Monday, 31 July 1961
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Lords Amendments considered and agreed to.
As amended, considered; Standing Order 205 (Notice of Third Reading) suspended; Bill to be read the Third time forthwith.—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]
asked the Minister of Aviation when he anticipates the British Overseas Airways Corporation will operate a direct jet service between London, Bermuda and Trinidad.
asked the Minister of Aviation whether he has awarded a design study contract in respect of the engine for a supersonic airliner.
asked the Minister of Aviation what financial assistance has been given by the Government to the development of Manchester and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Airports, respectively, in the past ten years.
asked the Minister of Aviation what replies he has given to those who have applied to use the whole or part of the former Blackbushe Airfield for flying purposes; and what is his policy in regard...
asked the Minister of Aviation what progress has been made in his negotiations on behalf of the Minister of Health with drug manufacturers regarding the payment of royalties.
asked the Minister of Aviation whether he will make a statement on the future administration of London's airports, arising from his review of the policy for airport management.
asked the Minister of Health whether he has made a decision on the request for a special capital grant for the rebuilding of the maternity wards at North Middlesex Hospital which are still housed...
asked the Minister of Health Whether he will take steps to review the Mental Health Act so as to ensure that patients discharged from mental hospitals are not a danger to society.
asked the Minister of Health if he has yet received the report of the South Western Regional Hospital Board on the reclassification of Ronald Derek Sawle.
asked the Minister of Health (1) what land at present in other use will be required for the proposed hospital redevelopment in Chelsea; (2) what consultations regarding the proposed hospital...
asked the Minister of Health what steps he proposes to take to ensure that all cases of attempted suicide coming to the notice of any hospital or general practitioner, obtain psychiatric or other...
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the County Medical Officer of Flintshire has been informed that he cannot be supplied with a copy of the proposals for hospital reorganisation in...
asked the Minister of Health to what extent the hospital capital development programme already announced for the current financial year and for 1962–63 will be reduced in the light of...
asked the Minister of Health if he will take steps to ensure that nurses and nursing assistants who are unfamiliar with the English language are not left in sole charge of wards or of individual...
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that a woman patient attending a hospital within the South-Western Regional Hospital Board area was offered a shroud to cover herself due to the lack...
asked the Minister of Health on what dates the bills of quantities in respect of the new area hospital at Truro were submitted; on what date tenders were invited; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister of Health what is the number of patients at Brockhall Hospital, Lango Whalley, Lancashire; and how many of these patients, formerly compulsorily detained, have now been...
asked the Minister of Health if he will arrange for free travel warrants to be issued periodically to relatives living beyond a certain distance to enable them to visit patients in the three...
asked the Minister of Health to what extent medical treatment and advice to patients in hospital is governed by the religious convictions of nursing or other hospital staff.
asked the Minister of Health what publicity was given to the fact that, during the recent census, census forms were available in Welsh; What instructions were given to enumerators to ensure equal...
asked the Minister of Health how many local executive councils have set up special sub-committees for the purpose of giving assent to the employment of assistants by general practitioners, and...
asked the Minister of Health if a group practice which has had its initial application for an interest free loan limited to £1,000 can now make further application to a limit of £2,000...
asked the Minister of Health what consideration has been given to a review of the situation arising from the decision to double the National Health Service prescription charges; and what has been...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that lenses for children's spectacles provided through the National Health Service are not splinter-proof and that an extra charge of £1 8s....
asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider some amalgamation of the local authority maternity and child welfare services, for which he provides grants, with hospital maternity and...
asked the Minister of Health what action is being taken to overcome the growing shortage of dentists in Nottingham.
asked the Minister of Health what progress has been made with the claim of pharmacists for higher remuneration in the National Health Service.
asked the Minister of Health what proposal he has for encouraging additional medical practitioners to come to Oldham; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Slater: asked the Minister of Health how many public health inspectors are employed by local authorities; and what is the present estimated national shortage of these inspectors.
asked the Minister of Health what new instructions he has given or proposes to give to his representatives on the various Whitley Councils in the light of Government policy on wages and salaries...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has yet decided to amend or confirm the two recommenda- tions of the Birmingham Health Executive Council to stop £1,000 and £200, respectively,...
With permission, I wish to make a statement on the policy of Her Majesty's Government towards the European Economic Community. The future relations between the European Economic Community, the...
I have to inform the House that I have today received the Certificate of the judges appointed to try the Election Petition in the Bristol, South-East constituency, together with a copy of the...
In the matter of the Parliamentary Election Petition for the Bristol, South East, Constituency between MALCOLM JAMES Sr. CLAIR and JOHN MALCOLM HARRIS, Petitioners
To the Right Honourable The Speaker of the House of Commons.
Malcolm Archibald James St. Clair, esquire, for Bristol South-East.
Order for Second Reading read.
4.35 p.m.
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 Dalton-in-Furness, [copy laid before the House...
11.57 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Sir H. Harrison.]
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