Tuesday, 9 November 1948
The House met at Half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
For the Burgh of Glasgow (Hillhead Division), in the room of the right honourable James Scott Cumberland Reid, K.C. (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary)—[Sir Arthur Young.]
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has considered the suggestion made to him by the hon. Member for Cambridge that he should take special measures to call the attention of the war disabled...
asked the Minister of Pensions if he will make any statement as to how far research into design and performance of artificial limbs and appliances and improvements in the limb-fitting services...
asked the Minister of Pensions if he will review the allowances paid to war widows in respect of children.
asked the Minister of Pensions how long a disability pension is payable to a pensioner who has suffered from a tropical disease after medical examination has shown a negative test for the disease.
asked the Minister of Pensions if he will state the number of final awards reviewed and increased up to 1945 and for each year since.
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is satisfied that the operative date of 1st July, 1945, fixed in respect of special hardship allowances to partially disabled pensioners of the...
asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that National Service men serving at home or in Europe who volunteer to join the Regular Army are in many cases immediately posted away from...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been drawn to the lack of heating and of clothes drying facilities at a section of the Army Barracks at Shorncliffe Camp used for...
asked the Secretary of State for War why a retired officer has been given the appointment of Chief of the Imperial General Staff; and whether no serving officer could be found with adequate...
asked the Secretary of State for War what was the world profit made by N.A.A.F.I. in the last full year's trading; what was the profit at home, in Germany, Austria, the Mediterranean and the Far...
asked the Secretary of State for War the number of officers' commissions granted during 1947 to ex-university students and those who have public school education qualifications; and the number...
asked the Secretary of State for War how many cadets at Sandhurst have bought themselves out of the Army in recent months.
asked the Secretary of State for War the number of Regular officers who have asked and have been given permission to resign their commissions since 1945; and how many belonging to each rank.
asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that, with respect to the Peronne Lines County Modern School, Catterick Camp, transferred from the War Department to the North Riding local...
asked the Secretary of State for War if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the questionnaire on the subject of Territorial Army recruiting which he sent to all Members of Parliament under...
asked the Secretary of State for War how many firms are refusing leave with pay to soldiers in the Territorial Army for their annual training; and what action he is taking in such cases.
asked the Secretary of State for War what other terms of reference were embodied in the instructions of the medical officers who visited the German Field-Marshals in January beyond the question...
Mr. E. P. Smith: asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning why his Department in Ashford, Kent, is advising farmers who are erecting cowsheds to paint them pink.
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning what changes are intended in the Abercrombie Plan relating to High Wycombe; and when it is intended to proceed with the plans indicated for the...
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning when he expects to be able to announce his decision concerning the future of Fylingdale Moor.
Lieut.-Commander Clark Hutchison: asked the Minister of National Insurance if he will arrange for the payment of retirement pensions at the rate of 16s. per week to married women who have...
asked the Minister of National Insurance if he will arrange for regulations, pamphlets, leaflets, explanatory memoranda, etc., about the National Insurance schemes to be printed on paper of one...
asked the Minister of National Insurance when he received the Report of the Departmental Committee on Industrial Diseases; and what action he proposes to take on it.
asked the Minister of National Insurance if he will state, to the nearest convenient date, the total number in receipt of old age pensions; the total amounts received; and the same figures for...
asked the Minister of National Insurance (1) why disability pension drawn in respect of an unemployed man's dependants is deducted from unemployment benefit; (2) why Mr. Broadbent, 5, Palace...
asked the Minister of Labour whether in view of the assurances given by officers of his Department to a young man, particulars of whom have been sent to him, that service with the Merchant Navy...
asked the Minister of Labour if he can make any statement about the negotiations between the two sides of the baking industry for the abolition of night baking.
asked the Prime Minister if he is aware of the disparity in wages and salaries now received by employees in the nationalised industries as compared with the remuneration received when these...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, in addition to the F.B.I. and the T.U.C., he will consider appointing the Institution of Production Engineers to act in an advisory capacity in...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the value of British firms and property that have been expropriated, or scheduled for expropriation by the Burmese Government.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer for what reason His Majesty's Government have made a grant of £2,000,000 of hard currencies to the Burmese Government.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations have been made to the Italian Government urging them to fulfil the terms of the Anglo-Italian Financial Agreement.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that whereas residents in the Birmingham area can make deposits of £2,000 at 2¾ per cent. in the Birmingham Municipal Bank,...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he intends to continue the voluntary limitation on advertising expenditure after the expiration of the period originally fixed.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will give particulars of loans made by this country to other countries since the outbreak of war in 1939 up to the present date with particulars...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why, in the case of Mr. G. G. W. Farquharson, of 196, Great Portland Street, W.1, particulars of whose case he has been given, the magistrate trying the case...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to the poster issued by the Central Office of Information displayed at the "Raising the Standard Exhibition" staged at...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state to the last convenient date the approximate total amount of post-war Income Tax credits due to taxpayers; what total amounts would be paid;...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is now in a position to say what permission is required for the transmission of funds by a British trade union to persons overseas; whether he is aware...
asked the Economic Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware that the issue of maps depicting the war achievements of the English counties has been interrupted and the production of the Berkshire...
asked the Economic Secretary to the Treasury on what basis are Inland Revenue Forms. P. 45 and P. 46, issued to employers.
asked the Economic Secretary to the Treasury why approximately 350 R.A.F. Service men, who arrived at Liverpool on 4th April on the m.v. "Devonshire" from Japan, did not receive normal...
asked the Economic Secretary to the Treasury the amount received from overseas in interest, profit and dividends, after deducting amounts paid out in the year 1947; and the nett figure for 1948...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that, 12 days after officials of his Department had informed representatives of the clothing industry that British clothes were to be...
Colonel Hutchison: asked the President of the Board of Trade what is the amount of the grant to be paid to the Lanarkshire County Council for the removal of the bing at Bellshill by hand.
Mr. H. D. Hughes: asked the President of the Board of Trade when he will be in a position to announce the establishment and membership of the Commission of Inquiry into the distribution and...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what recent purchases of pedigree livestock have been made here by the Soviet Government.
asked the President of the Board of Trade when he proposes to take action against persons or firms who are selling in the home market lace which should be exported.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what are the circumstances and procedure under which expectant mothers who drew 70 clothing coupons on this account before 9th August, may draw an...
asked the President of the Board of Trade when the two factories at Crook, Co. Durham, will be ready for occupation; if he is aware that the garments produced by Ramar's Dresses Ltd. are of a...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what proportion of waste paper is estimated to be available as salvage; what is the value of the lost proportion in dollars; and what steps are being...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the inadequacy of the present arrangements for the sale of goods to tourists free of Purchase Tax, he will take steps to encourage...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps he is proposing to take in connection with the memorandum sent to him by the Engineering Industries Association on Price Control.
It may be convenient for me to inform the House in advance of the usual Business statement, which will be made on Thursday, that it is the Government's intention to move the Second Reading of the...
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee. (King's Recommendation signified.)
Resolved: That the Order made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, extending Section 1 of the Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932, to the Urban District of Chigwell, a copy of which...
8.55 p.m.
9.52 p.m.
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