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Commons Hansard for 16 December 1948 (Volume 459)

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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 7d56bbd6-8286-4666-8817-48f17b52a0d6)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 8ab26f88-0322-4944-861a-06c7ffd60cc4)

Oral Answers To Questions
View all Oral Answers To Questions
Fire Services (Officer Rank) (item number 1) (id fc716ce6-cc71-4eaa-957b-b6f66f8ed849)

Aliens
Visas (Application) (item number 1) (id 8f2dfe47-eea8-4163-8d5d-7ee61586a2c0)
Naturalisation Certificates (item number 1) (id 90f88b42-4d4d-41d2-92e5-9c5aece0990e)

Prisons
Discharged Prisoners' Aid, Liverpool (item number 1) (id b456dd02-d4ac-49b6-9504-83c29f73f7c1)
Kitchen Equipment, Preston (item number 1) (id f16309b4-da71-415e-b327-84bd921bec30)
Jersey Airport (Repair Service) (item number 1) (id cdadcc9e-461a-4bdc-b76b-bcb6b6cc3bdb)
Women Police (item number 1) (id e4e6b462-5c0b-4c13-b06b-249599e80c14)
Borstal (Parole Application) (item number 1) (id 6b59af23-5339-46ff-a564-7e76e46e5f56)
Dog Racing (Offences) (item number 1) (id a968a02b-567d-442c-8aef-fb8ac1c44cb0)
Night Clubs, London (item number 1) (id f604e005-3ab8-4d54-a016-6a96ec06c00c)
Parked Vehicles (Lights) (item number 1) (id f18406dc-1bdb-4757-9f45-55d5409d22d2)

National Health Service
Tuberculosis (Sanatoria) (item number 1) (id 664e42fd-b660-476e-a894-31f9a2d5992b)
Eire Citizens (item number 1) (id f8c675cc-f8f3-45e4-972c-7de9dfa12f48)
Doctors (Capitation Fee) (item number 1) (id a2bddfbe-0e05-4df1-a0ad-c0ee1a065c2b)
Prescriptions (item number 1) (id 84bb0845-ba3a-4ff5-9e5d-b0acf8416fcf)
Medical Partnerships (item number 1) (id acde4095-1242-42ed-b9c7-300b37ba1666)
Executive Councils (Clerks) (item number 1) (id b7da33cf-849e-45f6-939a-fe01a556af50)
Cost (item number 1) (id fd8a2d53-358c-4b4c-8750-2cc79b73eb62)
Regional Hospital Boards (Estimates) (item number 1) (id bbeae9de-c127-4720-b3a6-e3b026c6643d)
Practitioners (Remuneration) (item number 1) (id 03b0b865-a92c-4a94-800f-531196add41b)

Housing
Rent Restrictions Acts (Amendment) (item number 1) (id 35ff5c25-c270-40ef-85ea-f0d2583fc16d)
Birmingham (item number 1) (id 0f0ec4b0-ee9f-4de9-ad35-7c18e4b65872)
Reconditioning (item number 1) (id 75ae157b-6aad-4f12-bcb2-3d8e42917d59)
Flats (Premiums) (item number 1) (id 8773d468-ff57-4e1b-ace7-9962eddb2edb)
Council Houses, Ramsey Heights (Water Pipes) (item number 1) (id 29a5b2f4-cd46-4090-a0ba-6bb228b19df1)
Furnished Apartments, Cardiff (item number 1) (id e4e5cbe4-2057-46fc-8533-3602098dd985)
Labour Force, St Albans (item number 1) (id 7723b37e-f495-4568-a175-cea3bf181bca)
Enborne Valley Water Scheme (item number 1) (id 2ff8bb85-a31b-421a-8d50-f88a02d9f5e4)
Births (Registration) (item number 1) (id 4d91f822-e3ee-4f22-a525-43599a5d02cd)
Infirm Aged People (Institutions) (item number 1) (id cd6e7059-e2d0-4dc3-ad55-f7a56a85664c)
Shorter Prayer Book (Legality) (item number 1) (id 3ed9960e-2559-4fb5-94fa-1294d1c803e4)
Wales (Proposed National Council) (item number 1) (id d1c743e4-8a98-4856-8afe-1d2b71f1bf6d)

