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Commons Hansard for 11 December 1947 (Volume 445)

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Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons (item number 1) (id eb6b6742-a0cb-43be-a9da-b913d0888805)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 42d14448-f9bd-48b3-a625-bf83ead84a01)

Private Business
View all Private Business
Coatbridge Burgh Extension, &C, Order Confirmation Bill (item number 1) (id 7c7f21f6-9b0b-4397-9741-e6f8217099ab)

Oral Answers To Questions
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Water Supply
Willenhall (item number 1) (id a8cfc77b-0b19-496b-b6a1-b592ab7dac49)
Rural Areas (item number 1) (id df371109-5c1e-4e57-bff3-adb760161fd1)

Housing
Army Huts (item number 1) (id e1e78c2a-dc94-401e-8675-5d30cface0c0)
Building Licence, Bickleigh (item number 1) (id 51486fb8-82bf-4298-949b-a090ca21ddea)
Timber Licences (item number 1) (id 870bd724-08b2-4ee9-a4ec-e699afbf6761)
Council Houses (Sale) (item number 1) (id 8836449a-6669-4b3b-a359-0d1409404da2)
Overcrowding (item number 1) (id 0269b9f5-2113-4585-ba3b-1b6fe4c6a565)
Calne And Chippenham (item number 1) (id 6ef8b6da-ca4c-44d0-aadb-dce625d064dc)

Public Health
Requisitioned Property, Bideford (item number 1) (id 60997f93-ec4d-4f81-8e30-f4f0a44b2260)
Hospital Boards (Parliamentary Questions) (item number 1) (id f5b9c0bf-dcbd-42e1-984e-0817be662389)
Analgesia (item number 1) (id de31280d-a441-45a6-93d2-b2c26cd9e7b7)
Venereal Disease (item number 1) (id 64d72966-3792-455b-9e82-3faa543d5962)
Coast Erosion, Norfolk (item number 1) (id a74c64f0-cf9c-423a-841b-d26e4b548f03)

Education
Teachers' Training (item number 1) (id d6d91a8e-f5fb-4a6b-aa8b-3528c32806a6)
Independent Schools (Inspection) (item number 1) (id 63c64bab-f421-400f-ba79-51d0ec8d2968)
Ministry (Correspondence Delays) (item number 1) (id 67fa6cbb-b4af-4889-8afe-4c8ae34bb63a)
Family Quiz, Kent Schools (item number 1) (id 84e47f78-6b95-4ee2-8b17-7675e0788207)
Independent Boarding Schools (item number 1) (id 1280d809-c540-4a9d-912f-68db2def89c6)
Grammar Schools (Junior Departments) (item number 1) (id 307d8b72-7096-47f7-a43c-b75084cf6f49)
State Scholarships (item number 1) (id 35c9bc81-6404-4954-bd3a-c3b6b6fc0316)

India And Pakistan
British Officers (Employment) (item number 1) (id a9659f00-d9fe-4f7f-8f34-31a900b08231)
British Subjects (Repatriation) (item number 1) (id f36b10bb-48a8-428d-adbc-28eeac1e2994)
Southern Rhodesia (Discussions) (item number 1) (id 6e088795-002b-402b-a624-0616c0f6b70a)

Trade And Commerce
Salvage Collection (item number 1) (id ab0b7514-6102-4986-845f-8c913dc941db)
Curtain Material (Priority Dockets) (item number 1) (id 44491c43-c3ea-4b94-b711-918785ecee0c)
Business Premises Rents (Departmental Committee) (item number 1) (id ed62f3b0-cc75-4330-a3b2-b8701879fa31)
Raw Materials Allocation (item number 1) (id e241af54-6af8-4c14-9761-c02eda409896)
Wool Textile Machinery (item number 1) (id dd8dea3d-8352-4a62-ada2-51ff59d77021)
Raw Cotton Commission (Chairman's Salary) (item number 1) (id 17d4e700-1121-411a-8a54-282087f1ddc5)
Princess Elizabeth's Wedding Dress (Replicas) (item number 1) (id 5cd8d1f6-860a-4ec3-940f-b82639e9f568)
Ministers Of The Crown (Stock Exchange Transactions) (item number 1) (id b7f96edc-9fe5-4135-bbcc-3040ea0f9c81)

