Wednesday, 11 June 1947
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
MARRIAGES PROVISIONAL ORDERS BILL
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation if, having regard to the findings of his Department's reports on the air crashes at Speke in August, 1946, and Gambia in...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation how soon it is anticipated that facilities will be available for passenger air transport to and from the Dundee, Perth and...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation if the accounts of Air Training, Limited, will be submitted to Parliament in the same way as those of the aviation corporations.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation if he is aware that in 1939, under private enterprise, the West Country was served by an air service, but at the moment no...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation if he is aware that the present timing of the air service from Edinburgh to London is unsuitable for the needs of Edinburgh;...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what increased amounts of food have now been allocated to Germany to meet the serious shortage; and what is the present calorific value of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when he anticipates that he will be able to take action to implement his declared policy of socialising heavy industry in the British zone of Germany.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any parts of the British zone in Germany are yet being taken over by the Dutch Government for administration.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any arrangements are now possible to enable the British fathers of children born to German mothers to despatch to Germany essential...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether arrangements were made during the recent discussions with the U.S. authorities in Germany to ensure that the efficiency of the Bipartite...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is now in a position to make a statement regarding the resumption of postal and telecommunications services for business purposes to...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can make a statement regarding the action taken by the French Government to alter the frontiers of the Saar.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the estimated annual cost of the British delegation to U.N.O.; and whether the special cost-of-living allowances to members of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that British embassy officials in Athens have consistently tried to obstruct the revival of trade between Greece and Yugoslavia;...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Greek Frontier Commission stationed in Salonika has been allowed to send its members into Bulgarian and Albanian territory to...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has considered the Report of the recent Inter-Parliamentary Conference held at Cairo, a copy of which has been sent to him; and if he...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in view of the fact that the Polish Government has withdrawn Polish citizenship from a number of senior Polish officers who had made outstanding...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what machinery exists, or is to be brought into existence, to elect a Director-General of the International Refugee Organisation; and how the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what information he has regarding the number of British and United States soldiers killed or wounded and the number of Soviet displaced persons...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the British representative on the Austrian Treaty Commission has now been successful in his demand that a committee of experts, as laid...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware of the anxiety of the inhabitants of Carinthia, who are in daily fear of a Yugoslav invasion of this frontier province; and...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who is to be the British representative on the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, which is due to meet at Shanghai on 16th June; what...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps he is taking, through our representative on the Allied Council, to assist the new Japanese Ministry in putting into practice the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will appoint a person of high qualifications to the vacant post of Consul-General in Chicago, in view of the great opportunities for British...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) whether he will give an assurance that the United Kingdom is prepared to join with other European countries in the drawing up of a combined...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will send a further note to the Soviet occupation authority in Hungary demanding a public investigation into the alleged plot on the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what action he is taking in connection with the arrest of Mr. Nicola Petkov, the deputy of the Bulgarian Parliament, in view of Bulgaria's...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has yet been able to reach a decision with the Government of Palestine about ex-members of the Palestine Police Force receiving a free...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why he has not replied to the representations made to him by the War Prisoners (Singapore) Association; and what action he proposes to take regarding...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many unemployed persons are there at Freetown; and what plans have been made with regard to the rehabilitation of these men in the vicinity of...
asked the Minister of Defence how many committees are at the moment dealing with matters concerning the standardisation of non-warlike equipment.
asked the Minister of Defence how many rooms are being reserved in the tourist and other hotels in Copenhagen; and when it is expected that this accommodation will be released.
asked the Minister of Food what quantities by weight, of cheese were available for civilian consumption from home production and by importation, respectively, for each of the following years:...
asked the Minister at Food the relative amounts of fats and edible oils, including butter, in lbs. of equivalent fat content available per capita per year, for the average of the years...
asked the Minister of Food what is the basis of his Department's survey of the consumption of food in homes; whether the sample covers persons living alone; what is the size of the sample;...
asked the Minister of Food in view of the fact that one factory alone in Uganda produces enough tea to supply 65,000 people with two ounces per week, for one year, and that the growers there...
asked the Minister of Food if he will consider the possibility of making extensive use of the cohune nuts which grow wild in British Honduras in large quantities, as an alternative Empire source...
asked the Minister of Food whether he is aware that 30 head of cattle, carried in three trucks, recently spent 37 hours on a railway journey from Fakenham, Norfolk, to Aldershot; that this...
asked the Minister of Food whether he is aware of the grievance of United Kingdom merchants arising from the inaccurate information given by his Department about the ending of the period for the...
His Majesty's Government desire to thank the members of the Royal Commission on Equal Pay for their valuable Report. This Royal Commission was not asked to make recommendations. Their terms of...
Considered in Committee [Progress, 10th June].
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
4.0 p.m.
6.0 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 23, line 22, at the end, to insert: (c) interim income of colliery companies within the meaning of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act, 1947; and It will be remembered...
I beg to move, in page 24, line 1, at the beginning, to insert: (1) Where any shares of a company are held by employees of that company under a co-partnership scheme, profits tax shall not be...
I beg to move, in page 25, line 31, after "distributions," to insert: other than fixed preference dividends. The argument has been made from this side of the Committee that one of the chief...
I beg to move, in page 27, line 1, at the beginning, to insert: Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding Subsection. This Amendment is designed to pave the way for an Amendment which...
I beg to move, in page 29. line 3, at the end, to insert: If at any time a subsidiary as defined by Section twenty-two of the Finance Act, 1937, as amended, has not previously been the subject of...
I beg to move, in page 29, line 41, after "corporate," to insert: and to any other proprietor who is not normally resident in the United Kingdom This is quite a simple point, compared with the...
I beg to move, in page 31, line 19, to leave out "for." and to insert: to be made for or in connection with.' This Amendment is to the Clauses which deal with the deductions which are not to be...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
10.33 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 35, line 8, to leave out from "period," to "and," in line 9. This is a drafting Amendment. The words which the Amendment seeks to leave out am unnecessary. As it is, line...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
11.30 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Clause stand part of the Bill.
I beg to move, in page 41, line 14, after "where," to insert: a lease of land is granted to any governing body constituted for charitable purposes if the land which is the subject of the lease is...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
I beg to move, in page 43, line 43, to leave out "previously issued." This is a drafting Amendment, designed to remove a possible ambiguity in the Clause as printed. The intention is, as I said...
I beg to move, in page 44, line 43, after "issued," insert: when they are allotted, and to be issued. I suppose we all have a fairly clear idea of what we mean by issuing shares, but in law there...
I beg to move, in page 48, line 38, to leave out, other than secretarial or managerial services. This is simply a drafting Amendment, because the same words appear later on, and are really surplusage.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
I beg to move, in page 52, line 33, to leave out "subsections (2) and (3)," and to insert "subsection (2)." This Clause, as the Committee will have noticed, make provision for relaxing the rules...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
5.15 a.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
I beg to move, in page 56, line 5, to leave out from "on," to "there," in line 6, and to insert: or before the grant of an excise licence in pursuance of the new licence. There are two other...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn" —[Mr. Hannan.]
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