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Commons Hansard for 13 May 1947 (Volume 437)
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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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War Pensions (Cost Of Living)
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Naafi Personnel
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British Army
Overseas Married Quarters
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Burnham Beeches
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Discharges (Psychiatric Cases)
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War Graves (Visits)
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Marriage (German Women)
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Colour Bar
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Personal Case
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Palestine (Terrorist Threat)
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Farm Work
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Ordnance Establishments (Manpower)
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Training Areas
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Redford Barracks, Edinburgh
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Officers (Education)
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Separated Families (Accommodation)
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Extra-Regimental Employment
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Retired Pay Reassessment
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Ta Quarters (Possession)
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War Office And Command Staffs
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Manpower Economy Committee
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Records Offices, Leicester
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Allowances (Income Tax)
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Prisoners Of War (El Adem)
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National Finance
Tobacco Re-Exports
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Sterling Convertibility
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Sterling Balances
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Stamp Duty (Charities)
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Building Operatives (Travel Allowance)
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Tobacco Growing, Great Britain
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National Gallery (Care Of Pictures)
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British Embassy Attaches
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Enforcement Officers (Searches)
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Trade And Commerce
Russian Timber
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Anglo-Polish Trade (Provisional Arrangements)
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Clothing Coupons (Ex-Servicemen)
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Retail Drapery Margins
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Greek Tobacco (Government Purchase)
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Companies Act (Annual Report)
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Stockings
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Pottery
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Bulk Buying
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The Speaker (Official Invitations)
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Electricity Industry (Organising Committee)
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United Kingdom And Newfoundland (Financial Relations)
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Business Of The House
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Orders Of The Day
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Town And Country Planning (Recommitted) Bill
New Clause—(Compensation For Compulsory Acquisition Of Land Attracting Converted Value Payments)
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New Clause—(Compensation For Compulsory Purchase Of Requisitioned Land)
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New Clause—(Compensation For Compulsory Acquisition After Passing Of This Act And Before The Appointed Day)
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New Clause—(Power Of Ministers To Contribute Towards Compensation Paid By Local Authorities)
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New Clause—(Agreement Under Previous Acts)
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Third Schedule—(Classes Of Development Excepted From Payment Of Development Charge)
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Fourth Schedule—(Provisions Relating To Compensation Under Part Iii)
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Seventh Schedule—(Enactments Amended)
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Part Ii
Enactments Repealed As From Appointed Day"
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Eighth Schedule—(Enactments Repealed)
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New Schedule—(Modifications Of Part Ii Of Town And Country Planning Act, 1944)
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New Clause—(Validity And Date Of Operation Of Development Plans)
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New Clause—(Land Subject To Claims For Betterment Under Other Acts)
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New Clause—(Saving For Postmaster-General)
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New Clause—(Report By Central Land Board On Development Values)
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New Clause—(Provisions As To Building Land)
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Clause 2—(The Central Land Board)
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Clause 3—(General Provisions As To Functions Of Central Land Board)
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Clause 5—(Surveys Of Planning Areas And Preparation Of Development Plans)
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Clause 6—(Amendment Of Development Plans)
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Clause 7—(Additional Powers Of The Minister With Respect To Development Plans)
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Clause 8—(Incorporation In Development Plans Of Orders Relating To Trunk Roads And New Towns)
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Clause 9—(Supplementary Provisions As To Development Plans)
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Sunday Cinematograph Entertainments
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Deserters From Armed Forces
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Written Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions
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Scotland
Juvenile Delinquency
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Double Summer Time
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Boat Building (Timber Supplies)
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Local Government Law (Consolidation)
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British Army
Troopship "Rajula" (Conditions)
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Demobilisation (Civilian Suits)
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Cod, Bicester
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Arrested Officer, Singapore (Release)
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Married Quarters, Colchester Garrison
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Personal Cases
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Martindale Training Areas, Glenridding
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Ordnance Depot, Derby (Waste Material)
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Territorial Army (Staff Appointments)
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National Finance
British Troops, Japan (Income Tax)
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Government War Factories, Sedbergh (Rates)
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Oil (Dollar Transactions)
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Swiss Hotels (Purchase)
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Postwar Credits (Beneficiaries)
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Undergraduates, Cambridge (Accommodation)
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Research Expenditure
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Stamp Duty (Charities)
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Court-Martial Inquiry (Recommendations)
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Polish Camps, Henley
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Trade And Commerce
Cured Herrings (Export To Poland)
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British Motor Cars (Foreign Imports)
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Milk Bottles And Cartons
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Registered Companies
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Unloading Of Wagons (Saturdays)
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Tobacco Imports
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Clothing Coupons (Next Issue)
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Bedroom Suites (Imports)
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Carbon Black
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Galvanised Buckets
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Curtain Net
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Household Linen
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Paper Production (Coal Allocation)
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National Insurance
Pensioners' Earnings
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Approved Societies (Staffs)
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Personal Case
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Appeals (Legal Representation)
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Employment
Unemployment Figures
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Ex-Service Trainees, Pontefract (Accommodation)
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Scotland
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Prisoners Of War
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Building Trade Trainees
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National Service (Release Of Students)
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Agriculture
Internal Drainage Rates
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Fowl Pest
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Veterinary Offices (Status)
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Breeding Stock
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Land Transfer Committee (Recommendations)
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Shaving Soap
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