Thursday, 19 February 1959
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Second Reading deferred till Thursday next.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has considered the petition sent to him, signed by over eighty farmers in the Marsh-chapel area, Lincolnshire, protesting against the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he is aware of the large numbers of sheep killed by traffic on roads crossing the Cleveland moors; and whether he will take steps, in...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is yet in a position to make a statement on the Heneage Committee's Report of 1951.
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the landed price of imported Spanish carnations per lb. as compared with the price of the British produced product.
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will use his powers under the Food and Drugs Act to prevent imported foreign cheese being described as Cheshire;...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what steps he is taking to ensure that there is a sufficient importation of potatoes in augmentation of home supplies to permit a reduction...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the total number of sows and gilts for breeding at the latest available date and the corresponding figure twelve months earlier.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the consumption of beef in the United Kingdom for the last six months and the figure for the corresponding period twelve months ago.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in view of the unsatisfactory state of the land returned to several farmers at Goose Green, Wigan, after opencast coal operations, he...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when considering whether to permit the importation of Charollais bulls, if he will give due consideration to the official policy of the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the lack of evidence in his Department concerning children in clubs, he will take steps to check the evidence provided to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that doctors are still charging more than is recommended by the British Medical Association for the signing of cremation...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give the numbers of men who applied to enrol in the prison service in each year over the past five years, stating the number...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many child-care officers are employed in the United Kingdom; and what proportion of them have received special training for the work.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has had from police forces under his control concerning the undesirable influence of television programmes which...
Dr. Johnson: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that no review of the Carlisle experiment in State-owned public houses has been made for over twenty-five years;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he is proposing to take, following the deputation from the London County Council, to look into the position of all- night clubs.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are his grounds for extending to the London probation officers combined together in their professional association the rule requiring...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state his reasons for not authorising the removal of the air-raid shelters in Etruria Park, Hanley; and how these differ from...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that there is anxiety about the use of unqualified hairdressers, and that in every other major country there are...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he has given further consideration to the reservation of the right hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Gordon Walker), in Command Paper No....
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make available, in the prison libraries, copies of Command Paper No. 645, Penal Practice in a Changing Society, in order that any...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what would be the annual cost of granting uniform pensions to police constables and sergeants, irrespective of their date of retirement; and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will reconsider the rates of pension payable to the widows of police officers who die as the result of an attack.
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what grants have been made to the University College of Rhodesia from Colonial Development and Welfare Funds; and what grants it is...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations the number of schools in Basutoland belonging to the Paris Evangelical Mission Society and the Roman Catholic Mission Societies,...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations whether he will now make proposals for a constitutional advance in Bechuanaland similar to those recently announced for Basutoland.
asked the Minister of Education whether it is intended to review the scale on which school milk is at present supplied in the light of the recent report by his Chief Medical Officer on the health...
asked the Minister of Education what proposals and schemes for schools in Newcastle-under-Lyme he has under consideration in his Department which could be quickly started; and if, in view of the...
asked the Minister of Education whether he has now considered the Report of the Committee on Further Education for Agriculture provided by local authorities; and if he will now make a statement.
asked the Minister of Education if he will amend the pensions regulations so as to offer a superannuated teacher who, in the present emergency, goes back to teaching greater financial inducements...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will make a statement about Cyprus.
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware, that in spite of the need to increase production and reduce costs, the action, examples of which have been sent to him by the hon. Member for...
asked the Prime Minister what steps he has taken to coordinate the civil defence policies of the Home Department with those of the Ministry of Defence, so as to obviate the selection, as...
asked the Prime Minister what reply he has given to the Public Service Pensioners Council to its request for improvements in the pensions of public service pensioners.
asked the President of the Board of Trade to what extent it is possible, under the present regulations, for the import quota on Dutch bulbs to be avoided by the device of importing them by way of...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will specify the weight, value and kind of fish landed in British ports which were exported to Commonwealth and foreign countries, respectively,...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will now make a further statement on the progress of, and future expenditure on, the road programme in Scotland.
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will state the business for next week?
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a short statement on the case of John Waters. Now that both Houses of Parliament have passed the necessary Resolutions for the setting up of a...
I desire to make a short personal statement on a matter which concerns the House. I have decided, with regret, that I should not offer myself as a candidate at the next General Election. I have...
Bill to make further provision with respect to the development and welfare of colonies and other territories; presented by Mr. Lennox-Boyd; supported by Mr. Julian Amery and Mr. Simon; read the...
[2ND ALLOTTED DAY]
(VOTE ON ACCOUNT)
3.42 p.m.
6.0 p.m.
Again considered in Committee.
6.12 p.m.
7.7 p.m.
7.41 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Bryan.]
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