House of Commons debates

Thursday, 4 October 1951

  • Preamble

    The House—after the Adjournment on 2nd August, 1951, for the Summer Recess—met at Eleven o'Clock, notice having been given by MR. SPEAKER pursuant to Standing Order No. 112 (Earlier...

  • Prayers

    [Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]

  • Death of a Member

    1 speech

    I regret to have to inform the House of the death of Eric Martin Smith, Esq., Member for Grantham, and I desire on behalf of the House to express our sense of the loss we have sustained and our...

  • The King's Illness

    7 speeches

    Mr. Speaker, since we last met we have all been under the shadow of a great anxiety in the illness of His Majesty the King, and I am sure that it would be fitting that the present Parliament...

  • Prorogation

    4 speeches

    Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.

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