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Commons Hansard for 17 December 1958 (Volume 597)

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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 dfb6e14b-b0ea-4df4-b0b7-b1f13b43ddb6)
Prayers (item number 2) (id af2bd818-1ffa-4aa8-9fff-c9a4262bcdad)

Petition
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Offley Training College (item number 1) (id e62408c0-7260-4f1f-861b-bc9e2ad5858b)

Oral Answers To Questions
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British Army
Lorries, Germany (item number 1) (id 63c80a51-b9b6-4dcb-8728-c81ffd3c2712)
Missiles (Nuclear Warheads) (item number 1) (id f1ced8ca-74d3-458d-87b5-6aa8abf580b2)
Tanks (item number 1) (id 14f24380-0ace-4494-ae73-898f2fe4ed7f)
Motor Cars (item number 1) (id 2d983f2f-f2dc-45b6-81d4-40abc919c7bc)
Combined Exercises, Germany (Borrowed Equipment) (item number 1) (id c6199b84-1fff-44c8-9fdf-0a64de7feeca)
Civilian, Singapore (Hospital Treatment) (item number 1) (id 0260289a-0a6d-4f4d-a851-1bc91d5c0b49)
Cyprus (Pamphlet) (item number 1) (id f5cc3675-1013-4285-a21a-786e782cfebb)
Troops, London (item number 1) (id 0882549b-1ee3-49e7-bfae-227d5df1e461)
Ordnance Depot, Didcot (Horses) (item number 1) (id 56b8b7cc-a08e-4088-88c8-ff913e4678a9)

Post Office
Road Works, London (item number 1) (id 34097177-1c9f-45b1-a6fa-bbf6a2833416)
Premium Bonds (item number 1) (id c8c46e41-1221-49eb-a5d8-4a21ebe6bcf7)
Post Office Engineers (Salary Claim) (item number 1) (id 350045c2-134d-4905-9e86-edea543a4f5b)
Staff Interchanges (item number 1) (id a611db21-83d7-4edc-a685-b4103ec7dffd)
Property, London (Rent) (item number 1) (id 29aa8524-7086-496c-96ce-429c4b986afc)

Telephone Service
Special Telephones (Deaf Persons) (item number 1) (id 376748c7-b763-4685-983d-2c93b8ca69e1)
Exchange, Rugby (item number 1) (id 0d9820c1-0dd9-4fe3-9ca3-69c3558ef0a9)
Shared Lines, Barry (item number 1) (id d0f40262-1d0f-4d58-9692-50b86db0b8d9)
Kiosks (New Design) (item number 1) (id d75d392b-78a0-4bd9-b354-a59a43eaaa16)

Wireless And Television
Advertisements (item number 1) (id 213fd1d9-906a-4233-9ca4-9c99506e0860)
Colour Television (item number 1) (id f9323910-e70b-4851-b0e4-faedcc74c6b9)
Reception, North-East Essex (item number 1) (id 10004e7f-9d05-48df-a7ce-b7560992b2c8)
Scotland (item number 1) (id a247180b-613c-4602-934f-9c1587579275)
Forward Scatter Stations (item number 1) (id af7c3ac5-a0f8-4ce7-b1e9-cef1afd46df9)
Schools Broadcasts (item number 1) (id e6d6601f-3c4b-4a7b-a43d-c92ab0c1c095)