Employment
Blacksmith, Ayrshire (Call-Up) (item number 1) (id 9d6dd547-fb1e-4d73-90cb-a8d93b38aa8c)
Temporary Postmen (Coloured Applicants) (item number 1) (id db66e11b-ab13-4728-a3c0-01c7e028f7da)
Bbc And Musicians Union (Dispute) (item number 1) (id 188ec084-3700-4631-b68a-df617473be81)
Television Engineers (Discharges) (item number 1) (id 7ca66bac-d567-452c-8d93-fd819211158c)

National Finance
New Capital Issues (item number 1) (id 7424a6a2-223c-412e-bf4f-392101d750fc)
Universities (Capital Expenditure) (item number 1) (id 52e0bcc2-c9d5-474b-9443-7cf2a4cf13a8)
Special Contribution (item number 1) (id 030eecd4-5971-4d28-a9ab-5452d877a2ef)
Women Office Cleaners (Pay) (item number 1) (id 580f496b-b807-43fc-8d01-6fc54e815636)
Investment Income (Royalties) (item number 1) (id f433348b-7c0a-436f-9722-c320c5d96ae8)
Senior Army Officers (Speeches) (item number 1) (id bc40a017-f835-46a0-adf5-e0a78f923e17)
Palestine (Missing Raf Aircraft) (item number 1) (id d1859b62-eff6-4b29-b750-539adc35f7a7)
Business Of The House (item number 4) (id 40c00dba-2de5-4a3e-8a75-56179c2e1d4e)
Notices Of Motion (Signatures) (item number 5) (id 848c909a-6e7d-48a6-a42f-0bcfe22829ab)

Bills Presented
View all Bills Presented
War Damage (Public Utility Undertakings, &C) Bill (item number 1) (id a60e63a0-0eb4-403b-9275-d0cdc87a7f67)
Juries Bill (item number 1) (id 5a88c97f-51e9-4f7a-a073-f63490321abd)
Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (item number 1) (id ba2ed85c-9f6d-4875-9ae3-25e22b41f762)
Business Of The House (item number 1) (id 98a03b51-7e21-4f8d-9acc-fe13c97e12b4)
Adjournment (Christmas) (item number 1) (id 5425fe13-2e62-44f0-bd4c-326c806d0c22)

Orders Of The Day
Legal Aid And Solicitors (Scotland) Bill (item number 1) (id 85c8bd85-acb7-4970-9173-0c910a0432f3)
Royal Assent (item number 1) (id fa4e80a2-4182-4968-97ba-d34ab607055e)
Legal Aid And Solicitors (Scotland) Bill (item number 1) (id bfe5c321-ae77-4efd-b004-e2bf904d516a)
Legal Aid And Solicitors (Scotland) Money (item number 1) (id c4b1f8ad-5510-4df7-b653-f057217d958d)
Lace Industry (Levy) (item number 1) (id 33d1dec3-25b4-46f2-b2bf-ad491c00761c)
War Damage (Late Claims) (item number 1) (id ed1ff086-6f8b-41c1-82db-6911148a8fcb)
Railway Passenger Services (item number 1) (id dcdf1581-c7be-4e63-8f78-da116b77e6b0)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 1f43fc33-7f60-4076-9093-55d2f9f31055)
Employment Application (M Golay) (item number 2) (id 789ae7f1-e8bc-412d-b4f2-4348f0ed0907)

Housing
Programme (item number 1) (id dce0b48b-2c4c-4d0f-a7a7-df3859e78239)
Contracts (Girdwood Recommendations) (item number 1) (id bc28e2f1-bdc7-4c0d-8a73-38dd729b1804)
Aluminium Houses, Birmingham (item number 1) (id ffbfee8e-1cd6-4ed2-8062-e8539e943f40)
Statistics (item number 1) (id da29b390-0169-40cc-9530-af24173f68cf)
Subsidies (item number 1) (id e98f09e2-7c1f-429a-9dd6-0e7f92610353)
Selling Prices (item number 1) (id 903688b7-8ddc-4750-8d87-3084bcf33d52)

