Thursday, 9 December 1965
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Secretary of State for Wales when and where the next meeting of the Welsh Economic Council will be held.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement about future road improvements in the Vale of Neath.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales how many road improvement schemes in Wales are to be delayed as a direct result of the proposals for reducing capital commitments; if he will give an...
asked the Secretary of State for Wales what progress has been made by the Welsh Economic Council in their study of derelict land in Wales.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the future of the tourist industry in Wales.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a plan for Wales related to the objectives of the National Plan, Command Paper No. 2764.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales what liaison exists between his Department and the University of Wales in respect of industrial and technological development in the Principality.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales when he will make a statement on the reorganisation of Wesh local government.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales when he expects to receive proposals from Richard Thomas and Baldwins on the siting of the second iron ore port in South Wales.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales what are his plans for ending the depopulation of the rural counties and the industrial valleys of Wales.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales when he intends to implement the Report on the Status of the Welsh Language in Wales.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the future of the Welsh Book Grant.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what further proposals he has for the recruitment of mature entrants to the teaching profession; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, what steps he intends to take, by providing nursery education, to ensure that the additional 200,000 married women indicated in the...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations have been made to him by the National Association of Schoolmasters on setting up a Royal Corn-mission; and what reply...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will introduce legislation to enable him to purchase gravel pits for the purpose of constructing Olympic Games-size rowing courses.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has had on the subject of grants to students being replaced by loans; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he has taken to encourage local education authorities to make full use of existing education welfare services.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many replacement projects are expected to be started in the first six months of the 1966–67 major school building programme.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the number and location of building projects for the expansion of teacher training, the star, of which has been deferred by six months.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science on what date he proposes to end the six months postponement of the starting dates of educational capital projects other than schools, as...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a further statement on the creation of a new technological university in the North-East.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what financial assistance he proposes to make to local education authorities to enable them to provide improved hospitality to groups of...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what consideration he is giving to the request from local education authorities to meet the demands for an expansion of the Youth Service...
asked the Secretary of. State for Education and Science what plans are under consideration by his Department to encourage local education authorities and other educational institutions to...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will hold discussions with the university authorities so as to ensure that students accepted for universities next autumn are...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many grants have been made during each of the last five years for the promotion of education in swimming and in life-saving in schools...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether, in view of the substantial sums from Government and club sources expended in enlarging Villa Park, Birmingham, to accommodate...
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the policy of the Government regarding the making of some change in the variable dates of Easter.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set up a committee to reconsider the advisability of retaining summer time throughout the year.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is satisfied with the treatment of those serving sentences of 30 years in Durham Prison: and if he will make a statement.
asked the Prime Minister if he will take steps to ensure that Ministers do not fail to give an oral answer to an oral Question by stating that they will write to the Member concerned, and that...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will discuss with President Johnson the question of whether British aid to South Vietnam should be increased in view of the intensification of the fighting there.
asked the Prime Minister if the public speech of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs about the Common Market on 27th November at a meeting in London of Socialist Commentary represents...
asked the Prime Minister what response he has sent to the memorandum presented to him by the residents of Hartley and Ash in Kent on the proposal to develop a model village there.
asked the Prime Minister what instructions he has given to industries which the Government controls, or in which it holds a controlling interest, over co-operation in the sanctions on Rhodesia.
asked the Prime Minister what steps will be taken to prevent the oil tanker "British Security", owned by the British Petroleum Company, from discharging its cargo in a Mozambique port.
May I ask the Leader of the House to state the business for next week?
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I should like to make a further statement about the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited. On 4th November, my right...
With permission, I will make a statement about the reactivation of the Capenhurst plant of the Atomic Energy Authority. The Government have decided that the Capenhurst plant of the Atomic Energy...
Ordered, That this day Business other than the Business of Supply may he taken before Ten o'clock.—[Mr. Short.]
[2ND ALLOTTED DAY]
Mr. Popplewell.
Ordered,That the Proceedings on the Order of the day relating to Town and Country Planning may be entered upon and proceeded with at this day's Sitting at any hour during a period of One hour...
Considered in Committee.
Resolution reported,That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to regulate building and constructional work, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by...
Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [1st December], That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the Town and Country Planning (Industrial Development...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Harper.]
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