Monday, 16 December 1974
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection whether it is her present intention to ask the TUC and the CBI to nominate members of the National Consumers' Agency; and whether...
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what plans she has for the further subsidisation of bread and other basic foods.
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection whether the study she is undertaking of penalties which might be imposed on employers who are in breach of guidelines laid down in...
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if she can estimate the average percentage of the retail prices of those commodities carrying a Government subsidy which relates to...
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what was the increase in the cost of living over the past three months.
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection whether she has yet received the report of the Price Commission on petrol retailers' margins; and whether she will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection how many local authorities now offer some form of consumer protection service to their own ratepayers.
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what monitoring of the effect of the cash flow position of smaller food manufacturing companies caused by price controls is...
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what progress she is making with the extension to a wide variety of goods of the provision to sell them in prescribed standardised...
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection whether she will take measures to stop the abuses in pricing policy on certain goods currently caused by "special offers "which in...
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what is now the total annual cost of subsidies to milk.
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what effect the recently announced arrangements for purchasing sugar will have on the food price index.
asked the Secre-tar of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what form her invitation took, to the CBI, to become participants in the social contract in relation to the Price Code.
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if she will make a statement on her plans for implementing paragraph 13 of the Price Code.
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what is the latest estimate of the total cost of food subsidies for the current financial year.
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if she will make a statement on her proposals to test advertising claims and to control false, misleading and wasteful advertising.
asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if any considerations of medical necessity are taken into account when her Department is considering price increases on diabetic foods.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade when those who lost advance payments on holidays as a result of the collapse of Court Line will be recompensed; and whether he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the total value of agricultural imports from the EEC in the first nine months of this year and the percentage increase this represents over the...
Mr. Tom Ellis: asked the Secretary of State for Trade whether he will give an estimate of the overall effect of the changes in United Kingdom tariffs due on 1st January next designed to bring...
asked the Sec-retary of State for Energy, in view of the shortage of oil, whether he will now reconsider the refusal of his predecessors to allow imports of Romanian oil until compensation has...
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps her Department is taking to publicise the EEC's social beef consumer subsidy.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what representations from the Consumers Association he has received about the continuing sale of New York dressed poultry.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what effect he estimates the proposed increases in nationalised industries' prices will have on the retail prices index.
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. During Question Time you ruled on a point of order raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. McCrindle) about a supplementary question...
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement about last week's meeting in Paris, which I regret I was not able to make last Thursday as I had hoped. On the invitation of the...
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement about two tragic fires that occurred in the last few days. The first occurred at the Grand Metropolitan Hotels staff hostel at 9–17...
Ordered,That at this day's Sitting, Mr. Speaker shall put forthwith any Question necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motion relating to the Army, Air Force and Naval Discipline Acts...
Before I call the Secretary of State for Defence I ought to inform the House that I have selected the Opposition amendment.
Motion made, and Question put forthwith pursuant to Order this day,That the Army, Air Force and Naval Discipline Acts (Continuation) Order 1974, a draft of which was laid before this House on...
11.54 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mr. Pavitt.]
12.47 a.m.
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