Mercher, 2 Mai 1923
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Bank of England Bill,
"to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Basingstoke, Bath, Blackpool, Bungay, Iikley, and Scarborough," presented by Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN; read the First...
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if there are opportunities provided by the Soviet Government for ascertaining what are the facts regarding the export of grain, the state...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when he will be in a position to make public the terms of the new Note to the Russian Government?
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why a passport was refused in September, 1922, to Mr. Andrew Rothstein, a British subject desiring to travel to Russia?
11. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is now in a position, in view of recent events, to give this House an assurance that the diplomatic privileges at present enjoyed...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, as the result of the joint resolution introduced by Mr. Porter in the United States House of Representatives in January last,...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the new Constitution of Rumania endangers the religious and linguistic rights of the alien minorities in that...
13. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the inhabitants of Bulgarian villages in Western Thrace have been deported to Greek islands; and whether, in...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether the decision of the Ambassadors' Conference to hand over Eastern Galicia to Poland requires the ratification of Great Britain; and, if so, when this House...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what countries are represented at the Conference on Near Eastern Peace now being held at Lausanne?
7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any further information about the Chester Concession in Turkey; and whether the Concession affects British interests in...
9. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the position in international law as to the extent of territorial waters; how many States recognise the definite three-mile...
12. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that Messrs. Nicoll and Son, iron, steel and metal merchants, of Dundee, purchased through a London house last December a...
15. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if the additional appointment of an assistant superintendent at the Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, will in any way affect, either financially...
16. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the total number of established men employed in His Majesty's dockyards for each year since 1918.
17. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether it would be possible to effect an economy in naval expenditure at Hong Kong by amalgamating the naval and military hospitals; and, in view of the...
18. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty who is to continue Sir Julian Corbett's work on the naval operations in the War; and when the next volume is to be expected?
20. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what number of workpeople of all grades are at present employed on the work of the new battleship on the Tyne?
21. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of years able seamen are now serving before advancement to leading seamen; the number of years served by leading seamen before advancement to...
22. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if the committees on accommodation in His Majesty's ships and establishments and on relative rank in His Majesty's Navy are now sitting; if he can give...
23. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of suicides that have occurred in all ranks during the years 1921 and 1922?
24. asked the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty whether the officers and men serving in destroyer flotillas employed in Turkish waters have been paid hard-lying money; and, if not, whether, in...
25. asked the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in view of the hardship suffered by families of naval ratings and Royal Marines under 25 years of age and of the continued high cost of...
26. asked the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty whether, having regard to the great difference between the conditions of service in the Atlantic Fleet and those in the China and East Indies...
19. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether his attention has been drawn to the remarks made by the Secretary to the United States Navy with reference to the difference in extreme...
14. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that the Serbian Government has contracted a loan of 300,000,000 francs with France for the purchase of war material to...
27. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can give an assurance that it is the considered policy of his Department to encourage the establish ment of joint industrial councils and to advise the...
29. asked the Minister of Labour whether local authorities which receive grants from the Government Grants Committee, and are therefore obliged to employ 75 per cent. ex-service men, are allowed...
31. asked the Minister of Labour the terms under which he is training disabled ex-service men for setting up in shopkeeping and household repair work; and whether any provision is subsequently...
38. asked the Minister of Labour the allocation by counties of the 70,000 to 80,000 disabled ex-service men who are still unemployed so that, since this condition of affairs is being dealt with...
42. asked the Minister of Labour what was the result of the Ministry's scheme for the special training of ex-service men for work in the building trade?
56. asked the Minister of Health whether he will take some action in furtherance of village settlement schemes for tuberculosis ex-service men, as recommended by the Barlow Report of 1918, by the...
30. asked the Minister of Labour how many strikes have occurred between co-operative societies and their workers for the year ending 31st March, 1923; and how many workers were involved?
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 32. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the increasing dissatisfaction amongst contributors to the Unemployment Insurance Fund with regard to the present...
35. asked the Minister of Labour whether, considering that all but about £200,000 of the £4,214,357, the estimated cost of the Employment Exchange service, is in respect of the...
36 and 37. asked the Minister of Labour (1) whether he is aware that the practice of paying the sum of 14s. 6d. per diem to the Labour representatives on the unemployment advisory committees...
39. asked the Minister of Labour if any statistics have been compiled or are compilable showing the average length of time during which highly-skilled workers have been unemployed since the War;...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 59. asked the Minister of Health the total amount of out-relief and the amount in unemployment relief paid during the week ending 7th April in the 20 unions where unemployment is...
Mr. GRAHAM WHITE: 43. asked the Minister of Labour if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some employers of juveniles make a practice of dismissing them when they reach the age of 16...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he has considered the request from the Member for South-West Bethnal Green, on behalf of a number of London Members, to receive a deputation concerning the...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether, having regard to the fact that, under the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, full power is reserved to the British Parliament to legislate for Northern Ireland...
34. asked the Minister of Labour whether there has been a trade dispute in connection with His Majesty's Stationery Office; what is the nature of the dispute; whether the men displaced have been...
