Iau, 9 Gorffennaf 1925
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Rochdale Corporation Bill [Lords],
1. asked the Minister of Pensions under what authority his Department, through the pension issue office or area offices, orders stoppages to be made from pensions, or from treatment allowances,...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Oulton Hall, near Leeds, is the only neurological hospital in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire and Cheshire; that in May last it was...
Mr. ROBINSON: 5. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, with a view to removing apprehension among pensioners that their pension rates may at some future period be reduced, he will consider the...
Mr. ROBINSON: 6. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that, in the case of Regular officers of the Navy or Army who die as the result of War injuries, it is the practice of his...
7. asked the Minister of Pensions how many local authorities have made representations to him for an amendment of the War Pensions Act, 1921, with a view to the abolition of the seven years'...
13. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether all the leading local authorities have been consulted in the drafting of the new Petroleum Bill; and whether the recommendations...
Mr. GOODMAN ROBERTS: 15. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that inconvenience attends the prohibition of the sale of chocolates and cigarettes after the hour of 8 p.m.; and whether the...
16. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the fact that fines amounting to £2,657 have been imposed on motorists by the magistrates at Oxted, in Surrey, in the...
17. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that the police take finger prints of youths who are charged with theft, while not convicted but simply bound over; whether this procedure is in...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 19. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Middlesbrough Corporation has recently carried out a building scheme for the erection of houses by the...
26. asked the Minister of Health how many housing schemes have been approved by his Department since November, 1924, and how many are at present under consideration: what was the number of...
21. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that early in 1922 the Metropolitan Borough Council of Southwark urged upon His Majesty's Government the desirability of legislation requiring...
29. asked the Minister of Health whether, since 12th February last, he has received representations from local authorities with regard to the user of dwelling-houses as factories and workships;...
20. asked the Minister of Health whether the Regulations made by his Department to ensure a clean meat supply are being carried into effect; have any prosecutions taken place for failure to carry...
22. asked the Minister of Health whether, in the case of small agricultural approved societies, he will approve of schemes providing for the application of a portion of the surpluses disclosed in...
33. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the statement of the late principal medical officer of the Ministry of Health attacking the administration of the...
30. asked the Minister of Health the number of married men and the number of single women insured under the Health Insurance Acts between the ages of 30–50, 50–60, and 60–65 in...
28. asked the Minister of Health if he can make a statement as to how long he anticipates it will be before the measure he contemplates for improving the condition of the River Lee will take...
31. asked the Minister of Health the total number of cases of measles for the last half-year and the total of deaths resulting therefrom and whether his Department can express any reason for the...
32. asked the Minister of Health whether there has been a public inquiry into the proposed public baths and washhouses in Bethnal Green: whether he is aware that there are no swimming baths in...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 38. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the number of Income Tax payers in the years 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924, respectively; and what percentage of these were in each year...
39. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the heavy consignments during May and June into this country of imports of foreign commodities which became dutiable on 1st July, he...
41. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the extent of the outstanding advances of the Treasury to the Unemployment Fund; what is the period in which these advances have been made; and...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the increasing congestion of Parliamentary business; and whether he intends to make any proposal for altering the date of the...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the adverse balance in the last quarter of the national balance sheet, he proposes to appoint a second Geddes Committee to inquire into national...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether he will take steps to prevent the excessive prices which are now being charged by owners of coal stocks in anticipation of a possible stoppage in coal production?
66. asked the Secretary for Mines whether an estimate has been made by his Department as to the amount of money necessary to equip our coal mines with the latest known improvements in coal getting?
50. asked Prime Minister whether the Cabinet has reached any decision as to the reform of the House of Lords: and, in particular, whether they have considered the questions of the retention of...
51. asked the Prime Minister if he is in a position to make a statement in regard to the introduction of a Supplementary Estimate for the Navy?
83. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that a petition on behalf of the locally-entered clerical staff employed at His Majesty's Dockyard, Gibraltar, was sent to his...
56. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can now state how he proposes to dispose of the balance in hand of the £5,000,000 and £300,000 funds for reparation claims,...
Viscountess ASTOR: 57. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Government intend in future to allow advertisements and announcements intended and likely to stimulate the...
53. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will consider the advisability of extending the hours of opening of public museums and galleries during Summer Time?
59. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether it will be necessary to increase the staff of the Ministry of Health for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Widows',...
60. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what was the cost of the Return published on 23rd June this year of Members elected to the Parliament which was dissolved in October last year?
82. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether there is any reliable estimate of the cost of putting firstly an untrained and secondly a trained man on the land with sufficient acreage, capital...
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64.for asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that on a farm at Rugby, adjoining the one on which an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease occurred on 7th May last, the herd was treated by...
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Captain BENN: 79.
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Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD (by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister if he will be good enough to tell us what business he proposes to take, first of all to-morrow, and then next week?
[12TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £76,500, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
Resolution reported, That for the purpose of any Act of the present Session relating to Local Loans it is expedient to authorise the remission of arrears of principal and interest due to the...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Commander Eyres Monsell.]
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