Royal Air Force
Fairey Aviation Company, Valley (Contract) (item number 1) (id 7906cd48-41f2-4afb-a6aa-828f7b23a088)
Education Branch (item number 1) (id 70a13a7b-cdac-4521-b425-dfaed4ceda8b)
United States Air Base, Burtonwood (item number 1) (id 33c61f81-8564-4622-b774-90a030ca9c55)
Rocket Bases (item number 1) (id f2790379-70fa-4903-a829-e1cc2ea20f25)
Transport Aircraft (item number 1) (id ef797a5f-a3ff-4a1f-ab01-edca13f2e0e2)
Overseas Hospitals (Treatment Charges) (item number 1) (id fe8f993b-e8f5-4aeb-b23c-2462afc6c5be)
Minister Of Labour (Statement) (item number 1) (id 7e6978b3-5268-4005-8a38-95eb80f3f2e7)
Commonwealth (Member Countries) (item number 1) (id 909dadf1-1330-43ea-acb4-850646773842)
Questions To Ministers (item number 5) (id a05b0ba9-5fec-4d4f-a3cf-72a13c1b3410)
Business Of The House (item number 6) (id b051b7d3-4ab8-4ef7-bcef-b9aacdb02faa)
The West Indies (Gift Of Mace) (item number 7) (id a896c073-0a5f-4d14-9248-54703a7d0ef6)

Ballot For Notices Of Motions
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Needs Of The Arts (item number 1) (id 9f63c3e2-bc18-49a8-bfa3-dceee0702063)
Colonial Development Corporation (item number 1) (id b1ab37c0-7b41-48a5-9603-c494aa7be8f7)
Television Act (Operation) (item number 1) (id 554a8d53-4847-47fd-b64e-6708442366f6)

Bill Presented
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Mental Health (item number 1) (id a45eb2c8-ba46-44d1-b18d-9cd36b6e9169)
Sittings Of The House (item number 10) (id ae28e3d3-5135-4e34-911f-1d679f9d7404)
Adjournment (Christmas) (item number 11) (id 7c6e1ed7-51c4-427f-86f7-4a4f6299f5c2)
Housing (Underground Rooms) (item number 12) (id d4dda970-4b47-4270-881a-fe38db3d8b3d)
Housing (Underground Rooms) (item number 13) (id 3d9dbae5-1972-4660-9977-66edb5028dd2)
Adjournment (item number 14) (id 0668bee4-a20a-4384-82f4-682550304658)
Unemployment (item number 15) (id 731e7486-86cb-4791-b3d3-27a42508a9c5)
Sunday Cinematograph Entertainments (item number 16) (id f40c95d6-15f7-41b5-8984-1d78147e7ac0)
Timber Diseases (Treatment) (item number 17) (id 2917a55f-9858-407e-9fbb-94fc5ef9d46e)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 3d726246-39e7-4bc1-ae3b-2540b2aa5c93)

British Army
Nato Forward Strategy (item number 1) (id f802f5f3-c4f2-4c24-9a46-205c6846c13b)
Expenditure (item number 1) (id 3422f5f8-a338-42ce-9156-c391541d1462)
Boards Of Inquiry (item number 1) (id 859ad82f-c571-4c36-bade-a8b45b69f73f)

Telephone Service
Emergency Calls (item number 1) (id 268c6e2a-bb30-41ad-b8a0-68dc523c8fa6)
Waiting Lists (item number 1) (id fa173432-28f8-4ba2-8410-ad4c325b1e1c)
Western Isles (item number 1) (id 635e79cc-7f03-4c08-b6cb-227c97f484f6)

Post Office
Head Post Office, Omagh (item number 1) (id 2a8bf800-c558-41a3-b5b0-c87160858ab6)
Duct And Cable Work, Buckinghamshire (item number 1) (id e831add8-0113-43c2-b7fa-350b8c45e25c)
Circulars (item number 1) (id 057111a6-4fdf-4d81-8b57-d6efeed436d4)
Whitleigh, Plymouth (Building Work) (item number 1) (id 45d019e1-d680-46d0-adbd-9b9a9898bd9d)

