Thursday, 3 December 1953
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
I have to inform the House that I have received this morning a letter from Messrs. Fink, Proudfoot & Waters, solicitors, of Southampton House, High Holborn, London, W.C.1, and dated 2nd...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will consider relaxing the quarantine Regulations applicable to imported dogs if evidence can be produced that they have been effectively inoculated.
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will consider appointing a committee to investigate conditions governing the transport of horses and other livestock by road, rail and sea.
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will take steps, in the legislation to be introduced to amend the Agriculture Act, 1947, to prevent a landowner giving notice to quit each year when the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture when details of his proposal to give land tribunals the power or duty to state a case to the High Courtwill be available, and, pending the introduction of this...
Mr. Garner Evans: asked the Minister of Agriculture how many acres of land in Wales are classed as common land; whether he is satisfied that the best use is being made of these lands for stock...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he can make a statement on recent research into braxey disease of sheep.
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has considered the draft scheme for egg marketing submitted by the Poultry Association of Great Britain; and what action he is taking thereon.
asked the Minister of Agriculture the nature of the ailment on account of which it was decided that the horse "Gay Time" was not suitable to be kept as a stallion at the National Stud.
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the seaweed fly, known as coelopa frigid a, is now feeding on vegetation inland; and, having regard to the menace to food production,...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if all flood relief parcels have yet been opened at the London and Nottingham depots; and on what dates this work was completed.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of cases involving male perversion in 1938 and 1952, respectively, and what complaints he has received from the police as to their...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now take action to make mock auctions illegal.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department under what authority he exercises his administrative powers in connection with education in Wales.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in cases where a child is examined under the procedure referred to in Section 9 of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, it is the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now cause to be published a digest of statistics relating to Wales as is being done for Scotland in the Digest of Scottish Statistics.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that many air raid shelters in courtyards and on bombed sites in Birmingham, are a menace to the health of the people and also...
Mrs. White: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he proposes to take on the recommendations by the Cinema Consultative Committee concerning the proposed ban on the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the White Paper on Offences for Drunkenness discloses that there are three times as many convictions for drunkenness...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements have been made for mutual support and working together between Civil Defence units and the Home Guard in order to make the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why it is not possible, for salary purposes, to equate appointments at the Civil Defence Staff College with those at the Army and Royal Air...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what considerations the Commissioner of Police has in mind when he fixes speed traps in the London area.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the hardship being experienced by many elderly police widows who are still receiving the 1921 rate of 11s. 6d. per week...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Scotland Yard officers who interrogated and took a statement from the defendant Roberts, a deaf mute, subsequently charged with...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department which members of his staff visited the United States of America recently to study American police methods; what new experience they have...
May I ask the Lord Privy Seal to state the business for next week?
3.44 p.m.
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Third Reading read.
Not amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
Resolution reported: That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to extend the period during which loans and advances may be made under the Cinematograph Film Production (Special...
Considered in Committee.
7.40 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 2, line 12, at the end, to insert "and the approval of the Treasury." I do not know whether the Parliamentary Secretary could shorten what I have to say by giving some...
Amendment made: In page 2, line 39, leave out "and 1950," and insert "to 1952."—[Mr. H. Strauss.]
Resolution reported, That, towards making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on 31st day of March, 1954, the sum of £126,843,450 be granted out of the...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Major Conant.]
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