Wednesday, 11 April 1945
The House met at a Quarter past Two, o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read the Third time, and passed.
Read the Third time, and passed.
"to regulate the expenditure on capital account and lending of money by the London County Council during the financial period from the first day of April one thousand nine hundred and forty-five...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if members of His Majesty's Embassy in Moscow and Press correspondents are now able to visit that part of Poland which has been liberated by the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what progress has been made in the negotiations in Moscow with the object, of forming a new Government of Poland.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any facilities yet exist for persons in this country to make inquiries about friends or relatives in Poland, or to send personal messages...
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information regarding the whereabouts of the Polish representatives who left for the Soviet Union to discuss the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the release from arrest by the Soviet authorities of Madame Arciszewska, the wife of the Polish Prime Minister, has yet been confirmed by...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs which political parties in Poland are defined by His Majesty's Government as democratic and non-democratic, respectively; whether these parties...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can report any progress in the scheme for the repatriation of prisoners of war who have been a long time in captivity.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will state the arrangement made at Teheran or Yalta with regard to the supply of free male German labour to the U.S.S.R. after the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that the United Nations War Crimes Commission has recommended that Nazi leaders should be held responsible for crimes committed by...
Captain Duncan: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what reports he has recently had from the Inter-Allied Control Commission on recent political developments in Rumania; and if he...
Captain Duncan: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that a large number of Rumanians who have moved from Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina since 1940 into Rumania...
By which the inhabitants of Bessarabia are restored in the rights of citizens of the U.S.S.R. those of Bucovina are receiving Soviet citizenship.
The Minister for Justice communicates the following: Supreme Presidents and Presidents of Courts of Appeal, Supreme Presidents and Presidents of Law Courts, County Public Prosecutors, Survey...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his report shows if land redistribution has yet begun in federated Yugoslavia; and what is being done to meet the objections of each of...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Syrian and Lebanese Governments have now been supplied, against repayment, with the automatic weapons and reconnaissance cars needed...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the situation in Greece and on the events leading to the resignation of General Plastiras.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will now give further particulars respecting the German zones apportioned to Great Britain, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.; whether an agreed...
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary of State for Air if he can now make a statement on increased tropical kit allowances.
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that W.A.A.F. personnel are being posted to a R.A.F. station in Iraq, particulars of which have been communicated to him; that this place...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will set up a committee of inquiry, whose chairman shall be independent and at which evidence can be taken on oath, in the case of Miss Middleton,...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether the members of the R.A.F. repatriated from Greece, who were prisoners of war in that country and who are stationed at a place of which he has been...
asked the Secretary of State for Air why a leading aircraftwoman, particulars of whom have been supplied to him, was discharged from the W.A.A.F. on 8th May, 1944, as fit for selective employment...
asked the Secretary of State for Air if he is now in a position to make a full statement as to the cause of the loss of the aircraft on passage from this country to Malta on 31st January to 1st...
asked the Minister of Aircraft Production whether he can now state the future constitution of the Aeronautical Research Committee.
asked the Minister of Information whether he will give instructions to the censorship that letters from British Ministers of State to Members of Parliament in Northern Ireland are not to be...
asked the Postmaster-General what are the present arrangements for postal, telegraphic and telephonic communication between this country, Bulgaria, Finland and Rumania, respectively?
asked the Minister of Works what was the cost of erecting the hostel at Adwick, near Doncaster; for what purpose it was intended; and whether it has been occupied since it was built.
asked the Minister of Works if the aluminium house designed by the Aircraft Industries Research Association will be available for inspection by Members of Parliament and the general public; and,...
asked the Minister of Works what decision has now been reached on the question of useful employment of prisoners of war on such urgent work as the preparation of housing sites, main drainage and...
The following Question stood on the Order Paper:
asked the Minister of Works whether it is intended to proceed with the erection of a block of buildings in the borough of Brackley for use by the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Labour; and...
asked the Minister of Works whether he is aware that a considerable amount of war damage repair work is being held up because the Westminster City Council, with the consent of the regional...
asked the Minister of Works whether high priority will be given, when housing repairs are satisfied, for the rehabilitation of offices and commercial buildings in the City of London seriously...
Miss Rathbone: asked the Minister of Food if he will estimate in terms of expenditure, or however else practicable, the proportion of this country's food consumption, excluding, if possible,...
asked the Minister of Food whether, owing to the constant demand for jellies by sick persons, invalids and delicate children, he will authorise the early resumption of their manufacture in order...
asked the Minister of Food whether his attention has been called to the widespread sale of red wine called "British Wine Port Type" manufactured by a chemical process and bottled by Santiago,...
Mr. Graham White: asked the Ministeh of Supply if there has been any improvement in the rate of collection of paper salvage.
Mr. Astor: asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he can make any statement regarding the welfare arrangements for the Pacific Fleet.
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if the increases of pay announced in November, 1944, for Special and War Reserve Police, are being paid to full-time special constables in the Admiralty...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he is aware that the £10 allowance for tropical kit is inadequate for officers of the W.R.N.S.; what articles they are required to buy; and what...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether men serving with the R.N. are permitted to volunteer for work in the coalmines.
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty how many R.N.V.R. officers are at present posted to H.M.S. "Victory" and other ships, not to join.
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that Leading Seaman E. Bassett, now in M Ward, Upper Southern Hospital, Dartford, was given a medical examination at R.N. Barracks,...
Dr. Russell Thomas: asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he has now reached a decision in regard to allowing private individuals to sail their boats on Southampton Water and the Solent.
Dr. Russell Thomas: asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether members of the W.R.N.S. are liable to be stopped and criticised by naval police and patrols at railway stations and other places.
Dr. Morgan: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds Uriah Butler has been kept under detention without trial or charge in Trinidad for the last four and a half years and is...
Dr. Morgan: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why the services of Dr. Thomas John Hallinan, C.B.E., the present Director of Medical Services in Jamaica, who has reached the retiring...
Dr. Morgan: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any decision has yet been reached as to the publication as a Government Paper of the full Report of the Royal Commission to the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the Government of Cyprus has prevented the municipalities of Limassol and Famagusta from subscribing £500 each to the...
In pursuance of Standing Order No. 80 (4):
Proceedings on Government Business exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House).—[Mr. Eden.]
Resolution reported: That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to authorise the acquisition of certain land used or dealt with for war purposes and to make other provision as to...
Considered in Committee.
3.20 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 2, line 14, leave out "two," and insert "three." The wording of the Clause aft present is: At any meeting of the Commission two or such greater number as the Commission...
I beg to move, in page 2, line 31, to leave out "The Treasury," and to insert "His Majesty." Question, "That the words 'The Treasury' stand part of the Clause," put, and negatived. Question...
The first Amendment to this Clause which has been selected is that in the name of the hon. and learned Member for Ilford (Mr. G. Hutchinson), in page 2, line 44.
Order far Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee, under Standing Order No. 69.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Pym.]
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