Monday, 28 April 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Minister for the Civil Service into how many separate units the proposed civil service college will be divided; and where they will be located.
asked the Minister for the Civil Service to what extent the pace of implementation of the Fulton Report by his department will be affected by the work of the Constitutional Commission.
asked the Minister for Civil Service what estimates he has made of the annual cost of protecting the pension rights of members of public sector schemes who change employment before the normal...
asked the Minister for the Civil Service what proposals he has for revising the salary structure of senior civil servants.
asked the Minister for the Civil Service (1) what categories of civil servant travelling abroad on Government business are normally required to finance their official foreign currency...
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Minister for the Civil Service by what percentage the index of earnings has risen during the period from 1st April, 1965, to 31st March, 1969; and what was the...
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Minister for the Civil Service on what date was the London weighting allowance for civil servants last increased; and whether he will now take steps to increase this...
asked the Minister for the Civil Service whether he will institute a system whereby Members' letters are formally acknowledged by Departments within one week of receipt; in cases where a final...
asked the Minister for the Civil Service what he has done to implement the recommendations of the Fulton Committee as to greater use of professionally qualified accountants within the Civil Service.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether, in future, Great Britain will support the admission of new members to the United Nations being decided by a majority...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the 20th Anniversary Ministerial Meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation which he...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further soundings he has taken about the feasibility of an international ban on the supply of arms to Nigeria and Biafra.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a further statement regarding his department's intentions concerning the future employment of Mr. Tony Lee.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what decision has been reached by the four-Power conference on their efforts to promote a settlement in the declared war by the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the nature of his reply to the official proposal for discussion of East-West security in Europe made to him on behalf of...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will propose that the existence of a constitution with full adult franchise shall be a condition of membership of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will raise at the Security Council, as a threat to world peace, the present frontier dispute between the Union of...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will propose at the United Nations that sanctions be applied against those member States which refuse to become...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what decision he has come to on proposals for the type of international organisation to control future development of the sea bed.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress he has made in his efforts to bring the French Government back into regular attendance at meetings of the Western...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a further statement on the position in Anguilla.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government will now propose the transfer from Spandau, or release, of Rudolf Hess.
asked the Minister of Overseas Development what is the extent of British Government financial support for the Association of African Universities inter-African scholarships scheme.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of hours per week that a consultant engaged on a nine-elevenths contract will need to work on the basis that he takes his full...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has now received the communication dated 19th April from the hon. Member for West Ham, North, together with enclosures, concerning the...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will initiate fresh negotiations through the Whitley Council on nurses' conditions of service and instruct the management side to offer...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will seek powers to set up a Scottish anglers' trust, to encompass brown trout, sea-trout, and salmon; (2) if he will now take steps to set up...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make available the correspondence exchanged between him and the Chairman of the Social Service Research Council on the shortage...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will state the number and sex of students admitted to each of the Scottish universities during each of the last five years and the...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the working of the Heyworth Committee 1964 Report recommendations indicating how far each of them has been...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions to date have been brought under the Abortion Act, 1967.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will obtain from the Chief Constable a report on the strength of the police force in Aberystwyth during the second week in April, 1969,...
The following Written Question stood upon the Order Paper:
It might be helpful if I remind right hon. and hon. Members that the President of the Italian Republic is being received in the Royal Gallery at 5 p.m. today and will be addressing Members of...
3.39 p.m.
Ordered,That this day Business other than the Business of Supply may be taken before Ten o'clock.—[Mr. Diamond.]
[18TH ALLOTTED DAY],—considered.
5.1 p.m.
7.15 p.m.
Resolved,That one-tenth of the sums deducted or set aside in the current year from the salaries of Members of Parliament under section one of the House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1939, and...
10.13 p.m.
Order made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, extending section 1 of the Sunday Entertainments Act 1932 to the Rural District of Derwent [copy laid before the House, 15th April],...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Fitch.]
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