Mercher, 21 Mai 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any Reports or representations have been received by his Department, either from the Colonial Office or from foreign Governments, as to...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the delay in the ratification of the Commercial Treaty between His Majesty's Government and Poland is depriving...
4. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty the number of lieutenant-commanders in the Royal Navy who are unemployed, and the number who have been unemployed for more than two years?
5. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether, during the General Election of 1918, an Admiralty instruction was issued permitting naval officers on full pay to run as candidates...
8. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty when it is proposed to publish the official account of the Battle of Jutland; and what it is proposed to publish?
9. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty the number of acres of land purchased by the late Government from the Bukit Sembawang Rubber Company, Limited, with the object of...
11. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will consider the setting up of an independent tribunal similar to the appeal boards of the Ministry of Pensions to whom naval...
12. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that considerable delay occurs in the payment of bonuses granted to dockyard workmen who are discharged after 10 years'...
17. asked the Minister of Labour if he can state the number of jobs which have been found for the unemployed by the Employment Exchanges during the last 12 monthly periods?
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 18. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that, owing to the Middlesbrough Corporation having already expended £1,102,585 on unemployed relief works and owing to...
19. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that Mr. A. J. Scott, of 3, Clarence Cottages, The Square, Purton, having made application for the position of postman at Purton, received a...
20. asked the Minister of Labour how many of the persons employed on schemes for the relief of unemployment on 25th April, 1924, owe their employment to schemes initiated in the first instance by...
22. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the great dissatisfaction existing among insured persons in Shoreditch on account of the refusal of uncovenanted unemployment benefit in...
24. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the growing unemployment in the motor industry in this country owing to the repeal of the McKenna Duties and to the great demand in French...
29. asked the Minister of Labour if he will state, to the last convenient date, the total amount of grants from national funds to juvenile unemployment centres?
30. asked the Minister of Labour if he has been able to give further consideration to the arrangement whereby unemployed dock workers are obliged to sign at the Employment Exchanges twice daily;...
34. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the unemployed in that district have to sign at the Alexandria (Dumbarton) Exchange four days a week; that this reacts against the men...
21. asked the Minister of Labour when he proposes to introduce a Bill to ratify the Washington Convention concerning hours of labour?
25. asked the Minister of Labour the number and nature of the home-training classes proposed and now in existence; and whether there has been any objection and, if so, of what nature to this policy?
26. asked the Minister of Labour the number of officials employed in the Statistical Department of the Ministry of Labour in the years 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, and 1924, respectively?
31. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware of the dispute existing between the men employed at the India stores depot, who are in receipt of wages amounting to from 44s. to 48s. per week,...
28. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been drawn to cases in which trade unions in the engineering industry have placed limitations on the number of automatic lathes and...
36. asked the Minister of Health whether he is prepared to consider the desirability of amending Section 1, Sub-section (1) of the Poor Law Act, 1899, by substituting 21 years for 18 years of age...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 37. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Middlesbrough Corporation, having regard to the slow rate of progress in their existing housing schemes, have...
39. asked the Minister of Health whether he has refused permission to the Bethnal Green Board of Guardians to build rooms over their existing building to provide accommodation for their nurses;...
40. asked the Minister of Health whether he can explain why a term of years of apprenticeship is specified in the report on the building industry, while adopting the principle of admission to...
44. asked the Minister of Health whether the proposed Government Housing Bill will enable a local authority, which has received sanction for a scheme under the 1923 Housing Act, to carry out the...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether he proposes to introduce any further legislation relating to rent restriction or evictions?
57. asked the Minister of Health if he can give the reason for the increase in the cost of building parlour-houses from £386 in January last to £425 in April; and when he anticipates...
58. asked the Minister of Health whether he proposes to introduce a Housing Bill or make any statement on the Government's housing proposals before the Whitsuntide Recess?
59. asked the Minister of Health what action, if any, he is taking to augment the supply of bricks by British manufacturers?
38. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that ex-service men in receipt of a pension and receiving training at Government instructional factories are being paid National Health...
41. asked the Minister of Health whether he can inform the House as to the precise, or approximate, number of aliens who are in receipt of relief from guardians in the East End and in other parts...
