Wednesday, 24 January 1951
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Copy ordered of Clause 5 of the Leasehold Property (Temporary Provisions) Bill, showing the effect of the Amendments proposed to be moved in Committee on behalf of His Majesty's...
Accounts ordered relating to Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom for each month during the year 1951."—[Mr. Rhodes.]
Brigadier Clarke: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty how many employees in His Majesty's Dockyard, Portsmouth, earn £4 15s. or less per week.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (1) in view of our present defence commitments, how far the number of fleet destroyers being converted to fast antisubmarine frigates has been...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what steps are being taken to standardise anti-aircraft gunnery equipment between the United States Navy and our own.
Surgeon Lieut.-Commander Bennett: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what types of aircraft now in service in the Fleet Air Arm were designed expressly for the Royal Navy.
Surgeon Lieut. - Commander Bennett: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what progress is being made in the development of a standard technique and practice of deck landing in...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware of a shortage of personnel for manning the Home Fleet; and what steps he is taking to remedy existing deficiencies.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if his attention has been drawn to the criticisms made by the magistrates concerning the security arrangements at Chatham Dockyard; and what...
Lieut.-Commander Clark Hutchison: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is now in a position to make a statement regarding the sale of duty-free cigarettes and tobacco to the...
Brigadier Clarke: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he will ensure that the pensions of Royal Navy and Royal Marine personnel are not unduly held up when they leave the...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what is the present shortage of pilots in the Air Branch; and what steps he is taking to remedy this.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what arrangements exist for the co-ordination or command of naval forces of the Atlantic Treaty Powers in the event of hostilities; and whether...
asked the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the unsatisfactory radio reception in South-East England, he is prepared to suspend the collection of licence fees in this area until the...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Postmaster-General whether he will now consider dispensing with the radio licence fee for the old age pensioners over 70 years of age.
asked the Postmaster-General whether he has yet received a reply from the Roumanian People's Republic to his representations about their use of wavelength 285.2 metres; and what action he is...
Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing: asked the Postmaster-General how many and what total duration of, breakdowns occurring in the British Broadcasting Corporation Television Service during 1950 were due to...
asked the Lord President of the Council if he has any statement to make as to the Government's policy for the future of broadcasting.
asked the Postmaster-General how many times during the last 12 months he has made representations to British Railways about unsatisfactory service to his Department.
asked the Postmaster-General how much money has been lost through fraud since the end of the war by the Post Office Savings Bank.
asked the Postmaster-General what proportion of Post Office workers employed on his motor transport staffs now belong to the registered but unrecognised trade union known as the National Guild of...
asked the Postmaster-General if he will make a further statement about the later postal collections and indicate which towns will enjoy these facilities.
asked the Postmaster-General how many post-free Christmas parcels were sent to members of the Armed Services in Korea and Malaya, respectively, and what was the total cost to the Post Office.
asked the Postmaster-General (1) if he is aware that Press cables dispatched at urgent rates from Melbourne on 22nd December took up to four hours to reach London; and what steps he is taking to...
asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that during the fortnight before Christmas many business letters were not delivered in the London area until five days after posting; and if he will...
Mr. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing: asked the Postmaster-General what percentage of the rate of six gold francs per tonne/kilometre, as agreed between the Universal Postal Union and the International Air...
asked the Postmaster-General why the temporary postmen employed during the Christmas rush are not paid overtime rates on the same basis as permanent postmen.
asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that large numbers of letters from Great Britain to the Continent are still being stamped only 2½d. instead of 4d.; and if, in view of the...
asked the Postmaster-General what steps he is taking to review the remuneration of sub-postmasters; and when he anticipates making a statement.
asked the Postmaster-General why the cheap rate for greetings telegrams from Korea was withdrawn from British soldiers 12 hours after it had been instituted.
asked the Postmaster-General how much a girl under 21 years of age is paid during her time of training to become a telephone operator; what allowance is made for board and lodging; and what...
asked the Postmaster-General how many applications for a telephone installation have been received from the area of the London County Council estate at St. Paul's Cray; and how many of such...
asked the Postmaster-General how many applicants in the Borough of Wembley await the installation of telephones; and when they are likely to have this service.
asked the Postmaster-General when an automatically-controlled register of charges will be available at subscribers' premises in connection with telephone calls, such as has been in operation in...
asked the Prime Minister whether representatives of the National Coal Board were present during his meeting with the National Union of Mine Workers on 3rd January.
asked the Minister of Defence if he is aware of the widespread concern of the inadequate medical examination given to Service men prior to demobilisation, which tends to increase the number of...
Air Commodore Harvey: asked the Minister of Defence the latest figures of British casualties in Korea.
asked the Minister of Defence if he will set up a general home defence guard to be responsible for Home Guard and Civil Defence duties.
asked the Minister of Defence whether, in view of the retention of certain categories of regular Service men for the indefinite period of the present emergency, he will amend the regulations...
asked the Minister of Defence what form of censorship is exercised over the reports of war correspondents from Korea.
Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing: asked the Minister of Defence whether in calling up the Z and equivalent reservists, he will adopt the principle of calling first those reservists with the shortest service;...
asked the Minister of Defence if he will publish the text of the letter in which he has placed the British troops in Europe under the command of an American general.
asked the Minister of Defence if he will review the use of manpower in the Service Departments in order to make more men available for active service.
"to provide that any power which is or was conferred on the Board of Trade by the Export Guarantees Act, 1949, or by the Export Guarantees Acts, 1939 to 1948. to give guarantees to or for the...
I beg to give notice that on Friday, 2nd February, I shall call attention to the need for the cleaner handling of food, and move a Resolution.
I beg to give notice that on Friday, 2nd February, I shall call attention to the need for a permanent body to be created to consider the problems affecting the countries of the Commonwealth and...
I beg to give notice that on Friday, 2nd February, I shall call attention to the need for urgent measures to be taken for more efficient coal utilisation throughout industry, and move a Resolution.
Not amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the law in regard to the protection of salmon and freshwater fish in Scotland, including the whole of the...
Considered in Committee.
3.35 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 5. line 32, to leave out subsection (2).
I beg to move, in page 2, line 11, to leave out "either of the foregoing sections" and to insert: the last foregoing section. This is really an exploratory Amendment. We want to find out from the...
I beg to move, in page 2, line 19, after "with," to insert, "or without." We have been dealing so far with a whole series of malpractices concerning salmon fishing. We have been trying to make...
I beg to move, in page 2, line 31, after "on." to insert "conviction on." A person is not liable to either fine or imprisonment, or both, on indictment, but merely on conviction on indictment....
Mr. McNeil: I beg to move, in page 2, line 34, at the beginning, to insert: Without prejudice to the operation of section three of the Diseases of Fish Act, 1937. This Amendment is necessary to...
6.0 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Mr. McNeil: I beg to move, in page 3, line 25, after "of," to insert "protecting." This is a simple Amendment which I think is understandable at sight. It will be remembered that this Clause is...
I beg to move, in page 3, line 36, to leave out from "which," to the end of line 38, and to insert: there is reasonable cause to suspect of being used in committing an offence against this Act....
I beg to move, in page 4, line 42, to leave out "officer," and to insert "person." It is desirable that Clauses 10 and 11 should be consistent in their wording. In Clause 10 (5), it will be seen...
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