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Commons Hansard for 15 December 1949 (Volume 470)

From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated 13 May 2018 at 3.31am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons (item number 1) (id 45d022b9-9d67-488c-b6ed-93c656ed3221)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 3b66f985-f944-491f-a357-8eb3f70cf41d)
Messages From The King (item number 3) (id 8a74d5cf-102a-4f61-b270-c95ddb5be74f)
Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) (item number 4) (id 4056c30e-ddb7-4e6b-8872-60cfa896d93e)
Emergency Laws (Transitional Provisions) (item number 5) (id 4171ec50-2703-4d68-be9a-d99ed5a008eb)
Employment And Training (item number 6) (id a9058b24-c597-4362-b855-ff7a88693aa0)

Oral Answers To Questions
View all Oral Answers To Questions
Central African Territories (Co-Operation) (item number 1) (id a73abe8f-b1ac-463d-8aba-2560346d72c7)

Trade And Commerce
Staff (Election Candidates) (item number 1) (id 844627fb-986f-4c46-812a-b79ded8976c2)
Timber Control (Softwood) (item number 1) (id 5deeee06-d578-4526-ab5a-655d0ffd4679)
Periodicals (Paper Supplies) (item number 1) (id e011b560-1570-429b-a6e7-228f1bd2207b)
Development Councils (item number 1) (id 58401468-b0cd-4ccf-8a55-a6a5bbd5d47b)
Raw Silk (Imports) (item number 1) (id 07f5a3d9-2ec4-4b2d-8307-82e64ac888a2)
Babies Napkins (item number 1) (id 644fec5f-30ea-48f3-a2c7-54de4e2a0887)
Census Of Production (item number 1) (id e2e7dd62-c8ee-4756-a7fa-ffe052d8f8e2)
Import Relaxations (item number 1) (id 4cbd73b9-50cd-493a-bb95-43fac177db7f)
Hardwood (De-Control) (item number 1) (id 10584fe3-2367-4143-9d09-c7dc5bdbf1e3)
Export Credit Facilities (Publicity) (item number 1) (id 7213d426-e7b6-4742-bc6e-fa42df02ae7c)
Argentina (Export Market) (item number 1) (id c2c9cd69-3cf2-4544-b846-e2ff6f1aed37)
Exports (Transport Costs) (item number 1) (id 6e6a0e9c-8421-4f58-98b2-ffba9db8e31d)
British Samples, Usa (Customs) (item number 1) (id 7c58cf5a-aa4f-4d10-a405-fd848a801df7)
Taxicabs, London (item number 1) (id cabd69ea-ea93-4077-96bb-913e245cd37b)
Civil Defence (Recruitment) (item number 1) (id e0cdbb5c-1279-44c0-808c-a1b65a4dc36a)

Electoral Registration
Bedford (item number 1) (id 4c2d2edc-d677-4202-b690-74ce512a3974)
Service Voters (item number 1) (id c84c267c-9bab-4143-bb50-9f758cf0d779)

Police
Shorthand-Writers (item number 1) (id 8a292063-fa9d-46f6-9c6a-54825baec6f7)
Housing (item number 1) (id c92e3c2f-7779-4ee4-bd50-00ffbb0f7bb6)

Remand Homes And Approved Schools
Accommodation (item number 1) (id dbcaa3c2-792e-4c91-8569-450b9dddaae1)
Absconders (Imprisonment) (item number 1) (id 13e05188-b597-4f97-84ba-e49cad483642)
Racehorses (Doping) (item number 1) (id eef501fd-cb0b-4d7f-aa89-e3b49cb81f45)
Mountain Rescue Parties (Morphia) (item number 1) (id e0436d6e-78d7-44c0-a528-11c338dab465)

National Health Service
Cottage Hospitals (Charges) (item number 1) (id 172d6d77-3719-4835-8a5f-7f81b57a29f5)
Hearing Aids (item number 1) (id 75a46675-0361-4b87-9113-ebe9bbbcf837)

Housing
Council Sites, Kent (item number 1) (id 03b01c4b-b4ef-44fe-9893-17cc3416e2c5)
Farm Workers' Cottages (Reconditioning) (item number 1) (id 6eade867-dbfa-431c-b045-a2642c99ae6a)
Building Materials (Freight Charges) (item number 1) (id 0d79e88f-42a8-4296-b677-7cd8b8aa01aa)
Electrical Power Industry (Dispute) (item number 1) (id 317c02f1-2881-4d51-85b5-7aa167a16cb4)
Business Of The House (item number 8) (id a24b6ef7-f5af-4cd8-b718-4396454e390a)

