Tuesday, 14 April 1959
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is now in a position to make a statement concerning the progress made by the British Standards Institution on a national approvals scheme...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will take steps to provide credit facilities extending over a greater period than five years for foreign firms and institutions purchasing capital...
asked the President of the Board of Trade the respective percentage increases in labour productivity in the United Kingdom jute manufacturing industry during 1958, and in the United Kingdom...
asked the President of the Board of Trade when he expects to be able to announce the membership of the Committee appointed to consider the whole question of consumer protection.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps the Government have taken in the last seven years to stimulate trade between the United Kingdom and Canada; and what success their efforts...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that highly-skilled machine tool workers in Coventry are being laid off and in consequence are having to look for less skilled work;...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on the nature and kind of Scottish products which will be on exhibition at the forthcoming Lisbon Trade Exhibition.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware of the extensive expont trade between Scotland and the East, West and Centre of Africa, particularly in fish; and what steps he is taking...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has now completed his consideration of the Report of the Bankruptcy Law Amendment Committee; and if he will make a statement.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware of the opposition of shopkeepers to the operation of Section 25 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, which provides for the individual...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that, despite the termination of the registered restrictive trading agreement relating to cast iron pipes, 31st December, 1958, the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade how many licences he has already granted for the importation of oil from Russia; for what quantity; how many other applications have been made for...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will arrange for a number of practical businessmen who are directly interested in East-West trade to visit Moscow as part of the trade mission he...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that, under the trade agreement signed in Paris on 22nd December, 1958, between France and Poland, there is provision for the export...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any further statement to make regarding efforts to set aside engineering and power plant contracts obtained by British firms in the United...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will make a further statement in respect of the inter-Governmental negotiations between Great Britain and France concerning trade relations.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will state, in respect of imports Class D Division 15 (Machinery other than electric) and Class D Division 16 (Electrical machinery, apparatus...
asked the President of the Board of Trade how many jobs were provided by new industrial buildings and extensions completed in the first quarter of 1959; and how many more jobs he expects to see...
asked the President of the Board of Trade the percentage increase in the value of United Kingdom exports of motor cars to the United States of America between 1948 and 1958.
asked the President of the Board of Trade to what proportionate extent United Kingdom trade with Poland has risen since 1951.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps Her Majesty's Government have taken in the last seven years to increase trade between the United Kingdom and India and what success these...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will include the areas covered by the Farnworth and Walkden Employment Exchanges in the list of areas where Government assistance under the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade how many industrial development certificates have been issued since 30th September, 1958, in respect of the area represented by the hon. Member for...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is now in a position to announce a favourable decision on the application by the Inch-green Investigating Company Limited for financial assistance in...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much of the £1,970 million provided by the United Kingdom in loans and Government grants to Commonwealth and other countries was provided in the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the cost in loss of revenue in a full year of exempting pottery from Purchase Tax.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the additional annual cost to the Exchequer of amendment of Section 3 of the Vehicle Excise Act, 1949, so as to provide that the maximum duty chargeable on...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will take steps to reduce long-term interest rates, having regard to the circumstance that they have not fallen to an extent consistent with the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will appoint a committee to inquire into the comparative profitability of the nationalised electricity and gas industries, British European...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what would be the cost of extending the tax-free allowance in respect of cinema admissions from Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d., assuming the balance is divided as at...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give an assurance that, in the investigations prior to the introduction of a new Pensions (Increase) Bill and a fresh Royal Warrant, the cases of...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps are taken to preserve the confidential nature of Income Tax returns when they are disposed of.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what action he has taken under the Clean Air Act, 1956, and earlier legislation to reduce atmospheric pollution...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
asked the Prime Minister whether he has considered the copy of the Charter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament delivered to him on Easter Monday; and what reply he proposes to make to the...
asked the Prime Minister to what extent this country has been affected by the recent increase in radioactive fall-out following the Russian and United States tests; and whether he will make a...
asked the Prime Minister if he will publish the text of letters recently exchanged between himself and the Chancellor of the German Federal Republic.
Henry John Brewis, Esquire, for Galloway.
