Iau, 2 Rhagfyr 1926
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
1. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he can state the number of pensioners who have died in mental hospitals, where the certificate of death has been for disability other than that for which...
2. asked the Minister of Pensions if he can give any estimate of the probable cost of making the present grant, now available under children's regulations for section nine children, available in...
3. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been drawn to the recently published accounts in connection with the national whist drive championship organised by...
4. asked the Home Secretary if he has considered, or will consider, the expediency of making it an offence to offer shares in any company by personal canvass; and if he can give any further...
Captain ARTHUR EVANS: 5. asked the Home Secretary how many vivisection licences are in force and the number issued in each class?
Captain A. EVANS: (by Private Notice) asked the Secretary for Mines whether, in view of the settlement which has been arrived at between the owners and men in the South Wales coal area and the...
9. asked the Home Secretary whether the report of a speech upon which a charge was made against a Member of this House was taken in shorthand or longhand?
10. asked the Home Secretary whether he can state how many miners at Ashwinning, County Durham, have been charged with intimidating other miners by booing and otherwise demonstrating against...
42. asked the Minister of Health how many boards of guardians have granted special relief to miners' families during the mining dispute on loan; how many boards have granted this special relief...
46. asked the Prime Minister if he has received a Resolution passed by the Tyldesley district council asking the Government to legislate in accordance with the Report of the Royal Commission on...
52. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what portion of the £3,000,000 voted for the purchase of foreign coal has now been spent; and the amount received for the sale of this coal?
62. asked the Secretary for Mines how many miners have agreed to work an eight-hour day since the Coal Mines Act was passed in July, 1926?
(by Private Notice) asked the Home Secretary whether the Government have now come to any conclusion in regard to the continuance of the Emergency Regulations?
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Labour whether the six days' waiting period for unemployment pay can be waived in the case of miners who have been off work 30 weeks and who have signed...
11. asked the Home Secretary if he will state the reason why the Chief Medical Officer of the Factories Department of the Home Office has resigned his post?
12. asked the Home Secretary whether the Government will find time to pass a Bill into law in the near future to enable the authorities in control of a recognised racecourse in Great Britain to...
13. asked the Home Secretary whether he can now make a statement as to the date on which the new rates of fares charged by taximeter motor cabs in the Metropolitan area will come into force;...
14. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the remarks passed recently by the Marylebone Magistrate in connection with summonses issued by the Metropolitan police for...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 63. asked the Minister of Transport how soon he expects to introduce the Bill dealing with the lights on vehicles?
64. asked the Minister of Transport if he has been approached by any delegation, as representing the Corporation of Glasgow, regarding the problem of motor traffic within that city, and...
8. asked the Home Secretary whether he can give the numbers of persons killed and injured by motorists or arising out of motor accidents in the Metropolitan area in each month, respectively,...
16. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he will make arrangements so that warders employed in the museums may be enabled to take the whole of their 15 days' annual leave without...
16. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that by the Milk and Dairies Act, 1915, all Regulations and Orders made by the Ministry under that Act must be laid upon the Table of both...
17. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that overcrowding of casual wards is taking place in many parts of the country; and what steps he proposes to take in the matter?
18. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the number of complaints received from the contributors under the National Health Insurance Acts, he will consider an inquiry regarding the...
21. asked the Minister of Health the number of pensions awarded under the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1925, to widows, giving the number of their dependants and also...
23. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that there is considerable anxiety on the part of poor tenants that the present rent restrictions are to he removed next year; and whether he...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 36. asked the Minister of Health the total number of working-class houses built since the Armistice; the number built under the various Housing Acts; and the number in...
20. asked the Minister of Health the number of houses erected with State assistance under the various Housing Acts; the number built by local authorities and private enterprise, respectively; the...
27. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the inability of many urban district councils to carry on effective building during the industrial troubles of 1926, he will recognise for the...
29 and 30. asked the Minister of Health (1) how many district councils and boards of guardians have forwarded protests to him against the proposal to divide the county of Devon into three...
33. asked the Minister of Health the general nature of the regulations issued on orthopædic treatment for children up to School-leaving age; and what proportion of the expenditure of local...
50. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether an appeal has been entered by Isa Macdonald Lawrence against the sentence passed upon him at Blantyre, Nyasaland, in October last?
57. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs if he has any information as to the intentions of the Irish Free State with regard to a separate naval force?
38. asked the Minister of Health if, pending the publication of the Report of the Committee investigating the cases of encephalitis directly follow- vaccination, he will give the number of cases...
39. asked the Minister of Health how many cases of encephalomyelitis have been reported during the last six weeks?
40. asked the Minister of Health why, as the suggestions made by his Department in regard to the Moffat Institute Maternity and Infant Welfare Centre in Lambeth have been carried out, he has...
45. asked the Prime Minister if his attention has been drawn to the state of certain graves in the British military cemetery at Sudfriedhof, Cologne; and whether the Imperial War Graves...
47. asked the Prime Minister if there is any committee or body in this country charged with the duty of advising on the various aspects of chemical warfare; if so, who are the members of this...
43. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether bookmakers who wish to pay the Betting Duty by making returns to the Commissioners are able to give the necessary surety in cash; and, if not,...
44. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of the quantity of matches retained in this country for consumption during the 12 months ended 30th September, 1926, were of foreign...
49. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the £1 and 10s. Treasury currency notes will be withdrawn and replaced by Bank of England notes?
55. asked the Minister of Agriculture how many farmers have been proceeded against under the Agricultural Wages (Regulations) Act, 1924; how many convictions have been registered; and what is the...
58. asked the Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, as representing the Lord President of the Council, whether the Lord President will select a non-professional member to fill the vacancy in the...
65. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the sum for which Conon Lodge, Uig, Skye, was sold recently by the Board of Agriculture?
66. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can state when the civil engineering rate for labourers on surface work in Glasgow of 1s. 1d. per hour was fixed, and by whom; whether,...
67. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that an auxiliary postman named Fenn, residing at Tottenham, who served for 40 years and was never late for duty, has been discharged from the...
68. asked the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the existing two cent postage rate between Canada and the United States of America, he can give an approximate date for the return to a penny...
69. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that it has been laid down that the authorities of Chelsea Hospital shall in all pension cases regard the age given at the first...
70. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information showing whether the League of Nations is satisfied that the Abyssinian Government are fulfilling their...
71. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is the intention of His Majesty's Government to lay before the Preparatory Commission of the League of Nations for the forthcoming...
73. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what decoration and awards have been granted to officers and ratings of the Royal Navy who took part in the recent operations on the Yangtse River?
7. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the recent explosion at Messrs. Hicksons and Partners' works at Castleford, he will have inquiries made into the nature of sodium dinitrophenate...
41. asked the Minister of Health, in view of his recent communication to the London County Council as to open spaces in London, whether he will consider the advisability of sending a further...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the practice of interrupting political meetings by organised groups of persons, with the result of preventing free speech:...
51. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, before any tender is finally accepted for the erection of flats on the Abbey Lodge site, Hanover Gate, plans and drawings will be placed in the...
Will the Prime Minister tell us what is the business for next week?
I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, "the dismissal of a postman at Tottenham without...
New Member sworn,—Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES KENNETH HOWARD-BURY, D.S.O., for the County of Essex (Chelmsford Division).
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Chairmen's Panel; That they had appointed Sir Edmund Turton to act as Chairman of Standing Committee C (in respect of the Mental Deficiency Bill [Lords]).
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee C.
Reported, with Amendments, from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills.
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee D.
That they have agreed to,—
Lords Amendments to be considered To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 199.]
Read the First time; and ordered (under Section 9 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 201.]
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had added the following additional Members to Standing Committee D (in respect of the Coroners (Amendment) Bill [Lords]):...
I beg to move, That the Draft of the Order proposed to be made by the Minister of Health and the Scottish Board of Health, with the approval of the Treasury, under Section 5 of the Housing...
Resolution reported, That it is expedient to authorise the Treasury to guarantee the payment of the principal of, and the interest on, the following loans— (a) a loan to be raised by the...
"to authorise the Treasury to guarantee certain loans to be raised respectively by the Government of Palestine and by the Governments of certain territories in East Africa," presented...
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the Law with respect to the constitution of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, it is expedient to...
Before I call on the hon. and learned Member for South-East Leeds (Sir H. Slesser) to move his Motion, I must point out that the Amendment on the Order Paper in the name of the hon. Member for...
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