HC Deb 16 February 1949 vol 461 cc1299-307

(1) Any person (including the local authority) who appeared before a tribunal constituted for the purposes of the Act of 1946 or of Section one of this Act on a reference or an application and is aggrieved by the determination of the tribunal thereon may, within twenty-one days from the date of the determination, appeal to the County Court for the county court district in which the house or part of a house or dwelling-house in question is situated, and the court, after hearing such of the persons who appeared as aforesaid as desire to be heard, may determine what rent is reasonable for that house or part of a house or dwelling-house or the period at the end of which a notice to quit which has been served shall take effect and may give any directions which the tribunal might have given.

(2) The provisions of the Act of 1946 and of this Act relating to the notification of decisions by a tribunal and to the registration of rents shall apply to a determination by a County Court under this Section.—[Mr. J. Foster.]

Brought up, and read the First time.

Mr. J. Foster

I beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time."

This is the last baby which we want the right hon. Gentleman to throw from his sledge. It is one way of keeping the wolves at bay; another way is to read one of the new Clauses of the hon. Member for West Leicester (Mr. Janner). The object of this Clause is to allow an appeal to the county court from the decision of the tribunal. We have heard at various stages the argument of the right hon. Gentleman that tribunals should not be formalised and that they should be allowed to wander at will without any specific directions and without bringing their minds to the precise questions at issue.

I do not know whether it is realised that a tribunal can deliberately or by inadvertence misconstrue the Acts and there is no appeal from it at all. Instances have been known of tribunals completely misconstruing the purpose of the Acts. The only forms of appeal which lie are certiorari mandamus and prohibition. They allow decisions of the tribunal to be quashed by the superior court only if the court had no jurisdiction, or had deliberately refused to hear some case it should have heard, or heard some case it should not have heard. If it only included or excluded evidence, there is no appeal. The sense of injustice which is created, however, in the minds of the tenants or landlords when a tribunal, perhaps innocently, misbehaves in this way is very great. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to consider whether he will not allow an appeal to the county court, which is an experienced court in these matters and which deals with questions analogous to this, under the Rent Restrictions Act. I ask him to consider whether it should not have a revising jurisdiction over that of the tribunal.

11.15 p.m.

The advantage would also be that the tribunals would have to give their reasons, and there is likely to be a feeling of injustice if the tribunals give their decisions without giving any reasons. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to consider whether he cannot allow an appeal to the county court, either in this form or in some modified form. I feel confident that there is an advantage in allowing an appeal in a restricted number of cases. There would not be a great number of cases where the county court would upset the tribunal on questions of fact; it would do so only if it were convinced that the tribunal misdirected itself so fundamentally that the county court did not consider the proper principles to be applied.

Mr. Bevan

I am quite honestly astonished that the hon. Member has moved this new Clause, because the effect of it would be to put an end to the tribunals. To give the landlord the right to take the appellant to the county court after having been to the tribunal would murder the tribunal as an effective instrument to do its work. I am astonished that at this stage, after the long discussions on the 1946 Act and today, a Clause should be moved which would destroy the effectiveness of the tribunals as an arbitrator on facts brought before it.

The county court is no better than a lay tribunal of this sort in assessing the facts. If the matters that the tribunal decides lie outside its jurisdiction, there already is an appeal to the courts, which has been done on several occasions; but where it is a decision about fact the county court ought not to be saddled with the mass of material which might go there. I think it would not go there, because in point of fact the tribunals would have less and less work to do.

Mr. Foster

What is the Minister's attitude about appeals on points of law, because the provisions do not cover points of law except in a very few cases.

Mr. Bevan

Once we allow appeals against the tribunals on points of law. Members in all parts of the House know that a forest of litigation would start at once and the tribunals would be lost in it. It is intended that these tribunals should be simple tribunals, arbitrating about matters of immediate and particular fact in the relations between families in a variety of different circumstances. I take the view that they are far more effective tribunals for this purpose than the county courts. We might as well go straight to the county court as to have an appeal to them on questions of fact. Exactly the same evidence would be regurgitated before the county court as was already heard by the tribunal. I must resist this new Clause because its effect would be to destroy the tribunals. If, after all this time, Members want to destroy the tribunals, they should really say it.

