Friday, 20 July 1979
The House met at Eleven o'clock
PRAYERS
I beg to present a petition, signed by a large number of my constituents and others: To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament...
On 10 July I made a statement adding a rider to my predecessor's ruling quoted at page 254 of Erskine May's " Parliamentary Practice ", where it was stated that it was not in order for a Member...
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I will make a statement on the financing of British Airways. British Airways has embarked on a major programme of fleet replacement and expansion and I believe that...
Ordered,
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Ordered,That the Standing Order of 18th July relating to the nomination of the Select Committee on Sound Broadcasting be amended by leaving out Mr Geoffrey Johnson Smith and inserting Sir Anthony...
To save the time of the House, I propose to put together the four motions on statutory instruments
That the draft Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1979, which were laid before this House on 5th July, be approved.
That the draft Shipbuilding (Redundancy Payments Scheme) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1979 which was laid before this House on 29th June, be approved.That the draft Shipbuilding (Redundancy...
That the draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (ECSC Decision of 9th April 1979 on Supplementary Revenues) Order 1979, which was laid before this House on 5th July, be...
Motion made,That Mr. Robert Adley Mr. Joe Ashton, Mr. Andrew Bennett, Mr. R. B. Cant, Mr. Geoffrey Dodsworth, Mr. Tony Durant, Sir Nigel Fisher, Mr. Percy Grieve, Mr. Geoffrey John- son Smith,...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Brooke.]
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