Commons Sitting of 28 January 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. NATIONAL INSURANCE
      1. Family Allowances 328 words
      2. Dental Benefit 354 words
      3. Old Age Pension Books 192 words
      4. Pensioners (Employment) 377 words
    2. EMPLOYMENT
      1. Painters, North London 167 words
      2. Disabled Persons 592 words
      3. Resettlement of Poles 1,156 words
      4. Transferred Workers (Lodging Allowance) 121 words
      5. Work Stoppages (Days Lost) 128 words
      6. Factory Department (Annual Report) 81 words
      7. National Joint Advisory Council 250 words
      8. Unemployment 47 words
      9. Building Trade Training 721 words
      10. European Displaced Persons 450 words
    3. NATIONAL SERVICE (STUDENTS) 100 words
    4. SCOTLAND
      1. Forestry (Wages) 176 words
      2. Hill Cattle Subsidy 389 words
      3. New Town Inquiry (Report) 364 words
      4. Regional Water Supplies 423 words
      5. Potatoes and Cereals, Dumfriesshire 158 words
      6. Harvest Labour 149 words
      7. Nurses' Salaries 93 words
    5. MINISTRY OF PENSIONS
      1. 100 Per Cent. Disability 490 words
      2. Reassessment 194 words
      3. Appeals, Scotland 170 words
    6. BRITISH ARMY
      1. Officers, Middle East (Leave Allowances) 239 words
      2. Cadet Force (Officers) 286 words
      3. Long Service Decoration 34 words
      4. 2nd S.A.S. Regiment (War Crime Trials) 611 words
      5. Recruitment 54 words
    7. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. Stationery Office (Expenditure) 62 words
      2. Sterling Area (Payments) 145 words
      3. Government Purchases (Prices) 43 words
      4. Small Savings 325 words
      5. C.W.S. Bank 449 words
      6. Football Matches (Entertainments Duty) 215 words
      7. Dollar Resources (Purchases) 652 words
      8. Surplus War Stores (Proceeds) 102 words
      9. Taxation (Suggested Concessions) 225 words
      10. SERVICES MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE (MEN UNDER 21) 557 words
    8. PALESTINE
      1. Jewish Terrorism (Government Action) 1,514 words
  4. UNITED KINGDOM AND BURMA (AGREEMENT) 1,826 words
  5. BILL PRESENTED
    1. APPELLATE JURISDICTION BILL 39 words
  6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,682 words, 1 division
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY 7,083 words
    1. AGRICULTURE BILL 32,603 words
  8. AGRICULTURE [MONEY] 4,238 words
  9. WAYS AND MEANS 1,222 words
  10. SUNDAY CINEMATOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS 125 words
  11. IRONSTONE QUARRYING, KETTERING (ORDER) 4,962 words
  12. ADJOURNMENT 18 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 January 1947