National Health Service
Splinter-Proof Lenses (item number 1) (id 2d614b47-9321-40b5-a657-f4a5bf739414)
Denture Repairs (item number 1) (id f949d65d-e924-4380-9abe-5abd1ceeb521)
Prescriptions (item number 1) (id e398217c-d852-467f-ba12-a06bda25a195)
Hospital Management Committees (item number 1) (id 96eab61b-a4f4-4d54-8fac-d89a9b934b6c)
Dental Estimates (item number 1) (id c172d4f1-0472-4507-914a-bb238be2d3fa)
Hospital Boards' Estimates (item number 1) (id 25a35cba-ba9f-4f15-8833-732cf70528db)
Lancaster Moor Hospital (Staff) (item number 1) (id 53c9ff38-7de3-468e-94fd-ad47745f0482)
Spectacle Lens (Replacements) (item number 1) (id e8faf2dc-3538-4c95-bd14-e05ffe7f3762)
Superannuation Transfer Rights (item number 1) (id 01a82acd-eeb1-433a-a6be-22c5be9a43f2)
Nurses' Salaries, Cardiff (item number 1) (id 8bfc0b32-83da-416b-ad9d-61c366ed8bce)
Doctors (Basic Salary) (item number 1) (id c11e9229-95d7-4c35-963f-fba6f48c2d5b)
Crêpe Bandages (item number 1) (id be9632bf-68ac-4316-954c-fb81686ec908)
Hearing Aids (item number 1) (id cc099d31-e78c-4805-8f96-fcbb8bdda036)
Private Patients (Free Medicines) (item number 1) (id c4cb8082-ca47-4845-9e43-31b6ea3d756f)
Doctors, Cardiff (item number 1) (id ebfdded3-2adf-469b-b41c-6792670d420c)

Public Health
Birth Certificates (Illegitimate Children) (item number 1) (id 8728655f-8f3a-4e25-8c9f-5767f6ccd2be)
Mental Defectives, Essex (item number 1) (id 6dfdb0b1-5596-444d-a658-c08053eaa9d6)
Water Supply, Camborne-Redruth (item number 1) (id fda00f70-8fd8-49db-94bd-b32487e98470)

Employment
Remploy Factories, Wales (item number 1) (id 49346816-8fdf-4c95-9f59-97fbd9d9f4c8)
Building Industry (Training) (item number 1) (id 98ff7999-4f32-474d-8d60-dc50c4b432d4)

National Finance
Purchase Tax (item number 1) (id 0a7bcc58-e48b-4ac1-ac3b-8bc7507d6112)
Income Tax (Savings Certificates) (item number 1) (id cbd014b3-dae2-46d1-9d79-af84c3a7d4bf)
Statutory Orders (Withdrawal) (item number 1) (id 44b6d157-38dc-4de7-a5a0-b539ea1919ce)
Building Labour Force (item number 1) (id 907cb1f9-a58c-4ee3-a389-3ed066c64441)
American Projects (item number 1) (id 3433911c-9e90-4f4e-8623-ce311aed5948)
Economic Co-Operation Agreement (item number 1) (id 813030ff-db90-425a-b5ee-71a8f56bb387)
Bloodstock Industry (item number 1) (id d3939d91-f22a-4f32-937f-f1c247e65bd5)
Universities (Dental Teaching Staff) (item number 1) (id d9a4c333-85f5-4196-8bc9-9f7f217f9501)
Ex-Officials, Burma (item number 1) (id e9cc50c8-eb8d-42b5-a03f-a71b46a2a0cf)

Education
New Schools (item number 1) (id 839ee5a4-8c1e-4d2c-8623-e9d948402eda)
Foreign Languages (item number 1) (id a91f6983-1d74-4f4d-91ad-aa8223b1509f)
Secondary Education, Burley (item number 1) (id 8d197a05-eba0-4e14-bd89-78f33267daa3)
Training Scheme Grants (item number 1) (id eaa46aa7-037a-4174-903b-02d28c7ffc10)
Admissions, Middlesex (item number 1) (id 19ddde8a-0539-461a-a84e-1894083c8052)
Froebel College, Clapham, (Training Course) (item number 1) (id c80fbc47-da57-45a7-8105-f91eee620a74)
Estate Management (Ex-Service Students) (item number 1) (id 9015f9f3-f8c9-4c4e-9b35-4cf9a75a6814)
University Awards (Report) (item number 1) (id 124c6e46-2966-404d-8281-38bb90792402)