Royal Air Force
Crofters, South Uist And Benbecula (Compensation) (item number 1) (id 958fd183-9157-46fb-9b9f-ab8d0974996a)
New Strike/Reconnaissance Aircraft (item number 1) (id 0de79feb-8648-4fe7-8afc-6b6278ad948f)
University Air Squadrons (item number 1) (id a6c6b173-ff4a-4fa1-b40a-3d943c598229)
Vehicles (Direction Indicators) (item number 1) (id 6bfb3591-4acb-4fd6-904d-c8419192d80b)
Disused Airfield (Holton, Suffolk) (item number 1) (id 21ad61e1-1b9c-4344-98f5-3a961e386a36)
Road And Pier Works, Western Isles (item number 1) (id e4906afa-d068-44c0-b229-f03f957c12d2)

Transport
Street Name-Plates (item number 1) (id 253d2548-5529-42c2-9420-845acf7c7165)
Taxi Ranks, Railway Stations (item number 1) (id e3e9ed47-81fc-4cb1-8dd2-1f5d75b75240)
Motor Vehicles (Off-Street Parking) (item number 1) (id aa8f1a4d-1664-41a9-88df-596fa9620fa3)
Lighting Of Traffic Routes (Committee) (item number 1) (id 97027cba-1f97-4ddd-a3e9-771586cba275)
Driving Tests (item number 1) (id d19755fc-4d79-4eb7-98ef-5de9e93b0a68)
Heavy Goods Vehicles (Lighting) (item number 1) (id cfca0326-182e-41a8-8a58-2b22ab168858)
Independent Operators (item number 1) (id 1368b2f1-bcc9-4dc7-9f3c-a2aae5cccdc0)
Fog (Motor Car Lights) (item number 1) (id 447b6bc4-cada-4357-aae6-098556ac8c2e)

Roads
Eton High Street (Relief Road) (item number 1) (id d1705f1e-6c4c-4d54-9f97-dcc9684ff188)
Chester Ring Road (item number 1) (id 914e5f96-0d4c-443b-bfc4-912bf89b6856)
Programme (item number 1) (id dfdec31c-6677-4e29-9348-8ccfd82c3a14)
Bristol Area (Grants) (item number 1) (id 04c3fbb1-f4f8-49c5-9494-a66cf2dc91be)
A4 Road (item number 1) (id 9aeb9e9c-8d2a-493e-95fb-f0b23ba4ba17)
Cornwall (Maintenance And Improvement) (item number 1) (id 188d4b10-031d-497b-85f5-d619fb0f55f4)
Manor Park Road, Willesden (item number 1) (id 555261e7-6398-438a-aebb-1d082face020)
Selby Toll Bridge (item number 1) (id 333181da-9b4d-432e-8fc6-4a50a62a8f91)
Motorways (Sale Of Alcohol) (item number 1) (id a96c5c52-7956-4339-ab70-685cf706d214)
A10 Road (Dual Carriageways) (item number 1) (id e9c5ae47-f644-4425-bb84-40de1c62de00)
Tyne Tunnel (item number 1) (id 62f9d5f7-a390-456d-8370-47546e26f0c4)

Civil Aviation
Turnhouse Aerodrome (Facilities) (item number 1) (id 80af8119-2abf-4305-9cc4-2f73c1e5d1f6)
Boeing 707 Aircraft (item number 1) (id b609e4a1-c99a-4c9e-aeaf-34f5d795f0e9)
Viking Aircraft (Safety Performance Regulations) (item number 1) (id 12e8c663-1608-4d08-8b40-5280397db4a6)
London Airport (Earth Banks) (item number 1) (id 3e94391e-df81-49a2-839c-3b8e6d716f4f)
Air Crews (Oxygen Apparatus) (item number 1) (id 8ecb8aa2-a0a6-42a3-9905-9a6f4057639e)

Shipping
Laid-Up Tonnage (item number 1) (id 263facc2-5a60-455c-924d-f91107de6eb8)
Flags Of Convenience (item number 1) (id e0f59b4f-bfe9-4137-bd01-8243074571ea)

