Thursday, 28 June 1979
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr SPEAKER in the Chair]
Orders for Second Reading read.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis upon the arrangements made with the broadcasting...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if police departments will be subject to cash limits.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to end the remand of schoolchildren to prisons and remand centres.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration is being given to the subject of alternatives to imprisonment as a form of punishment.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what changes he plans in the criteria that the Parliamentary Boundary Commission must consider under the House of Commons (Redistribution of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive the Williams committee's report on obscenity.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to introduce measures to implement the Erroll committee's report on liquor licensing.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to meet leaders of the Asian community now living in the United Kingdom.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set up an independent investigation into recent allegations of police ill-treatment of prisoners whilst in custody.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from the London borough of Hillingdon seeking approval of a new byelaw permitting the banning of the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement regarding his policy concerning the transfer of convicted murderers to open prisons
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress he is making in his consideration of the introduction of citizens' band radio; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis on the activities of the special patrol group; and if he will...
asked the Secretary of the Home Department if he has any plans to alter the age of criminal responsibility.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is satisfied with the regulations governing the operation of taxis.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is satisfied with the operation of section 79 of the Representation of the People Act 1949 in respect of the European election in the...
asked the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 28 June.
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the travesty of Prime Minister's Question Time which has occurred today, in that the same question has been put five times, will you enjoin hon....
Mr. James Callaghan: Will the Leader of the House please state the business for next week?
By leave of the House, I shall put together the Questions on both motions.
Before I call the Minister to speak to the first motion, I should tell the House that the scope of the debate is exceedingly narrow. I point out, as other occupiers of the Chair have in the past,...
Order for Second Reading Read.
Order for consideration, as amended, read.
Motion made and Question put,That the West Midlands County Council Bill [Lords] may be proceeded with at this day's
Question again proposed, That the amendment be made.
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to present a petition from the Rev. Anthony Attwood, vicar of Holy Trinity church, Elsecar, in the diocese of Sheffield, which is...
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Boscawen.]
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