Thursday, 17 March 1960
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will require public houses in the State Management Scheme to have available at all times food, such as sandwiches, which can...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children under 16 years of age were remanded to Holloway Prison, instead of being sent to remand homes, during the month of January, 1960.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the length of time required by the Departmental Committee on the Probation Service to prepare a comprehensive report, he...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to remove the anomalies that exist between the Sunday sale of certain items from static shops and of the same...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions were initiated by the Metropolitan Police in 1959 for the offence of emitting smoke from diesel-engined vehicles to the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that, whereas the number of pedestrians killed in the Metropolitan Police area during the first half of 1959 was thirty-four...
Mr. Compton Carr: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what initial training course is taken by teachers entering the approved school service; and how many teachers have...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider taking over financial responsibility for the maintenance of school crossing patrols on main trunk roads where these are...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that Michael Dowdall, who was recently tried on a charge of murder at the Old Bailey and found not guilty on a successful...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to introduce the legislation, referred to in the Gracious Speech, with regard to penal reform; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many clubs have been raided for breaches of the Licensing Act during the past year in the Metropolitan Police area; in how many oases...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the total number of fires in factories making bomber aircraft in the last twelve months; where they have taken place; what reports he has...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what authority the Metropolitan Police confiscated a pack of cards and about two shillings in threepenny bits from four members of the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce legislation to enable him to prevent the sale to the public of dangerous domestic oil burners.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what instructions were given to the police with regard to traffic movements in Lime Grove, W.12, while a British Broadcasting Corporation film...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance is given to the Metropolitan Police about publicity in the early stages of murder cases before the apprehension of a murderer.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent his proposals for amending the licensing laws in respect of clubs have been circulated to church and temperance organisations.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has now completed his study of the views of the Governments of Commonwealth and Colonial Territories regarding the deportation of their...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why Her Majesty's Government failed to ratify the 1950 International Convention for the Protection of Birds.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that freedom of speech and of lawful assembly are being prevented by Fascist threats to break up meetings; and whether he...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive advice on proposed changes in the law of suicide from the Criminal Law Revision Committee.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposals he has for introducing legislation to amend those Sections of the Representation of the People Act, 1949, which deal with...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he proposes to introduce the Group Council Scheme into all Her Majesty's prisons; and if he will make a statement on this experiment.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider the award of compensation to any prisoner who has had an accident arising from an organised game among prisoners in a...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will place in the Library of the House copies of the Civil Defence manuals, leaflets and other literature issued to local...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number and the functions of scientific intelligence officers in the Civil Defence Corps.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken, or proposes to take, to adapt his civil defence policy to the short notice of the arrival of rockets expected from...
asked the Prime Minister whether, at the forthcoming meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, he will suggest the desirability of holding alternative meetings in Commonwealth capitals other than...
asked the Prime Minister to what extent access to the official documents referred to in Sir Anthony Eden's book was restricted to Sir Anthony Eden; to what extent permission was given for such...
asked the Prime Minister if he is aware that, of the 667 members of 70 Royal Commissions and Committees of Inquiry, not more than 16 were Members of Parliament; and if he will give instructions...
asked the Prime Minister, in view of the protracted nature of the current negotiations, if he will raise once again with the President of the United States of America, the question of British...
asked the Prime Minister what use has been made by any Government Department, during the last twenty years, of the psychological technique of inducing in prisoners disintegration of personality...
May I ask the Leader of the House to state the business for next week?
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the Third time and passed.
3.38 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Bryan.]
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