45. asked the Prime Minister if he can now make a statement as to the general nature of the programme of the coming Imperial Economic Conference?
47. asked the Prime Minister what military operations are actually in process in Iraq in the form of punitive expeditions against the Kurds; and the circumstances under which these operations...
52. asked the Prime Minister whether he can now announce the Government's proposals regarding agricultural rating in Scotland?
81. asked the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health whether he has received representations from Scottish parish councils pressing for the repeal of Section 37 of The Poor...
82. asked the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health whether he has had his attention called to the report of a case in Wellington Street, Motherwell, where, owing to...
83. asked the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health if representations have been made by the Scottish local authorities asking the Government to bring in legislation to...
53. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that the American Government intend to issue orders to vessels belonging to the American fleet to assist in preventing the landing in...
55. asked the Minister of Health the number of cases of industrial poisoning for each of the last three years, and how many were fatal?
60. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received a communication from the medical officer of health for the borough of Poplar enclosing a statement of 40 typical cases of serious...
63. asked the Minister of Health whether, between the Second Reading of the Housing (No 2) Bill and its consideration in detail in Committee, he is taking steps to obtain from the local...
67. asked the Minister of Health whether the interest demanded by the Public Works Loan Board when lending to public utility societies and others for constructing houses in the future is still...
70. asked the Minister of Health whether he can state the housing requirements for the County of Linlithgow as revealed in the 1919 survey; how many houses have been built by the local...
71. asked the Minister of Health if, in view of the quinquennial revaluation of house property, he will introduce a short Bill to stipulate that the assessment value of house property shall not...
Mr. DOYLE: 73. asked the Minister of Health how many houses have been built by the Newburn (Northumberland) Urban District Council; how long these houses have been completed; and why they remain...
62. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that dried eggs imported from China are liable to contain zinc oxide derived from the zinc plates on which the eggs are dried; that large...
65. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the uncertainty as to the date on which the Regulations under the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act will come into operation is causing...
68. asked the Minister of Health whether the Government actuary notified Sir Eric Geddes' Committee that he could not safely advise that the funds of approved societies could bear any further...
69. asked the Minister of Health whether he proposes to recommend any reduction in the administrative allowance of approved societies?
76. asked the Attorney-General whether he is aware that the University of Oxford, by virtue of a number of ancient statutes, claim to exercise power and authority over a limited class not...
78. asked the hon. Member for Cheltenham, as Chairman of the Kitchen Committee, whether, in view of the fact that an hon. Member who entertains a female guest at dinner has to pay more than twice...
84. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been called to the case of Mrs. Jane Richards, 56, Garneddwen, Corris, a dependant in receipt of the flat-rate pension of 5s., who, on...
85. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that local education authorities resent statements that the present critical financial position of training colleges...
Mr. W. JENKINS (Neath): 87. asked the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the large number of depositors, he will re-introduce the system of giving an official acknowledgment for each deposit,...
88. asked the Postmaster-General how much it would cost, on the basis of present figures, to withdraw the Regulation under which only five words may be written on picture post-cards at the...
72. asked the Minister of Health if he has yet decided either to appoint a Committee or call a Conference on the ambulance system of London?
79. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether injury is being caused to vegetation in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, by the emission of black smoke from factory shafts in Brentford; and, if so,...
91. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the very large number of people who attended last Saturday's cup final match at Wembley and the heavy list of casualties,...
94. asked the Home Secretary if Miss Grace Lally was arrested at the request of the Free State Government; if he has any knowledge, except such request from the Free State, of any activity of...
96. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he intends to appoint any further Committees to inquire into the pay of other public servants who are not dealt with by the Anderson Committee;...
98. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware that the wages of the brewery workers in different parts of the country are being reduced by five and six shillings a week; and whether,...
(by Private Notice) asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether there is any truth in the statement which appears in a leading article in the "Times" this morning with reference to the...
Is the Chancellor of the Exchequer aware that the Debate on the Second Reading of the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions (Continuance) Bill may take some hours and, consequently,...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish wages boards in the agricultural industry for the fixing of minimum rates of wages; and for other purposes in connection...
"to establish Wages Boards in the agricultural industry for the fixing of minimum rates of wages; and for other purposes in connection therewith," presented accordingly, and read the First time;...
City and South London Railway Bill,
Nationality of Married Women:—That they have appointed a Committee consisting of Five Lords to join with a Committee of the Commons to examine the British Law as to the Nationality of...
Resolutions reported from the Select Committee; 1. "That, in the case of the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Bill, Petition for additional Provision, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee C: Captain Hudson.
Order for Second Reading read.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the enactments relating to the housing of the working classes (including the amendment and revocation of...
I beg to move: That, in the opinion of this House, the necessity for the compulsory discharge of naval ratings, especially the engine-room artificers, 5th class, and the compulsory discharges of...
I beg to move, That this House is of opinion that the value of land apart from improvements belongs of right to the whole community and is a proper source of public revenue; requests the...
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [18th April]. That the present system of imposing upon the Catholics of England the burden of building their own schools is contrary to...
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Amendment proposed on consideration of Resolution.
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