Orders Of The Day
View all Orders Of The Day
Distribution Of German Enemy Property Bill (item number 1) (id 729811e2-c3d1-4f14-9cc6-f6e700b5b16b)
Clause 1 —(Collection, Realisation And Distribution Of German Enemy Property) (item number 1) (id faeecd58-7411-4b0f-9065-e57357544799)
Nutrition (item number 1) (id d9324139-2584-4138-a73d-b25e42c0d49f)
Political Parties (Accounts) (item number 1) (id db7a3364-efba-4319-aa04-6fd24631041a)
Parliament Square (Improvements) Bill (item number 1) (id a044be8f-cb72-452c-8756-54d9fb528013)
Clause 3 —(Supplementary Provisions As Respects The New Gardens) (item number 1) (id 4edf2d0a-ab61-4b02-9357-2984cc7ce8aa)
Television Service (Extension) (item number 1) (id c0d0538a-23e0-4610-9450-c4fdaae8d202)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 47463de7-c68a-4cab-bc04-f3d7d76f1c34)

Trade And Commerce
Oeec Countries (item number 1) (id e5ba37d6-ad9f-4218-8ef4-37b105adfd49)
Anglo-Soviet Agreement (item number 1) (id 3892ac80-8c5f-43d6-9984-0ca4c846f3d9)
Anglo-Hungarian Negotiations (item number 1) (id f47d5e59-529f-4acb-a3a5-0e34ceef5d7f)
Sulphate Of Ammonia (Export) (item number 1) (id 457c35e5-38c3-47d3-8a19-8ef5bbfd3098)
Film Base (Dollar Imports) (item number 1) (id 6187e767-8b75-4815-b98e-815e6f333ea6)
Plastics Industry (Raw Materials) (item number 1) (id 4e1d5771-459d-4303-97c3-b62578615b97)
Corduroy Garments (Price Control) (item number 1) (id 9623980a-753d-46ca-811c-e4d26a6dff2c)
Indonesia (Representation) (item number 1) (id d227fbae-ebce-4fe3-9f57-946f846b63f5)
Scottish Firms (Dollar Exports) (item number 1) (id 4d672b22-6c96-4133-ae94-b837eeb16902)
Civil Defence (item number 3) (id f83bbf38-3b72-46ab-a238-f0c78a326e86)
Mountain Rescue Parties (Morphia) (item number 4) (id 22216874-fc51-463f-ab5f-072ad24c0ec2)
British Legion Home, Hampstead (item number 5) (id 4ba0eed1-3c19-4055-b9fa-c7a8ca025779)
Summer Time, 1950 (item number 6) (id 342bb4a3-21f0-449c-a6d9-548377404f07)
Sex Offences (item number 7) (id 7bb0cb15-2e4d-4c2d-bf11-63e5a61544b5)
Socialised Industries (Boards) (item number 8) (id 3f149287-6323-4630-a3d2-df884fc10126)
Defence (Consultations) (item number 9) (id 1d2977ed-07bf-40e9-9c3d-7f2bd4b0014c)
Research And Development Corporation (item number 10) (id eef759d7-eac5-435f-a203-3753b15d391e)

Agriculture
Veterinary Therapeutic Substances (item number 1) (id cf67b653-3d04-47f0-826b-2324df8f4a97)
Wool (Payment) (item number 1) (id 03681f04-67dd-42ee-a467-38ff1b97a056)
Research (item number 1) (id 2604e1b6-4061-4a28-98db-0c74339ef767)
Supervision Orders (item number 1) (id b7742413-478d-4d55-a49d-44da2b49b03d)
County Committees (Trading Accounts) (item number 1) (id 50a59667-517f-4635-b149-f943a2fd4810)
Grassland Productivity (item number 1) (id 78e9eb89-67cb-4482-a59a-6fecfb4c1a59)
County Committees' Staff (item number 1) (id 37b09c67-c107-46fb-b5ea-50c50a5cf445)
Horses (Export And Slaughter) (item number 1) (id 3052a89f-9ddf-4c76-9989-8a4a9a6c5c5f)
Sand Removal, Mawgan Porth (item number 1) (id a569cb27-9dbd-4f97-9cd2-83be77a46b93)
Allotment Holders (Pig Keeping) (item number 1) (id 72d37404-6538-4f11-bee1-010871e408d6)
Vegetable Research Station (item number 1) (id 3727cf31-8a9e-48f7-b930-de8be7678138)
Sugar Beet Pulp (Price) (item number 1) (id ce3a46a1-e1c3-4b0b-a0a6-3b1a67246487)
Allotment Holders (Tenure) (item number 1) (id 81492598-3430-45af-952c-d24fcfed623f)
Railway And Canal Charges (item number 1) (id 3316512e-83af-4363-9531-3b14bc912ce4)
Land Agents (Communications) (item number 1) (id bd7ea81a-4375-4185-80a6-eaeb1e78ec42)
Timber Felling, Usselby Estate (item number 1) (id 48a0782a-6f68-41ef-983d-fb5416acc924)