Lieut.-Colonel Elliot

I thought the Minister might perhaps have conceded a little more to us in view of the Explan- atory Memorandum to his own Bill, which indicates that this is something very different from 1946. It is his own Memorandum that says that, as a result of the passing of this Measure, the number of cases to be dealt with by the tribunals is expected to be doubled—28,000 cases a year. I think the Minister under-estimated the number of divergences that may easily arise, and are almost bound to arise, when this number of cases in all parts of the country is being considered by these purely lay tribunals. After all, in the case of the valuation courts, which are also lay courts under the Local Government Act, appeals are granted to the county courts. I think it is a philosophical problem with which the Minister is well acquainted that the difference in numbers brings about a difference in kind. These tribunals will be permanent courts dealing with from 20,000 to 30,000 cases and not temporary courts dealing with matters of furnished lettings. It is not possible to retain these tribunals outside the main legal stream of the country. We wish to come to a decision as rapidly as possible, but we are bound to put these points before the Minister. This is not a wrecking Clause, but is designed to see that a piece of machinery which is being set up cannot be divorced from the judicial system of the country.

Sir I. Fraser

The Minister said the result of allowing appeals on points of law would be to provide a whole forest of cases. There is an exact analogy that will be familiar to him, namely, that of the appeal tribunals set up to deal with war pensioners' claims. The whole feeling on all sides of the House when these tribunals were set up was that they should be homely affairs, not particularly formal and not necessarily legalistic or following procedure in any well-defined form, but friendly tribunals to which men could come with confidence and get fair judgment. Fortunately, there is an appeal on points of law. Here is a situation where between 30,000 and 50,000 cases go to the tribunals and only a few score of cases go to appeal on points of law. Moreover, there is a value in allowing cases to go to appeal on points of law because one can get a directive from the superior court which comes to the tribunals and can assist in bringing about uniformity of judgment throughout the country. The Minister is misinformed in thinking that to allow appeals to go to the courts would lessen the value of the tribunals. On the contrary, it would make them more useful.

Mr. Asterley Jones (Hitchin)

I hope that the Minister has not said the last word on this matter. Clearly the new Clause is a little wide, but it is very unjust if there is to be, as there has been, no appeal when a tribunal has made a mistake on a point of law. May I suggest that he looks at the procedure which is adopted in appealing from a magistrate's court? It is a very cheap procedure and is by way of case stated, when all the facts have to be agreed and it is left to the superior court to say what is the law to be applied.

Mr. Walker-Smith

I agree with what has been said about the Clause being too wide, but I think there is no doubt that some provision should be made for appeals. There is a method of appeal, that of certiorari, but I do not suppose the Minister would pretend it is a cheap and easy method of correcting errors in the tribunals. There was no provision for appeal in the 1946 Act, but there should have been. Even if that were not so, the extension of the powers of the tribunals under this Bill would make it desirable for an appeal to be possible in the cases referred to by my hon. Friend in the future working of the tribunals. May I quote a short passage from the judgment of the Court of Appeal in one of the cases to which I have referred as coming from the divisional court? It is: We cannot but think that if Parliament had intended by the 1946 Act to authorise tribunals set up thereunder in their discretion and by their unappealable decision to reduce the standard rent and over-ride the permitted increase, they would have expressed that intention in clear and definite terms; and it is supposed that, moreover, they would have provided that one member at least of each tribunal would have been a person having legal qualifications. In these circumstances, it is clear, on that very high authority, that there should be a provision for appeal. Finally, may I say that I am told that on one occasion, the Attorney-General said it was possible to see how well these tribunals had worked by reason of the fact that there had not been one single case of appeal from their decisions. If it had been possible for there to have been an appeal, he could hardly have made that so plain, because I feel that there would have been a number of appeals; although not the forest of appeals which has been suggested by the Minister. I suggest that we should pay some attention to the comments made by my hon. Friend the Member for Lonsdale (Sir I. Fraser). The Committee must agree that nobody would contemplate the abolition of appeals in the case of Service pension awards. Why, therefore, should appeals not be initiated in the case of the rent tribunals?

