Commons Sitting of 31 March 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. FOOD SUPPLIES
      1. Sugar (Domestic Jam Making) 151 words
      2. British Cheese (Subsidy) 311 words
      3. Milk Supplies (Women's Institute Meetings) 123 words
      4. Indonesian Foodstuffs 374 words
      5. Carrots 199 words
      6. U.S.A. Potato Crops 110 words
      7. Frozen Salmon (Prices) 148 words
      8. Meat Allocations 522 words
      9. Food Seizures (Compensation) 657 words
      10. American Turkeys 121 words
      11. Imported Fruits 583 words
      12. Eggs (Allocations) 138 words
      13. Fish Frying Fats 36 words
      14. Investigations, Coatbridge 122 words
      15. Bitter Oranges 136 words
      16. Potatoes 246 words
      17. Dried Egg (Dollar Cost) 145 words
    2. SOAP ALLOCATION (FLOODED AREAS) 80 words
    3. ROADS
      1. Headlight Dazzle 90 words
      2. Safety Campaign (Broadcasts) 188 words
      3. Snow Clearance 42 words
    4. RAILWAYS
      1. Coal Board Staff, South Wales 203 words
      2. Restricted Services (Staggered Holidays) 666 words
      3. Oil Burning Locomotives 139 words
      4. Engine Mileage 174 words
    5. SHIPPING
      1. River Thames Pilots (Negotiating Machinery) 180 words
      2. Life Saving Appliances 81 words
      3. Imported Coal (Port Facilities) 375 words
    6. INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORT 130 words
    7. ROYAL COMMISSION ON PRESS (MEMBERSHIP) 381 words
    8. WELSH MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (INFORMATION) 513 words
    9. SCIENTIFIC CIVIL SERVANTS (SECURITY MEASURES) 429 words
    10. INDONESIAN REPUBLIC (U.K. RECOGNITION) 301 words
    11. AGRICULTURE
      1. Prisoner-of-war Labour 300 words
      2. Spring Wheat Acreage 113 words
      3. Potatoes (Gardens and Allotments) 112 words
      4. Snow and Flood Damage (Assistance) 147 words
      5. Machinery (Steel Allocation) 130 words
      6. Foot-and-mouth Disease 159 words
      7. Poultry Rations 73 words
      8. Golf Club Groundsmen 185 words
      9. 1947 Wool Clip 112 words
      10. Sugar Beet Harvesters (Importation) 164 words
      11. Production Plans 331 words
      12. Farm Buildings (Steel Components) 222 words
  4. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 433 words
  5. HOUSE OF COMMONS (OFFICIAL REPORTS) 998 words
  6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,418 words, 1 division
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. NATIONAL SERVICE BILL 45,473 words
    2. CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL 3 words
      1. CLAUSE I.—(Power of local authorities to established restaurants.) 1,887 words
      2. CLAUSE 1.—(Power of local authorities to establish restaurants.) 2,612 words
    3. FIRE SERVICES [MONEY] 6,920 words
    4. ADJOURNMENT 16 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 31 March 1947

