Mawrth, 11 Gorffennaf 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Private Bills [Lords] (No Standing Orders applicable),—Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That in the case of the following...
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the final retiring pension of £l,000 per annum due to members of the Indian Civil Service on the completion of their full term of...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any decisions have been made on the suggested project for the abolition of the full provincial status of the Trans-Indus North-West Province?
4. asked the Secretary of State for War whether the pay of officers domiciled in Germany as part of the Army of Occupation is refunded to the Imperial Government by the German Government;...
Major BROWN: 11. asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that there is considerable dissatisfaction amongst officers of the Army because the gratuities to compulsorily retired...
Major BROWN: 12. asked the Secretary of State for War why the Army has not followed the example of the Navy, and cut down the period of commands to such time as would give a chance of employment...
13. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is now able to state whether or no the Signal Service training centre will remain permanently at Maresfield: and, if so, whether he will have...
Colonel NEWMAN: 14. asked the Secretary of State for War whether, having regard to the fact that in March, 1918, the French Chief of Staff pressed for, but was at the time unable to get, British...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 16. asked the Secretary of State for War what reductions in the Army already arranged for have not yet been carried out; whether, in view of the serious position of...
49. asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will state the date upon which the Government entered into occupation of the land, utilised as a camp, at Frongoch, Bala; whether the tenancy has been...
5. asked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been directed to a resolution of the Merioneth local pensions committee protesting against the office of secretary to the...
15. asked the Secretary of State for War whether an anti-aircraft brigade for the defence of London is to be formed in the Territorial Army; if so, what is to be the strength of the force and...
9. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can state when the accounts of the Navy and Army Canteen Board and of the Navy and Army and Air Force Institutes will be published?
17. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he has arranged that soldiers disbanded from Irish regiments, who are prevented from returning to their homes in Ireland consequent on the lawless...
20. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what steps have been taken to carry out the agreement arrived at with the Irish Free State Government that, in cases of damage to property during...
21. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether a decision has been arrived at as to the payment of 12½ per cent., in accord ance with the Pensions Order, 1920, on the pay of men...
22. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that proceedings brought in the High Court of Justice in Southern Ireland are being restrained in obedience to injunctions...
Sir F. HALL: 24. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether a reply has been received from the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State to the communication addressed to it by...
Sir F. HALL: 25. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that a number of Sinn Feiners recently entered the house of a Loyalist in Tipperary and, having locked up the...
34. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that there are a large number of refugees from Ireland who, although they have judgments in their favour amounting to...
Colonel NEWMAN: 52. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether a person domiciled in the Irish Free State and held to be a citizen of the Irish Free State is in the same position with regard...
18. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the terms of a Treaty to regulate the relations between the British and Arab Governments have now been agreed between the Government of...
19. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can make any statement as to the reduction effected in the Estimates of the Government of Gibraltar; how far these reductions will...
Mr. LESTRANGE MALONE: 23. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the continual misinterpretations of our pledges to the Arabs, he will publish the letter of 24th...
Mr. MALONE: 26. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the misapprehensions concerning the Rutenberg scheme, especially in regard to the provisions for irrigation and...
27. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is prepared to revise the attitude of the West Coast Colonies towards trade spirit by allowing importation, but by charging on all...
28. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any steps are being taken to discover the amount of the debt to the Chartered Company in respect of North and South Rhodesia, in...
29. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has accepted the suggestion of the Kenya Government to replace the Income Tax by increasing the tax on rice from 15 per cent. to 25...
36. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the shooting of Sergeant Beesley of the Metropolitan Police, in Plenheim Road, Holloway, on Wednesday,...
37. asked the Home Secretary whether he has received representations from the Deptford Borough Council with regard to the number of accidents to pedestrians crossing the carriageways at the...
38. asked the Home Secretary whether he can now state when he proposes to introduce the Bill dealing with the legitimation of children by the subsequent marriage of their parents?
39 and 40 asked the Home Secretary (1) whether, as stated in English prisons to-day, that, despite the precautions taken against suicide the suicide rate is three times as high among prisoners as...
