Mercher, 16 Gorffennaf 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Edinburgh Corporation (Tramways, etc.) Order Confirmation Bill,
"to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to the Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women, Glasgow," presented by Mr. WILLIAM ADAMSON: and...
Mr. FOOT MITCHELL: 1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that in 1860 leases of land were acquired, in accordance with treaty, by the British Government on terms...
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any reports from China showing support from the British and Chinese to the project of building a railway for commercial...
10. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information to the effect that 19 cases containing rifles and revolvers have been recently seized as contraband on board...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Council of the League of Nations at its last meeting ordered that copies of a draft treaty of disarmament and...
5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the fact that, at the annual meeting of the Association of the League of Nations Unions at Lyons, a...
9. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the differences over the Mosul question have yet been referred to the League of Nations, or whether it is proposed to carry on further...
32. asked the Minister of Labour if he can supply Members of the House of Commons with any information as to the proceedings of the International Labour Conference, held this year at Geneva,...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information as to whether the Russo-Caucasian Company, Limited, which has been ordered by the Soviet Government to liquidate...
12. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the money agreed to be paid by the Russian Government in compensation for the arrest of the British trawlers on the Murmansk coast has...
7. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of an Irish Free State passport control office being set up in New York to deal with the very large number of foreign subjects...
8. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can make a statement as to the attitude of the Egyptian Government with respect to the payment of annuities of the Turkish Tribute Loan;...
11. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Treaty of Lausanne has been ratified by His Majesty?
13. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the American Government has issued new emigration regulations by which every adult, child, or infant entering the...
14. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that three married men were discharged from the Admiralty Department at Janson Street, Sheffield, on the 5th of July,...
Viscountess ASTOR: 16. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty when the deliberations of the Committee which is considering post-War widows' pensions are likely to be concluded?
Viscountess ASTOR: 17. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in assessing compassionate allowances for children, A.F.O. 708/21, providing £16 per annum in ordinary...
Viscountess ASTOR: 18. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can make any further statement with reference to the granting of marriage allowances to naval officers, in...
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that on the 31st July next the 300th anniversary of the sailing of the Pilgrim Fathers from the Humber will be celebrated by...
20. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that an established man, on discharge from the dockyard, cannot draw unemployment benefit, but that the hired man in like...
28. asked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, with reference to the cast of the acting subordinate officers of the C.M.'s and E.M.'s Department of His Majesty's dockyard, Devonport, who have been...
21. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty the average service engine-room artificers will have completed during the financial year 1923–24 before being promoted to chief...
22. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether it is proposed in future to publish the unit costs of manufacture at the Royal Naval Torpedo Factory and at the Royal Naval Cordite...
23. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is now in a position to state the exact loss incurred in connection with the two oil tankers built by the Admiralty for a private...
24. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, in view of the fact that the director of contracts in his Department issued tender forms for supplies of fresh vegetables to the...
25. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if an officer in receipt of disability retired pay will suffer any reduction in his retired pay as from the 1st July last, observing that...
30. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that the apprenticeship system is becoming almost extinct; and if he is willing to take any steps in order to revive it, in view of the fact that...
35. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the collapse of the Severn barrage scheme and the decision of the Government not to proceed with the Channel Tunnel, he can indicate exactly...
36. asked the Minister of Labour whether any instructions are issued to Employment Exchanges with a view to checking the supply of cheap labour to catering employers; and what is the minimum rate...
33. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that under a scheme sanctioned by his Department the Salisbury City Council built houses on which 79 per cent. of the labour employed was...
44. asked the Minister of Health whether, seeing that co-operative societies, building societies, and other benevolent institutions have hitherto advanced large sums of money whereby housing...
52. asked the Minister of Health if he will state his reasons for refusing to circularise the chairmen of housing committees of all local authorities in Great Britain in order to ascertain their...
56. asked the Minister of Health whether any document is in the possession of his Department showing the number of hospitals, isolation hospitals, tubercular sanatoria, asylums for the mentally...
59. asked the Minister of Health whether he is yet in a position to express an opinion upon the new method of laying bricks in cottage construction which is being tried at Ton-bridge; and, if...
60. asked the Minister of Health whether the building trade and the several trades unions concerned have explicitly accepted the Housing Bill as constituting a guarantee in return for which they...
Mr. PALMER: 64. asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the protection of out-tenants and the general advantage that would accrue by the fixing of rents for rooms let furnished and...
66. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that in the East End of London houses are being converted into small works or places of business; that housing shortage is particularly acute...
68. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that many of the subsidised houses in the Mosspark district of Glasgow provided by the corporation of that city are let to tenants who are in...
72. asked the Minister of Health who are to form the committee which are to guarantee the building of the municipal houses under his housing scheme; whether they are to be representatives of the...
76. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Mr. F. S. Clarke, an ex-service man, against whom an ejectment order was granted by the Magistrates at...
Mr. PALMER: 34. asked the Minister of Labour what steps, if any, have been taken by his Department to re-open the vacant State factory at Woolwich and equip it with machinery in order to carry...
40. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that a poison gas factory at Sutton, St. Helens, Lancashire, closed down since the declaration of peace, is again showing signs of activity; and,...
1. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the great hardship and the consequent breaking up of the homes of persons in receipt of Poor Law assistance caused by the action of certain...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he can now state what steps the Government have taken to stop the trans-shipment of whiskey from this country to the United States of America, in accordance...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether he can now state the attitude of the Government towards the Report of the Committee on the Sittings of the House?
79. asked the First Commissioner of Works if he will arrange for a small brass plate to be affixed to the House of Commons table which was rescued from the fire of 16th October, 1834, and which...
80. asked the First Commissioner of Works if he is aware that in Virginia, United States of America, there is a desire to commemorate the first British settlement in North America, taken...
85. asked the right hon. Member for Cheltenham, as Chairman of the Kitchen Committee, whether he is aware that, as the House will not rise before 8th August, 70 members of his staff will have...
48. asked the Prime Minister if he will, in future, endeavour to secure that all European boundary and frontier questions in which this country is concerned are referred to the League of Nations,...
49. asked the Prime Minister if it is the intention of the Government to adopt and proceed with the Representation of the People Act (1918) Amendment Bill this Session?
55. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to a circular letter issued by the secretary to the Royal Commission on Lunacy, intimating to those desirous of giving...
58. asked the Minister of Health if he can see his way to establish a pension scheme for nurses on a contributory basis, with substantial aid from the State, for all nurses that have faithfully...
61. asked the Minister of health whether, in connection with the present building dispute, he is sanctioning in connection with housing schemes the arrangements made by certain local authorities...
Mr. PALMER: 65. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received complaints from Poor Law guardians in respect to the Army, Navy, and Air Service reserve pay being made quarterly; and...
67. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the decision of the Courts in connection with the action of the Westminster City Council in diverting St. Martin's Library...
71. asked the Minister of Health whether his Department has recently considered the question of dust and refuse disposal in London and Greater London; whether he is aware that there are now...
77. asked the Minister of Health whether he approved the terms of the advertisement issued by the Boston Rural District Council for a sanitary inspector at a salary of £250 per annum, rising...
81. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether it is intended to remove the temporary buildings which have been erected in front of the Customs House, in the City, and which spoil the view of...
69. asked the Minister of Health the policy of his Department with regard to applications by municipal authorities for special powers to deal with the control of litter, and more especially in...
83. asked the Postmaster-General whether, seeing that the new licence to amateur wireless transmitters contains a condition that they shall not communicate with persons on the Continent or in the...
84. asked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been called to the fact that the London and North Eastern Railway is demanding an annual fee of 5s. from tenants for permission to erect...
86. asked the Secretary of State for War whether the British officer attached to the Inter-Allied Military Committee at Versailles reports direct to the War Office or if his duties are confined...
87. asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the anxiety amongst those at present employed at the Chilwell Ordnance Depot caused by the uncertainty as to their prospects, he will...
88. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been called to the case of an ex-soldier, Mr. Frederick Roskell, of Greengate Street, Barrow-in-Furness, an inmate of Lancaster...
92. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether he is aware that hawkers and owners of caravans have been, during the past few months, prohibited from camping on the South Common at...
89. asked the Minister of Transport if an application has been made under the Electricity Supply Acts, 1882 to 1922, for a special Electricity Order in respect of the parish of Wasperton and of...
93. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the Report of the Annual Conference of the Professional Fire Brigades' Association, at which the chief inspector of high...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is now in a position to announce the composition of the Committee which is to inquire into the intentions of the late...
May I ask the Deputy Leader of the House how late it is intended to sit, in the event of his Motion for the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule being carried?
I desire to ask your advice, Mr. Speaker, on a question of procedure. The Merchandise Marks Bill came before a Standing Committee this morning, summoned in the usual way, and at three minutes...
I beg to move, That leave he given to bring in a Bill to amend the Law governing the relations between landlords and tenants. It will be impossible for me to describe fully, in the time at my...
"to amend the Law governing the relations between landlords and tenants," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 212.]
Reported, with Amendments, from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills.
Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence, brought up, and read.
"to continue permanently certain provisions relating to the early closing of shops," presented by Sir KINGSLEY WOOD; supported by Mr. T. P. O'Connor, Duchess of Atholl, Mr. Bowerman, Sir John...
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection: That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee C (added in respect of the Summer Time Bill): Mr....
As amended, on consideration, to be printed. [Bill 210.]
That they have passed a Bill, intituled, "An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to the housing of the working classes in England and Wales." [Housing Bill [Lords.]
Considered in Committee.
I beg to move, in page 1, line 7, to leave out the words "Sections one and three off." The purpose of this Amendment is to extend the whole of the Act of 1923 for the period mentioned in Clause 1...
I beg to move, in page 2, line 2, after the word "Act," to insert the words a local authority purchases houses completed after the passing of this Act, or. The object of this Amendment is to...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. F. Hall.]
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