Thursday, 10 February 1972
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
To be read a Second time upon Thursday next.
Read a Second time and committed.
To be read a Second time upon Tuesday next.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals she has for ensuring that no students are obliged to contribute to student union funds out of their own or their families'...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether, prior to the raising of the school leaving age, she will consult the Service Departments with a view to providing short courses of...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the percentage cut in the minor works school programme for primary and junior schools in the Inner London Education Authority area,...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she will approve the replacement of primary schools in development areas, which were put up after World War I as temporary...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many children were taking school meals on the last date for which figures are available; and what was the figure 12 months earlier.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will make regulations to require that children not receiving free school milk should be regularly examined to ensure that they do not...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is her programme of consultations on the James Report.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what support she will be giving to the young volunteers during the next financial year; and what advice she is giving to local authorities...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science for what total of university undergraduate places she is planning by the end of the 1972 to 1977 quinquennium.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations have been made to her from local education authorities regarding the problem of truancy in secondary schools.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she has yet decided how she can best make a contribution towards preventing violence in schools and dealing with it when it occurs.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will give further guidance to local education authorities on the supply of refreshments other than school milk and meals, because of...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many local education authorities use their powers to provide transport for schoolchildren, in circumstances where they are not obliged...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when she will be replying to representations she has received with respect to the reorganisation of secondary education within the county...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will take steps to withdraw immediately all official circulars to local education authorities which have the effect of discriminating...
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many additional nursery school places have been provided by local authorities since June, 1970.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what action she is now taking on the recommendations about dyslexia made by her advisory committee on handicapped children.
asked the Prime Minister what plans he has for a further meeting with the North-West Industrial Development Association.
asked the Prime Minister if he is satisfied with the co-ordination between the Department of Employment and the Department of Trade and Industry on the subject of the dispute between the National...
asked the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on his latest discussions with the Government of Northern Ireland.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will now dismiss the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary.
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will make a statement on his meeting yesterday with the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Coal Board.
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will make a statement about the instructions given to distributing depots such as the Saltley Yard of the West...
May I ask the Leader of the House to state the business for next week?
I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act, 1967, that the Queen has signified Her Royal Assent to the following Acts and Measures: 1. Sierra Leone Republic Act, 1972.2....
Order for Second Reading read.
Queen's Recommendation having been signified—
Considered in Committee.
I beg to move Amendment No. 7, in page 2, line 28, leave out '1974' and insert '1975'. The purpose of the Amendment is to give a longer period in which projects which are now to be subsidised...
Ordered,That the Electricity Bill may be proceeded with at this day's Sitting, though opposed, until any hour.—[Mr. Younger.]
Again considered in Committee.
It shall be a condition of any grant made from the National Loans Fund to the Electricity Council, the Electricity Boards of England and Wales and the Scottish Electricity Boards that no...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Jopling.]
11.40 p.m.
Debates in the House of Commons are an opportunity for MPs from all parties to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.