Thursday, 26 February 1959
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
For Belfast, East, in room of Lieut.-Colonel Alan John McKibbin, O.B.E., deceased.—[Mr. Heath.]
Read the Third time and passed.
Consideration, as amended, deferred till Monday next.
Second Reading deferred till Thursday, 12th March.
Read a Second time and committed.
asked (1) the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will now indicate an approximate date by which the discussions with the local authorities' associations about civil defence...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the 50 hydrogen bombs assumed, in the civil defence exercises conducted on 11th May in Preston, Birmingham, and Leeds, to have...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total sum of money spent on civil defence since the date when Her Majesty's Government first announced their intention of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will revise the instructions in the 1956 pamphlet on Radio-Active Fallout, No. 2 of Volume I, of the Civil Defence Manual, relating...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposals he has to bring up to date the warning system, outlined in pamphlet No. 2 of Volume 1 of the Civil Defence Manual published in...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent, in view of the Government's recognition of the impossibility of defending the civil population and their policy of trying to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures he has taken to prevent confusion in the civil defence services following the bogus news report issued on commercial television...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will issue a general directive that warders present at interviews between prisoners on remand and their relations and legal...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the amount of grant to be given in the next financial year to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents for...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what further progress he has made in his discussions with regard to the law relating to suicide; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what date he asked the National Farmers' Union for its views on increasing the period of Summer Time; and when he hopes to receive its answer.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what improvements in the salary scales of child-care officers have been made in the last 10 years; and what steps have been taken by his...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent a record is kept in his Department of cases in which persons who have received threats of blackmail in respect of offences they...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women were sentenced to terms of imprisonment in England and Wales in 1958; and what is the total accommodation for women prisoners.
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what he estimates would be the total cost of raising the pensions of retired members, widows, and orphans of Her Majesty's Overseas...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will make a statement on the official discussions which have taken place with the Government of Ceylon and the Maldivian...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will now make a statement regarding economic development in Bechuanaland, including the exploitation of the recently discovered...
Mr. Johnson: asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations to what extent it is his intention to change the system of examinations for university matriculation in Basutoland, so...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations how many students from Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland are being educated at this time at Roma College, University College at...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what encouragement is being given by the Government of Swaziland to the development of the co-operative movement and the training of...
asked the Minister of Education how many local authorities have established joint committees with the voluntary associations concerned with the youth services for providing recreational, social...
asked the Minister of Education whether he will make a statement on the inspection of Kenbury House School.
asked the Minister of Education whether he is aware that Northampton Grammar School has been advertising three mathematics and one science vacancy and have had only one applicant, that, in 1954,...
asked the Minister of Education what estimate he has made of the cost to public funds of implementing the principle that any boy or girl winning a State scholarship to a school or university...
asked the Minister of Education what teachers' training colleges he expects will be obliged to close as a result of their exclusion from the national scheme of expansion; and whether he is...
asked the Minister of Education whether he has yet studied the Report of the Committee on the Public Library Service; and what action he proposes to take.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will ascertain the approximate number of new bilateral trade agreements of which brief particulars have been published in the International Trade...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any inquiries have yet been made about the textile mill closed several months ago at Prinlaws, Fife.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what recommendations he has received from the Welsh Board of Industry with regard to the introduction of industries or other schemes for dealing with...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will make it a condition of his grant to the Dollar Export Council that Wales should have representatives on the Dollar Exports Council.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what value of the goods to be exchanged in the trade arrangements recently made between the Federation of British Industries and its counterpart in East...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what barter deals have been made in recent months with Commonwealth and foreign countries; to what extent this method of trading has increased; and for...
asked the Prime Minister if he will move for a Select Committee to consider to what extent the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act, 1921, is adequate for the investigation of situations of the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to what extent he now intends to alter the methods of providing capital for the nationalised industries.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to complete the financial agreement at present being negotiated with the Government of the United Arab Republic.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many resolutions have been received by his Department from local authorities regarding the high rates of interest paid to the Public Works Loan Board;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what are the terms of his approval for the adjustment of the boundaries of the two native reserves in Northern Rhodesia known as Tonga Magoya and...
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether he will make a statement on the reported explosion and fire at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston.
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will state the business for next week?
[Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Amendment to Question [25th February:]: That this House approves the Report on the Progress of the Five-Year Defence Plan contained in Command Paper...
10.12 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed,That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. E. Wakefield.]
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