Tuesday, 28 June 1949
The House met at Half-past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Mr. Vane: I beg to present a Petition signed by more than 8,000 persons resident in or near Windermere and Ambleside who are distressed at the decision to dismantle the war-time aircraft factory...
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning to what extent he has been consulted about proposals for large scale hydroelectric development in North Wales; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning on what grounds he has decided to uphold the findings of the inquiry set up to consider the dispute between Messrs. John Barkers and the London...
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning whether it is his Department's intention to utilise the proposed new town at Mobberley as a dormitory for Manchester.
Mr. Baker White: asked the Minister of National Insurance what future arrangements are proposed for maintaining offices of his Department in Whitstable and Herne Bay.
asked the Minister of National Insurance if he is aware that a married woman with four children applied for national assistance on the 18th June, 1949, as she was left with no money to buy food...
asked the Minister of National Insurance what total amount of relief has been paid to the families of unofficial strikers since the beginning of the year; and what are the scales of relief in...
asked the Minister of National Insurance if the amendment to the regulations to enable the retirement pension a woman may receive when her husband reaches the age of 70 or on his earlier death...
asked the Minister of National Insurance how many employees of the former approved societies, who are now employed by his Department, have been required, or will during the next twelve months be...
asked the Minister of National Insurance whether he has now reached a decision as to the entitlement to sickness benefit under the National Insurance Act of workmen who met with accidents and...
asked the Minister of National Insurance why the advice of the National Insurance Advisory Committee is required to prove that 5s. per week is insufficient to meet the needs of tubercular and...
asked the Minister of Labour by how many points has the cost-of-living index risen since it was decided to grant unemployment benefit to the extent of 26s. per week.
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will now state when the new factory for disabled men will be started in Newport; how long it will take to complete; and what type of work it is proposed to...
asked the Minister of Labour why training centres are not permitted to supply to prospective employers any reference as to character and ability of ex-Service trainees.
asked the Minister of Labour from what sources he obtained his information and what inquiries he made as to the docks dispute.
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Labour whether he will now consider amending the Control of Engagement Order so as to permit of agricultural workers being free to choose their own...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland which county has had the most houses built during 1945–49; which county has had least built; and what is the reason for the disparity.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many applications have been received for spectacles; how many have been supplied; and at what date may all applicants expect to have their needs met.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he intends to introduce legislation this session to facilitate the reciprocal enforcement of orders for aliment and maintenance in Scotland and England.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has yet received the report of the inquiry into the proposed closing of Loch Goil; and when its findings will be announced.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware that another child has recently been killed between Wellshot Road and Chester Street, Shettleston, Glasgow, by a Scottish Motor Traction...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Scotland are awaiting hospital treatment.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of nurses, trained, and undergoing training in Scotland for the years 1947, 1948 and 1949 respectively.
asked the Minister of Pensions whether it is his practice in claims for disability pensions for diabetes where it cannot be proved conclusively that war service did not cause or aggravate the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been drawn to the speech made by Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery at Whittington Barracks, near Lichfield, on 12th June in the course...
asked the Secretary of State for War, if he has considered details which have been sent to him concerning the conditions under which officers' wives live in the Near East; what immediate steps he...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that lawyers defending Field-Marshal Manstein applied to him by letter of 10th June for documents now in the United States of America for...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will arrange that medals for gallantry, especially those awarded to foreign nationals, shall not be sent to the recipients by post but be presented...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proposals he has received from the Marshall Aid authorities to the effect that sterling should be devalued.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why some of the delegates to the International Dairy Congress in Sweden who are not members of the staff of either the Ministry of Agriculture or the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many pound notes and ten shilling notes are now in circulation; and what is the amount of gold in the Bank of England.
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. WILLIAM TEELING:
(by Private Notice) asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has any statement to make about his recent discussions in Brussels and the forthcoming meeting of the Commonwealth Finance...
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Labour if he will make a statement about the unofficial strike in the Port of London involving over 2,000 men.
Mrs. Braddock: I rise with your permission, Sir, to make a short personal statement. It will be within your recollection, Sir, when certain newspaper reports were brought to your notice about...
Considered in Committee. [Progress, 27th June.]
Subsection (1) of section twenty-two of the Finance Act, 1920 (which, as amended by subsequent enactments, provides that where a claimant maintains an infirm or aged relative or widowed mother of...
Subsection (2) of section three of the Finance Act, 1920, shall have effect as if for the words "nineteen hundred and twenty," "nineteen hundred and forty-nine" were substituted, and as if for...
(1) In section twenty-five of the Income Tax Act, 1945 (which defines the expenditure on which allowances may be given under Part III of that Act) sub-paragraphs (vi) and (vii) to the proviso to...
(1) In order to extend the provisions of the law relating to relief in respect of Dominion income tax so as to grant similar relief in respect of foreign income tax, the following enactments...
If an individual proves that he has living at the commencement of the year of assessment any child who is receiving full time instruction at an independent school recognised by the Board of...
Section forty-two of the Finance Act, 1948, shall have effect as if the words "Commissioners of Inland Revenue," were substituted for the word "surveyor," wherever it...
Section thirty-three of the Finance Act, 1947, shall have effect as if there were substituted for the words "two thousand pounds," the words "three thousand pounds," and for the words "twelve...
Where in pursuance of any enactment passed after the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six, any securities are issued to any body corporate as or as part of the consideration for the...
Subsection (2) of section thirty of the Finance Act, 1947, as amended by section seven of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1947, shall be amended by the omission of the word "fifteen" and the insertion...
Section thirty-four of the Income Tax Act, 1918, shall be amended by the addition to subsection (1) of the following words: Provided that if the aggregate amount of his income for the year of...
Sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 13 of the Fourth Schedule to the Finance Act, 1937, as amended by paragraph 2 of Part III of the Eighth Schedule to the Finance Act, 1947 (which defines the...
Paragraph (a) of Rule 3 of the Rules applicable to Cases I and II of Schedule D, Income Tax Act, 1918, shall be amended by the addition of the following words: Provided that the expenditure...
Reference to machinery in section ten of the Finance Act, 1932 (which enables the Treasury by licence to authorise the duty-free importation of machinery), shall be deemed to include references...
(1) Where on or after the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, a person carrying on a trade incurs capital expenditure on the provision of buildings, machinery or plant for the...
If an individual who receives a demand for arrears of income tax in respect of any year prior to the financial year commencing on the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-five, proves...
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, capital expenditure incurred by any person in connection with the working of a mine, oil well or other source of mineral deposits of a wasting...
Mr. Selwyn Lloyd.
I beg to move, in page 61, line 34, at the end, to insert: and no other instrument shall be chargeable with duty under the heading Agreement or any Memorandum of an Agreement as being an...
I beg to move, in page 71, line 17, column 3, to leave out from "behalf" to the end of line 20. Perhaps I may also refer to the two following Amendments on the Paper. The Committee will remember...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. R. J. Taylor.]
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