Monday, 4 May 1959
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
I regret to have to inform the House of the death of James Harrison, esquire, Member for Nottingham, North, and I desire, on behalf of the House, to express our sense of the loss we have...
As amended, to be considered Tomorrow.
Read a Second time and committed.
Mr. G. Wilson: asked the Minister of Health whether, following his further consideration of the Report of the Maternity Services Committee, he is now in a position to state which of the findings...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has noted the high percentage of pregnant women among those who are certified for the first time to be suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis; and what is...
asked the Minister of Health what further action he is taking to publicise the connection between smoking and lung cancer.
asked the Minister of Health how many of the 275 persons in the United Kingdom suffering from leprosy at 31st December, 1958, were immigrants from the Commonwealth and Colonies.
asked the Minister of Health whether he will make a statement regarding the high incidence of bronchitis in the first quarter of 1959 and the action that is being taken to speed up preventive...
asked the Minister of Health what is the cost to the National Health Service of increased salary awards agreed at the time the Health Estimates were prepared for the curent financial year.
asked the Minister of Health whether he has yet received the Younghusband Report; and when it will be published.
asked the Minister of Health how much money will be spent by his Department on cancer research this year, apart from the £206,400 granted to the Institute of Cancer Research in this year's...
asked the Minister of Health (1) why he has allowed an appeal against a recent appointment to a medical practice in the city of Liverpool; and, in view of the rule, hitherto observed throughout...
asked the Minister of Health what facilities are available for taking post-graduate degrees in psychological medicine; and how many such degrees have been awarded.
asked the Minister of Health what action is taken by his Department to draw the attention of potential travelers abroad to the fact that the National Health Service does not operate in overseas...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is now able to announce the composition and terms of reference of the council he is setting up to advise on the application of modern management...
asked the Minister of Health how many persons in his Department and in the field of official medical research are at present employed on the analysis of the effects of nuclear and allied radiations.
asked the Minister of Health what attempts were made by the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board to obtain sufficient staff to open Iver Cottage Hospital as a maternity unit or as a...
asked the Minister of Health what improvement has occurred in the recruitment of nurses in Wales; what is the present extent of wastage from the nursing profession in Wales; and what is his...
asked the Minister of Health for what reason the Manchester Regional Hospital Board has decided to resite the proposed Wythenshawe Hospital; what will be the reduction in the number of beds...
asked the Minister of Health if he will put in hand measures to enable regional hospital boards, where consultants' appointments have been terminated through no fault of their own, to re-employ...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will state the numbers on the waiting list for admission to hospitals in the Manchester Regional Hospital Board's area at the latest convenient date.
asked the Minister of Health what applications for consultant vacancies in the hospital service have been received since 8th December last from Mr. A. H. Barber. the consultant, who was...
asked the Minister of Health what were the periods, giving dates, during which Miss Edith Haithwaite received 11s, and 6s, a week, respectively, at Rampton Mental Hospital.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what preparations are now being made to present the British case at the Second Law of the Sea Conference in 1960.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Icelandic Government are now permitting British trawlers to land men who are seriously ill at Icelandic ports without penalty.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what reasons were given by the Government of the Sudan for returning the statues of Lord Kitchener and General Gordon to the British Government.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if, in view of its importance in forthcoming discussions, he will consider visiting Berlin to investigate personally conditions in the city before...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to what extent German armed forces have been or are now being supplied with, or trained in the use of, weapons with nuclear potential by Great...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what official information he has received from the West German Government of a conversation between Dr. Schaeffer, Minister of Justice in the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the nature of the official communications between Her Majesty's Government and the United States Government about flights by...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what progress has been made at the Geneva Conference on nuclear tests in the light of the declaration made in the Anglo-Soviet Communiqué of...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to what extent it is still the policy of Her Majesty's Government to give consideration to any proposals submitted by the Polish Government for...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what representations he will make to the United States Government in the case of Frederick J. Williams, a British subject, now 52 years old, who...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what representation he has made to the Iraqi Government concerning its official ban on imports of Imperial Chemical Industries products into Iraq.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by what means he ascertains the presence of, or absence of, any British subjects in Tibet.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the breakdown of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on Reduction of Statelessness, he will instruct the United Kingdom...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will instruct his representative on the Committee on Arrangements for a Charter Review Conference to propose that a Charter Review...
At the end of Questions—
Ordered, That this day Business other than the Business of Supply may be taken before Ten o'clock.—[Mr. R. A. Butler.]
[12TH ALLOTTED DAY]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a further sum, not exceeding £50 be granted to Her Majesty towards defraying the charges for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1960, for the...
3.32 p.m.
10.7 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. E. Wakefield.]
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