Wednesday, 29 May 1963
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Lord Privy Seal why Her Majesty's Government apologised to the Queen of Greece for the action of demonstrators in London who made a protest against the imprisonment of 1,100 political...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what steps have been taken by the United Nations Authority now in West New Guinea in respect of Article 16 of the agreement between Indonesia and Holland which provides...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what response was made by the British representative on the General Assembly's special committee on colonialism to the proposal that a United Nations visiting mission...
asked the Lord Privy Seal (1) if he will state the text of the note handed last Saturday by the Icelandic Foreign Minister to the British Ambassador in Reykjavik, the reply sent to it, and the...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what attempts have recently been made by the Military Staff Committee of the Security Council to negotiate the special agreements referred to in Article 43 of the...
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will make a statement on the special session of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with the financial situation of the United Nations.
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether the views of Her Majesty's Government with regard to the relevance of Article 2(7) of the United Nations Charter to the racial policies of the Government of the...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether the United Kingdom representative on the United Nations Working Group on the Examination of the Administrative and Budgetary Procedures of the United Nations...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what representations he has received from Governments who attended the recent Conference of African States at Addis Ababa about areas of British responsibility in Africa.
asked the Lord Privy Seal if, in view of the fact that the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation communiqué issued by the United States Information Service of the American Embassy in London on...
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will make available to Parliament a more detailed report of the 11th Central Treaty Organisation meeting at Karachi than the two-page typescript now available in...
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will make further representations to the Government of the United Arab Republic about the release of, or payment of compensation for, the property of British...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what reply he has made to the official Russian protest against British acceptance of the proposal for a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation force of Polaris-carrying...
asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will make a statement on the official protest made by the West German Foreign Minister against the refusal of Her Majesty's Government to be bound by the North...
asked the Lord Privy Seal to what extent, in the course of the negotiations for a nuclear test ban agreement, the principal Powers concerned have modified their original estimates of the number...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what proposals Her Majesty's Government will place before the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for implementing Resolution 327 of the Assembly of the...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what special privileges are exercised by Her Majesty's Government in Bahrein, Qatar and the Trucial States; at what dates these privileges were acquired; and what steps...
asked the Lord Privy Seal how much of the North Sea bed comes within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom under the Continental Shelf provisions of the 1958 Geneva conventions on the Law of the...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he will state the policy of Her Majesty's Government with regard to the latest official Soviet Government proposal for the establishment of the Mediterranean as...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what changes in the possession and control of nuclear weapons and forces will result from the agreements to which Her Majesty's Government consented at the recent North...
asked the Lord Privy Seal why the Government have now decided to become a party to the German-United States agreement about setting up a mixed-manned multilateral surface fleet armed with Polaris...
asked the Lord Privy Seal why, despite assurances that President Tshombe would continue to be protected by the Katanga gendarmerie, United Nations forces assisted Central Congolese troops to...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he will make a statement about the Ottawa meeting of the North Atlantic Council, with particular reference to the United States proposal for a multilateral or...
The following Questions stood upon the Order Paper:
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
The following Questions stood upon the Order Paper:
4.2 p.m.
Considered in Committee [Progress, 28th May].
(1) Section 9(1) and (2) of the Finance Act 1956 (which provides relief from income tax on certain savings bank interest), shall, subject to the provisions of the next following subsection, apply...
(1)As from the beginning of August 1963, and in relation to any trade or business carried on by a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts 1893 to 1961, or under the...
(1) Sections 447 (exemption from tax on rents interest, dividends and annual payments belonging to charities, etc.), 448 (exemption from tax in respect of lands owned and occupied by charities...
(1) Where money passes or is deemed to pass on the death of a person dying after the commencement of this Act to a body to which this section applies, that money shall not be taken into account...
If a person proves that in the year of assessment he has paid rent for a dwelling-house in his occupation, he shall be allowed a deduction from the amount of income tax with which he is...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn. — [Mr. MacArthur.]
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