Railways
Applied Research (item number 1) (id b06a1ad6-8382-423f-9cf3-7595aab1b72f)
Victoria Line Tube (item number 1) (id e264f567-80d5-4d1c-8627-48e0df65736d)
Underground Services (Proposed Cuts) (item number 1) (id 0e47f6c8-b141-4b87-9f2b-1485e3c35492)
Euston—Liverpool—Manchester (Electrification) (item number 1) (id 4e9bd168-4674-4bef-9662-2ab67f93da51)

Defence
Nato (Command Arrangements, Baltic) (item number 1) (id fd15d801-2d68-43c9-a91c-73138cf02061)
Manned Fighter And Bomber Aircraft (item number 1) (id 4763c505-2bfd-4055-bfc0-f3e8b387b430)
Guided Weapons (item number 1) (id 5725abdf-7a8c-4c70-a923-45fe184f398d)
Nato (Standardisation Agreements) (item number 1) (id 9eea6b56-2e2e-4a1f-ac3e-fed163e92a95)

Employment
Leek, Kidsgrove, Cheadle And Biddulph (item number 1) (id 8580c3ea-d807-43e0-bab0-289d962174f4)
Bridgend And Port Talbot Areas (item number 1) (id 63437a2a-e480-48a5-9f62-b6a68571b018)
Youth (item number 1) (id 60bbeab4-4f84-4ff5-9768-f3efd7f0c595)
Short-Time Work, Scotland (item number 1) (id 5b8234ad-cdfe-42f7-b9aa-3a6b9849e26a)
Lanarkshire (item number 1) (id 12d80aee-fcb8-4a5b-933a-1ca6176bcbf7)
Industrial Injuries, Scotland (item number 1) (id 809f722b-e95f-4ebc-b6bc-f85dfb72d3c9)
Merthyr Tydfil (item number 1) (id 822eb076-bb6f-4a6f-ba96-9f6749441045)
Injured Workers (Light Work) (item number 1) (id 12795b2a-9f6f-45d8-9677-f7d4327bc2e1)
Trade Unions (Organisation And Practices) (item number 1) (id c41e0d22-9f85-48c4-ae84-d42e5e571fd8)
Norfolk (item number 1) (id dcc25ac6-e8c4-412a-82d8-9c2470dee50d)
School Leavers, Swansea (item number 1) (id 3c15bc81-b6e3-4c06-bcea-4df3adcae074)
Stornoway Area (item number 1) (id 3b480ed6-9b35-4855-aee1-a8bf7c496c3e)
Average Weekly Earnings (Scotland) (item number 1) (id ee2b5a2a-33a5-4299-96a7-3fb306b3b8da)
Dumbartonshire (item number 1) (id a2b77191-e035-429c-a03f-59e3ead5a603)

National Service
Deferment (Personal Case) (item number 1) (id 9ebb9e2c-41e9-4c41-a699-5cd3173c6540)
Medical Examination (Notification) (item number 1) (id 6c96ef7b-9e00-4c7d-98a4-1f56a2844274)

Royal Navy
Houses, Scotland (item number 1) (id be916a9c-415d-4bd1-8999-ef11cdd499c2)

National Finance
Purchase Tax (item number 1) (id 9026037a-9306-4cc5-a01f-63a4a6035779)
Civil Servants (Unestablished Service) (item number 1) (id a66c36df-18e5-4ab1-bf18-393daf4d3f42)
Public Service Pensioners (item number 1) (id 5dda8cb8-ce2b-404b-8a85-7400d98fbae6)
United States And Canadian Loans (Payments) (item number 1) (id 71b160be-2165-4377-b413-3ccd8b3c4422)

Scotland
Licensing Of Bulls (Advisory Committee) (item number 1) (id 6155f986-6123-4ba2-9ed0-d794ee432db8)
Trunk Road A8 (Accidents) (item number 1) (id 378fe83f-b90c-46e2-9709-c3483e3de068)
School Playgrounds, Western Isles (item number 1) (id 8660104c-4788-48ce-8140-2de18283f9a5)

