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Commons Hansard for 27 April 1955 (Volume 540)

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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 15063378-35ea-4e23-b42a-c9e5c9bb3095)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 717d86ce-44bd-4250-9ddc-9f43fffcaa00)

Oral Answers To Questions
View all Oral Answers To Questions
Germany (Reunification) (item number 1) (id 20fb69bc-fa42-461c-b869-43130aa3705c)
Memorial Services, Bayeux (Passports) (item number 1) (id 98ad3e59-b18d-43a5-9235-be08d8025c69)
Burgess And Maclean (item number 1) (id 39477bca-6402-43a3-9747-4536b623998f)
British Embassy, Tokio (Bulletin) (item number 1) (id c7671e65-0d93-449a-9243-d8e14d7b81f7)
Malaya And Singapore (Chinese Nationals) (item number 1) (id 27dd6d55-61cd-47e1-ab08-68b5ad389b37)
Formosa (Situation) (item number 1) (id ed2fe940-ca36-4e2e-8f24-4f39a5deba94)
Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Agreement) (item number 1) (id 44643522-d61e-49e7-8c89-4241452a14c6)

Gibraltar
Port Development Project (item number 1) (id 798aeb19-db2c-417b-8b77-ea1de8175ac4)
Tourist Industry (item number 1) (id a95049bc-370b-4b12-bb60-c9eb375dba28)
Secretary Of State's Visit (item number 1) (id 3e7d97e8-0895-468b-a19e-b42e2c177049)

Cyprus
Disturbances (item number 1) (id e3470b92-50e4-47ad-87ad-99f1901c38dc)
Constitution (item number 1) (id 244900f4-0ba1-4d92-bf1a-e02a157f8958)
Port Development Schemes (item number 1) (id 71fe116a-0b65-4246-9bfc-c2259f5aab89)

Kenya
Civil Servants (Land Ownership) (item number 1) (id 53b2f620-92dc-4b47-9b18-d2753ebb6155)
Death Sentences (item number 1) (id 95c63c36-bea7-45e9-816e-be222f6cc469)
Kikuyu Home Guard (Supreme Court Judgment) (item number 1) (id 9488d42e-8821-42bc-9479-d1362a1f9297)
Administration Of Native Courts (Report) (item number 1) (id f0aede09-b36f-462d-96e5-d21c8a52dacf)
Displaced Kikuyu (item number 1) (id 394768be-6a0b-48dc-a4c3-7e6ce7b8f7c7)
Land Holdings (Confiscation Orders) (item number 1) (id 39fa0510-5de2-45b4-9a29-3ccb4145599e)
Nyeri District Commissioner (Posting) (item number 1) (id 25122ca2-15be-41fa-a3c9-3bbabab48b84)
Screening Camps And Interrogation Centres (Report) (item number 1) (id d5275dc3-0c5d-4aa6-affe-52c12d6e2fad)

Colonial Territories
Leprosy (item number 1) (id 714f6e29-9184-4144-8180-8345fc16adad)
Annual Reports (Publication) (item number 1) (id 1ccd5e44-1743-4e14-bc1c-c256264d2f10)
African Colonies (Juvenile Delinquency) (item number 1) (id c1310df1-79ae-4cb7-a3dd-0adaac7b0f6d)