Mr. Marlowe

As so often happens, the right hon. Gentleman has failed to address his mind to the point. First, he said there was no appeal provided in the 1946 Act. That is true, but it created no precedent at all because this new piece of legislation is framed to meet an entirely different situation. Even if it were a precedent, we should be in a poor way if we were certain that we should have to spend the rest of our lives bearing the follies of the right hon. Gentleman over the last few years.

Secondly, we are told that if appeals are allowed the courts would be cluttered up with appeals. I must say that the right hon. Gentleman must have a very poor opinion of the tribunals if he thinks that they do their work so inadequately that the courts will be crowded out with appeals. Earlier today the right hon. Gentleman made it clear that he did not like lawyers, and that is hardly surprising. He is shrewd enought to know that a court of law does not easily tolerate the kind of rhetoric he believes in—the kind of rhetoric which believes in destroying the case of one's opponent when it has not been made. Furthermore, he is engaged in a course of undermining justice in this country and substituting "people's courts."

11.30 p.m.

Question put, "That the Clause be read a Second time."

The Committee divided: Ayes, 82; Noes, 194.

Division No. 64.] AYES [11.5 pm.
Amory, D. Heathcoat Bower, N. Challen, C.
Birch, Nigel Boyd-Carpenter, J. A. Clarke, Col. R. S.
Boles, Lt.-Col. D. C. (Wells) Braithwaite, Lt.-Comdr. J. G Corbett, Lieut.-Col. U. (Ludlow)
Boothby, R. Buchan-Hepburn, P. G. T. Crookshank, Capt. Rt. Hon. H. F. C.
Bossom, A. C. Byers, Frank Crosthwaite-Eyre, Col. O. E.
Cuthbert, W. N. Keeling, E. H. Rayner, Brig. R.
Darling, Sir W Y. Lancaster, Col. C. G Roberts, Emrys (Merioneth)
Davies, Rt. Hn. Clement (Montgomery) Lennox-Boyd, A. T. Roberts, H (Handsworth)
Digby, S. W Lloyd, Selwyn (Wirral) Roberts, P G. (Ecclesall)
Dodds-Parker, A. D. Low, A. R W Roberts, W. (Cumberland, N.)
Drayson, G. B. Lucas, Major Sir J Ropner, Col. L.
Drewe, C. McCallum, Maj. D Shepherd, W. S (Bucklow)
Elliot, Lieut.-Col. Rt. Hon. Walter McCorquodale, Rt. Hon. M. S Spearman, A. C. M
Fletcher, W. (Bury) McFarlane, C. S Stoddart-Scott, Col. M.
Foster, J. G. (Northwich) Mackeson, Brig. H. R. Strauss, Henry (English Universities)
Fraser, H. C. P. (Stone) McKie, J. H. (Galloway) Studholme, H. G.
Fraser, Sir I. (Lonsdale.) Maclean, F. H. R. (Lancaster) Taylor, C. S. (Eastbourne)
Gage, C. Maitland, Comdr. J. W. Taylor, Vice-Adm. E. A. (P'dd't'n, S.)
Galbraith, Cmdr. T. D, (Pollok) Manningham-Buller, R. E Thornton-Kemsley, C. N
Galbraith, T. G. D. (Hillhead) Marlowe, A. A. H Walker-Smith, D.
