Wednesday, 12 July 1950
The House met at Halt past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
(King's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.)
Read the Third time, and passed, with Amendments.
asked the Postmaster-General how many applications were made by the Customs authorities in each of the years 1946–49 to officials of his Department for the opening of letters addressed to...
asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware of the great importance to the business community and other people of an extension of the cheap rate period for long distance telephone calls to and...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he will arrange for a new post box to be fixed at Churchend, Eastington, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
asked the Postmaster-General if he will consider amending the present Post Office regulations, with a view to encouraging owners of converted houses and blocks of flats to provide letter boxes in...
asked the Postmaster-General how many members of the Engineering Officers' (Telecommunications) Association are employed by his Department in establishing telephone calls and in the handling of mails.
asked the Postmaster-General how many registered letters have disappeared in circumstances which he is unable to explain since his appointment as Postmaster-General.
asked the Postmaster-General what is the number of the staff now employed in the delivery of letters, parcels, etc., in the United Kingdom and the corresponding number for 1939; and the volume of...
asked the Postmaster-General how many telephone installations were made in Carlisle in 1948 and 1949, showing business and private installations separately; and what number it is anticipated will...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that, after a delay of over six months, his Department have still failed to provide a telephone service at Sandon, in Hertfordshire, in a case...
Mr. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing: asked the Postmaster-General how soon he will be able to install apparatus to ensure for shared telephone lines both secrecy and individual accounting.
asked the Postmaster-General the number of applications for a telephone service which have been received by his Department at Taunton during the 12 months to a convenient date; how many have...
asked the Postmaster-General why Mr. C. T. Bennett, 21, Hawthorne Road, Castle Bromwich, has been refused telephone service for seven years, notwithstanding his repeated requests; why, after the...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he will arrange that all battalion commanders of cadet corps shall have a degree of priority for the installation of a telephone line.
asked the Postermaster-General if he will indicate when the British Broadcasting Corporation will start work on the Cardiff site for the television transmitter.
asked the Postmaster-General what progress has been made towards the setting up of an advisory committee in accordance with the provisions of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949; and when...
asked the Secretary of State for Air what prices have to be paid respectively for airmen and officers for the following items ex-Royal Air Force stores: shoes black leather, reference number...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, in order to prevent recruiting for the Air Training Corps being discouraged, he will ensure that, as a general rule, Air Training Corps cadets, on...
asked the Secretary of State for Air how many persons are in receipt of payments in respect of land held on requisition by his Department.
asked the Secretary of State for Air if in view of the Far Eastern situation, he is satisfied that the present Royal Air Force defence force in Singapore is adequate to meet all eventualities.
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware of the loss to hoteliers and boarding-house keepers caused by the frequent cancellation of bookings by officers of the Royal Air Force as...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware of the number of Royal Air Force personnel who solicit lifts from passing motorists on the Great North Road at week-ends; that this is due...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation what steps are being taken to ensure that the control zones are completely free from non-controlled aircraft, particularly at...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation when it is intended to revise the system of re-issuing permits to fly for certain types of pre-war aircraft, reconstructed...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the terms of the recent 20 year Convention relating to the port of Beira are available to the public; and whether he will give an...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what steps he has taken to increase the range of the Hong Kong broadcasting station, so that it can service areas not touched under normal conditions...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the attack by two jet fighter aircraft on a British-owned Hong Kong Airways aeroplane making a regular run to Formosa...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what proportion of cocoa planted in the Gold Coast and Nigeria has been attacked by swollen shoot disease in 1947, 1948 and 1949; what proportion of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is yet able to say when the report on the Volta River Hydro-Electric and Irrigation Scheme in the Gold Coast will be presented.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is aware that, during the recent elections in Accra, only 5,800 voters out of a total of 30,000 voted, so that the Convention People's Party's...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the accounts of the Nigerian Colliery Workers' Union have been submitted annually to the Government Registrar; what was the last date on...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what success there has been in recruiting Chinese for the police force in Singapore and the Federation of Malaya; and what is the proportion of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the removal of Kikuyus from the Kiambu district of Kenya.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what information he has as to the extent of illiteracy amongst the population of the island colonies in the Caribbean area; how many secondary...
asked the Prime Minister whether the speech made by the Minister of National Insurance at Upper Norwood on 8th July on the subject of the teaching of boxing in schools represent the policy of His...
asked the Lord President of the Council what steps he is taking to see that towns outside London, especially south and south-east coast seaside resorts, are given additional early and late trains...
asked the Minister of Defence whether each Service Minister is able to put his own proposals into effect for increasing the number of Regulars in his own Service, or if no such proposals can be...
Brigadier Clarke: asked the Minister of Defence if he is satisfied that the Armed Forces of the Crown are adequate and prepared to meet any foreseeable emergency that may arise in view of the...
Brigadier Clarke: asked the Minister of Defence the procedure by which the Board of Admiralty, Army Council and Air Council, come to decisions on appeals submitted to them for arbitration.
asked the Minister of Food if he will make a statement on the position with regard to the meat ration at Southampton, Eastleigh, Winchester, Romsey and the New Forest for this week and the coming...
asked the Minister of Food whether he will now say to what use he will put the £500,000 profit made by his Department on the sale in this country of a part of the gift of apples from British...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if, in view of the release of the mayor and councillors of Limassol, Cyprus, he will now take steps to revise the law about street names whose...
Brigadier Clarke: asked the Minister of Food what losses his Department and Departments under his control made on bulk purchases of food during the years 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949, stating the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies for what reason the Vine Products Co-operative Marketing Union, commonly known as S.O.D.A.P., in Cyprus is in process of liquidation; and whether the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies in what Colonies regulations exist respecting corporal punishment in schools; and whether any inter-colonial consideration has been given to the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will take an early opportunity to make a comprehensive re-statement of Government policy with regard to the Evans Report upon British...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what action is being taken to investigate the possibility of growing mangoes in the Colonial Empire for sale in the United Kingdom and elsewhere; and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in view of the serious increase of disease in the cocoa plantations of the Gold Coast, what steps he is taking to encourage the production of cocoa...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in view of the great shortage of houses and the high rents prevailing in Georgetown, British Guiana, to what extent the buildings taken over from...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it has yet been possible to begin sustained yield forest management in any part of British Guiana; and to what extent creaming of forests and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to paragraph 17 in the annual report of the auditor of the Seychelles for 1948, dealing with the rates of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what progress has been made with the scheme to grow rice on a large scale in North Borneo.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when Sir George Schuster's report on the finances and economy of Malta will be published in this country.
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I propose to make a statement on Post Office facilities, in the course of which I shall answer the two Questions on this subject which appear in today's Order...
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Labour whether there has been a satisfactory resumption of work at Smithfield.
Ordered: That this day Business other than the Business of Supply may he taken before Ten o'clock.—[Mr. H. Morrison.]
[21ST ALLOTTED DAY]
Considered in Committee.
3.41 p.m.
6.45 p.m.
Again considered in Committee.
6.59 p.m.
Order for Second Reading read.
9.57 p.m.
Resolved: That the Draft National Insurance (Seasonal Workers) Regulations, 1950, a copy of which was laid before this House on 30th June, be approved.—[Dr. Summerskill.]
10.25 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Popplewell.]
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