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Commons Hansard for 17 December 1953 (Volume 522)
From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated
11 May 2018 at 9.36pm.
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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Employment
Industrial Rehabilitation Units, Tees-Side
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Drop Forging Industry (Committee's Report)
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Lorries, Corby (Sale)
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Engineering And Shipbuilding Workers (Pay)
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Factory Inspectorate Recruits (Background)
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Notification Of Vacancies Order
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Building Workers, London
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Railwaymen (Earnings)
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Strike Action (Secret Ballots)
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Cost Of Living
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National Health Service
Rehabilitation Centres
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Old Age Pensioners (Chiropody)
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Mental Hospitals (Nurses' Pay And Pensions)
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Old Age Pensioners (Prescription Charges)
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Aliens (Treatment)
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Mental Defectives, Derbyshire (Care)
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Expectant Mothers, Hove (Accommodation)
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Hospitals (New Towns)
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New Hospital Construction
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Children's Spectacle Frames
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Prescription Costs (Redaction)
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Ministry Of Health
Old People's Homes
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Artificial Limbs (Repair)
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Water Supplies (Fluoridation)
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Disabled Persons (Motor Tricycles)
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Day Nurseries, Middlesex
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Moh Service (Recruitment)
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Tuberculosis, Wales
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Federal Assembly, Rhodesia And Nyasaland (Gift)
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Business Of The House
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Bill Presented
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Adjournment (Christmas)
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Foreign Affairs
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Teachers (Supply And Training)
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Written Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions
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Ministry Of Health
Prescriptions (Tuberculosis Patients)
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Food Poisoning
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Mental Hospitals (Beds)
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Assistant Doctors
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Births And Deaths Registrations, Kirkby
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Education
Teachers' Salaries
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Secondary Schoolchildren, Newcastle-Under-Lyme
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Bilingualism (French Proposal)
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School-Building Programme
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Workers' Educational Association
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Teachers (Recruitment)
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Students (Vacation Allowances)
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Technical Education (Counterpart Funds)
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School Meals, Bradford
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Further Education Establishments (Students)
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Food Poisoning Outbreak, Halesowen
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Burnham Committee (Recommendations)
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Accommodation, Ripley And Belper
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Personal Case
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Infants, Cowley (Accommodation)
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Technical Teacher Training College, Bolton
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Sub-Normal Children, Swinton And Eccles
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Primary And Secondary Accommodation, Stroud
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Trade And Commerce
Distribution Of Industry Act (Grants)
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Canadian Customs (Textiles)
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American Apples
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Exporters (Government Services)
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Nylon Stockings (Sizes)
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Raw Cotton Commission (Discussions)
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Exports (Sales Promotion)
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National Finance
Property Deals (Loans)
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Import Duties Orders (Revenue)
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Entertainments Duty ("Braziliana")
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Shipbuilding (Credit Facilities)
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Cost Of Living (Budget)
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Old Age Pensioners
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Abstract Of Statistics (British Railways)
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Government-Owned Commodities (Insurance)
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Public Service Vehicles (Petrol Tax)
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Local Authority Borrowing (Short-Term Loans)
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Non-Industrial Civil Servants
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Agriculture
Fertilisers (Standards And Sale)
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Cattle, Kent (Tuberculosis)
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Land Drainage Sub-Committee (Recommendations)
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Dispossession Orders, Staffordshire
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Farm, North Denchworth (Management)
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Dispossession (Pending Cases)
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Seaweed (Utilisation)
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Egg Marketing (Farmers' Proposals)
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Danish Frozen Pork Imports (Foot-And-Mouth Disease)
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Sugar-Beet Factory Facilities, Southern England
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Home Department
Cardiff Schoolboy (Remand Home Detention)
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Explosion, Bristol
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Obscene Books And Postcards
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Incident, Leicester Square
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Street Collections (Advisory Committee)
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Sexual Crimes
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Waverley Committee (Report)
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Homosexuality
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Hotels And Restaurants (Colour Bar)
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Domestic Coal Stocks, Scotland
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Slaughter Of Horses
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Social Insurance (Commonwealth Reciprocal Arrangements)
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Scotland
Police (Agents Provocateurs)
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Mental Hospital, Polton
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Hay And Grass Silage
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Clyde Valley (Flooding)
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Drainage Schemes (Grants)
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Hospital Building
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Injured Miners, Fife (Hospital Treatment)
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Local Government
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Special Housing Association (Grant)
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Consular Officer, Ethiopia (Promulgation Of Appointment)
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United Nations
Volunteer Reserve Proposal
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Technical Assistance Programme (Uk Contribution)
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Icelandic Fisheries Dispute
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European Defence Community (British Association)
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London Railway Termini (Late Letter Postings)
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Sudan Elections (Voters)
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British Army
Soldier's Death, Fayid
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Medical Services, Mid-West District (Wrongly-Addressed Letters)
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Forces, Suez Canal Zone
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Helicopters (International Services)
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Roads
New Cavendish Bridge, River Trent
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Dual Carriageway Project, Great Cambridge Road
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Dartford-Purfleet And Whiteinch-Linthouse Tunnels
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Expenditure, Scotland And County Of London
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Ministry Of Supply (Fighting Vehicles Research Establishment)
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Bermuda (Order Of Precedence)
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Colonial Government
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West African Territories (Education)
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Industrial Wage Claims
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Footpath, Aintree (Unconfirmed Order)
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