  1. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Joint Negotiating Machinery 159 words
    2. Domestic Workers 163 words
    3. Agriculture (Foreign Labour) 64 words
  2. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Purchase Tax (Dog Collars) 73 words
    2. Consignments of Coin 120 words
    3. Exported Motor Cars (Ireland) 113 words
    4. Films (Dollar Position) 78 words
    5. Dutiable Articles (Carriage Charges) 60 words
    6. Seized Goods (Sale) 91 words
    7. Old Age Pensions (Personal Case) 57 words
    8. Illustrated Brochure "H.M.S. Vanguard'" 64 words
    9. Foreign Commercial Transactions (Credit) 78 words
    10. Anglo-American Loan 47 words
    11. B.O.A.C. (Issue of Stock) 193 words
    12. OFFICIAL REPORT OF DEBATES (COPYRIGHT) 117 words
  3. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Evacuated Staff, Llandudno (Return) 192 words
    2. Established Posts (Recruitment) 108 words
    3. Typists 46 words
    4. CANADIAN SECRET INFORMATION (REPORT) 62 words
    5. U.N.O. (TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, REPORT) 68 words
  4. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Paints and Distempers (Government Stocks) 148 words
    2. Linseed Oil 128 words
    3. Locomotives 125 words
    4. Giant Tyres (Output) 102 words
    5. Exports to Spain 52 words
    6. Anglo-Argentine Trade Treaty 79 words
    7. British Export Markets (U.S.A.) 71 words
    8. Sponges 45 words
    9. Clothing Coupons (Distribution) 88 words
    10. North Wales Development Council 121 words
    11. Inventors (Materials) 111 words
    12. Production Campaign 53 words
    13. Canes 65 words
    14. Willows 286 words
    15. Children's Underwear 91 words
    16. Clothing Supplies (Overseas Forces) 286 words
    17. Textile Machinery 68 words
    18. Protective Clothing (Builders) 85 words
    19. Imperial Preference 150 words
    20. Shirtings 91 words
    21. Merchant Sailors (Clothing Coupons) 56 words
    22. Herring Drift Nets 143 words
  5. BRITISH ARMY
    1. Palestine 117 words
    2. s.s. "Empress of Scotland" (Court Martial) 71 words
    3. Japan 147 words
    4. Singapore (Mails Delay) 138 words
    5. Military Messes 81 words
    6. Lecturers 246 words
    7. Personal Cases 318 words
    8. Garrison Engineer, Trentham (Staff) 180 words
    9. Malaya (Camp Conditions) 126 words
    10. Training Courses 128 words
    11. Rare Tree, Wales (Preservation) 100 words
    12. Dartmoor (Danger Areas) 141 words
    13. Sudan Defence Force, Eritrea 259 words
    14. Demobilisation 172 words
    15. Troopship "Arundel Castle" 106 words
    16. Records Office, Brighton (Discharges) 214 words
    17. Regular Commissions 150 words
    18. Trooping Fleet Conditions 184 words
    19. Territorial Army 56 words
    20. Somaliland (Collective Punishment) 158 words
    21. Overseas Allowances 102 words
    22. L.I.A.P. 215 words
    23. Veterinary Corps 47 words
    24. Leave Centre, Düsseldorf 134 words
    25. Dominion Army Personnel 292 words
    26. Dominion Training Schools (British Personnel) 131 words
    27. Clapham Common 100 words
    28. African Troops (Rioting) 365 words
  6. POLISH FORCES
    1. Ludford Camp (Stokers) 164 words
    2. Code of Discipline 80 words
  7. PRISONERS OF WAR
    1. Repatriation 457 words
    2. Prisoner's Suicide 181 words
    3. Barbed Wire 89 words
    4. Restrictions, Gloucester 111 words
    5. JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS (SENTENCES) 279 words
    6. DUTCH TROOPS, GREAT BRITAIN 88 words
  8. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING
    1. Wild Life Conservation 73 words
    2. Service Land Requirements, Wales 121 words
    3. Application Delay, Lichfield 226 words
  9. GERMANY
    1. British Zone (Cost) 71 words
    2. Control Staff (Delayed Appointments) 98 words
    3. Ex-Prisoners (Treatment) 200 words
    4. C.W.S. BANK (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) 286 words
    5. SURPLUS GOVERNMENT STOCKS 171 words
    6. TROOPSHIP CONDITIONS 86 words
    7. SOUTH SEAS CONFERENCE 114 words
    8. TRAFFIC LIGHTS (REGULATIONS) 175 words
  10. MINISTRY OF WORKS
    1. Building Materials (Prices) 119 words
    2. Electrical Components 125 words
  11. AGRICULTURE
    1. Grade C Farmers 85 words
    2. Owner-Occupiers 103 words
    3. PALESTINE (FLOGGING OUTRAGE) 56 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Water and Drainage Schemes 607 words
    2. Sunday Fishing 105 words
    3. POSTAL FACILITIES, FORTIS GREEN 90 words
    4. KENT AIR ACCIDENT INQUIRY 384 words
    5. ARMED FORCES (STRENGTH) 48 words

Lords Sitting of 28 January 1947

  1. Preamble 16 words
  2. Prayers. 12 words
  3. CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCILS (RUNCORN-WIDNES BRIDGE, &c.) BILL. [H.L.] 7 words
  4. COMMERCIAL GAS BILL. [H.L.] 2 words
  5. DUDLEY CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.] 2 words
  6. HAVANT AND WATERLOO URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.] 2 words
  7. HOVE CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.] 2 words
  8. NAZEING WOOD OR PARK BILL. [H.L.] 2 words
  9. SOUTH METROPOLITAN GAS BILL. [H.L.] 7 words
  10. SOUTHEND-ON-SEA CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.] 2 words
  11. SOUTHERN RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.] 7 words
  12. SOUTH-WEST MIDDLESEX CREMATORIUM BILL. [H.L.] 2 words
  13. SUNDERLAND CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.] 2 words
  14. GREENWICH HOSPITAL BILL. [H.L.] 6 words
  15. TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANKS BILL. [H.L.] 9 words
  16. AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) BILL. 10 words
  17. PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL. 10 words
  18. ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVING LICENCES) BILL. 10 words
  19. THE ROYAL VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA. 1,405 words
  20. BURMA. 875 words
  21. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (BOROUGH OF SUDBURY ORDER). 57 words
  22. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (URBAN DISTRICT OF PAIGNTON ORDER). 58 words
  23. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (URBAN DISTRICT OF SALTBURN AND MARSKE-BY-THE-SEA ORDER). 60 words
  24. FORESTRY BILL. [H.L.] 2,222 words
  25. HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL. 496 words
  26. ISLE OF MAN HARBOURS BILL. 10 words
  27. IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE. 4,452 words
  28. AUSTRIA. 22,101 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 28 January 1947

  1. TRADE STATISTICS. 618 words