Commons Sitting of 17 November 1947

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. EXCHANGK CONTROL ORDER (MOTION) 44 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. ROADS
      1. Headlights (Dazzle) 173 words
      2. Hearses (Petrol Allocation) 124 words
      3. Lorries, Haulage Organisations 209 words
      4. Haulage Contracts 185 words
      5. Farm Tractors (Goods Deliveries) 152 words
      6. Trunk Roads Schemes (Review) 217 words
      7. Safety Committee's Report 51 words
    2. RAILWAYS
      1. Sleeping Berths (Reservations) 446 words
      2. Atomic Scientific Exhibition Train 161 words
      3. Wagons (Production) 85 words
      4. Defective Coal Wagons 240 words
      5. Locomotives (Oil Fuel) 199 words
      6. Main Line Railways (Receipts) 139 words
      7. Freight Traffic Tonnage 286 words
      8. Fog Problems (Report) 105 words
    3. CHARTERED OIL TANKERS 78 words
    4. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY
      1. Agricultural Tractors 274 words
      2. Aircraft Production 137 words
      3. Brabazon I Aircraft 45 words
      4. New Motor Cars (Allocation) 199 words
      5. Staff (Service Departments) 112 words
      6. Air-raid Shelters 331 words
      7. Steel Coal Wagons 174 words
      8. Machinery (Exports to Hungary) 296 words
      9. American Excavators (Purchases) 233 words
    5. AGRICULTURE
      1. Willow Growing 317 words
      2. Potato Acreage 374 words
      3. Livestock (Spraying) 105 words
      4. Sheep and Cattle (Winter Shelter) 147 words
      5. Pheasants 178 words
      6. Feedingstuffs 111 words
      7. Rewel Woods, West Sussex (Public Access) 165 words
      8. Poultry Rations 98 words
      9. Power Lift Units, West Riding 122 words
      10. Ploughshares 455 words
      11. Farm Institute, Norfolk (Site) 75 words
      12. Services Training Areas, Norfolk 161 words
      13. Land Service (Appointments) 105 words
      14. Thermos Flask Permits (Somerset) 200 words
    6. MINISTER. OF LABOUR (TRADE UNION POST) 94 words
    7. PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATIONS (OVERSEAS VISITS) 213 words
    8. MINISTRY OF WORKS
      1. Building Materials (Reports) 147 words
      2. New House of Commons Building 179 words
      3. Window Boxes, Government Buildings 63 words
      4. Bricks (Stacking Charges) 111 words
      5. Industrial Building (Steel Allocation) 154 words
      6. Cement, Scotland (Deliveries) 111 words
      7. Spouting and Guttering 218 words
    9. GREECE
      1. British Military and Police Missions (Cost) 505 words
      2. Reported Atrocities 634 words
      3. Police and Gendarmerie (Training) 126 words
    10. GERMANY
      1. Economic Situation (Survey) 51 words
      2. Air Raid Shelters, Lubeck, (Destruction) 150 words
    11. BURMA—SIAM RAILWAY 327 words
    12. FOOD
      1. Potatoes 388 words
      2. Bacon Ration 329 words
  5. BUDGET DISCLOSURE (MOTION) 771 words
  6. TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS, GENEVA 1,636 words
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. WAYS AND MEANS 11 words
      1. EXCESS PROFITS TAX 45,325 words
    2. FOOD SUPPLIES (CALORIES) 3,595 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 17 November 1947

  1. RAILWAYS
    1. Goods Traffic (Embargoes) 60 words
    2. Empty Herring Barrels (Rates) 82 words
    3. Bishop's Stortford— Liverpool Street 99 words
  2. ROADS
    1. Buses, London 92 words
    2. Traffic Lights 64 words
    3. Motor cars (Night Parking) 118 words
  3. SHIPPING
    1. Empty Cargo Space 92 words
    2. Passengers (Vaccination) 57 words
    3. TEMPORARY BRIDGES, RIVER THAMES 77 words
  4. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY
    1. Surplus Stores (Shipment to Poland) 139 words
    2. Sheet Metal (Football Pools) 191 words
    3. Depot, Bradford 131 words
    4. German Scrap Metal (Import) 23 words
    5. Depot, Oxford 108 words
  5. AGRICULTURE
    1. County Executive Committees (Accounts) 154 words
    2. Caterpillar Tractors (Imports) 135 words
    3. German Students 169 words
  6. MINISTRY OF WORKS
    1. No. 5, Old Palace Yard 51 words
    2. Building licences 314 words
    3. Building Materials Allocation 156 words
    4. Welsh Slate Industry (Committee's Report) 86 words
    5. Government Offices, Edinburgh 96 words
    6. Requisitioned Premises, Stroud 159 words
    7. Plumbing Materials (Supply Procedure) 85 words
    8. Guttering and Spouting 66 words
    9. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS) 81 words
    10. GREECE (EXECUTIONS) 118 words
    11. AUSTRIA (LETTER CENSORSHIP) 94 words
  7. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Potato Exports 634 words
    2. Vegetable Prices 156 words
    3. Subsidies 80 words
    4. Average Diet (Calorie Content) 99 words
    5. Bread Rationing 151 words
    6. Flour 232 words
    7. Pulses 78 words
    8. Potato Ration 330 words
    9. Livestock (Illicit Slaughtering) 148 words
    10. Children's Milk Allowance 63 words
    11. Onions 72 words
    12. Housewives' League Meeting 63 words
    13. Pasteurised Milk 84 words
    14. Dried Milk 97 words
    15. Pigs 204 words
    16. IMPORTED BEER (GRAVITY) 22 words
  8. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Foreign Travel 55 words
    2. Food Purchases 90 words
  9. FUEL AND POWER
    1. Farms (Electricity Supply) 90 words
    2. Coal-Oil Conversion 181 words
  10. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Agricultural Machinery (Raw Materials) 54 words
    2. Blast Furnaces (Coke Allocation) 106 words
    3. Children's School Wear 92 words
    4. CONTROL COMMISSION, GERMANY (FOOD PARCELS) 93 words
    5. BRITISH ARMY (CASES OF QUARANTINE) 121 words
    6. CONDEMNED COTTAGE. STILLINGTON 96 words
    7. LANDING GRAFT (COLONIAL PURCHASES) 130 words
    8. WELSH EDUCATION (REPORT) 69 words
    9. POLISH NATIONALS, SCOTLAND 111 words