Thursday, 26 June 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Second Reading deferred till Tuesday next.
Read the Third time and passed.
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs if he will publish details of the projects to create additional employment in development areas during the winter months for which expenditure of...
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs when he expects to be in a position to make his further statement on the Government's regional policy.
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs what studies are at present being carried out by his Department of the United Kingdom propensity to import and of possible measures of import...
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs whether he has received the report on the three-year study of regional economic development and policy sponsored by his Department and being...
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs when he estimates his Department will have sufficient experience of the effects of development area measures on the problems of the development...
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs what revision he has made, following the discussions with the International Monetary Fund, of the estimates for our balance of trade and balance...
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs what is the present total staff of his Department; and how this compares with February, 1965.
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs how many members of the South-West Regional Council are normally resident in Dorset.
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs what consultations he has had with organisations in the North-West regarding the provision of economic aid to that region.
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs what criteria he has decided should be applied to the level of employment to be provided to qualify for the employment-linked 25 per cent....
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs what means are employed by his Department to ascertain the effect of the regional employment premium as an instrument of development area policies.
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs what further action the Government plan to take following their reply to the first report of the South East Economic Planning Council, "A...
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs what consultation he has had with the North Regional Planning Committee about the Northern Economic Planning Council's statement, Northern...
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs whether he has now received any official representations on the recommendations of the Hunt Report from the National Coal Board.
asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs whether he is satisfied that the gross dividend of £750,000 paid by the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation on its public dividend capital...
asked the Postmaster-General if he will make a statement about the design of the proposed new building for the Bristol Central Telephone Exchange in relation to the views of the Royal Fine Art...
asked the Postmaster-General what is the present position in regard to providing television programmes in colour for Aberdeenshire.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what is the present number of workers in the Merseyside Development Area for whom the regional employment premium is paid to...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will publish regularly a cost-of-living index containing information on insurance, mortgage repayments, taxation and other...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will broaden the membership and understanding of the Cost of Living Advisory Committee by adding to it some consumers'...
asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what arrangements have been made for the Director General of the International Labour Office to visit the United Kingdom in connection...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if the Government will make a contribution towards Welsh cultural life to commemorate the Investiture by providing funds for the setting up...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in view of the fall in the value of money, and the higher wages and salaries that are being earned, if he will introduce legislation to...
asked the Prime Minister if he is satisfied with the co-ordination between Ministers in the issuing of policy statements on matters which are of primary concern to more than one Department; and...
asked the Prime Minister what action he is taking to co-ordinate the work of the Secretaries of State for the Home Department, Wales and Scotland in the preparation and laying of the Orders...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will seek the agreement of the Cabinet to the publication of the number of Cabinet committees, and of the Ministers who are ex-officio member of which committees.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will state the order of priority, on the grounds of urgency, of the social problems requiring Government money.
asked the Prime Minister what consultations he has had with the leaders of the Confederation of British Industry regarding co-operation in proposals to improve industrial relations.
On a point of order. I wonder whether I might ask for your help and guidance, Mr. Speaker, over a personal matter arising from misreporting in the OFFICIAL REPORT on Tuesday last, 24th June. In...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps Her Majesty's Government will take to preserve the rights of travellers to Gibraltar in the light...
Will the Leader of the House kindly state the business of the House for next week?
As amended (in the Standing Committee), further considered.
Amendment No. 21 made: In page 6, line 3, leave out from first 'a' to second 'of' in line 4 and insert 'term of years absolute'.—[Mr. MacColl.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 23, in page 7, line 3, after "1961" insert "or that section". The Amendment is designed to meet a point made by hon. Members opposite. It is a drafting Amendment to...
Amendment made: No. 25 in page 11, line 7, leave out from 'a' to 'of' in line 9 and insert 'term of years absolute'.—[Mr. Greenwood.]
Amendment made: No. 28 in page 12, line 10, leave out subsection (3).—[Mr. Greenwood.]
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Amendment made: No. 36, in page 16, line 16, leave out from 'Act' to end of line 19.—[Mr. MacColl.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 37, in page 16, line 36, leave out from 'shall' to 'in' in line 37 and insert 'state to the applicant'. This Amendment is to give an automatic right where a grant has...
I beg to move Amendment No. 38, in page 17, line 10, at end insert: 'or, alternatively (whether or not the works specified in the application have been begun) if the application has been...
I beg to move Amendment No. 39 in, page 17, line 14, after first 'of', insert 'glebe land or'. This Amendment allows an application for an improvement grant or a standard grant to be made in...
I beg to move Amendment No. 41, in page 18, line 9, at end insert: 'or in the case of alterations to a drainage system serving a dwelling house such alterations as are necessary to connect the...
I beg to move Amendment No. 44, in page 18, line 30, after 'and' insert: 'after a survey of the wishes and needs of residents in the area has been carried out'. I am glad to be back discussing...
