Wednesday, 28 March 1956
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he is aware of the continued decrease in rural transport services in the County of Northumberland; and what plans he has for dealing with the...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he will publish a White Paper on the talks he had with the British Transport Commission which led it to withdraw its applications to the...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he is yet in a position to say if it is intended to introduce a 40 miles-per-hour speed limit on the Great West Road.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what remuneration is given to the members of the Scottish Transport Council.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will give a general direction to the traffic commissioners to relax their restrictions in granting permits for buses to operate without...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation the numbers of fatal road accidents in the second half of 1955 in built-up areas, and open country roads, respectively; the number in which...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what will be the estimated loss of trade to the Port of Cardiff caused by putting part of the cold store at Cardiff Docks out of service.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he has now received the interim Report of the panel of experts examining the Forth tube crossing; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation the amount of the grant which has been promised towards the reconstruction of Bencoolen Bridge, at Bude; and when the work is to begin.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he will include in the regular official statistics relating to road accidents, the quarterly figures of persons killed or seriously...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he is aware of the danger caused to school children crossing the main Cardiff-Swansea trunk road at Ely, Cardiff; and whether he will...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what reply he has sent to the memorandum submitted to him by the Industrial Association of Wales and Monmouthshire concerning the serious...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation the total commitments to date under the new roads programme; and the present rate of expenditure.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what is being done about motorways in the new roads programme.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what representations he received about the commandant's suite at London Airport; what alterations were made as a result of these...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will state the reasons given to him which caused Sir Miles Thomas to resign from the chairmanship of British Overseas Airways Corporation.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he will report on his talks with the Chairman of the British Transport Commission on the question of pensions for railway superannuitants.
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asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will now make a statement about the progress of negotiations with regard to the electrification of railways in south-west Scotland.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation the extent of the savings he anticipates will be achieved by greater efficiency in the running of the railways during the next six months.
asked the Minister of Defence how many additional men he requires to be recruited to the Forces before abolishing National Service.
asked the Minister of Defence if he will arrange for the setting up of camp councils in the Services, on the basis of the Whitley Councils, composed of officers, non-commissioned officers and men...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how far, as a result of the recent consultation between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, the United States Government, and the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what further progress has been made in the discussions in Washington about methods of implementing the Tripartite Declaration on the dispute...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make a further statement on negotiations with Jordan.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what further action Her Majesty's Government now propose to take through the United Nations in order to secure a relaxation of tension in the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when the China Committee of the Paris Consultative Group is to discuss the ban on export of commercial vehicles to China; and what view is to be...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what diplomatic channels were used to facilitate the return to Formosa of the Chinese Nationalist airmen whose aeroplane crashed on Hong Kong...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many Soviet security police are to be admitted to this country on the occasion of the visit of Mr. Khrushchev and Marshal Bulganin.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will make a statement on his recent discussions with G. M. Malenkov, the Minister of Fuel and Power in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
(by Private Notice)asked the Secretary of State for Air if he has any statement to make about the incident yesterday morning when an Elizabethan Airliner bound from Belfast to London suffered a...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he can state the business for the first week after the Easter Recess?
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I will make a statement on Malta. As my right hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary told the House in Monday's debate, the Government...
Proceedings of the Committee on Slum Clearance (Compensation) [Money] and on the Pensions (Increase) Bill exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of...
House to meet Tomorrow at Eleven o'clock; no Questions to be taken after Twelve o'clock; and at Five o'clock Mr. Speaker to adjourn the House without putting any Question.—[The Prime Minister.]
House, at its rising Tomorrow, to adjourn till Tuesday, 10th April.—[The Prime Minister.]
Order for Second Reading read.
5.30 p.m.
Question again proposed. That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question:—
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 84 (Money Committees)—[Queen's Recommendation signified.]
Order for consideration, as amended (in the Standing Committee), read.
10.19 p.m.
Further Amendments made: In page 6, line 30, leave out "appointed day" and insert "passing of this Act."
Amendment made, in page 11, line 22, leave out from second "the" to end of line 23 and insert: first day of April, nineteen hundred and fiftysix."—[Mr. H. Brooke.]
Amendment made: In page 12, line 37, leave out from "shall" to end of line 38 and insert: be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fiftysix."—[Mr....
Amendment made: In page 15, line 2, leave out "on the appointed day" and insert: at the passing of this Act."—[Mr. H. Brooke.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Oakshott.]
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