Commons Sitting of 2 April 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. DOUBLE TAXATION RELIEF 93 words
  4. CIVIL CONTINGENCIES FUND, 1945–46 61 words
  5. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. ROYAL AIR FORCE
      1. Chaplains (Release) 265 words
      2. Medical Officers 565 words
      3. Leave (Travel Warrants) 338 words
      4. Farming Equipment, Ingham 252 words
      5. Requisitioned House, Keston 252 words
      6. Surplus Domestic Equipment 314 words
      7. Maintenance Units 180 words
      8. Women, Burtonwood 197 words
      9. Personal Case 182 words
      10. West Freugh 94 words
      11. Families Abroad (Passages) 115 words
    2. CIVIL AVIATION
      1. Tudor III (Annual Cost) 205 words
      2. Internal Airlines (Acquisition Price) 206 words
      3. Private Companies (Visas) 157 words
      4. Greek Services 204 words
      5. Corporation Accounts and Salaries 1,001 words
      6. Executive Posts (Corporation Members) 265 words
      7. New Appointments (Airways Corporations) 658 words
      8. Bovingdon Airport 144 words
    3. GERMANY
      1. Control Commission Staff 192 words
      2. Timber Exports to U.K. 273 words
      3. Blind Persons 78 words
      4. Control Commission Cars 55 words
      5. Requisitioning 86 words
      6. Coal Exports 82 words
      7. Electric Motor Components 103 words
      8. Venereal Disease 318 words
    4. AUSTRIA (VISITORS) 200 words
    5. TREE FELLING LICENCES 116 words
    6. ARMED FORCES
      1. Service Assets, India 150 words
      2. Naval Air Arm 190 words
      3. Deserters (Surrender) 892 words
    7. FOOD SUPPLIES
      1. East Africa Groundnut Scheme 147 words
      2. Catering Licences, Scotland 179 words
      3. Farmworkers 334 words
      4. Milk Bottles 314 words
      5. Reception (Cost) 414 words
    8. ARMY OFFICER (LETTER TO MEMBER) 406 words
  6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 540 words
  7. SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE 30 words
  8. ADJOURNMENT (EASTER) 13 words
  9. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 22 words
  10. FUEL SITUATION 4,587 words
  11. ROYAL ASSENT 45 words
  12. FUEL SITUATION 35,372 words
  13. BURMA (FAILURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL MACHINERY) 924 words
  14. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. TREATIES OF PEACE (ITALY, ROUMANIA, BULGARIA, HUNGARY AND FINLAND) [Money] 67 words
    2. TREATIES OF PEACE (ITALY, ROUMANIA, BULGARIA, HUNGARY AND FINLAND) BILL 8 words
      1. CLAUSE 1.—(Power of His Majesty to give effect to Peace Treaties.) 7,195 words
    3. NAVAL FORCES (ENFORCEMENT OF MAINTENANCE LIABILITIES) BILL 14 words
      1. CLAUSE 1.—(Deductions from pay in respect of liabilities for maintenance. etc.) 5,440 words
      2. CLAUSE 2.—(Restriction on discontinuance on allotments of pay.) 2,422 words
    4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords] 1,109 words
    5. GAS (SPECIAL ORDERS) 51 words
    6. TIED COTTAGES (EVICTIONS) 3,529 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 2 April 1947

