Thursday, 16 April 1959
The House met at half-pastTwo o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read the Third time and passed.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress is being made in connection with his review of small fines in old statutes.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has now considered the situation created by the publication of the Casement diaries in Paris and New York and the forthcoming...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to set up the Departmental Committee for an inquiry into all aspects of the Probation Service; and what are the names of the...
To inquire into and make recommendations on: (a)all aspects of the Probation Service in England and Wales and in Scotland, including recruitment and training for the Service, its organization and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that about 150 prison medical officers who occupy Government-owned houses are having their rent put up under the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the normal time taken in dealing with petitions from prisoners; and to what extent the procedure can be accelerated.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive the final report of the Department of Criminal Science at Cambridge on the study of crimes of violence in the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions by the Metropolitan Police are pending arising out of the incidents, investigated by them, which involved approximately...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress he has made in his consultations with Commonwealth and colonial countries regarding the deportation of immigrants from such...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many British refugees from Egypt still await resettlement.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make a statement on the trend of crime during 1958 and the extra measures being taken to combat it.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that Attilio Messina, sentenced to prison for four years for living on the earnings of prostitution, has been living in...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on his recent meeting with the Joint Committee of the British Medical Association and the Magistrates'...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will inquire into the conditions under which monkeys imported into Great Britain are kept pending dispatch to laboratories engaged...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has considered the recommendation contained in paragraph 126 of the Wolfenden Report; and, in view of the confusion caused by the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent under his regulations divisional political parties are entitled to delete the address of the electoral registration officer on...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the increase in the number of murders, he will introduce legislation at once restoring hanging as a punishment for such crimes...
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he has approved the proposal of the Crown Estate Commissioners to allow the Royal College of Physicians to erect a new building on the site of Someries House,...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he received a communication expressing the anxiety of farmers and farm-workers concerning the lease of farms in Ashington,...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) why it was necessary for his Department to arrange for the collection of reactor animals on Easter Sunday for slaughter that day in...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) what are the reasons for his refusal to reappoint Mr. J. Craig to the East Sussex County Agricultural Executive Committee; (2) what...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will give an assurance that Her Majesty's Government do not recognize the right of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland...
asked the Under-Secretary of state for Commonwealth Relations what conclusions were reached in the recent official discussions between the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and the...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what progress has been made in reaching agreement with the Maldive Government for the building of a Royal Air Force staging post on...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations whether he will convene a Commonwealth Conference at an early date to examine ways and means by which Great Britain and the other...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if Her Majesty's Government will consult with State members of the Commonwealth in Australasia, Asia and Africa when constitutional...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what guarantees were given by Her Majesty's Government to former officers of the Indian Army who volunteered to serve in Pakistan...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will now report on developments in Bechuanaland towards the establishment of a legislative council.
asked the Minister of Education whether he has received the petition signed by 5,698 people urging the replacement of the existing building of Saint Bede's Roman Catholic Primary School,...
asked the Minister of Education what arrangements he has made for road safety precautions to be taught in schools.
asked the Minister of Education if he is aware of the objections of the mayors of Hereford, Salisbury, Maidenhead and Winchester to the recommendations contained in the Roberts Report on the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the amount and proportion of Income Tax relief in his Budget which will accrue to the benefit of surtax payers.
Mrs. Butler: asked the Prime Minister when the Committee appointed by the Atomic Energy Authority to consider the need for training facilities in the whole field of radiological health and...
May I ask the Lord Privy Seal whether he will state the business for next week?
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.]
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to postpone the coming into force of new valuation lists under Part III of the Local Government Act, 1948, and to...
Considered in Committee.
3.38 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 2. line 18, to leave out " year 196263 " and to insert " appointed year". With your permission, Sir Norman, and for the convenience of the Commitee, the next three...
Lords Amendments considered.
Lords Amendment: In page 7, line 41, leave out " section two " and insert: sections two, three or six".
Lords Amendment agreed to: After Amendment last inserted, in page 9, line 17, at end insert new Clause A:
Lords Amendment: In page 11, line 20, at beginning insert: Subject to the provisions of section (Supplementary provisions as to operations required to be carried out) of this Act,".
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 13, line 15, at beginning insert: Subject to the provisions of section (Supplementary provisions as to operations required to be carried out) of this Act,...
Lords Amendment agreed to: After Amendment last inserted, in page 18, line 14, at end insert new Clause B: (1) The provisions of this section shall have effect where a person is required by any...
Lords Amendment: In page 20, line 11, at end insert " for a warrant, in respect of a building, or".
Lords Amendment: In page 26, line 6, at end insert: and any pavement, foothpath, drain, ditch or verge at the side of a road or street:
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 28, line 8, after " twenty-two " insert " and".
Lords Amendment: In page 32, line 18, after " including " insert: services, installations and ancillary equipment for the supply or use of gas or electricity and
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 33. line 32, leave out first " and ".
Lords Amendment: In page 35, line 3, leave out " section six and section nine " and insert: sections six, nine and sixteen".
Lords Amendment: In page 37, line 2, at end insert: 1. In the Turnpike Roads (Scotland) Act, 1831 (as set out in Schedule C to the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act, 1878), section eighty-seven...
Order for Second Reading read. 7.48 p.m.
[Queen's Recommendation signified.]
9.13 p.m.
9.54 p.m.
National Insurance (Mariners) Amendment Regulations, 1959 [draft laid before the House, 18th March], approved.—[Miss Pitt.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Brooman-White.]
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