Thursday, 15 July 1948
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read the Third time, and passed, with Amendments.
(King's Consent signified)
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
Considered; to be read the Third time Tomorrow.
asked the Minister of Education (1) if he is aware of the increasing number of private-house schools; whether his regulations make it necessary for any person setting up a school in a private...
asked the Minister of Education whether he is satisfied with the working of the scheme to admit boys nominated by local authorities to public schools.
asked the Minister of Education how many intending women teachers who applied for places in September of this year in training colleges and university departments had been unable to gain admission.
asked the Minister of Education how many local education authorities have included comprehensive secondary schools in their development plans; and what is likely to be in the future the number of...
asked the Minister of Education the number of local authorities in England and Wales who are giving maintenance allowances to secondary grammar school pupils; whether he is satisfied that there...
asked the Minister of Education what number of schools, given as a percentage, have good modern broadcast receivers and adequate broadcast receivers, respectively; what number have inadequate or...
asked the Minister of Education whether, in view of Circular 170, he will reconsider his decision not to count for pension purposes the services of an Essex headmaster at the Bishop Cotton...
asked the Minister of Education when he expects to start building the new county colleges; how many will there be; where situated; and what is the estimated total cost in building and equipping.
asked the Minister of Education what representations he has made to local education authorities in Wales concerning fees charged for the examination of pupils by the Central Welsh Board.
asked the Minister of Education what obligations he is under to the approximately 10,000 male teacher students whose training has been deferred; whether it is proposed to pay them compensation...
asked the Minister of Education if he will take steps to make school meals free, from the Autumn term.
asked the Minister of Education if he will state for the last recorded date the number of community centres; how many have been set up in the past 12 months; and what steps he is taking to...
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations whether he will represent to His Majesty's Government in Pakistan the importance of retaining the Union Jack Club, Karachi, for the use...
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations whether it is still the policy of His Majesty's Government not to surrender the Protectorates of Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the basis of distribution of the posters and plaques issued under the British Tourist and Holidays Board hygiene scheme, issued in...
Mr. Vane: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is satisfied that full publicity is given in U.S.A. to the fact that petrol is not available to tourists visiting this country...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that British trade with Portugal has been severely restricted as a consequence of the refusal to grant import licences for Portuguese...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will immediately replace the clothing coupons used by Mr. D. Sutherland of Walesby, Market Rasen, which owing to the delay of his Department had to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what is the total value of frustrated exports to the nearest available date.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the further talks envisaged in the Anglo-Soviet Agreement of 1947 have yet taken place; and if he will make a statement.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether clarification has yet been reached with the Administrator of the European Recovery Programme as to the possible effect on Anglo-Soviet trade of...
asked the President of the Board of Trade why he has disallowed the erection of further temporary shops on sites of demolished houses in the Plymouth area, although the Plymouth Corporation are...
Mr. Scott-Elliot: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will arrange for the value of imports and exports to be set out in the trade returns on a f.o.b. basis, thus presenting a...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what reply he proposes to send to the Lindsey Women's Institutes who are urging him to grant special supplementary coupons for stockings and household...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the shutting down of the Warner film studios at Teddington, and the discharge of 132 employees, many of whom had long experience...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he can make a statement on Business for next week?
The negotiations with the Government of India on the subject of the sterling balances were concluded last week and the texts of the letters exchanged between the two Governments are being...
Proceedings on Government Business exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House).—[Mr. H. Morrison.]
Lords Amendments considered.
Lords Amendments:
Lords Amendment, in page 1, line 9, leave out Clause 1, read a Second time.
Offences under law of England
Offences under law of Scotland
Lords Amendment: In page 3, line 4, at end, insert: with a cat o'nine tails.
Lords Amendment: In page 8, line 34, leave out from beginning to second "a" in line 36.
Lords Amendment: Page 11, line 19, at end, insert: (7) If a person in whose case a probation order or an order or conditional discharge has been made by a court of summary jurisdiction is...
Lords Amendment: In page 15, line 31, leave out Subsection (1).
Lords Amendment:
Lords Amendment: In page 18, line 33, leave out from "1859" to "or" in line 34.
Lords Amendment: In page 21, line 23, after "shall" insert "(except as provided by paragraph (c) of this proviso)."
Lords Amendment: In page 22, line 14, leave out from "offence" to end of line and insert "punishable with".
Lords Amendment: In page 27, line 43, to leave out "three" and insert "four."
Lords Amendment: In page 30, line 4, to leave out from "by" to "the" in line 5, and to insert "this section."
Lords Amendment: In page 32, line 9, at end, insert: or as authorising a court to deal summarily with any offence unless the proceedings were commenced within the period prescribed in that behalf...
Lords Amendment: In page 32, line 16, leave out Clause 28
Lords Amendment: In page 33, line 5, to leave out "practicable," and to insert "available."
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Lords Amendment: In page 34, line 32, at end, insert: (2) For the purpose of the last foregoing subsection the expression 'sentence' includes any order made on conviction by a court of summary...
Lords Amendment: In page 36, line 6, leave out from "aforesaid" to "has" in line 8.
Lords Amendment: In page 38, line 1, leave out Subsection (1) and insert: "(1) Where an appellant within the meaning of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, is admitted to bail under that Act, the time...
Lords Amendment: In page 39, line 23, leave out Subsection (4) and insert: (4) Where the fingerprints of any person have been taken in pursuance of an order made under this section, then if that...
Lords Amendment: In page 41, line 7, at beginning, insert: "Notwithstanding anything in Section two of the Criminal Evidence Act, 1898,"
Lords Amendment: In page 42, line 18, at end insert: (5) Where, in pursuance of a direction of the Court of Criminal Appeal under section (Power of Court of Criminal Appeal to order new trials)...
Lords Amendment: In page 44, line 9, leave out from "provide" to end of line 12 and insert: "(a) remand centres, that is to say places for the detention of persons not less than fourteen but...
Lords Amendment: In page 46, line 42, after "treatment" insert "employment."
Lords Amendment: In page 53, line 36, leave out Clause 58.
I beg to move, as a consequential Amendment, in page 63, line 38, to leave out Subsection (7). This Amendment is consequential on the omission of Clause 67. This subsection authorises any...
Lords Amendment: In page 66, to leave out line 15.
Lords Amendment: In page 86, line 25, column 2, at beginning insert: In section twelve, in subsection (5) for the second and third paragraphs there should be substituted the following...
Lords Amendment: In page 94, leave out lines 51 and 52.
Postponed Lords Amendment: In line 1, to leave out from "Act" to second "to," disagreed to.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Snow.]
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