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Commons Hansard for 12 May 1947 (Volume 437)
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12 May 2018 at 3.33pm.
Commons Chamber
Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons
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Prayers
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Oral Answers To Questions
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Us Occupied Islands (British Interests)
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Germany
Control Commission
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Frau Elisabeth Rolfes
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Fish Imports
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Newsprint Supplies
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Coal Production
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Food Situation
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Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty (Negotiations)
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Food Supplies
Workers' Sugar Allowances
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Imported Onions
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Siamese Rice
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Subsidies
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Flour (Bakers)
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Bread Rationing
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Departmental Staffs
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London Dock Strike (Fish Wastage)
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Cocoa Stocks
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Dog Biscuits
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Farm Workers
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World Situation (Review)
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Potato Subsidy Claims
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Glucose (Retail Chemists)
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Wines And Spirits (Quality And Prices)
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Sterling Balances
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Indians, South Africa
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Supersonic Sound (Effect On Workers)
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Agriculture
Advisory Service
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Fowl Pest
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Dairy Cows (Rations)
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Poultry (Hard Corn)
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Derelict Land, Kingsbridge
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River Severn (Navigation Plans)
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Railways
Charges (Increases)
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Employees' Savings Banks
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Children's Tickets
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Mid-Week Travel
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Roads
Safety Barriers, Clevedon
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Tour, Blackpool-Scarborough
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Selby Toll Bridge
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Traffic Congestion, London (New Order)
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Maintenance (Reduced Grants)
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Bombing Exercises, Wiltshire
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Business Of The House
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Division No 189 (Corrected Figures)
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New Member Sworn
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Business Of The House
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His Majesty's Return From South Africa
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Orders Of The Day
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Town And Country Planning Bill
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Clause 5—(Surveys Of Planning Areas And Preparation Of Development Plans)
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Clause 20—(Supplementary Provisions As To Revocation And Modification)
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Clause 24—(Provisions Supplementary To S 23)
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Clause 26—(Orders For Preservation Of Buildings Of Special Architectural Or Historic Interest)
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Clause 42—(Incorporation Of Certain Provisions Of Act Of 1944)
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Clause 47—(Assumptions To Be Made In Assessing Compensation On Compulsory Acquisition)
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Clause 48—(Amendment Of S 57 And Seventh Schedule To Act Of 1944)
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Clause 49—(Amendments Of Eighth Schedule To Act Of 1944)
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Clause 50—(Application Of 9 And 10 Geo 5 C 57 To Purchases By Statutory Undertakers)
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Clause 51—(Payments For Depreciation Of Land Values)
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Clause 59—(General Provisions As To Stock)
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Clause 62—(Levy Of Development Charge In Respect Of Certain Development)
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Clause 69—(Existing Development Contravening Previous Planning Control)
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Clause 73—(Compensation For Abortive Expenditure On Refusal Of Permission For Other Development Authorised Before Appointed Day)
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Clause 84—(Land Subject To Notice To Treat On Appointed Day)
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Clause 86—(Exchequer Grants To Local Authorities In Respect Of Acquisition And Clearance Of Land In Re-Development Areas)
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Clause 87—(Other Exchequer Grants To Local Authorities)
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Clause 90—(Power Of Local Authorities And Statutory Undertakers To Contribute Towards Expenses Of Local Planning Authorities, Etc)
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Clause 93—(Transfer Of Property And Officers To Local Planning Authorities Under This Act)
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Clause 104—(Amendments And Repeals)
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Clause 105—(Special Provisions As To London)
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New Clause—(Abolition Of The 1939 Standard For Compensation On Compulsory Acquisition)
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New Clause—(Compensation For Compulsory Acquisition After The Appointed Day)
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New Clause—(Temporary Provisions For Eliminating Special Value Attributable To Vacant Possession)
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Sunday Cinematograph Entertainments
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Written Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions
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Troops, Bombay (Drink Restrictions)
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Burma Teak Exports
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Italian Liner "Rex"
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Germany
Non-Monetary Gold
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Refugees (Resettlement Fund)
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Braille Correspondence
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Purchasing Power
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Spain (Prisoner's Treatment)
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Food Supplies
Oysters (Imports)
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Allocations, South Wales
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Rice Prices (Malaya)
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Ice-Cream Ingredients (Allocations)
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Flour Consumption
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Canned Fish And Chewing Gum (Dollar Purchases)
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United States Asparagus
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Visitors' Ration Books
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Consumption Statistics
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Farm Canteens
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Greyhound Racing Restrictions
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Agriculture
Fowl Pest
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Livestock Slaughtering (Workers)
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Soap (Schools)
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Railway Coal Wagons
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Shipping
Unused Cargo Space (Strikes)
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Merchant Seamen's Mail
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London Pilots (By-Laws)
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Dominion Passages (Doctors)
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By-Pass Roads, Wharfedale
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Ministry Of Supply
Surplus Military Aircraft (Foreign Sales)
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Atomic Bomb (British Contribution)
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Hostel, Featherstone
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Electrical Power Plant (Exports)
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Atomic Research
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Timber (Motor Vehicle Bodies)
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Canadian Aluminium (Imports)
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Ministry Of Works
Exhibitions (Timber Allocations)
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Building Industry (Payment By Results)
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White Horse Hill Project
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Building Material Depots
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Wrest Park, Silsoe (Conversion)
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Requisitioned Shop, Northampton
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Window Boxes, Government Offices
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Trade And Commerce
Glycerine Exports
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Mending Wool
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British Interests (Japan)
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Anglo-Soviet Trade Talks
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Newsprint Supplies
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Parcels (Displaced Persons, Germany)
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British Army
Naafi, Germany (Food Purchases)
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Personal Case
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Territorial Army (Disabled Ex-Servicemen)
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Coal Supplies, Kent
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Electricity Distribution (Bankside Site)
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Disability Pensions (Fibrositis)
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