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Commons Hansard for 18 December 1947 (Volume 445)
From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated
12 May 2018 at 7.10pm.
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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Message From The King
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Oral Answers To Questions
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Education
Boarding Schools (Shower Baths)
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Girls (Vocational Training)
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Travel Bureau
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Inspectorate
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Staggered Holidays
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Milk Scheme
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Teachers (Emergency Training Scheme)
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Uneducable Children (Certification)
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New Buildings (Costs)
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South Africa (Indians)
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India And Pakistan (Refugees, Relief Measures)
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Trade And Commerce
Pottery
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British Film Industry
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Raw Cotton Commission
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Bankruptcies
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Outsize Men's Garments, Aberdeen
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Export Targets (Co-Operative Wholesale Societies)
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Timber Storage, Whitworth Valley
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Shops (Statistics)
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Coupon Floats (Applications, Bolton)
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Rare Books (Import Licences)
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Paper Supplies (Magazines)
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Women's Outerwear
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Price Adjustments (Wage Increases)
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Utility Cotton And Wool Cloth (Subsidies)
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Development Councils
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Fuel And Power
Coal Gas (Motor Vehicles)
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Pool Petrol (Quality)
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Fuel-Burning Appliances (Exhibitions)
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Load Shedding Schemes
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Economic Affairs (Ministerial Responsibility)
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South Africa Aid To Britain Fund
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Industrial Productivity (Committee)
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Employment
Coalmining (Foreign Workers)
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Command Paper (Publication)
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Disabled Persons, London (Factories)
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Foreign Variety Artists
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Retail Price Index
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Scottish Woollen Industry (Joint Production Committees)
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Planers (Safety Measures)
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Business Of The House
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Foreign Ministers' Conference
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Bills Presented
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Attempted Rape Bill
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Army And Air Force (Women's Service) Bill
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Animals Bill
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Police Pensions Bill
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Post Office And Telegraph (Money) Bill
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Royal Marines Bill
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Business Of The House
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Christmas Adjournment
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Capital Investment (White Paper)
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Royal Assent
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Capital Investment (White Paper)
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Sunday Cinematograph Entertainments
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Disability Pensions (Basic Rate)
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Written Answers To Questions
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Education
Sports Kit
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Teachers Emergency Training Scheme
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Managerial Training
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Trade And Commerce
Switzerland
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Men's Shirts
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Meat Skewers
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Boy Scouts' Uniforms
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New Industries, Highlands And Islands
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Cloth Production
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Wellington Boots
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Geneva Agreement (Rubber)
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Import Policy (Less Essential Goods)
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National Service (Period)
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Employment
Directed Man, Shoeburyness
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Emigration
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Civil Service ("S" Class Clerks)
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Official Films (Distribution)
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Mining Publicity
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Coal Industry
Production Costs
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Cutters And Fillers (Wages)
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Exports (The Argentine)
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Small Mines (Licensing)
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Wardley Colliery, Durham
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Export Contracts
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Miners' Coal Allowances
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Manpower
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Bunker Coal (Prices)
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National Coal Board (Motor Cars)
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Pit Ponies
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Motor Cars (Gas Conversion)
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Forged Petrol Coupons
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Hire Cars
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Heating (Churches And Chapels)
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Supplementary Petrol
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Burning And Vaporising Oil
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Loading Shedding (Warnings)
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Harringay Arena (Motor Vehicles)
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Consumers' Council (Representation)
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Petrol Consumption
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Domestic Allocation
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Gas Supply, Helston
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Poplar Generating Station
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Sports Meetings (Private Hire Vehicles)
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Working Hours (Staggering)
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Sr & O 2465 (Maps)
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Oil Stocks
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Coal-Oil Conversion
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Basic Ration (Abolition)
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Waste Coal
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Household Coal (Prices)
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Police
Street Disturbances
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Bonfires, Lambeth
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Potato Clamps (Thefts)
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Cargo Ships (Passengers)
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Justices Of The Peace (Royal Commission)
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Marriage Guidance (Grants)
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Prisons
Remand Prisons, Durham
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Confinements
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Mass Radiography
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Barrage Balloon Fabric
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Personal Case
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Scotland
Devolution Proposals
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Unfit Houses, Highlands And Islands
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Electricity Supply (Hydro-Electric Board)
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Peat Resources
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House Of Commons Catering Staff (Christmas Fund)
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Palestine
Jerusalem—Jaffa Road (Patrols)
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Transport Protection
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Arab Legion (Inquiry)
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Malayan Union (Income Tax)
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Gold Coast Students (United Kingdom)
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War Material, Middle East States
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Germany (I G Farbenindustrie Gesch)
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