Thursday, 4 November 1948
The House met at Half-past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
I beg to present a Petition from Peter Frederick Carter-Ruck partner in the firm of Oswald Hickson Collier and Co., Solicitors for the Defendants in an action entered for trial in the King's...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many local authorities have appointed children's officers; and how many have followed the recommendation of the Curtis Committee and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has now decided to modify the rule of the Prison Commissioners that prisoners' notebooks, other than those used for educational...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the classes of servants of the Crown abroad to be enfranchised in accordance with...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent he has stopped the demolition of shelters from air attack.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the loss of earnings to this country involved in his decision to refuse to grant a licence for the importation of certain...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now say why permission was given for Erwin Scholz, a one-time member of the Nazi Party and German ex-prisoner of war, to be in the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that persons are engaged in the production in Britain of Fascist propaganda designed for distribution in Germany, contrary to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the variation in sentences by magistrates for similar blackmarket offences; and if he will issue a...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that Mr. Warren Austin, a diplomat, when speaking at a recent non-party meeting in support of the United Nations organisation...
Mrs. Braddock: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has yet received any interim report from the Oaksey Commitee on Police Pay and Conditions; and whether he can yet...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider the establishment of a special section of the police force for traffic control duties only, and the enlistment into it of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many regular officers in the National Fire Service failed to find officer posts with the new fire authorities; how many left the Fire...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent there has been any decrease in juvenile crime in the city of Manchester since the education committee has taken control of more...
asked the Minister of Health why he will not consider making a firm allocation of the sum of £4,500 towards the sewage disposal scheme for the parishes of Hensington Without and Wootton,...
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that recent statistics reveal the number of blind persons in Wales to be 219 per 100,000 of the population; that this is a higher proportion than for...
asked the Minister of Health why it has been decided that new entrants to the general practice of medicine are not to receive the basic salary as of right.
Lieut.-Commander Clark Hutchison: asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the fact that the standard Medresco Hearing Aid supplied under the National Health Service does not suit all...
asked the Minister of Health under what particular arrangement it is possible for foreign seamen to obtain free sets of teeth and glasses under the National Health Scheme; and what the...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that regional hospital boards are unable to pay for the treatment of tuberculous cases in Switzerland as was previously the practice of some...
asked the Minister of Health how many people have applied for free dental treatment since the setting up of the National Health Service.
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that Mr. E. Bowen, of Altham Cottage, Knockholt, who has had both legs amputated, is still awaiting information as to his future treatment and the...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Press is not now admitted to meetings of the local hospital committees west of Bristol or in Cornwall; and, in view of the fact that...
asked the Minister of Health what is the address of the Dental Estimates Board; what are the names of its members, their annual salaries, the number of the staff there employed and the annual...
asked the Minister of Health why Mr. Tierney, Gladstone Street, Glossop, who seeks employment as an optician under the National Health Scheme was told in a letter dated 15th September to apply to...
asked the Minister of Health how many doctors and dentists and what percentage of the population have joined the Health Service.
asked the Minister of Health what arrangements exist for supplying motor cars to district nurses.
asked the Minister of Health when he proposes to issue the regulations under Section 15 (i) and (ii) of the Local Government Act, 1948, for determining, in connection with the calculation of...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the maximum subsistence allowances permitted by Local Government (Members' Allowances) Regulations, 1948, compare unfavourably with those of...
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that of 20 houses sanctioned to be erected at Feniscowles, only six have been completed; that the biggest hold-up is due to the shortage of plasterers;...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the anxiety of all those affected by the proposal to make a large reservoir in the Enborne Valley, he will publish the bore-hole findings relating...
asked the Prime Minister (1) for what periods Home Office records and papers relating to Scotland are still retained in England; and for what purpose; (2) why papers and records relating to the...
asked the Prime Minister if the request by the Responsible Government League of Newfoundland that their memorial should be submitted to the Prime Ministers' Conference was granted; and what reply...
asked the Lord President of the Council what research is being undertaken on the disease of disseminated sclerosis; at which hospitals such research is being carried out; and how far Government...
asked the Minister of Labour how many persons have been directed to work under the Control of Engagement Order, 1947; and how many places have been filled by local employment offices since the...
asked the Minister of Labour what steps he took to publish his decision to permit coal miners to leave the industry within three months of entrance; when, and in what form, this decision was...
May I ask the Leader of the House if he will state the Business for next week?
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Motion made, and Question proposed That the Seed Potatoes (Export) (Charges) Order, 1948 (S.I., 1948, No. 1994), dated 31st August, 1948, a copy of which was delivered to the Votes and...
Select Committee appointed to whom shall be referred all Petitions presented to the House, with the exception of such as are deposited in the Committee and Private Bill Office, such Committee to...
Select Committee appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in arrangements for the reporting and publishing of Debates and in regard to the form and distribution of the Notice Papers issued in connection...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. J. Henderson.]
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