Gammans, L. D. Marsden, Capt A. Watt, Sir G. S. Harvie
George, Maj. Rt. Hn. G. Lloyd (P'ke) Medlicott, Brigadier F Wheatley, Colonel M. J. (Dorset, E.)
Gomme-Duncan, Col. A. Mellor, Sir J White, Sir D. (Fareham)
Grimston, R. V. Molson, A. H. E. Williams, C. (Torquay)
Hare, Hon. J. H. (Woodbridge) Morrison, Maj. J. G. (Salisbury) Willoughby de Eresby, Lord.
Hogg, Hon. Q. Morrison, Rt. Hon. W. S. (Cirencester)
Howard, Hon. A Neven-Spence, Sir B. TELLERS FOR THE AYES:
Hutchison, Lt.-Cdr. Clark (Edin'gh, W.) Orr-Ewing, I. L. Major Conant and
Jarvis, Sir J. Osborne, C. Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport.
Jeffreys, General Sir G. Peto, Brig. C. H. M.
NOES
Adams, Richard (Balham) Fairhurst, F. Logan, D. G.
Albu, A. H. Farthing, W. J Longden, F.
Alexander, Rt. Hon. A. V Fernyhough, E. Lyne, A. W.
Anderson, A. (Motherwell) Fletcher, E. G. M. (Islington, E.) McAdam, W.
Attewell, H. C. Follick, M. McGhee, H. G.
Austin, H. Lewis Foot, M. M. McKay, J. (Wallsend)
Awbery, S. S. Forman, J. C. Mackay, R. W. G. (Hull, N. W.)
Ayrton Gould, Mrs. B Fraser, T. (Hamilton) McKinlay, A. S
Bacon, Miss A Freeman, J. (Watford) McLeavy, F.
Baird, J. Ganley, Mrs. C. S. MacPherson, Malcolm (Stirling)
Balfour, A Gibbins, J. Mallalieu, E. L. (Brigg)
Barstow, P. G Gibson, C. W. Mallalieu, J. P. W (Huddersfield)
Barton, C. Gilzean, A. Mann, Mrs. J.
Bechervaise, A. E. Glanville, J. E. (Consett) Manning, Mrs. L. (Epping)
Beswick, F Grey, C. F. Mathers, Rt. Hon. George
Bevan, Rt. Hon. A. (Ebbw Vale) Grierson, E. Mellish, R. J.
Bing, G. H. C Griffiths, D. (Rother Valley) Middleton, Mrs. L.
Binns, J Guy, W. H. Mikardo, Ian
Blenkinsop, A Haire, John E. (Wycombe) Mitchison, G. R.
Boardman, H. Hale, Leslie Monslow, W.
Braddock, Mrs E M. (L'pt. Exch'ge) Hall, Rt. Hon. Glenvil Moody, A. S.
Brook, D. (Halifax) Hamilton, Lieut.-Col, R Morley, R
Brooks, T. J. (Rothwell) Hannan, W. (Maryhill) Morris, Lt.-Col. H. (Sheffield, C.)
Brown, T. J. (Ince) Hardy, E. A. Morris, P. (Swansea, W.)
Bruce, Maj. D. W. T Harrison, J. Moyle, A.
Burden, T. W. Hastings, Dr. Somerville Murray, J. D.
Burke, W. A. Haworth, J. Nichol, Mrs. M. E. (Bradford, N.)
Butler, H. W. (Hackney, S.) Hewitson, Capt. M Nicholls, H. R. (Stratford)
Carmichael, James Hobson, C. R Noel-Baker, Capt. F. E. (Brentford)
Castle, Mrs. B. A, Holman, P. Noel-Baker, Rt. Hon. P. J. (Derby)
Champion, A. J. Holmes, H. E. (Hemsworth) Oliver, G. H.
Chetwynd, G. R. Horabin, T. L Paget, R. T.
Cobb, F. A. Hoy, J. Paling, W. T. (Dewsbury)
Cocks, F. S. Hubbard, T. palmer, A. M. F.
Coldrick, W. Hughes, Hector (Aberdeen, N.) Pargiter, G. A.
Collindridge, F. Hughes, H. D. (W'lverh'pton, W.) Parker, J