Fishing Industry
Oyster Production (item number 1) (id 3fef97da-32e4-4c51-996e-550d380a79c2)
North Sea Grounds (Depletion) (item number 1) (id 9519c2f4-322e-4e53-b805-3accc7b263d8)
River Diwell (Clearance Scheme) (item number 13) (id 4b5e1d5b-df48-4b25-98c6-ea8e9bac7e58)

National Finance
Sterling Transactions, New York (item number 1) (id b5673889-1cd5-4974-9d87-65e81f58b26a)
Works Of Art (Customs Forms) (item number 1) (id 460b1522-a799-4eaf-af79-5028dcd8bf58)
Arts Council (Agreements) (item number 1) (id 4ef9253a-53b2-4a8d-b24d-a83ea2051efa)
Nationalised Industries (Compensation) (item number 1) (id ea22291e-16c2-4484-85fb-646cec549892)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id b97ef166-a2f5-4c58-bbd5-ad44dae1f349)
Co-Operative Societies (Taxation) (item number 1) (id d9f35450-67f3-45fc-9293-c2c924362e6e)
American Investment (item number 1) (id dd303ce0-a19a-48bd-b643-c5b3ac0a11af)
Bonus Shares Issues (item number 1) (id df3a77c2-6e40-4501-a630-6a1ec0f1216e)
American Gift Parcels (item number 1) (id cdf6863a-8f5b-4c3e-ba90-eaead1dfc5cd)
Marks Hall, Essex (Auction) (item number 1) (id e17a4ad3-46e5-4f8c-8a8d-fbd2ca2309a2)
Medical Aid Societies (Dissolution) (item number 1) (id 9557f75a-2bfd-4a21-8341-6de7d4a138a2)
Savings (item number 1) (id cb9c046d-fa7c-4a52-8fec-a90032011c22)
Employers' Christmas Presents (item number 1) (id d622b2a5-c058-4c77-9b66-7800b276d182)
Capita Issues Committee (Instructions) (item number 1) (id a3628df1-12cf-452a-b9d6-e46cdeb5af4c)
Food And Raw Materials (Dollar Purchases) (item number 1) (id db0c389b-f99c-4054-93c5-9f02aca6bfd4)
Purchase Tax (item number 1) (id 3573d3a0-62c8-4e96-bba4-112c19f8504e)
Civil Service (Ex-Service Men) (item number 1) (id 8e344d46-f288-46b1-8d4c-a756137cb42b)
Local Government Manpower (Report) (item number 1) (id 9c696443-5e30-43f3-a7d9-e5fc30b3d1f7)

National Health Service
Cottage Hospital, Beverley (item number 1) (id 1012e950-4e22-4c65-bc2c-a34d0f225e98)
Spectacles (item number 1) (id 6d8fd61f-f721-4ce4-91a2-c8df87a627bc)
Hospital Staffs (Salaries) (item number 1) (id 627d23f0-dc89-42d3-9b1a-a6d249ab7252)
Victoria Hospital, Kingston (item number 1) (id d0b30510-2d29-4cd7-b6ac-d84c0b5bf8fd)
Hospitals, Sooth-East Essex (item number 1) (id 6f87c626-da8f-415a-9b84-035c18dd0d0d)
Preston Hall Sanatorium (item number 1) (id 503b3ac1-8a33-4aca-81eb-ddf4389c31dd)
Chiropodists (item number 1) (id 09a800e0-2042-474d-bfea-6b497de18f84)
Supplementary Estimates (item number 1) (id 806afcb3-88d9-459b-9e4a-2a20716add4e)
Personal Cases (item number 1) (id 213d76a2-282e-443e-a1a7-8c281162e1b7)
Child Patients (Visits) (item number 1) (id 7e5ba231-b1ae-402a-b5de-9e267beb2e0b)
Hospitals (Cheap Travel Tickets) (item number 1) (id 7160b30f-cf04-4b7d-890f-63b113230ae1)
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham (item number 1) (id 78486911-11b6-47e1-b7af-5daa9a2a95de)
Wood's Hospital, Glossop (item number 1) (id d600eb98-615a-4527-9c5c-3b3701fd6a41)
House Purchase, Kensington (Sanction) (item number 1) (id 8508bb9b-6ae3-459b-91a4-6a6d8866b39d)
Appropriation Account (item number 1) (id 959d52ea-f157-485e-945c-91c8a5bb8823)
Doctors (Calls) (item number 1) (id 982734f8-f466-442a-8312-2f7c5e4a9344)

