Tuesday, 1 August 1961
The House met a half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
As amended, considered;
Standing Order 151 (Application of Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, etc., to tramroads) repealed.—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]
I beg leave to submit to this Honourable House six Petitions objecting to the closure of the Barnard Castle to Penrith railway line. The six Petitioners are the Barnard Castle Rural District...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (1) whether he is aware of the continued deterioration of numbers 1 to 8, Charlotte Street, Bristol, which are...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs whether he has received a letter dated 6th July, from the Lewisham Chamber of Commerce on the subject of the...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will make a statement on the proposals for relieving traffic congestion in Oxford; and if, before taking a...
asked the Minister for Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will, in consultation with interested organisations, delay the demolition of the Doric portico at Euston...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs how many local authorities not paying London allowances under the Burnham scale will secure an increased grant...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs when he expects the survey of rights of way, as provided by the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act,...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs whether, in view of the growing need for amendment of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949,...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will make a statement on the inquiry which took place into the operation of the Statutory Orders (Special...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what is Her Majesty's Government's present policy regarding the Local Government Commission for Wales.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs whether he will order an immediate inquiry into the circumstances in which Plymouth City Council in 1954...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what action he is taking to assist the smoke control programme of the council of the county borough of Sunderland.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what advice he received from the National Parks Commission about the future of Cholwichtown Stone Row in the...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs whether he will make a statement upon the working of the voluntary agreement betwen the Timber Growers'...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs whether he is aware that most of the capital programme of new town local authorities is aimed at providing...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government arid Minister for Welsh Affairs whether he is aware of the purchase of land for housing purposes at Harborne by the Birmingham City Council at a...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if the National Parks Commission has yet decided to designate part of the Hampshire coast, part of the Isle of...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs, whether the special needs of areas scheduled under the Local Employment Act will be taken into account in the...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs to what extent loan sanctions for housing schemes will be reduced in the next 12 months; and what tests he will...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will now bring up to date the account required of him by subsection (7) of Section 2 of the House Purchase...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will request two appropriate borough councils in the London County Council's area and in the...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs, following the recent survey revealing that 250,000 houses a year have been decontrolled in England by death,...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what estimate he has made of the effect of the increase in Bank Rate on rehousing in the city of Cardiff, in view...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what special action he is taking to assist local authorities in areas where immigration has made housing problems...
asked the Prime Minister what further consideration he has given to arranging for the Civil Lord to preside over the Board of Admiralty, instead of one of the Sea Lords, in the absence of the...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is satisfied that the methods of classifying documents of interest to potential enemies are sufficient to enable spot checks carried out for security reasons...
asked the Prime Minister, in view of the failure of negotiations on the ending of nuclear test explosions, if he will now give an undertaking that the United Kingdom will not resume such tests...
asked the Prime Minister what assurances he has re-received from President de Gaulle since his speech at Metz concerning the concessions needed by the United Kingdom on the European Free Trade...
asked the Prime Minister, if he will now propose to President Kennedy, Mr. Khrushchev, President De Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer that some of the United Nations agencies be moved to Berlin and that...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will state the business of the House for the first week after the Recess?
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a short statement. The Governor of Kenya has sent a despatch to me in which he has informed me that he has decided that if there is no deterioration...
House, at its rising on Friday, to adjourn till Tuesday, 24th October.—[Mr. R. A. Butler.]
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment.
3.55 p.m.
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10.34 p.m.
11.25 p.m.
12.17 a.m.
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Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. G. Campbell.]
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And sometimes to shout at each other.