Tuesday, 6 March 1956
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
Second Reading deferred till Tuesday next.
asked the Minister of Labour if he will review the case of 23168284 Private E. Stonehouse who in October, 1954, volunteered for the Army, was given grade IV and rejected; in January, 1955, was...
asked the Minister of Labour how many men possessing a science degree have been called up in the last two years; and, in view of the fact that during their two years' National Service they lose...
Mr. Watkins: asked the Minister of Labour whether he will give consideration to placing agricultural workers born in 1933 or later in the same category as those born before 1933 so that they...
asked the Minister of Labour the latest available figures of short-time working and total unemployment in Stoke-on-Trent; and if he will give similar figures for the pottery industry only.
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will make a statement on the research that is being conducted by his factory inspectorate on the industrial hazards associated with the process of welding,...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of men and women, respectively, who are at present unemployed in the Shettleston Division of Glasgow; the numbers under fifty-five years of age; and the...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed in the radio industry at the latest convenient date.
asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the rising redundancy of motor workers in Coventry; and what action he is taking to maintain these men in employment.
asked the Minister of Labour how many adult male wage earners were getting less than £10 17s. 5d. per week in April, 1955.
asked the Minister of Labour when he proposes to establish a Remploy factory in Scotland for persons suffering from tuberculosis.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware that the Rejection Scheme of the Herring Industry Board as now framed precludes fish merchants on the East Coast of Scotland from its...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware of the disquiet in Scotland about the new anti-poliomyelitis vaccine recently recommended there by the Department of Health for Scotland;...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the Finance Acts, 1942 and 1946, empower licensing authorities to grant certificates in suspense for the transfer of licences...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how he defines the term fresh egg for the purpose of egg marketing schemes in Scotland.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what salary is to be paid to the chairman of the Cumbernauld New Town Development Corporation.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of nurses at present required in Glasgow: and what proposals are made to overcome the shortage.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether, in his report on industry in Scotland, he is able to record any progress in getting new industries into the Development Areas of Stirlingshire...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware of the handicap to the development of new towns because of the relatively abnormal burden of rent and rates necessarily involved under...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland to make a statement on the loss of timber in Scotland due to the gale on the night of 1st January, 1956.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many herrings landed at Ullapool, Gairloch, Kyle and Inverness from October, 1955, to the latest available date were sold for human consumption, and...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many mentally-defective persons are awaiting admission to an institution in each of the areas covered by a regional board; and what is the extent of...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of overseas visitors to Scotland last summer; and the principal countries from which they came.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the terms of the reply which he is sending to warders who have protested to him against the abolition of the death penalty.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how the South of Scotland Electricity Board's programme of rural electrification will be affected by recently announced cuts in capital expenditure.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has now given consideration to a proposal put forward by Dunbar and certain other burghs for the staggering of school holidays.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland which education authorities are in arrears in their school-building programmes; what is the extent of arrears in each case; and what are the causes for...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland to what extent he estimates recent rises in the rate of interest will affect house building in Scotland.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many persons have been killed or injured by the collapse of dwellinghouses in Glasgow in each year since 1945.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland, since it appears from his annual returns for housing for 1953, 1954 and 1955 that local authorities had completed 35,992, 35,331 and 29,278 houses,...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate the increased cost over sixty years of financing the slum clearance programme detailed in table II of Command Paper No. 9685, taking...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many local authorities' proposals for the demolition or repair of unfit houses have been approved with and without modification.
asked the Prime Minister what discussions he had with President Eisenhower on the stationing of the United States Air Force in this country.
May I ask the Leader of the House if he has any statement to make on business?
Proceedings of the Committees on Restrictive Trade Practices [Money] and on Teachers (Superannuation) [Money] (No. 2) exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1...
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 84 (Money Committees).—[Queen' s Recommendation signified.]
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 84 (Money Committees).—[Queen's Recommendation signified.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Godber.]
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