asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to control the sale to the public of tranquillisers containing the drug glutethimide, in view of recent complaints about its dangers from the medical profession.

asked The question of controlling this drug as a poison is being considered by a sub-committee of the Poisons Board. As the sub-committee is considering a wide range of drugs, it is not expected that its report will be available for consideration by the Board for some months.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions were instituted in the Metropolitan Police area during each of the last three years as a result of alleged offences in connection with gambling parties; and how many of these prosecutions have been successful.

asked In 1956, 46 prosecutions were instituted in the Metropolitan Police District in respect of gaming parties and there were 45 convictions. In 1957 there were 53 prosecutions and 53 convictions, and in 1958, 50 prosecutions and 49 convictions.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to be able to make a statement about the counting of auxiliary fire service and national fire service service for pension under the General Local Government Superannuation Scheme.

asked I regret that after full consideration I have not been able to find sufficient grounds for proposing a change in the present arrangements relating to former members of the National Fire Service who transferred to local government employment when fire brigades came under local authority control in 1948.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is now prepared to transfer the personal papers and documents of the late Sir Roger Casement to his family.

asked I would refer the hon. Member to the Answer which I have given today to Questions by my hon. Friend the Member for Taunton (Mr. du Cann) and the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes).

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether his attention has been drawn to the arrival in the London Zoo of omul fish from Russia; what requests he has received for permission for such fish to be liberated in English lakes or rivers; and what was the nature of his reply.

asked My right hon. Friend has issued a licence to the London Zoo under the Diseases of Fish Act, 1937, to import omul fish ova from the Soviet Union. He has not received any requests for permission to liberate such fish in English waters or lakes and the zoo has undertaken not to release to others any of the ova, or fish hatched from the ova, without consulting my Ministry.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food why there is now only one veterinary officer of his Department in the County of Dorset, whereas formerly there were five.

asked The normal complement of veterinary staff in Dorset is one divisional veterinary officer and five veterinary officers. In practice, the number available for duty in a county at any particular time varies according to the need there and elsewhere. For about one week early in March, partly on account of sickness, Dorset was left with only the divisional veterinary officer and one veterinary officer. Since then, however, three to five veterinary staff have been available in the county.

asked the Prime Minister what official provincial exhibitions showing the various industrial uses of radio-isotopes have been planned for the current year; and whether Sheffield will be included in the provincial programme.

asked The Atomic Energy Authority informs me that it is planning a series of three provincial exhibitions later this year. The dates and places have not yet been fixed, but one of them will probably be at Sheffield. These exhibitions will illustrate all aspects of atomic energy including many industrial and other applications of radio-isotopes.

asked the Prime Minister what was the evidence produced to him by Dr. Adenauer of the impairment of Anglo-German relations.

asked My discussions with the Federal Chancellor in Bonn were confidential and I cannot go into detail about them.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects a decision to be made on the application of the National Co-operative Managers Association for recognition as a professional body under Section 16 of the Finance Act, 1958.

asked Very shortly.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the number of Europeans, Asians and Africans who could have been eligible to vote, who registered for voting, and who actually recorded their votes, in the recent elections in Northern Rhodesia.

asked The numbers of enrolled voters eligible to vote in the elections were Europeans 20,566, Asians 2,051 and Africans 7,617. The total numbers who could have registered is not known with certainty, but it is estimated that 80 per cent. of Europeans and Asians and about a third of the Africans did so. It is not possible to state what proportion of registered voters of each race recorded their votes since the ballot papers bore no indication of a voter's race.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when the Governor of Cyprus intends to take a decision about lifting the ban on the seven organisations and five newspapers which remain banned in Cyprus.

asked I have at present nothing to add to my right hon. Friend's reply to the hon. Member on 24th March.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many Africans have been charged with being members or organisers of the African National Congress in Nyasaland; and what sentences have been imposed on them.

asked Up to 11th April twenty persons have been charged with managing an unlawful society. Fifteen have been convicted and have received sentences varying from being bound over for two years to four and a half years' imprisonment. Five cases are awaiting trial. Ninety persons have been charged with being members of an unlawful society. Thirty-eight have been convicted, receiving sentences varying from being bound over for one year to eighteen months' imprisonment. Fifty-two cases await trial.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies under what circumstances Mrs. Grace Kahumbe of Nyasaland was arrested; what charges were brought against her; and what was the result of such charges.

asked Mrs. Kahumbe was arrested by a police party which included a police officer's wife who was herself formerly a metropolitan policewoman. She was charged with being a member of an unlawful society, to which she pleaded guilty, and was bound over for three years.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will arrange that the proposal to establish United Nations responsibility in Berlin, put forward in a statement by eight Peers and Members of Parliament, a copy of which is in the possession of Her Majesty's Government, shall be considered at the forthcoming meetings of the Foreign Ministers along with other proposals.

