Llun, 12 Mai 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Queen's Ferry Bridge Bill,
15. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the attitude of His Majesty's Government towards the question of Russia joining the League of Nations; and whether His Majesty's...
24. asked the Prime Minister whether he is yet in a position to state the attitude of His Majesty's Government with reference to Article 36 of the Protocol of the International Court of Justice;...
18. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received a copy of the recent Treaty between Germany and Turkey; and whether he has taken care to see that this Treaty in no...
19. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information with regard to the reported tension on the Syrian-Turkish frontier and the reported movements of troops?
20. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can see his way to bring the information contained in the White Paper, Miscellaneous No. 5, 1910 [Cd. 6102], on the treatment of...
22. asked the Prime Minister whether the Soviet Delegation who are at present in negotiation with His Majesty's Government in London have plenipotentiary powers to conclude a definite agreement...
32. asked the Prime Minister if he will state what action, if any, has His Majesty's Government taken, or proposes to take, in connection with the premises formerly used as the Russian Embassy in...
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, considering that Brahmins have hitherto been nominated to represent Indian labour at the International Labour Conference at Geneva, the...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the tonnage of iron and steel goods imported into India for the year ending 31st March, 1924, and, of this total, what percentage was British?
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the repeated murders that have taken place on the North-Western frontier of India, and of the satisfactory results that have...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any steps have been taken to carry out the recommendations made by the Joint Select Committee of Parliament, in paragraph 11 of their...
7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, as a result of the capitation grant, any contribution, direct or indirect, is made by India to the maintenance of the Royal Military...
8. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that the recommendations of the Medical Services Committee were forwarded by the Government of India to the Secretary of State...
9. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether an official inquiry will be held into the firing of six volleys on a crowd outside a cotton mill at Cawnpore, on 4th April, causing three...
10. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that Pandit Jagdamba Prasad is a political prisoner in Benares Gaol, United Provinces, and that the pandit has been compelled...
11. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that, despite a resolution passed by the Bombay Legislative Council that the land cess for the Sangola Taluka, in Sholapur...
12. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the claim of the Nizam of Hyderabad for the rendition of the province of the Berars, which has been before the Government of India for...
13. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the calculations supplied to him, showing the reduction of pay inflicted on married officers serving in India, had been verified and what...
21. asked the Prime Minister if France has paid the whole of her War debt to Spain; and, if so, what was the amount?
33. asked the Prime Minister whether he has discovered, since he became Foreign Secretary, any secret treaties or agreements in existence when he took office, or in existence when the War began,...
25. asked the Prime Minister whether he is taking steps to secure the election to this House of at least one of the two Scottish Law Officers?
29. asked the Prime Minister whether he will give facilities for discussion of the Motion on a further conference of the Washington Treaty Powers in the names of the hon. Members for Central Hull...
31. asked the Prime Minister whether it is the policy of the Government to reinstate the 2,000 policemen who were dismissed for taking part in the strike in 1919?
Captain TUDOR REES: 27. asked the Prime Minister whether and, if so, when he proposes to restore to litigants the right of trial by jury as it existed before the War?
36. asked the Prime Minister when he proposes to introduce the Bill providing for the allocation of the unpaid balance of the Boxer indemnity for the purposes of education; and whether, in view...
39. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that segregation of Asiatics still prevails in the Government railways and steamers in Kenya Colony; that separate...
40. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the Indian residents in Kenya Colony are refusing to pay the Poll Tax as a protest against communal franchise; whether...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL: 41. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Government have received any further information from the Free State authorities in con nection...
Sir F. HALL: 47. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if, in view of the effect of Article 12 of the Irish Treaty of 6th December, 1921, upon the Act passed in 1920, supported by...
42. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether His Majesty's Government has now received any information as to the action taken by the Canadian Government to secure the assent of the...
43. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to the statement, in Report No. 1,194 of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, that special efforts...
44. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the form and amount of taxation imposed upon the people of Nyasaland; and whether, seeing that in addition to a monetary taxation there...
48. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether the Report of the delegation from the Overseas Settlement Committee which has recently visited Australia and New...
50. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether his attention has been called to the agreement recently concluded between His Majesty's Legation at Budapest and the...
52. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department the average percentage of reduction of duties given by the Dominions, respectively, for British goods imported into the...
55. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether county councils are now being encouraged to provide small holdings for ex-service and other unemployed applicants; if so, how many such holdings have...
56. asked the Minister of Agriculture the amount by which the tithe holders have profited under the provisions of the Tithe Act, 1920; and whether the whole of this sum has fallen upon the...
57. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will make any further statement as to the retail prices of milk in the Administrative County of Warwick and the prices paid to producers in the same area?
58. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will give particulars of the circumstances where an inspector of the Board found that two agricultural workers were working 63 hours and 53 hours per...
60. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether, in view of the large amount of money which is annually expended on repairing the stone work of national buildings, he is carrying out any...
61. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the Windsor Radio Society has been informed that wireless sets at Windsor are adversely affected by serious oscillation; and whether he...
62. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the proposal to broadcast the speech at the opening of the Empire Exhibition at Wembley led to an enormous increase in the sale of...
63. asked the Postmaster-General if he has received any further representations with regard to postal and telegraph facilities in Rugby?
45. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been called to an advertisement appearing in the "Times" newspaper on 29th April last stating that, by direction of His...
46. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can make any announcement as to the personnel of the Commission which is to investigate the potentialities of unified administration in the...
66. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether, in connection with the Government's new housing proposals, he will be prepared to give effect to the views of the Scottish local authorities as to...
67. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether his attention has been directed to the need for providing garret accommodation for the storage of nets and other fishing gear in houses erected by...
68. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will circulate statistics, showing the effects of the arrangements which he has made for the consideration of appeals by recipients of pre-War dependency...
69. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been called to the fact that many ex-service men who no longer enjoy any pension are in receipt of treatment and receive treatment...
71. asked the President of the Board of Trade what was the number of persons employed in the manufacture of pianos in 1913, 1921 and 1922, respectively?
74. asked the President of the Board of Trade how many persons were employed in the manufacture of light motor-cars and allied trades in 1913, 1921, 1922, and 1923, respectively?
78. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he caused proceedings for eviction to be taken against Mr. Charles Oldham at the Brentford County Court this week; and what was the result of his...
79. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there is any retiring age for coroners; and, if not, how many coroners there are over the age of 75?
81. asked the Home Secretary whether any aliens who were refused admittance to this country last year have been admitted this year; and, if so, how many?
82. asked the Home Secretary whether he has given instructions for a large number of police to be sent into Hayes immediately blacklegs arrive, where a dispute is taking place between the...
83. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been railed to certain photographs of digging operations and other investigations by the police in connection with an alleged murder near...
85. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the details, under the various heads, of the receipts from Customs and Excise duties for the year ended 31st March, 1924; and if he can...
86. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if his attention has been called to the circular issued to their shareholders by the Calthorpe Investments, Limited, advising them, in view of the repeal...
23. asked the Prime Minister whether the terms of reference and the exact composition of the Committee to inquire into the withheld retired pay of naval officers can yet be given?
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State, for the Colonies whether he can give the House any further information regarding the serious disturbances said to have taken place in Northern...
(by Private Notice) asked the Lord Privy Seal whether in view of the fact that the Report of the Chief Factory Inspector has not yet been presented to the House, he will arrange for the Home...
May I ask your ruling, Sir, in reference to what may or may not be raised in Committee of Supply? On the 7th May the Prime Minister, in answer to a question by the hon. and gallant Member for...
Not amended (in the Standing Committee) considered.
I beg to move, in page 1, line 11, to leave out the word "twenty-six," and to insert instead thereof the word "twenty-five." The object of this Amendment is to extend the provisions of this Bill...
Not amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £5,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
I desire to raise a question affecting the privileges of this House. I think that Members in all parts of the House are justly jealous of any attack which may be made on any of its Members. The...
Order for Second Reading read.
I desire to call attention, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, to a question of privilege, and I may explain that I wish to raise no party issue or any matter of that kind, or to object to the...
Motion made, and Question proposed "That the Bill be now Read a Second time."
Not amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time." I might be allowed to explain that prior to 1905, when it was found that an error had been made in solemnising the marriage of any party,...
Order read for Consideration of Fifth and Subsequent Resolutions.
5. "That—
6. "That the additional duties of excise on medicines imposed by Section eleven of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915, and continued by Section seven of the Finance Act, 1923, until the first day of...
7. "That the new import duties which were imposed by Part I of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915, and continued by Section six of the Finance Act, 1923, until the first day of May, nineteen hundred...
8. "That— (a) Income Tax shall be charged for the year beginning the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, at the rate of four shillings and sixpence in the pound, and the...
9. "That for the purposes of any assessment to Income Tax for any year which is made on or after, or has not become final and conclusive before, the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and...
10. "That any repayment of Income Tax for any year of assessment, whether ending before or after the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, to which any person may be entitled...
Resolution reported, That it is expedient to amend the Law relating to the National Debt, Customs, and Inland Revenue (including Excise), and to make further provision in connection with Finance.
"to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise), to alter other duties, and to amend the Law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise), and the National...
2.0 A.M.
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