Thursday, 8 December 1949
The House met at Half past Two o' Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Minister of Education if in 1951 there will be a second examination for the general certificate of education in December, to enable candidates to sit for it who will be under 16 years...
asked the Minister of Education what Government organisations distribute films for use in schools; what is the amount of the grant towards providing films for schools; and what means exist of...
asked the Minister of Education if agreement has now been reached about the future use of Horton Lodge, Rudyard, Leek, as a special school for delicate children.
asked the Minister of Education how many special boarding schools for handicapped pupils, and homes, hostels and training centres for them after leaving these schools have been opened in the last...
asked the Minister of Education whether grants can be extended a further six months for ex-Service medical students who have qualified, and whose grants stop on qualifying, in order to enable...
asked the Minister of Education having regard to variations which occur from year to year in a particular area, how far it is in accordance with his policy that some places in a secondary school...
Mr. Platte-Mills: asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that men's shoes are now being made with a six iron shoulder outer sole, a board insole and heels of compressed board...
asked the President of the Board of Trade the volume of cotton textile exports, on the latest available date, expressed as a percentage of the 1937 volume.
asked the President of the Board of Trade in view of the not excessive quantity of newsprint involved, if he will now allow newspapers and periodicals to display placards again.
asked the President of the Board of Trade how many chip basket manufacturers are actually manufacturing chip baskets in the area west of a line drawn from Bristol to Bournemouth.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether it is now the intention of His Majesty's Government further to identify and publicise individual firms who have successfully responded to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will now consider sending an economic and trade mission to China forthwith to investigate trade prospects with that country.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will take steps to improve the supply of men's corduroy trousers and drill shirts in the slate-quarrying areas of Caernarvonshire.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on the programme for home timber production in 1950.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the nuisance caused to persons living within one or two miles of the Five Ash Down flax factory by the smell of the retting; and...
asked the President of the Board of Trade why, by S.I., 1949, No. 1934, he has exempted from price control sales of sulphuric acid to Government Departments.
asked the President of the Board of Trade how many individual firms have asked for advice in raising productivity, from the Production Efficiency Service of the Board of Trade, in the years 1946,...
Mr. Folick: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the inevitability of a General Election in the earlier part of next year, if he will fix the starting date for...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the shortage in the establishment of the Metropolitan Police and the strain upon their members owing to the serious increase...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of enrolments since Civil Defence recruiting was opened.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions for cruelty to children there have been in the last six or twelve months for which figures are available; and how these...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, having regard to the considerable number of people whose names appear on voting registers in two or more constituencies, and in the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department into what category of persons, specified in Form R.P.F. 9, do Members of this House fall in respect of their applications for a postal vote at...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that only those Colonial civil servants who are paid out of money provided wholly by Parliament are eligible to vote in an...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a further statement as to how the total number of electors, excluding Service voters, on the new registers compares with the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the fact that, since the screen on the left-hand side of the driver in a taxi is a fixture, the driver is in danger of being...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give consideration to the extension of the conditions of anonymity obtaining in matters of juvenile delinquency to all other trials...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the extent to which the Women's Voluntary Services are subsidised by public funds; and whether a balance sheet and accounts are available.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department under what conditions a group of Soviet miners was recently admitted into this country.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to assist rural parishes financially in cases where the cost of parish council elections absorbs most of the parish's...
Colonel Dower: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what decision he has now reached on the possibility of allowing non-medical persons to administer morphia, under appropriate...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce an amendment of the law so as to ensure that, when an adopted child dies before the age of 21 years, any savings placed...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that proposals are under consideration to hand over to the Oxfordshire County Council, for use as offices, two residential...
asked the Prime Minister if he will publish as a White Paper or in the OFFICIAL REPORT an up-to-date comprehensive list of all Members appointed to central and regional nationalised boards of a...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can now make a statement on the intentions of His Majesty's Government with regard to the fishing industry.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he can give an estimate of money owing to county agricultural committees; and what proportion of this is written off as bad debts.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that the shortage of veterinary surgeons employed by his Department in Somerset is such that food production is retarded and farmers are often...
asked the Minister of Agriculture in view of the fact that the commoners at Constantine Bay, Cornwall, have assigned their rights to him, whether it is with his authority that sand hauliers have...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a list of firms, showing the separate amounts at present on loan to them from the Treasury.
Mr. Wilson Harris: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the nature of the association between the Arts Council of Great Britain and Tennent Productions, Ltd. in the production of the...
The following Questions stood upon the Order Paper:
Can the Leader of the House tell us the Business for next week?
4.1 p.m.
8.2 p.m.
10.0 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. R. Adams.]
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