Thursday, 1 March 1956
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Second Reading deferred till Thursday next.
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 of the expressed opinion, clerical and lay, in favour of the abolition of capital punishment in Britain and if he will now take...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the rules at present in force governing the temporary admission of foreign students, particularly United States citizens, to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the fact that money has depreciated by so much of its pre-war value, he will consider legislation to treble the maximum fines...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if Her Majesty's Government will introduce legislation to outlaw those who are deemed to have committed a hostile act against the security of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many mothers with children under school-leaving age have been sent to prison during 1955 for neglecting such children.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent corporal punishment has increased or decreased in remand homes and approved schools in England and Wales during the last...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has now reached decisions on recommendations of the Working Party on Hackney carriages, and particularly the recommendation that...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why the police called at the home of Mr. Henry Charles Hanks at Grove-way, Brixton, on 22nd February last.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which cases a copy of the transcript of evidence taken under Section 16 of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, has been placed in the Library of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the grounds upon which he decides, in the case of a person wrongly convicted of, and sentenced for, the alleged commission of a criminal...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many West Indians are now resident in this country; and how many were admitted in 1955.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many full-time trained prison welfare officers, as recommended by the Maxwell Committee, are at present employed.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive the Report of the Council for Wales and Monmouth on the constitutional and administrative arrangements for Wales.
asked the Minister of Education if he can yet make a statement on the detailed discussions which have been taking place between his Department and the Cheshire Education Authority on the...
asked the Minister of Education whether he is aware that the provision of milk in schools in England and Wales now costs the Exchequer about £10 million per annum in England and Wales; that...
asked the Minister of Education if he has completed the review of his policy on the future pattern of the youth service; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister of Education (1) if he will give an estimate of the cost of the implementation, in their entirety, of the recommendations of the Departmental Committee's Report on maladjusted...
asked the Minister of Education how many Welsh language graduates obtained teaching appointments outside Wales in each of the last five years; and what steps he will take to en- sure that the...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
asked the Minister of Education whether he is aware of the destruction by fire of the youth club at Dunsville, near Doncaster; and whether he will make a grant available immediately for its...
asked the Minister of Education how many proposed new school buildings in the 1955 and 1956 programmes are being deferred; and what will be the effect of this on the programme for 1957.
asked the Minister of Education approximately how many teachers and schools have refused to collect contributions from their pupils for National Savings; how many have refused temporarily to...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations on what grounds Mr. Fleischack, a solicitor of Johannesburg, was refused permission to represent in the district commissioner's...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what change he contemplates in his policy in relation to the duty-free quota-free imports of cotton cloth and yarns, consequent upon the representations...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will reconsider the hire-purchase conditions for motor-assisted pedal cycles with engines of less than 100 cubic centimetres capacity and...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that no check is made of the number of people emigrating by air from the United Kingdom to the Dominions and Colonial Territories, unlike...
asked the President of the Board of Trade why British car exports have fallen in January, 1956, compared with January, 1955, from 3,325 to 802 in Sweden, and from 1,327 to 66 in Denmark; and,...
asked the President of the Board of Trade, in view of the recent rapid increase in imports of cheap goods from the Colonies, especially of rainwear from Hong Kong, whether he will now take steps...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is satisfied that the factory space on the Pallion Trading Estate is being fully used; and if he will make a statement.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, under existing tariff arrangements as regards exports from this country, the 15 per cent. by which the United States Government is empowered to...
asked the Prime Minister if he is aware of the concern arising from the frequency with which substantial quantities of Government surplus stocks are disposed of at auction sales; and if he will...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will now call a conference of the heads of the nationalised boards, to be presided over by himself, with a view to obtaining agreement on a common wage policy...
asked the Prime Minister in view of the official claims advanced in certain quarters on behalf of Pashtunistan, if he will give a formal assurance that Her Majesty's Government acknowledge...
May I ask the Lord Privy Seal whether he will state the business for next week?
Ordered, That this day the Business of Supply may be taken after 10 o'clock and shall be exempted from the provisions of Standing Order No. I (Sittings of the House).—[The Prime Minister.]
[4TH ALLOTTED DAY]
Order for Committee read.
7.10 p.m.
Resolved, That a number of Land Forces, not exceeding 485,000, all ranks, be maintained for the safety of the United Kingdom and the defence of the possessions of Her Majesty's Crown, during the...
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Legh.]
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