Canada And Newfoundland
Union Proposals (White Paper) (item number 1) (id 57bcf032-ecac-47cb-887e-03fbcbd3e1b6)
National Debt (item number 1) (id d016ea2f-ef12-4cd0-97fa-cb12cda1215d)
Referendum (item number 1) (id 6d6e47f6-2f09-426d-86be-7626c4475b31)
Confederation (Legislation) (item number 1) (id ded122e0-93b7-47f9-97f8-8757ad1eabba)

Trade And Commerce
Clothes Rationing (item number 1) (id b7ae68e7-7a4c-487c-82cd-d7a2c20a2254)
Timber Imports (item number 1) (id 3bd6120a-36ee-40e5-abbd-5cf41e3a1ed6)
Monopolies Commission (Membership) (item number 1) (id d24b17f1-6700-41d5-a66d-fc4bfff0e0b0)
Cotton Spinning (Re-Equipment Subsidy) (item number 1) (id 06b96f66-83ba-4c6b-9801-96b592a2e91c)
British Firms, Tokyo (item number 1) (id 8367f653-e0fe-49c8-a179-1ccd6922093f)
New Factories, Wales (item number 1) (id dadd8b1b-0291-4cb1-a356-b980f0ae27ce)
Overseas Visitors (Rationed Clothing) (item number 1) (id 9f290205-ce30-4fdd-a28d-ed1c9fbdbb5e)
Paper (Bureau Of Current Affairs) (item number 1) (id 4da205a9-3aef-4afb-ae00-733bf4b769c3)
Peru (item number 1) (id 44c2f3d7-18e5-4d7f-8bc4-c636ed2a3dc1)
Export Credits Guarantee Facilities (item number 1) (id e2646b0a-4896-42b0-8066-2ecfe916322c)
Anglo-Soviet Talks (item number 1) (id 9f940ffc-4bc1-4094-8c6f-06524fbe59b6)
Hard Currency Imports (item number 1) (id 5b1201c9-335d-44aa-abfc-18f22cefe99a)
Frustrated Exports (Panel) (item number 1) (id 2824dc13-b440-4607-82d6-26645b8d7d1e)
Advertising (Limitation) (item number 1) (id f607f67e-5c3e-4f98-9661-095ff6a5e5f2)
Exports To Usa (item number 1) (id cf8e464b-2351-484d-84fc-72885824df54)
Cigarettes, Germany (item number 1) (id 7eaf4123-13ba-40cd-a448-2abe559ae2bd)

Electricity Supplies
Electricity Act (Compensation Regulations) (item number 1) (id 7c2481cb-eec8-438f-8c5e-6f6de1fe7f5b)
Christmas Tree, Felixstowe (Illumination) (item number 1) (id 73863d3f-6860-4abe-807e-75260cf010d1)
Tariff Changes, London (item number 1) (id 904c861e-cfba-4bc5-8fec-fee32254fc6e)
Peak Demand (item number 1) (id 048488c6-1119-4c4b-a9f2-8eaac1b7d078)
Generating Capacity (item number 1) (id b5b5d693-0c4a-4585-a8dc-1471ad921736)
House, Maldon (item number 1) (id 55365c32-c271-4dfe-b2ba-1ae223153bdb)
Farms, Tolleshunt D'arcy (item number 1) (id e3663fcc-d4c7-48f5-83d0-04bf09d373bc)
Wooden Poles (Specification) (item number 1) (id f6da5457-6caa-4033-a3e6-915b799c3500)

Petrol Supplies
Supplementary Allowances (item number 1) (id 35f812ea-07b3-4f53-957a-d2523c6b6369)
Commercial Travellers (item number 1) (id 29d769af-5752-4e7c-abe6-15e450aeed6c)
Private Hire Cars (item number 1) (id 671227a7-e071-4944-9418-211be54c533e)

