Commons Sitting of 11 November 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. NEW WRIT 36 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING
      1. Central Land Board (Appointment) 949 words
      2. Development Corporations (Appointment) 364 words
      3. Ennerdale Forest Road 156 words
    2. NATIONAL INSURANCE
      1. Industrial Work (Unsuitable Employees) 269 words
      2. Miners (Nystagmus and Dermatitis) 89 words
      3. Contributions (Refund) 243 words
    3. EMPLOYMENT
      1. European Volunteer Workers 458 words
      2. Recruitment of Women 255 words
      3. Vocational Training Scheme 243 words
      4. Transport Industry (Manning Scales) 343 words
      5. Poles 797 words
      6. King's Roll Scheme 201 words
      7. German Textile Workers 85 words
      8. Manpower Distribution (Estimates) 175 words
      9. Scientific Manpower (Inquiry Form) 217 words
      10. Non-Essential Occupations (Registration Order) 793 words
    4. RETAIL PRICES INDEX (INQUIRIES) 134 words
    5. SCOTLAND
      1. Seaweed Research (Reports) 146 words
      2. Shop Tenancies (Committee's Report) 281 words
      3. Nationalised Industries (Councils) 199 words
      4. Planning Scheme, Glasgow (Schools) 178 words
      5. District Councils (Association) 226 words
      6. Housing 578 words
      7. Agricultural Labour and Machinery 369 words
      8. Economic Survey for 1948 217 words
      9. Homeless Children (Committee) 41 words
    6. PENSIONERS (TEMPORARY INCAPACITY ALLOWANCE) 93 words
    7. BRITISH ARMY
      1. Requisitioned Houses, Chelsea 271 words
      2. Proposed Training Area, Aylesford 82 words
      3. Requisitioned Land (Acreage) 463 words
      4. Regular Strength 201 words
    8. PRISONERS OF WAR (PAYMENT) 312 words
    9. STEEL ALLOCATION 552 words
    10. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. American Loan (Drawings) 194 words
      2. Tourists (Foreign Exchange) 240 words
      3. Marshall Plan (Expenditure Items) 103 words
      4. White Spirit (Taxation) 80 words
      5. Sterling (Exchange Rate) 209 words
      6. Foreign Countries (Parliamentary Delegations) 377 words
      7. Export Goods (Purchase Tax) 259 words
  5. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. PARLIAMENT BILL 48,755 words, 1 division
    2. OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT [MONEY]. 406 words
    3. SERVICE VEHICLES (SPEED LIMIT) 7,978 words
    4. TEMPORARY POSTMEN (DISMISSALS) 3,881 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 11 November 1947

