Monday, 19 November 1956
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Address for Returnshowing the number of offences relating to motor vehicles in England and Wales, the number of persons prosecuted for such offences, the results of the proceedings in...
asked the Minister of Health if he will make a further statement on his proposal to increase the charges for National Health prescriptions in view of the Government's policy of keeping prices and...
asked the Minister of Health why Her Majesty's Government were neither represented nor sent any message to the International Conference on Alcohol and Alcoholism, held this autumn at Istanbul on...
asked the Minister of Health how many unfilled places in the dental schools of this country exist at present; and, in view of the shortage of dental surgeons which is likely to increase, what...
asked the Minister of Health what further evidence he has received about the connection between smoking and lung cancer: and what action he is taking thereon.
asked the Minister of Health what consideration he has given to the list of life-saving drugs, combined with the appropriate diseases for which they are a recognised cure, submitted to him by the...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Food Hygiene Regulations which have recently come into force make refrigeration a virtual necessity for healthy catering; that the...
asked the Minister of Health what are the criteria by which the Medical Practices Committee judge the value of a doctor's house, when asked to give a certificate under the provisions of Section...
asked the Minister of Health what assistance and advice in this country is made available to immigrants from Eire and the Commonwealth countries to protect them from infection from pulmonary...
asked the Minister of Health why a box of important documents taken by Mrs. Harriet Thornton to Cane Hill Mental Hospital was allowed to remain in a ward for three and a half years despite...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is now able to make a statement regarding the installation of mechanical stoking boilers in the St. Luke's Hospital, Rugby.
asked the Minister of Health what record he keeps of patients who enter hospital as voluntary patients and who are subsequently certified while in hospital; and what is the number of such...
asked the Minister of Health when the plans for a new dental hospital were forwarded to him by the United Birmingham Hospitals Board; and what modifications of the plans have been suggested by him.
asked the Minister of Health what steps were taken to trace the brother and other relatives living in Leeds, of Mr. E. Murtagh, who died in St. Luke's Hospital, Bradford, on 10th October; and if...
asked the Minister of Health how many beds are available in Stoke-on-Trent for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis; and whether sufferers from pneumoconiosis and other disease of the lungs...
asked the Minister of Health what limitations are placed, under his regulations, upon the entitlement of part-time consultants to payment for travelling-time and travelling expenses to and from...
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Lord President of the Council, if he will publish the amount of the grant which the Government has made in the latest five years, showing each...
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what steps he is taking to stimulate research into mental disorder and to encourage the entry of research workers,...
asked the Minister Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the terms of the most recent communication from Her Majesty's Government to the United States of America in regard to the operation of...
asked the Minister Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will now arrange to have referred to the International Court at The Hague, as a dispute for legal settlement, the action of...
asked the Minister Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when the next meeting of the Bagdad Pact Powers will be held; and if he will make a statement of policy on this matter.
asked the Minister Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement about the safety of those British civilians who were in Egypt during the recent Anglo-French military...
asked the Minister Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will now make a statement giving details of the arms supplied to Egypt in the last five years.
The following Questions stood upon the Order Paper:
Bill to make provision for disqualifying the holders of specified offices for membership of the House of Commons, and to repeal the enactments providing for the disqualification of the holders of...
Proceedings on Government Business exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House).—[Mr. R. A. Butler.]
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 84 [Money Committees].—[Queen's Recommendation signified.]
Considered in Committee.
6.17 p.m.
6.45 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed. That the Draft Census of Distribution (1958) (Restriction on Disclosure) Order, 1956, a copy of which was laid before this House on 6th November, be...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Col. J. H. Harrison.]
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