4 May 1950

Commons Sitting of 4 May 1950

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. CRIMES (STATISTICS) 281 words
    2. TAXIMETERS (FARE INCREASE NOTICES) 321 words
    3. PRISONERS (REMISSION OF SENTENCE) 104 words
    4. ALIENS
      1. Italian Subject (Letter) 248 words
      2. Journalists 166 words
    5. SCOTTISH PARTY (VISIT TO LONDON) 263 words
    6. POLITICAL PROCESSIONS, EAST LONDON 310 words
    7. HISTORICAL RECORDS (INSPECTION) 236 words
    8. REMAND HOMES 222 words
    9. ELECTORAL CONFERENCE 252 words
    10. NORTHERN IRELAND (TRAVEL REGULATIONS) 236 words
    11. FIRE SERVICE, AXBRIDGE 200 words
    12. CORONERS (POWERS) 430 words
    13. DEPRIVATION OF CITIZENSHIP (INQUIRY) 76 words
    14. ELECTORAL REGISTRATION 114 words
    15. CHILDREN, HULL (CHARGE) 150 words
    16. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
      1. Sclerosis and Paralysis 126 words
      2. Byssynosis 165 words
      3. Hospital Accounts (Publication) 311 words
      4. Hospitals (Administrative Staff) 101 words
      5. Nurses (Salaries) 530 words
      6. Hospital Sanitary Equipment 70 words
      7. Personal Case 150 words
      8. Pharmaceutical Services 44 words
      9. Hospital Charges 90 words
    17. HOUSING
      1. Horsham 175 words
      2. Building Controls 85 words
      3. Private Building Ratio 1,457 words
    18. PUBLIC HEALTH
      1. Endemic Goitre 119 words
      2. Sewage Disposal, Baldock 134 words
    19. EQUALISATION GRANTS 266 words
    20. VALUATION EXPENSES 184 words
    21. MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION (RETENTION) 208 words
    22. COMMITTEE ON INTERMEDIARIES (RECOMMENDATIONS) 134 words
    23. BRITISH SUBJECTS (PASSPORTS) 270 words
    24. FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 394 words
    25. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 93 words
    26. AGRICULTURE
      1. Sheep Sprays 160 words
      2. Pigs Marketing Board 150 words
      3. Land, Worcestershire (Production) 284 words
      4. Wool (Prices) 327 words
      5. Welsh Land Sub-Commission 224 words
      6. Fowl Pest 217 words
      7. Crops (Storm Damage) 216 words
      8. Land, Pamphill 141 words
  4. WYE AND USK RIVER BOARD (DOCUMENTS, INSPECTION) 187 words
  5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,479 words
  6. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 38 words
  7. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. SUPPLY 3 words
    2. CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS 1950–51 121 words
    3. EDUCATION 26,866 words
    4. LUTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order) 9,450 words, 1 division
    5. SUPPLY
      1. CIVIL ESTIMATES, AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1950–51 39 words
      2. EDUCATION 19,718 words
    6. SERVICE LEAVE PARTIES (MOTOR COACHES) 3,467 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 4 May 1950