Colman, Miss G. M. Hynd, H. (Hackney, C.) Parkin, B. T.
Corbet, Mrs. F. K. (Camb'well, N.W.) Hynd, J. B. (Attercliffe) Paton, Mrs. F. (Rushclifle)
Corlett, Dr. J. Irvine, A. J. (Liverpool) Paton, J. (Norwich)
Cove, W. G. Irving, W. J. (Tottenham, N.) Pearson, A.
Crawley, A. Janner, B. Peart, T. F.
Cullen, Miss Jeger, Dr. S. W. (St. Pancras, S. E.) Poole, Cecil (Lichfield)
Davies, Edward (Burslem) Johnston, Douglas Porter, E. (Warrington)
Davies, Haydn (St. Pancras, S.W.) Jones, Elwyn (Plaistow) Porter, G. (Leeds)
Davies, R. J. (Westhoughton) Jones, P. Asterley (Hitchin) price, M. Philips
Davies, S. O. (Merthyr) Keenan, W. Pritt, D. N.
Deer, G. Kenyon, C Proctor, W. T.
Delargy, H. J. King, E. M. Pryde, D. J.
Diamond, J. Kinghorn, Sqn.-Ldr. E. Randall, H. E
Dodds, N. N Kinley, J. Ranger, J.
Donovan, T. Lang, G. Rankin, J.
Driberg, T. E. N. Lavers, S. Reid, T (Swindon)
Ede, Rt. Hon. J. C. Lee, F. (Hulme) Rhodes, H.
Edwards, W. J. (Whitechapel) Lee, Miss J. (Cannock) Ridealgh, Mrs. M
Evans, Albert (Islington, W.) Lewis, A. W. J. (Upton) Robertson, J. J (Berwick)
Evans, S. N. (Wednesbury) Lindgren, G. S. Ross, William (Kilmarnock)
Ewart, R. Lindsay, K. M. (Comb'd Eng. Univ.) Royle, C.
Sargood, R. Stubbs, A. E. Wells, W. T. (Walsall)
Scollan, T. Swingler, S West, D. G.
Segal, Dr. S Sylvester, G. O. Wheatley, Rt. Hn. John (Edinb'gh, E.)
Shackleton, E. A. A Symonds, A. L. Whiteley, Rt. Hon. W.
Sharp, Granville Taylor, R. J. (Morpeth) Wilkins, W. A.
Shawcross, Rt. Hn. Sir H. (St. Helens) Taylor, Dr. S. (Barnet) Willey, F. T. (Sunderland)
Shinwell, Rt. Hon. E Thomas, D. E. (Aberdare) Willey, O. G. (Cleveland)
Shurmer, P. Thomas, George (Cardiff) Williams, J. L. (Kelvingrove)
Silverman, J. (Erdington) Thomas, I. O. (Wrekin) Williams, Ronald (Wigan)
Simmons, C. J. Thomas, John R. (Dover) Williams, W. R. (Heston)
Skeffington, A. M. Timmons, J. Willis, E.
Skinnard, F. W Tomlinson, Rt. Hon. G. Wills, Mrs. E. A.
Smith, H. N (Nottingham, S.) Ungoed-Thomas, L. Woodburn, Rt. Hon. A.
Smith, S. H. (Hull, S.W.) Viant, S. P. Woods, G. S.
Snow, J. W Wallace, G. D. (Chislehurst) Yates, V. f.
Sorensen, R. W Warbey, W. N. Younger, Hon. Kenneth
Soskice, Rt. Hon. Sir Frank Watkins, T. E. Zilliacus, K.
Sparks, J. A. Watson, W. M.
Steele, T. Webb, M. (Bradford, C.) TELLERS FOR THE NOES:
Stewart, Michael (Fulham, E.) Weitzman, D. Mr. Popplewell and Mr. Bowden.
Stross, Dr. B. Wells, P. L. (Faversham)
Division No. 65.] AYES [11.33 p.m.
Amory, D. Heathcoat Gammans, L. D. Morrison, Rt. Hon. W. S. (Cirencester)
Birch, Nigel George, Maj. Rt. Hn. G. Lloyd (P'ke) Neven-Spence, Sir B.
Boles, Lt.-Col. D. C. (Wells) Gomme-Duncan, Col. A. Orr-Ewing, I. L.
Boothby, R. Grimston, R. V. Osborne, C.
