Tuesday, 2 June 1959
The House—after the Adjournment on 15th May, 1959, for the Whitsun Recess—met at half-past Two o'clock.
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
I regret to have to inform the House of the deaths of Richard Fort, esquire, Member for Clitheroe, and Percy Lionel Edward Shurmer, esquire, Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook, and I desire, on...
Mr. SPEAKER acquainted the House that he had issued, during the Adjournment, Warrants for new Writs, namely:
Read the Third time and passed, without Amendment.
asked the Minister of Works what steps are being taken to restore and utilise Boston Manor, Brentford.
asked the Minister of Works what progress has taken place with the proposals for reconstruction of Nos. 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street.
asked the Minister of Works whether he is yet in a position to make a further statement regarding the memorial to Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Viscount Trenchard.
asked the Minister of Works whether as a result of the excavations undertaken at Stonehenge last year, he is now in a position to make a statement regarding the date of the building of Stonehenge.
asked the Minister of Works what further steps, in view of the recent report of the Ancient Monuments Board, he is proposing to take for the prevention of destruction of scheduled monuments.
asked the Minister of Works whether he will have the two large wall paintings in the Royal Gallery cleaned.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, in view of Russian advances in some aspects of scientific research on iron and steel...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what steps the Government are taking to ensure that the value of scientific...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, whether the Water Pollution Research Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what research has been carried out on the susceptibility of pre stressed concrete to...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, to what extent the Water Pollution Research Laboratory of the Department of...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what facilities are available within the Department of Scientific and Industrial...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland in view of the satisfactory results which flowed to the Aberdeen fishing industry from the Inter national Fisheries Trade Fair held in Copenhagen in...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state his plans for assisting the extension of the tourist industry in Scotland during 1959 and 1960.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is yet in a position to make a statement on the working of the Clean Air Act in the control area where it has been operated by the local authority,...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many subsidised houses now stand empty at Douglas and Douglas West in the county of Lanark.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the incidence of tuberculosis in Scotland has been so reduced in recent years that there is now a surplus of specialist doctors,...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what conclusions he has formed on the findings of the inquiry into the loss of the fishing cruiser "Freya"; and what steps he is considering to secure...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware of the growing menace to the River Forth from Stirling seawards from pollution; and whether he is now in a position to state what early...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if, as it has been the declared policy for many years that every major island in the Highlands should have a pier, he will give special priority to the...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps are being taken to see that foreign fishing fleets and vessels displaced from the Icelandic and Faroese grounds are not over-fishing in...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what evidence he has regarding the extent to which herring stocks in the North Sea are being reduced by trawling.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the name of his representative on the MacBrayne Steamer Services; how much his remuneration is; and how many meetings he attends each year.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will have a fresh survey made of the proposed line of a trunk road to link Deeside with Speyside, having regard to the performance of modern cars...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware that the Scottish Home Estimates show a reduction of over £80,000 in regard to local authority care of children; and if he will...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps Her Majesty's Government are now prepared to take to encourage the introduction of new industry at Douglas, Lanarkshire.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on his recent visit to Russia.
asked the President of the Board of Trade, in view of growing public concern, whether he will set up a Departmental committee to investigate the operation of take-over bids, with a view to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will arrange that the Board of Trade publication, Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom, shall give more detailed...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will reconsider his decision to free all processed milk for licensing, in view of the quantities of foreign imports and their effect on home...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what arrangements the has made to keep Scottish manufacturers in touch with potential orders in manufacturing under licence or securing sub-contracts.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will now make a further statement as to the proposals to extend the European Common Market to a wider free trade area; and what positive proposals...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs, what reply he has sent to the communication received from the Caltex Company about a proposed refinery in Hampshire.
asked the Prime Minister what machinery exists between the Western Powers for co-ordinating information and advice about radioactive fall-out.
asked the Prime Minister whether the speech of the Secretary of State for Scotland on municipal housing, at the annual dinner of the National Federation of Property Owners at Pitlochry on 21st...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in default of a White Paper on the whole problem of nuclear tests and fall-out, he will present a White Paper containing all the information of which Her...
Proceedings of the Committee on Pensions (Increase) [Money] exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House).—[The Prime Minister.]
House to meet on Friday, 5th June at Twelve o'clock, and Standing Order No. 2 (Friday sitting) to apply to the Sitting on that day with the substitution in line 9 of Five o'clock for Four...
Order for Second Reading read.
[Queen's Recommendation signified.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. J. E. B. Hill.]
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