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Commons Hansard for 24 July 1947 (Volume 440)
From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated
12 May 2018 at 5.23pm.
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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Trade And Commerce
Czechoslovakia (British Goods)
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Australian Wool (Price)
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Children's Leather Footwear (Coupons)
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Atomic Energy Plant, West Cumberland
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Trade Marks (Registration)
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Men's Rubber Boots
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Grantham Productions, Limited
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Industrial Clothing Coupons (Qualifying Period)
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Newsprint (Weekly Papers)
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Overseas Tourists (Petrol Allowance)
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Coal Industry
Knowes Colliery, Fauldhouse
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Disused Mine Shafts
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Miners' Halls (Political Meetings)
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Coke Supplies, London (Quality)
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Coal Board Employees (Territorial Army)
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Recruitment (Mobile Cinema Vans)
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National Coal Board Accounts
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Alderney (Restoration Work)
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Identity Cards (Production)
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Green Plover (Protection)
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Young Workers (Welfare)
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Parliamentary Proceedings (Publicity)
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War Dead (Memorial Scroll)
"Gvi Ri"
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(Royal Arms)
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Coal Production (Appeal To Miners)
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Fluorine Commission (Report)
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National Service (Call-Up)
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Armed Forces (Release Programme)
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First Offenders (Probation)
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Ussr (Debts To Great Britain)
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Service Departments (Dollar Expenditure)
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Young Offenders (Corporal Punishment)
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Emergency Enactments (Termination)
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Street Trading (Restrictions)
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Holloway Prison (Recreation Facilities)
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Polish Visitors (Customs Formalities)
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Evicted Tenants, Canterbury
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Business Of The House
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Burma (Transfer Of Power)
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Orders Of The Day
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Ministry Of Supply
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National Health Service (Superannuation)
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Gas (Special Orders)
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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
Wool Tops (Supplies)
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Derequisitioned Hotels (Equipment)
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Laundry Machinery
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Oak (Imports From France)
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Damaged Furniture And Clothing (Replacement)
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New Factories, Abertillery Division
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Cotton Exports
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Women's Dresses And Shoes (Imports)
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Commercial Vehicle Tyres
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Hosiery Trade (Foreign Firms)
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Fuel And Power
Domestic Allocation
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Economy Pamphlets (Distribution)
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Dairy Farmers (Allocation)
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Paper Mills, West Marsh
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Ex-Official's Speech
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Metropolitan Police Food Service
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Electricity Generating Cost
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Machine-Cut Coal
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Approved Schools (Children's Maintenance)
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Meeting, Hackney (Police)
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Adolescent Girls (Report)
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Child Care (Maintenance Payments)
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European Volunteer Workers
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German Nationals (British Visas)
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Marriage Guidance Council
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Housing
Amesbury
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Squatters' Camp, Clifford
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Horncastle And Spilsby
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Building Costs
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Public Health
Maternity Homes (Infectious Disease)
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Canned Vegetables
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Mental Defectives
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Nurses (Training Schools, Lancashire)
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Infantile Paralysis
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Floods, Hastings
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Shelter Bunks, Brentford And Chiswick
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Sewerage, Little Glemham
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Lymph
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Durham County Mental Hospital (Sugar)
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Population (Cheltenham)
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Education
County Colleges
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Fleming Committee's Report (Scheme B)
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Boarding Schools (Bursaries)
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Court Of Appeal (Additional Divisions)
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Special Corsets (Cloth Supplies)
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British Army
Personal Case
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Clothing Allowance
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Post Office (Form A 3228)
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African Groundnut Production
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Raf (Meteorological Service Forecasts)
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