asked As my right hon. and learned Friend said yesterday in answer to a number of other Questions on this general subject, he will take careful note of the point raised by the right hon. and learned Gentleman.

asked the Minister of Labour if he will make a statement on the organisation, policy and working of Remploy in North-East Scotland, giving figures for each of the last ten years.

asked The Remploy factory at Aberdeen provides sheltered employment for severely disabled persons in North-East Scotland. The following table shows the average number of severely disabled workers employed in each year since the factory was set up:

1951–52	18
1952–53	29
1953–54	35
1954–55	36
1955–56	36
1956–57	35
1957–58	32
1958–59	32

The present capacity of the factory is 38 and at present a full complement of 27 men and 11 women is employed on the production of knitwear for Government Departments and the commercial market. Further expansion must depend on the availability of suitable work, and I understand that Remploy would welcome the introduction of a sponsorship scheme at this factory.

asked the Minister of Labour whether, as in previous years, he will suspend the call-up of agricultural workers during the harvest period.

asked After consultation with my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, I am arranging for the call-up of agricultural workers to be suspended for a period of fourteen weeks during this year's harvest time. The dates will vary according to the needs of different areas and will be announced later.

asked the Paymaster-General whether the Minister of Power has yet received the report by Messrs. Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths, and Company, upon the operations of the Special Contracting Section of the London Electricity Board.

asked Yes. Messrs. Deloitte, Plender and Griffiths have now submitted their report and copies of it have been placed in the Library for the information of Members. My noble Friend has sent the report to the Chairman of the London Electricity Board for his attention.

asked the Paymaster-General what recent progress has been made in the investigation of possible methods of converting coal into chemicals, gas and oil; and if he will make a statement.

asked As the House will be aware, the Ministry of Power, in conjunction with other Government Departments and outside interests, has been carrying out research and development work on the problems of processing coals to produce efficiently chemicals, gas for fuel purposes, and various types of hydrocarbon oils. In view of the need to make the best use of our coal resources, my noble Friend feels that the time has come when this work and any other possibilities which may offer prospects of expanding the use of coal for these purposes should be reviewed by an authoritative and independent body.He has accordingly decided, after consultation with Sir Alexander Fleck, Chairman of his Scientific Advisory Council, to set up a Committee with the following terms of reference:

asked the Postmaster-General the number of telephone subscribers in the area comprising the Parliamentary constituency of Antrim, South in 1955, the increase in the number of such subscribers at the present date, and the number of applications for telephones at present outstanding.

asked At 31st March, 1955, there were 5,531 subscribers; there are now 7,801, an increase of 2,270. Three hundred and twenty-six applications are outstanding; in addition, 164 are under inquiry or in course of being met.

asked the Postmaster-General the number of unsatisfied applications for telephones in the area controlled from Reading at the end of 1954, 1956, and 1958.

asked The figures were as follows:

—	Applications Awaiting the Provision of additional equipment	Applications under inquiry or in course of being met	Totals
31st December, 1954	3,467	1,478	4,945
31st December, 1956	2,666	1,185	3,851
31st December, 1958	1,642	1,303	2,945

In the four years ending 31st December, 1958, 22,564 telephones were installed.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland from whom, apart from Ross and Cromarty County Council and the hon. Member for Western Isles, he has received representations about the proposed road from Ness to Tolsta, in the Isle of Lewis.

asked I have had no representations from any other source, but I know that in recent months two individual local councillors have made representations to the Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel.

asked the President of the Board of Trade the total value of United States investments in industry in Britain since 1945, and provide in tabular form the amounts invested, the percentage of the total and numbers employed, in each Board of Trade Region and the same figures for Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Liverpool, Oldham, Manchester, Salford and Stoke-on-Trent.

asked I regret that figures are not available of the value of United States investment in industry in Great Britain, or of the employment that investment provides.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware of the concern of British egg-producers at the importation of 7,000,000 eggs from Poland when the price of home-produced eggs is so low; and what action he now proposes to take to prevent dumping of these foreign produced eggs.

asked I understand from trade sources that some 7 million eggs have been imported from Poland this month. The Board of Trade has received no application for action under the Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Act.

asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) when he intends to make a statement about the proposed redundancy scheme for the Lancashire cotton industry;(2) if, when considering the scheme for the Lancashire cotton industry, he will keep in mind that redundant workers should also receive compensation and compensation comparable with that of a miner declared redundant by the National Coal Board who receives £4 1s. 8d. a week for 26 weeks in addition to unemployment relief.

asked I hope to make a statement on these matters shortly.