Monday, 10 March 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
I regret to have to inform the House of the death of Walter Harris Loveys, esquire, Member for Chichester, and I desire on behalf of the House to express our sense of the loss we have sustained...
asked the Minister of Transport what estimate he has made of the various costs of running the railways which previously contributed to their deficit and which will be borne by public funds in the...
Mr. Edward M. Taylor: asked the Minister of Transport what was the average number of persons employed by British Railways in 1968 and 1964, respectively; and what was the total number of...
asked the Minister of Transport what requests he has received from British Railways for approval for capital expenditure on the modernisation of railway track and signalling between Portsmouth...
asked the Minister of Transport what request he has now received from British Railways for the authorisation of capital expenditure on the electrification of the line from Portsmouth to...
asked the Minister of Transport how many railway station buildings have been destroyed by the British Railways Board.
asked the Minister of Transport what plans have been submitted to him for electrifying railways in Wales.
asked the Minister of Transport what decision he has made on the route improvement and electrification schemes recently submitted to him by the Railways Board; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister of Transport (1) what revision he is considering of the estimates given in the 1963 White Paper, Command No. 2137, on the Channel Tunnel; and if he will make a statement;
asked the Minister of Transport when the last full meeting was held of the Transport Co-ordination Council for London.
Mr. Edward M. Taylor: asked the Minister of Transport what steps he is taking to implement the recommendations contained in the Annual Report of the Central Transport Consultative Committee for...
asked the Minister of Transport how soon he expects the Government's consideration of the Humberside Study to be completed; and how soon thereafter action will be taken on its recommendations,...
asked the Minister of Transport what are the circumstances under which approval has been given to the expenditure of £6 million on the replacement of British Railways road vehicles which...
asked the Minister of Transport what estimate he has made of the number of officials his plans to nationalise the ports will require; and what their cost will be.
asked the Minister of Transport what new capital investment per annum he envisages for the nationalised docks industry.
asked the Minister of Transport what was the revenue from tolls on the Tamar Bridge for the last two years; and what were the costs of collection as a percentage of total revenue.
asked the Minister of Transport when he expects to be in a position to make an announcement on the proposed by-pass at Chapel-en-le-Frith in the county of Derbyshire.
asked the Minister of Transport if he will issue as a Green Book the long-term road building strategy for the 1970s prepared by his Department.
asked the Minister of Transport when he proposes to take action to make insurance cover for motor-cycle pillion passengers compulsory, having regard to the Kent Committee's recommendation to take...
asked the Minister of Transport if he will make the fitment of safety belts in motor vehicles a compulsory feature of the annual vehicle test.
asked the Minister of Transport when he now expects the M5 as far as Piff's Elm to be open to traffic.
asked the Minister of Transport when he expects to begin building the new trunk roads from the Immingham and Grimsby Ports to the Ml and Doncaster by-pass; and how long it will take to complete...
asked the Minister of Transport why he is experimenting with the growing of shrubs on the central reservations of motorways.
asked the Minister of Transport what study he has made of the evidence supplied to him by the honourable Member for South Bed- forshire on research being carried out into the development of road...
asked the Minister of Transport if he will require the Road Research Laboratory to study the safety value of honey compounds in counteracting alcohol; and if he will introduce legislation to...
asked the Minister of Transport whether he will now impose a 40 mile-per-hour speed limit on the A36 road between Whinwhistle Road and Plaitford.
asked the Minister of Transport how many vehicles have been tested at the Heavy Goods Testing Station in Perth to the nearest convenient day; and what percentage of these were from Dundee.
asked the Minister of Transport why, although the time for objections to his proposals to make an order under Section 7 of the Highways Act, 1959, fixing the line of the North Orbital Extension...
asked the Minister of Transport what money has been allocated for new road building and for road improvements in East Devon for 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71 and 1971–72; and...
asked the Minister of Transport whether he will announce the date for the completion of the spine road for the South-West; and what progress has been made in respect of this since the publication...
asked the Minister of Transport what estimate he has of the number of accidents caused by mud being thrown on to windscreens by heavy commercial vehicles, thus obscuring the drivers' visibility;...
asked the Minister of Transport whether, in his new policy for speeding road traffic, he will give higher priority to improving routes that serve the ports.
asked the Minister of Transport if he will undertake to hold a public inquiry into his proposals to route the M6 motorway through Levens Park; and whether he will make a statement.
asked the Minister of Transport what plans he has made to provide ambulances and other vehicles attached to the emergency services with access to the proposed M11 motorway in the vicinity of St....
asked the Minister of Transport whether the dates proposed for the commencement and completion of the M11 motorway will be varied in the light of decisions taken on the siting of the third London...
Dr. Bennett: asked the Minister of Transport for what reason he is now enforcing a solus system of monopoly sales of petrol for the new service station on the Lancaster-Carlisle motorway, M6, in...
asked the Minister of Transport whether he will take steps to arrange for medical practitioners visiting their patients to be allowed special privileges in street parking.
asked the Minister of Transport (1) what arrangements are proposed to permit a two-way flow of traffic at Wroxham Bridge to cope with the heavy tourist and other traffic;
asked the Minister of Transport if he will seek to re-negotiate rentals and leases with operators of cafe or restaurant facilities on motorways where the land is leased from his Department and...
asked the Minister of Transport what progress is being made with the provision of a footbridge over the A1 at Darrington; and whether he will now give a date for its completion.
asked the Minister of Transport whether the line of route for the M62 through the Goole constituency has been fixed; and when it will be published.
Mr. Ridley (by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Transport whether he will make a statement about the train crash at Ashchurch, in Gloucestershire, on Saturday, 8th March.
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the strike at Ford Motor Company plants. Following an application from the unions for a pay increase and growing pressure for...
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a short business statement. On Thursday, 13th March, instead of the business already announced, there will be a debate on Nigeria, which will...
Order. Mr. Norman Atkinson, to raise a point of order.
I have a Ruling to make on a privilege issue, as many hon. Members will remember. Before I rule on the issue raised on Friday last by the hon. Lady the Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs....
Ordered, That this day Business other than the Business of Supply may be taken before Ten o'clock.—[Mr. Neil McBride.]
[10TH ALLOTTED DAY],—considered.
Before I call the Minister to open the debate, perhaps I might refer to the Amendment in the names of the hon. Members for Bebington (Mr. Brooks) and South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes)— That...
10.15 p.m.
Bill re-committed to a Standing Committee.—[Mr. Harper.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Harper.]
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