Commons Sitting of 13 May 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. HELSTON AND PORTHLEVEN WATER BILL 9 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. SCOTLAND
      1. Teachers (Certificated Status) 225 words
      2. Stone Quarrying and Building 126 words
    2. WAR PENSIONS (COST OF LIVING) 333 words
    3. N.A.A.F.I. PERSONNEL 143 words
    4. BRITISH ARMY
      1. Overseas Married Quarters 445 words
      2. Burnham Beeches 86 words
      3. Discharges (Psychiatric Cases) 181 words
      4. War Graves (Visits) 183 words
      5. Marriage (German Women) 175 words
      6. Colour Bar 355 words
      7. Personal Case 152 words
      8. Palestine (Terrorist Threat) 102 words
      9. Farm Work 363 words
      10. Polish Troops (Leave Rations) 218 words
      11. Ordnance Establishments (Manpower) 207 words
      12. Training Areas 225 words
      13. Redford Barracks, Edinburgh 52 words
      14. Officers (Education) 260 words
      15. Separated Families (Accommodation) 310 words
      16. Extra-Regimental Employment 445 words
      17. Retired Pay Reassessment 178 words
      18. T.A. Quarters (Possession) 153 words
      19. War Office and Command Staffs 300 words
      20. Manpower Economy Committee 566 words
      21. Records Offices, Leicester 213 words
      22. Allowances (Income Tax) 364 words
    5. PRISONERS OF WAR (EL ADEM) 246 words
    6. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. Tobacco Re-exports 311 words
      2. Sterling Convertibility 55 words
      3. Sterling Balances 217 words
      4. Stamp Duty (Charities) 157 words
      5. Building Operatives (Travel Allowance) 270 words
      6. Tobacco Growing, Great Britain 159 words
    7. NATIONAL GALLERY (CARE OF PICTURES) 442 words
    8. BRITISH EMBASSY ATTACHES 289 words
    9. ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS (SEARCHES) 322 words
    10. TRADE AND COMMERCE
      1. Russian Timber 279 words
      2. Anglo-Polish Trade (Provisional Arrangements) 89 words
      3. Clothing Coupons (Ex-Servicemen) 104 words
      4. Retail Drapery Margins 123 words
      5. Greek Tobacco (Government Purchase) 170 words
      6. Companies Act (Annual Report) 210 words
      7. Stockings 170 words
      8. Pottery 196 words
      9. Bulk Buying 232 words
    11. THE SPEAKER (OFFICIAL INVITATIONS) 160 words
  5. ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ORGANISING COMMITTEE) 1,154 words
  6. UNITED KINGDOM AND NEWFOUNDLAND (FINANCIAL RELATIONS) 943 words
  7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 32 words
  8. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (RECOMMITTED) BILL 14 words
      1. NEW CLAUSE.—(Compensation for compulsory acquisition of land attracting converted value payments.) 1,666 words
      2. NEW CLAUSE.—(Compensation for compulsory purchase of requisitioned land.) 1,539 words
      3. NEW CLAUSE.—(Compensation for compulsory acquisition after passing of this Act and before the appointed day.) 3,584 words
      4. NEW CLAUSE.—(Power of Ministers to contribute towards compensation paid by local authorities.) 604 words
      5. NEW CLAUSE.—(Agreement under previous Acts.) 2,456 words
      6. THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Classes of development excepted from payment of development charge.) 323 words
      7. FOURTH SCHEDULE.—(Provisions relating to compensation under Part III.) 172 words
      8. SEVENTH SCHEDULE.—(Enactments amended.) 394 words
    2. PART II
      1. ENACTMENTS REPEALED AS FROM APPOINTED DAY." 124 words
      2. EIGHTH SCHEDULE.—(Enactments repealed.) 23 words
      3. NEW SCHEDULE.—(Modifications of Part II of Town and Country Planning Act, 1944.) 1,539 words
      4. NEW CLAUSE.—(Validity and date of operation of development plans.) 2,074 words
      5. NEW CLAUSE.—(Land subject to claims for betterment under other Acts.) 393 words
      6. NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving for Postmaster-General.) 497 words
      7. NEW CLAUSE.—(Report by Central Land Board on development values.) 9,391 words, 2 divisions
      8. NEW CLAUSE.—(Provisions as to building land.) 6,824 words, 1 division
      9. CLAUSE 2.—(The Central Land Board.) 137 words
      10. CLAUSE 3.—(General provisions as to functions of Central Land Board.) 12,740 words, 2 divisions
      11. CLAUSE 5.—(Surveys of planning areas and preparation of development plans.) 9,700 words, 2 divisions
      12. CLAUSE 6.—(Amendment of development plans.) 6,345 words, 2 divisions
      13. CLAUSE 7.—(Additional powers of the Minister with respect to development plans.) 508 words
      14. CLAUSE 8.—(Incorporation in development plans of orders relating to trunk roads and new towns.) 642 words
      15. CLAUSE 9.—(Supplementary provisions as to development plans.) 1,260 words
    3. SUNDAY CINEMATOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS 245 words
    4. DESERTERS FROM ARMED FORCES 3,795 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 May 1947