Housing
Temporary Accommodation (item number 1) (id 5f536009-2b36-47dd-944b-58d7c4e2c200)
Clitheroe Rural District (item number 1) (id 94ac2fcd-7731-4410-bcfb-8cf72f44b6bd)
Private Enterprise Building (item number 1) (id 9d75b342-ebeb-4be6-b04a-c6fea3fe91c8)
Domestic Heating (item number 1) (id 309107be-bb2a-4ede-992b-b75a33d9e29c)
Statistics (item number 1) (id 9c5b36b2-0682-42d9-a47b-920f57524a17)
House Agents' Charges (item number 1) (id 054b3add-5ddd-438a-ba53-6cecbbba7a61)
Slum Clearance, Birmingham (item number 1) (id 90e35e8b-c3d0-4ce4-a5a6-bea1e4ee5ca2)
Tenancies (Coloured Persons) (item number 1) (id 9ac6de75-1e2a-4a9f-a350-000afe4fb748)
Rent Tribunals (item number 1) (id f33fbc14-da0d-4f71-a3bd-3eeea61c21c2)

Water Supplies
Reservoir, Milford (item number 1) (id 9cf2d499-4347-453f-9849-e8405ea5cbea)
Enborne Valley Scheme (item number 1) (id bc40689a-4b76-43c3-81b3-e859d5456bfd)
Ripon And Patley Bridge District (item number 1) (id 9d147923-1f3a-4059-938e-070eb2e97323)
Surveys (item number 1) (id 576c16b8-6ad9-4548-9766-f1c189d5aa1b)
Clay And Chalk Pits (item number 1) (id 5db03e98-27b6-49b8-a5d4-5ce1dff0d8f6)
River Pollution (item number 1) (id 6e996658-acb7-464b-a308-1487a2916156)
Coast Erosion, Cornwall (item number 18) (id 196cbb4d-42f3-45a8-8cea-a20f4c27510e)

Public Health
Cafes And Snack-Bars (Hygiene) (item number 1) (id d4bb2c31-5899-4362-9668-c30d2b106eef)
Caravan Dwellers (item number 1) (id 8e9b23ee-da80-47c2-84aa-afa830211085)
Local Government Officers (Salaries) (item number 20) (id a18d32f8-0518-449d-b43b-13c4bafa8a71)

Employment
Newport (item number 1) (id ad52f135-71e9-4c81-9a26-ff7cd31ecf7e)
German Women (item number 1) (id 44970b38-ccb0-4586-828d-867fc073b9b4)
Birmingham (item number 1) (id 0c5b9b70-a776-404b-8616-d0d2b611be27)
Dock Strikes (Review) (item number 1) (id 7066b439-2c99-4cc5-81ca-b9620780cc64)
Mule And Ring Spinners (item number 1) (id c877b3db-2109-44f7-89be-af6be3d5223b)
Dispute, Brentford (item number 1) (id 274cbadd-bff0-488e-adfd-3136f65c8e12)
Coal Industry (Disputes) (item number 1) (id 27babe2a-e2d4-41f8-a704-58863705a6f5)
Printing And Bookbinding (item number 1) (id aa6d1425-0ea7-4905-a510-890bf1810769)
Unemployment Statistics (item number 1) (id b71c9589-5231-4f89-a081-62ed2b7854ca)
Co-Partnership And Profit Sharing (item number 1) (id bb0c5019-e0fd-49ae-bf55-0bb1367c4273)
Hackney And Stoke Newington (item number 1) (id c0d2026c-9fe7-40fd-89ab-3729db699905)

Education
Grammar Schools, North Riding (item number 1) (id f4ce5372-b82e-4e1f-82dd-1463631e845c)
Black-Listed Schools (item number 1) (id 8f7b580f-607c-48d2-8596-0a6baf822d16)
Deaf Children (Special Schools) (item number 1) (id 1852fc8c-274c-4bd8-a425-b49fbf3aea14)
Students (Awards, Grants And Loans) (item number 1) (id 70a7f952-e2b0-45a5-ba5c-a90ffa8fdb91)
School Attendance (item number 1) (id ab56563f-6228-4fe4-bc44-65548ed0e9bb)
Economy Measures (item number 1) (id b6535c2d-7c19-4ad5-acec-b23ebb4caf98)
School Records (item number 1) (id c066eff8-16a2-4062-a534-287488c58584)
School Population (item number 1) (id 92212ee1-b498-47d3-a140-22c24d6a48c3)
School Dental Service (item number 1) (id 88ea66ca-539d-428b-9ab8-a456bae6ceb4)
College Testimonials (item number 1) (id c381a744-43a3-4016-af5b-ea96d909c244)

