Commons Sitting of 29 November 1945

  1. Preamble 9 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. ALIENS
      1. Armed Forces (Naturalisation) 79 words
      2. Germans and Austrians (Relatives) 295 words
      3. Polish Citizens (Employment) 235 words
      4. Deportees, Brixton Prison (Disturbance) 335 words
    2. FIREARMS CERTIFICATES 175 words
    3. IRISH CITIZENS (IMPRISONMENT, ENGLAND) 157 words
    4. NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE
      1. Surplus Vehicles, Rickmansworth 140 words
      2. Personnel (Privileges) 206 words
      3. Requisitioned Property 77 words
    5. CHANNEL ISLANDS (VISITS) 125 words
    6. DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER ACT 32 words
    7. FOREIGN SERVICE '(FRANCHISE) 222 words
    8. BORSTAL DETENTION 1,565 words
    9. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS) 117 words
    10. PENSIONS AND GRANTS 856 words
    11. PUBLIC HEALTH
      1. Radiograph Apparatus (Tuberculosis) 111 words
      2. Tuberculous Patients (Food Rations) 160 words
    12. HOUSING
      1. Satellite Towns 215 words
      2. White Paper 155 words
      3. Private Streets 122 words
      4. Landlord's Repairs 148 words
      5. Temporary Houses 157 words
      6. North-Eastern Housing Association 92 words
    13. LOCAL AUTHORITIES
      1. Information Centres, Wales 120 words
      2. Public Relations Machinery 113 words
      3. Rating and Valuation 169 words
      4. Sea Defence Works 201 words
    14. ATOMIC BOMB (COST, GREAT BRITAIN) 214 words
    15. SCIENTIFIC MANPOWER AND RESOURCES (APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEE) 457 words
    16. WESTERN EUROPE (FOOD) 128 words
    17. GERMANY (POTASH SYNDICATE BONDS) 166 words
    18. EMPLOYMENT
      1. Unemployment Statistics 292 words
      2. Dock Workers' Wages 93 words
      3. Woollen and Worsted Industry 149 words
      4. Civilian Industries (Manpower Increase) 487 words
      5. War Damage Repair Workers (Transfer) 153 words
      6. Building Trade Workers 91 words
      7. Engineering Instructors, Watford 73 words
      8. Agriculture (Training Scheme) 84 words
      9. Unofficial Strikes 185 words
      10. Mine Ballotees 170 words
    19. POSITION OF COALMINING BALLOTEES IN RELATION TO RELEASE FROM COAL- MINING AND FROM H.M. FORCES 812 words
    20. MILITARY SERVICE
      1. Students 248 words
      2. Intake Allocation 140 words
      3. Christmas (Deferred Intake) 98 words
    21. DEMOBILISATION
      1. Post Office Workers 100 words
      2. Class B Releases 242 words
      3. Personal Case 140 words
      4. Agricultural Workers 107 words
  4. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,136 words
  5. PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS 874 words
  6. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS 12 words
  7. INSHORE FISHING INDUSTRY BILL 8 words
  8. LIBRARY (HOUSE OF COMMONS) 29 words
  9. DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL 34 words
  10. PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords] 30 words
  11. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 22 words
  12. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. FINANCE BILL 12 words
      1. NEW CLAusE— (Reduced rates of entertainments duty.) 12,266 words, 1 division
      2. New Clause.—(Housekeeping Allowance.) 7,647 words, 1 division
      3. NEW CLAUSE.—(Cesser of charge of pur chase tax in respect of motor cars for use by registered medical practitioners and by veterinary surgeons.) 1,750 words
      4. NEW CLAUSE.—(Repayment of postwar credits in certain cases.) 11,451 words, 1 division
      5. NEW CLAUSE.—(Rule 9 and 10 of Schedule E of Income Tax Act, 1918.) 4,334 words
      6. NEW CLAUSE.—(Outlay by rural craftsmen.) 1,745 words
      7. NEW CLAUSE.—(Sales of plant between controlled bodies of persons.) 883 words
      8. New CLAUSE.—(Double Taxation.) 1,623 words
      9. NEW CLAUSE.—(Reduced customs duties on tea.) 1,970 words
      10. NEW CLAUSE.— (Expenses in connection with a successful appeal to be a de duction for income tax purposes.) 8,397 words, 2 divisions
      11. NEW CLAUSE—(Expenditure of tax allowances for repairs on motor vehicles.) 704 words
      12. NEW CLAUSE.— (Reduced excise duties on spirits.) 6,090 words, 1 division
    2. First Schedule.—(Classes of goods in respect of which Purchase Tax is to cease to be chargeable.) 7,365 words
    3. ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL 12 words
    4. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (PNEUMOCONIOSIS) BILL 1,102 words
    5. BUILDING RESTRICTIONS (WAR TIME CONTRAVENTIONS) BILL. 809 words
    6. SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL. 21 words
    7. Clause I.—(Power to extend purposes of certain Defence Regulations.) 125 words
    8. Clause 6—(Application of powers of Minister of Supply.) 39 words
    9. GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION 3,182 words
    10. MEMBER EXPENSES 93 words
    11. PRIVILEGES 15 words
    12. E.N.S.A. (INQUIRY) 3,361 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 November 1945

