Monday, 27 July 1959
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
TEES VALLEY AND CLEVELAND WATER BILL
As amended, to be considered this evening, at Seven o'clock.
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 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps he takes to see that important statements of policy are communicated to the public.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the United Kingdom has yet ratified the agreement reached in 1957 between the member nations of Western European Union to make legal...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what further information he has received regarding the withdrawal of the American Temporary Equipment Recovery Mission from South Vietnam.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will attend in person the September session of the United Nations General Assembly; and whether he will make a statement on the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will lay a White Paper showing on how many occasions the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and other Arab rulers in the Arabian Peninsular have...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what action he has taken on the request of the Nigerian Federal Prime Minister that he should bring Nigerian apprehensions about the proposed...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what official representations he has made to the Governments concerned with a view to securing that the British, United States and Soviet...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Inter-Governmental Committee for European Migration has arranged to move 46,000 refugees from Europe to countries...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what official request he has received from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to vary the terms of the Western European Union Treaty to enable...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps the Government are taking to ensure early compensation from the Federal German Government for British citizens who suffered persecution...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many foreign Governments other than the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have officially notified Her...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make a statement on the progress achieved at the Foreign Ministers' Conference at Geneva.
asked the Minister of Labour (1) if he will make a statement on his Department's Industrial Health Survey of the Pottery Industry in the city of Stoke-on-Trent; and what general action it is...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will now make a statement upon the further consideration he has given to increasing the scope, intensity and application of the use of his powers, towards...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in readiness for redundancy in industry consequent on the introduction of automation and atomic energy, he will consider legislation providing for a...
asked the Minister of Labour how far he is able to forecast the state of employment in the next two years; and what schemes are in contemplation by the Government for the purpose of dealing with...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to make a further statement about an agreement under Section 9 of the Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act, 1954, between the National...
asked the Minister of Labour what evidence he has, in the form of factory closures and redundances, of a general contraction in employment in the engineering industry in the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) what is the method of buying employed by his Department for purchases of concentrated orange juice from Israel destined for the Welfare...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the average weekly consumption in weight of bacon per head in this country in 1938, 1948 and 1958 or the latest available year,...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what publicity has been given to the consumers' committees set up under the Agricultural Marketing Act, 1958, to consider the effect of the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what arrangements he is making for the immediate acquisition, prior to the establishment of the proposed statutory Covent Garden Market...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will give an assurance that there is no danger of the spread of brucellosis melitensis to other herds following the disposal of...
asked the hon. Member for Woolwich, West, as Chairman of the Kitchen Committee, what arrangements have been made with the Treasury for the payment of the staff now employed by the Refreshment...
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how far those who compile Commonwealth Survey for the Central Office of Information are required to keep a fair balance between Government and...
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what were the grounds for the increases of pension made last year in some 1,700 cases to 1914–18 War pensioners.
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what progress has been made in the arrangements for the appointment of the Registrar to consider applications to contract out under Part II...
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance whether any change has now been decided upon in the words "National Assistance" which at present appear on order books authorising these grants.
asked the Paymaster-General whether he will state the respective stocks of coke, distributed and undistributed, and for both domestic and industrial use; how these stocks compare with the...
asked the Paymaster-General in view of the facilities given to engineers of the Mitsubishi Nippon Heavy Industries Company, Yokohama, to inspect s.s. "Methane Pioneer", of which the Gas Council...
asked the Paymaster-General what consideration he is giving to proposals by the Electricity Council for extending the benefits of the Pensions (Increase) Act to ex-local authority pensioners...
asked the Minister of Supply on what date the contract was placed for the Britannic aircraft; what was the number ordered; and when deliveries can be expected to commence.
asked the Minister Health if he will give instructions to his hospital architecture and design unit to give consideration to the importance of limiting heat loss by the use of double windows,...
Mr. Hasting: asked the Minister of Health in how many cases he has had complaints of the discharge of smoke or sulphur oxides from hospital chimneys during the last year for which records are...
asked the Minister of Health (1) what reply he has sent to the letter he received from the Cardiff Health Committee concerning the shortage in the number of hospital beds available for maternity...
It is proposed to meet again after the Summer Recess on Thursday, 22nd October, at eleven o'clock, for Prorogation. It is expected that the new Session will be opened on Tuesday, 27th October. I...
Mr. Speaker, may I ask for your guidance on a matter which is, I think, of some public interest? You will recall that last Monday you deprecated discussion by Members of the House of the conduct...
Ordered, That the Proceedings on any Private Business set down for consideration at Seven o'clock this evening by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means be exempted from the provisions of...
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment.
3.43 p.m.
5.38 p.m.
Order for consideration, as amended, read.
As amended, considered.
Amendment made: In page 10, line 13, leave out "three" and insert "two".—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]
Postponed Proceeding on Question, That the Bill be now read the Third time, resumed.
7.32 p.m.
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10.22 p.m.
2.48 a.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. J. E. B. Hill.]
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