Wednesday, 14 May 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD reported Her Majesty's Answers to the Addresses, as follows: I have received your Address praying that, on the ratification by the Government of the Kingdom...
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
Read the Third time and passed.
Read the Third time and passed.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what consideration he gave to the expected level of potato imports before fixing the acreage quota at 85 per cent. for homegrown early potatoes.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what further representations he has received from farming interests about the operation of the National Agricultural Training Board; what...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what increase in home production he expects the horticultural industry to achieve by 1972.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what increase there has been in the transport costs for one bag of brussels sprouts on a 50-mile haul during the last 12 months.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in view of the continuing high level of food imports in spite of the imports substitution policy, and the trade deficit of £52 million...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has made of increased retail food prices to the consumer, consequent upon the increase of £340 million in taxation in...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for how many years Great Britain is pledged to buy sugar from Jamaica at £52 a ton, in view of the fact that Canada pays only £21...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in view of the increase in artificial and filled milk, what steps his Department is taking to protect consumers from misleading descriptions...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on what basis the increased costs of production falling upon those farmers whose buildings have been assessed for rates were taken into...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what increase he now estimates will take place in the dairy herd this year, following the Government's announcement in November on the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what increase he estimates will take place in the hill sheep flock this year, following the Government's announcement in November on the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has of the amount of agricultural land which will be surrendered for industrial or housing development in the current year;...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has now made of the effects of the Budget on the agricultural industry.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will implement the recommendations of the Northumberland Committee's Report.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he expects to publish his conclusions on the current series of narcotic bait layings in England and Wales.
asked the Minister Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what are the figures of herds and cattle now free of brucellosis; whether he is satisfied with the progress being made in eradicating the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) if he will hold consultations with European Economic Community and European Free Trade Association countries with a view to defining the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what steps he proposes taking to preserve the rook from extinction in view of the important contribution it makes to controlling pestiferous...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a White Paper giving the progress to date of the 1965 selective agricultural expansion programme.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been the percentage growth of farm income in real terms, and of net agricultural output between October, 1964, and the latest...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will further review the profitability of beef rearing and fattening in the United Kingdom with a view to promoting increased production...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will ensure that meat carcases imported into the United Kingdom from the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul are only from animals...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will commission and publish a Departmental study on the cost/benefit effectiveness of the present system of Exchequer financed...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in view of the fact that the codes of welfare recommendations for livestock which he plans to prepare under Section 3 of the Agriculture...
asked the Lord President of the Council if he will make a statement on the increases in the price of wine served by the Refreshment Department.
asked the Lord President of the Council if he will take steps to consider the feasibility of the use of Westminster Hall as an auditorium in which visitors might watch proceedings of the House of...
asked the Lord President of the Council when he expects to issue a White Paper containing his observations on the Special Report from the Select Committee on Agriculture.
(by Private Notice) asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will make a statement on the approach made by Her Majesty's Government to the International Monetary Fund concerning a new...
Mr. Murray (by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will make a statement on the helicopter collision at Chattenden Barracks this morning.
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to make a statement. As the House knows, four European Governments—West Germany, Italy, Holland and the United...
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 matter of specific and urgent public importance, namely,...
4.12 p.m.
Bill to amend the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949, to provide for the election of two Members for each constituency with an electoral roll in excess of 100,000, and for...
Considered in Committee [Progress 13th May.]
4.26 p.m.
I beg to move Amendment No. 17, in page 54, line 41, leave out from 'paragraph' to 'if' in line 42 and insert: '5 above "the market value of the relevant interest" shall be substituted for all...
Ordered.That the Proceedings on the Motion relating to Members' Interests (Declaration) may be entered upon and proceeded with at this day's Sitting at any hour though opposed.—[Mr. K....
Again considered in Committee.
11.6 p.m.
To have power to send for persons, papers and records; and to sit notwithstanding any Adjournment of the House:
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Harper.]
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