Llun, 3 Tachwedd 1919
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Edinburgh Corporation Order Confirmation Bill,
For County of Kent (Isle of Thanet Division) in the room of Lieut.-Commander Norman Carlyle Craig, K.C., deceased.—[Lord Edmund Talbot.]
2. asked the President of the Board of Trade when it is intended to introduce legislation to put a stop to the importation into the United Kingdom of wild birds' plumage, the export of which has...
3 asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) whether prohibition is enforced as to gauges in the interests of the two firms whose names have been given to the trade; and, if so, what effective...
10. asked the President of the Board of Trade the value of manufactured goods from Japan which have been imported during the months of June, July, August, and September; and whether the...
25. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the subsidised dye manufacturers are supplying to woollen manufacturers dyes which are not fast to milling; whether, in...
16. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the substitution in certain districts, by order of the Coal Mines Department, of sea-borne Durham coal of inferior gas-making...
Sir F. HALL: 19. asked the President of the Board of Trade if, in view of the unsatisfactory results achieved by the Profiteering Act in its present limited and restricted form, the Government...
27. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the battleship "Goeben" at Constantinople has been surrendered by the Turkish authorities; if it has been repaired; and if it is in...
29. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if Palestine is now open for the visits of travellers; if British subjects can acquire land and do business there; if the Customs duties...
30. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agri- culture whether matters arising under the Milk and Dairies Consolidation Act are matters relating to agriculture within the meaning of...
31. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether he will state to what extent the Government is liable to meet the cost of enlarging private steel works owing to the...
32. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether he will give the estimated total cost of building materials purchased by the Department of Building Supplies for the...
50. asked the Prime Minister how many Poles are under arms; who is supplying them with munitions; and where they are fighting?
41. asked the Postmaster-General the total number of claims which have been received by the Post Office on account of damage to parcels, the number of claims for which responsibility has been...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 33. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions, whether he is prepared to dispose of the whole or part of the surplus war stores of personal or household use...
34. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions the name of the owner of the building now occupied as an explosives store at Dinas Mawddwy; what rent is being paid in respect...
33. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions how many iron bedsteads are available for disposal from the various camps and hospitals that have now been closed?
38. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions why ex-Service men's organisations are refused the concessions granted to housing and educational authorities with respect to...
42. asked the Minister of Food whether he will take immediate steps to terminate the appointments of all married women engaged in any department of the Ministry of Food with a view to the...
44. asked the Minister of Food whether the reduced sugar ration to-householders, especially among the largo body of workers who are compelled to carry their food for consumption to their place of...
75. asked the Minister of Health how many local authorities have taken, or are taking, steps in exercise of their statutory powers to provide milk at a reduced price for children of the poorer...
72. asked the Food Controller whether he has yet appointed the Departmental Committee to inquire into London markets; and can he give the names of the chairman and members, and state to whom...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he can now give the numbers and the names of those German officers already in the hands of the Allies against whom it is proposed to proceed for inhuman...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether he will take steps to disseminate the pledge with regard to the future Peace with Turkey contained in his speech of 5th January, 1918, in order to allay the...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether reports received from Hungary show that food is urgently required in Budapest; whether about one million persons will require to be fed during the winter;...
52. asked the Prime Minister whether any steps have been taken to discover the authors of the anarchist conspiracy which resulted in the railway strike; and whether they are to be prosecuted?
53. asked the Prime Minister what orders have been given to the admiral commanding in the Baltic with respect to the use of the British Fleet or seaplanes against unarmed Russians or against...
54. asked the Prime Minister who will be the British representatives at the first meeting of the Council of the League of Nations, whether the House of Commons will be allowed any voice in their...
56. asked the Prime Minister whether any assurance or guarantee has been given by the Government of the Netherlands to the British Government or the Allies regarding the precautions necessary for...
58. asked the Prime Minister whether he has received a resolution from the Consumers' Council protesting against the exclusion of the Ministry of Food from representation in the Cabinet,...
59. asked the Prime Minister if he can give an approximate idea when the first instalment of the German indemnity will be paid and the amount which it is proposed to allocate to this country;...
61. asked the Prime Minister if the Government will take into consideration the introduction of legislation which will secure that wives deserted by husbands who have gone to live in some other...
Colonel NEWMAN: 62 asked the Prime Minister (1) whether he can give the House any information regarding a proposal involving the immediate nationalisation and joint management by organised labour...
65. asked the Prime Minister whether lie will so frame the terms of reference for the War Fortunes Inquiry Committee as to permit them to investigate the practicability of a Capital Levy?
66. asked the Prime Minister whether any replies have yet been received from Germany or neutrals to the Note of the Allies requesting them to join in a blockade of Soviet Russia; and, if se what...
73. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what was approximately the cost of maintaining the British Fleet in the Baltic, including wages, salaries, coal, etc., but not loss in service or...
68. asked the Prime Minister when Lord Milner's Commission is to proceed to Egypt?
69. asked the Prime Minister if a day can be set aside before the end of the present Session for a discussion, on broad lines, of the educational policy of His Majesty's Government?
The following question stood on the Order Paper in the name of Mr. HOUSTON:
74. asked the Minister of Health whether his Department has intimated to boards of guardians that the Government Grant hitherto made to the British-born wives of interned and repatriated aliens...
76. asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to the great increase in the poor rate in many of the districts of Greater London; if this rate has been increased from 6d. to...
78. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the recent increase in pay awarded to the temporary clerical staffs in the Ministry of Labour as from April last has not been paid to the...
79. asked what were the average wages paid to moulders for the four weeks preceding the strike; and how many men are affected, directly or indirectly, in the engineering trades by the strike?
asked the Leader of the House whether, pending the decision of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject of an issue al premium or prize bonds, the Government will exercise the power...
Mr. SPEAKER informed the House that he had received the following letter relating to the imprisonment of a Member:
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee C: Mr. Baldwin, Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, Captain Edge,...
INDUSTIRAL COURTS BILL,—"to provide for the establishment of an Industrial Court and Courts of Inquiry in connection with trade disputes, and to continue for a limited period certain of the...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), further considered.
No alien shall act as master, chief officer, or chief engineer, of a British merchant ship registered in the United Kingdom, except in the case of a ship employed entirely in trade between parts...
(1) After the passing of this Act no alien shall be appointed in any office in the Civil Service of the United Kingdom without the written sanction of the Secretary of State for the Home...
(1) An alien shall not for any purpose assume or use or purport to assume or use or continue after the commencement of this Act the assumption or use of any name other than that by which he was...
(1) Every former enemy alien who is now in the United Kingdom Shall be deported forthwith unless he shall within one month after the passing of this Act make an application to the Secretary of...
Committee to consider of making further provision out of the Consolidated Fund and out of moneys provided by Parliament with respect to the Retirement and Pensions of County Court Judges and the...
I desire to ask the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury what will be the first Order to-morrow?
I desire to draw the attention of the House to an answer given by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions to a question of mine this afternoon. I asked if he would state why...
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