Ministry Of Pensions
Surgical Boots (item number 1) (id 36a3594c-aa0f-4f5c-b1c3-6e30249400db)
Hospital Patients (Ex-Service Men) (item number 1) (id 2499831e-19f7-4440-8a1e-ccad326219f3)
Personal Case (item number 1) (id 9185e956-5430-496e-af85-521d9ebcd723)

Fuel And Power
Commercial Petrol (Regulations) (item number 1) (id e4ea0e0d-5ec0-414b-886d-fd2b9173a813)
Rural Electrification (item number 1) (id eeec2585-1404-4192-9f83-58ac664feffa)
Mineral Development (Committee's Report) (item number 1) (id 3011ad22-fe56-4208-a3c6-144aff844b6d)

Scotland
Nurse, Isle Of Stroma (item number 1) (id dc2d38bd-3fae-450b-bf6c-b991d623994c)
Land Reclamation (item number 1) (id bd2bae05-adfd-426b-8235-70e1dce3eab7)
Secondary And Primary Schools (item number 1) (id 18d49c9e-564a-42d5-b302-f142c2e39ef3)
Footbridge Proposal, Edinburgh (item number 1) (id 082ed93f-2df8-4c8a-b7c0-6f9108cb92a5)
Farmhouse Tenancy, Inveran (item number 1) (id 8ea3f71a-04bd-431f-9be2-ad52dcccf7ff)

Ministry Of Works
Cement Supplies, Cornwall (item number 1) (id 4bf9fe7c-5c65-464a-ae6b-99d65ffa5783)
Camp, Bedfordshire (Sickbay) (item number 1) (id 31428743-86b2-4ed8-8426-5577c1f250e6)
Steel Economy (item number 1) (id 868e33bf-cb19-4285-a342-972a73c90264)
Radio Reception, Stockton-On-Tees (item number 27) (id 45d24b55-2041-492c-8832-d0e3cd047ce5)

Food Supplies
Cob Nuts (Imports) (item number 1) (id eaadda17-aa6d-47e5-a4db-ff5764706148)
Meat (Distribution And Importation Costs) (item number 1) (id 810e4af0-a9d2-49c3-9cc5-d8ade04c67f9)
Departmental Official (item number 1) (id 65a5c048-5279-4357-9da7-f6c4904dcfa8)
Bacon Curing (item number 1) (id 645e64f0-a9bf-4d7b-9295-2fe6fee4d6de)
Food Store, Wirral (item number 1) (id a6eb4fa1-d6dd-4d03-a8bf-42a960babe0f)
Fish Prices (Decontrol) (item number 1) (id e78cb781-c404-4266-a89a-e670db55d38d)
Potatoes (Grading) (item number 1) (id 8c7f4c2c-efe5-42b7-90e1-6a8dbc9e6611)
London Tea Market (item number 1) (id 9fcca42b-9ec1-44c4-a96f-4c94c9fae7eb)
Gift Parcels (item number 1) (id 4bf9750e-4ec4-4ecc-aa19-570e81deb35f)

Transport
Loss Of Office (Compensation) (item number 1) (id 4ab3448e-4b6c-4c70-80fe-585b56d467a9)
Bus Station, Newport (item number 1) (id 806c52d9-c63f-4311-9634-e2b56ee85f0c)
Bridge, Hythe (item number 1) (id 93e30cf3-c70f-41cb-9477-556dc7949360)
Ashford—Folkestone Road (Improvements) (item number 1) (id a13aa393-c0ab-47a9-a506-c342af30ea6c)
Level Crossing, Lairg (item number 1) (id 951f0df3-b5fd-417c-8ac4-3dc5fae2046f)
British Transport Commission (item number 1) (id b4af68cb-3022-40fb-bc35-b5a9c0a5bd03)

Burma
Expropriated Undertakings (Compensation) (item number 1) (id 8b795aef-f89c-4217-b883-61ef023a711e)
Parliamentary Delegation (item number 1) (id f0a2d3f5-83f7-43ea-8b5c-88369c8949cb)

Malaya
Casualties (item number 1) (id db1c62fd-b2db-49dd-9508-1dbab6922cd7)
Banditry (Communists) (item number 1) (id f80f8bf7-3b29-4f50-814f-034b9912e9f9)
Nigeria (Disturbances) (item number 1) (id ebec5b82-9352-4927-9394-6479e77eabee)
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