Thursday, 1 May 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
The Clerk will now proceed to read the titles of the Private Bills set down for Second Readings.
Second Reading deferred till Tuesday next.
Second Reading deferred till Wednesday next at Seven o'clock.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many policemen were on duty inside and outside the hall at the recent by-election meeting in Walthamstow when Her Majesty's Secretary of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Commission on the Constitution started its work.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the recent attack on the Governor of Leicester Prison, he will now take steps to house prisoners serving long sentences in...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the latest figures available for the number of accidents in the home; if he will publish a breakdown of these in the OFFICIAL REPORT;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to complete his inquiries into the representations about illegal entry of immigrants into the United Kingdom made by Mr. R. H....
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) why a Home Office licence was granted for experiments to be carried out at Cambridge University in which chaffinches were deafened; (2)...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the continuing amount of damage caused by soccer hooligans, he will call a conference of police authorities and football...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether in view of the economic importance of the forthcoming Festival of London Stores, he will take special steps in conjunction with the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many immigrants there are in Great Britain today.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has now concluded his review of the question of the spread of amusement arcades; and what steps he proposes to take.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to ensure that all meetings of police authorities should be held in public.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce legislation to remove from illegal immigrants the immunity from prosecution they enjoy if they are not apprehended...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps have been taken, and what action he proposes to take, concerning the sale of archery sets as toys, which constitute a danger to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the increasing number of car thefts taking place in the Metropolitan Police area and the measures being taken...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why he has refused to recommend the setting up of a Royal Commission on the causes and prevention of violence.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce legislation to provide for the erasure from police records of the names of children who appeared before the courts...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance he has given to local authorities and fire authorities about allocation of specialist responsibility to chief officers of fire...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that five letters from Mr. Gerald Williams of Kidderminster dated 14th December, 1967, 18th January, 1969, 30th January,...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what further study he has now given to the past winter's experience of the working of British Standard Time.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state the total amount of expenditure on civil defence during the financial year 1968–69; and how this compares with the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the net increase in Commonwealth immigrants during the first four months of 1969.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why, after the hon. Member for West Ham, North, had reported to Scotland Yard on Friday, 25th April that a vehicle 913 XPU had been...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has considered the communication dated 28th April from the hon. Member for West Ham, North, about a woman who asked the...
asked the Sectary of State for the Home Department if he will now call for a report from the. Chief Constable as to the number of police who will be on duty in Caernarvon on the occasion of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and productivity if she will appoint a committee to investigate the net loss of 35,000 jobs in Scotland in four years.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what is now the estimated number of jobs which will be lost in Aberdeen city and county by the closure of the Inverurie Locomotive...
asked the Lord President of the Council whether he will move to appoint Select Committees of the House on defence and foreign affairs.
asked the Prime Minister how many meetings of the National Economic Development Council have been held since he became Chairman; and at how many he has taken the chair.
asked the Prime Minister to what extent the Paymaster-General is responsible for matters involving devolution in Scotland.
asked the Prime Minister if he is satisfied with the present arrangements for planning industrial development in Scotland, involving several Ministers; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Prime Minister if he will reduce all Cabinet salaries by 15 per cent. and so help resist the inflationary tendencies in our economy, as has been done in the Irish Republic.
Mr. Tom Iremonger, to raise a point of order.
My other point of order is in connection with the forthcoming Business statement. How will an hon. Member who has tabled an early day Motion, which would be printed on the Order Paper in the...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. While the Prime Minister was answering Questions, two minutes of Question Time were taken up by disorderly and unmannerly interruptions when my hon. Friend the...
3.36 p.m.
3.52 p.m.
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to make a statement on Part I of the Report of the Northumberland Committee on Foot-and-Mouth Disease, which deals with policy to...
4.25 p.m.
Does the hon. Member for Ilford, North (Mr. Iremonger) still wish to proceed with his point of order.
With regard to the next item on the Order Paper, the Motion by the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne), I wonder whether you could give me your advice, Mr. Speaker. I observe from...
We come now to the Motion in the name of the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne). I have not selected the Amendment standing in the name of the hon. and learned Member for Aberdeen,...
Lords Amendments considered.
Lords Amendment: No. 1, in page 2, line 7, at end insert: Provided that an order made by virtue of this subsection shall not provide for the payment to, or the vesting in, a custodian of enemy...
Lords Amendment: No. 3. In page 3, line 31, leave out subsection (4).
9.7 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. McBride.]
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