Thursday, 27 October 1949
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Minister of Education if he is satisfied that the education authorities are taking all practicable steps to ensure the attendance of gipsy children at schools.
asked the Minister of Education how many times the instruction film entitled, "How Life is Carried On," has been shown to children in schools under his jurisdiction and by whose permission; and...
asked the Minister of Education what steps he has taken to ensure that educational institutions in receipt of grants from his Department do not make particular political opinions either a...
asked the Minister of Education whether he is aware of the conditions at the Bradwell village school, near Great Yarmouth, particularly in regard to sanitation and water supply; what...
Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas: asked the Minister of Education how many marks were required in the last examination for grammar school places in Shropshire for pupils to gain entry at each school...
asked the Minister of Education in view of the statutory obligation to provide county colleges within three years of the raising of the school-leaving age, how many county colleges will be...
asked the Minister of Education how many nursery school places have been provided during 1949, and how many are expected to be provided during 1950.
asked the Minister of Education if he will make a statement on the arrangement which has been concluded with economic co-operation administration to send 50 British scientists and technologists...
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what reply he has received from the Republic of Ireland to the representations made by him against the traffic in rationed food parcels...
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what representations he has received from the South African Government regarding the possible incorporation of the High Commission...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what provisions he is making with local authorities for the collection of salvage; and why such collection has ceased in some parts of the country.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a list giving details of the specific instances brought to the notice of his Department alleging that the countries of Eastern Europe...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that foreign imports of mats and baskets are having an adverse effect upon employment in workshops for the blind in Wales, and...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if his Department takes action to ensure that timber merchants and fellers leave woodlands in a satisfactory condition after the conclusion of operations...
asked the President of the Board of Trade why no major textile display is to be arranged for the British Industries Fair for 1950.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is now in a position to announce the end of the hosiery control.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if it is now possible to make an announcement of the date on which deferred business scheme claims under the War Damage Act will be paid.
asked the President of the Board of Trade the circumstances in which books published in Eire are being prohibited from import into Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
asked the President of the Board of Trade how many excavators under one yard capacity have been imported from the United States of America and Canada, respectively, during the last 12 months.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what number of replies, in terms of percentage of the total sent out, has been received to the questionnaires on the Census of Production; and what...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that there is a considerable demand for jute cloth in the United States of America; that Dundee firms are anxious to meet this need, but...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how long Mr. Seyoum Berhane, aged 22, was detained in Brixton Prison following his escape from the Russian zone of Germany.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, under the powers given him by the Criminal Justice Act, 1948, he will take steps to mitigate the sentence passed on Charles Arthur...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of assault have been reported to the police alleged to have taken place during this year in the London Boroughs of Hackney,...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the time of the Metropolitan Police is taken up with road traffic work; and if he will introduce a system of road traffic...
Mrs. Braddock: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the important matters with which the second part of the Oaksey Committee's Report is concerned, when he expects...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes have been committed during the last 12 months involving violence or unlawful threats on the grounds of political persecution;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the recent thefts at Buckfast Abbey in South Devon and elsewhere by the girls of an approved school, he will tighten up...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he is aware that the children of the British Legion Village, near Maidstone, Kent, attending the Tea Pot Lane school, Aylesford, the...
asked the Prime Minister if he will consider the need for a special investigation by Royal Commission or Departmental Committee into the pre-production costs of raw materials and all overhead...
asked the Prime Minister what instructions he has issued to the Departments concerned to secure the immediate co-operation of the Federated British Industries and the Trade Union Congress and all...
asked the Lord President of the Council what has been the cost of advertising the 1951 Exhibition in the United States of America; and how much will be spent for this purpose during the next six...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he has now agreed with the representatives of farmers and the veterinary profession on a scheme for the establishment of clean areas where only attested...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he has fixed any date for the completion of the further farm survey which the county agricultural executive committees are undertaking.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware of the growing concern felt by the agricultural community over the amount of agricultural land which is being taken for the building of factories,...
May I ask the Leader of the House to tell us the Business for next week?
In answer to a supplementary question by my hon. Friend the Member for Reading (Mr. Mikardo) last Thursday, I told the House that my attention had been drawn to a letter signed John...
Proceedings of the Committee of Ways and Means and on the Motion relating to the Coal Industry (No. 2) Bill exempted at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings...
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Amendment to Question [26th October, 1949]: That this House approves the lines of action to deal with the present economic difficulties as outlined in...
Considered in Committee.
10.23 p.m.
Bill now standing committed to a Standing Committee, committed to a Committee of the Whole House.—[Mr. Whiteley.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Popplewell.]
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