Commons Sitting of 18 December 1947 Series 5 Vol. 445

    c1837
  1. Preamble 8 words
    2. c1837
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
    3. c1837
  3. MESSAGE FROM THE KING 169 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. EDUCATION
        2. c1838
      1. Boarding Schools (Shower Baths) 119 words
        2. c1838
      2. Girls (Vocational Training) 120 words
        3. cc1838-40
      3. Travel Bureau 367 words
        4. c1840
      4. Inspectorate 59 words
        5. c1840
      5. Staggered Holidays 107 words
        6. cc1840-2
      6. Milk Scheme 547 words
        7. c1842
      7. Teachers (Emergency Training Scheme) 175 words
        8. cc1842-3
      8. Uneducable Children (Certification) 140 words
        9. c1843
      9. New Buildings (Costs) 208 words
        10. cc1843-4
      10. SOUTH AFRICA (INDIANS) 106 words
        11. cc1844-5
      11. INDIA AND PAKISTAN (REFUGEES, RELIEF MEASURES) 338 words
    2. TRADE AND COMMERCE
        3. cc1845-6
      1. Pottery 510 words
        2. cc1846-8
      2. British Film Industry 523 words
        3. c1848
      3. Raw Cotton Commission 135 words
        4. cc1848-50
      4. Bankruptcies 321 words
        5. c1850
      5. Outsize Men's Garments, Aberdeen 255 words
        6. cc1850-1
      6. Export Targets (Co-operative Wholesale Societies) 323 words
        7. cc1851-2
      7. Timber Storage, Whitworth Valley 227 words
        8. cc1852-3
      8. Shops (Statistics) 187 words
        9. cc1853-4
      9. Coupon Floats (Applications, Bolton) 304 words
        10. cc1854-5
      10. Rare Books (Import Licences) 403 words
        11. cc1855-6
      11. Paper Supplies (Magazines) 244 words
        12. c1856
      12. Women's Outerwear 225 words
        13. cc1856-7
      13. Price Adjustments (Wage Increases) 306 words
        14. cc1857-8
      14. Utility Cotton and Wool Cloth (Subsidies) 155 words
        15. c1858
      15. Development Councils 248 words
    3. FUEL AND POWER
        4. cc1858-9
      1. Coal Gas (Motor Vehicles) 158 words
        2. c1859
      2. Pool Petrol (Quality) 139 words
        3. cc1859-60
      3. Fuel-Burning Appliances (Exhibitions) 136 words
        4. cc1860-1
      4. Load Shedding Schemes 258 words
        5. cc1861-2
      5. ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY) 364 words
        6. cc1862-3
      6. SOUTH AFRICA AID TO BRITAIN FUND 304 words
        7. cc1863-6
      7. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY (COMMITTEE) 1,171 words
    4. EMPLOYMENT
        5. cc1866-7
      1. Coalmining (Foreign Workers) 296 words
        2. cc1867-8
      2. Command Paper (Publication) 210 words
        3. cc1868-9
      3. Disabled Persons, London (Factories) 292 words
        4. cc1869-70
      4. Foreign Variety Artists 351 words
        5. c1870
      5. Retail Price Index 111 words
        6. cc1870-1
      6. Scottish Woollen Industry (Joint Production Committees) 53 words
        7. c1871
      7. Planers (Safety Measures) 85 words
    5. NATIONAL FINANCE
        6. c1871
      1. Death Duties (Postwar Credits) 82 words
        2. cc1871-2
      2. Purchase Tax (Refund Claim) 343 words
    cc1872-3
  5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 369 words
    6. cc1874-87
  6. FOREIGN MINISTERS' CONFERENCE 5,549 words
  7. BILLS PRESENTED.
      8. c1888
    1. ATTEMPTED RAPE BILL 38 words
      2. c1888
    2. ARMY AND AIR FORCE (WOMEN'S SERVICE) BILL 46 words
      3. c1888
    3. ANIMALS BILL 62 words
      4. c1888
    4. POLICE PENSIONS BILL 100 words
      5. c1888
    5. POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL 54 words
