Monday, 14 April 1969
The House—after the Adjournment on 3rd April for the Easter Recess—met at half-past Two o'clock.
The House being met, the Clerk at the Table informed the House of the unavoidable absence of Mr. SPEAKER.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is aware that many workers laid off by industrial disputes or other causes work two or three days a week but have to pay the full National...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the total amount paid out to the families of men engaged in industrial disputes in the form of supplementary benefits over the latest...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has studied the results of recent research into the effect of noise on health; and what action he proposes to take.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what allowance he will make in settling the terms for contracting out of the proposed state graduated pension scheme for the fact that payments by...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many homes for unmarried mothers were closed during 1968; and how many are likely to close during 1969 and 1970.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of clerical grade officers and senior officers employed by the executive council covering the Southall constituency to check...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is satisfied with the operation in general of the Abortion Act in relation to the facilities afforded by the medical profession to women...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether, as a result of the regular reviews of all new claims for supplementary benefit from unemployed persons under 45 years of age, made in the...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he plans to amend Regulation 27 of the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations, 1966, so that the...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of those diseases which, on the basis of data on cause of death, show a statistically...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will make a statement on the scope and purpose of clinical trials he is conducting or proposes to conduct in co-operation with doctors.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many women's organisations in Scotland have made representations to him about the White Paper on National Superannuation and National...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what progress has been made in his consideration of a change in the earnings rule for the wife of a disabled man.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much his Department is spending on giving aid to research into industrial diseases; and if he will list the amount spent in each category.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, how many hotels and restaurants were inspected in 1968; and how many prosecutions were initiated for breaches of food and hygiene regulations.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will introduce amending legislation to the National Health Service Act, 1952 to remove the exemption from the payment of prescription...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what part of the supplementary benefit scale rates, in shillings and pence, is calculated as a margin for amenities, that is to say, a cash income...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is aware that the hon. Member for Barking has had no substantive reply to a letter from a constituent, forwarded to the Department on 12th...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will introduce legislation to safeguard the rights of patients in teaching hospitals; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is satisfied with the operation of the casualty departments of non-teaching hospitals in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many circulars dealing with family planning have been sent to hospitals in the past 25 years; and what analysis he has undertaken of their...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what revenue was received in 1967 and in 1968 from insurance companies in payment to National Health Service hospitals for treatment to patients...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many transplant operations have taken place in hospitals in the United Kingdom for each of the last three years; and what was the percentage...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the average waiting period for a child in need of tonsillectomy; and what proposals he has for reducing the average such waiting period.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he is now taking to encourage the increasing employment of fully-trained married women nurses on a part-time basis in the National...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
Mr. Henig (by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the new developments in Anguilla.
Mr. Will Griffiths (by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the current epidemic involving the death of 30 children from...
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I should like to make a statement on medical school places. The Government have now completed their consideration of the recommendations...
Considered in Committee [Progress, 2nd April].
Amendment proposed: No. 235, in page 5, line 1, to leave out from the word "session" to end of line 3.—[Mr. Powell.]
Motion made, and Question put,That the Proceedings on the Parliament (No. 2) Bill may be entered upon and proceeded with at this day's Sitting at any hour, though opposed.—[Mr. O'Malley.]
Again considered in Committee.
10.30 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Harper.]
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