Monday, 14 December 1953
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Attorney-General whether he will introduce legislation to prevent the acquisition by prescription of rights of way and other easements over vacant war-damaged sites, which cannot yet be...
asked the Attorney-General when the report of the Royal Commission on the Marriage Laws will be presented.
Lieut.-Colonel: asked the Attorney-General whether he will introduce legislation to require persons or companies resident outside the jurisdiction of the courts of the United Kingdom and owning...
asked the Attorney-General what remuneration is paid to commissioners acting as High Court judges to dispose of criminal and civil cases.
asked the Attorney-General how many prosecutions, involving a charge of public mischief, have been initiated in the last five years.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what action Her Majesty's Government propose to take as a result of the study of the report of the meeting of the Inter-Governmental Committee...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps have been taken by the public information services of his Department in the United States of America to put before the American people...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when he expects to conclude an agreement which will ensure that the French authorities inform British consular representatives without delay when...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why the appointment of Hubert John Evans, esquire, as Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Managua on 31st March was not...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government have completed consideration of the Report of the Drogheda Committee; and whether they will publish a White Paper...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will renew the offer, made to the Argentine and Chile in 1947, to refer to the International Court the dispute about the Falkland Islands...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the resolution, providing for an international régime for Jerusalem, which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make a statement on the work of the Collective Measures Committee of the United Nations since it last reported in October, 1952
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the principal outstanding points of difference between the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the proposals originally...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give an assurance that the representation of Her Majesty's Government at the proposed Korean political conference will be at...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will state the authority responsible for implementing the Korean Armistice Agreement, in relation to the release of prisoners of war,...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what consultations with the Allied High Commission have taken place on the proposal by the Government of the German Federal Republic to submit...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information about the negotiations between the Argentine Government and the representatives of the Anglo-Argentine Tramways and...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will call the attention of the countries signatory to the Italian Peace Treaty to the failure of the Italian Government to carry out...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any specific agreements reached at the Bermuda Conference are to be published
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affiairs the intentions of Her Majesty's Government with regard to the question referring the Icelandic fisheries dispute to The Hague Court
asked the Minister of Food what precautions will be taken to prevent the importation of meat derived from the slaughter of animals suffering from foot-and-mouth disease
asked the Minister of Food what protection his Regulations afford to the public in ensuring a reason able meat content in sausages
asked the Minister of Food the cost, per ton, delivered in Britain of the 950 tons of pork recently purchased from Denmark
asked the Minister of Food when he expects to reach a decision about resiting the abattoir at Adamsdown, Cardiff, in view of the continuing complaints of the local residents
asked the Minister of Food if it is still the policy of his Department to withdraw or refuse the granting of a catering and food licence to hotels and catering establishments that operate the...
asked the Minister of Food what plans have been made to provide mobile slaughterhouses for use in outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease
asked the Minister of Food if he will take steps to adopt a minimum standard for so-called cheese spreads, some of which have been found to be of very low food content
asked the Minister of Food if he is aware that, since price decontrol of tea, the retail price of this commodity has risen on several occasions; and whether he will now reintroduce price control...
asked the Minister of Food if he will issue a Christmas bonus of an increased butter ration
asked the Minister of Food if he will extend to all old age pensioners the facilities of the welfare milk scheme to enable them to purchase milk at 1½d. per pint
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
asked the Minister of Food how the United Kingdom delegate at the Food and Agriculture Organisation meeting at Rome voted on the proposal to build up an international reserve of foodstuffs,...
asked the Minister of Food what increased supplies of meat he expects to obtain from Australia in the foreseeable future in view of the new farms being brought into production and the improved...
asked the Minister of Food how the quantity of meat sold by Co-operative societies in 1953 compares with that sold in 1951 and 1952
asked the Minister of Supply the expenditure during the current financial year on research into the industrial uses of atomic energy
asked the Minister of Supply what progress has been made by the Fairey Aviation Company in the production of the jet-propelled helicopter, the Rotodyne; and what the proposed seating capacity is to be
asked the Minister of Supply why the staff of his Department increased by 392 between 1st July and 1st October, 1953
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance the weekly pension and rent allowance paid to the widow whose husband was killed on active service and who has no other source of income,...
asked the Minister of Labour and National Service (by Private Notice) whether he has any statement to make about the threatened stoppage of work on the railways
I ask your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, to make the following statement. For some time past Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have had under consideration the...
3.43 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Kaberry.]
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