Thursday, 8 April 1948
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Second Reading deferred till Thursday next.
Mr. Baker White: asked the Minister of Health for what reason he has issued instructions to his Regional Housing Officers to supplement, by delegation of the power to requisition, the provisions...
asked the Minister of Health how many cottages for farm workers are being erected in Cheshire during 1948; and what progress is being made.
asked the Minister of Health why subsidies to figures acceptable to local authorities for nontraditional houses have increased from about £6 million in 1947–48 to about £17...
asked the Minister of Health what estimate he has made of the number of houses required to give a separate dwelling to each family; and how far the building programme has advanced in respect to it.
asked the Minister of Health by what measures it is expected to reduce the numbers employed in local government by 30,000 during 1948, as forecast in the Economic Survey for 1948.
asked the Minister of Health if he has now considered a resolution sent him by the registration officers of the North-West Districts of England and Wales protesting at the protracted delay in...
asked the Minister of Health what funds are available to local authorities for the provision of additional day nurseries to encourage a return to the cotton industry.
asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the serious shortage of accommodation for maternity cases in the Amersham area, intensified by the closing of the Home at...
asked the Minister of Health what steps is he taking to increase the facilities for the training of medical and dental students; and is it his intention to encourage the setting up of new medical...
asked the Minister of Health how many areas in the British Isles have shown an increase in the mortality rate for children under one year of age for 1947 over 1946.
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that a number of permanent residents and holiday campers at Althorne, Essex, who have been accustomed for many years, on payment to the railway company...
asked the Minister of Health if the experts appointed by him to make a survey of the coast of Great Britain in relation to the problem of erosion have yet completed their report; and whether it...
asked the Minister of Health why it is proposed to increase the clerical staff of the superannuation division of his Department from 30 to 166; and whether, in planning the new work involved, he...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the fact that he has accepted the optical employees as fit and proper persons to be registered as contractors, and that they have Whitley Council...
asked the Minister of Health in what circumstances, after 5th July, 1948, old age pensioners and police pensioners will be entitled to free medical attention.
asked the Minister of Health why local authorities have been asked by circular 40/48 to make returns of the names and addresses of persons against whom proceedings have not been instituted but...
asked the Minister of Health if he will make a statement about the report of the Local Government Boundary Commission.
asked the Minister of Health what advice he is giving to civil defence organisations for dealing with flash burns resulting from atomic bomb explosions.
asked the Minister of Education if, in view of the fact that war service in the second war as well as the period for re-training or continued training counts for pension, he will make a similar...
asked the Minister of Education whether he is now able to make a statement as to the adjustment of grants under the further education and training scheme for ex-Service men and women, with...
asked the Minister of Education whether he is aware that the ending of the scholastic year in the summer term is a great deterrent to the staggering of holidays; and whether he will take steps to...
asked the Minister of Education what progress is being made in the provision of accommodation for training backward children in the northwestern area of Middlesex.
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations how many British judges and civil servants have been compulsorily retired from service in India consequent on the passing of the Government...
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what arrangements have been made with the respective Dominion Governments for the care of British civil and military cemeteries in India...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can now state the future of the Squires Gate Factory, Blackpool.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on the progress of the negotiations for trade agreement with Yugoslavia; if he will circulate in HANSARD an outline of the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade how many film studios in this country are not in use.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is now able to state whether German prisoners may, without obtaining export licences, include small quantities of vegetable seeds in the parcels...
asked the Minister of Labour whether in the case of those prisoners of war who were repatriated prior to any offer being made to them to remain in this country as civilian workers, he is...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he has now received the report of the Russell Vick Committee; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he is aware that taxi drivers in Brighton have been informed by the police that according to new regulations they cannot travel a distance of further...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he will now make a statement on the coal/oil conversion programme.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he will submit statistics to show the relative production of coal results as between working an extra half hour each day and working on Saturday mornings.
asked the Lord President of the Council, whether His Majesty's Government have now decided to accept the recommendation of the Committee on the Conservation of Nature for the institution of a...
asked the Minister of Labour, how many men and women, formerly employed in other industries in this country, have been placed in agriculture by his Department in the past year.
asked the Minister of Labour how many roadmen have been discharged in Warwickshire upon instructions from the Minister of Transport; how many have obtained other employment; and in what industries.
asked the Minister of Labour why he withdrew his letter sent to the Chairmen of Wages Councils on the subject of the Government's wages policy; and if he will publish this letter in HANSARD, as...
asked the Minister of Labour if he will state the numbers employed, giving labourers, bricklayers, plumbers and other craftsmen separately, in the building and civil engineering industries,...
asked the Minister of Labour (1) if he will give the number of unemployed men and women, registering at Coatbridge, Airdrie, Hamilton, Motherwell and Wishaw, Bothwell burghs, North Lanark, and...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he contemplates making any change in the amount of capital which emigrants to countries out- side the sterling area may have transferred to their...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will circulate a list of those Orders and Regulations which are no longer obtainable at the Stationery Office because...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the permitted use of official motor cars for unofficial journeys, upon payment, by Ministers of Cabinet rank is conditional upon a licence...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether satisfactory arrangements have now been made for the issue of collective passports for parties of school-children visiting those foreign...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any statement to make with regard to the murder of a British officer and five British soldiers at Pardess Hanna,...
May I ask the Leader of the House, the Lord President of the Council, whether he has any statement to make on the Business for next week?
With permission I will now make a statement on petrol rationing. Since the withdrawal of the basic ration and the other restrictions imposed last autumn, substantial savings in petrol...
Considered in Committee [Progress, 7th April].
Question again proposed, That it is expedient to amend the law with respect to the National Debt and the public revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.
4.5 P.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. R. I. Taylor.]
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