Wednesday, 22 July 1959
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
I beg to move, That the several Amendments to Standing Orders relating to Private Business hereinafter stated in Schedule (A) be made, that the standing Order hereinafter stated in Schedule (B)...
Standing Order 27, line 18, leave out first "the". Line 23, at end, insert—Provided that it shall be sufficient (at the option of the Promoters) to deposit with the clerk of the county...
Standing Order 140 (Plans etc. produced in evidence).
Notice in case of alteration of Court order. 19A. On or before the eleventh day alteration of December in the case of a bill of court containing provision the effect of order, which is to confer...
I beg to move, That the Milford Haven (Tidal Barrage) Bill [Lords] be re-committed to the former Committee and that it be an Instruction to the Committee on the re-committed Bill that they have...
asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware of the dissatisfaction that is felt in Exeter regarding the poor standard of television reception; and what steps he is taking to secure an improvement.
asked the Post master-General to what extent prospects for better television viewing in the Swindon area have improved since he received the deputation introduced to him by the hon. Member for...
asked the Postmaster-General what progress has been made in the work to improve the telephone service in the area of Gerrards Cross, Chalfont St. Peter and Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire.
asked the Postmaster-General if he will indicate the size of the present waiting list for telephones; and, approximately, what proportion of this present waiting list will be supplied with...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he will now give further information about the reaction of telephone users in Bristol to the new trunk dialling system.
asked the Postmaster-General whether the telephone pole placed in the front garden of 32, Wing-field Road, Coleshill, Birmingham, without the tenant's permission, has now been removed to another site.
asked the Postmaster-General if he will now consider the issue of low-value pictorial stamps.
asked the Postmaster-General whether patent rights have been taken out by the Post Office on the new channel equipment.
asked the Secretary of State for Air what plans he has for increasing the use of air-freight for transporting the heavy luggage of service families trooped by air to the Far East.
asked the Secretary of State for Air the seating capacity in the recruits' mess at the Royal Air Force, Cardington; and the weekly intake of recruits.
asked the Secretary of State for Air (1) the cost to public funds to date of facilities provided for participants in the Daily Mail Air Race;
asked the Secretary of State for Air what requirement he has stated for a nuclear-powered aircraft for use in bombing, reconnaissance or transport operations.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether, in order to improve efficiency and reduce waiting time at airports, he will try to obtain the agreement of the airline companies to...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he will now state when the reviewing body, with Mr. Fay as chairman, expects to start taking evidence.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he has yet been informed by the German Government of their intentions in regard to reopening the inquiry into the Munich air crash.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (1) on what date he revised procedures for the testing of pilots to implement the recommendation regarding the six-months' check embodied in the...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he is yet in a position to make a statement about increasing the speed limit for cars towing light trailers.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether his attention has been drawn to the production of a motor car, in the medium price range, advertised as being capable of achieving a...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (1) what consultations were held with the Road Research Laboratory, and what assistance was obtained from it, before the Report on the sample...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he is aware of the long waiting list for driving tests in Cleveland, on Tees-side, and in the North Riding generally; and what action he...
Commander Maitland: asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he has considered a letter from the Clerk to the Horncastle Rural District Council reporting a conference on rural...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, in view of his decision that volume of traffic and its concentration are more significant in connection with the future planning of roads than...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation why official driving tests in Northern Ireland are not accepted by him as being a true test of competence to drive a motor vehicle in the...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will consider introducing further legislation to abate the nuisance caused by excessive noise from motor cars, motor cycles, and motor...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation when he expects to bring in regulations for the testing of ten-year-old cars, as provided in the Road Traffic Act, 1956.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he will make a statement on his plans for widening and making safer that portion of Leek Road which lies between Stoke and Milton; how...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what reply he has sent to the resolution sent to him by the Order of the Sons of Temperance noting with regret his decision to allow...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation to what extent he contemplates continuing increases in the amount and size of the road programme.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what consideration has been given by his Department to imposing a speed limit upon Court Road, Orpington; and whether he will give an analysis...