Bill to confirm a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the application or management of the Charity called the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene and other Charities in the City and County of...
Bill to confirm a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the application or management of the Charity known as the Hospital of St. Nicholas, in the City of Salisbury, presented by Sir Hugh...
Bill to confirm a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the application or management of the Charity known as Jesus Hospital at Rothwell, in the County of Northampton, presented by Sir Hugh...
Bill to confirm a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the application or management of the Charity known as Poor's Coal Charity, in the Ancient Parish of Wavendon, in the Counties of...
Proceedings on the Factories Bill exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House).—[Mr. R. A. Butler]
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
Where running repairs to locomotives are carried out in any premises used for the purposes of a railway undertaking paragraph (vi) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and fifty-one of the...
At the end of subsection (1) of section twenty-five of the principal Act (which requires floors, steps, stairs, passages and gangways to be of sound construction and properly maintained) there...
In subsection (1) of section twenty-six of the principal Act (which requires safe means of access to every place of work) there shall be added, at the end, the words " and every such place shall...
In subsection (1) of section twenty-eight of the principal Act (which requires certain precautions where dust liable to explode on ignition may escape into any workroom) the words " into any...
The facilities required by subsection (1) of section forty-two of the principal Act shall include a supply of hot and cold or of warm water.—[Mr. Iain Macleod.]
The Minister may by special regulations prescribe that any factory employing more than one hundred persons on any shift shall include canteen facilities of a kind and general description...
I beg to move, in page 1, line 10, to leave out "less than three" and insert "more than seven ". The Amendment gives effect to an undertaking which I gave in Committee, and is in two parts....
I beg to move, in page 2, line 1, to leave out "plank ". I want to assure the House that there is no sinister significance in our proposal to omit the word "plank ". This will, as the House will...
I beg to move, in page 3, line 20, at the beginning to insert: Subject to subsection (4) of this section". I think that it would be convenient if we could take the next two Amendments together...
I beg to move, in page 4, line 38. to leave out from " examination " to " may " in line 43 and to insert " but the regulations ". Perhaps we might take with this Amendment the Amendments in line...
I beg to move, in page 5, line 22, at the beginning to insert: (1) The council of the county or county borough shall, as respects England and Wales, be substituted for the district council...
I beg to move, in page 6, line 27, at the end to insert: which shall be so placed as to be readily available for use". This Amendment is to give effect to the undertaking about the siting of...
I beg to move, in page 7, line 11, to leave out paragraph (c) and to insert: (c) for subsection (7) (which in the case of certain factories requires the provision of fire warnings) there shall be...
I beg to move, in page 8, line 17, to leave out from " of " to " duties " and to insert: reporting to the inspector on any matter falling within the inspector's ".
Mr Macleod: I beg to move, in page 8, line 32, to leave out certain ".
I beg to move, in page 9, line 36, to leave out " by order ".
The two Amendments to the Clause seem to go with the new Schedule— (Modifications of certain provisions in relation to factories occupying parts of buildings). Perhaps they can all he taken...
I beg to move, in page 12, line 23, at the end to insert: and for the purpose of investigating such problems he may provide and maintain such laboratories and other services as appear to him...
I beg to move, in rage 13, line 25, to leave out " ten " and to insert " fifteen." We now come to a group of seven Amendments. Earlier, there were two conflicting arguments, one which I put...
Amendment made: In page 14, line 23, at end insert: and any provision made by such an order which could have been made by special regulations under section eighteen of this Act shall be deemed,...
Amendment made: In page 14, line 34, leave out from "Act" to shall." [Mr. Iain Macleod.]
Amendments made: In page 14, line 42, leave out from second "Act" to end of line 44.
1. Where a factory which is part of a building is either (a).a part of a tenement factory; or(b)a part let off as a separate factory but not a part of a tenement factory, the owner of the...
I beg to move, in page 16, line 7, column 3, to leave out " £200 "and insert" £400". May we take this together with the next two Amendments, in page 16, line 8, column 3, leave out "...
Amendments made: In page 16, line 31, column 3, at beginning insert: In section twenty-eight, in subsection (1), the words " into any workroom
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Colonel J. H. Harrison.]
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