      6. c1889
    6. ROYAL MARINES BILL 47 words
      7. c1889
    7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 44 words
      8. c1889
    8. CHRISTMAS ADJOURNMENT 14 words
    9. ORDERS OF THE DAY
        10. cc1889-90
      1. CIVIL LIST 243 words
        2. c1890
      2. PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL 51 words
      cc1890-948
    10. CAPITAL INVESTMENT (WHITE PAPER) 22,495 words
      11. c1948
    11. ROYAL ASSENT 64 words
      12. cc1948-2012
    12. CAPITAL INVESTMENT (WHITE PAPER) 24,843 words
      13. c2012
    13. SUNDAY CINEMATOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS 208 words
      14. cc2012-20
    14. DISABILITY PENSIONS (BASIC RATE) 3,439 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 18 December 1947 Series 5 Vol. 445

  1. EDUCATION
      2. c361W
    1. Sports Kit 78 words
      c361W
    2. Teachers Emergency Training Scheme 107 words
      cc361-2W
    3. Managerial Training 112 words
      c362W
    4. Hospitals (Educational Visits) 127 words
  2. TRADE AND COMMERCE
      3. c362W
    1. Switzerland 60 words
      c362W
    2. Men's Shirts 72 words
      cc362-3W
    3. Meat Skewers 82 words
      c363W
    4. Boy Scouts' Uniforms 62 words
      c363W
    5. New Industries, Highlands and Islands 135 words
      cc363-4W
    6. Cloth Production 118 words
      c364W
    7. Wellington Boots 83 words
      cc364-5W
    8. Geneva Agreement (Rubber) 296 words
      cc365-6W
    9. Import Policy (Less Essential Goods) 443 words
      cc366-7W
    10. NATIONAL SERVICE (PERIOD) 476 words
  3. NATIONAL FINANCE
      4. c367W
    1. Purchase Tax (Batteries) 84 words
      cc367-8W
    2. Remittances (Royal Navy) 108 words
      c368W
    3. Official Motor Cars 119 words
  4. EMPLOYMENT
      5. c368W
    1. Directed Man, Shoeburyness 74 words
      cc368-9W
    2. Emigration 59 words
      c369W
    3. CIVIL SERVICE ("S" CLASS CLERKS) 88 words
      cc369-70W
    4. OFFICIAL FILMS (DISTRIBUTION) 216 words
      c370W
    5. MINING PUBLICITY 172 words
  5. COAL INDUSTRY
      6. cc370-1W
    1. Production Costs 207 words
      c371W
    2. Cutters and Fillers (Wages) 63 words
      c371W
    3. Exports (The Argentine) 119 words
      cc371-2W
    4. Small Mines (Licensing) 64 words
      c372W
    5. Wardley Colliery, Durham 47 words
      c372W
    6. Export Contracts 78 words
      cc372-3W
    7. Miners' Coal Allowances 177 words
      c373W
    8. Manpower 201 words
      cc373-4W
    9. Bunker Coal (Prices) 284 words
      c374W
    10. National Coal Board (Motor Cars) 39 words
      cc374-5W
    11. Pit Ponies 195 words
  6. FUEL AND POWER
      7. c375W
    1. Motor Cars (Gas Conversion) 145 words
      c375W
    2. Forged Petrol Coupons 75 words
      cc375-6W
    3. Hire Cars 102 words
      c376W
    4. Heating (Churches and Chapels) 89 words
      cc376-9W
    5. Supplementary Petrol 1,060 words
      c379W
    6. Burning and Vaporising Oil 126 words
      cc379-80W
    7. Loading Shedding (Warnings) 138 words
      cc380-1W
    8. Harringay Arena (Motor Vehicles) 315 words
      c381W
    9. Consumers' Council (Representation) 77 words
      c381W
    10. Petrol Consumption 116 words
      cc381-4W
    11. Domestic Allocation 863 words
      c384W
    12. Gas Supply, Helston 66 words
      c384W
    13. Poplar Generating Station 68 words
      cc384-5W
    14. Sports Meetings (Private Hire Vehicles) 77 words
      c385W
    15. Working Hours (Staggering) 33 words
      cc385-6W
    16. S.R. & O. 2465 (Maps) 339 words
      c386W
    17. Oil Stocks 79 words
      cc386-7W
