Wednesday, 6 July 1949
The House met at Half-past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why the "Neue Volkszeitung" newspaper has been banned for six weeks by the British authorities; and whether he is aware that the ban adversely...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will consider adapting the August Thyssen Works, near Duisberg, which are scheduled for dismantling for the production of prefabricated...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in accordance with paragraph (d) of Article 5 of the Bizonal Fusion Agreement of 17th December, 1947, the British voting strength is...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will publish as a White Paper the decisions arrived at at the Teheran Conference regarding the partition of Poland and the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) why the British Minister of State to the Sudanese Government has refused to permit the Egyptian Red Crescent and similiar Egyptian relief...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make urgent representations to the Italian Government to secure the exemption from death duties of the property in Italy of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make representations to the Government of Israel, with a view to hastening the reopening of the oil refineries at Haifa.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what consultations he has had with the Governments of Egypt and Transjordan regarding their proposals to establish a land link across the Negev.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what progress is being made with the settlement of claims of Indian Army officers stationed in Burma at the time of the Japanese invasion.
Mr. Wilson Harris: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps he is taking to appoint a new editor of the publication "British Ally."
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in what particulars the application form for a passport by British subjects who have been born in the Irish Republic has been amended.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why the British delegation at the International Red Cross Conference at Geneva opposed the proposal that concentrated bombing of centres of...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any statement to make regarding His Majesty's Government's policy for the disposal of Tripolitania, and, in particular, whether...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what complaints he has received from the Czechoslovak Government in connection with their request for Mr. Godfrey Lias, "The Times" correspondent,...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what action he proposes to take on the American representations made to him to allow emigration from overcrowded Japan to British Colonies in...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what reports he has received of unrest among any of the native peoples of Africa, consequent upon the passing of the Citizenship Act by the South...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what representatives of commerce and industry were invited to the official opening of the Colonial Month.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if the statement that the interests of the United Kingdom and the Colonies are best served by a flourishing and free international market, given on...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is aware of the rejection, by the United States authorities, of the claim by employees at the air base, Atkinson Field, British Guiana, for...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the Kenya Land Control Board have interfered with a free sale of land by Mr. M. B. Tennent of Kupkegora Farm, Kenya, to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many of the 6,000 Europeans entering Kenya for the first time in 1948 have acquired land.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can now make a statement on reforms arising from the recommendations of the African Labour Efficiency Survey carried out in Nairobi.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) what developments have taken place in Mauritius in regard to providing houses for the labourers; and whether the desirability of building these...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds Sir Charles Arden Clarke is being recalled from his appointment in Sarawak and posted to the Gold Coast before the expiry of the...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what were the strengths of the various sections of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces of the Royal Navy as on 1st January, 1938.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty who is responsible for official music in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
asked the Postmaster-General why a letter posted in Birmingham on 27th May, 1949, by Coronet Limited, addressed to R. S. Cappell, c/o Hotel Francia, Paris, was opened by his officers.
asked the Postmaster-General when television services will be provided in the East Midlands area.
asked the Postmaster-General why, by Circular C.68/49, dated 3rd May, 1949, he has instructed his officers to refuse to give a reasoned reply to representations made by associations of postal...
asked the Postmaster-General what is now the average period spent by surface mail between the United Kingdom and Cyprus.
Mr. Baker White: asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that at 12.15 p.m. on 16th May two plainclothes Post Office officials called at 45, Linden Avenue, Herne Bay, the residence of Miss...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that sub-postmasters, especially in small sub-offices, receive an inadequate remuneration; and what action he proposes to take.
asked the Postmaster-General if he is yet in a position to say when Eastcote will get a Crown Post Office.
asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that the delivery of parcel post in Saltash, Cornwall, is not until 11 a.m.; that if these parcels are collected by the recipients themselves before...
asked the Postmaster-General how many new telephone kiosks are to be provided in the next year throughout the country; and what proportion of these has been allocated to Bedfordshire.
asked the Postmaster-General if he will give higher priority than at present for the installation of telephones to farmers and others engaged in the production of food.
asked the Minister of Food whether he will now make a further statement about supplies of chocolates and sweets.