42. asked the Minister of Health how many local authorities have adopted the Local Government and other Officers Superannuation Act, 1922?
43. asked the Minister of Health whether the consultative councils, authorised by the Ministry of Health Act to advise him upon matters relating to public health administration have ever been set...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether any agreement has been come to with regard to the constitution of the Committee of Inquiry into the question of Home Rule for Scotland, Wales, and England,...
46. asked the Prime Minister how many members of the Council and States members of the League of Nations, respectively, have accepted Article 36 of the Protocol of the International Court of...
47. asked the Prime Minister if he can now make any statement as to the official legislation which the Government intends to endeavour to pass into law before the Summer Recess?
48. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that, in consequence of the unwillingness of His Majesty's Government to maintain the effective preference upon Empire sugar at the figure...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to appoint a Committee to review the method of compiling the cost-of-living index figures, in view of the uneasiness in the minds of large...
51. asked the Prime Minister what was the cost to the Imperial Exchequer of the police force in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively, for the years ending March, 1923, and March, 1924?
52. asked the Prime Minister when he proposes that the House shall rise for the Whitsuntide Recess; and on what date he proposes that the House shall reassemble?
53. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the new situation created by the failure of Waterloo Bridge, before any public money is actually paid from the Road Fund towards work in...
83. asked the Minister of Transport whether any sum of money has been placed at the disposal of his Department for the purpose of assisting in the repair and maintenance of rural district roads;...
54. asked the Prime Minister if he can now make any statement as to the policy of the Government with respect to the development of wireless telegraphy in this country?
75. asked the Postmaster-General the names of the foreign companies associated with the Marconi Company in the South American Wireless Consortium; whether the consortium agreement provides that...
76. asked the Postmaster-General if his attention has been drawn to the request of the Parish Council of Hadleigh, Essex, for improved postal facilities; and, in view of the growth of this...
77. asked the Postmaster-General whether the Post Office are confiscating the incoming mail addressed to Mr. Tom Garnett, of 5, Thornton Avenue, Orrell, Bootle, Lancashire, the organising...
55. asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of His Majesty's Government to adopt the suggestion recently put forward to investigate the question of profiteering and middlemen's...
Sir F. HALL: 56. asked the Prime Minister what measures the Government propose to take to protect the industry of this country, and to secure for its producers a fair share of the world's markets?
66. asked the Attorney-General whether his attention has been called to the nature of the publicity in connection with the Eastbourne and Byflcet murder cases, and in particular to the article in...
70. asked the First Commissioner of Works why no seats are provided along the Mall; and will he take steps to provide seats for the convenience of the public?
72. asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of cattle which
74. asked the Minister of Agriculture the comparative prices of farm produce in 1914 and the present market prices, the pre-War agricultural wage rates and hours worked, and the rates and hours...
73. asked the Minister of Agriculture the amount of reduction of rent made to the smallholders in the County of Somerset during each of the following years 1921, 1922 and 1923?
79. asked the Secretary of State for War the conditions of service under which the pre-War pensioner was enrolled; and if he was liable to service up to 50 years of age?
86. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that for some years now the elementary schools at Stonebroom, Derbyshire, have been propped up by huge baulks of timber to...
May I ask the Lord Privy Seal which of the Orders he intends to take to-day? It will be within his recollection that Orders have appeared on the Paper which were not announced last Thursday, and...
Reported, with Amendments; 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.
Resolution reported from the Select Committee:
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection: That they had added the following Member to Standing Committee A: Mr. Sandeman.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a New Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
had given notice of an Amendment, on page 2, line 20, to leave out the words "except that," and to insert instead thereof the words "applicable to industrial assurance companies."
Bill reported, without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed, without Amendment.
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee. [Progress, 14th May.]
I beg to move in page 2, line 22, after the word "instituted" to insert the words after the passing of this Act in respect of any claim not made before the thirty-first day of August, nineteen...
I beg to move, That a committee be appointed to consider the position of our export trade and the means to be taken to obtain the necessary markets; that the committee shall consist of a judge of...
Order for Second Reading read.
Again considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Schedule stand part of the Bill."
Mr. JONES: I beg to move, in page 1, line 8, after the word "indirectly" to insert the word "charges." I propose to move a further Amendment, leaving out the words "certain charges, including...
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