Employment
Registration (Women's Panels) (item number 1) (id f6f44be0-ee6a-41c7-9d69-05b2dbdd2e82)
Trade Union Deputations (item number 1) (id d954ec5f-cd81-4243-abef-b4a3e081b92c)

National Finance
Overseas Military Expenditure (item number 1) (id 3f7c2154-18e2-4f6e-b646-d8103a09e30f)
Gifts From Abroad (Duty) (item number 1) (id b6e4828b-c719-4b78-b11a-6b39b4d47ecc)
Inventions Receipts (Tax) (item number 1) (id 86b8d1d3-8b0b-4a8f-8a33-115cde90909f)
Re-Exports (Drawback) (item number 1) (id 75cddd28-b8b4-469a-ad42-774432f1e44a)
Exchange Control (Postal Packets) (item number 1) (id e536a73f-4bf0-436f-b2e8-5fa91282ca81)
Tobacco Duty (item number 1) (id 4774ad27-af51-4e04-8795-40074ad6cd93)
Overseas Investments (item number 1) (id 1ce023a7-761d-4955-9783-0b326bb3c6d6)
War Damage Payments (item number 1) (id 9bc0293f-c330-4fe6-894b-8cb13d75ea3d)
Budget (Press Reports) (item number 1) (id 1689a575-ea52-43ff-991a-ed9055d9e3dc)
Banks (New Year's Day) (item number 1) (id 8acbb3f5-1e69-4d00-8d76-ecfbf141e10e)
Government Departments (Motor Services) (item number 1) (id cea4462a-ab53-4ab6-ba77-bb06ca6ef845)
Central Office Of Information (Films) (item number 1) (id 7522603d-9afb-4f59-947a-f06064773d94)
Business Of The House (item number 5) (id 59c1db45-3730-4df7-bcb1-9e869b09155a)
Anglo-Soviet Trade (Agreement) (item number 6) (id 07c3543f-c2b0-44af-9415-5f41aaf3a40c)
Personal Explanation (item number 7) (id cfdf1cc2-3c7e-45cf-9d23-f211a3150fc1)
Palestine (item number 8) (id e2213120-955a-4786-87d3-ea0a64d0d7dd)
Railway Fares (Provinces) (item number 9) (id dfed8e96-b921-48dc-aebf-fca51e491a05)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 54cf60a7-4afe-4b7b-8545-be9a20163865)

Public Health
Hearing Aids (item number 1) (id 685e06f0-f41a-4fac-9c2a-f7caa3699c1d)
Drainage Scheme, Oxfordshire (item number 1) (id 950219ec-d47f-4434-98d2-fd4e92f6092c)
Child Welfare, Waltham (item number 1) (id 21df3cf9-1d1e-4e9b-83af-ec6a864c0091)
London County Council Hospital (Inquiry) (item number 1) (id 3910076f-e983-4411-bba7-7f0b141c401c)
War Damage Repairs, London (Builders' Accounts) (item number 1) (id f8990e8e-6646-4678-8b97-cae541dccd13)
Local Authorities (Members' Disqualification) (item number 1) (id fcf80cdd-20f9-458f-a607-44d0312c6ac6)

Housing
Cardiff (item number 1) (id a1a682d6-b2bd-431a-8d87-ebe1eabd33b1)
Plumbing Layout (item number 1) (id 900e18f2-5274-4f0b-a71a-d03cea1476ec)
Stonework (item number 1) (id 41b3d6d7-dc09-486f-bd12-18eb265b6b47)

Employment
Regional Office, Nottingham (Staff) (item number 1) (id 898a6b07-42ee-4964-8ebe-82380d708c15)
Nurses (Industrial And Commercial Concerns) (item number 1) (id 312a6835-4e76-49e8-80a7-7ed9d83261aa)
Blacksmiths, Rural Areas (Training) (item number 1) (id de9b9e7e-ab8d-4504-a761-cf33f0efc9b5)
National Service (Army Call-Up) (item number 1) (id 69a76742-b665-4d5a-8e91-ce80400f0876)

