Wednesday, 15 March 1950
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
THE VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Mr. POPPLEWELL) reported His Majesty's Answer to the Address, as follows:
The Clerk will now proceed to read the titles of the Private Bills set out for consideration this day.
To be read a Second time Tomorrow.
To he read a Second time Tomorrow.
Read a Second time, and referred to the Examiners.
To be read a Second time upon Tuesday next.
Read a Second time, and referred to the Examiners.
To be read a Second time upon Tuesday next.
Second Reading deferred till Tomorrow.
Second Reading deferred till Tomorrow.
Second Reading deferred till Wednesday next.
Second Reading deferred till Wednesday next.
Second Reading deferred till Wednesday next.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) if he will make a statement on the progress of the anti-Communist campaign in Malaya; (2) how many volunteers have joined up in the anti-bandit...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what steps he is taking to ensure that consuls and other diplomatic representatives of the Chinese Communist Government have no contacts with the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that a large proportion of rubber planters in Malaya were Japanese prisoners of war during the period of hostilities and that...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that a motion for the creation of a Joint Consultative Committee of the East African Central Assembly and the Central African...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the proposed constitutional changes in Tanganyika; what are the objections of European settlers to these proposals;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to sentences passed by the Buganda Government Court on eight persons for conspiring to rebel against the Gabaka,...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what steps have been taken, or are contemplated, to act on the recommendation in the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the disturbances in...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what charge sentences of imprisonment were recently passed in the Gold Coast on Messrs. Biney and Wood, of the Gold Coast Trade Union Congress...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when the report of the Commission inquiring into the Enugu disorders in Nigeria is likely to be available; and whether there is an improvement in the...
Air-Commodore Harvey: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies in what circumstances the aircraft that belonged to China National Aircraft Corporation, based at Hong Kong, have been...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what report has been received from the Naval Court Martial Committee; and when it is proposed to publish it.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty why the Royal Naval Hospital at Port Edgar is to be closed; and what alternative accommodation is to be provided for service personnel in the...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty to what extent the proposed reductions in civil staff will affect the manning of Sheerness Dockyard.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what steps are being taken to provide new and additional married quarters for Royal Naval personnel at Chatham Barracks.
asked the Postmaster-General if the provision of adequate telephone facilities for the Sale area can now be facilitated.
asked the Postmaster-General how many persons in Blackpool who have applied for telephones in their offices and private houses are still waiting for telephones; and what further delay he anticipates.
asked the Postmaster-General how many applicants in the county borough of Gateshead are awaiting telephones; the date of the earliest of their applications; how many of the applicants applied in...
asked the Postmaster-General how many telephones there are in business and private premises in Belfast; how many applicants in each of these categories are waiting for them to be installed; and...
asked the Postmaster-General (1) whether he is now able to make a statement as to the result of his consideration of the rules he proposes to apply to the recognition of staff associations;
asked the Postmaster-General whether, in order to avoid unnecessary expense and to economise in the use of paper, he will amend paragraph 6 of the Regulation made under Section 79 of the...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he will arrange, at the end of further General Elections, for the British Broadcasting Corporation to announce all results as received up to the end.
asked the Secretary of State for Air why he still refuses to give Mr. G. F. Sleight, Hillside Farm, Brigsley, permission to plough up the 100 acres of grassland near Waltham aerodrome as the...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation why it has been decided to withdraw Solent flying-boats from service with British Overseas Airways Corporation and close down...
asked the Secretary or State for Foreign Affairs whether any undertaking was obtained from the Government of Iraq as to the opening of the Iraq-Haifa oil pipeline before arms were recently...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what official communication he has received from Washington concerning the proposals of Senator McMahon, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Committee...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that German ex-prisoners of war cannot draw pay for work done during their imprisonment unless they return to Germany or have...
asked the Minister of Defence under what conditions members of the regular Forces can take their wives to Hong Kong; and how many wives have joined their husbands in Hong Kong since the garrison...
asked the Minister of Defence if he can now supply the further information in regard to objects and future position of the cadet forces of the Navy, Army and Air Force, especially in regard to...
asked the Minister of Defence what arrangements have been made to increase and improve the accommodation of a semi-permanent character for troops and airmen now quartered in the Canal Zone, Egypt.
asked the Minister of Defence how much it is estimated that assistance to other countries, in accordance with the North Atlantic Treaty, will cost during the next financial year; and where this...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Food whether he will downpoint sweet and semi-sweet biscuits immediately, and give an assurance that these varieties of biscuits will be de-rationed by...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Food whether the Government will take steps to encourage and develop supplies of sugar which could be made available for consumption in this country,...
asked the Minister of Food whether he will now hand back to the Milk Marketing Board the powers which were taken from it in 1939.
asked the Minister of Food what is the average price at which soya beans are bought by his Department; and at what price they are sold to manufacturers in the United Kingdom.
asked the Minister of Food whether his attention has been called to the grievance of banana growers in Sierra Leone that, whilst his Department is paying for bananas from that territory £27...
asked the Minister of Food what quantities of chocolate have been imported from Czechoslovakia in the last six months.
Mr. Vane: asked the Minister of Food what is the technical definition of the term "processed cheese" used by his Department.
asked the Minister of Food if he will ensure that agricultural workers engaged in producing food on the land, and who have to have their midday meal away from home, should have extra meat rations...
asked the Minister of Food (1) whether he will revise the policy of grain purchasing, so as to enable the British corn trade to regain its prewar position in the international grain trade;
asked the Secretary of State for War if he can now explain what are the arrangements that will permit a cadet being attached to a Territorial technical unit in order that after qualification in...
asked the Minister of Education if he will appoint a committee of inquiry to investigate the financial difficulties in which the managers of the voluntary schools are placed and make...
Mr. Speaker, would like your help because, in the HANSARD of yesterday, I appear as having voted in both Lobbies. Although I have as good a chance as most hon. Members of overflowing in this way,...
[2ND ALLOTTED DAY]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £855,595,000, be granted to His Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the charges for the following Civil and Revenue...
CLASS I £ 1. House of Lords 30,000 2. House of Commons 275,000 3. Registration of Electors 300,000 4. Treasury and Subordinate Departments 1,100,000 5. Privy Council Office 10,500...
3.33 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Pearson.]
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