Commons Sitting of 4 February 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. EMPLOYMENT
      1. Unemployment 166 words
      2. South Wales 175 words
      3. Public Service 530 words
      4. Building Training 312 words
      5. Work Stoppages 361 words
      6. Fuel Shortage 859 words
      7. Vocational Training 387 words
      8. LIST OF TRAINING OCCUPATIONS 170 words
      9. Ex-Army Officers 175 words
      10. Scotland 227 words
      11. Foreign Labour 385 words
      12. Poles 280 words
    2. NATIONAL SERVICE
      1. Students (Release) 197 words
      2. Mine Optants 314 words
    3. HOUSING (SCOTLAND)
      1. Temporary Houses 420 words
      2. Small Houses, Glasgow (Sale) 338 words
      3. Housing Association Rents 365 words
    4. SCOTLAND
      1. Police Action, Glasgow (Complaints) 741 words
      2. Mineral Development 72 words
      3. Shop Rents, Glasgow 471 words
      4. Prison Officers (Qualification Certificates) 172 words
    5. MINISTRY OF PENSIONS
      1. Surgical Boots 438 words
      2. Appeals 184 words
    6. BRITISH ARMY
      1. Detention, South Africa 133 words
      2. Territorial Army 196 words
    7. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. Printing Expenditure 75 words
      2. Taxation (Suggested Concessions) 148 words
      3. World Bank for Reconstruction 154 words
      4. Income Tax 566 words
      5. Dollar Expenditure 904 words
      6. Blocked Sterling Balances (Negotiations) 376 words
  4. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 2,174 words
  5. BILL PRESENTED
    1. NAVAL FORCES (ENFORCEMENT OF MAINTENANCE LIABILITIES) BILL 61 words
  6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,640 words, 1 division
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. ELECTRICITY BILL 47,163 words, 2 divisions
    2. ELECTRICITY [MONEY] 11,834 words, 1 division
      1. SUNDAY CINEMATOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS 166 words
      2. TIMBER SUPPLIES 3,811 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 4 February 1947

  1. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Lancashire Cotton Mills (Foreign Labour) 176 words
    2. Vocational Training 153 words
    3. Distribution of Manpower 244 words
    4. Tied Workers 241 words
    5. Cotton Operatives, Lancashire 98 words
  2. NATIONAL SERVICE
    1. Personal Case 52 words
    2. Fishermen 43 words
    3. SCOTLAND (MONTHLY HOUSING RETURN) 78 words
  3. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. British Railway Holdings, Argentina 46 words
    2. Sterling Purchases (U.S.A.) 45 words
    3. Foreign Exchange (Imported Foodstuffs) 119 words
    4. Savings Certificates (Old Age Pensioners) 66 words
  4. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Government Industrial Workers (Conditions) 94 words
    2. Revenue Duties (Wartime Concessions, Withdrawal) 113 words
      1. INCOME TAX 93 words
      2. DEATH DUTIES 96 words
  5. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Clothing Supplies 209 words
    2. Timber 206 words
    3. Sheet and Plate Glass 119 words
    4. Industrial Coal Supplies 371 words
    5. Plastics, Scotland (Factory) 77 words
    6. Tobacco (Increased Prices) 97 words
    7. Rubber Boots 67 words
    8. Russia 123 words
    9. New Factories 89 words
    10. Italy 46 words
    11. Textile Machinery 81 words
    12. Mink Skins (Imports) 143 words
    13. Steel (Import Duty) 110 words
    14. Camera Films 119 words
    15. United States Films (Importation) 117 words
    16. Printing Trade (Census) 182 words
    17. Tobacco (Dollar Purchases) 84 words
    18. Women's Raincoats and Macintoshes 56 words
    19. Locomotives (Exports) 74 words
  6. BRITISH ARMY
    1. Personal Cases 348 words
    2. Territorial Officers' Pay 135 words
    3. Casualties, Palestine 173 words
    4. Maltese Officers 197 words
    5. General Service Medal (Palestine) 85 words
    6. Training Areas 183 words
    7. Barrack Conditions 326 words
    8. Welfare, (Improvements) 140 words
    9. Wretham Training Area (Cultivation) 106 words
    10. Demobilisation 102 words
    11. Compassionate Postings (Termination) 63 words
    12. Germany (Cost of Living) 64 words
    13. Education 151 words
    14. Short Leave 157 words
    15. Records Office, Leicester 96 words
    16. Grade C 1 Men 141 words
  7. PRISONERS OF WAR
    1. Unfit Men (Repatriation) 258 words
    2. Agricultural Work (Injury Compensation) 101 words
    3. Repatriation 68 words
    4. Japanese, Malaya 79 words
    5. Football Matches 88 words
    6. EX-SERVICEMEN (POLISH FIANCEES) 228 words
  8. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING
    1. Services Land Requirements (Fairlight Glen) 64 words
    2. Overspill Town, Leeds 50 words
  9. NATIONAL INSURANCE
    1. Old Age Pensions 739 words
    2. Guardian's Allowance 102 words
  10. ROADS
    1. Bus Drivers (Conduct) 72 words
    2. Pedestrian Crossings (Signals) 100 words
    3. RAILWAY DIVIDENDS 148 words
    4. JAPANESE TRADE 83 words
  11. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Oatmeal 165 words
    2. Slaughterhouses 72 words
    3. Invalids (Special Diets) 150 words
    4. Cooking Fat 59 words
    5. Brewing Barley, Eire 51 words
    6. SOAP RATION 119 words
  12. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY
    1. Office Machinery 369 words
    2. Ordnance Factory, Poole 35 words
    3. Armed Forces (Manpower) 104 words
    4. AGRICULTURAL TRAINING 254 words
    5. PENSION COMMUTATION 71 words
    6. PETROL RATIONING 57 words
  13. EDUCATION
    1. Grammar School Pupils 39 words
    2. Charity, Presteign 149 words
    3. NAVAL OUTFIT GRATUITY 137 words
  14. MINISTRY OF WORKS
    1. Industrial Building Licences 95 words
    2. Slate Industry, Scotland 205 words
    3. PALESTINE (CASUALTIES) 168 words
    4. CIVIL AVIATION (SAFETY) 221 words
    5. AIRMAIL (HELICOPTERS) 101 words

Lords Sitting of 4 February 1947

  1. Preamble 16 words
  2. Prayers.
    1. PALESTINE: EVACUATION OF BRITISH CIVILIANS. 490 words
    2. MALTA (RECONSTRUCTION) BILL. 10 words
    3. REMEDY AGAINST THE CROWN AS OCCUPIER BILL. [H.L.] 61 words
    4. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (URBAN DISTRICT OF ASHFORD ORDER). 58 words
    5. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (URBAN DISTRICT OF HUCKNALL ORDER). 58 words
    6. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (URBAN DISTRICT OF RUGELEY ORDER). 58 words
    7. EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL. 17,321 words
    8. HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL. 15 words
    9. REMEDIES AGAINST THE CROWN. 2,460 words
    10. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932. 62 words