Mercher, 28 Mai 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Southern Railway Bill,
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any representations have been received from the Egyptian Government as to the futu[...] command of the Egyptian Army; and what reply has...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is proposed to publish the correspondence between M. Poincaré and himself; and, if so, whether publication will take place...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what are the precise powers now enjoyed and exercised by the Conference of Ambassadors; if the decisions taken from time to time by this...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if at the end of last year the Conference of Ambassadors, at the request of the Austrian Government transmitted through the Inter-Allied...
6. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can state the number of ships of all classes, respectively, including store-carriers, supply ships, and fleet auxiliaries of all...
8. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty how many boys are now under training for His Majesty's Navy, and how many were under training on 28th May, 1914; and why it has been found...
9. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that yard-craftsmen in Devonport Dockyard are on duty 24 hours per day on seven days a week; that the average number of...
11. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware of the discontent in the minds of a large number of men working in the Government dockyards, mole especially stokers and...
14. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether, seeing that the question of granting marriage allowance to naval officers has been for a long time under consideration, he can now...
15. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, with reference to the proposed reductions in officers' pay, whether he is aware that in July, 1919, when the new scales were promulgated,...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 7. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he will give particulars of the number of persons employed on the Admiralty staff to-day and the corresponding...
Viscountess ASTOR: 49. asked the Prime Minister when payment will be made to those affected by the decision in the case of Sutton v. Rex?
10. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Australian Government has now taken a final decision with reference to the construction of cruisers; whether these cruisers will...
16. asked the Minister of Labour whether, since the present scheme of financing Juvenile Unemployment Centres bears with hardship on the teachers for the purposes of the Superannuation Act, he...
17. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the West Riding County Council have recently purchased a quantity of railway material and wagon works of foreign manufacture for use in...
19. asked the Minister of Labour whether the classification according to the occupation of persons insured under the Unemployment Insurance Acts is so arranged as to show the total number of...
22. asked the Minister of Labour what the cost would be, first, to reduce the waiting time to qualify for unemployed pay to three days and, second, to limit the need to qualify on the present...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 24. asked the Minister of Labour if he will give particulars of the maximum and minimum rates of unemployment in the building trades during each of the last five years and during...
26. asked the Minister of Labour if he will give the latest estimate of the number of women who are insured persons in the unemployment insurance scheme; how many of them are estimated to be...
Mr. ATHOLL ROBERTSON: 32. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that unemployed men who are drawing benefits for self, wife, and children, and who have the opportunity of learning a trade...
66. asked the Minister of Health whether he can state the approximate financial relief that West Ham, Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Middlesbrough, and other heavily rated Poor Law areas in...
18. asked the Minister of Labour how many persons in this country have their wages regulated in accordance with a sliding scale dependent on the cost of living; and whether it is contemplated...
20. asked the Minister of Labour whether it is the intention of the Government to bring the Maternity Convention decisions before the House for ratification during the present Session; and, if...
21. asked the Minister of Labour how many of the ex-service members of the staff in his Department now under or about to receive notice of dismissal are single and how many are married men?
30. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the widespread distress prevalent amongst ex-service officers and men of like educational qualification, he is prepared to extend to them the...
39. asked the Minister of Health if he is now in a position to state the number of ex-service men and dependants in receipt of Poor Law relief?
36. asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been directed to the inadequate lavatory accommodation afforded to passengers taking long journeys on railway trains coming by excursion to...
31. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that the dispute in the Dutch cotton textile trade has been settled by a reduction in wages of 7½ per cent., and an increase in working hours...
33. asked the Minister of Labour if, and when, he intends to apply the Trade Facilities and Export Credit Schemes to Soviet Russia?
Mr. W. FOOT MITCHELL: 34. asked the Minister of Health the number of cases in which he has refused the housing subsidy on the ground that the needs of the district concerned can be met by...
37 asked the Minister of Health, in view of the fact that, within the county of Middlesex, one town council and six urban district councils have formally adopted the Small Dwellings Acquisition...
38. asked the Minister of Health if he will take steps to initiate legislation that will result in the occupation of over 250,000 houses at present held for sale; whether subsidies are in...
41. asked the Minister of Health the number of houses completed during the last 12 months by private enterprise, and also by local authorities; and the number of non-subsidy houses with a...
