🗣️ Speeches and Debates

• Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Supply: Atomic Bomb 12 Dec 1949

  Is it a fact that the Americans have told us quite positively that we are not to use the knowledge we have, and are not to be allowed to make the bomb?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Works: Building Industry (Working Party) 12 Dec 1949

  asked the Minister of Works if he has now received the report of the Working Party on the Building Industry which was appointed in July. 1948; and if he proposes to publish this document.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Works: Building Industry (Working Party) 12 Dec 1949

  As the Minister said in May that he hoped this report would be available at the end of this year, and as the prices of building materials are still mounting steadily, will my right hon. Friend see what can be done to speed up the report?

• Oral Answers to Questions — North Atlantic Treaty 12 Dec 1949

  asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give an undertaking, in connection with the agreement to be negotiated under the Atlantic Pact, that no commitment will be entered into by His Majesty's Government outside the framework of the United Nations organisation.

• Oral Answers to Questions — North Atlantic Treaty 12 Dec 1949

  We all know that the pact is not within sight of the spirit of the United Nations organisation. Will my hon. Friend take great pains to see that these bilateral treaties do come within the spirit of the United Nations?

• Oral Answers to Questions — North Atlantic Treaty 12 Dec 1949

  asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give an undertaking, in connection with the agreement to be negotiated under the Atlantic Pact, that he will not surrender to any other Power or body the right to declare war on behalf of Great Britain and will not enter into any commitment whereby Great Britain can become automatically involved in war.

• Oral Answers to Questions — North Atlantic Treaty 12 Dec 1949

  We all know that the terms of the first of these bilateral treaties are now being negotiated between France and the United States of America. Can we have an assurance that the terms that we shall agree to, will not be more degrading and humiliating than those now being imposed upon France?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Uganda: Disturbances (Commission of Inquiry) 7 Dec 1949

  asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) whether the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the disturbances in Uganda in April has yet been received; in what form the findings and evidence will be made public; and if he will make a statement; (2) what was the composition of the Commission of Inquiry into the disturbances in Uganda this year; and how many Africans were members of...

More of Mr John Platts-Mills's speeches and debates

✍️ Written Questions and Answers

No recent written questions to display.