Monday, 8 August 1966
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Lords Amendments considered and agreed to.
Lords Amendments considered and agreed to. [One with an Amendment.]
Lords Amendment considered and agreed to.
Read the Third time and passed, with Amendments.
Read the Third time and passed, with Amendments.
Read the Third time and passed.
(Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified).
Read the Third time and passed, without Amendment.
Address for Return, of Experiments performed under the Act 39 and 40 Vict. c. 77, during 1965."—[Miss Bacon.]
asked the Minister of Social Security what proposals she has to protect retirement pensioners from the effects of recent Government measures.
asked the Minister of Social Security if she is aware that the decision not to disregard war disability pensions and allowances for purposes of claiming rate rebate has the effect of penalising...
asked the Minister of Social Security whether she is yet ready to bring forward her proposals for improving the benefits payable to the long-term sick.
asked the Minister of Social Security if she will seek to amend the National Insurance (Industrial Injury) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations, 1959, so as to provide that emphysema is included in...
asked the Minister of Social Security whether she will introduce a further increase in pensions for retired persons, widows and other pensioners, pending major reforms in the system of social...
asked the Minister of Social Security what instructions have been issued to officers of the National Assistance Board regarding increases in rent allowances to retired persons, widows and others...
asked the Minister of Social Security when she now expects to receive the Report of the National Insurance Advisory Committee on the earnings rule for retirement pensioners.
asked the Minister of Social Security what long-term proposals she has for using the repeated annual surplus of the Industrial Injuries Fund.
asked the Minister of Social Security whether she proposes to schedule the disease known as mesothelioma as an industrial disease of asbestos workers, for the purpose of industrial injuries benefits.
asked the Minister of Health whether he will now consider revising the regulations governing the circumstances whereby the cost of converting vehicles to hand controls for war-disabled pensioners...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will ensure by administrative means that any Selective Employment Tax paid in respect of pharmacists employed for the purpose of dispensing prescriptions...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will give details of the £3 million cuts which are to be made in local authority health and welfare programmes.
asked the Minister of Health whether he will state the number of complaints concerning the functioning of the Morris 1000 invalid cars supplied to disabled persons; and what steps he is taking to...
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that special difficulties in obtaining cervical smears are being experienced in certain areas by women at risk; and if he will give special attention...
asked the Minister of Health what is his estimate of the approximate saving to annual National Health Service costs if doctors prescribed meprobamate, paracetamol, prednisolone, bendrofluazide...
asked the Minister of Health what representations have been made by the medical profession to the effect that many doctors have already entered into expenditure commitments as a result of the...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of magistrates' court proceedings taken against Mrs. Freda Blyth of Bracknell, on 2nd August, he will authorise the immediate issue to her of an...
asked the Minister of Health how wage or salary increases of those working in the National Health Service, which have either been negotiated or are being negotiated, will be affected by the...
asked the Minister of Health why the salary of Miss S. A. Rogers, a State Registered Nurse employed at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, dropped from £725 per annum on 1st December,...
asked the Minister of Health what is the average length of waiting time for a non-urgent minor operation in the London area and the United Kingdom, respectively.
asked the Minister of Health if he will give an assurance that new extensions to hospitals will not remain unused because of the refusal of his Department to grant the necessary finance.
asked the Minister of Health what action he proposes to take following representations made to him by the Association of Official Architects for the reconstitution of the National Health...
asked the Minister of Health why the Regional Hospital Board's proposals for hospital developments in the Brighton and Lewes Group involve the wasteful duplication of expensive specialised...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the division of opinion between the hospital staff in Brighton and the South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, he will review the present...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will make a statement about the proposed use of the site of the Victoria Hospital, Tite Street, Chelsea.
Mrs. Butler: asked the Minister of Labour what progress has been made with the proposed Carcinogenic Substances (Prohibition) Regulations and the Carcinogenic Substances (Prohibition of...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will ensure by administrative means that all businesses and industrial organisations which employ persons for purposes connected with the health of their...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will introduce legislation to establish a national council to inquire into inconsistencies and omissions in existing industrial safety provisions and to...
asked the Minister of Labour how far his talks with the Trades Union Congress and the Confederation of British Industry have advanced the implementation of equal pay for work of equal value.
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the anticipated increase in unemployment stemming from the Government's deflationary measures, he will cancel the trial publicity campaign planned...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
On a point of order. In view of the presence here today of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and of the great importance of the matter referred to in Question No. 65 and the...
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement. Her Majesty's Government have now reviewed the Rhodesian problem in all its aspects, and British officials will be returning to...
Referred to a Second Reading Committee.—[Mr. Bowden.]
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment.
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Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Fitch.]
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