National Finance
Imports (Value) (item number 1) (id 1973dbfe-454e-48c8-9671-6777c40b3035)
Payments Agreements (item number 1) (id dbca7e57-83db-4cca-9ffd-df9e168c90fa)
Credit And Debit Balances (item number 1) (id f9055add-e6db-43a6-81be-19185e5c8c6c)
Foreign Travel (Allowances) (item number 1) (id 26f35a4a-48a8-4138-9a7e-fc68f4db902c)
Official Motor Cars (Use) (item number 1) (id 9a31a0f0-8224-414a-b39d-29e669e06ad3)

Trade And Commerce
Export Industries (Imperial Preference) (item number 1) (id 80636517-e1c2-4f8c-bad1-25205719ecdc)
Clothing Coupons (item number 1) (id 023db0f8-dc2a-4837-a80b-c036b5e96bcb)
Timber (item number 1) (id be427c84-836b-4798-8be8-2052a606d205)
Tung Oil (Government Stocks) (item number 1) (id a1a94268-c0b6-4a23-84b1-d2bec14121f4)
Wellington Boots (Agricultural Workers) (item number 1) (id 2be86e14-7bb7-4984-982c-8b17d1d51f6c)
Footwear (Export Licences) (item number 1) (id 403a4150-dea6-4fdd-bf5e-c28d629e9950)
Proposed New Industry, Nantlle Valley (item number 1) (id ec03f765-fc37-4de4-aaab-9a28e4b5af7d)
Tobacco Supplies (item number 1) (id d4af8b79-9e19-44fa-b5a7-53fb96f3a3ab)
Utility Goods (item number 1) (id 6e228521-de2b-4be4-9b0d-9337e17ebf60)
Furniture Industry (Re-Organisation) (item number 1) (id d3606a70-65e8-4936-9e73-c0bf9ec7722a)
Women's Outerwear (item number 1) (id 3b96e1fa-443a-4e82-a7bf-66c912c8f0f8)
Geneva Tariff Agreement (item number 1) (id 22ed1195-9f1c-4e9c-a536-cc0f34398df7)
Bird Seed (Imports) (item number 1) (id 67f4cb10-5955-4f96-8140-ceff253e21b1)
Mending Wool (item number 1) (id e06f26b6-3569-4a04-8c78-6e6051f4e09b)
Books (American Authors) (item number 1) (id a8b01356-87be-44e8-8bac-752011d20422)
Wool Cloth (item number 1) (id fb473b0d-c4b4-4f15-acd6-4a43a54c7d71)
Horses (Export To Eire) (item number 1) (id 8d1d8f44-a19c-46ee-b067-6577927ae227)

Fuel And Power
Boiler Plants (Fuel Saving) (item number 1) (id f9d9c824-3429-4217-9961-700923ff4302)
Farringdon House Approved School (Coke) (item number 1) (id c439f2fa-c5ab-45d4-922f-1491652dda2f)
Domestic Allocation (item number 1) (id c91bb5b0-8ce0-48db-8566-9d555e285e54)
Electricity Supplies (Power Cuts) (item number 1) (id f6759cf9-d35d-4319-baf2-0c4c448866d1)
Petrol Allowances (item number 1) (id c4f30ee1-373a-42a8-ab1d-24a0138a8a6a)
Registered Consumers, Wandsworth (item number 1) (id 6a878fae-6001-456e-9cbe-98d5c982c62e)
Petrol (Correspondence) (item number 1) (id 7fb11ae6-3062-495b-be1b-1589de0a32c4)
Motor Cycle Reliability Trials (Petrol) (item number 1) (id 2324c935-b693-472c-993a-266b6104d93f)
Motor Spirit Production (Sterling Area) (item number 1) (id a5f8fe80-02fd-4832-a74a-4f18f4cfb18c)
Regional Petroleum Office, Tunbridge Wells (item number 1) (id 3104da2f-35a0-41f3-b46a-84c13669c863)
Liquid Pitch (item number 1) (id f8048b22-ee07-4f88-bcbb-2f7b4870f5cc)

