Wednesday, 9 February 1972
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read the Third time and passed.
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications how many people are currently waiting for telephones.
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications when he will announce plans for the construction of the necessary ultra high frequency relay stations that will have the effect of improving...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's policy in regard to the provision of regional radio transmission and the extension of...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications what communications he has received from the organisers of Radio Jackie about the operation of the law relating to broadcasting.
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications if he will give a general direction to the Post Office Corporation to expedite the handling of mail to overseas countries.
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications whether he will now review the agreement of 1947 relating to party political broadcasting, with a view to achieving better representation of the...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications whether proposals by the Post Office to revise the Giro tariff structure in conformity with the recommendations of the Cooper Brothers report...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications what is the estimated cost of repairing and replacing damaged public telephone boxes due to vandalism in 1971; and if he will make a further...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications what notice he has received from the Post Office Users National Council with reference to the Post Office proposals for the reorganisation of...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications if he will issue a general direction to the Post Office to make an increased number of transistorised handsets available in telephone boxes at...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications whether he will give a general direction to the Post Office not to use postcodes as a means of identifying individual addresses.
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications whether he will now seek powers to ensure that, in the case of the broadcasting organisations, the adjectives "Independent" and "British" cease...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications on what date the present term of office of the current Chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation expires; and when he expects to make a...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications whether he will establish a committee of inquiry into the technical development of the Post Office.
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications whether he will issue a general direction to the Post Office Board to continue to honour pre-decimal stamps until February, 1973, and to give a...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications what action he now proposes to take to assist the Post Office Corporation with the financial deficit which it has incurred in providing postal...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (1) what steps his Department is taking to acquire communications satellites to handle both national and international telephone calls; (2)...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications if he will give a general direction to the Post Office to prevent the commercial practice of telephone selling.
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications on how many occasions in the last six months, during his period of office, he has drawn the attention of the British Broadcasting Corporation to...
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications what proposals he has now received from the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Independent Television Authority for the introduction of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the number of prosecutions and convictions and the average fine imposed during the last three years in cases where offences of deliberate...
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he can announce the date of the proposed conference on water and recreation; if he will publish the names of the bodies which he expects to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will ask the Nottingham City Council to cease all work of preparing the proposed refuse tip on the Broxtowe Colliery site near Nuthall...
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the number of miles of dual-carriage-way along the A30 in Devon it is planned to complete in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975.
asked the Lord President of the Council what proposals he has for making the problems of excessive population growth better understood in the community.
asked the Lord President of the Council why all charges in the staff canteen at the Palace of Westminster have been increased by 25 per cent.
asked the Lord President of the Council if he will list the activities for which provision is being made for physical recreation in the new Parliament building; which bodies are being consulted...
Message sent on behalf of The Queen, signed on Her Majesty's behalf by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowden, brought up,...
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement. Faced with the disruption of coal and electricity supplies caused by industrial action in the coal industry, the Government must take...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have...
4.0 p.m.
Mr. John Biggs-Davison accordingly presented a Bill to amend the Ireland Act 1949: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday, 21st April, and to be...
Motion made, and Question proposed,That this House takes note of the First Report from the Select Committee on Expenditure in Session 1970–71 and of the related Special Report—[Mr. du...
8.20 p.m.
Ordered,That the Local Employment Bill [Lords] and the Summer Time Bill [Lords] may be proceeded with at this clay's Sitting, though opposed, until any hour.—[Mr. Rossi.]
Considered in Committee; reported without Amendment.
Considered in Committee; reported without Amendment.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Rossi.]
10.3 p.m.
Wednesday, 9th February, 1972
10.30 a.m.
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