Bossom, A. C. Hare, Hon. J. H. (Woodbridge) Peto, Brig. C. H. M.
Bower, N. Hogg, Hon. Q. Rayner, Brig. R.
Boyd-Carpenter, J. A. Howard, Hon A. Roberts, Emrys (Merioneth)
Braithwaite, Lt.-Comdr, J. G. Hulchison, Lt.-Cdr. Clark (Edin'gh, W.) Roberts, P. G. (Ecclesall)
Bromley-Davenport, Lt.-Col. W. Jarvis, Sir J. Roberts, W (Cumberland, N.)
Buchan-Hepburn, P. G. T. Jeffreys, General Sir G. Ropner, Col. L.
Byers, Frank Keeling, E. H. Shepherd, W. S. (Bucklow)
Channon, H. Lancaster, Col. C. G. Spearman, A. C. M.
Clarke, Col. R. S. Lloyd, Selwyn (Wirral) Stoddart-Scott, Col M
Corbett, Lieut.-Col. U. (Ludlow) Low, A. R. W. Strauss, Henry (English Universities)
Crookshank, Capt. Rt. Hon. H. F. C. Lucas, Major Sir J. Studholme, H. G.
Crosthwaite-Eyre, Col. O. E. McCallum, Maj. D. Taylor, C. S. (Eastbourne)
Cuthbert, W. N. McCorquodale, Rt. Hon. M. S Taylor, Vice-Adm. E. A. (P'dd't'n, S.)
Darling, Sir W. Y. McFarlane, C. S. Thornton-Kemsley, C. N
Davies, Rt. Hn. Clement (Montgomery) Mackeson, Brig. H. R. Vane, W. M. F
Dodds-Parker, A. D. McKie, J. H. (Galloway) Wadsworth, G.
Drewe, C. Macmillan, Rt. Hn. Harold (Bromley) Walker-Smith, D
Elliot, Lieut.-Col. Rt. Hon. Walter Maitland, Comdr. J. W. Watt, Sir G. S. Harvie
Foster, J. G. (Northwich) Manningham-Buller, R. E Wheatley, Colonel M. J. (Dorset, E.)
Fraser, H. C. P (Stone) Marlowe, A. A. H. White, Sir D. (Fareham)
Fraser, Sir I. (Lonsdale.) Medilcott, Brigadier F. Williams, C. (Torquay)
Gage, C. Mellor, Sir J. Willoughby de Eresby, Lorn
Galbraith, Cmdr. T. D. (Pollok) Molson, A. H. E. TELLERS FOR THE AYES:
Galbraith, T. G. D. (Hillhead) Morrison, Maj. J. G. (Salisbury) Major Conant and Mr. Digby.
NOES
Adams, Richard (Balham) Foot, M. M. Mallalieu, E. L. (Brigg)
Albu, A. H. Forman, J. C. Mallalieu, J. P. W. (Huddersfield)
Alexander, Rt. Hon. A. V Fraser, T. (Hamilton) Mann, Mrs. J.
Anderson, A. (Motherwell) Freeman, J. (Watford) Manning, Mrs. L. (Epping)
Austin, H. Lewis Gibbins, J. Marples, A. E
Awbery, S. S. Gibson, C. W. Mellish, R. J
Ayrton Gould, Mrs. B Gilzean, A. Middleton, Mrs. L.
Bacon, Miss A. Glanville, J. E. (Consett) Mikardo, Ian
Baird, J. Gray, C. F. Mitchison, G. R
Balfour, A. Grierson, E. Monslow, W.
Barstow, P. G. Griffiths, D. (Rother Valley) Moody, A. S.
Barton, C. Guy. W. H. Morris, Lt.-Col. H. (Sheffield, C.)
Bechervaise, A. E. Hale, Leslie Morris, P. (Swansea, W.)
Beswick, F. Hall Rt. Hon. Glenvil Murray, J. D.
Bevan, Rt. Hon. A. (Ebbw Vale) Hamilton, Lieut.-Col. R. Nichol, Mrs. M. E. (Bradford, N.)
Bing, G. H. C. Hannan, W. (Maryhill) Nicholls, H. R. (Stratford)
Binns, J. Hardy, E. A. Noel-Baker, Capt. F. E. (Brentford)
Blenkinsop, A. Hastings, Dr. Somerville Noel-Baker, Rt. Hon P. J. (Derby)