Malaya And Singapore
English Language (Use And Instruction) (item number 1) (id 10aeb371-0173-4e88-a22b-4a431bf6f4e9)
Chinese Middle School (Students' Union) (item number 1) (id 6c20f977-9213-47d6-8bb9-a56618301620)
Ministerial Appointments (item number 1) (id fd17c009-371f-4207-917b-b54cd727f684)
Election Results (item number 1) (id fb3b9812-b517-40ed-a975-3769d9fa4802)
University Of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (Building Plans) (item number 1) (id 30a0990a-a684-4745-b978-b574adec1b68)
Transport Industry (Report) (item number 1) (id f396e57a-6816-4070-9bd3-878cea5b54eb)
Trinidad (Jehovah's Witnesses) (item number 1) (id 2a048be7-b82c-4a84-90f3-2ec41860eb37)
Bahamas (Forest Fires) (item number 1) (id ee319a18-ae98-4635-a692-9b6871a638c1)
Buganda (Constitution) (item number 1) (id 806e830f-625f-4d52-b7a8-a4b205dbe22d)
Uganda (African Ginneries) (item number 1) (id d2f0502f-e495-4642-8aea-58eaa43f6554)
Zanzibar (Clove Industry) (item number 1) (id 45bb84a3-632c-490e-a891-f503745fc930)
Post Office (Telegraph Poles) (item number 1) (id 9153b185-0727-410a-b22b-de58e830e21a)

Telephone Service
Litherland (item number 1) (id 97212b6b-90fe-4ef2-aad9-a2871268d7b1)
Vicar Of Burntwood (item number 1) (id 99fb9f08-9cc8-4e01-b001-752f1c347ac6)
Enfield Exchange (item number 1) (id 8aa57f9c-bc09-49d6-92f4-5be03a07adad)
Television Licences (item number 1) (id 44b8a2e2-e917-4b85-8933-ab4cf4fbb98d)
Royal Air Force (Aircraft Mechanics) (item number 1) (id da36f149-930e-4eda-8a53-5f5df2d7eefc)
A77 Trunk Road, Monkton (Speed Limit) (item number 1) (id 32f0822d-a541-4bd9-be5f-8337a627fc0b)
Shipping (Repatriated Crews) (item number 1) (id 4df8b36d-1896-4582-9150-8ca2503323d4)

Civil Aviation
Renfrew Airport (Scottish Aviation Limited) (item number 1) (id 3cddc0c1-96fa-4fdc-a968-a59bf963431f)
Aircraft Requirements (Aircrew) (item number 1) (id fa7a6bbd-6580-42db-88d3-598be6038528)
Air Safety Board (item number 1) (id 3489f057-58d3-484f-98c9-62e652cf9825)
Canals (Closure Orders) (item number 1) (id 84b6fe91-d3c4-4da3-a015-288b0d0f2771)
Transport Levy (item number 1) (id 23a9d533-3fd9-4ed2-8eaa-c6c4fd106d7d)
Railway Footplate Workers (Dispute) (item number 4) (id db32cdab-a5bc-4538-9c1d-96126065fa10)
Business Of The House (item number 5) (id a92047ae-25df-4646-bb5b-457276d24529)

Orders Of The Day
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Finance Bill (item number 1) (id f5a39f70-0d8a-4d7f-89d4-0d299cadfae8)
Clause 1—;(Charge Of Income Tax For 1955–56 And Surtax Rates For 1954–55) (item number 1) (id e09b55d7-26d0-4976-9214-63bbd3af28c3)
Clause 2—;(Alterations In Personal Reliefs) (item number 1) (id 3807964a-890c-4676-95f0-9ebedc4c9c38)
National Insurance (No 2) Bill (item number 1) (id 25296d8d-a923-49be-b534-105fe1ada297)
Public Libraries (Scotland) Bill (item number 1) (id d1f73328-0165-4ab4-8ade-2ab3d66540e3)
Adjournment (item number 1) (id 43b3da69-e7c4-441d-8992-fc46f13af7c1)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 74dec88b-ade1-46b6-9d08-4a9489895f41)
Nuclear Weapons (Experimental Explosions) (item number 2) (id 5c3514eb-0d99-4efa-a4db-b1d9872c8832)
Four-Power Talks (item number 3) (id 86f3b189-e329-4a88-be7b-313b6d362de7)

West Indies
Trinidad (Jehovah's Witnesses) (item number 1) (id fbb0168e-e8dd-46bb-b8d3-bccc3a641b30)
Jamaica (Private Capital Investment) (item number 1) (id efefde72-9cc3-4a84-9c59-6a734da549fa)
British Guiana (Legal Aid) (item number 1) (id 14f77b38-df8c-4bac-b730-63a72c86431f)
West India Regiment (Re-Formation Proposals) (item number 1) (id de815639-dde9-4f97-ad64-fff98bf66615)

