Mercher, 9 Gorffennaf 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Lancashire Asylums Board Bill [Lords] (by Order),
On a point of Order. May I ask whether it is possible to open any of the windows round the House? Last year, you will recollect, Sir, we had some windows open. There seems to be a very unpleasant...
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can inform the House as to what nations have representatives permanently stationed at Geneva for work in connection with the League of...
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the New Guinea Mandate will come up for consideration by the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations.
47. asked the Prime Minister whether, seeing that it is now the practice of the Council of the League of Nations to hold most of its sittings in public, and that the results of this practice have...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what arrangements are proposed for safeguarding the water supply of Egypt drawn from the portions of the Nile outside Egyptian jurisdiction and...
7. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to the reported decision of the Egyptian Government to default upon the instalments in respect of the Turkish...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will consider the employment of the British Military Attaché in Paris to advise the Ambassador on military matters with out, as at...
Lieut. - Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL: 5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the arrangements made by him from time to time for interviews with representatives of the Allied...
Sir F. HALL: 6. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any intimation has been received from the German Government that it proposes in any further negotiations which may take...
8. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he proposes to publish in the form of a White Paper the correspondence and memoranda which have led up to the Inter-Allied Conference;...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether questions dealt with by the Ambassadors' Conference have been first submitted to the League and only referred to the Conference if the League is unable or...
9. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, seeing that the collection of pre-War documents known as the Russian Orange Book, purporting to contain the accurate text of the...
10. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Committee to inquire into the withheld retired pay of naval officers have as yet reported; and whether the Government intend to...
11. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether at the forthcoming naval review a destroyer or flotilla leader can be detailed to embark those Members of Parliament not so far...
12. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he has received the report of the officer commanding the gunboat "Cockchafer" relative to the incidents connected with the murder of...
15. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will authorise vocational training during the last three months of service before pension for naval ratings who are specially...
16. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty when it is anticipated the Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the resettlement of naval ratings on return to civil life,...
18. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what official duties will be performed by the Admiralty yacht "Enchantress," or to what uses will she be put, apart from conveying the Board...
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what accommodation, if any, is provided for the crews of His Majesty's ships on the China station during the periods they are undergoing...
20. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, with reference to the examination which is contemplated for ex-service men employed as temporary civil servants under the Admiralty,...
24. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can yet state when the land reclamation scheme on the Wash is going to be started?
23. asked the Minister of Labour if he will issue an instruction to all employment exchange managers and staff that bonâ fide skilled men registering for employment are entitled to the...
Lieut. - Colonel Sir PHILIP RICHARDSON: 25. asked the Minister of Labour why contribution for unemployment insurance is levied in respect of apprentices during the period of their apprenticeship...
26. asked the Minister of Labour whether, as a result of representations made to his Department, the cases of men attached to the Eastville Employment Exchange have been reconsidered for benefit...
36. asked the Minister of Labour what number of men over 60 years of age were struck off uncovenanted unemployment benefit during the month of June this year?
37. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that a woman who voluntarily leaves her employment in order to be married can, after three months, apply to be placed on the register for...
Mr. SANDEMAN: 55. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the great benefit which would accrue, both morally and physically, by the introduction of compulsory physical training for three...
Mr. W. FOOT MITCHELL: 31. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is satisfied that the labour now available for pea picking in Essex is adequate?
33. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can state the position of the strike at Loanend Colliery, Blantyre?
40. asked the Minister of Health whether he can now make a statement concerning the appeals he has received against surcharges made by the district auditor in the cases of certain London boards...
41. asked the Minister of Health whether he has yet received any representations from the London County Council upon the question of reducing the original rents of post-War houses upon the White...
42. asked the Minister of Health how many villages in the administrative county of Hampshire will be eligible to obtain the subsidy of £12 10s. per house under the new Housing Bill?
Mr. W. F. MITCHELL: 51. asked the Minister of Health what structural materials for the construction of houses can be used, respectively, under the Chamberlain proposals of 1923 and the Government...