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what date has been fixed for work to proceed on the proposed Stanway by-pass on the London—Colchester north-east Essex road.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation when he intends to impose a 40-miles-an-hour speed limit on the stretch of the Ashbourne Road, Derby, between Kings-way and the borough boundary.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what information he has concerning the safe gap which should be maintained between a vehicle and a following vehicle at various speeds.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he has now received the report of the London Travel Committee which has been examining the proposed Victoria line.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether, in view of the subsidy on agricultural limestone, he will consider making regulations to confine its coastal carriage to British ships.
asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation the present wages, allowances, pensions and conditions of service of men in the British Coastguard Service, indicating what improvements in them...
asked the Prime Minister to what extent it is intended that the British Exhibition in Moscow in 1961 will present a broad picture of British achievements and the British way of life; and for what...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
Ordered, That this day Business other than the Business of Supply may be taken before Ten o'clock; and that if the first Resolution reported from the Committee of Supply of 21st July shall have...
[26th Allotted Day]
CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLE MENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1959–60; MINISTRY OF DEFENCE ESTI MATE, 1959–60; NAVY ESTIMATES; ARMY ESTI MATES; AIR...
1. £3,052,676 for the Services included in the following Civil Estimates, viz:—
£ Class VIII, Vote 1 (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) 12,472,115 Class VIII, Vote 2 (Agricultural and Food Grants and Subsidies) (including a Supplementary sum of...
3. £14,379,000 (including a Supplementary sum of £20,000), Ministry of Labour and National Service.
4. That a sum, not exceeding £11,666,693, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
5. That a sum, not exceeding £64,605,232, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
6. That a sum, not exceeding £65,593,675, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
7. That a sum, not exceeding £142,651,962, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
8. That a sum, not exceeding £783,818,078, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
9. That a sum, not exceeding £168,304,187, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
10. That a sum, not exceeding £53,812,480, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
11. That a sum, not exceeding £26,021,118, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during.'he year ending on the...
12. That a sum, not exceeding £143,336,357, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
13. That a sum, not exceeding £402,428,720, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
14. That a sum, not exceeding £280,802,100, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
15. That a sum, not exceeding £11,657,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the yea; ending on the...
16. That a sum, not exceeding £226,793,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1960, for...
17. That a sum, not exceeding £117,610,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1960, for...
18. That a sum, not exceeding £132,035,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1960, for...
3.34 p.m.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of Class I of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of Class II of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of Class III of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of Class IV of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of Class V of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolutions reported in respect of Class VI of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of Class VII of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolutions reported in respect of Class VIII of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of Class IX of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of Class X of the Civil Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of the Revenue Departments Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of the Ministry of Defence Estimate.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of the Navy Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of the Army Estimates.
Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the outstanding Resolution reported in respect of the Air Estimates.
Resolution reported, That, towards making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1960, the sum of £2,814,085,357 be granted out...
Bill to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixty, and to appropriate the supplies granted...
Order read for consideration of Lords Amendments.
Lords Amendment: In page 1, line 7, leave out from "words" to "and" in line 9 and insert: 'in a prescribed manner' shall be substituted for the words 'with oil paint', the words 'in a prescribed...
Lords Amendment: In page 2, line 32, leave out "fourteen" and insert "twenty-eight".
Lords Amendment: In page 3, line 5, leave out "unnecessary."
Lords Amendment: In page 4, line 13, at end insert: but no account shall be taken for the purposes of paragraph (b) of this subsection of any deposit or other material liable to give off...
Lords Amendment: In page 10, line 38, after second "of" insert "clean running."
Lords Amendments considered.
Lords Amendment: In page 1, line 16, leave out "it or lets it on hire" and insert: lets on hire, gives, or lends it".
Lords Amendments considered.
Lords Amendment: In page 1, line 10, at end insert: (a) an adopted person shall be treated as the child of the person or persons by whom he was adopted and not as the child of any other person;...
Lords Amendment: In page 2, line 23, at end insert: 'insurance money' includes a return of premiums; and 'pension' includes a return of contributions and any payment of a lump sum in respect of a...
Lords Amendments considered.
Lords Amendment: In page 2, line 8, leave out from "may" to end of line 18 and insert: avail himself of any facilities for such entry and inspection provided on the specified date, but shall, if...
Order made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, extending Section 1 of the Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932, to the Urban District of St. Austell, [copy laid before the House 16th...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Finlay.]
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