  1. R.A.F. MECHANICS (RELEASE) 272 words
  2. CIVIL AVIATION
    1. B.E.A.C., Scotland (Salaries) 54 words
    2. Stanstead Airport (Customs) 70 words
    3. Helicopters 193 words
    4. Lockheed Constellations 64 words
  3. GERMANY
    1. Tenant Farmers 76 words
    2. War Crimes Trials 55 words
    3. Prisoners of War (Screening) 79 words
    4. Food Situation 817 words
    5. Volkswagen (Price) 115 words
    6. Industrial Nationalisation 74 words
  4. AUSTRIA
    1. State Police Administration 166 words
    2. War Crimes Detainees 160 words
    3. M.P.s' Visits 172 words
    4. DISPLACED PERSONS (FOOD PARCELS) 107 words
  5. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Cakes (Despatch to Dominions) 70 words
    2. Sugar (Beekeepers) 117 words
    3. Canary Bananas 93 words
    4. U.S. Fruit and Vegetables (Imports) 288 words
    5. Potato Bags 122 words
    6. Green Vegetables (Import) 85 words
    7. Sugar (Production and Consumption) 618 words
    8. Dominion Apples 194 words
    9. Sausages (Meat Content) 36 words
    10. Bitter Oranges 122 words
    11. BEER IMPORTS 73 words
    12. HUNGARY (POLITICAL SITUATION) 202 words
    13. YUGOSLAVIA (FOOD SUPPLIES) 318 words
    14. TRANSJORDAN (AGREEMENTS) 95 words
    15. TREATY OF DUNIURK (SIGNING CEREMONY) 201 words
    16. BULGARIA (CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS) 403 words
    17. SPAIN (DEATH SENTENCES) 88 words
  6. SEYCHELLES
    1. Education 167 words
    2. Constitution 129 words
    3. Law Courts 122 words
  7. AFRICAN COLONIES
    1. Cocoa Marketing Boards 96 words
    2. Death Sentences, Gold Coast 469 words
    3. Commission of Inquiry 159 words
    4. Rents (Mombasa) 164 words
    5. Mombasa (Phillips Report) 783 words
  8. CYPRUS
    1. Suggested Union with Greece 118 words
    2. Cost-of-Living Adjustments 269 words
    3. Constitution 85 words
    4. BRITISH GUIANA AND HONDURAS 92 words
    5. FIJI (CONSTITUTION) 94 words
    6. BERMUDA (TRADE UNION LAW) 173 words
  9. MALAYA
    1. Banishment Ordinance 46 words
    2. Federation Proposals 112 words
  10. PALESTINE
    1. Wanted Men (Photographs) 149 words
    2. Civil Service Salaries 244 words
  11. ROYAL NAVY
    1. Boys 66 words
    2. Rosyth 62 words
    3. Pension Modifications 237 words
    4. Plain Clothes 220 words
    5. War-Service Gratuity (R.M. Police) 73 words
    6. Redundant Staff, Harrow 175 words
    7. Illegal Immigrant Ships 71 words
  12. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
    1. Gramophone Records (Fees) 77 words
    2. Television, Birmingham 128 words
    3. Broadcasting Policy 65 words
    4. Palace of Westminster (Television Receiver) 59 words
  13. POST OFFICE
    1. Food Parcels 120 words
    2. Annuity Sales 55 words
    3. Capital Liability 89 words
  14. TELEPHONE SERVICE
    1. Bolton 76 words
    2. Tothill, Lincolnshire 61 words
  15. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Tobacco Imports 127 words
    2. North-East Development Area 74 words
    3. Packing Cases 161 words
    4. Postage Stamps (Import) 162 words
    5. Light Industries, Herefordshire 105 words
  16. BRITISH ARMY
    1. Personal Case 125 words
    2. Education Advisory Board 222 words
    3. EDUCATIONAL BUILDING WORK 266 words
    4. POTATO CROPS (PROSECUTIONS) 61 words
    5. BRICKWORKS, NORTH STAFFS 76 words

Lords Sitting of 2 April 1947

  1. Preamble 17 words
  2. Prayers.
    1. LORD DUKESTON. 23 words
  3. CHAIRMANSHIP OF BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION. 432 words
  4. VISITS TO AUSTRIA. 316 words
  5. TRAFALGAR ESTATES BILL. 11 words
  6. MOLD GAS ORDER. 33 words
  7. WINTER SUPPLIES IN SCOTLAND. 348 words
  8. LINSEED AND WHEAT IMPORTS. 216 words
  9. TIED COTTAGES. 337 words
  10. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932. 54 words
  11. HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICES. 384 words
  12. ROYAL COMMISSION. 22 words
  13. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. 36 words
  14. HAVANT AND WATERLOO URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.] 7 words
  15. GOVERNMENT OF BURMA (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ORDER, 1947. 19 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 2 April 1947

  1. ARMY EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD. 228 words
  2. PUBLIC COMMENTS BY CIVIL SERVANTS. 123 words