Wednesday, 17 December 1947
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I desire to present a Petition which has been addressed to this House and signed by over 100,000 ramblers, youth-hostellers, cyclists, and lovers of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will make available for local purchase by auction or otherwise the plywood, wooden boxes, corrugated iron, asbestos roofing, canvas curtains,...
asked the Secretary of State for Air how many experienced horticultural officers are employed by his Ministry for food production and other duties for the whole of Great Britain including Air...
asked the Secretary of State for Air on what date his Department decided to relinquish 17½ acres of land taken over from the Essex War Agricultural Committee in 1942 for incorporation in...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation how many of the B.E.A. services have been speeded up since 1st August; and what percentage increase in petrol consumption has...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation what is the position of the construction of the third runway at Prestwick Airport; and whether he is now satisfied that...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation what is the present position concerning an allocation of films for the B.O.A.C. staff at Augusta, Sicily; and whether Augusta...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation why the empty seats in sectors other than Karachi to Singapore were not filled in the aircraft specially chartered to carry the...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation why the contract recently given by his Department to the Feltham Sand and Gravel Company Limited was not put out to public tender.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation in what respects the Tudor Aircraft has proved unsatisfactory for the North Atlantic; and what are the observations of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the U.S.S.R. has carried out its undertaking, under the Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria, to withdraw all troops from Bulgaria by 15th...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the attitude of His Majesty's Government towards any change in the existing status of Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether compulsory arrest of Germans for medical examination in respect of V.D. still continues in the British zone of Germany; how many have been...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will revise the arrangement in Germany under which British personnel are allowed petrol to cover 500 miles of recreational transport...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the agreement concluded between the United Kingdom and the United States on the future financing of the bi-zonal...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if, during the Foreign Ministers' Conference in London, he has represented to Mr. Molotov the concern felt by the continued retention in Russia of...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the present strength, shown separately, of the Bulgarian Army, the militia, the labour battalions in recepit of any form of military...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign. Affairs what steps are being taken to develop cooperative economic action between the 16 European nations which accepted the Marshall Plan.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many tons of groundnuts are estimated to be stored up-country in West Africa; and what is the reason for the delay in bringing them to this country.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the recent communal disturbances in Aden.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will draw the attention of the United Nations Organisation to the risk that the valuable and irreplaceable contents of the Rockefeller...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will make a statement about the future of the Palestine Currency Board.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what ships are still available to the Government of Palestine for the transhipment of unauthorised Jewish immigrants; how long these ship, will...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what action is being taken to resettle the Poles at present in Tanganyika Territory in more suitable surroundings.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he has inquired into the case of Mr. Edmund Way, who was recently discharged from the Tanganyika Railways, and which was referred to him by the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies for what reasons Mr. Louis Baudot was dismissed from his employment with the Board of Quatre Bornes, Mauritius; and why he has not been awarded a...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why Mr. Anthony Brooke has been refused permission to enter Sarawak to present his case to the Residents Court in that place for damages against the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why Koreans on trial in Singapore and elsewhere for their actions during the Malayan occupation are forced to have Japanese defenders and are not...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds it is considered that Cyprus is entitled to a lesser degree of self-government than Ceylon, Malta or Jamaica.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any improved harbour, facilities are projected for the British Cameroons; and when these are likely to be completed.
asked the Minister of Defence what is the approximate value of installations, stores and equipment in Palestine belonging to the Royal Navy, the Army, and the R.A.F., respectively, and what...
asked the Minister of Defence if he will give an assurance that men now with the Forces will, on demobilisation, be given civilian clothes on the existing scale; and that it is not his intention...
asked the Minister of Defence to what extent administrative and operational co-ordination in the three Services has been achieved since his Ministry was established; and if he will make a...
asked the Minister of Defence the potato rations for the three Services.
asked the Minister of Food why the movement of carrots between Yorkshire and Lancashire has been prohibited; to what extent the current domestic crop is likely to satisfy demand; and how many...
asked the Minister of Food if his attention has been called to the difficulty that hospitals and infirmaries are experiencing in Scotland in providing a necessary and varied diet to patients; and...
asked the Minister of Food what was the profit per lb. made by the Ministry in the recent sales of edible nuts; and what percentage of profit does this represent on the cost price.
asked the Minister of Food what steps he is taking, to increase the supply of fishmeal for feeding to pigs and poultry; and the prospective supplies for 1948 compared with 1938.
asked the Minister of Food what export target he has set for his Ministry; to which countries food is being sent; and if he will show the varieties, quantities and values of these foods.
asked the Minister of Food whether dried bananas are on sale anywhere in Britain; and if he will consider making these available in larger quantities to housewives in Scotland.
asked the Minister of Food what percentage of whale-meat is now contained in the average sausage.
asked the Minister of Food what foods and feedingstuffs are now allocated by the International Emergency Food Council; what food and feedingstuffs are now the subject of recommendations by that...
asked the Minister of Food if he will consider allowing local Territorial Army formations to hold annual dinners with numbers in excess of 100 in order to encourage recruiting.
asked the Minister of Food whether the estimates of total requirements and import requirements of food for the United Kingdom for the years 1947–48 to 1950–51, contained in the...
asked the Minister of Food what inspection was made prior to shipment in s.s. "Novelist" of the consignment of tinned snoek at present en route to this country; whether he is aware that this...
asked the Minister of Food what quantities of rationed raw materials have been granted against permits during each of the last seven years to each of the following categories of catering...
asked the Minister of Food why the Bristol area is only now about to receive its tenth allocation of oranges while most of the country have already received twelve; and if he will take steps to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what steps he is taking to implement the pledges given to the Gibraltarians, still living in camps in Northern Ireland, to transfer them to London...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he has any statement to make about Business, and especially concerning any statement which the Foreign Secretary might be able to make?
Despite the condition of my voice, I will make a statement on the coal position. As the House will recall, the winter coal budget provided for the needs of industry to be met in full and for...
"to amend the Friendly Societies Acts, 1896 to 1929, and the Industrial Assurance Acts, 1923 to 1929, and to amend provisions corresponding or relating to provisions of those Acts contained in...
Proceedings on Government Business exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House).—[Mr. H. Morrison.]
Considered in Committee.
Report [5th June, 1947] from the Select Committee to be considered forthwith.—[Mr. Ede.]
10.3 p.m.
Standing Order No. 94, read, and amended at the end by adding the words: Provided that nothing in this Order shall apply to any Statutory Instrument being an Order which is subject to special...
Select Committee appointed to consider the procedure in Select Committees on Public Bills to which the Standing Orders relative to Private Business apply and to report whether any and if so what...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Draft of the Special Order proposed to be made by the Minister of Fuel and Power, under the Gas Undertakings Acts, 1920 to 1934, on the application of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Popplewell.]
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