Thursday, 5 March 1953
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Mrs. Hill: I beg leave to present a Petition from the Committee and members of the Wythenshawe Swimming Club and the residents of the Wythenshawe Estate. The petitioners complain that on this...
I have been asked by the Trustees of the British Museum to present a Petition, which they have to submit to this House each year, explaining their financial position and praying for aid. The...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that the East Ham Borough Council have imposed a condition that members of the council's fire brigade must be members of a...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce legislation to provide for the same type of investigation into the activities of the American crews of American...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the remand home accommodation in London for girls under 14 years of age.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children were abandoned by their parent or parents in 1951; in how many cases the parents subsequently were traced; and in how many...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to make a statement on the progress of plans for the production of a new type of respirator for the protection of the public against chemical...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the number of visitors expected in London during the Coronation period, and in the public interest, he will take steps to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons providing accommodation addresses are registered with the Metropolitan Police for the purpose of carrying on the business of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action is being taken by the Metropolitan Police to deal with hooliganism on Saturday evenings on the Rookery Farm Estate, Dagenham.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware of the need to improve the conditions of life, work, pay and superannuation of the police force and of increasing the numbers...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken during 1952, and what steps he will be taking in 1953, in order to reduce substantially the administrative costs of...
asked the Prime Minister if he will consider publication of the White Paper on the extinction of the Ministry of Pensions at a date considerably earlier than the end of April in order to allow...
asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been drawn to the very high incidence of pre-cancerous warts among furnace room workers and fitters who are engaged in alumina reduction,...
asked the Minister of Labour how many ex-officers of 50 years of age and over have been placed in suitable employment during 1952; and how this figure compares with 1949.
asked the Minister of Labour what steps he proposes to take to increase the proportion of disabled workers employed in administrative, supervisory and other non-manual duties, in Remploy factories.
Lieut.-Commander Hutchison: asked the Minister of Labour if the four committees that are to be established under the Licensed Residential and Catering Establishments Board have now been appointed.
asked the Minister of Labour the average daily number of dock workers who were surplus to requirements in the Aberdeen docks to the last week in January, 1953; how that compares with the figures...
asked the Minister of Labour what number of working days were lost as a result of industrial disputes in each of the post-war years, including 1952.
asked the Minister of Labour approximately how many cases of refusal to employ labour because of colour or social discrimination have been brought to his notice; and, particularly, in how many...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed in the area covered by the Easington Rural District Council in the county of Durham, giving the number of males and females,...
asked the Minister of Labour what action has been taken to settle the 47-week-old dispute at Rival Lamps, Weybridge, Surrey.
asked the Minister of Health what arrangements he has now been able to make for the production and distribution of cortisone in this country.
asked the Minister of Health what progress has been made to ensure the production of adequate supplies of terramycin in this country.
asked the Minister of Health (1) what research is being conducted as to the cause and treatment of spasticity in Great Britain; (2) how many spastics registered in Britain are known to have been...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will supply lenses free of charge to schoolchildren, where a special type of frame is chosen as an alternative to the standard types of frames.
Miss Lee: asked the Minister of Health the percentage of mothers who are given analgesia among those whose children are born at home; and the percentage given any other treatment to relieve pain...
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that a large number of old age pensioners are in need of foot attention, but are unable to pay for treatment out of their pensions; and if he will now...
asked the Minister of Health if, in view of the rises in expenditure and consequent rise in rates per £ of local authorities, he will do all in his power to restrict his demands on local...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board have refused to establish a fully equipped chest clinic in Walsall; and on what grounds this decision...
asked the Minister of Health what progress has now been made towards the provision of a new training hospital at Cardiff.
asked the Minister of Health what communication he has sent to hospital authorities regarding the imposition of a charge on all patients for board and lodging.
asked the Minister of Health, in view of the great disparity in the ratio of nurses to patients as between many hospitals in the Metropolitan area, what has been done either as a temporary or a...
asked the Minister of Health his reasons for reducing the estimated maintenance costs of the South-West Regional Hospital Board by £250,000 for 1953–54.
asked the Minister of Health what arrangements he makes in co-operation with the Minister of Education in regard to the prices chargeable for school meals to ordinary children and backward...
asked the Minister of Education how far the recent cut in adult education applies to residential colleges.
asked the Minister of Education if she is aware of the coming shortage of secondary school places in Warwickshire for the session 1953–54; and what she intends to do about this.
asked the Prime Minister if he will now restore to Ministers the cuts made in their salaries in 1951.
asked the Prime Minister to consult the Prime Minister of France with a view to obtaining agreement on the immediate publication of the proposals made by the Prime Minister of France and the...
On a point of order. I should like to have your guidance, Mr. Speaker, upon a matter of some importance and urgency. On 25th February there appeared on the Order Paper this Question: Mr. Dodds to...
May I ask the Leader of the House if he has a statement to make about the business for next week?
3.42 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Major Conant.]
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