Thursday, 16 June 1966
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read the Third time and passed.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he will introduce legislation to vary the present legal status of the voluntary-aided grammar schools.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will now withdraw Circular 10/66 on school building programmes.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the future of the Inner London Education Authority.
Mr. Edward M. Taylor: asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has regarding the number of students unable to obtain admission to university in October 1965;...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals he has for using the Pinewood Hospital buildings near Wokingham for educational purposes.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the current level of expenditure of public funds by way of grants to the universities.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he is satisfied with the response of local authorities to his request for them to review their school transport arrangements; and if he...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what research is being undertaken by his Department to study the link between poverty in low-income households and educational progress in...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what advice or instructions he proposes to give local education authorities on the problems entailed for children who, in transferring from...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will now send a further circular to local education authorities on the policy they are to pursue in fitting direct-grant schools...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what studies he is making for a British scientific satellite as a successor to the proposed U.K.3.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science on what costs per school place his 1968–69 building programme is based; and to what extent these will be increased by the effect of...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will recommend the setting up of a Royal Commission to inquire into the whole field of future education.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will issue instructions to his department that, when protests similar to those made in the case of the siting of the County Junior...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what action he proposes to take regarding those local education authorities who submit proposals arising from Circular 10/65 which are aimed...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science at how many schools outside toilets are still being used; and how many of these are not fully roofed.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what have so far been the effects upon the public education system of England of the need to educate large numbers of children of...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what encouragement he gives to local education authorities to second their personnel for a tour in overseas countries of the Commonwealth;...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether, in view of the representations he has received and the need for a new primary school in Helsby, he will include this school in the...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he expects to be able to announce his decision on the Redbridge Borough Council's response to his circular requiring education...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the number and percentage of independent schools recognised as efficient which are charities.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many universities have their own medical centres; and how many of these centres have a psychiatric section.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science to what factors he attributes delays by local education authorities in starting their school building programmes.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many local education authorities have notified him of their wish to adopt an age transfer, other than 11 years, from primary to...
Mr. Hornby asked: the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will extend the time limit for submission by local education authorities of their proposals for secondary reorganisation.
Mr. Bob Brown: asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he hopes to report the findings of he Bessey Committee on voluntary service by young people.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will introduce legislation to impose a staffing quota on schools in the Private sector.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will now make arrangements to relieve teachers of all duties in connection with school meals.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what financial assistance was given in the year 1965–66 by the Welsh Arts Council to the Llangollen Eisteddfod, and to the National...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what will be the effect of the Selective Employment Tax on the finances of the National Theatre.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he is satisfied with the way in which the Arts Council assesses and distributes national and local subsidies for the arts; and if he...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether all local education authorities have now been advised of the major school building projects which are to be included in the...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was he result of the urgent examination into tie possibility of creating a completely new technological university institution in tie...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information the Office of Scientific and Technical Information has about codes and procedures for information storage and retrieval;...
asked the Prime Minister how many official Press officers are employed at 10, Downing Street.
asked the Prime Minister if he will define the responsibilities of the Minister of Labour in relation to the Government's prices and incomes policy.
asked the Prime Minister if he will arrange that measures similar to those being taken to amalgamate police forces shall be taken to amalgamate the fire services and ambulance services in the...
asked the Prime Minister what steps the British Government are taking to strengthen the European Free Trade Association; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Prime Minister what steps are taken by Her Majesty's Government to predict future trends of population, to influence such trends, and to ensure that social policies are planned in...
asked the Prime Minister what representations have been made to Her Majesty's Government that the next Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference should take place in a country other than the...
asked the Prime Minister when he last discussed the European Launcher Development Organisation and the use of Woomera with the Australian Prime Minister.
Biggs-Davison: asked the Prime Minister whether he will take steps to replace the Minister of Aviation with a Minister of Aerospace.
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like now to answer Question No. Q10 with, for the convenience of the House, unstarred Question No. 21. The House will know that the question of the future...
The following Questions stood upon the Order Paper:
Mr. Heath (by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether he has instituted an investigation into the circumstances in which the Cabinet's decision to withdraw from the activities of...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will state the business of the House for next week?
Further considered in Committee [Progress, 15th June]
4.20 p.m.
I beg to move Amendment No. 86, in page 14, line 25, to leave out "500" and insert "1,000".
I beg to move Amendment No. 177, in page 16, line 10, after "licence", to insert which expression shall except where the context otherwise requires, include a half-year's gaming machine licence"....
I beg to move Amendment No. 149, in page 63, line 43, to leave out or enforcement". The Amendment refers to paragraph 18 of Schedule 2. The Committee will have realised that, on the face of it,...
Question proposed, That the Clause stand part of the Bill.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Harper.]
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