Monday, 5 March 1956
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
To be read a Second time Tomorrow.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is now in a position to make a statement on legislation to increase the grants payable for the building of new trawlers.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is aware of the decline in the number of stocks of bees kept in Hampshire and elsewhere during recent years, with a consequent...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what decision has been reached in respect to the banning of dyed kippers on health grounds.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is aware that the price cocoa manufacturers have been paying for beans from West Africa has dropped from 4s. 8d. to 2s. 3d. a lb....
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is now in a position to make a statement concerning the talks on the Anglo-Danish bacon agreement resumed at the Ministry of...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state the date, place and agenda of the latest meeting of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea; if he will...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many visits were paid by his inspectors, in 1955, to knackeries and horse-slaughterhouses; what proportion of the licensed premises this...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will now announce changes in the Slaughter of Animals (Prevention of Cruelty) Regulations, 1954, so as to vary the powers of...
Mr. Vane: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many bulls were exported during 1955 to the North and South American continents; and what proportion were valued at less than...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will take steps to encourage importers to buy more wheat from Australia and other Commonwealth countries and less from Argentina and...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what proportions of supplies of shell eggs consumed in 1955 and 1938 were home-produced; and what estimate he has made of the saving in...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether his attention has been called to the continued sale to housewives of old stocks of canned milk sold by his Department for animal...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what financial effect he estimates the 10 per cent, import duty on Danish bacon will have on the amount of the subsidy for home pig production.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what progress has been made in the establishment of pig progeny testing stations to select the most economical strains for high-grade bacon...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what percentage of bacon, pork, eggs, beef, mutton, and lamb, respectively, were home-produced in 1938 and 1955; from which countries the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is aware of the large areas of arable land being flooded through mining subsidence; and whether he will take action to save the...
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what progress has been made in experiments to prevent or cure the common cold; and what action is contemplated in...
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what progress has been made by the Medical Research Council in its experiments into the effect of engine exhaust...
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Lord President of the Council, if he will make a statement on the most recent results of the researches into lung cancer.
Mr. B. Harrison: asked the Minister of Health how many mentally-defective children are waiting for a place in a suitable institution in Essex; and the average time of waiting.
asked the Minister of Health if he will state, to the latest convenient date, the average sum allowed for food per patient's diet day, in mental hospitals and mental deficiency establishments,...
asked the Minister of Health what estimate he has made of the number of patients, aged 65 years and over, now in mental hospitals who would, subject to decertification where necessary, be...
asked the Minister of Health what percentage of all hospital beds in England and Wales are used for mental and mentally-deficient patients; and, in 1954–55, what proportion of the total...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the farm which adjoins the Towers Hospital, Leicester, cost the Leicester City Council about £18,000 and that farm stock, worth a...
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the extravagant claims made by some toothpaste manufacturers and of the concern felt by the British Dental Association; and whether, as such claims...
asked the Minister of Health (1) in view of the fact that in most cases pneumoconiosis develops very slowly among mine workers and other workers exposed by inhalation of noxious dusts and that...
asked the Minister of Health how many beds, formerly occupied by cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, are now unoccupied in the sanatoria serving north Staffordshire; and what arrangements have been...
asked the Minister of Health how many patients were on the waiting list for orthopaedic treatment, at the nearest convenient date, in the Oldham Royal Infirmary; what delay occurs in admitting...
asked the Minister of Health how many beds have been closed in Batley General Hospital and in Staincliffe General Hospital, respectively, on account of a shortage of nursing staff.
asked the Minister of Health how many nurses are needed to meet the normal requirements in the hospitals under the management of the Dewsbury, Batley and Mirfield Hospital Management Committee.
(by Private Notice)asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the provisions of the agreement between this country and Jordan that a number of senior officers should be attached to the Arab...
I can now make a statement on Cyprus, which is necessarily rather a long one. I recognise that hon. Members on both sides of the House have exercised great forbearance in not pressing for a...
Edward Charles Redhead, esquire, for Walthamstow, West.
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. 1 (Sittings of the House).—[Mr. Birch.]
[5TH ALLOTTED DAY]
Order for Committee read.
7.14 p.m.
Resolved, That a number of officers, airmen and airwomen, not exceeding 257,000, all ranks, be maintained for Air Force Service, during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1957.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Wills.]
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And sometimes to shout at each other.