  1. GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE VOTERS) 160 words
  2. PRISONERS AND BORSTAL INMATES, ISLE OF WIGHT 233 words
  3. YOUNG PERSONS (WORKING HOURS) 81 words
  4. REFUGEES (ADMISSION TO UNITED KINGDOM) 326 words
  5. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
    1. Drugs and Medicines (Costs) 82 words
    2. Hearing Aids 156 words
    3. Medicine Bottles 72 words
    4. Hospital Site, Bangor 69 words
    5. Spectacles Supply (Children) 96 words
    6. Hospitals (Visits to Children) 102 words
    7. Hospital Beds 87 words
    8. Chemists' Remuneration 159 words
    9. Nurses (Statistics) 100 words
    10. Mass Radiography (Schoolchildren) 53 words
    11. Midwives, Essex (Salaries) 56 words
    12. Emergency Drugs Supply 59 words
    13. Smallpox Statistics 81 words
    14. Employees' Superannuation 156 words
  6. PUBLIC HEALTH
    1. Infectious Diseases (Infested Ports) 78 words
    2. Rivers Ver and Lea 141 words
    3. Distressed Persons, Southampton (Care) 75 words
    4. Smallpox Vaccination (Seamen) 67 words
    5. Sewerage, Rural Areas 136 words
    6. Parkinson's Disease (Treatment) 69 words
  7. HOUSING
    1. Building Licences, Hatfield 33 words
    2. Allocations, Norfolk 75 words
    3. Cardiff 49 words
    4. Ex-Service Personnel, Beverley 113 words
    5. Reconditioning, Rural Areas 65 words
    6. Three-Bedroomed Houses (Costs) 66 words
    7. Local Authorities (Petrol and Vehicles) 70 words
  8. WATER SUPPLY
    1. Piping, Holwell 81 words
    2. New Towns 87 words
    3. Norfolk 93 words
  9. AGRICULTURE
    1. Lime 116 words
    2. Rook Shooting (Cartridges) 146 words
    3. Fruit Crop (Estimates) 64 words
    4. Seeds (Marketing) 62 words
    5. Poultry Feedingstuffs 91 words
    6. Methwold Fen (Requisitioned Land) 74 words
    7. National Advisory Service 57 words
    8. County Committee Labour, Wales 227 words
  10. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. Cost of Living 278 words
    2. Customs (Air Freight) 78 words
    3. Petrol Duty (Doctors) 84 words
    4. Revenue and Expenditure 44 words
    5. Double Taxation (Commonwealth) 54 words
    6. Tanganyika Concessions (Shares Sale) 67 words
    7. Sterling Notes (Sale Abroad) 53 words
    8. Gold and Dollar Reserves 65 words
    9. Businessmen (Overseas Car Hire) 135 words
    10. Sterling Balances (Israel) 46 words
    11. MINISTERS (MOTOR CARS) 193 words
  11. EDUCATION
    1. Infants' School, Streatham 43 words
    2. University Scholarships and Awards 686 words
    3. Teachers and Administrative Staff 128 words
    4. School Meals, Wales 301 words
    5. Size of Classes (Statistics) 261 words
    6. Spastic Children, Wales 63 words
    7. Primary Schools (Expenditure) 102 words
    8. Exchange of Teachers 395 words
    9. Teachers' Salaries 72 words
    10. Voluntary Schools 46 words
    11. Sidestrand Hall 63 words
    12. Students (Grants and Loans) 63 words
    13. School Places, Cardiff 79 words
    14. Transport (Petrol Cost) 41 words
    15. Hertfordshire Educational Foundation 98 words
    16. BASUTOLAND (MURDERS, INQUIRY) 78 words
    17. HIGH COMMISSION TERRITORIES (LOCAL GOVERNMENT) 84 words
  12. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Street Traders 120 words
    2. Lloyd-Jacob Report 29 words
    3. Tobacco Supplies, Altrincham and Sale 59 words
    4. Fishing Nets (Price) 53 words
    5. Factory, Clayton-le-Moors 35 words
    6. Linseed Oil Supplies 112 words
    7. Newsprint (Allocations) 299 words
    8. Softwood 133 words
    9. Coal (Prices) 214 words
    10. Pencil Sharpeners 112 words
    11. Glycerine Supplies 102 words
    12. Research Organisation 165 words
  13. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Flour (Improver) 94 words
    2. Slaughtering Facilities 76 words
    3. SHIPBUILDING (COSTS) 168 words
  14. TRANSPORT
    1. Tram Tracks, Tooting 35 words
    2. Heavy Goods Vehicles (Speed Limit) 74 words
    3. Merchant Seaman (Medical Examination) 78 words
    4. Coal (Price Increase) 71 words
  15. SCOTLAND
    1. Smallpox Deaths (Compensation) 90 words
    2. History 75 words
  16. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING
    1. New Towns 181 words
    2. Gravel Pit, Darenth 59 words
    3. UNEMPLOYMENT, SOUTHAMPTON 49 words
    4. BUILDING LABOUR FORCE 168 words
    5. BRITISH ARMY (ACCOMMODATION, CANAL ZONE) 93 words

Lords Sitting of 4 May 1950

  1. Preamble 14 words
  2. Prayers 11 words
  3. POLICE HOUSES 116 words
  4. NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (DETERMINATION OF NEED) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, 1950 1,060 words
  5. MEDICAL BILL [H.L.] 12,199 words
  6. PUBLIC REGISTERS AND RECORDS (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.] 12 words
  7. STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL [H.L.] 5 words
  8. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (WOOLWICH SUBSIDENCES) BILL [H.L.] 15 words