Commons Sitting of 10 February 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 45 words
  3. BRITISH MUSEUM (PETITION) 149 words
  4. ROAD TRANSPORT NATIONALISATION (PETITIONS) 231 words
  5. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. EDUCATION
      1. Teachers (Equal Pay) 153 words
      2. Leaving Age 114 words
      3. School Visits 165 words
      4. Drinking Straws 71 words
      5. College Training (Period) 49 words
      6. Training Grants 614 words
      7. Mid-day Break 84 words
      8. Transport, Maldon 224 words
      9. Uncertificated Teachers (Training Colleges) 150 words
      10. Emergency Training 54 words
      11. Huts 204 words
      12. Local Authority Staffs 74 words
      13. Size of Classes 342 words
      14. U.N.E.S.C.O. Conference 35 words
    2. LEASEHOLD TENURE 288 words
    3. TRADE AND COMMERCE
      1. Bottles (Government Orders) 78 words
      2. Auctions (Control) 223 words
      3. Softwoods 353 words
      4. Standing Timber (Prices) 158 words
      5. Clothing Supplies 96 words
      6. Floor Coverings 157 words
      7. Fuel Emergency (Production Allocution) 192 words
      8. Children's Clothes 359 words
      9. Educational Books 262 words
      10. Rationing (Anonymous Letters) 60 words
      11. Utility Clothing 234 words
      12. Mining Areas (Consumer Goods) 64 words
      13. Overseas Trade Fairs 117 words
      14. Children's Wellingtons 130 words
      15. Confectionery Exports (Dollar Countries) 108 words
      16. American Shoes 282 words
      17. Italy 144 words
      18. Pineapples 192 words
    4. FUEL EMERGENCY
      1. Warnings 340 words
      2. Ministerial Co-ordination 242 words
    5. ARMED FORCES (LAND REQUIREMENTS) 52 words
    6. EMPLOYMENT
      1. Labour Permits (Italians) 48 words
      2. Demobilisation 147 words
      3. Disabled Persons 396 words
      4. Displaced Persons 411 words
      5. Control of Engagement Orders 85 words
      6. Railway Clerks' Wage Claim 224 words
      7. Dock Workers (Decasualisation) 183 words
    7. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. Savings Bank Withdrawals 152 words
      2. Commodity Subsidies 110 words
      3. Currency Export 91 words
      4. Sterling Balances (Negotiations) 307 words
      5. Argentine (Financial Arrangements) 284 words
      6. Fuel Emergency (Industrial Losses) 169 words
    8. CIVIL SERVANTS. BLACKPOOL 192 words
    9. ELECTRICITY SUPPLE
      1. German Submarines 157 words
      2. Industrial Premises, Surrey (Cuts) 337 words
    10. COAL INDUSTRY
      1. Exports 204 words
      2. European Coal Organisation 411 words
  6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,765 words
  7. INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)
    1. Change of Viceroy 3,185 words
  8. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,727 words, 1 division
  9. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL 27,232 words, 1 division
    2. POLISH RESETTLEMENT [MONEY] 684 words
    3. POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL 9 words
      1. CLAUSE I.—(Power to apply Royal Warrant as to pensions, etc., to certain Polish forces.) 36,205 words, 1 division
      2. NEW CLAUSE.—(Continuance of provisions as to discipline and internal administration of certain Polish forces.) 4,810 words
      3. ADJOURNMENT 18 words

Commons Sitting of 10 February 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. COTTON INDUSTRY WAR MEMORIAL TRUST BILL 6 words