  1. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Condemned Cereal Food 154 words
    2. Strawberry Prices 117 words
    3. Local Executive Officers 293 words
    4. Tuberculosis Patients (Bacon) 89 words
  2. RAILWAYS
    1. Delays 60 words
    2. Service, Aberdeen 165 words
  3. ROADS
    1. London Transport Conductors 223 words
    2. Otley—Ilkley Bus Service 71 words
    3. Accidents (Junction A.580 and A.573) 111 words
  4. SHIPPING
    1. West Africa (Priority Passages) 220 words
    2. Continental Services (Fuel Economy) 77 words
    3. Northern Ireland 42 words
    4. U.S. and German Ships 84 words
    5. INLAND NAVIGATION 146 words
  5. AGRICULTURE
    1. Snow and Flood Losses 148 words
    2. Louth Drainage Board (Rates) 85 words
    3. Machinery (Hiring Charges) 119 words
    4. Machinery Maintenance 39 words
    5. Feedingstuffs 122 words
  6. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY
    1. Children's Bicycles 80 words
    2. Surplus Radio Components 104 words
    3. Electric Motors (Germany) 92 words
    4. Steel Industry 30 words
    5. Electric Conduit Tubing 64 words
    6. Liquid Paraffin 114 words
    7. Discharges (Elderly Employees) 62 words
    8. Margam Project, Wales 50 words
    9. Tudor Aircraft (Contract) 51 words
    10. Motor Spare Parts 59 words
  7. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Motorcar Tyres 64 words
    2. Wheat Straw Price, Scotland 123 words
    3. Member's Letter 69 words
    4. Spring Balances (Onion Sellers) 76 words
    5. Factories, North Wales 61 words
    6. Giant Tyres, Lincolnshire 121 words
  8. MINISTRY OF WORKS
    1. Business Premises, Manchester (Alterations) 136 words
    2. Office Premises, Glasgow 86 words
    3. Motor Lorry, Weymouth (Delivery) 103 words
    4. American Excavators (Purchases) 88 words
    5. Westminster Hall (Roof Repairs) 89 words
    6. Water Tower, Micheldever (Sale) 128 words
    7. Building Industries (Reports) 73 words
    8. Buckingham Palace (Repair Work) 174 words
    9. YUGOSLAVIA (BRITISH INTERESTS) 128 words
    10. TREATIES OF ALLIANCE (MIDDLE EAST) 66 words
  9. BULGARIA
    1. Currency Transactions, Sofia 130 words
    2. Elections (Reports) 135 words
    3. ISLAND OF LUSSINPICCOLO 204 words
    4. ALBANIA (BRITISH CLAIM) 170 words
    5. GERMAN EXTERNAL ASSETS 115 words
    6. SUDAN (FLOGGING, RESTRICTIONS) 76 words
    7. ANGLO-CZECHOSLOVAK MONETARY AGREEMENT 61 words
    8. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS ACT 50 words
  10. HOUSING
    1. Rent Tribunals, Leicester 99 words
    2. Huts, Madley Aerodrome 98 words
  11. PUBLIC HEALTH
    1. Water and Sewerage Schemes, Berkshire 76 words
    2. National Service (Specialists' Salaries) 57 words
    3. RESETTLEMENT OFFICERS 203 words
  12. RESPIRATORS 180 words
  13. POLICE COLLEGE (CHIEF CONSTABLES) 62 words
  14. BRITISH ARMY
    1. Release Group 45 (M.E.L.F.) 104 words
    2. Connaught Military Hospital, Bramshott 133 words
    3. SOMALILAND TERRITORIES (BRITISH MILITARY ADMINISTRATION) 72 words
  15. ROYAL AIR FORCE
    1. Families (Overseas Stations) 159 words
    2. Lodging Allowances 67 words
    3. Civilian Employees (Tarrant Rushton) 84 words
    4. VOLUNTEER ARMED FORCES 124 words
  16. POST OFFICE
    1. Delayed Telegram 152 words
    2. Cleckheaton 284 words
    3. HOCKLEY PUBLIC HALL 128 words
    4. EMERGENCY TRAINED TEACHERS 175 words
    5. MINING MACHINERY 166 words
    6. WOMEN'S LAND ARMY, SCOTLAND 153 words

Lords Sitting of 31 March 1947

  1. Preamble 16 words
  2. Prayers.
    1. CROWN PROCEEDINGS BILL. [H.L.] 4,150 words
  3. PENICILLIN BILL. [H.L.] 952 words
  4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL. [H.L.] 4,191 words
  5. REMEDY AGAINST THE CROWN AS OCCUPIER BILL. [H.L.] 7 words
  6. SWINDON CORPORATION BILL. 11 words
  7. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT,1932. 54 words
  8. TENDRING HUNDRED WATER AND GAS BILL. [H.L.] 38 words
  9. SMALL SAVINGS. 376 words