes of violence committed by mental patients.
- Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons Catering (12 speeches)
asked the hon. Member for Holland-with-Boston, as Chairman of the Kitchen Committee, what conditions his Committee lays down for the letting of Dining Rooms in the House for private parties.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Geneva Conference on Nuclear Tests (6 speeches)
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he will make a further statement on the Geneva Test Conference.
- Oral Answers to Questions — United States (Immigration Quota) (6 speeches)
asked the Lord Privy Seal what is the United Kingdom immigration quota into the United States of America; and what percentage has been taken up for the years 1960 and 1961 to the latest...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Kuwait (18 speeches)
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he will make a further statement on the situation in Kuwait.
- Bechuanaland (U.N. South-West Africa Committee) (36 speeches)
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations on what grounds permission to the United Nations mission to South-West Africa to visit Bechuanaland had been suspended.
- Orders of the Day — Supply (0 speeches)
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- Orders of the Day — Civil Estimates and Estimates for Revenue Departments, 1961–62 (0 speeches)
Motion made, and Question proposed,That a further sum not exceeding £100, be granted to Her Majesty, towards defraying the charges for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1962, for the...
- Science (58 speeches)
3.53 p.m.
- Advance Factories, Greenock (12 speeches)
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[MR. E. Wakefield.]
