Tuesday, 25 July 1967
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Lords Amendments considered, pursuant to Order [24th July], and agreed to.
[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified]
This Petition on the subject of aircraft noise is presented on behalf of 4,927 residents in part of Putney, chiefly in the Roehampton area. Mr. Speaker, with your permission, I will read the...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he has yet received a progress report from the Worcestershire County Council on their consideration of the suggested terms of reference...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he is aware of the difficulties confronting the London Borough of Newham in developing the Welfare Road, Stratford, E.15, Scheme due to...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he has considered the communication from the hon. Member for West Ham, North, together with the enclosed from Mr. D. L. Lee, showing...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many empty houses are now available to Londoners in expanded towns; and what additional assistance he is proposing to ensure that these...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will now introduce the 100 per cent. mortgage guarantee scheme included in the Housing Subsidies Act, 1967.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will make a statement about his policy in regard to the availability of local authority mortgages.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government when he proposes to make the order bringing all controlled rents within the ambit of the Rent Act, 1965.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will initiate a review of the work of the furnished houses rent tribunals.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether, in the light of the proposals for a Dee Estuary crossing, he will now consider the practicability of designating a new town for...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what proportion of the total financial investment in the nation's housing stock was devoted to new construction and improvement, respectively,...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government, in view of the facts that the compensation paid by Birmingham Corporation to a firm of brewers in respect of the site value of an unfit house,...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he is aware that regulated rents have increased, in spite of the purpose of the 1965 regulations to reduce them; and what action is he taking...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government when the Parker Morris minimum standard for play space will become mandatory in the case of local authority housing schemes submitted to him for...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government in how many cases rent assessment committees, when hearing cases, have received representations from Members of Parliament; and what is his...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will now introduce legislation to amend Section 49 of the General Rate Act, 1967, in order to bring about a definition of income for...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will publish the individual applications for grants received by his Department from local authorities to help cleaning the beaches of oil...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government when he expects to receive the report of the Royal Commission on Local Government.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will review the rule relating to planning appeals, whereby consideration of one appeal cannot be deferred for some period of time to allow...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many unfilled vacancies for planners there are in his Department; and what proportion of the total this represents.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government where the international hoverport on the South coast is to be sited, and when; and what information he has about the terminus on the other side...
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government when he expects to give further guidance to local authorities about planning permission procedure linked with car parking facilities.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government when the study of the Barnsbury environmental area will be completed; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what progress has been made by the planning unit on its study of Humberside.
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what plans he has to assist local authorities in their housing programmes by providing capital loans at minimum rates of interest.
asked the Prime Minister if he will take steps to make the Secretary of State for Education and Science responsible for the education and training of all handicapped children and young people up...
asked the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on the up-to-date position of the British application to join the Common Market.
Q3. Mr. Elystan Morgan asked the Prime Minister if he will arrange for a Minister of the Crown to visit Rhodesia to discuss the future of that country with Mr. Nkomo and Mr. Sithole.
Q4. Mr. William Hamilton asked the Prime Minister whether he will now seek to set up another independent inquiry, comparable to that of Sir William Beveridge in the 1940s, to investigate and make...
Q6. Mr. F. Noel-Baker asked the Prime Minister what conversations he has had with the Prime Minister of Australia concerning the stationing of United Kingdom Forces in the Far East; and with what...
Q7. Mr. Moonman asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the desirability of convening a meeting of Heads of State from those nations who have helped to arm the Arab States and Israel,...
Q10. Mr. Shinwell asked the Prime Minister if any request was made by the King of Jordan for arms in his recent conversation.
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement. I undertook to inform the House of the noble Lord, Lord Alport's impressions following his visit to Rhodesia. Lord Alport has made a...
On 20th June this House gave leave of absence to four of its Members to present on its behalf a bookcase to the Malta House of Representatives to mark Malta's independence and her entry into the...
on 20th June, this House gave leave of absence to four of its Members to present on its behalf a Speaker's Chair to the National Assembly of Zambia. The delegation consisted of the right hon....
Motion made and Question proposed,That this House, at its rising on Friday, do adjourn till Monday, 23rd October.—[The Prime Minister.]
Order for Second Reading read.
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Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Armstrong.]
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