Fuel And Power
Consultative Councils (item number 1) (id 597ecab9-ed32-44e1-b879-8a18db11f1a6)
Coal (Quality) (item number 1) (id 32254909-fcf5-4ec0-bdd5-f91b26015b86)

Mauritius
Economic Commissioners' Report (item number 1) (id f819b305-140b-4686-aa02-5c0f27eb723a)
India (item number 1) (id d362b3cc-7656-4c03-9927-2caa8c0c17db)
Palestine Police (Ex-Officers) (item number 1) (id 8d7ddfbf-40bb-48eb-a3ec-b82502a237ef)

Malaya
Rice Ration (item number 1) (id 711abcda-8ce3-4601-9b81-f805b4b80d96)
Police (item number 1) (id 10e99733-43e7-488a-a0cc-fa392db252c0)
Cocoa Disease, Gold Coast (item number 1) (id 1d25a588-9c48-4e02-a18f-b2e24891de56)
War Damage, Malta (item number 1) (id 340ca394-7345-493c-b668-38600749529d)
Bbc And Tuc (Negotiations) (item number 1) (id da2ad5c1-0622-41f5-9363-573fae41dbe3)
Post Office (Letter Deliveries) (item number 1) (id e03f6872-9022-4a61-b25a-7a9950d3f7bd)
Building Licences (Limits) (item number 1) (id 3c52f15e-542f-4358-9743-8b4bd4b16138)

National Insurance
Retirement Pensions (item number 1) (id 14ba6e3a-1a5b-4387-96aa-6700a2952e76)
Industrial Accidents And Diseases (item number 1) (id 797065be-c626-4c7b-9886-943cd4484504)
Old Age Supplementary Pensioners (item number 1) (id 9d3ef78e-f95d-4232-806e-6a9e14011aed)
Assistance Board (Executive Directions) (item number 1) (id de9da7c1-75c8-410c-a175-7e32cea3f318)
Ministry's Staff (Superannuation) (item number 1) (id 4cd090f4-c05b-4983-8fb6-9725338fa380)

British Army
Dunham Park Camp, Altrincham (item number 1) (id a1fdf211-baaa-4d88-b6ee-acae92a853e1)
Recruiting Rally, Winchester (item number 1) (id dce4d97e-97ce-43de-9a3b-ccf1b85fe3b8)
Lands Branch, Eastern Command (Account) (item number 1) (id 08e2bf31-5e4b-435a-96ec-f792c22ebcd8)
Territorial Army Centres (item number 1) (id b8a96fde-e788-4a25-8649-1064f013274b)
Stateless Persons, Shanghai (item number 1) (id 1ca01646-3306-4205-9b77-266c31b891ea)

Food Supplies
Ministry's Staff (Convictions) (item number 1) (id 923778c9-d582-41a2-9b01-062fab9289ab)
Onion Imports (item number 1) (id f26fed5f-d4f5-4631-a611-f98e37ff70da)
Imported Nuts (item number 1) (id a9f4477b-f275-4fbe-86b5-5f11fafda67d)
Potatoes (item number 1) (id 0af22cd1-679b-43a0-a6b7-ee66b6c0375b)
Milk Retailers (Prosecutions) (item number 1) (id 3e366bd3-148f-4780-b66e-76581ec833e9)
Royal Air Force (Airman's Death) (item number 1) (id fbd696df-ebc5-4009-9926-1f456ed98b5a)
Steel Supplies (item number 1) (id 92a71e88-20a6-4aa5-b53f-f235ca000d56)
Council For Wales (Reports) (item number 1) (id 323f3451-f974-40ce-97fd-6021c9c50ede)

Roads
Street Lighting (Foggy Weather) (item number 1) (id 646bf464-64a4-4ec8-b681-197a55b4d12a)
Traffic Lights (Pedestrians) (item number 1) (id afb15327-ad05-48e2-8547-9aa6c4e52f80)

Scotland
Tubercular Cases (Houses) (item number 1) (id 7ef43e49-f6e7-483f-97e9-dd340a9d552a)
Housing (Roofing Materials) (item number 1) (id 23d81eb0-ff4d-4569-9706-b88acd5361ef)
Weir Stadium, Rayleigh (item number 1) (id ce48eaeb-ea5a-46af-8b82-c6bcd329c6bf)

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