Monday, 12 April 1948
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
For the Borough of Southwark (Central Division), in the room of John Hanbury Martin, Esquire (Manor of Northstead).—(Mr. R. J. Taylor.)
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps have been take in recent months towards the signing of a peace treaty with Japan, what is the attitude of His Majesty's Government...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will now state the Far Eastern Commission's measures to disarm Japan.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make a statement on the present position in Korea.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the value of the assets of the States of Estonia, Latvia and Luthuania and their nationals now held by the Custodian of Enemy Property; and when...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs f he has considered the Memorandum presented by the Refugees Defence Committee, protesting against the return of political refugees to Yugoslavia;...
Mr. Wilson Harris: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many special agreements have been concluded between the United Nations Security Council and individual member states for...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the fact that a redefinition of aggression is essential if the United Nations organisation is to become a more effective instrument...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether steps will be taken by the occupying Powers in Western Germany to issue a West German currency in the immediate future.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what action he is taking in view of the rejection by the Soviet authorities of the British request for a quadripartite commission of investigation...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what items of harbour equipment and port installation have been removed from Wilhelmshaven since V.E.-Day; the amounts sent to each country; and...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Hungarian Government has announced the calling up of three age groups for military service, thereby raising their...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that German civilians visiting this country officially to study the workings of democracy are being offered hospitality by, among...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is now in a position to announce a scheme under which former German prisoners of war may be allowed to travel to Germany for a period...
asked the Minister of Food what amounts have been paid each year since 1939 by the Government to firms or organisations in the potato trade whose functions have been partly or completely assumed...
asked the Minister of Food if he has considered the recommendations of the working party on agricultural food allowances; and if it is his intention to accept in whole or in part the conclusions...
asked the Minister of Food what recent conversations he has had with the Minister of Agriculture for Eire with regard to the supply of store and fat cattle to to this country; and will he make a...
asked the Minister of Food if he will give the number of pigs killed on licence; and the number killed and made available for the ordinary meat and bacon rations, respectively, in December, 1946,...
asked the Minister of Food whether he has considered the allegations of bribery and corruption in the Brighton Food Office; whether he is satisfied that his Department's inquiry into these...
asked the Minister of Food how many bulk buying contracts for tinned food have been entered into by his Ministry, which specified the number of cans instead of the weight.
asked the Minister of Food the average price in American cents per lb. that he gave for Cuban sugar since 1st January, 1947, to the latest available date.
asked the Minister of Food whether he is aware of the excessive stocks of sweets which have accumulated in London wholesale warehouses and which are in danger of deteriorating; and whether he...
asked the Minister of Food how many tons of potatoes discharged at Southampton from the "Rochester Castle," on 6th or 7th April, were unfit for human consumption; who is responsible for the order...
asked the Minister of Food if his attention has been drawn to the action of the management of Rules Restaurant, Maiden Lane, London, in refusing, on racial grounds, to serve a meal to a member of...
Colonel Wheatley: asked the Minister of Food if the stocks of grain which he is building up are all in this country; or in what countries they are situated.
asked the Minister of Transport if he will exercise his powers under Section 4 (1) of the Transport Act, 1946, and issue a general direction to the Transport Commission that representatives of...
asked the Minister of Transport whether he will exercise his powers under Section 4 (6) of the Transport Act, 1947, in order to ascertain what is the practice of the British Transport Commission...
asked the Minister of Transport why the maximum freight for the carriage of oil in British tankers from the Persian Gulf is much below the rate that has to be paid for similar service by...
asked the Minister of Transport whether, in view of the impossibility of obtaining sufficient rubber tyres or suitable steel rims, he will suspend the operation of the Order prohibiting farm...
asked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware of the unsatisfactory public bus service between Whitfield and Dover; and what action he proposes to take to remedy it.
asked the Minister of Transport if he can make a further statement on the plan for later hours of opening for shops and restaurants as a means of helping the peak hour transport problem of...
asked the Minister of Supply if he is aware that his officers at the Shoeburyness Experimental Station have refused Messrs. Belton Bros., of Foulness Island, permission to sow 100 acres of good...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will increase the alloca- tion of American crawler tractors or their satisfactory English equivalent to Norfolk, without which many farmers in the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture to what extent his Department makes use of the services of county crop intelligence committees; and whether he is satisfied that these bodies are functioning...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will state, separately, the weight value of cereals and horsefeed coupons allowed monthly in Devon and Somerset to hunting establishments.
asked the Minister of Agriculture (1) what steps he took, before asking a county agricultural committee to advise on the allocation of petrol for purposes of stag-hunting and fox-hunting, to...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what steps have been taken by the Somerset County Agricultural Committee, under the Deer Order, 1940, to kill deer on the Quantocks in other ways than by hunting...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware of the continued shortage of fertilisers in the county of Norfolk, particularly potash, nitrogen and super-phosphate; and, in view of the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what is the annual deficit on the cost of operating and maintaining hostels for agricultural workers.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if all the county agricultural executive committees will this season have the necessary equipment on hire to assist small farmers in making silage economically.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he has completed his review of the possibility of extending the basis of the feedingstuffs ration; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that B/41758 P.O.W. Ernst Wedding, of 194 P.O.W. Camp, Penkridge, Stafford, has now been offered a post as a market gardener; and if he will take...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what progress is being made in the assimilation of the scientific staffs of the grant-aided Agricultural Research Institutes to the new pay scales; and when he...
asked the Minister of Agriculture when it is expected to reach a decision on compensation to be paid with regard to Chelsea Park Gardens.
asked the Minister of Supply what progress has been made in the endeavours to harness atomic energy for industrial purposes.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider introducing legislation making it compulsory for all political parties having, or seeking to have, representation in this House, to publish...
asked the Attorney-General if he proposes to make any alteration in the law to enable a British citizen, whose wife is detained in a foreign country, to obtain a divorce.
asked the Attorney-General whether in the interest of protecting children in matrimonial cases, he will consider immediate legislation for the appointment of court welfare officers as recommended...
asked the Minister of Works on what grounds licences Nos. 0/12/46/11721, 0/12/11721/1 and 0/12/11721/2 in respect of the building of a snack bar, café and dining hall were granted; and why...
asked the Minister of Works why he has decided to depart from the report of the Select Committee on the rebuilding of the House of Commons, which was approved by the House without a Division, in...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any statement to make about the capture of Deir-Yassin by Jews last Friday and the reports of a widespread...
Considered in Committee [Progress, 8th 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.
3.44 P.m.
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 69.—(King's Recommendation signified.)
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Snow.]
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