Commons Sitting of 13 February 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. HOUSING
      1. Excessive Rents (Recovery) 100 words
      2. Condemned Houses 221 words
      3. Cast-iron Components 137 words
      4. Wall Ties 108 words
      5. Temporary Houses (Dampness) 159 words
      6. Midwives 187 words
      7. Radcliffe-on-Trent 165 words
      8. Hutted Camps 216 words
      9. Squatters (Rents) 218 words
      10. Requisition, Exeter 183 words
      11. Rent Control, Paddington 48 words
      12. Tenders and Costs 350 words
      13. Agricultural Workers 132 words
      14. Under-Occupied Premises 119 words
      15. Shepperton 132 words
      16. Homeless Families (Public Assistance) 254 words
      17. Rural Housing (Report) 101 words
    2. WATER SUPPLIES
      1. Broadwell Grove Camp 75 words
      2. Bingham 72 words
      3. Luddenham, Kent 98 words
    3. LOCAL GOVERNMENT
      1. Barrow Council (Committee Membership) 196 words
      2. Civil Building Control (Expenses) 231 words
      3. Boundary Commission (Consultations) 78 words
      4. C.W.S. Bank (Deposit Rates) 135 words
      5. POPULATION (ROYAL COMMISSION) 69 words
    4. PUBLIC HEALTH
      1. Hearing Aids (Elderly Persons) 70 words
      2. Lunacy (Certification) 167 words
      3. Tuberculous Meningitis 50 words
      4. Streptomycin Tests 102 words
      5. Sewerage Schemes, Swale 53 words
      6. CASUALS (EX-SERVICEMEN) 209 words
    5. EDUCATION
      1. Burnham Committee (Constitution) 150 words
      2. Rural Schools (Centralisation) 179 words
      3. Awards and Scholarships (Maintenance) 185 words
      4. Direct Grant Schools (Candidates) 147 words
      5. Secondary School Accommodation 233 words
      6. PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS 383 words
      7. MATRIMONIAL CAUSES RULES (REDRAFTING) 223 words
    6. EMPLOYMENT
      1. Alien Domestic Workers (Germans) 133 words
      2. Prisoners of War 274 words
      3. Civil Aviation 148 words
      4. Non-Union Lorry Drivers 260 words
      5. Aberdeen 83 words
      6. Factory Inspectors, Coventry 33 words
      7. Labour Control (Agriculture) 229 words
    7. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. Prime Minister's Salary (Taxation) 190 words
      2. Fat Ration (Cost) 308 words
      3. Blocked Sterling Balances 414 words
      4. War Costs (Distribution) 55 words
      5. War Damage Value Payments (Report) 416 words
      6. OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS. GLASGOW 229 words
    8. TRADE AND COMMERCE
      1. Wine Casks (Import Licence) 322 words
      2. Works, Glasgow (Tenancy) 93 words
      3. Clothing Coupons (Service Personnel) 122 words
      4. Football Pool Forecasting (Paper) 209 words
      5. Furniture Imports 221 words
      6. Fuel Supplies (Representations) 46 words
      7. Development, Midlothian 127 words
      8. Industrial Coupons (Roundsmen) 77 words
      9. Individual Output 101 words
      10. Artists' Brushes 86 words
      11. Credit Sales (Charge) 39 words
      12. Census of Production (Chemists) 556 words
      13. FUEL OIL PURCHASES 40 words
      14. Tobacco Imports 413 words
      15. BUILDING WORKERS (UNEMPLOY MENT BENEFIT) 437 words
  4. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,910 words
  5. FUEL AND POWER CUTS 1,531 words
  6. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL 46,930 words, 2 divisions
    2. INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION [MONEY] 406 words
    3. SUNDAY CINEMATOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS 165 words
    4. DISABLED EX-SERVICEMEN (MEDICAL TREATMENT) 3,460 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 February 1947