asked the Minister of Food if the conclusion of the Anglo-Argentine Pact will enable him to increase the weekly meat ration; when, and to what figure.
asked the Minister of Food what is the total of the subsidy on the sugar allocated to sweet manufacture; and what this subsidy represents in the cost of one lb. of sweets.
asked the Minister of Food whether he is taking up all the canned meat available from Australian suppliers.
asked the Minister of of Food what proportion of eggs is allocated to the ordinary consumer; what proportion to restaurants, hotels and other eating places; and if he will give an estimate of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Air how many officers' and other ranks' married quarters were scheduled for completion during 1949, up to the present date; and how many have been made ready for use.
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will arrange for an issue of light raincoats for summer wear for the Air Force.
asked the Secretary of State for Air if he is satisfied with the way in which officers undergoing their annual training in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve receive their pay and allowances;...
asked the Secretary of State for Air how often medical supplies are delivered to No. 16 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force; and if he will investigate the causes of delays in the medical treatment...
asked the Secretary of State for Air what were the strengths of the various sections of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces of the Royal Air Force as on 1st January, 1938.
asked the Secretary of State for Air if he will take steps to speed up the disposal of books which are unwanted by the Royal Air Force and urgently needed by public libraries.
asked the Secretary of State for Air if he has considered the representations made to him by the parish council of Horsham and Newton St. Faiths, Norfolk, concerning recent aerial activity over...
asked the Secretary of State for Air what regulations at present exist to limit or control the flying of aircraft at low altitudes and the performing of aerobatics over built-up areas.
The usual quarterly statement on the balance of payments and its effect on our reserves of gold and dollars is now due and the figures are being published today. For reasons of which the House...
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I want to make the following statement to the House. The situation at the London Docks has not improved. Accordingly, the Government have decided that in order...
"to indemnify John Burns Hynd, Esquire, John James Robertson, Esquire, and Albert Evans, Esquire, from any penal consequences which they may have incurred under the Succession to the Crown Act,...
Proceedings in Committee on Housing (Scotland) [Money] (No. 2) exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House).—[Mr. H. Morrison.]
Order read for consideration, as amended.
Any licence taken out under the Dog Licences Act, 1867, after the beginning of the year nineteen hundred and fifty, shall be in force from the time it is taken out until the expiration of the...
(1) As respects payments for admission to entertainments held on or after the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, Part II of the Fifth Schedule to the Finance Act, 1943...
(1) Entertainments duty within the meaning of section one of the Finance (New Duties) Act, 1916, shall not be charged on payments for admission to any entertainment which is held on or after the...
Where any person carrying on any trade profession or business (not being a company or corporation) or the whole of the partners in any partnership firm carrying on any trade profession or...
Subsection two of section twenty-seven of the Finance Act, 1946, shall have effect as if there were added the words "or is payable to a wife by way of old age pension by virtue of her own...
Subsection (2) of section fifteen of the Finance Act, 1925 (which, as amended by subsequent enactment, provides in a case where an individual or his wife has attained the age of sixty-five years...
Subsection (1) of section eight of the Finance Act, 1936, which enables the Treasury by licence to authorise the duty-free importation of goods for purposes connected with science, art or sport,...
Section eleven of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1885 (which imposes a duty on the property of certain bodies corporate or unincorporate subject to the exemptions specified therein), shall...
If an individual who receives a demand for arrears of income tax in respect of any years prior to the financial year commencing on the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-five, proves...
In paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section fifty-two of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1945, after the words "dividend shall," there shall be inserted the words "except in the case of a dividend on...
At end of subsection (2) of section twenty-seven of the Income Tax Act, 1945, insert— Provided that where the undertaking consists mainly in the mining of tin, tungsten or lead, the person...
Where any property passing on a death in respect of which estate duty is payable is situate outside the United Kingdom and by reason of any restrictions imposed upon the transfer of money or...
Resolved: That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that, on the ratification by His Majesty the King of Sweden of the Convention set out in the Schedule to the Draft of an...
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 84.—[King's Recommendation signified.]
Resolved: "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Popplewell.]
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