Monday, 24 February 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity when she expects to receive the Report from the National Board for Prices and Incomes on bank staff salaries.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what estimate she has made of the cost to employers of giving protection of pension rights to employees leaving service before...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what further steps she intends to take to establish a workable basis of industrial discipline within the shipbuilding industry.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what action she is taking to ensure that the staff at employment exchanges recommend the withdrawal of unemployment benefit as soon...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what is the effect on the size of classes at Government training centres of the refusal of trade unions to accept trainees if numbers...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what progress is being made towards the phased introduction of equal pay for women; and if she will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity whether she will give the latest unemployment figures for North-East Lancashire.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what estimate she has formed of the financial loss to the United Kingdom through strikes since April, 1968; and what is her estimate...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity how many people are currently unemployed in Wales, including Monmouthshire; and what was the average monthly number of unemployed in...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what is the average time lag in Wales between a man ceasing work in a job in which he has been declared redundant and his entry into a...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what was the latest convenient figure for unemployment among men over 55 years of age in Scotland; and if she will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what representations she has received from the Scottish Trades Union Congress on the White Paper, "In Place of Strife".
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what was the percentage increase in wage rates in 1968; and what was the last year in which that rate of increase was exceeded.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity whether she is aware that a significant number of skilled men over the age of 45 years cannot obtain comparable employment after being...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what is the average age of the members of the Commission on Industrial Relations so far appointed.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity whether increases in average wage rates in all industries and services during 1968 were contained within the guidelines set by the...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity the latest estimate of the number of local, plant and shop floor agreements which have been concluded in the engineering industry...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity the estimated percentage increase in wage rates and earnings during 1968; what were the corresponding figures for salaries; and how...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity whether the settlement of the overseas telegraphists' wage dispute was in conformity with the Government's prices and incomes policy.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what proposals she is considering to amend the method of calculating the frequency rate figure of industrial accidents.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity how many men and women in the Portsmouth area have completed industrial retraining courses in each of the past three years.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what progress her Department has made in evaluating the general criteria by which white collar productivity is to be measured; and if...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what is the policy of her Department regarding the growth and reorganisation of trade unions on the basis of separate organisations...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity whether she will take steps to limit statutorily the number of hours of overtime working in industry.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity whether she is now able to give a date for the publication of special indices of retail prices for pensioner households.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity on what grounds she now decides that exceptions to the ceiling of 3½ per cent. on wage increases are allowed.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity how many claims for increases in pay for employees of municipal bus undertakings, in addition to the increases paid since 26th...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity how many wage agreements made at local, company or plant level in industries for which national wage increases have been approved...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity in how many cases intervention by her Department has resulted in a reduction in the rate of remuneration paid as a result of...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity to what extent it remains her policy that increases in pay are justified where it is recognised that the pay of a certain group of...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what estimate she has made of the increase in productivity during the past 12 months of tally clerks employed at the London Docks and...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what representations she has received from road haulage companies in the West Midlands about the effect of strike action by their...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what was the number of unemployed in the Maltby and Raw-marsh areas for the years 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968, respectively.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will seek to amend the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963, so as to make provision for better safety precautions in...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what representations she has received from the unions and the management of Rolls-Royce regarding the closure at Stag Lane, Edgware,...
asked the Attorney-General why Mr. Bruce Reynolds was prosecuted.
asked the Attorney-General by what authority he acts when refusing to initiate a prosecution against persons who have consistently and knowingly broken the law in spending money which they know...
asked the Attorney-General when the scheme for allowing certain increases in certain conveyancing fees is expected to become operative.
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
3.45 p.m.
4.38 p.m.
7.0 p.m.
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
In subsection (1) of section 97 of the Act of 1960, the Act of 1960, the table shall be amended by leaving out the words—
The penalties laid down in section 7 of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1962 (as amended by section 11 of the Finance Act 1967) for using and keeping vehicles without a licence shall not be subject to...
I beg to move, Amendment No. 2, in page 3, line 27, leave out from ' that ' to ' and ' in line 31 and insert: in relation to any period before the transfer date, a local authority have and always...
I beg to move Amendment No. 4, in page 4, line 23, at end insert: '; and section 2(2) of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section as if for the reference to section 1 of this...
I beg to move Amendment No. 7, in page 8, line 8, leave out subsection (1) and insert: (1) Any unissued licence allocated to a motor dealer in pursuance of the foregoing section may at any time...
Amendments made: No. 8, in page 9, line 20, leave out from ' section 'to ' it ' in line 21.
I beg to move, That Clause 10 be divided into two clauses, the first consisting of subsections (1) to (5) and the second of subsections (61 to (8).
I beg to move Amendment No. 31, in page 13, line 29, at end insert: Provided that in any conditions prescribed with reference to epilepsy ' sleep ' shall be defined so as to include a period of...
Ordered,That the Proceedings on the Vehicle and Driving Licences Bill may be entered upon and proceeded with at this day's Sitting at any hour, though opposed.—[Mr. Concannon.]
As amended (in the Standing Committee), further considered.
The next Amendment is No. 34, with which I suggest we take Government Amendments No. 37 and 40.
The next Amendment is No. 38, with which I suggest we take Government Amendment No. 39.
I beg to move Amendment No. 42, in page 21, line 10, at end add: (2) Regulations under subsection (9) of section 14 of the Road Safety Act 1967 (which enables regulations to provide that licences...
Amendment made: No. 43, in page 26, line 190, after ' 6', insert '11(2)'.— [Mr. Marsh.]
Amendment made: No. 44, in page 27, line 30, after '6', insert '11(2)'.—[Mr. Marsh.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 45, in page 29, line 29, leave out from ' years "' to end of line 33 and insert: (2) The said section 17(1) and (2) shall have effect subject to the following further...
I beg to move Amendment No. 46, in page 30, line 41, leave out "fourteen" and insert "thirty". The purpose of the Amendment is to extend from 14 days to 30 days the period within which a...
Amendments made: No. 49, in page 38, line 28, leave out ' "until" ' and insert ' "shall keep" '.
10.21 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Concannon.]
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