Monday, 15 December 1969
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
I ask leave to present an humble Petition to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. Your Petitioners pray that Parliament will...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many National Health Service maternity hospitals and departments give family planning advice to all mothers before or after childbirth as a...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what advice he has now given to the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board to other regional hospital boards and to hospital management committees...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what further action he is taking to tighten the administration of his Department with the object of eliminating unwarranted payment of sickness...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he is taking to improve the procedures under which doctors certify death.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many new hospital beds, either in new hospitals or by expansion of existing hospitals, are coming into use during the current year; and what...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he proposes to take to protect the pension rights of beneficiaries of occupational pension schemes which have accrued before 1972.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he is satisfied with the operation of the procedure of applying for vacancies in general practice; and whether he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what consultations he has had with interested bodies about the recommendations of the Zuckerman Report on Hospital Scientific and Technical...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether the Government will publish a White Paper on the living conditions of mentally sub-normal patients.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many of the 1,600 four-wheeled cars have now been granted to disabled drivers under the categories announced in March 1967.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what estimate he has made of the number of people who are eligible for help who do not apply for supplementary benefit; and what number of these...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services on what date a health centre will be provided at Kirkbymoorside to provide the outpatient facilities which were a condition precedent to his...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he is satisfied with the present provision of geriatric beds in rural areas; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what progress has been made in the negotiations for improved salary scales for nurses; and whether the increases proposed will be required to come...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what recent advances have been made in the treatment of schizophrenia with special reference to the development of biochemical remedies.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what action he is taking on the representations made to him by the National Health Service Executive Council for North-East London about the...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will introduce legislation enabling him to pay a special allowance to the severely disabled who live at home in respect of telephones used...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what action he now proposes to take concerning dental anaesthesia following his consultations with the British Dental Association.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will review the provisions relating to unemployment benefits for men over the age of 55 years.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what proposals he has for bringing expenditure on hospitals and the medical services in the Sheffield area up to the national average.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will now initiate, through the National Health Service, an inquiry into the adverse effects of oral contraception.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will introduce legislation to compel people who have not been inoculated against typhoid fever returning to this country from areas where...
asked the Minister for the Civil Service what proposals he has for secondment of civil servants on a temporary basis to industry and the City of London; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister for the Civil Service what progress is being made with the proposed Civil Service College in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Minister for the Civil Service what, under his proposed pensions scheme, will be the effect of the changes he proposes in the level of public service pensions payable in respect of...
asked the Minister for the Civil Service how many public relations and Press officers, on the criteria applied to a Question on 17th March, 1969, were employed in each Government Department,...
asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will now publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT, or in a White Paper, the recommendations of the panel set up under Sir Robert Bellinger to consider savings...
asked the Minister for the Civil Service what is the annual amount spent by Her Majesty's Government on think tanks.
Mr. Rippon (by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Defence why he advised the Independent Television Authority to refrain from showing the film on N.A.T.O. made by the Tyne-Tees...
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement. The House will remember that increasing public concern about people with substantial occupational pensions who claim unemployment...
3.51 p.m.
Ordered,That the matter of Housing in Wales and Monmouthshire, being a matter relating exclusively to Wales and Monmouthshire, be referred to the Welsh Grand Committee for their...
3.58 p.m.
10.13 p.m.
Cumberland County Council Act 1964 (Extension of Operation) Order 1969 [copy laid before the House, 14th November], approved.—[Mr. Denis Howell]
West Riding County Council (General Powers) Act 1964 (Extension of Operation) Order 1969 [copy laid before the House, 14th November], approved.—[Mr. Denis Howell.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Armstrong.]
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