  1. HOUSING (FOREST OF DEAN) 101 words
  2. POPULATION STATISTICS, CAERNARVONSHIRE 73 words
  3. EDUCATION
    1. Leaving Age (Accommodation) 124 words
    2. Teachers (Training Grants) 188 words
    3. WAR DAMAGE APPEALS (COSTS) 150 words
  4. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Purchase Tax (Domestic Woodware) 57 words
    2. Vaporising Oil (Duty) 39 words
    3. Savings Banks (Interest) 37 words
    4. P.A.Y.E. (Repayments) 115 words
  5. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Young Persons (Working Hours) 71 words
    2. U.K. and Swiss Hotel Employees (Exchange) 117 words
    3. OFFICIAL REPORT (BOUND VOLUMES) 87 words
  6. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Clothing Coupons 297 words
    2. Anglo-Soviet Negotiations 83 words
    3. Herring-net Spinning Machines 61 words
  7. ELECTRICITY
    1. Hydro-Electric Constructional Schemes 164 words
    2. New Generating Plant 350 words
    3. Diesel Generators 88 words
    4. Submarines (Royal Dockyards) 115 words
    5. Coal Stocks, Midlands 91 words
  8. COAL INDUSTRY
    1. Agricultural Threshing Contracts 110 words
    2. Change of Retailer 91 words
    3. Nationalisation (Personal Service Contracts) 79 words
    4. Statistical Digest 70 words
    5. Coke Deliveries (Football Pools) 78 words
    6. Consumption 123 words
    7. Foreign Bunkers 85 words
    8. Pit Props 34 words
    9. Exports 49 words
    10. THEATRES (FUEL CONSUMPTION) 249 words
    11. FUEL SUPPLIES (MEMBERS' REPRESENTATIONS) 52 words
    12. STREET LIGHTING 124 words
    13. PETROL COUPONS 80 words
    14. PARAFFIN OIL SUPPLIES 94 words
    15. SEVERN BARRAGE PROPOSALS (FLOODING) 38 words
  9. HOLLOWAY PRISON
    1. Embroidery and Handicraft Materials 138 words
    2. Officers and Nursing Staff 158 words
    3. Recreational Facilities 963 words
    4. CONVICTIONS (STATISTICS) 1,135 words
    5. ADOPTED CHILDREN (LAW OF SUCCESSION) 72 words
    6. GREYHOUND TRACKS (LICENCE FEES) 62 words
    7. FOREIGN CAMPERS (FACILITIES) 60 words
    8. JAPAN (IMPORTS) 121 words
  10. GERMANY
    1. Venereal Disease 198 words
    2. Control Commission Clubs (Inquiry) 102 words
    3. B.B.C. TALKS (POLITICAL SUBJECTS) 117 words
    4. FUEL AND POWER (GOVERNMENT OFFICES) 74 words
    5. PRIVATE PREMISES (INSPECTION) 162 words
    6. PEACE TREATIES (DOMINION CONSULTATION) 253 words
    7. NATIONAL SERVICE 56 words
  11. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY
    1. Government Storage Space 95 words
    2. Government Surplus Stores 157 words
    3. PRISONER OF WAR LABOUR (WITHDRAWAL) 129 words
    4. WAR GRAVES (VISITS) 69 words
    5. RAILWAYS (TEMPORARY WORKERS) 62 words
    6. MEAT OFFALS (DISPOSAL) 132 words

Lords Sitting of 13 February 1947

  1. Preamble 14 words
  2. Prayers.
    1. CROWN PROCEEDINGS BILL [H.L.] 96 words
  3. HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL. 9 words
  4. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (URBAN DISTRICT OF VENTNOR ORDER). 58 words
  5. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (CITY OF OXFORD ORDER). 59 words
  6. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT 1932 (URBAN DISTRICT OF BEESTON AND STAPLEFORD ORDER). 60 words
  7. PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL. 10 words
  8. ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVING LICENCES) BILL. 10 words
  9. MALTA (RECONSTRUCTION) BILL. 7 words
  10. THE COAL SITUATION. 26,496 words
  11. EAST DURHAM (CONSERVATION OF WATER) SPECIAL PROCEDURE ORDER, 1947. 65 words