52. asked the Minister of Health whether he will arrange to publish a monthly Return of the number of apprentices in the various sections of the building trade?
53. asked the Minister of Health whether he proposes to introduce a Bill under which houses costing £500 each will be let at a rent of 3s. 3d. weekly?
54. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that Belgian bricks are being offered alongside wharf in the Thames at 55s. per 1,000 as compared with 85s. and 75s. for Kentish first-and...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 56. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the continued aggravation of the housing shortage by the conversion of existing dwelling-houses into offices, garages,...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 57. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that there are a large number of empty houses which are being withheld from occupation; and, as the Government has made no...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 58. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received resolutions from conferences of local authorities held at the Town Hall, Carlisle (for Cumberland and Westmoreland), on...
61. asked the Minister of Health whether there has been any increase in the price of building materials, such as lead water-pipes and barrel-pipes due to the increasing demand of foreign markets...
62. asked the Minister of Health, with reference to the housing shortage, if he has received any proposals from local authorities relative to the erection of wooden houses; and what steps he has...
64. asked the Minister of Health the number of bricklayers, plasterers, joiners, flaggers and slaters, and plumbers employed in the building trade in England and Wales on 1st January, 1924, and...
Mr. SIMON: 67. asked the Minister of Health whether the treaty he has made with the building trade as to the augmentation of labour is embodied in any other documents beyond the Housing...
69. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that it will be three to four years before any apprentice is capable of taking his place among the tradesmen in the Bricklayers' Union; and...
77. asked the Minister of Health if he will issue a memorandum before the Committee stage of the Housing Bill stating which of the recommendations he intends to put into force which were proposed...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation at an early date to amend the Blind Persons Act, 1920?
48. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to a statement made at Apperley Bridge, on Saturday last, by the First Commissioner of Works that, owing to the congestion of...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether he is now in a position to inform the House of the progress which is being made with schemes for the electrification of railways following upon the...
63. asked the Minister of Health the total sum contributed by local authorities to the funds of the Early Closing Association; whether he is aware that this body is an employers' association; if...
65. asked the Minister of Health what schemes are in contemplation for the building of new asylums and other mental institutions; in view of the declaration in 1922 of a surplus of 18,000 beds,...
68. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that his Department has officially approached the Kingston Board of Guardians with a view to making arrangements for that authority to hand...
75. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that in many parts of the country persons recommended for admission to sanatoria are frequently kept waiting for months, thus decreasing their...
81. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that in certain districts the ante-natal and other clinics are not so successful as they otherwise would be, owing to a natural disinclination...
Can the Deputy Leader of the House say how late he proposes that the House should sit to night and what is the business in respect of which he proposes to suspend the Eleven o'clock Rule?
Report from the Joint Committee, in respect of the National Health Insurance Bill [Lords] (pending in the Lords), brought up and read.
Keighley Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order Bill,
"to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the registration, ownership, measurement, tonnage, and national character of merchant ships and to kindred matters; and for purposes connected...
That they have agreed to,
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee D.
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
(1) Section seventeen of the principal Act (which provides for arrangements being made with associations which make payments to their members while unemployed for the payment to such associations...
"Where more than one hundred persons are entitled to benefit, who are normally employed at the same factory or works, the Minister shall, upon the application of the persons entitled to benefit...
I do not propose to call the Amendment standing in the name of the hon. Baronet the Member for Southport (Sir J. Brunner)—in page 2, lines 13 and 14, to leave out the words he shall...
I beg to move in page 4, line 24, to leave out the word "two" and to insert instead thereof the word "three." I hope this Amendment will commend itself to the Minister. It is a continuation of...
Order for Second Reading read.
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Consideration of Bill as amended (in the Standing Committee).
The Amendment in the name of the hon. Member for Govan (Mr. N. Maclean), to leave out Sub-section (1) and to insert a new Sub-section, is printed in the wrong place on the Paper.
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