  1. SCOTLAND
    1. Juvenile Delinquency 168 words
    2. Double Summer Time 72 words
    3. Boat Building (Timber Supplies) 231 words
    4. Local Government Law (Consolidation) 102 words
  2. BRITISH ARMY
    1. Troopship "Rajula" (Conditions) 288 words
    2. Demobilisation (Civilian Suits) 105 words
    3. C.O.D., Bicester 76 words
    4. Arrested Officer, Singapore (Release) 129 words
    5. Married Quarters, Colchester Garrison 82 words
    6. Personal Cases 237 words
    7. Martindale Training Areas, Glenridding 47 words
    8. Ordnance Depot, Derby (Waste Material) 89 words
    9. Territorial Army (Staff Appointments) 130 words
  3. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. British Troops, Japan (Income Tax) 26 words
    2. Government War Factories, Sedbergh (Rates) 77 words
    3. Oil (Dollar Transactions) 40 words
    4. Swiss Hotels (Purchase) 47 words
    5. Postwar Credits (Beneficiaries) 72 words
    6. Undergraduates, Cambridge (Accommodation) 106 words
    7. Research Expenditure 101 words
    8. Stamp Duty (Charities) 81 words
    9. COURT-MARTIAL INQUIRY (RECOMMENDATIONS) 96 words
    10. POLISH CAMPS, HENLEY 151 words
  4. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Cured Herrings (Export to Poland) 89 words
    2. British Motor Cars (Foreign Imports) 46 words
    3. Milk Bottles and Cartons 156 words
    4. Registered Companies 105 words
    5. Unloading of Wagons (Saturdays) 87 words
    6. Tobacco Imports 269 words
    7. Clothing Coupons (Next Issue) 162 words
    8. Bedroom Suites (Imports) 153 words
    9. Carbon Black 144 words
    10. Galvanised Buckets 93 words
    11. Curtain Net 90 words
    12. Household Linen 97 words
    13. Paper Production (Coal Allocation) 84 words
  5. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING
    1. Bankside Power Station (Model) 41 words
    2. West Midlands Development Plan 142 words
    3. OLD AGE PENSIONS 226 words
  6. NATIONAL INSURANCE
    1. Pensioners' Earnings 154 words
    2. Approved Societies (Staffs) 65 words
    3. Personal Case 82 words
    4. Appeals (Legal Representation) 65 words
  7. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Unemployment Figures 65 words
    2. Ex-Service Trainees, Pontefract (Accommodation) 103 words
    3. Scotland 53 words
    4. Prisoners of War 264 words
    5. Building Trade Trainees 122 words
    6. NATIONAL SERVICE (RELEASE OF STUDENTS) 86 words
  8. AGRICULTURE
    1. Internal Drainage Rates 92 words
    2. Fowl Pest 85 words
    3. Veterinary Offices (Status) 103 words
    4. Breeding Stock 97 words
    5. LAND TRANSFER COMMITTEE (RECOMMENDATIONS) 202 words
  9. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. London Tea Market (Closure) 90 words
    2. Egg Packing Industry 189 words
    3. Imported Undressed Poultry (Fowl Pest) 52 words
  10. SHAVING SOAP 63 words
  11. PARISH OF NAZEING (POSTAL ADDRESS) 113 words
  12. W.R.N.S. OFFICERS' STEWARDS, ST. MERRYN 98 words
  13. PENSIONS APPEAL CASE, CARDIFF 109 words
  14. EX-R.A.F. ROAD TANK VEHICLES 312 words
  15. GERMANY
    1. Unemployed 41 words
    2. Labour Vacancies 176 words
    3. BRITISH AIR LINES (AIRCRAFT TYPES) 195 words

Lords Sitting of 13 May 1947

  1. Preamble 16 words
  2. Prayers.
    1. TENDRING HUNDRED WATER AND GAS BILL. [H.L.] 9 words
    2. MESSAGES FROM THE KING. 176 words
    3. RECONDITIONING OF RURAL HOUSES. 404 words
    4. MARSHAL KESSELRING. 212 words
    5. PENSIONS FOR INDIA SERVICES. 132 words
    6. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932. 74 words
    7. COTTON (CENTRALISED BUYING) BILL. 2,859 words
    8. STANDARD OF MUSTARD. 1,269 words
    9. WORLD FOOD PROPOSALS. 8,795 words
    10. GOVERNMENT OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 793 words
    11. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. 19 words
    12. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL 10 words
    13. CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCILS (RUNCORN— WIDNES BRIDGE, ETC.) BILL. [H.L.] 12 words
    14. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL. [H.L.] 58 words
    15. ESTIMATES. 55 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 13 May 1947

  1. EMPLOYEES OF NORTH SCOTTISH HYDRO-ELECIRIC BOARD. 123 words