Monday, 3 March 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will now seek to appoint an Ombudsman for the hospital service.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will now take steps to set up special units for the termination of pregnancy in those areas where regional hospital boards are not carrying...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospitals now under construction include provision for family planning clinics.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will make a statement on the future of the Adela Shaw Hospital, Kirkby-moorside.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he is aware of the lack of beds in hospitals for old people living in Ryedale and that patients at present are being accommodated in...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether chromosomal testing for pregnant women is available for women under the National Health Service; whether he is satisfied as to the...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what research projects he is supporting into the uses of single-chamber hyperbaric oxygen beds; what is the cost of his contribution; and when he...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will take action to overcome the shortage of operating theatre nurses before the expected report in mid-1969.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will undertake a review of the establishment of hospitals.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the actuarial expectation of life for men at 65 and women at 60; and what estimates he has made of the amount paid by a man and woman,...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the estimated annual cost of making the pension age for both men and women 60, 62 and 63 years, respectively; and what plans he has for...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he intends to take to reduce the present rate of turnover of staff for old people's homes.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many organisations and local authorities were requested to submit, and how many have submitted, their comments on the Seebohm Committee's...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give directions to local offices to introduce allowances for recipients of Supplementary Benefits as a means of paying all or part of...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much he expects will be brought in by the earnings-related contribution to the National Health Service proposed in the White Paper, Command...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he will publish the comments which he has received on the Green Paper on the Structure of the Health Service.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what radius is used as a criterion by officers of his Department when deciding whether work is available for fit young single persons in their...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he is taking to assist the elderly in paying the £20 telephone installation charge which is causing hardship.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he intends to implement Section 45 of the Health Services and Public Health Act, 1968, which enables local authorities to assist all elderly...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is satisfied that all local authorities are making use of their powers under Section 29 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, to provide...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will institute an inquiry into the traffic in live stolen domestic cats and dogs between receivers of these stolen animals and National...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Service how many National Health Service patients have been treated in a single-person hyperbaric oxygen chamber in the last two years.
asked the Secretary of Slate for Social Services what progress he has made in his consultations with representatives of the profession on improving working conditions throughout the National...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what capital projects in health and welfare have been deferred as a result of the reduction in the planned rate of growth in local authority...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will take steps to ease the earnings rule under which, if the wife of a disabled man earns more than £2 16s. a week, her husband's...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what recent communication he has had with the Scottish Old-Age Pensions Association as a result of its interview with representatives of his...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what communication he has received from the Scottish Trade Union Congress on pension provision at retirement; and what reply he has sent.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what level of constant attendance allowance he proposes for the very severely disabled, as proposed in the White Paper, Command No. 3883.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he will produce a further White Paper on Social Security; and what subjects it will cover.
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much money was obtained by fraud from the Department of Social Security in 1968; at what rate it is estimated frauds are...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many persons, other than those receiving supplementary benefit, were exempted from prescription charges on grounds of hardship in each...
On a point of order. I beg to ask leave to move the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 for the purpose of discussing a specific important matter that should have urgent...
3.34 p.m.
Ordered, That the Proceedings on the National Theatre Bill may be entered upon and proceeded with at this day's Sitting at any hour, though opposed.—[Mr. Peart.]
Not amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
I have selected the one Amendment on the Notice Paper for consideration. May I remind the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Channon)—I think I need hardly remind him—that this is a...
Order for Second Reading read.
Queen's Recommendation having been signified—
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Ernest G. Perry.]
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