Mercher, 12 Gorffennaf 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Padiham Urban District Council Bill,
Copy ordered "of Account of the Receipts and Payments of the Assistant Paymaster-General for Supreme Court business on behalf of the Admiralty Division in Prize for the year ended the 31st day of...
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the claim put forward by the Secretary of State in respect of Mrs. Stan Harding in respect of her imprisonment for five months by...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that tenders have been called for by the French Protectorate Government, on behalf of the Sultan of Morocco, for the...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has now received details of the damage caused to the persons and property of non-combatants in the recent bombardments of...
8. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Hadji Adil Bey, formerly President of the Turkish Chamber, has been appointed Governor of Cilicia; whether he is a young Turkish...
27. asked the Attorney-General how many of the Germans indicted for criminal offences in the War have been convicted; how many are awaiting trial; and how many have escaped?
10. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many of the Succession States have given, or are giving, financial help to Austria during the crisis from which she is now suffering?
11. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can give any in formation to illustrate the work carried out by the wing of the Royal Air Force operating with the Royal Navy...
13. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether it has been decided to give pensions to the widows of the officers and men who lost their lives on the naval drifter "Blue Sky";...
14. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that large quantities of goods, namely, rum, requisitioned by the Admiralty for the use of the Fleet in the years 1917...
Mr. FOOT: 15. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he has now caused inquiries to be made as to the losses sustained by the hook-and-line fishermen of Cawsand, near...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 17. asked the Minister of Labour the total number of men in the building trades who are at present out of work; the number unemployed in each branch of the industry; and...
16. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will state the number of married women who are in receipt of unemployment pay and whose husbands are employed; what amount has been disbursed to such...
18. asked the Minister of Labour the percentage of local men employed by the contractor in the carrying out of the work on the new sea wall and esplanade at Kirkcaldy; what number of unskilled...
Mr. A. T. DAVIES: 19. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that on 19th July instant a large number of workers, and in particular members of the Boilermakers, Iron and Steel Shipbuilders'...
21. asked the Minister of Health whether he proposes in his new Mental Bill to introduce into England the Section of the Scotch Lunacy Act which authorises without certification the compulsory...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 23. asked the Minister of Health if he will give the latest available returns of overcrowding, so far as house accommodation is concerned, in England and Wales?
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that out of 504 houses built and occupied under the Middlesbrough Housing Scheme. 26V have not paid their rates; whether he is...
Colonel DUPRE: 25. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received a petition from the inhabitants of Iver and Yiewsley protesting against the continuance of an insanitary refuse dump at...
26. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that if a person works three days and earns not more than 29s. and has a family to maintain, the guardians can make the amount up to 51s. 6d....
28. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received any information as to the fate of George Dawson, a B special constable, who, while acting as temporary fireman, was taken...
29. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the High Commissioner of Canada, as representing the Dominion, has been consulted with reference to the lifting of the Canadian cattle...
Mr. MALONE: 30 and 31. asked the Secretary of State for Air (1) whether the Civil Aviation Advisory Committee has yet considered the question of a London to India service with heavier-than-air...
32. asked the Secretary of State for Air how many firms are at present engaged, either wholly or partly, in the construction of aircraft and engines; how many of these have intimated that they...
33. asked the Minister of Agriculture if the attention of his Department has been called to the increases in the retail prices of milk and eggs; to what cause, or causes, such increases are...
34. asked the hon. Member for the Pollok Division of Glasgow, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, when it is proposed that the State apartments at Kensington shall be reopened to the...
36. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport if he is aware that part of the issued capital of the Notting Hill Electric Lighting Company, Limited, consists of 27,050...
38. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether his Department has compiled, or is compiling, a list of the main roads of the country which need entire re-construction...
40. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give the exports from Great Britain during the first half of the present calendar year of raw and partly manufactured steel, of...
41. asked the President of the Board of Trade when and in what form he will give the House the information relating to employment in the industries manufacturing the goods to which it is proposed...
44. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that claims arising out of the sinking of the "Lusitania" seven years ago are still unsettled; whether a large: and expensive...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether the attention of His Majesty's Government has been drawn to the recent heavy fall in the value of the German mark; whether he is aware of the difficulties...
Lieut.-Colonel MURRAY: 48. asked the Prime Minister whether it is proposed to appoint a Minister plenipotentiary to represent Canada at Washington; and, if so, will he define the duties and...
52. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that British coal is being sold to Germany for payment to the French Government as reparation coal: can he say how much British...
54. asked the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the inequality of treatment of teachers serving under different local education authorities owing to the fact that in certain...
55. asked the Secretary of State for War the number of per sons employed in London in connection with the work of the British War Graves Commission: what their total remuneration is; and how many...
57. asked the Secretary of State for War what is the pay per month, including allowances, now and in 1918, of a Second Lieutenant in a line regiment; and what is the average age at which a...
Mr. FOOT: 59. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he has made his inquiries as to the proposal to set aside any part of the Whitesand Bay, near Plymouth, for gun practice; and whether he...