Kenya
Royal Commission On Land (Report) (item number 1) (id 600e889d-1a8e-41e3-ad7f-a2f2dad11574)
Capital Offences (Emergency Regulations) (item number 1) (id d074e5e0-b559-4d8e-92b2-7120d8957756)
St Helena (Visits By Departmental Officers) (item number 6) (id 914d3286-a49c-4ad6-86f8-e6d26a4bb708)
Eastern Nigeria (Supplementary Appropriation Bill) (item number 7) (id 58a68286-062f-4e44-8370-cdabb9a97879)
British Caribbean Federation (item number 8) (id 7611c429-7a20-4f95-a2ea-e70e34f6e1ec)

Telephone Service
Directory, West Middlesex (item number 1) (id 5e4d6459-d3b0-42b1-8efb-fc3b649c19f4)
Kiosk, Birmingham (Member's Inquiry) (item number 1) (id b0f3878e-d59c-434a-988b-38b0d7045dc7)

Wireless And Television
Transmitter, Rosemarkie (Range) (item number 1) (id 2cd4a0db-8212-43ca-a4b9-9e3d30a1cc47)
Television Licences, Stockport And Sunderland (item number 1) (id fef1e774-a289-455a-a0fd-08acdc3e4803)
Combined Licence Cost (Blind Persons) (item number 1) (id f7cf94d4-9d67-494a-aa15-4830f638bb11)
Royal Air Force (National Service Men) (item number 11) (id 622ceb10-cad7-4eb0-be67-8b1b2710ba41)

Transport
British Road Services Vehicles (Sales) (item number 1) (id a4be58ea-d417-42c3-a2de-091bf6a38557)
Parking (Lights) (item number 1) (id a9eb5201-e0da-4864-9ba9-9a011bdea640)
Waterways (item number 1) (id 441dbbd4-0010-47a4-ac7c-cc16b64ed030)
Headlamps (Standards) (item number 1) (id d50360ec-73e8-4b5b-862d-a71a92ea32fe)
Road Casualties (item number 13) (id fdb023c2-a2db-4f5a-9417-659dba2e46ef)
Service Departments (Over-Estimates) (item number 14) (id d2cdc6c9-214a-4295-94fe-01a2576ae9a0)
Questions To Ministers (Nationalised Industries) (item number 15) (id 18756630-a303-4844-98ff-dcc182d7a328)
National Finance (Indirect Taxation) (item number 16) (id a1b02a6a-43a0-43f2-829b-e04dca780097)

Railways
Electrification (item number 1) (id bcad3e95-c465-40b6-ab79-a0a9f3595dce)
Superannuitants (Increased Pension Supplements) (item number 1) (id ff923d83-c484-439a-a688-53c799326c74)
Direct-Grant Schools (Special Responsibility Allowances) (item number 18) (id 35e35298-f7de-415e-8e4b-d1b20686eeaf)

Ministry Of Health
Dentistry (Teaching Facilities, Cardiff) (item number 1) (id 2b0fc5f2-c829-442c-a3b0-cdf20f6248fa)
Measles Epidemic, Cardiff (item number 1) (id 1951fbd6-904f-4ec2-8a59-e8324dc3a5e9)
Coal Prices (Horticultural Industry) (item number 20) (id 3b5e3fe0-e9e3-4496-a886-fb276ae34e7d)
New Road, Fareham— Lee-On-The-Solent (item number 21) (id 96161518-c9af-41dd-a460-5c7ecf46e66b)
Farm Tractors (Children) (item number 22) (id 3d0519d6-04be-456e-8ad4-8ed17bd1d205)
Scotland (Hospital Pharmacists) (item number 23) (id ca36b8e5-da7a-4779-bf15-b17c8c99288c)

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