54. asked the Minister of Health the number of houses built under the Housing Act, 1923; the cost per house; the amount of subsidy paid for each house or group of houses; and the districts where...
55. asked the Minister of Health the number of subsidy houses actually under construction by private enterprise and by local authorities, and the number of non-subsidy houses below £52 per...
57. asked the Minister of Health when he will be in a position to inform the House as to his proposals for preventing profiteering in materials used in the building industry during the course of...
61. asked the Minister of Health whether the veto on the granting to the building guilds of housing contracts of the form known as basic sum contracts, originally approved by his Department under...
62. asked the Minister of Health whether he can state the number of houses in respect of which the Exchequer paid all excess over the ld. rate in the years 1020, 1921, 1922 and 1923, without...
65. asked the Minister of Health the number of brick- fields now making machine-made and hand-made bricks in England, Scotland, and Wales; the number of bricks now being made and if they are...
67. asked the Minister of Health whether he will state the policy of the Government with respect to the compulsory segregation of persons seriously affected with tuberculosis and in an infectious...
68. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that on two occasions the Stamford Town Council have recommended a reduction in the rents of the houses built by them under the housing...
70. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the inadequate supply and the increase in the price of bricks, he will arrange for the manufacture of hollow concrete building blocks; and if...
40. asked the Minister of Health whether he is prepared to appoint a court of inquiry to investigate and report upon the prevailing conditions of the public health service of the country?
42. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the insufficiency of hospital accommodation in this country and to the great amount of waste and inefficiency due to the...
43. asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider the amendment of Section 1 (1) of the Poor Law Act, 1899, by substituting 21 years for 18 years as the limit of age of vesting of...
44. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the increasing numbers of persons being admitted into the guardians' institutions who are entitled to receive benefits under the National...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to an announcement to the effect that the Royal Dutch and the Standard, the two big oil trusts, have entered into an agreement...
46. asked the Prime Minister the Government's decision on the Donald Wireless Report?
47. asked the Prime Minister if he is aware of the widespread advertisements of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Brodrick Hartwell, baronet, soliciting financial support of schemes for the smuggling of large...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the statement by Mr. Butler, Chairman of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives of the United States of America,...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that Budget concessions are being neutralised by other articles being raised in price; and whether he proposes to take any action by way of...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether he can state the terms on which he has arrived at a settlement with the Italian Government on the question of Jubaland?
52. asked the Prime Minister when he intends to bring in the Bill to amend the Old Age Pension Acts by removing the means limit?
53. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the difficulties that are placed in the way of men and boys resident in Southern Ireland who desire to join the British Navy; whether his...
56. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the hoardings erected for the purpose of bill posting throughout the country are having a damaging effect on rateable values; and whether...
Mr. W. A. JENKINS: 59. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that boards of guardians and the public generally urge that the immediate introduction of legislation to provide pensions...
(by Private Notice) asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he can now make any statement relative to the invention known as the death ray?
In regard to the Motion for the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule, will the Deputy-Leader of the House state how far it is proposed to go?
I beg to move That leave be given to introduce a Bill to provide for the licensing of petrol pumps by highway authorities. The object of this Bill is to enable highway authorities to permit of...
"to provide for the licensing of petrol pumps by highway authorities," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time Tomorrow, and to be printed. [Bill 146.]
First Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, brought up, and read;
Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill,
That they have passed a Bill, intituled, "An Act to make provision with respect to leave of absence from India of the Governor-General, Commander-in-Chief, Governors and members of Executive...
Resolutions reported from the Select Committee: 1. "That, in the case of the Birmingham Corporation Bill [Lords], Petition for additional Provision, the Standing Orders ought to he dispensed...
Mr. NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee B: Mr. Penny.
Mr. William Nicholson further reported from the Committee: That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee D (added in respect of the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Bill):...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £350,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Technical and Warlike Stores of the Air Force...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £150,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
I beg to move, That this House regrets that the rate of progress under the Empire Settlement Act, 1922, has been disappointingly slow, and urges the Government to do everything in their power to...
Resolved, That the Order made by the Electricity Commissioners and confirmed by the Minister of Transport under Section 7 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1919, constituting the East Midlands...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Parkinson.]
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