  1. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Newspaper Advertisement 162 words
    2. Development Areas (Unemployed Workers) 102 words
    3. West Indian Labour 50 words
    4. Registered Workers, Doncaster 480 words
    5. Vocational Training (Personal Case) 238 words
    6. Remploy Factories, South Wales 71 words
    7. TIN-MINING MACHINERY 169 words
  2. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Sterling Area (His Majesty's Ships) 43 words
    2. Purchase Tax (Motor Cars) 43 words
    3. Empire Tin Producers (Dollar Earnings) 120 words
    4. Sterling Balances 170 words
    5. Financial Settlements (European Countries) 85 words
    6. Statutory Rules and Orders 84 words
    7. Tobacco Duty (Old Age Pensioners) 210 words
    8. Visits Overseas (Empire Countries) 105 words
    9. Estate Duty (Statistical Information) 88 words
  3. CIVIL SERVICE
    1. Staff Associations 126 words
    2. Government Departments (Staffing) 80 words
    3. Recruitment (Ex-Servicemen) 156 words
    4. Pensions Increase Payments 45 words
  4. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Export Trade Research Organisation 95 words
    2. Hosiery Industry (Yarn Supplies) 107 words
    3. Raw Cotton Commission (Chairman) 108 words
    4. Timber Control (Growing Trees) 140 words
    5. Methods and Organisations Branch (Cost) 114 words
    6. Pottery Industry (Output) 77 words
    7. British Cars (Exports) 80 words
    8. Raw Furskins (Importation) 192 words
    9. Cigarettes 80 words
    10. American Cookery Book (Import) 140 words
    11. Private Chattels Scheme (Supplementary Payments) 57 words
    12. Shotguns (Export Licences) 118 words
    13. Football Pools (Paper Supplies) 307 words
    14. Proprietary Medicines (Raw Materials) 123 words
    15. Disabled Miners, South Wales (Factories) 129 words
    16. Footwear (Leather Subsidy) 114 words
    17. Greek Products (Imports) 251 words
    18. Member's Letter (Reply) 63 words
  5. PRISONERS OF WAR
    1. German Doctors 63 words
    2. Wages 75 words
    3. Numbers 28 words
    4. Repatriation 69 words
  6. BRITISH ARMY
    1. Chaplains, B.A.O.R. 125 words
    2. Psychotic Patients, Military Hospitals 122 words
    3. Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery (Speech) 114 words
    4. Royal Wedding Escort (Household Cavalry) 112 words
    5. Central Ordnance Depot, Thatcham 85 words
    6. British Administration, Eritrea 266 words
    7. Missing Personnel 100 words
    8. Married Quarters (Alternative Accommodation) 818 words
    9. Barracks, Perham Down 86 words
    10. POLISH RESETTLEMENT CORPS 78 words
    11. PARCELS FROM GERMANY 146 words
    12. BRITISH COUNCIL (OVERSEAS EXPENDITURE) 72 words
  7. AGRICULTURE
    1. Thermos Flasks 133 words
    2. Advisory Service (Staffing) 153 words
    3. Dairy Herds (Dry Cows) 144 words
  8. ROADS
    1. Maintenance 75 words
    2. Bus Services, North Lincolnshire 75 words
    3. EXPORTS (SHIPMENT) 67 words
    4. WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICES (COST) 122 words
    5. STAR AND MEDAL RIBBONS (NEXT-OF-KIN) 129 words
  9. ROYAL NAVY
    1. Merchant Shipping Memorandum (Cost) 110 words
    2. Evanton Air Station (Civilians) 60 words
    3. TEACHERS 89 words
    4. KEROSENE DISTRIBUTORS (COMPLAINTS) 67 words
  10. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Fruit and Vegetable Organisation 67 words
    2. Calorie Intake 214 words
    3. American Pears 76 words
    4. Potato Allocations 94 words
    5. DISABLEMENT PENSIONS (SPECIAL ALLOWANCES) 175 words
  11. HOUSING
    1. Requisitioned Houses, Kendal 161 words
    2. Shaftesbury Rural District 48 words
    3. FORCES' AIR MAIL 193 words
  12. SCOTLAND
    1. Capital Projects 51 words
    2. Poles, Glasgow University 124 words

Lords Sitting of 11 November 1947

  1. Preamble 16 words
  2. Prayers.
    1. STORNOWAY HARBOUR ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. [H.L.] 78 words
  3. EDINBURGH MERCHANT COMPANY WIDOWS' FUND (AMENDMENT) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. [H.L.] 82 words
  4. AGRICULTURAL HOUSES. 121 words
  5. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932. 76 words
  6. MANDATED AND TRUST TERRITORIES BILL. [H.L.] 2,491 words
  7. MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS AND PHARMACISTS BILL. [H.L.] 5,004 words
  8. EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL. 316 words
  9. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. [H.L.] 2,712 words
  10. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING. 2,926 words
  11. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (IMPROVEMENTS) BILL. 49 words
  12. METROPOLITAN SOUTH-EASTERN AREA (CONSERVATION OF WATER) ORDER, 1947. 25 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 11 November 1947

  1. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. 93 words
  2. FOREIGN BOOKS. 212 words