Thursday, 8 July 1954
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read the Third time, and passed.
Read the Third time, and passed, with Amendments.
(Queen's consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken, and is taking, to instruct civil defence units in defence against bacteriological warfare.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements for co-operation exist between Civil Defence Services in Scotland and in England.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of its general importance to civil defence, he will appoint a committee to examine and report upon the location and siting of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is now in a position to announce the membership and terms of reference of the committee which is to inquire into the existing laws...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will refuse the request of certain organisations of book sellers that he supply them with a list of books and periodicals which have...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what considerations led him to delay by one month Dr. Joseph Cort's departure from Britain; and on what date and at what hour this extended...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many citizens of the United States of America have asked for political asylum in this country in recent years.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that a 19-yearold man was sent to prison for three months by the North London magistrate on 5th June last, because no...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications have been received by the Home Office in the last 12 months, to the most recent convenient date, for the cancellation or...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have been undertaken against promoters of football pools run for the benefit of local charities and sports clubs since 1951.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will take an early opportunity of codifying the existing betting and lotteries legislation.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why Dr. Otto Strasser was refused permission to visit Britain in the spring of 1954.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the name of the present holder of the office of Queen's Coroner for the Palace of Westminster.
Mr. Watkins: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give, in the annual report of Government action in Wales and Monmouthshire for the year ended 30th June, 1954,...
Mr. Watkins: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will consider asking the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire to inquire into the possibilities of utilising the...
asked the Minister of Labour the basic wage rates and the approximate average weekly earnings in 1939 of agricultural workers, skilled engineers and building operatives, respectively; and the...
asked the Minister of Labour how many people in Glamorgan were registered as unemployed at the latest convenient date; how many notified vacancies there were on that date; and how these figures...
asked the Minister of Labour how many people in the borough of Barry were registered as unemployed at the latest convenient date; how many notified vacancies there were at that date; and how...
Mr. John Hall: asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons registered as unemployed in Wycombe and the county of Buckinghamshire, respectively, as at the last recorded date, as against...
asked the Minister of Labour the total number of those medically rejected for National Service after being called up, and those called up after deferment, for 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952 and...
asked the Minister of Labour to publish a comparison of the trends in the wages index and the cost-of-living index from June, 1947, up to the latest available date.
Sir G. Lloyd: asked the Minister of Health in what circumstances patients in mental hospitals are allowed to take up paid outside work; and, when they do so, what contribution they pay towards...
asked the Minister of Health the number of mentally defective persons for whom application has been made for admission to suitable institutions in the county of Durham and for whom no...
Mrs. Jeger: asked the Minister of Health with whom authority rests to determine the frequency of visiting by parents to children in hospitals under the National Health Service; and what...
asked the Minister of Health what information has been gained by officers of his Department about investigations in other countries into the relationship between smoking and cancer of the lung;...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is yet in a position to publish the result of his inquiry into the recent Dellwood Maternity Home fire, in Reading.
asked the Minister of Health (1) whether he is satisfied that adequate powers are possessed and adequate provision made by local authorities for homes for aged and infirm married couples; (2)...
asked the Prime Minister whether arrangements have now been made to disband the Ministry of Food and transfer the few remaining functions to other Departments.
asked the Prime Minister if he will make a further statement on war pensions and war widows' pensions; and if the Government will allow a free vote of the House following a debate on this subject.
asked the Prime Minister whether, following his discussion with President Eisenhower on South-East Asia and the European Defence Community, he will invite the French Prime Minister to London in...
asked the Prime Minister the purpose of the projected visit of the Minister of Defence to Washington.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will express the thanks of the British people to the Government of the United States of America for all the financial aid that has been received, and, at the...
asked the Prime Minister if he will introduce legislation to amend the constitution by authorising the Prime Minister to appoint his successor.
May I ask the Leader of the House to state the business for next week?
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I will make a statement on the same topic as I mentioned to the House a fortnight ago today. The Government have already recognised the financial difficulties...
I have a short statement to make in answer to a question put to me by the hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Edward Evans). I was asked at this time last Thursday a number of questions concerning...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the...
Committee of Supply discharged from considering the Estimate set out hereunder and the said Estimate referred to the Scottish Standing Committee:
As amended (in Committee and on recommittal), further considered.
I beg to move, in page 38, line 25, to leave out "on his behalf or." I desire to press this Amendment once again in the hope that the Financial Secretary, who promised to consider the matter...
I beg to move, in page 50, line 25, after "Debt," to insert: (including any such enactment contained in an Act of the same Session as this Act, passed at the same time as or after this Act)....
Lords Amendments considered.
Lords Amendment: In page 3, line 34. leave out "as aforesaid" and insert: of providing such accommodation as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, or in the case of which it appears to...
Lords Amendment: In page 6, line 31, after "rent" insert "repairs."
A.—(1) If it appears to a local authority, in the case of a house within their district, or of part of such a house, which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family,...
Lords Amendment: In page 13, line 42, leave out "ten" and insert "fifteen."—[Special Entry.]
Lords Amendment: In page 20, line 16, at end, insert: (4) Subsection (2) of section seven of the Act of 1938 (which relates to the ascertainment of the amount payable by the landlord for rates)...
Lords Amendment: In page 20, line 26, leave out "containing," and insert "accompanied by."
Lords Amendment: In page 21, line 25, leave out "annul the certificate and thereupon" and insert: order that the certificate shall cease to be in force.(3) Where an order is made under the last...
Lords Amendment: In page 24, line 3, leave out, "and subsection (3)" and insert: Any form prescribed for the purposes of this subsection shall contain such information as appears to the Minister...
Lords Amendment: In page 28 line 20, after "whole" insert: or substantially the whole.
B.—(1) Subsection (2) of section three of the Act of 1920 (which relates to the time as from which permitted increases of rent are recoverable from a tenant) shall have effect, in relation...
Lords Amendment: In page 36, line 28, at end, insert: (2) So much of subsection (5) of section seven of the Act of 1938 as enables documents to be served on agents or persons receiving rent shall...
Lords Amendment: In page 36, line 29, at beginning, insert: (1) Subsection (1) of section seventeen of the Act of 1920 (which empowers the Lord Chancellor to make rules and give directions for...
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 36, line 41, at end, insert: 'Act of 1938' means the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act. 1938;
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 42, line 5, leave out "in the prescribed form".
Lord Amendment: In page 46, line 37, column 3, at end, insert: in section three, in subsection (2), the words from 'or where such' to 'one clear week'.
10.8 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Studholme.]
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