Tuesday, 13 July 1954
The House met at Half past Two o'Clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read a Second time, and committed.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer in view of the fact that the Exchequer now contributes to industrial research both directly through the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will take steps to ensure that no National Serviceman killed on active service or otherwise, while wearing Her Majesty's uniform, will have his...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what arrangements have been made for the continuance of United States aid in the form of agricultural products under Section 550 of the Mutual Security Act...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the purchasing power today of an income of £100,000 per annum, as compared with November, 1951, for a married man with two children, taking into...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why he agreed to pay Sir John Cockroft a salary of £8,500 a year.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what changes he proposes in the working of the European Payments Union as a prelude to convertibility.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why day trippers returning from France are not permitted any allowance of duty-free goods.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will make a statement on the progress of the current Anglo-Argentine commercial and financial discussions.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why a water company gets more favourable treatment in regard to Income Tax than a public water board; and how far this concession to private enterprise...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the main classes of travellers who expended £5 million in the dollar area last year; and how much was expended by each class.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of the last payment received from the Federal German Government in respect of occupation costs; and when it was paid.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much of !he interest due on 1st May, 1953, on the Government stocks, a list of which has been sent to him, and which was paid less tax at 9s. 6d. in the...
Mr. Vane: asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury which Departments have reduced the size and cost of their regional organisation during the last year; and what is the total saving.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government why he is refusing to allow Rothwell Urban District Council to build traditional houses when local brickyards have an abundance of bricks, to...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will make a Regulation under Section 8 of the Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act, 1946, requiring the lessor to give the lessee receipts...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many properties are still held under requisition by his Department; if he will order a new investigation into the circumstances of each...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what he estimates will be the effect of his reduction in housing subsidies on the rent of houses built after 1st April, 1955, of the same...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he is aware of the difficulty experienced by Regular Service men in obtaining accommodation on discharge; and what proposals he now...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many local authorities have been informed that their completion rate has been so exceptional that their future housing programme must be reduced.
Colonel Clarke: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will offer a housing medal for outstanding examples of improvement or conversion.
Mr. Watkins: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will make a statement as to the action he has taken to enable rural district councils to contribute to a tourist and...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will set up a National Advisory Council on town and country planning.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will now apply the water code of the Water Act, 1945, to the Southend Waterworks Company.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government when he expects to announce his decisions upon the London Development Plan.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government why planning approval was given to the Old Workhouse at Madron, Penzance, being used as a slaughterhouse.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government regarding what post-war projects in the city of London he has overruled objections by the Royal Fine Art Commission; and on what grounds.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if, in view of the recently published report of Dr. Richard Scorer of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, on the subject of...
asked the Minister of Works what recommendations, since the recent destruction of the Normanton Barrows, he has received from the Council for British Archaeology, with a view to preventing...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will now make a statement upon the intentions of Her Majesty's Government in regard to the recommendations of the Select Committee upon Nationalised...
asked the Prime Minister if he will give details of the membership of the party which accompanied him on his recent trip to the United States of America; and what was the total cost of this...
asked the Prime Minister if he will give details of the rule concerning the relinquishment of all outside financial interests by members of Her Majesty's Government on appointment to their...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will invite Herr Adenauer to London to discuss with him the problems arising from the fact that the European Defence Community Treaty has not yet been ratified...
asked the Prime Minister if he will consider transferring the duties of the Minister of Supply relating to experiments in bacteriological warfare from the Minister of Supply to the Minister of...
asked the Prime Minister whether the case of Ireland was under discussion between himself and President Eisenhower before signing the recent statement on the principle of unification of countries...
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement upon higher technological education. In July, 1953, I invited the University Grants Committee, in consultation with the...
The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneyeroft): With the permission of the House, I should like to make a short statement on the talks which I had in Washington last week with Mr....
Proceedings on Government Business exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House).—[The Prime Minister.]
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the establishment of a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries with special responsibility for...
"to provide for the establishment of a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries with special responsibility for fishery; and for purposes connected therewith,"...
Order read for consideration, as amended (in the Standing Committee).
I beg to move, in page 13, line 25, to leave out from the second "he," to the end of line 38, and to insert: (a) derives title to the claim holding from a person who would have been entitled to...
I beg to move, in page 22, to leave out lines 33 to 43, and to insert: and(b) such fraction of the value of any claim holding whose area includes that land as attaches to that land; and the...
I beg to move, in page 27, line 5, to leave out from "operations," to the end of line 7. This is really the first of a series of Amendments, to which we shall come in due course, put forward in...
(1) Notwithstanding anything in Part I of this Act, no person shall be entitled to a payment under section six, eight, nine, eleven or twelve of this Act by virtue of a disposition between...
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Central Land Board shall, upon application therefor being made to them at any time by any person, and may at any time, if they think fit,...
(1) In section nineteen of the principal Act (which imposes on a local authority an obligation to purchase land in certain circumstances) after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the...