Ministry Of Supply
Factory (Bardsley, Oldham) (item number 1) (id 51cdd7ab-65c2-4532-891c-8c420c9f5925)
Aircraft Industry (Machine Tools) (item number 1) (id a096cdc1-7bb5-498e-a188-32065ee39b70)

Trade And Commerce
Textile Industry (item number 1) (id 901507fd-da6b-4f46-928e-f8807101761b)
National Research Development Council (Report) (item number 1) (id 945fd5b0-2f03-499f-9f29-e87f3056419a)

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food
Imported Goods (Indication Of Origin) (item number 1) (id decfd0b7-1454-4670-8dd5-bde2b4dd6c3e)
Kippers (Dyes) (item number 1) (id 572aea86-ef53-48fc-bab1-97371bfe6af7)
Potatoes (Prices) (item number 1) (id 991ecefe-1225-47df-ab00-cf26848a6804)
Agricultural Education (Committee's Report) (item number 1) (id 543f083c-4b6a-453d-8bcd-61b894570ad6)
Bow County Court Cases (Housing) (item number 1) (id bbac39d6-44a6-4fcc-a775-dfe4e3dd303b)

Agricultural Research
Plants (Closely Related Species) (item number 1) (id 3775693a-663f-4105-ab9f-27b7b90388c0)

Commonwealth Relations
Bechuanaland Protectorate (African Immigration Proclamation) (item number 1) (id 16d9d08c-178d-433c-a338-2d1aca0c0bb1)
Salisbury University, Southern Rhodesia (item number 1) (id e112553c-95e1-455a-b8dc-79b996204da9)

Ministry Of Education
Technical Education (item number 1) (id 5bc21b74-b5b5-4b42-b0c3-db0e03feca29)
Maintenance Grants (item number 1) (id bc234cac-87e6-4e6c-bc1b-114d7e2cc39c)
Large Classes (item number 1) (id 9f54a83d-2db9-40a6-8f94-7cde6bf28fc2)
State Scholarships (item number 1) (id 514387e6-c37e-4750-ae5f-676874b45d8b)
Part-Time Women Teachers (item number 1) (id a634073c-1228-416f-b37e-4abce6a2032f)
Kuwait (item number 1) (id 9bfcb997-088c-4484-88da-aa9e4d6c8e0b)
Law Of The Sea (Conventions) (item number 1) (id 7128fe93-ef7b-4fa0-8a98-2b399bb58571)
General Gordon And Lord Kitchener (Statues) (item number 1) (id 3405c939-21b2-4537-9d6d-29088105aa73)
Algeria (United Nations Resolution) (item number 1) (id 4c7e4a37-4ab3-411c-acd9-21785d9e7abb)

Ministry Of Health
Poliomyelitis (item number 1) (id 26ef7cf2-14e2-4112-8086-8e0d10dd6dd1)

Hospitals
St Edward's Mental Hospital, Cheddleton (item number 1) (id f21dadd5-ca1d-49c4-a9e8-f68c999e28ec)
Midwives (item number 1) (id 9248e3ed-9ef4-46c8-a88c-94b37159c8a5)
Building Programme (item number 1) (id 2c18f2ae-ae9b-4cc7-af02-7dec339605ec)

Home Department
Children's Department (Report) (item number 1) (id b4a15002-490d-4d8d-a277-cee93055809d)
Metropolitan Police Officers (Powers) (item number 1) (id 1dd900b7-244f-4832-b41c-d7e078b23f74)

Ministry Of Works
Building Projects, Hull (item number 1) (id 7ac507b2-726d-4e88-918f-33bc029815b5)
Employment Exchange, Plymouth (item number 1) (id b5555cf2-c5ca-4b69-8648-80df99c8b99f)

Ministry Of Power
Building Projects, Hull (item number 1) (id d269ff74-e2e4-43c7-baab-80bb696f1003)
Opencast Coal Sites, North Staffordshire (item number 1) (id ddd2aef8-1847-48dd-a3ee-f2f7575b5307)

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