60. asked the Post master-General whether, in issuing licences for wireless broadcasting apparatus, he proposes to make any stipulation as to the country of manufacture of the apparatus employed?
61. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware of the inconvenience to the general public, and especially to those engaged in commerce, by the non-delivery by the first daily post of...
62. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India when it is hoped to be able to issue the British War medal to the officers and men who were serving in India between the 5th August, 1914, and...
63. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether in the reconstitution of the Indian Army Reserve of Officers those officers who have already done 10 or more years' service therein, and...
66. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware of the dissatisfaction and uncertainty existing amongst pensioners: and whether, so as to place Members of Parliament in a position to...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government will take steps to withdraw the time limit of seven years in respect of widows' pensions which is laid down in Article II of the Royal Warrant?
Mr. T. THOMSON: 64. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how much of every 20s. received in the way of contributions from all sources to the National Health Insurance Fund and the...
69. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that persons brought before the Sheffield Bench and remanded without bail have to be sent to the prisons at Leeds, Lincoln, Derby, etc., on...
70. asked the Home Secretary whether he has given consideration to the case of Ernest Hill, a boilermaker, who was sentenced to a term of three months' imprisonment by the Sheffield magistrates...
Mr. MALONE: 72. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the withdrawal of half a million in the holding of gold by the Bank of England and of a similar amount in the holding of gold by the...
(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 Entente Powers in...
ord ROBERT CECIL: asked the [...]or of the Exchequer how much [...]it is estimated will be saved annually by the Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, apart from the transference of burdens...
67. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Nonconformist places of worship in England and in Wales, respectively, have been registered for the solemnisation of marriages;...
I wish to ask a question with reference to the Report stage of the Finance Bill. I think it would be greatly to the convenience of the House as a whole if, at the commencement of the next stage...
Ayr Burgh (Electricity) Bill [Lords,]
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee B.
Third Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, brought up, and read.
Reported, without Amendment, from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence.
That they have agreed to, Windsor Gas Bill, with an Amendment.
Lords Amendments to be considered To-morrow.
Read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 191.]
Order for Second Reading road.
As amended, considered.
5.0 p.m.
If it is proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs find Excise as respects any imported negative cinematograph film, whether developed or undeveloped, that the production of the...
(1) Entertainments Duty within the meaning of Section one of the Finance (New Duties) Act, 1916, as amended by any subsequent enactment shall not be charged on payments for admission to an...
Any person charged to Income Tax under Schedule E may appeal to the Special Commissioners against any assessment in respect of his emoluments for any year, or against the amount of tax deducted...
(1) Where for any year of assessment rights to work minerals in the United Kingdom are let, the lessor shall be entitled on making a claim for the purpose to be repaid so much of the Income Tax...
(1) Where, in pursuance of any public general Act of Parliament, superannuation allowances or gratuities are payable to individuals holding an office or employment on their retirement or to their...
The Stamp Duty chargeable by way of composition for Stamp Duty under Section one hundred and fourteen of the Stamp Act, 1891, as extended or amended by Section thirty-nine of the Finance Act,...
Allowances granted by the Minister of Pensions under a Royal Warrant, Order in Council, or Order administered by him to widows of members of the naval, military, or air forces of the Crown in...
If the claimant proves that he is a widower and that a daughter over sixteen years of age gives her full time to the duties of housekeeper, he shall, subject to the other provisions of Section...
In any cases where duty has been charged under the Safeguarding of Industries Act, 1921, as respects any article which has afterwards been held not liable to duty under that Act, the Treasury...
From and after the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, as respects England, and from and after the twenty-fourth day of May, in the same year, as respects Scotland, the Acts...
There shall be exempted from Income Tax the income of a non-resident alien or foreign corporation which consists exclusively in earnings derived from the operation of a ship or ships documented...
Where the profits or gains chargeable under Schedule E are of a fluctuating character owing to the person charged or to be charged being paid otherwise than by a fixed annual remuneration, the...
Any individual carrying on a trade or business by himself or in partnership shall he entitled to deduct such proportion of the profits or gains derived from such trade or business from the...
On and after the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, section one of The Finance (New Duties) Act, 1916, as amended by any subsequent enactment, shall have effect as if the...
The following Rule shall be substituted for Rule 2 of the miscellaneous rules applicable to Schedule D: — A person shall not be charged to tax under this Schedule as a person residing in...
For the purpose of removing doubts it is hereby declared that the term "Trading stock" as used in the Second Schedule of The Finance Act, 1921, includes all stocks which when consumed are...
The facilities granted to the cultivation of tobacco in Great Britain by Sub-section (4) of Section eighty-three of the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, shall be re-enacted, and shall have...
The following provision shall be substituted for the provision in section six, subsection (1), of the Finance Act, 1919:— Provided that where the brewer is the occupier of a house of an...
(3) This section shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and on the rates of duty for general licences prescribed by the section becoming...
The following Amendment stood on the Order Paper in the name of Mr. HOLMES:
Ordered, "That so much of the Lords Message [4th July] as relates to the appointment of a Select Committee on the Guardianship, etc., of Infants Bill [Lords] be now considered.—[Colonel Gibbs.]
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