    2. FELIXSTOWE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL 6 words
    3. HELSTON AND PORTHLEVEN WATER BILL 14 words
    4. LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY BILL 14 words
    5. LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL 14 words
    6. NOTTINGHAM CORPORATION BILL 6 words
    7. PRESTON CORPORATION BILL 6 words
    8. SWINDON CORPORATION BILL 6 words
    9. TYNEMOUTH CORPORATION BILL 6 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. ITALY
      1. Displaced Persons' Camps 326 words
      2. Religious Freedom 91 words
    2. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 204 words
    3. POLAND (MME. MARIE MARYNOWSKA, ARREST) 189 words
    4. U.S.S.R.
      1. Annexations 291 words
      2. Arms Standardisation 235 words
    5. GREECE (DEPORTATIONS) 377 words
    6. SPAIN (POLITICAL PRISONERS) 441 words
    7. FOOD SUPPLIES
      1. Linseed 89 words
      2. Foreign Barley and Maize 193 words
      3. Medical Bottles 113 words
      4. Egg Packers (Profits Distribution) 154 words
      5. Vinegar 87 words
      6. Grape Fruit 235 words
      7. Rabbits 143 words
      8. Slaughterhouses 128 words
      9. Kippering (Containers) 178 words
      10. Seville Oranges 97 words
      11. Rationed Supplies (Cold Weather) 286 words
      12. Imports (Weighted Cost) 117 words
      13. Potatoes 177 words
      14. Control Committees (Retail Fruit Trade) 122 words
      15. Green Onions (Statutory Order) 167 words
      16. Malayan Copra and Coconut Oil 332 words
      17. Tea Auctions, London (Reopening) 93 words
      18. Indian Tea 36 words
      19. Milk Registration 114 words
      20. Bacon Supplies 366 words
      21. Imported Carrots 203 words
    8. BEER (HEAVY INDUSTRIES) 146 words
    9. L.P.T.B.(PROPAGANDA POSTER) 160 words
    10. ROADS
      1. Farm Produce 79 words
      2. Pedestrian Crossings 84 words
      3. Unilateral Parking Signs, London 110 words
    11. Ss. "QUEEN ELIZABETH" (GOVERNMENT RESERVATIONS) 97 words
    12. WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS (S.E. ASIA) 358 words
    13. CHILDREN (DOMINION AND ALLIED FATHERS) 386 words
    14. AGRICULTURE
      1. Feedingstuffs (Chick Rearing) 91 words
      2. Control of Engagements Order 47 words
      3. Horticultural Industry 177 words
      4. Tractors and Ploughs 225 words
      5. Women's Land Army 48 words
      6. Forestry (Land Acquisition) 234 words
      7. Repair Licences 97 words
      8. Damaged Sugar Beet 349 words
      9. Milk Production 259 words
    15. NEWFOUNDLAND
      1. Tourist Traffic 175 words
      2. Constituent Assembly 134 words
    16. RAILWAYS
      1. Rolling Stock and Equipment 619 words
    17. BLIND PEOPLE (TRAVEL FACILITIES) 241 words
  5. FUEL AND POWER CUTS 2,453 words
  6. PRIVILEGES (COMMITTEE'S REPORT) 9,133 words
  7. FUEL AND POWER CUTS 33,941 words
  8. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. ELECTRICITY [MONEY] 511 words
    2. UNEMPLOYMENT (SCOTLAND) 3,723 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 10 February 1947

  1. VISAS (ABOLITION) 96 words
  2. ANTARCTICA (TRUSTEESHIP) 71 words
  3. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Trade Cooking Fat 94 words
    2. Meat and Fish Pastes 103 words
    3. Export Biscuits 45 words
    4. Meat Supplies 109 words
    5. Points Values 78 words
    6. Consumption (Comparative Figures) 625 words
    7. Slaughterhouses 170 words
    8. BULGARIA (BRITISH PRESS) 80 words
  4. AGRICULTURE
    1. Advisory Service (Salaries) 177 words
    2. County Executive Committees 227 words
    3. BECHUANALAND 294 words
  5. ROADS
    1. Development Areas 43 words
    2. West Cumberland 97 words
    3. Roundabouts (Converging, Traffic) 85 words
    4. Haulage Organisation (Report) 66 words
  6. RAILWAYS
    1. Charges Consultative Committee (Report) 78 words
    2. Engine Repairs 70 words
  7. SHIPPING
    1. Requisitioned Passenger Ships 60 words
    2. Strandings, Goodwin Sands 95 words
    3. S.s. "Fart Finlay" (Risks) 119 words
    4. U.S. Ships (Purchase) 990 words
    5. CANALS (APPLICATIONS TO ABANDON) 128 words
  8. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY
    1. Domestic Electrical Appliances 82 words
    2. Ordnance Depot, Melmerby 297 words
    3. Plumbing Repairs (Materials) 86 words
    4. Iron and Steel Board (Schemes) 58 words
    5. Metal Prices 215 words
    6. Tinned Steel Wire 84 words
    7. Industrial Fuel Supplies 33 words
    8. Motor Vehicles (Production) 101 words
    9. House Production, Dumbarton 58 words
    10. Pottery Machinery 93 words
    11. Engineering Advisory Council 124 words
  9. MINISTRY OF WORKS
    1. Schoolroom, Mablethorpe (Release) 156 words
    2. Defence Works, Reigate and Dorking 130 words
    3. Cornwall Terrace, Regents Park (Conversion) 97 words
    4. Surplus Building Materials, Honey 120 words
    5. Excavations, Old Palace Yard 101 words
  10. INDIA
    1. Government Pensions 73 words
    2. Beer and Spirits (Excise Tax) 75 words
  11. BURMA
    1. Constitution (Frontier Peoples) 138 words
    2. Aung San 103 words
  12. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Cotton Industry (Coal Shortage) 135 words
    2. Private Traders (Profits Distribution) 45 words
    3. HOUSING RETURN (APPENDIX B) 41 words
    4. OLD AGE PENSIONS 56 words
    5. L.P.T.B. (WOMEN CONDUCTORS) 88 words
  13. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Anglo-Argentine Agreement (U.S. Representations) 56 words
    2. EXCHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AND THE SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY. 1,550 words
    3. Small Savings and Withdrawals 177 words
    4. ARMY RECORDS OFFICE, LEICESTER 107 words
  14. GERMANY
    1. Official Investigators (Travel Facilities) 155 words
    2. Food Ration, Wuppertal 93 words
    3. Requisitioned Premises, Hanover 112 words
    4. ELECTORAL REGISTER (ACTON AND SKEGNESS) 102 words
    5. PALESTINE (JEWISH POPULATION) 70 words
    6. AFRICAN COLONIES (FISHERIES RESEARCH) 189 words