Boardman, H. Hewitson, Capt. M. Oliver, G. H.
Braddock, Mrs. E. M. (L'pl. Exch'ge) Hobson, C. R Paget, R. T.
Brook, D. (Halifax) Holman, P Paling, W. T. (Dewsbury)
Brooks, T. J. (Rothwell) Holmes, H. E. (Hemsworth) Palmer, A. M. F.
Brown, T. J. (Ince) Hoy, J Pargiter, G. A.
Bruce, Maj. D. W. T. Hubbard, T. Parker, J.
Burden, T. W. Hughes, Hector (Aberdeen, M.) Parkin, B. T.
Burke, W. A. Hughes, H, D. (W'lverh'pton, W.) Paton, Mrs. F. (Rushcliffe)
Butler, H. W. (Hackney, S.) Hynd, H. (Hackney, C.) Paton, J. (Norwich)
Carmichael, James Irvine, A. J. (Liverpool) Pearl, T. F.
Collindridge, F. Janner, B. Porter, E (Warrington)
Corbet, Mrs. F. K. (Camb'well, N.W.) Jeger, Dr. S. W. (St. Pancras, S. E.) Porter, G. (Leeds)
Corlett, Dr. J. Jenkins, R. H. Price, M. Philips
Crawley, A. Johnston, Douglas Pritt, D. N.
Cullen, Miss Jones, Elwyn (Plaistow) Proctor, W. T.
Davies, Edward (Burslem) Jones, P. Asterley (Hitchin) Pryde, D. J
Davies, R. J. (Westhoughton) Keenan, W. Ranger, J.
Davies, S. O. (Merthyr) Kenyon, C. Rankin, J.
Deer, G. King, E. M. Reid, T (Swindon)
Delargy, H. J. Kinghorn, Sqn.-Ldr. E. Rhodes, H.
Diamond, J. Kinley, J. Robertson, J. J (Berwick)
Dodds, N. N. Lang, G Ross, William (Kilmarnock)
Donovan, T. Lavers, S. Royle, C.
Driberg, T. E. N. Lee, Miss J. (Cannock) Scollan, T.
Ede, Rt. Hon. J. C. Lewis, A. W. J. (Upton) Segal, Dr. S.
Edwards, W. J. (Whitechapel) Logan, D. G. Shackleton, E. A. A.
Evans, Albert (Islington, W.) Longden, F Sharp, Granville
Evans, S. N. (Wednesbury) Lyne, A. W. Shawcross, Rt. Hn Sir H. (St. Helens)
Ewart, R. McGhee, H. G Silverman, J. (Erdington)
Fairhurst, F. McKay, J. (Wallsend) Simmons, C. J.
Farthing, W. J. Mackay, R. W. G. (Hull, N.W.) Skinnard, F. W.
Fernyhough, E. McKinlay, A. S. Smith, S. H. (Hull, S. W)
Fletcher, E. G. M. (Islingion, E.) McLeavy, F. Snow, J. W.
Follick, M. MacPherson, Malcolm (Stirling) Sorensen, R. W.
Soskice, Rt. Hon. Sir Frank Tomlinson, Rt. Hon G. Williams, J. L. (Kelvingrove)
Sparks, J. A Ungoed-Thomas, L. Williams, Ronald (Wigan)
Steele, T. Wallace G. D. (Chislehurst) Willis, E.
Stewart, Michael (Fulham, E.) Warbey, W. N. Wills, Mrs E. A.
Stross, Dr. B. Watkins, T. E. Woodburn, Rt. Hon. A.
Stubbs, A. E Watson, W. M. Woods, G. S.
Swingler, S. Webb, M. (Bradford, C.) Yatea, V. F.
Sylvester, G. O. Weitzman, D. Younger, Hon. Kenneth
Symonds, A. L. Wells, W. T. (Walsall) Zilliacus, K.
Taylor, R. J. (Horpeth) West, D. G.
Thomas, D. E. (Aberdare) Wheatley, Rt. Hn. John (Edinb'gh, E.)
Thomas, George (Cardiff) Whiteley, Rt. Hon. W. TELLERS FOR THE NOES:
Thomas, I. O. (Wrekin) Wilkins, W. A. Mr. Pearson and Mr. Bowden.
Timmons, J. Willey, O. G. (Cleveland)