I beg to move, in page 3, line 14, at the end, to insert: (6) References in this Act to the amount of an established, claim are references to the amount determined, whether before or after the...
Amendment made: In page 3, line 15, leave out Clause 2.—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
I beg to move, in page 3, line 41, to leave out "section, in this Act references," and to insert "Act, references therein." This is a drafting Amendment. The value of claim holdings is affected...
I beg to move, in page 7, line 23, to leave out from the first "was" to "to," and to insert: entitled in the same capacity both to the claim holding and. This is the first of a series of...
I beg to move, in page 11, line 11, to leave out from "section," to the first "the," in line 14. The words in brackets, and the similar words in subsection (4) of the Clause and subsection (5)...
Amendments made: In page 11, line 43, leave out from first "was," to "to." and insert: entitled in the same capacity both to the claim holding and.
I beg to move, in page 12, line 34, after "entitled," to insert "in the same capacity." This Amendment and the next one substitute for the present subsection (3) the form of words which we have...
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I beg to move, in page 18, line 17, to leave out from "requiring," to "and," in line 20, and to insert: the Board, in a case where the determination of such an application involves an...
Amendment made: In page 21, line 3, leave out from "treated," to "into," in line 4, and insert: as having been divided immediately before the commencement of this Act."—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
I beg to move, in page 22, line 20, at the end, to insert: and for the purposes of this Act, new development shall be taken to be initiated— (a) if the development consists of the carrying...
I beg to move, in page 22, line 45, to leave out from "an," to the end of line 18, on page 23, and to insert: original unexpended balance of established development value, then, subject to the...
I beg to move, in page 24, line 26, to leave out from the beginning, to second "that," in line 32, and to insert: at the time of that decision he is entitled to an interest in any land to which...
I beg to move, in page 25, line 36 to leave out from "following," to the end of line 46, on page 26, and to insert: subsection, where a person is entitled to compensation under this Part of this...
I beg to move, in page 27, line 7, at the end, to insert: (c) for any development on land adjacent to or contiguous with land on which is situate any building listed under section thirty of the...
I beg to move, in page 28, line 20, to leave out from "land," to the end of line 10, on page 29, and to insert: if, notwithstanding that refusal, there is available with respect to that land...
Amendment made: In page 30, line 28, leave out from beginning, to end of line 36, on page 31.—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
I beg to move, in page 34, line 4, after "to," to insert: the local circumstances affecting the proposed development, including the use which prevails generally in the case of contiguous or...
I beg to move, in page 34, line 7, to leave out from "shall," to the end of line 14, and to insert: if so required by the local planning authority to whose decision the direction relates or by...
Amendments made: In page 34, line 45, leave out from "and," to end of line 4, on page 35, and insert: if his findings include an apportionment, to give particulars of the apportionment to any...
I beg to move, in page 37, line 26, to leave out from "development," to the first "in," in line 30, and to insert: (a) to which section twenty-four of this Act applies; or(b) which consists in...
Amendment made: In page 40, line 17, leave out from "interest," to end of line 20.—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
I beg to move, in page 42, line 21, to leave out from "applicant," to the second "whether," in line 22, and to insert: within twenty-eight days of the receipt of the application, stating whether...
Amendment made: In page 43, line 43, after "assessed." insert: in respect of an interest in land."—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
Amendments made: In page 44, line 21, at beginning, insert "any of."
Amendment made: In page 46, line 9, leave out "whose interests appear," and insert: entitled to an interest in land which appears."—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
Amendments made: In page 48, line 35, after "land," insert: to which the planning decision or order related.
I beg to move, in page 49, to leave out lines 4 to 13, and to insert: or order as is mentioned in the last preceding section if he is entitled to an interest in any qualified land and the value...
Amendment made: In page 49, line 28, leave out "section," and insert "sub-section."—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
I beg to move, in page 54, line 22, to leave out from "workers," to "the," in line 23. 8.45 p.m. The House will recall that under an arrangement for dealing with cottages for agricultural...
I beg to move, in page 58, line 23, at the end, to insert: (d) the interest was acquired pursuant to a purchase notice resulting from a planning decision made before the eighteenth day of...
I beg to move, in page 75, line 4, after "to," to insert: (a) a claim holding which is subject to a mortgage, or which was so subject at a time specified in the regulation; or(b). This Amendment...
I beg to move, in page 77, line 11, at the end, to insert: compulsory acquisition" does not include the vesting in a person by an Act of Parliament of property previously vested in some other...
I beg to move, in page 80, line 42, to leave out subsection (3), and to insert: (3) Any order made under the last preceding subsection shall be made by statutory instrument and may, at any time...
Amendment made: in page 88, line 32, leave out Schedule 4.—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
Amendment made: In page 90, line 29, leave out Schedule 6.—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
Amendment made: In page 91, line 33, leave out Schedule 8.—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
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Amendment made: In page 97, line 18, column 3, at end, insert: and subsection (4) of section one hundred and nineteen."—[Mr. H. Macmillan.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Kaberry.]
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