Monday, 20 September 1948
The House met at Half-past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
For the Stirling and Falkirk District of Burghs, in the room of the Right Honourable Joseph Westwood, deceased.—[Mr. Whiteley.]
asked the Minister of Works whether it is on his instructions that officers of local authorities, to whom he has delegated powers, withhold licences for the complete rebuilding of war damaged...
asked the Minister of Works if he will now state the total cost of the work done at Richmond Park Camp; and the number of persons at present accommodated there.
asked the Minister of Works when the Committee appointed by him on 5th June, 1947, to keep under review the prices of building materials, will be making their recommendations.
asked the Minister of Works if he will give a date for the de-requisitioning of 48–51, Old Gloucester Street, as these premises are urgently required by Faraday House Electrical Engineering...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement concerning the detention by His Majesty's Government of certain German generals as prisoners-of-war for over three...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he proposes to continue the policy of the destruction of buildings in Germany capable of being used for production for peace time purposes or...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why food parcels sent to Baron von Neurath, imprisoned at Spandau, are withheld from him; and whether he will arrange both to extend the period of...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when he anticipates that a final and definitive plan for dismantling industry in Germany will have been agreed; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can give the total cost to the last convenient date of supplying food and fuel to Berlin by British aircraft; and how many tons of petrol...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has lodged any protest against the sentences of 25 years' imprisonment recently imposed by a Soviet Court upon three young Germans from...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what compensation has been paid for British assets nationalised in Yugoslavia.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of the international undertaking that war prisoners handed over on capture to Allied Powers would be given a fair trial, what steps he...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there is any change in the policy of His Majesty's Government towards Spain.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will consider approaching the Spanish Government on the subject of joint air defence in case of aggression by a third Power.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what information he has received from the British Mission about participation by Yugoslav soldiers in the fighting inside Greece.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what quantity of British-owned cargo destined from Britain to Palestine has been detained in Egypt by the Egyptian authorities; and how much has...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps he has taken in recent months to further the chances of peace with Japan; whether he will take the opportunity of the presence in...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when the Japanese threat during the recent war to murder allied prisoners if Allied Forces attempted to land in Japan was conveyed to the Allied...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what consultations His Majesty's Government have had with the Government of the U.S.A. in regard to the recognition by both Governments of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what reply he has sent to the Arab League's proposal to set up an Arab State in Palestine.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government has now recognised the new Southern Korean Government; and whether he has any statement to make regarding the...
Mr. E. P. Smith: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the sentence of five years' rigorous imprisonment passed upon Captain David Vivian in...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any further information about compensation payable to British individuals for property lost or destroyed in Burma in 1942.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what reply he has given to the Government of Iran's claim that the Bahrein Islands are Iranian territory.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether compensation has been arranged for by the Chinese Government in respect of recent damage to British property in Canton.
asked the Prime Minister what steps he is taking to implement the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee, contained in their reports issued since 30th July.
asked the Prime Minister if he will set up a Commission on the lines of that which inquired into the Canadian spy activities appointed in Ottawa under Order in Council of 5th February, 1946, and...
asked the Prime Minister if he will issue instructions that in cases where more than one Department is concerned with a derequisitioning situation, one Department be given power to make a final...
asked the Prime Minister to which Minister should Questions relating to Eire now be addressed, in view of its recent change in status.
asked the Lord President of the Council what is the salary and allowances paid to Mr. Gerald Barry as Director-General of the Festival of Britain; and from what date these are payable.
asked the Lord President of the Council whether his attention has been drawn to the announcement by the Film Controller for the Central Office of Information that it is proposed to make six...
asked the Attorney-General when he expects to receive the report of the Committee on the Law of Libel.
asked the Attorney-General whether he is aware that the Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace recently reported that it was in the public interest to maintain the Lord Chancellor's practice...
asked the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries what steps he is taking to re-stock the pre-war oyster beds round our coasts; and to what extent are oysters being exported to hard currency countries.
asked the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries whether he will make a statement as to the causes of the deaths of large numbers of fish in the Hogsmill river during August.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if in view of the lack of work for harvest volunteers in some counties, he will review the need for as many camps next year; and if he will state the cost of...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will give the figures for the number of deer killed in Somerset for each of the years 1938 to 1947, showing how many were killed by hunting them to...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that considerable quantities of seed of the dangerous weed Brassica Juncea, which had never previously been found in Great Britain, were...
asked the Minister of Agriculture how many ex-Service men have attended, and are attending, the Kent Farm Institute, Sittingbourne; how many of these have found employment in agricultural...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he has investigated the results achieved by the livestock panel set up by the Somerset Agricultural Executive Committee and if he will take steps to encourage...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether in view of the numerous cases of delay of many months in making settlements in connection with the grant for water supply schemes to...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware of public concern regarding suffering of horses in transit to slaughter houses, namely, lack of food and water for long periods; and what steps...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that shortage of some components is causing long delays in erection of M.A.F. buildings in the South-West; and if he will take steps to effect an...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is satisfied that there is sufficient labour in Norfolk to lift the potato or sugar-beet crops in time to prevent losses by adverse weather conditions...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, approximately how many new combine harvesters will become available to the British agricultural industry in time for the harvest of 1949; and how many of...
asked the Minister of Agriculture why the National Advisory Service is to take over the duties of crop reporters as from 1st April, 1949; and what grounds he has for assuming that the accuracy of...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what reports he has received from the Joint Advisory Committee on Further Agricultural Education under the Chairmanship of Dr. Thomas Loveday; and if he intends...
asked the Minister of Agriculture why the notice to quit The Parks Farm, Bitterley, in Shropshire, served on Miss Errington was upheld without a period of supervision; why the district committee...
asked the Minister of Agriculture how many farmers were eligible to apply for the pig and poultry rations offered to them during last August; and how many had in fact availed themselves of this offer.
I feel sure that the whole House will join in deploring the callous and the seemingly purposeless assassination of Count Bernadotte, who devoted his whole life to the cause of peace and...
Order for Second Reading read.
10.12 p.m.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Collindridge.]
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