Thursday, 20 November 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
CS Smoke
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is satisfied with the working relationships between the headquarters of the Community Relations Commission and the community relations...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider introducing legislation to reintroduce capital punishment for the murder of law enforcement officers.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what further steps he proposes to take to curb violence at football matches.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in view of the danger of increased Arab terrorist activities throughout the world, what precautions he has taken to safeguard persons and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to reach decisions following the results of his Department's inquiry into accidents caused by fireworks.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress he has made in his discussions with police representatives about the safeguarding of police pension rights which may be...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he expects that the Maxwell Stamp Committee on the London cab trade will include in its report a consideration of all the problems...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many gun licences have been granted, of all sorts, in the past 12 months to the nearest convenient date; and how this compares with those...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what special studies his Department has made into the source or origin of supplies of illicit hard and soft drugs.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state the number of deaths which have occurred in the Portland Borstal Centre during the past six months; when these occurred;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will arrange for the number of category A prisoners at Parkhurst Prison to be reduced by sending a proportion of them to other prisons;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many parking tickets were issued by police authorities in the last year; what percentage of the fines went to defray cost of wages and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimates are available of the quantities of cyanide and other dangerous chemicals which are stored in London and other major towns and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to make the day of a general election a public holiday; if he will examine means of arranging for similar holidays on...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now recommend a revision in the prison sentence being served by Ethel Gee, sentenced at the same time as Lonsdale and the Krogers.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps are being taken to ensure that immigration officers comply with the instruction in Command Paper No. 3465 of 1967 relating to the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will seek to arrange for the responsibility for school crossing patrols to be transferred from the Metropolitan Police to the local...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide suitable and convenient alternative remand accommodation to the Brockhill Remand Centre for women in the West Midlands.
asked the Prime Minister if he will invite the Heads of the Governments of the Common Market countries to a conference in London.
asked the Prime Minister if he will recommend setting up a Royal Commission to investigate the problem of injuries sustained by children from fireworks and to propose the changes in legislation...
asked the Prime Minister if he will give details of the communications he has received from Mr. Pat Bashford about the Government's Rhodesia policy; and what reply he has sent.
asked the Prime Minister what responsibilities regarding materials have recently been transferred from the Ministry of Transport to the Ministry of Public Building and Works.
asked the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on his action following the presentation to him of the petition, asking him to save the Tyne River from decline, to preserve its ferries and...
asked the Prime Minister when he next expects to visit the United States of America for discussions with the President.
Would the Leader of the House please state the business of the House for next week?
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I should like to make a statement on the Falkland Islands. As I informed the House on the 11th of December, 1968, discussions with the...
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I should like to make a statement. The Report of the Joint Committee on the Use of Antibiotics in Animal Husbandry and Veterinary...
Ordered,
[1ST ALLOTTED DAY], considered.
4.12p.m.
Ordered, That during the present Session, notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 80 (Estimates Committee), the Estimates Committee shall consist of Thirty-three Members:
Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to examine the Reports and Accounts of the Nationalised Industries established by Statute whose controlling Boards are appointed by Ministers of the...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. McBride.]
7.32 p.m.
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