Tuesday, 4 April 1944
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
Read a Second Time, and committed.
Second Reading deferred till the Third Sitting Day after 2nd April.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare how long the negotiations have now proceeded with the Spanish and Portuguese Governments for the cessation of wolfram...
asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that the relatives of British prisoners, confined in Bremen-Oslebshusen, are worried that the prisoners do not receive sufficient food; if he...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is now in a position to make a statement about the future use of Italian prisoners of war.
asked the Secretary of State for War what percentage of the troops operating in the force commanded by Major-General Wingate and Colonel Cochran are British, and what percentage American.
asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that the parents and wives of those who have lost their sons and husbands are anxious to know if they will receive the war-service decorations...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Ian Fraser: asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal for sailors awarded after 15 years service with a grant of...
asked the Secretary of State for War why restrictions have been imposed on the liberty of A.T.S. personnel to smoke when off duty.
asked the Secretary of State for War when it is intended to bring home Army personnel who have been in the Middle East since the early days of the war; and is he aware of the need, in the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether British Valentine tanks have been used by the Russians in action with their armoured divisions; and whether he has received any reports on the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he has any report to make on a fire-fighting practice on 22nd March, of which he has been informed, as a result of which a number of A.T.S. personnel...
asked the Secretary of State for War the procedure adopted in deciding claims for compassionate leave made by serving personnel in India.
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will recommend that a clasp to the Efficiency Decoration be issued in respect of service in the Territorial Army further to that for which an...
asked the Secretary of State for War if he is satisfied that the reports of the official war correspondents on the military situation at the Anzio and Cassino fronts now represent, on the whole,...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is now in a position to state the decision of the Government regarding the financial provision to be made for members of the Forces on...
asked the Secretary of State for War why, having regard to the fact that the purport of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Protected Areas Orders (Nos. 301/s12, 302/s13, 303/s14, 304, 305, 306, 307,...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power, for the six months ended 31st December, 1943, the output of saleable coal per man-shift; and how this figure compares with the corresponding figures for the...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he can give any estimate of the annual cost of the increases in wages resulting from the recent agreement to accept the Government's proposals for the...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the number of colliery undertakings in Northumberland scheduled as necessitous; how much was paid to them from the Coal Charges Fund and the amounts received,...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the percentages of the total output of coal that are mechanically cut and conveyed, respectively, at the present time; and how these percentages compare with...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power what is the total estimated tonnage represented by the domestic coal allowance of four cwts. per month in the southern counties and five cwts. in the northern...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the total number of persons employed under his Ministry, the number in the department of the regional controller in each area, separately, and the percentage...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what the present arrangements are for the issue of permits to workers entitling them to obtain alarm clocks; and, in particular, whether these permits...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can arrange to place in the Library a copy of the complaint filed in the district court of New York against the Imperial Chemical Industries and...
asked the President if the Board of Trade whether he is aware of existing dissatisfaction in regard to the present quality of safety-razor blades; and whether, in the interests of economy, no...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that the number of full length films produced in this country in 1943 was only about 12½ per cent. of those produced in 1938, and, in...
asked the President of the Board of Trade why pressure was put, by his Deparment, on Messrs. H. Incledon and Company, Limited, of 67–73, Constitution Hill, Birmingham, to vacate their...
asked the right hon. and gallant Member for Rye, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, whether he will instruct the district officers to refrain from inspecting plantations in...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will move to set up a Select Committee to consider and report on all appropriate methods of parliamentary reform.
asked the Prime Minister if he will consider the position of elected representatives on municipal authorities who are serving in the Forces and take steps to ensure that, where it can be done...
Flight-Lieutenant Teeing: asked the Prime Minister whether the daily charge of is. 9d. at camps held for sea, army and air cadets must continue to be met by parents or welfare funds; and whether...
asked the Prime Minister whether the political developments as the result of the advance of the Russian armies in the region of the Rumanian and Hungarian frontiers are subjects for discussion by...
asked the Prime Minister if he can make a statement on the attitude of the Government towards instituting an inquiry into the whole question of the rate for the job in all public services and if...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, as the National Whitley Council has been asked to make proposals regarding the post-war staffing of the Civil Service, he will also consult the...
