Thursday, 23 November 1961
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will issue a White Paper on the work of the Commonwealth Education Liaison Committee.
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what communications from Commonwealth Governments he has received since details of the Commonwealth Immigrants Bill were published.
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what restrictions have been imposed by the Governments of India and Pakistan on migration to Great Britain; in what way and to what extent...
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what are the Government's reasons for refusing to supply confidentially to Commonwealth Governments the full text of the proposals...
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations whether J. Monau Mokitimi has been deported from Basutoland to the Union of South Africa; and whether he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what steps have been taken recently to remove racial discrimination in Swaziland.
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will make a statement on his recent discussions with Mr. Donald Fleming, the Canadian Finance Minister.
asked the Minister of Education whether he will make a statement regarding the financial help which the United Kingdom is giving towards the international effort to preserve the 3,000 year old...
asked the Minister of Education what further steps he has taken to increase road safety education in schools.
asked the Minister of Education if he is aware that owing to the increase in the school-leaving age parents of children in boarding schools at a distance from home are penalised by the fact that...
Mr. J. Wells: asked the Minister of Education how soon he expects some loosening of the temporary restrictions of minor works announced as a result of Circular 13/61.
asked the Minister of Education how many educationally sub-normal children between the ages of 5 and 11 years at primary schools are receiving specialised teaching, and how many are not.
asked the Minister of Education if he will set up a small committee to carry out a nation-wide survey of comprehensive schools and report on their development, so as to assist local education...
asked the Minister of Education why the number of men students attending evening institutes in 1960–61 has not reached the annual level of attendance attained between 1949 and 1952; and...
asked the Minister of Education why the number of boys and girls aged between 15 and 17, released during the day for study, has declined since 1956–57; what percentage of that age group...
Mr. J. Wells: asked the Minister of Education if he will consider the establishment of special temporary all-age schools near caravan sites organised by gypsies and other travellers whose...
asked the Minister of Education what proportion of the total expenditure of public money on education is spent on commercial education.
asked the Minister of Education how many of the 2,828 schools placed on the Board of Education black list in 1925 are still in use today.
asked the Minister of Education if he will give approximate estimates of the percentages of non-teaching adult male employees of education authorities in England and Wales whose wages are based,...
asked the Minister of Education if he will publish a list of teachers' training colleges which at present provide day places for married women; and to what extent these courses are timed to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when the extension of enfranchisement to women will come into operation in the Bahamas.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what statements he has received from representatives of the political parties in Malta on his constitutional proposals for that territory.
asked the Prime Minister what estimate he has made of the increased expenditure arising in a full year from the appointment of new Ministers, the upgrading of certain Ministers and the employment...
asked the Prime Minister whether, following the resolution of the General Assembly Political Committee of the United Nations of 14th November, he will consult the Commonwealth Prime Ministers...
asked the Prime Minister what are the most recent instructions which govern the relations of Government Departments, and civil servants in their official capacity, with political parties.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will instruct all Ministers concerned with elderly people to take such special measures as are within their power to give them assistance at Christmas time.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will cause arrangements to be made in the allocation of Ministerial rooms in the Palace of Westminster to allow the Leader of the House to be more accessible...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT the representations he has received from Heads of Governments in the Commonwealth about the legislation to restrict...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will state the business of the House for next week?
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to make a short personal statement. Yesterday, in winding up the debate on the Second Reading of the Housing (Scotland) Bill, I...
Ordered, That this day Business other than the Business of Supply may be taken before Ten o'clock.—[Mr. Iain Macleod.]
[FIRST ALLOTTED DAY]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair.—[Mr. Redmayne.]
Import Duties (General) (No. 7) Order, 1961 (S.I., 1961, No. 2020), dated 24th October, 1961, [copy laid before the House, 27th October], approved.—[Mr. Niall Macpherson.]
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for revision of apportionment of expenditure and general grants among local authorities in Scotland, to...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Whitelaw].
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