Wednesday, 1 July 1959
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Reported, without Amendment; to be read the Third time Tomorrow.
Reported, with Amendments; as amended, to be considered Tomorrow.
Reported, with an Amendment (with Report on the Bill).
Reported, with Amendments (with Report on the Bill).
asked the Minister of Labour if he has considered a letter which the National and Local Government Officers' Association recently sent him, complaining of an employer's refusal to recognise the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will give the number of redundancy compensation schemes now in operation by firms and industries in this country.
asked the Minister of Labour, having regard to the increasing number of teen-agers leaving school in the period 1960–62, his plans for providing them with suitable employment on leaving school.
asked the Minister of Labour what proposals have been made to extend the Remploy factory at Sunderland.
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the imminent closure of the Cardiff Foundry and Engineering Company (1947) due to a fall in demand for iron castings; and whether, in view of...
asked the Minister of Labour what additional facilities he will provide at the end of 1960 to help the 570 civilians now employed at No. 41 Group Headquarters, Royal Air Force station, Andover,...
asked the Minister of Labour to what extent the total of food items in the retail prices index has changed in the past year.
asked the Minister of Labour what variation has occurred in the total numbers of people unemployed in Wales between February and the latest convenient date for which figures are available; what...
asked the Minister of Labour what arrangements he has with the nationalised industries to enable him to anticipate redundancies in their employment, for example, in the collieries; and when he...
Mr. Dugdale: asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the difficulties experienced by men awaiting call-up, owing to the fact that they are not informed immediately as to the actual...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty when it is intended to lay down a nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he will now make a further statement about the future of Clayton motor transport depot in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty why, in view of the fact that numbers of Her Majesty's ships visited all the South Wales ports during the summer of 1958, only the port of Barry...
asked the Secretary of State for War the circumstances in which William Firth was dismissed from the Territorial Army.
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will make a statement on the future of the Joint Experimental Helicopter Unit.
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is satisfied that the School of Infantry has sufficient supplies of modern equipment to enable adequate study of modern tactical and strategic...
asked the Secretary of State for War what protests he has received from Colchester about his proposal to transfer military prisoners from Shepton Mallet to the prison there; and what has been the...
asked the Postmaster-General, in view of the adverse report of the Medical Panel of the Advertising Inquiry Committee on Press and Television Advertising on the advertisements on television of...
asked the Postmaster-General if he will seek to amend the Licence and Agreement with the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the Television Act, 1954, in order to provide that when statements...
asked the Postmaster-General if he will use his powers under Section 15 (4) of the Licence and Agreement to require the British Broadcasting Corporation to refrain from sending on 23rd August a...
asked the Postmaster-General (1) when the Report of the Television Advisory Committee dealing with the problem of lineage, allocation of wavelengths, and colour will be published;
asked the Postmaster-General what instructions were issued to the British delegation to the International Conference held in the United States of America to consider matters relating to...
asked the Postmaster-General the total amount standing in unclaimed balances in Post Office Savings Bank accounts in which there have been no transactions for more than twenty years.
Mrs. Slater: asked the Postmaster-General when it is estimated that Stoke-on-Trent will have a new automatic exchange for trunk dialling.
asked the Postmaster-General (1) the charges which are asked of subscribers who live three miles or over from a telephone exchange; when these charges were fixed; how many times they have been...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware of the shortage of accommodation for Service families in transit through Royal Air Force, Khormaksar, Aden; and what he proposes to do in...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will discontinue low-level flying over Stockton-on-Tees, particularly at night time.
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will take steps to see that any future reductions in the rates of ration money for the Royal Air Force in Aden are not made retroactive.
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will make a statement on the recruitment of General Duties and other officers.
asked the Secretary of State for Air what plans he has for exchanging British ground-to-air missiles for United States air-to-air missiles for the mutual benefit of the British and United States...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that during the weekend of 19th–21st June five children were injured by a live mortar bomb which they found in a moorland stream...
asked the Prime Minister whether the speech by the Home Secretary, made at King's Lynn on 27th June, on the question of the hydrogen bomb, represented the policy of Her Majesty's Government.
asked the Prime Minister if he will consider issuing a White Paper giving the estimates of possible loss of life in Great Britain in the event of nuclear war similar to the estimates of loss of...
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 empower the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance to make orders increasing any of the amounts specified in...
Considered in Committee.
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session relating to education it is expedient, in relation to any new expenditure on aided or special agreement...
Considered in Committee.
Order for consideration, as amended (in the Standing Committee), read.
5.52 p.m.
Amendments made: In page 6, line 22, leave out from "the" to end of line 23 and insert: relevant date for the purposes of subsection (4) of the said section three".
(1) Where in the case of an application for a nuclear site licence in respect of any site received by the Minister after the commencement of this Act it appears to the Minister appropriate so to...
I beg to move, in page 2, line 3, at the end, to insert:
I beg to move, in page 3, line 28, after "direct", to insert: and shall during the remainder of the period of his responsibility cause to be kept posted upon the site such notices indicating the...
I beg to move, in page 8, line 34, to leave out from "as" to "with" in line 35 and to insert: it is not in his opinion inconsistent".
7.30 p.m.
Amendments made: In page 13, line 39, leave out from beginning to "to" in line 40 and insert: (f) except in section ten of this Act, any reference.
Amendment made: In page 16, line 4, leave out from "as" to "with" in line 5 and insert: it is not in his opinion inconsistent."—[sir I. Horobin.]
Considered in Committee.
Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise any incidental charge to income tax which may arise from extending the operation of section four hundred and twenty-nine of the Income Tax Act, 1952,...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Chichester-Clark.]
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