41. asked the Home Secretary by whose authority the Safety-first Council has placarded London with orders to the public to keep to the left; and whether, in view of the confusion in the public...
42. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that he has laid upon the Table of the House a statement by one of the women patrols containing allegations against Mrs. Stanley, the...
43. asked the Secretary for Scotland if his attention has been called to the effects of the decision of the Courts in the case of Kerr v. Bryde; and if he proposes to introduce legislation to...
44. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the Regulations of the Post Office, which prescribe that a Post Office servant cannot retain his seniority on transfer unless the...
57. asked the Postmaster-General if he will consider the advisability of applying to touting moneylenders and to persons carrying on other businesses which are noxious to the community the same...
Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS: 58. asked the Postmaster-General whether in many recent instances letters posted in Leicester and London have taken three or four days to be delivered in Bury St....
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 45. asked the Prime Minister if he can now state the decision of the Government with regard to their promised reconsideration of the measures to be taken to relieve...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether, in addition to the officials of the Cabinet Secretariat, he has the services of any other private secretaries; if so, at what cost: and in connection with...
47. asked the Prime Minister how many constitutional monarchs are not recognised at the present moment by His Majesty's Government, and who are they?
50. asked the Lord Privy Sea! if he can yet name a day for the presentation to the House of the conventions and recommendations arising out of the last Labour Conference?
51. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, seeing that the post held by Sir Hardman Lever at the Ministry of Transport was created in consequence of an undertaking given by the Government...
53. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can see his way to pay dividends on all Government registered stocks quarterly instead of half-yearly?
55. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can state the amount of currency notes in circulation in Germany at the time of the Armistice and in January, 1921, January, 1922, and to date?
60. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has had brought to his notice the fact that widows are now being refused pensions under Article 11 of the Royal Warrant because their husbands died...
61. asked the Minister of Pensions whether in the précis prepared for appellants before pension appeal tribunals extracts from original documents are often very inaccurately and carelessly...
62. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will inquire into the case of Sapper G. Tilley, No. 510039, I.W.D., Royal Engineers, who is now living at 58, Queen Ann Street, New Bradwell, Bucks;...
63. asked the Minister of Pensions on what grounds it has been decided to close down the local War pensions office in the Ramsbottom area, No. 19; is he aware that there are 2,500 ex-service men...
(by Private Notice) asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can make any statement with regard to the present position of the negotiations between the three Entent Powers in...
(by Private Notice.) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when the last report was received from the Seychelles as to the state of health of H. E. Zaghloul Pasha; whether he is aware...
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether he can state the terms of reference to Sir H. Rew's Committee in the matter of the Fabric Glove Order?
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when the draft Resolutions in regard to the reform of the Second Chamber are to be published?
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonics what business is proposed to be taken to-morrow by way of a change in the announcement already made.
I beg to move, That leave be given to introduce a Bill to provide for the collection of a contribution by spinners in the United Kingdom. This is a Bill which is of vital importance to the cotton...
"to provide for the collection of a contribution by cotton-spinners in the United Kingdom to the funds of the Empire Cotton-growing Association, and other matters relating to the said...
"to amend Section four of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922, so far as relates to the third special period mentioned in that Act," presented by Dr. MACNAMARA; supported by Sir Robert Home, Sir...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A (added in respect of the Adoption of Children Bill): Sir Robert Newman; and...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee B (added in respect of the Celluloid and Cinematograph Film Bill...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS further reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Mem- ber from Standing Committee C: Mr. Hannon; and had appointed in substitution: Sir...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee D (added in respect of the Criminal Law Amendment Bill): Viscountess...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS further reported from the Committee: That they had added the following Eleven Members to the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills (in respect of the Agricultural Holdings...
That they have agreed to,
Read the First time; and ordered (under Section 9 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 189.]
[17TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £4,363,100, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £307,637, be granted to His Majesty to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
As amended, considered.
Again considered in Committee.
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Question, That a sum, not exceeding £307,637, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £22,746, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £1,779,937, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn."— [Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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