    18. Coal-Oil Conversion 329 words
      c387W
    19. Basic Ration (Abolition) 75 words
      cc387-8W
    20. Institutions (Allocations) 173 words
      c388W
    21. Waste Coal 108 words
      cc388-9W
    22. Household Coal (Prices) 236 words
  7. POLICE
      8. c389W
    1. Street Disturbances 191 words
      cc389-90W
    2. Bonfires, Lambeth 130 words
      c390W
    3. Potato Clamps (Thefts) 69 words
      cc390-1W
    4. CHILD CARE 292 words
      c391W
    5. DOGS (ATTACKS ON SHEEP) 135 words
      c391W
    6. CARGO SHIPS (PASSENGERS) 11 words
      cc391-2W
    7. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (ROYAL COMMISSION) 65 words
      c392W
    8. MARRIAGE GUIDANCE (GRANTS) 183 words
  8. PRISONS
      9. cc392-3W
    1. Remand Prisons, Durham 136 words
      c393W
    2. Confinements 124 words
      c393W
    3. MAGDALEN HOSPITAL (DIAGNOSIS) 149 words
      cc393-4W
    4. BIRTH CERTIFICATE REGULATIONS 36 words
  9. HOUSING
      10. c394W
    1. Bungalow, Colchester 54 words
      c394W
    2. Maximum Prices 99 words
      cc394-5W
    3. Shops, Wolverhampton 104 words
      c395W
    4. War-Destroyed Houses (Tenancies) 173 words
      cc395-6W
    5. Prefabricated Houses 169 words
      c396W
    6. Building Restrictions (Stevenage Appeal) 53 words
  10. PUBLIC HEALTH
      11. c396W
    1. Mass Radiography 111 words
      cc396-7W
    2. Sewerage, Santon Downham and Brandon 115 words
      c397W
    3. Hospital, Shoreditch 64 words
      c397W
    4. Health Education 93 words
      c397W
    5. Nursing Working Party (Minority Report) 36 words
      cc397-8W
    6. Nurses Registration 76 words
      c398W
    7. Executive Council, Newport 108 words
      cc398-9W
    8. Infant Mortality Rates 187 words
      c399W
    9. Penicillin 58 words
      c399W
    10. National Hearing Aid 63 words
      c399W
    11. Unmarried Mothers (Hostels) 51 words
      cc399-400W
    12. Welfare Workers 96 words
      c400W
    13. REGISTRARS (SALARIES) 76 words
      c400W
    14. WATER SUPPLY, BRECONSHIRE 88 words
  11. AGRICULTURE
      12. cc400-1W
    1. Basic Slag 147 words
      c401W
    2. Member's Letter (Reply) 75 words
      cc401-2W
    3. Dismissed Officials, Norfolk 216 words
      c402W
    4. Farm Produce, Llanelian (Conveyance) 128 words
      c402W
    5. Law Costs 113 words
      cc402-3W
    6. Oil Supplies 88 words
  12. FORESTRY
      13. c403W
    1. Industrial Site, Cinderford 115 words
      cc403-4W
    2. Denbigh (Scheduled Land) 244 words
  13. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY
      14. c404W
    1. Braille Watches 93 words
      c404W
    2. Barrage Balloon Fabric 108 words
      cc404-5W
    3. Mining Machinery (Exports) 76 words
      c405W
    4. Electric Cable Making (Steel Supply) 69 words
      c405W
    5. Engineering Industry (Redundancy) 117 words
      c405W
    6. Tudor Aircraft (Committee's Report) 33 words
  14. ROADS
      15. c406W
    1. Signposting, Gosberton Risegate 104 words
      c406W
    2. Bus Services, Rural Areas 81 words
      cc406-7W
    3. Coaches (Private Parties) 187 words
  15. RAILWAYS
      16. c407W
    1. London—Scotland (Fares) 319 words
      cc407-8W
    2. Steel Mineral Wagons 79 words
      c408W
    3. Sleeping Berths 69 words
      c408W
    4. SHIPPING (MILITARY CARGO, MANCHESTER) 81 words
      cc408-9W
    5. TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES (TEXTILE WORKERS) 116 words
  16. FOOD SUPPLIES
      17. c409W
    1. Pigs (Slaughtering) 187 words
      cc409-10W
    2. Stocks (Remote Areas) 111 words
      c410W
    3. Meals (Social Functions) 113 words
      c410W
