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Commons Hansard for 22 May 1947 (Volume 437)
From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated
12 May 2018 at 3.51pm.
Commons Chamber
Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons
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Turkish Parliamentary Delegation
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Oral Answers To Questions
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Education
Curriculum (Additional Year)
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Lindsey
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Children's Bicycles (Safety)
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Village Schools, Ripon
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Universities (Entry)
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Free Meals And Milk
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Emergency Training
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Independent Schools (Primary Scholars)
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Grammar Schools (Staffing)
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Educational Standard
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Speech Therapists
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Pensions Appeals (High Court Judgment)
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Trade And Commerce
Carbon Black Production
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Perambulators
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Electricity Generator Exports
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Mining Machinery Factories
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Salvage Collection
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Cellophane
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Children's Underwear
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Clothing Coupons (Service Men)
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Book Production
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Light Industries, Midlothian
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Coal Industry
Northern Ireland
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Domestic Supplies
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Allowances (Ex-Employees)
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Output Comparison
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Wages Agreement
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Coal Board (Salaries)
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Victoria Cross Annuity
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Communist Activities
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Indian Army (Future)
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Rationing And Points System
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Employment
Music Directors (Appointment Of Aliens)
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Transport Workers' Hostels
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Ministry Staff (Redundancy)
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Tubercular Persons
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Trade Dispute, Acton
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National Finance
Postwar Credits (Payment)
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Capital Issues (Control Orders)
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Duke Of Windsor (Currency Allowances)
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Sterling Balances
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Civil Service (Ex-Service Men)
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Shot Civilian (Dependants' Awards)
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Business Of The House
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Business Of The House
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Adjournment (Whitsuntide)
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Orders Of The Day
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National Service Bill
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Statistics Of Trade Bill
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Clause 6—(Duty To Notify Undertakings To Board Of Trade Or Other Competent Authority)
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Clause 8—(Advisory Committees)
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Clause 9—(Disclosure Of Information)
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Clause 12—(Offences By Bodies Corporate)
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Clause 16—(Interpretation)
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Clause 18—(Short Title, Extent And Repeal)
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Sunday Cinematograph Entertainments
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Adjournment
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Written Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions
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Trade And Commerce
Confectioners' Machinery (Exports)
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Passengers' Purchases "Queen Elizabeth"
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Rowing Boats (Export Licences)
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Timber Mill, Marks Tey (Building Licence)
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Scotch Whisky (Supplies)
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Dollar Sales
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National Softwood Brokers, Limited (Functions)
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Raw Materials (Long-Term Contracts)
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Venezuelan Cocoa (Imports)
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Coal Industry
Miners' Inducements
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Sub-Tenants
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Allocations (Churches)
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Average Weekly Earnings
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Vj-Day
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National Finance
Visiting Americans (Sterling Purchases)
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High Court Judges (Salary)
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Tobacco Duty (Old Age Pensioners)
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Burma (Financial Agreement)
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Aliens (Deportation Order)
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Greyhound Racing Restrictions
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Corporal Punishment (Children)
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Sentenced Soldier (Correspondence)
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Civil Defence Despatch Riders
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Catapults
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Remand Home Accommodation, Cardiff
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Murder Case (Press Reports)
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Public Health
Mass Radiography
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Smallpox
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Male Mental Patients
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Illegitimate Births
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Whooping Cough (Vaccine Tests)
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Housing
Rent Tribunals (Powers)
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Lydd
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Rents, London
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Rural Areas (Subsidy)
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Local Authority Members (Payments)
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European Coal Organisation
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Russian Delegation (Film)
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Greece (Political Internees)
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Polish Soldiers, Italy
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Strike, Bilbao (British Interests)
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British Information Services, Usa
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Ministry Of Works
Panelled Doors (Timber)
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Cement Shortage
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School Building (Labour And Materials)
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Unemployment Pay (Dismissed Workers)
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Old Age Pensions
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Food Supplies
New Ration Books, Salfords
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Skimmed Milk (Plastics)
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Condemned Food, Faversham
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Railway Service, Lowestoft
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Ministry Of Supply
Factory, Drigg (Atomic Energy)
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Ordnance Factories
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Raw Materials
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Armaments And Warlike Stores
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Armed Forces (Dependants' Allowance)
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Germany (War Crimes Trials)
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British Army
Vehicles, Easton Park
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Importation Of Dogs
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Royal Navy (Compassionate Leave)
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Turks Islands (Salt Industry)
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Gibraltarian Evacuees, Northern Ireland
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Colonial Bag Industries
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Malaya
Rice Ration
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Asiatic Civil Servants (Back Pay)
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Burma Frontier Areas
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Postal Deliveries, Leicester
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Agriculture
Machinery (Steel Allocations)
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Disaster Fund
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Netherlands-Indonesian Agreement
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Netherlands-Indonesian Agreement
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Article
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Article 2
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Article 3
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Article 4
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Article 5
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Article 6
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Article 7
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Article 8
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Article 9
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Article 10
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Article Ii
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Article 12
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Article 13
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Article 14
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Article 15
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Article 16
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Article 17
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Final Clause
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