Monday, 21 March 1960
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he intends to implement the proposals made by the Royal Commission on Common Land with regard to the fencing of trunk roads through...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is aware that since the development of Strain 19 vaccine there is a possibility of completely eradicating contagious abortion in...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will now consider including potash amongst those fertilisers receiving the benefit of a subsidy.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what acreage was planted with trees by the Forestry Commission in 1959.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has made of increased pig production resulting from the recent Price Review.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what percentage of the mutton and lamb consumed in the United Kingdom during the years 1957, 1958, and 1959, respectively, was produced at home.
Mrs. Butler: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether, in view of the risks involved, he will now take powers to prevent the arsenite spraying of potato foliage on this...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he received the copy, sent to him by the hon. Member for Lincoln, of a telegram from the chairman of the Lincolnshire Farmers' Union...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many local authorities have made use of their power under local Acts to enforce the sterilisation of meat intended for animal feeding.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in view of the growing public distaste for the nature of the inquiries conducted by disciplinary committees of agricultural marketing boards...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in view of the estimated saving of £1,065,000 in grants to small farmers, how many applications for these grants have been submitted,...
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance whether he will take stops to amend the Industrial Injuries Act so as to provide motor vehicles for industrially disabled persons on a...
asked the Minister of Power on what evidence he based his estimate of the extent of the deterioration of deep-mined coal held in stock at the pithead.
asked the Minister of Power what is the estimated tonnage of coke per year which will be produced by the two new coke ovens and associated by-product plants which will be incorporated in the...
Mr. Lee: asked the Minister of Power how the estimated consumption of British coal in the power stations of the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1965, 1967 and 1970 compares with the...
asked the Minister of Power whether he will give a general direction to the Central Electricity Authority to ensure that a reasonable proportion of new electricity poles are of home-grown timber.
Mr. Lee: asked the Minister of Power if he will state, for each calendar year from 1960 to 1965, inclusive, the amounts of new conventional and new nuclear generating plant planned to come into...
asked the Minister of Aviation whether he will now announce his decision in respect of outstanding applications for low fares by the Air Corporations and independent operators.
asked the Minister of Aviation if he will name the firms of contractors which supplied the three missiles originally estimated to cost £8 million, referred to in Report of the Comptroller...
asked the Minister of Aviation, in view of the fact that British European Airways was unable, owing to a shortage of aircraft, to provide a direct London-Leipzig service in connection with the...
asked the Minister of Aviation by what authority the Civil Aviation Constabulary confiscated a pack of cards and about two shillings in threepenny bits from four members of the Scottish Boxing...
asked the Minister of Health to what extent National Health Service psychiatrists are made available to the Services, the police, or the security authorities, for purposes of interrogation or...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has noted the recent findings that repeated intra-muscular injections, in mice or rats, of the iron-dextran complex causes sarcoma at the site of the...
asked the Minister of Health what guidance in regard to the unlocking of locked wards the inspectors of the Board of Control give to committees of mental hospitals consequent on their visits; and...
asked the Minister of Health if he will continue the current special allowance paid to nurses engaged in nursing tuberculosis for a period of five years from November, 1960.
asked the Minister of Health if he will state the steps which he suggested to the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board might be taken to reduce the list of people awaiting admission to hospital in...
asked the Prime Minister if he will move to appoint a Select Committee to investigate and report on the use and value of experiments in brainwashing and nerve gases.
Lords Amendments considered.
3.52 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Legh.]
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