Wednesday, 28 May 1952
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
To be read the Third time upon Tuesday, 10th June.
PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDER (BRIGHTON) BILL
I beg leave to present to this honourable House a national Petition signed by 211,577 of Her Majesty's subjects. The grievance set forth in this Petition is that charges are to be levied on...
I beg leave to present to this honourable House a humble Petition signed by 16,250 citizens of Birmingham and district who consider that the coach services of Northern Roadways, Ltd., have been...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what steps have been taken to implement the report of the Conservator of Forests, Jamaica, with regard to the forest resources of the Cayman Islands...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the Colonial Development Corporation Scheme on Eleuthera Island is operating at a heavy loss; and whether, in view of the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will undertake that surface communications between the islands of the British West Indies shall be maintained at least at their present level.
asked the Secretary for State for the Colonies whether he will make a statement on the present position in relation to the proposal to build a second harbour for the Gold Coast at Tema; and, in...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the resolution of the Kenya African Union protesting against the retention of the nomination system for African representatives...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in view of the protest signed on behalf of the Agikuyu Mbaris, a copy of which has been sent to him, against the proposal to compensate them for...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) how many scholarships for overseas study were granted by the Kenya Government in 1951 for Europeans, Asians and Africans, respectively; and what...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what restrictions exist on applications for United Nations Organisation bursaries by African residents of Kenya or other non-self-governing territories.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies to what extent references are accepted from Africans on behalf of applicants for passports in Kenya.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how much land in the native leasehold areas of Kenya, as defined in the Sixth Schedule of the Crown Lands Ordinance, has been leased to Europeans...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what alterations in the boundaries of the native reserves of Kenya and the temporary native reserves have been made by the Governor of Kenya since...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what hospitals and other health facilities financed by the Kenya Government are open to all races.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the total membership of trade unions in Kenya having an exclusive or predominant membership of African workers, with figures of their total...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what progress is being made with the new technical college for Nairobi.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many secondary technical and secondary commercial schools there are in Kenya.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why a collective fine has been imposed upon the inhabitants of the Nyeri area in Kenya, for failure to give information to the police; and under what...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) the total amount of compensation which has been paid in Kenya, since 1938 under Sections 16 and 17 of the Native Lands Trust Ordinance; (2) of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the fact that the Wemuru, in Tanganyika, petitioned to the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations in August, 1951, against the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will report the extent to which Her Majesty's Government, as administering authority in Tanganyika, have succeeded in issuing to the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many strikes have taken place in Singapore during the past two months; how many are now proceeding; what are the chief causes; and what is being...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how long the Post Office Uniformed Staff Union of Singapore were waiting for negotiations to commence over their wage claim before they decided to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if the recent curfew at present in operation in Southern Johore applied to children.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many arrests were made on the basis of information received in response to the questionnaire distributed to the people of Tanjong Malin; and how...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what discussions he has had with the Rubber Growers' Association in connection with proposals made in the Federation of Malaya to reduce the wages of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how much of the pay of Lieut. Birnie, of the Malay Police, is marriage increment; by how much such increment exceeds the 25s. a week which he allots...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will consider issuing a contract of service to the Malayan Special Constabulary; and what gratuity it is intended to pay these men at the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many Chinese have been deported from Hong Kong this year; what were the reasons for the deportations; and how many of them were trade union officials.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what progress has been made in rehousing the 16,000 people rendered homeless by fire at Tung Tao Village in Kowloon last November.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies at what age juveniles can be sentenced to imprisonment in African and in West Indian Colonies; for what offences juveniles and adults can be...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the estimated value of agricultural and other production in Borneo last year; the amount of Government revenue and through what sources it was...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what steps he is taking to reduce the delays in development and production of modern naval aircraft.
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what were the terms of reference of the Evershed Committee on Naval Air Organisation; what were its conclusions; and what action is being taken to implement...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he is aware that an eager long-service recruit was recently turned down by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force because he could not spell conventionally...
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General the number of telephone calls, both local and trunk, made by the Ministry of Supply in the last recorded 12-monthly period.
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General whether he accords the same priority to parish clergy as to general practitioners in considering applications for telephone service.