  1. BRITISH EMPIRE WAR CASUALTIES 590 words
  2. HOUSING
    1. Private Enterptise 195 words
    2. Requisitioning 389 words
    3. Technical Assistance 49 words
    4. Rent Rebates 143 words
    5. Open-air Shelters 140 words
    6. Evictions 91 words
    7. Selling Price Control 80 words
    8. Monthly Progress Reports 70 words
    9. Temporary Houses 145 words
  3. PUBLIC HEALTH
    1. Mentally Defective Children 89 words
    2. Rural Water Supplies 212 words
    3. Hospitals (Resident Doctors) 81 words
    4. Medical Officers (Release) 78 words
    5. National Health Service (Physiotherapy) 54 words
    6. Mining Areas (Doctors) 99 words
    7. Medical Students (Assistance) 130 words
    8. Nursing Service 258 words
  4. LOCAL AUTHORITIES
    1. Government Surplus Stores 85 words
    2. Public Utilities (Revenue Deficiencies) 170 words
    3. Evacuation (Mothers, Grant) 89 words
    4. Drowning Accidents, River Wharfe 87 words
    5. Sutton's Institution, Romford 76 words
    6. Brookwood Mental Hospital 74 words
    7. Empty Premises (Rating) 96 words
  5. SERVICE PERSONNEL (IMPRISONMENT) 321 words
  6. IDENTITY CARDS (PREVENTION OF BIGAMY) 99 words
  7. EDUCATION
    1. Additional Age Groups (Instruction) 180 words
    2. Higher Technological Education (Report) 67 words
    3. Sub-Normal Children 100 words
    4. Physical Training Instructors 80 words
    5. Teachers (Interchange with U.S.A.) 100 words
    6. Divisional Administration Schemes 127 words
    7. Deafness (Lip Reading Facilities) 132 words
    8. Kirby Corner Hostel 103 words
    9. Emergency Training 120 words
    10. Scholarships (Regulations) 196 words
    11. Road-safety Instruction 100 words
    12. Nursery Schools 158 words
    13. Holidays 109 words
  8. PENSIONS (INCREASE) ACT 73 words
  9. UNIVERSITIES (CHAIRS OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN) 59 words
  10. MURDERS 917 words
  11. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Taxation Per Head 146 words
    2. Co-operative Societies (Income Tax) 43 words
    3. Northern Ireland Revenue 106 words
    4. E.P.T. Refund (Surplus Plant Purchase) 99 words
    5. Reciprocal Aid to U.S.A. 133 words
  12. LONDON MUSEUMS (REOPENING) 39 words
  13. CIVIL SERVANTS (BOARD AND LODGING COST) 85 words
  14. ITALY (DETAINED PROFESSORS) 219 words
  15. BRITISH SUBJECTS, U.S.A. (PASSPORTS) 100 words
  16. CIVIL AVIATION (TRANSATLANTIC CONTROL) 133 words
  17. U.N.R.R.A. (SUBSCRIBING COUNTRIES) 2,002 words
  18. AUSTRA (CONTROL POLICY) 126 words
  19. GERMANY
    1. War Crimes Trial 158 words
    2. Non-German Nationals (British Zone) 104 words
  20. POST OFFICE
    1. Postal Facilities (Europe) 201 words
    2. Briantspuddle, Dorset, 81 words
    3. Telephone Service (Northern Ireland) 114 words
    4. Telecommunication Apparatus (Research) 101 words
    5. Air Mail (Belfast) 72 words
  21. Radiotelephone Service (India) 325 words
  22. REQUISITIONED PROPERTY (EDINBURGH) 105 words
  23. WELSH CHURCH COMMISSIONERS (SALARIES) 71 words
  24. ELECTORAL FRANCHISE (SERVICE REGISTER) 113 words
  25. ROYAL NAVY (EDUCATION) 180 words
  26. WOMBLETON AIRFIELD (CLOSED ROAD) 61 words
  27. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Local Residents 101 words
    2. Lightermen (Unofficial Strike) 156 words
    3. Unemployment Statistics 270 words
    4. Resettlement (Personal Case) 68 words
  28. TRANSPORT (NATIONALISATION PROPOSALS) 79 words
  29. MILITARY SERVICE (BUILDING TRADE WORKERS) 31 words
  30. ROADS
    1. Level Crossings (Poole) 117 words
    2. White Lines 94 words
  31. BRITISH ARMY
    1. Compassionate Release Applications 74 words
    2. Ex-Prisoners of War (Gratuity) 50 words
    3. Letters and Telegrams (Far East and India) 180 words
    4. Demobilisation 88 words
    5. War Gratuities 105 words
    6. Christmas Fare 68 words
  32. NATIONAL INSURANCE
    1. Slate Miners, Wales 126 words
    2. Contributory Pensions 64 words
  33. ATOMIC ENERGY 107 words
  34. INDIA (ARMY G.H.Q.) 305 words
  35. AGRICULTURE (PRISONERS OF WAR) 80 words
  36. PENSIONS AND GRANTS 119 words
  37. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Flour 207 words
    2. Brazil Nuts 62 words

Lords Sitting of 29 November 1945

  1. Preamble 19 words
  2. INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH BILL. [H.L.] 4,217 words
  3. INSHORE FISHING INDUSTRY BILL. 110 words
  4. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. 13,647 words
  5. SURPLUS STORES. 2,746 words
  6. TRANSPORT UNDERTAKINGS. 318 words