Commons Sitting of 5 March 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. HELIGOLAND 149 words
    2. GERMANY (BRITISH SUBJECT'S DEATH) 698 words
    3. GREECE
      1. Youth's Death Sentence 232 words
      2. British Financial and Military Obligations 697 words
      3. Trade Unionists' Release 325 words
    4. U.N.R.R.A. (BRITISH STAFF) 209 words
    5. RUMANIA (ELECTIONS) 114 words
    6. ANGLO-SOVIET TREATY 206 words
    7. POLISH RESETTLEMENT (NOTE) 42 words
    8. PACIFIC ISLANDS (TRUSTEESHIP) 260 words
    9. INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ORGANISATION 148 words
    10. DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, TOKYO 66 words
    11. AFRICAN COLONIES
      1. Gaskiya Corporation, Nigeria 200 words
      2. Development Officers 203 words
      3. Resettlement, Kenya 323 words
      4. Kenya Labour Department 165 words
      5. Mombasa Strike (Intimidation) 112 words
      6. Colour Discrimination, Lagos 167 words
      7. Fourah Bay College 116 words
      8. Hospitals (X-Ray Apparatus) 264 words
    12. MALTA (EMIGRATION) 163 words
    13. COLONIAL EMPIRE (PRIMARY PRODUCTS) 249 words
    14. CEYLON (TRADE UNIONISM) 148 words
    15. PALESTINE
      1. Murdered Arabs 101 words
    16. Fawzi El Kaukji 580 words
    17. CYPRUS
      1. Electricity Supply 161 words
      2. New Governor 111 words
    18. WEST INDIES
      1. Disturbances, Trinidad 192 words
      2. Development Schemes, Trinidad 257 words
      3. Wireless Licences, Jamaica 157 words
    19. HONG KONG (CHINESE POPULATION) 251 words
    20. AIRFIELDS SELECTION 201 words
    21. ARMED FORCES
      1. Deserters (Mines Option) 321 words
      2. Coalminers 314 words
      3. Attempted Suicide (Deserters) 161 words
      4. Long Service (Non-Regulars) 158 words
      5. Young Officers (Marriage Allowance) 127 words
      6. Colonial Forces 415 words
      7. Strengths (Make-up) 389 words
    22. FOOD SUPPLIES
      1. Bread Delivery Charge 224 words
      2. Sweet Ration 285 words
      3. Meat Consumption and Supply 185 words
      4. Pearl Barley 54 words
      5. Canadian Potatoes 137 words
      6. Fats Importation 162 words
    23. DEATH SENTENCES, GOLD COAST 2,804 words
  4. FUEL EMERGENCY 354 words
  5. AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND GIFTS 444 words
  6. INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY) 44,244 words
    1. STANDING COMMITTEES (TEMPORARY CHAIRMEN) 186 words
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) [MONEY] 1,433 words
    2. WAYS AND MEANS (27 February) 220 words
    3. INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION [MONEY] 321 words
  8. CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY BANK 3,666 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 5 March 1947

  1. AFRICAN COLONIES
    1. Black-Marketing, East Africa 89 words
    2. Inter-Territorial Scheme 251 words
    3. Government Hostel, Uganda 49 words
    4. COLONIAL EMPIRE (INCOME TAX) 63 words
  2. WEST INDIES
    1. Unemployment 89 words
    2. Hookworm (Incidence) 79 words
    3. NORTH BORNEO COMPANY (EX-EMPLOYEES' PENSIONS) 67 words
    4. HONG KONG (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES) 377 words
    5. MALAYAN UNION (PLANTING OF RUBBER) 146 words
    6. SERVICES LAND REQUIREMENTS 146 words
  3. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Home Grown Linseed (Price, Increase) 139 words
    2. Potatoes 74 words
    3. Vegetables (Licence Restrictions) 108 words
    4. Statutory Orders (Interpretation) 55 words
    5. Fish Frying Oil 100 words
    6. Groundnut Scheme (Progress Reports) 58 words
    7. Rations (Calorie Value) 210 words
    8. ARMED FORCES (STRENGTHS) 443 words
  4. ROYAL NAVY
    1. Warrant Officers (Report) 95 words
    2. Admiralty Contracts 191 words
    3. Ex-Dartmouth Cadets 134 words
    4. Electrical Branch (Commissions) 99 words
    5. Air Station, Crail 78 words
    6. Electricity Generation, Devonport (Submarines) 111 words
    7. Married Quarters, Chatham 43 words
    8. Dockyard Staff, Gibraltar (Whitley Committee) 114 words
    9. Locally Entered Staffs, Malta and Gibraltar 185 words
    10. Dental Officers 132 words
  5. POST OFFICE
    1. Greetings Telegrams 63 words
    2. Telephone Service 168 words
    3. Australian Food Parcels (Postage) 99 words
    4. Temporary Employees 126 words
    5. Members' Letters (Franking) 86 words
    6. Letter Postage 38 words
    7. B.B.C. (FUEL EMERGENCY, OVERSEAS TRANSMISSIONS) 121 words
  6. ROYAL AIR FORCE
    1. Families (Overseas Commands) 173 words
    2. Tours of Duty 347 words
    3. Strubby Airfield 112 words
    4. Miho, Japan (Camp Conditions) 132 words
    5. Airmail, Iwakuni 84 words
    6. Lakenheath Airfield 103 words
  7. CIVIL AVIATION
    1. Landing Charges 135 words
    2. Llandow and Cardin 244 words
    3. Landing and Take-off Speeds 123 words
  8. GERMANY
    1. Krupps Works 64 words
    2. Food Deficiencies 126 words
    3. Textile Processing 92 words
    4. Soviet Delivery Arrears 84 words
    5. Postal Censorship 133 words
    6. Coal and Steel Production 285 words
    7. Evacuation, Westphalia 86 words
    8. Subversive Organisation 129 words
    9. TERRITORIAL ARMY (MINERS) 93 words
    10. EVACUATED GOVERNMENT STAFFS 403 words
    11. UNIDENTIFIED MENTAL PATIENTS 53 words
    12. MINISTRY OF FOOD FORMS (PRINTING) 73 words
    13. FUEL EMERGENCY 68 words
    14. OLD AGE PENSIONS 84 words

Lords Sitting of 5 March 1947

  1. Preamble 16 words
  2. Prayers. 14 words
    1. CITY OF LONDON (TITHES) BILL, [H.L.] 2 words
  3. POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL. 10 words
  4. SUMMER TIME BILL. 10 words
  5. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (RURAL DISTRICT OF DORKING AND HORLEY ORDER). 60 words
  6. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (CITY OF LINCOLN ORDER). 58 words
  7. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (BOROUGH OF CHELMSFORD ORDER). 57 words
  8. PENICILLIN BILL, [H.L.] 54 words
  9. POLLUTION OF RIVERS. 14,167 words
  10. GIFTS FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. 562 words
  11. DISREGARD OF INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS. 11,402 words
  12. PRIVATE LEGISLATION PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1936. 48 words
  13. SOUTHEND-ON-SEA CORPORATION BILL, [H.L.] 58 words