Coal Industry
Mining Equipment (Estimate) (item number 1) (id 32c03f1c-c880-4ac3-bf6e-b2b443cf06f8)
Administration Costs (item number 1) (id 6b5aef50-1777-49cd-8460-170624638eb3)
Opencast Mining (item number 1) (id 9bf264be-3e3d-4d11-8bf5-1c59d544739e)
Quarterly Statistical Statement (item number 1) (id 1ea6e374-a879-4e2a-ba1b-9aebca8439e4)
American Machinery (item number 1) (id 88cc5454-b7b4-4cd8-b4d3-7ee49c047297)
Magazine Stories (Country Of Origin) (item number 1) (id 973d0889-97c2-4aef-b655-7babb36fcc69)
Aliens (Entrypermits) (item number 1) (id 042a343c-220f-46d9-9ef5-ccc447d728fa)
Loudspeaker Vans (By-Law) (item number 1) (id adcf48bc-eb57-4b62-af62-0d52e9eb8823)
Channel Islands (Petrol Rationing) (item number 1) (id e49fe89a-3e7b-4f83-92ce-207b3a341351)
Soliciting Charges, Metropolitan Area (item number 1) (id 2832d17d-2bb1-465d-9d28-0b90310fc7b5)
Ceylon (Governor-General) (item number 1) (id bd8a9a9c-28bf-444a-a19c-af297a4b3973)

Agriculture
Allotments (Open Spaces) (item number 1) (id cc7dd7f2-4f17-4ecb-9002-f155611bcc66)
Research Engineers (item number 1) (id d15a58e1-f9e8-42ff-9da3-d9a6d4451cff)
African Colonies (Grain Storage) (item number 1) (id c07998ed-18b9-4cdd-9f3d-75c127537e8b)
Jamaica (Potatoes, Imports And Exports) (item number 1) (id a32a7388-7aad-4f4f-abe3-12bb622529b9)
Malayan Union And Singapore (Taxation) (item number 1) (id 3963d06a-b863-4193-acdf-6c210be9d1a2)
Sarawak (Cession) (item number 1) (id afe9e70d-f2e9-4d3c-bf63-5cf3f0381616)
Armed Forces (Manpower) (item number 1) (id d08985ad-1297-478c-8905-fecbd8e54070)

Ministry Of Supply
Alarum Clocks (item number 1) (id 34437342-945f-4bc2-a34d-d862d0a2b8c2)
Baby Weighing Machines (item number 1) (id 84c74d04-8a18-478a-8797-60a977bb29ab)
Aluminium And Uni-Seco Houses (item number 1) (id a9f69d5a-8a4a-47be-a8ae-dccb8d91fb21)
Bankside Power Station (Design) (item number 1) (id 87dbe4d2-6941-46bc-b775-80872903888d)
Newfoundland (Development Schemes, Memorandum) (item number 1) (id 6bd8f051-b9fd-4c58-82ee-4ecb765a8f2d)
Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve (item number 1) (id 1c690351-fb23-41f0-bad9-00098c7e3233)

Education
Teachers (Training) (item number 1) (id cbd9aee1-a6fe-4982-8b29-e7eaca1fda24)
Village School, Llangwnadl (Closure) (item number 1) (id d26846d7-7e9d-4ea1-a49f-9f76818b6a3b)

Food Supplies
Potatoes (item number 1) (id 5c7753ab-6e69-4aae-b7a9-97a8715a8b99)
Controlled Foodstuffs (Prices) (item number 1) (id e4ab1c28-ea6f-4425-bc3e-ab0b0edb41e9)
Ats Cadet (Sailing Ticket) (item number 1) (id ba36ff24-3e79-4fec-ac5b-f6f0456c9ca6)

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