    4. Infant Milk Foods, Newcastle 122 words
      cc410-1W
    5. Cereals (Dominion Acreages) 206 words
  17. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING
      18. cc411-2W
    1. Services' Land Requirements 188 words
      c412W
    2. Crawley Development Corporation 94 words
  18. POST OFFICE
      19. cc412-4W
    1. Telephone Service (Capital Expenditure) 696 words
  19. BRITISH ARMY
      20. c414W
    1. Personal Case 78 words
      cc414-5W
    2. Training Area, Torthwald Dalton 108 words
      c415W
    3. Battle School Area, Suffolk 169 words
      c415W
    4. PRISONERS OF WAR (CHRISTMAS LEAVE) 74 words
  20. SCOTLAND
      21. cc415-6W
    1. Devolution Proposals 52 words
      c416W
    2. Unfit Houses, Highlands and Islands 65 words
      c416W
    3. Electricity Supply (Hydro-Electric Board) 170 words
      cc416-7W
    4. Peat Resources 144 words
      c417W
    5. HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING STAFF (CHRISTMAS FUND) 77 words
  21. PALESTINE
      22. c417W
    1. Jerusalem—Jaffa Road (Patrols) 79 words
      cc417-8W
    2. Transport Protection 279 words
      cc418-9W
    3. Arab Legion (Inquiry) 112 words
      c419W
    4. MALAYAN UNION (INCOME TAX) 266 words
      cc419-20W
    5. GOLD COAST STUDENTS (UNITED KINGDOM) 96 words
      c420W
    6. WAR MATERIAL, MIDDLE EAST STATES 149 words
      cc420-1W
    7. GERMANY (I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE GESCH.) 84 words
  22. ROYAL NAVY
      23. c421W
    1. Dockyard, Portsmouth (Private Meeting) 174 words
      cc421-2W
    2. Wives (Maternity Benefit) 144 words
      c422W
    3. NEW FACTORIES (BUILDING) 61 words
  23. NATIONAL INSURANCE
      24. c422W
    1. Confidential Information 111 words
      c422W
    2. Personal Case 117 words

Lords Sitting of 18 December 1947 Series 5 Vol. 153

    c331
  1. Preamble 14 words
  2. Prayers.
      3. c331
    1. CHILDREN BILL. [H.L.] 142 words
    c331
  3. SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE (AMENDMENT) BILL. [H.L.] 67 words
    4. cc331-2
  4. STANDING ORDERS. 63 words
    5. c332
  5. 13.—Statutory Instruments. 196 words
    6. cc332-52
  6. Notifications. 7,982 words
    7. cc352-3
  7. COAL PRODUCTION FIGURES. 322 words
    8. cc353-4
  8. GRINLING GIBBONS STATUE OF JAMES II. 414 words
    9. cc354-5
  9. AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR ENGINES FROM AMERICA. 149 words
    10. c355
  10. COATBRIDGE BURGH EXTENSION, ETC., ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. 25 words
    11. c355
  11. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932. 102 words
  12. JOHNSTONE GAS ORDER, 1947;
    13. cc355-6
  13. MANCHESTER GAS ORDER, 1947. 54 words
  14. HARLYN BAY (CORNWALL) COAST PROTECTION ORDER, 1947;
    15. c356
  15. ROCK BAY (CORNWALL) COAST PROTECTION ORDER, 1947. 46 words
    16. c356
  16. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. [H.L.] 16 words
    17. c356
  17. LAW REFORM (PERSONAL INJURIES) BILL. [H.L.] 29 words
    18. cc356-63
  18. RIVER BOARDS BILL. [H.L.] 2,637 words
    19. c363
  19. PENSIONS (GOVERNORS OF DOMINIONS, &c.) BILL. 7 words
    20. c363
  20. PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL. 7 words
    21. cc363-431
  21. FINANCE BILL. 27,185 words, 1 division
    22. c431
  22. ROYAL COMMISSION. 35 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 18 December 1947 Series 5 Vol. 153

    cc431-2WA
  1. ACCOUNTS OF AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS. 63 words
    c432WA
  2. BURMA SERVICES: EUROPEAN OFFICERS' PENSIONS. 106 words
    c432WA
  3. SCOTTISH AFFAIRS. 143 words