Commons Sitting of 13 November 1947

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. NEW WRIT 22 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. DOMINIONS (EMIGRATION) 263 words
    2. TRADE AND COMMERCE
      1. Clothing Coupons (Foreign Visitors) 156 words
      2. Unsold Export Goods (Release) 267 words
      3. Gift Parcel (Honey) 103 words
      4. Collars 139 words
      5. Mining Timber 343 words
      6. Census of Production Form 242 words
      7. Tanned Skins (Subsidy) 178 words
      8. Spectacle Frames 79 words
      9. Hartlepools Trading Estate 91 words
      10. Educational Books 352 words
      11. Utility Clothing 282 words
      12. U.S.S.R. (Negotiations) 223 words
      13. Salt 149 words
      14. Industrial Development, Nantlle Valley 85 words
      15. War Damage Claims 102 words
      16. Mending Wool 175 words
      17. Personal and Household Valuables (Export Permits) 187 words
      18. Packing Materials 95 words
      19. Hostels (Sheets and Towels) 113 words
    3. FUEL AND POWER
      1. Petrol (Government Consumption) 233 words
      2. Petrol Ration Withdrawal 497 words
      3. Electrical Generating Capacity 402 words
      4. Motor Fuel Ration Books 190 words
      5. British Electricity Authority 141 words
      6. Voluntary Petrol Rationing, Norway 167 words
      7. Supplementary Petrol Allowances 1,385 words
      8. Fuel Wastage (Chimneys) 249 words
      9. Petrol Production, Morecambe Plant 103 words
      10. Creosote-Pitch Mixture (Price) 258 words
    4. COAL INDUSTRY
      1. Absenteeism 119 words
      2. Pit Head Costs 151 words
      3. National Coal Board Officers (Speeches) 444 words
      4. U.S.A. Coal (Imports) 55 words
      5. Recruitment, South Wales 162 words
      6. Domestic Allowances 597 words
      7. Scottish Coal Deliveries 85 words
      8. Concessional Coal (Agreements) 84 words
      9. Transferred Miners (Living Accommodation) 227 words
    5. FORCES, PALESTINE (GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL) 191 words
    6. EMPLOYMENT
      1. Grimethorpe Colliery (Report) 121 words
      2. Unemployed Persons, Caernarvonshire 133 words
      3. Hotel Strike, London (Court of Inquiry) 439 words
    7. NATIONAL FINANCE
      1. Gold and Dollar Reserves (Figures) 128 words
      2. Weekly Hansard (Index) 321 words
      3. Ministers' Motor Cars 52 words
    8. BUDGET PROPOSALS (NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION) 349 words
  5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,560 words
  6. BILL PRESENTED
    1. CEYLON INDEPENDENCE BILL 55 words
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. WAYS AND MEANS 11 words
      1. EXCESS PROFITS TAX 46,125 words
    2. COALMINING, SHUTTINGTON 3,383 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 13 November 1947

  1. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Scientific and Technical Books (Import) 178 words
    2. Copper Sulphate Exports 158 words
    3. British Motor Cars (Foreign Imports) 96 words
    4. Japanese Silk (Importation) 79 words
    5. Hardwood Imports 59 words
    6. Clothing (Overseas Gifts) 113 words
    7. Utility Cloth Subsidies 110 words
    8. Restrictive Practices 77 words
    9. State-Owned Patents 125 words
  2. FUEL AND POWER
    1. Supplementary Petrol Allowances 435 words
    2. Investigating Officers (Motor Cars) 162 words
    3. Petrol Imports 79 words
    4. Petrol Ration Withdrawal 166 words
    5. Petrol Economy (Sterling Area) 126 words
    6. COAL INDUSTRY (FLUORESCENT LIGHTING) 287 words
    7. INVISIBLE EXPORTS 67 words
    8. POLISH RESETTLEMENT CORPS 94 words
  3. EMPLOYMENT
    1. Unemployed Men, South Wales 109 words
    2. Building Industry 60 words
    3. Recruitment of Women 78 words
  4. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Food Subsidies 90 words
    2. Egyptian Sterling Balances 51 words
    3. Answers to Questions (Cost) 55 words
  5. PRISONS
    1. Prisoner's Death, Parkhurst 184 words
    2. Prisoners' Employment 165 words
    3. MOTORISTS' RALLY, HYDE PARK 119 words
    4. CHURCH TEMPORALITIES, WALES 99 words
    5. METROPOLITAN POLICE (RECRUITS) 71 words
    6. ALIENS' CHILDREN (NATIONALITY) 45 words
  6. HOUSING
    1. Swindon 45 words
    2. Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Cottages) 87 words
    3. Building Programme 110 words
    4. Rural Areas 127 words
    5. Aluminium Houses, Mining Areas 82 words
    6. Repair Licences 106 words
    7. Rugby 97 words
    8. Requisitioned Houses (Compensation) 102 words
    9. Rent Tribunals (Statistics) 112 words
    10. SPECIAL CONSTABLES (PETROL) 87 words
  7. PUBLIC HEALTH
    1. Water Supplies, Chesterton 110 words
    2. Defence Regulation 33 B 62 words
    3. National Health Service 52 words
    4. Smallpox 39 words
    5. Haybrook House, Pewsey 64 words
    6. LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL, 1947 (VALUERS) 70 words
    7. VALUATION STAFFS 42 words
  8. EDUCATION
    1. Emergency Training Colleges (Staffing) 95 words
    2. Children's Fares, Cornwall 154 words
    3. Burnham Committee (Report) 78 words
    4. School Meals and Milk 888 words
  9. ROADS
    1. Coaching Tours (Petrol Allocations) 177 words
    2. PERISHABLE GOODS (PORT FACILITIES) 139 words
    3. MEDICATED SOAPS (COUPONS) 38 words
    4. VACUUM FLASKS 111 words
  10. ROYAL AIR FORCE
    1. Petrol Storage 66 words
    2. Aerodrome, County Down (Discharges) 133 words
    3. ARMED FORCES (PETROL AND OIL) 156 words
    4. DOCTRINE OF COMMON EMPLOYMENT (ABOLITION) 71 words
    5. BARBADOS YOUTH MOVEMENT 97 words
    6. NEWFOUNDLAND (CANADIAN OFFER) 48 words
    7. GERMANY (EXIT PERMIT) 67 words
  11. SIERRA LEONE
    1. Medical Service 127 words
    2. Sleeping Sickness Campaign 62 words

Lords Sitting of 13 November 1947

  1. Preamble 15 words
  2. Prayers.
    1. STORNOWAY HARBOUR ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. [H.L.] 6 words
  3. EDINBURGH MERCHANT COMPANY WIDOWS' FUND AMENDMENT ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. [H.L.] 6 words
  4. EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL. 10 words
  5. SCOTTISH AFFAIRS. 18,242 words
  6. HEARING AIDS. 2,391 words
  7. WATER BILL. [H.L.] 48 words
  8. CONSOLIDATION BILLS. 32 words
  9. REORGANIZATION AREA MEASURE, 1944. 32 words
  10. HARLYN (CORNWALL) COAST PROTECTION ORDER, 1947.
  11. ROCK BAY (CORNWALL) COAST PROTECTION ORDER, 1947. 37 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 13 November 1947

  1. AGRICULTURAL MARKETING. 193 words