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General the conditions required by his Department to enable a publication to be registered at the General Post Office as a newspaper.
asked the Prime Minister if he will consider issuing invitations to a World Economic Conference to consider the continuing lack of balance between the dollar area and the rest of the world, the...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Coronation date is one which comes shortly after mayor-making day throughout England and Wales; that in these circumstances the mayors...
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I should like to make a statement on the military situation in Korea. Since the armistice talks began last July, there has been a great...
I wish to raise with you, Mr. Speaker, a point of order of which I have given you notice. It refers to an event on Friday, and I have delayed it until today so that the hon. Member for Surrey,...
I beg to give notice that on Friday, 20th June, I shall call attention to the need for further measures to improve road safety and move a Resolution.
I beg to give notice that on Friday, 20th June, I shall call attention to the need to encourage effective international action to promote the economic and commercial development of the...
I beg to give notice that on Friday, 20th June, I shall call attention to the desirability of the publication of their annual accounts by political parties in the United Kingdom, and move a...
Considered in Committee [Progress. 27th May].
The Income Tax Act, 1952, shall have effect as if the following section were inserted after section 333: — 333A. Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (7) of section two hundred...
Section four hundred and sixty-eight of the Income Tax Act, 1952 (which relates to the restriction of certain transactions leading to avoidance of income tax or profits tax) shall be deemed not...
(1) For the purpose of section one hundred and one of the Income Tax Act, 1952 (which grants relief in respect of maintenance, repairs, insurance and management of property), a person occupying...
Any money given or bequeathed wholly for the repair or reconstruction of places of worship of any denomination shall be exempt from death duties.—[Mr. Wood.]
Subsection (1) of section thirty-one of the Income Tax Act, 1952 (which relates to the power of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to require the production of accounts and books) shall be...
Subsection (1) of section four hundred and ninety-seven of the Income Tax Act, 1952 (which relates to the remission in certain cases of interest on tax in arrear by reason of exchange...
Section fifteen of the Finance Act, 1948 (which imposes a licence duty on bookmakers operating at a dog race meeting, at which a totalisator is operated), shall have effect as if for the Table in...
The Seventh Schedule to the Finance Act, 1949, shall be replaced by the following Schedule:— "GENERAL SCALE OF RATES OF ESTATE DUTY Principal Value of Estate Rate per cent. of Duty...
The provisions of section twenty of the Finance Act, 1948 (Relating to purchase tax) and of the Eighth Schedule to the said Act shall hereafter have effect as if the second rate of purchase tax...
(1)When on the formation of a joint board for the supply of water comprising representatives of local authorities property of any of those authorities is transferred to or vested in the joint...
(1) Notwithstanding anything in any enactment contained, if an individual whose total income for any year of assessment exceeds two thousand pounds, proves to the satisfaction of the...
Section four of the Finance Act, 1949 (which in lieu of the duties of customs charged on wines under section three of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1939, charged the duties at the rates set out in the...
Goods imported into the United Kingdom of the categories specified in the Schedule (Agricultural implements and fertilizers to be imported free of duty) to this Act, being articles used as...
Section twelve of the Finance Act, 1944 (which empowers the Commissioners to except a person from registration when tax on his purchases would be not less than tax on his sales) shall have effect...
(1) In this section the expression "entertainment allowance" means a sum, being a sum in excess of one hundred pounds, which a person claims in computing his total income, profits, gains or...
Section thirty-three of the Finance Act, 1947, shall have effect in relation to the profits tax for any chargeable accounting period ending after the year nineteen hundred and fifty-one with the...
Amendment made: In page 72, line 35, leave out from beginning, to end of line 41, and insert: 2. In paragraph (f) of Group 1 for the words "'other than those comprised in paragraphs (c) or (e) of...
Amendments made: In page 88, line 42, leave out "fifteen," and insert "twenty."
I beg to move, in page 119, line 39, at the end, to insert "Royal."
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Assets.
Mr. Walter Fletcher and Air Commodore Harvey discharged from the Select Committee on Estimates, and Mr. Nigel Nicolson and Brigadier Peto added.—[Mr. Drewe.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."[Mr. Butcher.]
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