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Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Firearms (Unlawful Possession) (30 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to provide that after a stated period any person found in unlawful possession of a firearm will receive a sentence of not less than five years' imprisonment.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Firearms (Unlawful Possession) (30 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that the present arrangements are rather one-sided, because while criminals may be in possession of firearms and the police continue to be liable to be shot at there may be understandable pressure for the police to be armed, which would not necessarily be a good thing?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Motor Bicycles (Noise) (30 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is satisfied that, when members of the public send to the police the registration numbers of motor bicycles which make excessive noise on the highways, the police have adequate powers under the regulations to inspect such machines at the homes of the owners and to test the amount of noise they make; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Motor Bicycles (Noise) (30 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that much of the mischief in this matter is caused by motor cyclists who either remove or interfere with the silencing devices which have been so carefully provided by the manufacturers and that the public would welcome any opportunity that could be found of their being able to help the police in the efforts to reduce what is becoming a very serious and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Roads: Improvements (Overtime Working) (15 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation to what extent, when considering whether to authorise road construction and improvement outside the normal five-day week, his Department compares the extra cost of the overtime working with the additional economic benefit to the community from the consequent reduction in traffic congestion and improvement in the flow of traffic.

Oral Answers to Questions — Roads: Improvements (Overtime Working) (15 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: Is my right hon. Friend aware that a large part of the cost of the delay caused by traffic congestion falls on motorists, both private and commercial, who already pay enormous sums by way of taxation for road construction? Are they not entitled to further consideration from the Treasury in this matter?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Learner Drivers (15 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if his attention has been drawn to a recent case in which a learner driver under instruction was driving six passengers one of whom was killed; and if he will reconsider the conditions under which learner drivers are permitted to carry passengers.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Learner Drivers (15 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: Is my hon. Friend aware of the number of occasions on which one sees a learner-driven car filled with passengers, often children? Cannot we do more than is done at present by instruction and education to let such people know that driving a car is not just a matter of an outing, but is a desperately serious business?

Business of the House (9 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: Has my right hon. Friend been able to study the Motion on the Order Paper concerning the sale of intoxicants on the new motorways and, if so, can he hold out any hope of a debate on that Motion and on the allied and serious subjects raised by the Report of the Drew Committee to the Medical Research Council? [That this House regrets the decision made by the Minister of Transport and Civil...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wireless and Television: "The Week's Good Cause" (Appeals) (1 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Postmaster-General what representations he has received concerning the programme, "The Week's Good Cause", which is proposed to be broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation on 23rd August; and what consideration he is giving to the use of his powers under Section 15 (4) of the Licence and Agreement to prohibit such programmes from being broadcast.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wireless and Television: "The Week's Good Cause" (Appeals) (1 July 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: Is my right hon. Friend aware that every 300 days the population of the world is increasing by more than the total who were killed in both world wars and that the justification for this broadcast is that many people are gravely perturbed at the prospect of unlimited numbers of children being brought into a world which, even now, is unable to provide for millions of them enough food, shelter...

Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government: Beaches, Rivers and Canals (Life-saving Facilities) (23 June 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the large number of people who have been drowned at an early stage of the present holiday season; and if he will consider the introduction of arrangements which will necessitate local authorities providing more efficient life-saving facilities on all beaches, rivers, and canals...

Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government: Beaches, Rivers and Canals (Life-saving Facilities) (23 June 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: Is not my hon. Friend aware that all too often the facilities seem to consist of little more than a lifebelt on the promenade and a man in a rowing-boat? Could we not save a great many lives if we had a more positive policy, taking an example, perhaps, from the magnificent arrangements there are on the Australian beaches?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Alcoholic Drinks (Sale) (11 June 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have been instituted during each of the past five years under Sections 136 and 137 of the Licensing Act, 1953, for selling or providing drink to a drunken person on licensed premises; and in how many of such cases convictions took place.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Alcoholic Drinks (Sale) (11 June 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that at the trial of Ronald Marwood it was stated that on the evening of the murder of Police Constable Summers, Marwood had had twenty drinks served to him, ten in a public house and nine or ten in a registered club? Could we have some assurance that incidents of this kind shall be followed up and the powers available to the authorities under these...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Criminal Offences (Costs on Acquittal) (11 June 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware of the concern felt in many quarters as to the expense which falls on persons who prove themselves innocent of a criminal charge; and if he will move for the setting up of a Select Committee to examine the problem and to make recommendations.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Criminal Offences (Costs on Acquittal) (11 June 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: If my right hon. Friend should change his mind on a matter which is causing a great deal of concern, will he bear in mind that the same problem is arising in the civil field in regard to matters involving assisted litigants and that we are reaching a situation in which a large number of people who are innocent are punished in the form of a heavy liability for costs?

Oral Answers to Questions — Roads: Improvements (Hyde Park, Chiswick and Kingston) (10 June 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will state the new revised approximate anticipated dates for the completion of the Hyde Park underpass, the Great West Road fly-over at Chiswick, and the fly-over at the Ace of Spades on the Kingston by-pass.

Oral Answers to Questions — Roads: Improvements (Hyde Park, Chiswick and Kingston) (10 June 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: Is not this all terribly slow? Is not it also rather depressing to see the slow way in which the work is progressing on a five-day week basis? Cannot we have work done at night and have a real sense of urgency about the road programme?

Oral Answers to Questions — Roads: "Clearway" Experiment (10 June 1959)

Sir Frank Medlicott: asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what progress he has made in the preparation of plans for designating certain roads as throughways in London and other cities; how soon he anticipates being able to make such plans operative; and if he will make a statement.