Thursday, 2 July 1964
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Lords Amendments considered and agreed to.
Further consideration, as amended, deferred till Thursday next at seven o'clock.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will request the Plowden Committee to present an interim report on the issue of the age of transfer.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science why he has refused to include the rebuilding of St. Albans Roman Catholic secondary school in the major school building programme of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what investigations are taking place into the theory that petrol fumes may be a primary cause of lung cancer; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals for improved education facilities have been made to him by the City of Stoke-on-Trent; what provision has been approved by...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many schemes have been submitted to him by the Lancashire Education Department for the replacement of unsatisfactory primary schools;...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he is aware of the national shortage of speech therapists in the School Health Service, particularly in the City of Leeds; what action he...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he is satisfied that the Atomic Energy Authority is properly equipped to exploit the export potential of advanced British nuclear...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he is now able to announce his decision to set up an inquiry into medical education; and what form the inquiry will take.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether, in deciding the future primary and secondary school building programme, he took into account the present population and the planned...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will advance the starting date of the conversion of the Chase Terrace secondary modern school, Staffordshire, to a six-form...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many classes are teaching shorthand and typewriting, respectively, in maintained secondary schools; and how many teachers who are...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will temporarily revise the pension and salary arrangements for superannuated teachers in order to give a substantial financial...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science from what date he proposes to approve the increase in the dependants' allowances for university, training college, and other students in...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proportion of total medical research expenditure is incurred in Scotland; and to what extent this proportion has increased in the last...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will now make a statement on the recommendations of the Padmore Report on marine nuclear propulsion.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what improvements in vacation grants for students are proposed for the current year.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, in view of the fact that in Staffordshire 42 per cent. of the senior classes and 20 per cent. of the junior classes are oversized, if he...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in HANSARD a nominal roll of the 114 schools in condemned or obsolete buildings which remain for replacement in...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the total amount spent annually on all branches of oceanography in the United Kingdom.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers were employed in maintained primary and secondary schools in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1951; and how many are now...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many maintained primary and secondary schools have been completed in the West Riding of Yorkshire since 1951; and how many have been...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what facilities he proposes to provide for the reorganisation of secondary education in Thornaby-on-Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire,...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science by how much the expansion plans accepted by existing universities have exceeded the estimates made by the Robbins Committee; how much of...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what progress has been made to implement the plan he announced recently for setting up industrial liaison centres in colleges of advanced...
asked the Prime Minister if he will propose to other Commonwealth Prime Ministers the offer of a joint Commonwealth military contribution to a United Nations police force.
asked the Prime Minister if he will take steps to coordinate the activities of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labour to ensure that they consider what additional statistical...
asked the Prime Minister if he will appoint an official historian to write the history of the military operations in Cyprus during the emergency prior to the Zurich Agreement.
asked the Prime Minister what reply he has sent to the letter of 25th June from the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia about the future of Southern Rhodesia.
asked the Prime Minister whether, following recent Indonesian aggression against Malaysia, he will propose to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers a policy of Commonwealth support for Malaysia in...
asked the Prime Minister what decision was reached between himself and the Turkish Prime Minister in the recent conversations on the situation in Cyprus.
The following Questions stood upon the Order Paper:
Mr. H. Wilson: May I ask the Lord Privy Seal whether he will state the business of the House for next week?
Ordered, That this day Business other than the Business of Supply may be taken before Ten o'clock.—[Mr. Redmayne.]
[21st ALLOTTED DAY]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a further sum, not exceeding £40, be granted to Her Majesty, towards defraying the charges for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1965, for...
4.15 p.m.
Ordered, That the Proceedings on the Malicious Damage Bill may be entered upon and proceeded with at this day's Sitting at any hour, though opposed.—[Mr. J. E. B. Hill.]
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the Third time and passed.
[Queen's Recommendation signified]
Resolution reported,
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to enable county schools and voluntary schools to be established for providing full-time education by reference to...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. J. E. B. Hill.]
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