Iau, 13 Gorffennaf 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Swansea Corporation Bill,
For the County of Down (North Down Division), in the room of Field-Marshal Sir HENRY HUGHES WILSON, Baronet, deceased.—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
1. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been called to the case of ex-Lieutenant Verity, of 8, Orrell Road, Wallasey, Cheshire, who was invalided out of the Army suffering...
Mr. ALFRED DAVIES (Clitheroe): 3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether an error has been made in the reassessment of allowance payable to Elizabeth Hadfield, aged 77 years, dependant of the...
Mr. DAVIES (Clitheroe): 4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that the Great Harwood War Pensions Committee strongly protests against the abolition of the pay office on the ground...
5. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Mr. Richard Nicholson, V.C, particulars of which were extensively given in the Press of 18th June; whether he...
Colonel NEWMAN: 6. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether, in view of the fact that on the decisions arrived at in some 10 cases by Lord Shaw's Commission the findings of the Commission in...
8. asked the Chief Secretary if he is aware that the conditions laid down in Section 8 of the Revised Terms of Disbandment of the Royal Irish Constabulary are not being carried out; that constant...
19. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in order to present undesirable persons travelling between Great Britain and Ireland, he will recommend as a temporary measure the...
13. asked the Secretary of State for Air how many aeroplanes have been supplied to the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland and of what type; and if the aeroplanes so supplied have been...
23. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what are the numbers of the army that the Irish Free State is entitled to maintain under the terms of the Treaty; and what is the number of...
24. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Committee over which the hon. Member for Chelsea presides is competent to award relief to Catholics as well as to Protestants; and...
Mr. MALONE: 10. asked the Secretary of State for Air how much of the money allowed for civil aviation—subsidies, etc.—in the 1922–23 Estimates has not yet been allocated; how is...
14. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether his attention has been drawn to the activity of the American and Spanish Governments in providing commercial...
17. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost of conversion of the building formerly used as a post office at Carlisle into a licensed public-house; whether he is...
20. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the territory in Mesopotamia for which the British Empire has accepted a mandate is coterminous with the territory of King Feisal's...
Captain BENN: 27. asked the Prime Minister whether he can give a definite date for the termination of the office of Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in accordance with the under...
Captain BENN: 28. asked the Prime Minister whether he can make any statement as to the present internal position in Germany and the reported request for a further moratorium in the payment of...
29. asked the Prime Minister if he is aware of the injury to British trade that is being caused by the continuance of military and naval warfare in Asia Minor and the coasts thereof; whether any...
32. asked the Prime Minister whether the British Government makes or made any payment, direct or indirect, to the support of the trocps which form or formed a part of General Wrangel's Army in...
33. asked the Prime Minister if he will state the progress made at The Hague Conference, and the present position; when the Conference is expected to end; and, in the event of its sittings feeing...
34. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that on 9th March, 1921, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department announced in this House that it was the definite intention...
37. asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the Government to make a complete national survey of the whole of the housing accommodation in England, Scotland, and Wales, with a...
42. asked the Prime Minister the composition of the Committee that is to be set up to consider the question of the continuance and amendment of the Rent Restrictions Act which expires in June, 1923?
56 and 57. asked the Minister of Health (1) whether he has received any Report on housing conditions at Edlington; whether he is aware that, of 924 houses inspected, 419 had lodgers or more than...
38. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government has taken into consideration the Resolution concerning the award of honours standing to the names of nearly 300 Members of the House: and...
39. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the deputation from the Parliamentary Air Committee to be received by the Committee of Imperial Defence will not include any representative...
44 and 45. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what would be the saving per annum if nickel coinage of convenient size, comparable with that used in Belgium and France, was issued in place...
46. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of the £64,000,000, stated to be the amount of the arrears of Income Tax up to the end of May, has been now recovered; whether the...
48. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the principal object of the Takoradi (Gold Coast) Harbour scheme is that of providing facilities for ships to load alongside and of...
49. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the rate per ton per mile for the railway transport of palm products in the Belgian Congo and Nigeria, respectively?
50. asked the Postmaster-General if he can make a statement as to the intentions of the Government respecting the Imperial wireless chain?
51. asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that there is some confusion in the public mind as to whether the l½d. postage stamp is or is not a valid receipt stamp; and will he have...
52. asked the Postmaster-General whether postmasters have been instructed to inform persons sending registered letters to Ireland not to put O.H.M.S. on the letters?
53. asked the Minister of Health whether the Nottingham Board of Guardians have asked him for permission to give 1d. per week to well-behaved children in their care under 10 years of age and 2d....
54. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the Mayor of Poplar stated publicly that the Guardians of Poplar had at the present moment 17 Government auditors going through their books;...
55. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that an agreement was entered into between the London employers and the joint standing committee representing the workmen of the Port of...
59. asked the Minister of Health the amount of the outstanding debt of the local authorities of England and Wales, with the amount of the interest charges thereon, for the latest complete...