Mr. Graham White: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the rise in the cost of living, he will take steps to alter the Treasury rule that now precludes a re-employed...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to what extent information in his possession corresponds with the common experience of medical practitioners that there has recently been an increase...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the approximate cost involved in the provision for, preparation, printing and paper and despatch, of the Pay-as-you-Earn Income Tax forms and instructions...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the approximate cost, for the 12 months ending at the last convenient date, of E.N.S.A., including the amount paid out of funds of N.A.A.F.I.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his regulations impose a liability for Income Tax assessment on moneys paid as loss of wages or income for the period of disablement consequent upon...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reconsider his decision not to make any hardship grant on account of bomb damage to the property of a lady of 81, of whose name and address he...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport if, in view of the necessity for better road communication between North-east England and the South-west of England and of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can give any information in connection with the police raid on an East End social club in Whitechapel Road, Stepney, which was being...
asked the Minister of Information whether it was with his authority that the B.B.C. broadcast in the nine o'clock news on Monday an exhaustive account of the Partisan Leader Tito's activities in...
Cecil Aubrey Gwynne Manning, Esquire, for the Borough of Camberwell (North Division).
Ordered: That the Proceedings on the Education Bill be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[Mr. Eden.]
Considered in Committee [Progress, 30th March].
I beg to move, in page 65, line 28, at the end, to insert: Provided that such annual grants shall not be less than sixty per cent. of the total annual expenditure of local educational...
Mr. Tinker.
I beg to move, in page 68, line 13, after "them," to insert: or, as the case may be, by the managers or governors of the discontinued school or schools. We are dealing in this Sub-section with...
I beg to move, in page 68, line 32, to leave out from "authority" to "education," in line 33, and to insert "for the primary or secondary." The object of this Amendment is to omit young people's...
I beg to move, in page 70, line II, after "may," to insert: in respect of individual educational areas. Perhaps the Minister may be willing to accept this Amendment. Part V of the Bill deals with...
I beg to move, in page 7o, line 33, to leave out from "and" to "period," in line 34, and to insert: any such regulation shall cease to have effect on the expiration of a. I take it, Mr. Williams,...
I beg to move, in page 71, line 29, at the end, to insert: and, unless the context otherwise requires, references in this Act to 'managers' or 'governors' shall, in relation to any func- tion...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
I beg to move, in page 76, line 7, to leave out "and." This is the first of a series of Amendments in the name of the hon. Member for Peckham (Mr. Silkin), and in his absence, I beg to accept...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
(1) If upon the application of the managers or governors of any aided school or special agreement school the Minister is satisfied after consultation with persons representing them that their...
(1) If in the opinion of a medical officer of a local education authority there is reasonable cause to suspect that the person or clothing of a pupil in attendance at any school maintained by the...
(1) Section seventy-one of the Public Health Act, 1936 (which provides for the exemption of certain buildings from building byelaws) shall have effect as if for paragraph (a) thereof there were...
A local education authority may with the consent of the Minister provide financial assistance to any university or university college for the purpose of improving the facilities for further...
A child shall not be employed on any day on which he is required to attend school.—[Mr. Denman.]
A local education authority may defray any expenses necessarily incurred— (a) by members of the local education authority; or(b) by members of any committee or subcommittee of the local...
In fulfilling their duties under this Act a local education authority shall have regard to the desirability of securing that all pupils whose parents so desire shall spend part of their school...
An independent denominational secondary school not receiving a grant from the Board of Education or from the local education authority, but which the Minister is satisfied could have qualified as...
It shall be the duty of every local education authority to provide in every school maintained by it, whether county or auxiliary, adequate clerical help so as to relieve the teaching staff of as...
Resolved: That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Drewe.]
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