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I beg to move Amendment No. 59, in page 23, line 24, leave out 'taking £100 for each of the' and insert 'multiplying £100 by the number of'.
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I beg to move Amendment No. 66, in page 25, line 31, at end insert: (2) A local authority may delegate to the rent officer the function of receiving applications for qualification certificates,...
I beg to move Amendment No. 68, in page 26, line 42, at end insert: (4) Before considering an application for a qualification certificate a local authority shall send a copy of the application to...
Motion made, and Question.That Clause 48 be divided into two Clauses, one consisting of subsections (1) and (2) and the other of subsections (3) to (7)—[Mr. MacColl]—put and agreed to.
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Amendments made: No. 72, page 28, line 20, after 'refusal', insert: 'or such longer period as the county court may allow'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 77, in page 29, line 11, leave out from 'Act' to first 'the' in line 13.
We come now to Amendment No. 79, with which I have suggested we take Amendment No. 80, in page 30, line 17, leave out paragraph (c).
I beg to move Amendment No. 81, in page 30, leave out line 21.
Amendment made: No. 84, in page 30, line 31, leave out 'and not repaid'.—[Mr. MacColl.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 87, in page 30, line 39, leave out subsection (1). Subsection (1) requires that the consent of the tenant must be given after the issue of the certificate. The...
I beg to move Amendment No. 89, in page 31, line 39, leave out 'Schedules 2 and 3' and insert 'Schedule 2'. In Committee, the Opposition argued very cogently that the scope of the power given by...
I beg to move Amendment No. 93, in page 32, line 27, at end insert— (2) In subsection (4) of that section (right of appeal) for the words from 'within' to 'served' there shall be...
I beg to move Amendment No. 94, in page 33, line 32, after 'section' insert— 'or accepting an undertaking under subsection (2) thereof'. This is an important Amendment. There are two ways...
I beg to move Amendment No. 96, in page 36, line 25, leave out from beginning to 'appeal' in line 27 and insert— 'Where a notice under the preceding subsection is served on the proprietor...
I beg to move Amendment No. 99, in page 37, line 23, leave out 'prohibiting' and insert 'preventing'. Perhaps it would be convenient to discuss, at the same time, Government Amendments Nos. 100,...
I beg to move Amendment No. 107, in page 41, line 11 leave out from 'circumstances' to end of line 37 and insert— (2) The Minister may by order apply the said Schedule also to a person who...
I beg to move Amendment No. 111, in page 42, line 10, at end insert— 'but where any such payment is made after the commencement of this Act, that payment shall be a charge on the property...
I beg to move Amendment No. 112, in page 42, line 19 after second 'Act', insert— 'and in particular with a view to determining what action to take for the provision of land upon which...
I beg to move Amendment No. 114, in page 43, line 17, leave out 'of not more than twenty years'. In the light of the earlier comments by the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Peter Walker), I am...
I beg to move Amendment No. 115, in page 44, line 24, leave out from first 'a' to second 'of' in line 25 and insert "term of years absolute". This Amendment is exactly the same as that which was...
I beg to move Amendment No. 116, in page 45, line 29, after 'maintenance', insert 'or'.
Amendment made: No. 121, in page 46, line 35, leave out '6(4) or 14(1)' and insert 'or 6(4)'.
Amendment made: No. 125, in page 48, line 29, leave out subsection (5) and insert:
1. Where this Schedule applies to any tenancy and a premium was lawfully required and paid— (a) on the grant of the tenancy; or(b) on an assignment of the tenancy before 27th November 1967;...
Amendment made: No. 127, in page 51, line 1, leave out 'could not be' and insert 'cannot be or could not have been'.—[Mr. MacColl.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 128, in page 52 line 10, leave out 'and' and insert 'then, unless'. This is an Amendment which deals with the case where the state of a dwelling after the completion...
I beg to move Amendment No. 136, in page 58, line 6, after 'Schedule', insert— 'as an amount fairly attributable to the provision of services'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 139, in page 59, leave out lines 17 to 29 and insert— (a) if compensation is payable for any reason other than the compulsory purchase of the house, the date...
I beg to move Amendment No. 150, in page 62, leave out line 20. This Amendment would have the effect of deleting the reference to Schedule 2 to the Land Compensation Act, 1961. This reference is...
Amendment made: No. 152, in page 63, line 8, Schedule 6, leave out 'paragraph 1 of'.—[Mr. Greenwood.]
Amendments made: No. 153, in page 64, line 3, Schedule 7, leave out 'paragraph 1 of'.
No. 158, in page 66, line 41, leave out from beginning to 'in' in line 43 and insert— 'The repeal by this Act of section 16 of the Rent Act 1968 does not affect the operation of that section'.
No. 160, in page 68, line 49, column 3, at beginning insert 'Section 12(2)'.
Amendment proposed: No. 162, in line 18, leave out 'at a low rent' and insert— 'and modify section 9(1) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967; to amend section 28 of the Housing Subsidies Act...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Harper.]
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