60. asked the Minister of Health why proceedings are not taken against the persons owning furnaces and factories or buildings used for trade which fail to consume the smoke emitted from their...
81. asked the Minister of Labour whether his Department has yet evolved an exact definition of the expression necessitous area, and whether, in that case, he will state what it is?
Mr. FOOT: 62. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that Rose E. Edwards, of Chippenham (unemployment book 134/K, 14,933), employed until recently at a milk factory, whose unemployment...
67. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, whether he will issue Regulations for all chars-a-banc, lorries, wagons, vans, and other heavy vehicles to be provided with...
68. asked the Parliament ary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport why he has refused the taxi-cab and hackney carriage proprietors of England any representation whatever upon the Departmental...
69. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, whether he can state the policy of his Department towards trackless trolleys; and whether, in view of the need of efficient...
70. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether there is any appeal tribunal to which rejected claims to pension under the war risks compensation scheme can be submitted at the request of...
71. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in the case of old age pensions, pension officers reckon the income on savings in the Post Office Bank at 5 per cent., although only...
Brigadier-General Sir HACKET PAIN: 73. asked the Secretary of State for War, whether, having regard to the decision to disband the second battalions of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the...
75. asked the Secretary of State for War whether His Majesty's Government are contemplating the transfer to the Civil Government of Malta of lands hitherto under control of the War Department,...
78. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether Tibet has asked for the loan of British advisers in any capacity; and whether, in that event, any recommendations are being made or have...
(by Private Notice) asked the Home Secretary whether ex-inspector John Syme was released from Pentonville Prison yester- day at 11 o'clock, after nine days' hunger and thirst strike; whether he...
In asking for a statement of business next week, may I inquire, in view of the reported breakdown of The Hague Conference, the collapse of the mark, and the bearing of these two things on the...
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee A.
Reported, without Amendment, from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills.
Reported, without Amendment, from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills.
Reported, with Amendments, from the Local Legislation Committee; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
That they have agreed to,
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection: That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee B; Mr. Acland and Sir William Seager; and had appointed in...
Second Report from the Standing Joint Committee brought up, and read.
"to confirm a scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the application or management of the charities consisting of a Baptish Chapel and proceeds of sale of a former Congregational Chapel in the...
"to amend the Law with respect to Customs in the Isle of Man," presented by Sir JOHN BAIRD: supported by Sir Robert Home and Mr. Hilton Young; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be...
Reported, with Amendments, from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence.
As amended, further considered.
The following Rule shall be substituted for Rule 2 of the Rules applicable to Case III of Schedule D:—
(6) The provisions of Sub-section (1) and Sub-section (3) of this Section shall have effect and shall be deemed always to have had effect, for the purpose of any assessment to Income Tax which is...
(1) Any income: (a) of which any person is able, or has at any time since the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, been able, without the consent of any other person not being his...
(1) Where it appears to the Special Commissioners that any company to which this Section applies has not, within a reasonable time after the end of any year or other period ending on any date...
(1) The Special Commissioners may, whether an assessment to Super-tax has been made or not, require any individual who has been required to make a return of his total income for the purposes of...
(1) The definition of the expression assessable value "in. Schedule B of the Income Tax Act, 1918, shall have effect as though for the words" an amount equal to twice the annual value "there were...
(1) The following paragraphs shall be substituted for paragraph (3) of Rule 8 of No. V in Schedule A (which grants relief in certain cases in respect of the cost of maintenance, repairs, etc.):...
In the computation of any profits or income for the purposes of assessment to Income Tax no deduction shall be allowed in respect of any interest paid on arrears of excess profits duty or...
(2) The Commissioners of Inland Revenue may as a condition of granting an application under this Section require the applicant to give such security for the due payment of the instalments as they...
Sub-section (5) of Section forty-five of the principal Act (which allows an appeal against an assessment of Excess Profits Duty) shall apply as respects the determination by the Commissioners of...
Where the interest or any part of the interest in any trade or business of any person, being the proprietor thereof or a partner therein, passes by a voluntary disposition inter vivos made by...
(1) Corporation Profits Tax shall not be charged on the profits of an association which is registered under Section twenty of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, as a company with limited...
Where any land or chattels settled by Act of Parliament or Royal Grant pass on the death of any person any Estate Duty payable in respect thereof, or of any interest therein, under Sub-section...
(4) The Special Commissioners may at any time by notice in writing require any company which appears to them to be a company to which Section seventeen of this Act applies, to furnish them...
Considered in Committee.
(1) The periods for which the Minister of Labour may, under Section four of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922. authorise a person to receive benefit during the third special period shall be...
Considered in Committee.
The said agreement is hereby confirmed and made binding and shall be carried into effect accordingly, and the tube and the subterranean space bounded by the outer part of the tube and all such...
First and Second Schedules ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee.
In the application of Section sixty-seven of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, to any company established for the purpose of constructing or improving or of facilitating or...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [.Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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