Thursday, 11 July 1963
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Order for Third Reading read and discharged;
asked the Minister of Education (1) what additional resources are now available to enable him to restore to the 1964–65 school building programme some or all of the projects recommended by...
asked the Minister of Education what steps he is taking to increase and improve the teaching on the fundamentals of the British constitution.
asked the Minister of Education if he proposes in 1963–64 to restore the number of supplementary courses for teachers to the level obtaining in 1961–62.
asked the Minister of Education how many courses for teachers of handicapped children are being arranged for 1963–64.
asked the Minister of Education following his decision to set aside the award of the Burnham Committee regarding teachers' salaries, what consultations have taken place with the teachers'...
asked the Minister of Education (1) whether he will now consider including the building of the Bovington, Wool, Primary School in the 1964–65 school building programme; (2) whether he will...
asked the Minister of Education whether he is aware of the unsatisfactory conditions in which children of primary school age are being educated at Osbaldwick, and that his predecessor agreed in...
asked the Minister of Education how many Swindon and Wiltshire children, respectively, who are in need of special education, are waiting for places at special schools; when these places will be...
asked the Minister of Education if he will make further funds available for the experiment of the teaching of reading by the Initial Teaching Alphabet System, in view of the success of the...
asked the Minister of Education if he has now studied the opinion of the National Advisory Council on the use of auxiliaries in primary schools; and what conclusions he has reached.
asked the Minister of Education what action has been taken on the Bourdillon Report on Standards in the Public Library Service.
asked the Minister of Education if he will now give the names of the members of the Plowden Committee on Primary Education.
asked the Minister of Education if he will seek to amend Section 2 of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1937, in order to make it easier for teachers to undertake periods of voluntary service...
asked the Minister of Education whether he has now reconsidered the appeal of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation for a contribution from Her Majesty's Government...
asked the Minister of Education what advice he gives to local education authorities regarding the maintenance of standards in grammar schools when they are contemplating changes in their...
asked the Minister of Education if he will state the total sum expended on building work for the school meals service during the past ten years, together with a separate figure for kitchen and...
asked the Minister of Education if he will authorise the cost of swimming baths in the new buildings for the Mexborough Grammar School and Junior College.
asked the Minister of Education what negotiating machinery he has established for salary scales of teachers in colleges of advanced technology.
asked the Minister of Education whether he will make a further statement on the position of students taking pre-diploma courses leading to the new Diploma in Art and Design.
asked the Minister of Education to what extent Cornwall will benefit from the additional £5 million to be allocated to the school building programme for 1964–65.
asked the Minister of Education what action he is taking to secure better staff-student ratios in the Cornwall Technical College and the Falmouth Technical College.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if, in view of the difficulties and delay in obtaining individual compulsory purchase orders where landlords fail...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will introduce legislation to give security of tenure to tenants of all rented houses, and to abolish the...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he is aware of the extraordinary burdens faced by some older industrial towns and cities in rebuilding and...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will ask Lord Denning to ensure that in his report on the Profumo case he will publish all photographs and supply an index on submitted evidence upon which he...
asked the Prime Minister if he will appoint a Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs with his own Department.
asked the Prime Minister why he has decided that it would not be appropriate to publish the report of the Lord President of the Council on the North-East.
asked the Prime Minister whether the public speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Sawston on 6th July about the training of men in new skills represents the policy of Her Majesty's Government.
asked the Prime Minister (1) whether it is within the terms of reference of the co-ordinating committee on nuclear power, referred to in the Report of the Select Committee on Nationalised...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will appoint a Minister of State to act as a deputy in his office, whose duties would include those of acting for him at formal occasions and functions.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will authorise the Lord President of the Council, on his visit to Moscow, to propose that the nuclear test ban treaty should include a ban on underground...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will arrange that, in future, announcements of appointments by Her Majesty's Government to posts of national importance shall be made orally and not by Written...
asked the Secretary of State for War if he will make a statement about the six men missing on exercise in the Norwegian mountains.
Mr. H. Wilson: May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will state the business of the House for next week?
Matters of Electricity in Scotland, of Care of the Elderly in Scotland and of Modernisation of Local Government in Scotland, being matters relating exclusively to Scotland, referred to the...
Order for Second Reading read.
10.0 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Hugh Rees.]
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