Thursday, 14 June 1945
The House met at a Quarter past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
WEAVER NAVIGATION BILL
Address for Return, showing, with regard to each Parliamentary Constituency in Scotland, the total number of electors on the register now in force."—[Mr. Allan Chapman.]
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the shortage of labour in the laundry industry; and whether he has considered releasing some of the workers now being retained in munition and...
asked the Minister of Labour, in view of the fact that boys directed to the mines are to be released on the same group principle as men in the Services, whether they will also be granted on...
asked the Minister of Labour what are the conditions associated with the registration of building trade workers at present employed in munition works; whether it is intended to direct such labour...
asked the Minister of Labour what steps he is taking to enable holiday facilities to be provided by those seaside resorts whose labour is still being directed to other towns.
asked the Minister of Labour in view of the continued shortage of both nurses and domestic servants in municipal and voluntary hospitals, what steps are being taken to increase the number of...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is yet in a position to announce the rates of training allowances proposed under his Ministry's resettlement training schemes.
(1) The rate is increased by 10s. a week in respect of a wife or, in certain circumstances, other adult dependant, and by 5s. a week in respect of the first child under 16 years of age.
asked the Minister of Labour if men who served both in the last war and in this can have their service in the former taken into account in the determination of their release group.
asked the Minister of Labour why men in Category B for demobilisation are granted 21 days' pay in view of the Government's policy that all men honourably discharged were to be given 56 days' pay.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take all possible steps, by legislation or regulation, to enable hospital patients and other sick persons to record their votes at...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what provision he has made to enable the large number of men engaged in the building trade who have been directed to bomb-damage repair work...
Mr. Arthur Duckworth: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he proposes to take upon the conclusions and recommendations contained in Sir Walter Monckton's Report upon...
The following Question stood on the Order Paper in the name of Mr. Thorne:
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether part-time special constables and other part-time police auxiliaries can now be released from the war-time restrictions on their...
asked the Minister of Education if his Department will prepare and supply to headmasters and head mistresses apparatus and instructions on how to apply the methods of industrial psychology to...
asked the Minister of Education whether anything more can be done towards paying travelling expenses when children live a long way from their denominational or other suitable schools; and...
asked the Minister of Education the procedure education authorities must follow in order to obtain the release of teachers under Class B of the Re-allocation of Manpower Scheme.
asked the Minister of Health how many houses in the county of Essex and in the Maldon division of Essex, respectively, are without a piped water supply.
asked the Minister of Health what progress has been made in the county of Worcester, particularly in the Redditch and Bromsgrove areas, in the last 12 months in the provision for maternity cases;...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has ascertained, or will ascertain, from public hospitals when and where there is acute understaffing, with a view to relief being secured from other...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is able to make any statement about the future of the blood transfusion services organised during the war in connection with the emergency hospital scheme.
Mr. Graham White: asked the Minister of Health if he is satisfied that the diet of returned prisoners of war undergoing treatment for tuberculosis in civil hospitals is in all respects equal to...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is now in a position to make a statement as to the setting up of a commission of inquiry on the co-ordination of the overlapping local government ser vices...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is in a position to make any further statement with regard to Government assistance to house building by private persons.
asked the Minister of Health what he will do for the housing of a family, the particulars of which have been communicated to him, where an ex- Serviceman and his pregnant wife and a son of five...
Captain Duncan: asked the Minister of Health how many dwellings were erected by the L.C.C. in the ten-year periods 1924–1933 and 1934–1943, respectively.
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that certain local authorities are contemplating evicting allotment holders in order to erect temporary houses; and whether he will consider...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that local authorities who have to give property owners whose houses they wish to requisition time to dispose of such property to any tenants or...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will consider making capital loans to borough councils and other appropriate bodies, free of interest, to afford these...
asked the Prime Minister to what medal men who have served in Paiforce will be entitled.
asked the Prime Minister if the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his recent broadcast to the effect that certain activities hitherto wholly or largely in private hands may...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will send a message of good will and thanks from this House to the U.S.A. forces before Parliament dissolves.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if his attention has been drawn to the expressed intention of certain hunting interests to secure the importation of foxes from Belgium; and will he give an...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether land taken over during the war in Europe by war agricultural executive committees is now in some cases to be restored to the dispossessed farmers.
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture (1) whether, now that the war in Europe is ended, he will make provision for a right of appeal to the courts of law by an individual against...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what measures are being taken to add to the numbers of trained biologists employed by his Ministry.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will consult the Herring Industry Board with a view to giving priority in the allocation of drifters built or chartered by the board to skipper-owners, or...
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning what progress he has made with the compilation of lists of buildings of special architectural merit or historic interest with which he was...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has now arranged for an independent medical specialist to visit and examine Mr. T. Aspden, of 93, Hindle Street, Darwen.
Captain Duncan: asked the Minister of Pensions whether any adjustments in the rates of war pensions will be made in the light of the Government's intentions in the matter of industrial insurance.
asked the Secretary of State for India how many political prisoners now remain in detention without charge; and how many have been released in the North West Frontier Province.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the application of the Treasury Order, S.R. & O. 1945 No. 482, is viewed with apprehension by pharmacists as being likely to...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if the Government's rule that soldiers honourably discharged on medical grounds are to be granted 56 days' release leave on full pay is retrospective...
asked the Minister of National Insurance how many old age pensioners are in receipt of supplementary pensions; and what is the increase in numbers since January, 1943.
asked the Minister of Food if he is satisfied that there are enough fish-curing and preserving establishments near the ports of landing; and what steps he proposes to take.
With your permission, Sir, I would like, before putting a Private Notice Question to the Prime Minister, to ask if he is aware of the difficulty that Members of this House have in getting...
asked the Prime Minister if he is aware that eight members of the party of eminent British scientists who were to leave today on a visit to Russia as guests of the Soviet Academy of Sciences have...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware of the notice W.3765 issued through the National Savings Committee withdrawing leaflet W.F.L.146, "Your Savings are Safe," and whether he...
I have received, during the course of the morning, some suggestion that it would be agreeable to the House if I made a few remarks upon the foreign situation before we separat3—almost for...
That they have agreed to—
Second Report from the Committee on Public Petitions brought up, and read; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Reported, with Amendments, from the Committee on Group "B" of Private Bills (with Report on the Bill).
Considered in Committee, and reported, without Amendment.
3.55 p.m.
6.19 p.m.
6.24 p.m.
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