Tuesday, 17 February 1948
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
For the Borough of Wigan, in the room of William Foster, Esquire, deceased.—[Mr. Whiteley.]
Read a Second time, and committed.
Second Reading deferred till Thursday.
asked the Minister of Pensions what proportion of 100 per cent. disabled pensioners are in full employment in jobs governed by trade union rates of pay and not in work specially devised for...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether, in the interests of the war disabled, he will consider extending the period between medical re-survey boards in those cases where a conditional award of...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether the allowances of invalid children of disability pensioners and widows of the 1914–18 war which now cease when the child attains the age of 21 may be...
asked the Minister of Pensions which of the following current benefits to disability pensioners were not included, in principle, in the 1919 or the 1943 Royal Warrants, namely, allowances for...
Mr. Amory: asked the Minister of Pensions at what age pensioners unable to compete in industry are entitled to an extra allowance of 11 per cent.; what are the qualifications; of what sum is...
Mr. Amory: asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware of the delay which sometimes occurs between the submission of an appeal and its hearing in the case of disability pensions; and...
asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that Mr. George Oliver, of 5, Greenway, Pinner Hill, who has been in receipt of a disability pension of £1 10s. 8d. per week since 1945 has only...
asked the Secretary of State for War what were the reasons which justified him employing motor-cycle outriders on the occasion of his visit to military camps on 5th January; and what was the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether the standard of education of recruits for the Army indicates that a percentage is not qualified for normal instruction, being unable to read or write;...
asked the Secretary of State for War how many troops at home are being employed in sorting stores and dealing with unwanted ammunition; what is the position in the various commands as regards the...
asked the Secretary of State for War on what grounds military prisoners are still being marched handcuffed under escort along some streets of our large cities in full view of the public gaze; and...
asked the Secretary of State for War what percentages of our troops at present serving in each of the Army commands overseas consist of short-term conscripts under 20 years of age.
asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that men are being released from the Forces without being informed until afterwards that they are in debt; and, in view of the fact that...
asked the Secretary of State for War how many claims in respect of requisitioned properties have been agreed but not paid; and what is the total amount still owing to owners of property in...
asked the Secretary of State for War when the huts above Stoke Point, Bigbury Bay, and the huts above Penlee Point on the west side of Plymouth Sound, will be transferred to the Ministry of Works...
asked the Secretary of State for War why he has decided to take proceedings with a view to evicting the occupiers of houses at C.A.D., Longtown, Cumberland; and whether he will reconsider his...
asked the Secretary of State for War if he is now able to state what disciplinary action was taken against the British officer and N.C.O.'s involved in the interrogation and beating-up of Herr...
asked the Secretary of State for War what are the obligations of men discharged from the Services into Class "Z" Reserve; are these men debarred from emigrating; and have steps been taken to...
asked the Secretary of State for War if the rent charged to officers in the B.A.O.R. in Austria for houses requisitioned as married quarters goes to the Treasury or to the owners of the houses in...
Mrs. Manning: asked the Secretary of State for War after what length of training young soldiers are being sent to Palestine.
asked the Secretary of State for War if Groups 65 and 66, all arms, and Groups 66 to 72, other specified arms, have now left Nairobi Transit Camp for demobilisation in the United Kingdom; how...
asked the Secretary of State for War why people who inquire about the location of a soldier's grave are told that the information supplied must not be communicated to anyone in the United Kingdom.
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he has now completed his inquiries into the assault on a military patient at the Connaught Hospital, Bramshott, details of which were forwarded on...
asked the Secretary of State for War for how much longer it is proposed to keep Field-Marshal Von Rundstedt in confinement in this country; and what charges are to be, or have been, preferred...
asked the Secretary of State for War for what reasons some hundreds of prisoners of war, formerly enrolled in the Waffen S.S. or who are ex-parachutists, are being held beyond their normal...
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning if he has yet considered the City of Westminster Plan, and in particular that part envisaging the demolition of the Royal Opera House, Covent...
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning whether he is aware that while discussions were going on between the Surrey County Council and other interested parties about the future of The...
asked the Minister of National Insurance what instructions have been issued to the staff of his Department affecting or limiting their right to communicate with Members of Parliament.
asked the Minister of Labour if, in view of the shortage of locomotive firemen at the Patricroft British Railway Depot, he will take steps to release the 17 locomotive firemen from this depot,...
asked the Minister of Labour the numbers of insured workers employed by firms having quota obligations under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act in Manchester; the numbers of registered...
asked the Minister of Labour why grants, paid by his Department to ex-Service men studying under the Further Education Scheme, are less than similar grants paid by the Ministry of Education; and...
asked the Prime Minister, in view of the fact that supplementary sums of £47,000,000 and £40,000,000 are required for the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Transport if he will...
asked the Prime Minister what is the Government's ruling regarding high executives of nationalised industries making statements to the Press.
asked the Prime Minister if he will introduce legislation to secure that the governing bodies of those industries which have already been nationalised should be so subordinated to the appropriate...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can make any statement on the present position of reparations from Japan; how much has already been paid back to the United Kingdom and to the...
Mr. Teeing: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any monthly quota system has been agreed with Switzerland or other countries for tourist travel, or whether he will consider it.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) since when it has become the practice to invest the Unemployment Fund in stocks without a definite date of redemption in view of the possibility of...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the contract between the Treasury and the National Coal Board was made concerning the preparation and publication of the magazine entitled "Coal"; what...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is now in a position to state the amount of linseed oil imported into this country in 1947; and how it was allocated as between industries.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the betting tax methods used in Eire, a description of which has been sent to him, where the collection of the tax is undertaken by the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to state, in sterling, the known or estimated total of debt owed by the United Kingdom to the United States of America.
Colonel Wheatley: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider granting Income Tax relief to limbless men not in receipt of pensions, who have to bear the cost of supply and...
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate, [16th February] on Question, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
Considered in Committee under Standing Order Number 69.—(King's Recommendation signified.)
Resolved: That the Draft Foreign Service Order, 1948, a copy of which was presented on 5th February, be approved "—[Mr. McNeil.]
Resolution reported: That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide, amongst other things, for the establishment of Area Gas Boards and a Gas Council and for the exercise and...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [Mr. Popplewell.]
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