Iau, 5 Chwefror 1931
The House met at a quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire) Bill,
5. asked the Minister of Labour whether the questionnaire sent to Governments on forced labour by the International Labour Conference was sent to Soviet Russia; and, if so, what answer was returned?
6. asked the Minister of Labour what, on the basis of 2,600,000 unemployed, is the total increase in the annual cost to the Exchequer and the Unemployment Insurance Fund due to the Acts of 1929...
8. asked the Minister of Labour whether employment as groundsman on an athletic ground attached to an industrial undertaking is treated by her Department as insurable employment?
9. asked the Minister of Labour if she is still taking
10. asked the Minister of Labour to what extent the Ministry's scheme for training stone kerb-dressers has progressed?
11. asked the Minister of Labour what, on the last convenient day, was the number and percentage, respectively, of the unemployed in the quarrying industry in Aberdeenshire and Cornwall?
Viscountess ASTOR: 12. asked the Minister of Labour the percentage of male and female workers, respectively, registered as unemployed in each of the following categories: pottery trades, textile...
17. asked the Minister of Labour the percentage of persons on transitional benefit now and the percentage in May last year?
23. asked the Minister of Labour the number, and financial extent, of schemes of work under consideration by the Unemployment Grants Committee submitted by the Pontefract Borough Council, and the...
27. asked the Minister of Labour when it is intended to introduce an Unemployment Insurance Bill for agricultural labourers?
28. asked the Minister of Labour if she will call for and publish a return of the capital sums to be expended during the year ending 31st March, 1931, in respect of works put in hand by local...
30. asked the Minister of Labour the nature of any complaints she has received from trade unions concerning the Ministry's training centres, with special reference to any effect upon trade union...
31. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the announced decision to give the Employment Exchanges the widest discretion possible in making a preliminary selection for vacancies that...
71. asked the Minister of Health if, in view of the large number of unemployed clerks and professional men, he will issue recommendations to local authorities to employ as many as possible of...
Sir LAMING WORTHINGTONEVANS: 82. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will lay upon the Table a copy of the memorandum presented by the Treasury to the chairman of the Royal...
24. asked the Minister of Labour whether any arrangements are being made for holding ballots with regard to political funds by the National Union of Textile Workers and the National Society of...
25. asked the Minister of Labour what countries have passed legislation making their application of the provisions of the Washington Eight Hours Convention contingent on ratification by this country?
32. asked the Minister of Labour if she will inquire into the personnel of the beet-sugar factories' departmental staffs with a view, at an early date, to replacing those of other than British...
34. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that a considerable number of the meters used on London taximeter cabs are still very difficult to read and that many...
Viscountess ASTOR: 35. asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the appointment of women police for the greater protection of women and children on Blackheath?
Viscountess ASTOR: 36. asked the Home Secretary whether he can give the House any indication as to when the Bill amending the Children Act, 1908, will be introduced?
38. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the present state of the law with reference to stage plays and music and dancing licences, he will set up a committee to inquire into the matter...
39. asked the Home Secretary the number of individual cases from Lancashire where workmen have not received their compensation in full owing to the colliery company not being insured to meet...
43. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that, in spite of the provisions of Section 1 (2) (b) of the Racecourse Betting Act of 1928, which limit the use of the totalisator to betting...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the national need for rigid economy, he will recommend that all ministerial and parliamentary salaries be reduced by 10 per cent.?
81. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will now consider the advisability of appointing a committee to consider how far the present incidence of taxation can be altered so as to...
83. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the sum of £1,110,000 transferred from the Exchange account to the Exchequer, or any part of it, was included in the receipts estimated in...
85. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has any information showing the total amount of gold added to or withdrawn from the stocks available for monetary purposes in the United States,...
87. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what percentage of the total amount of Income Tax collected and the cost of collection was in the years 1913–14, 1923–26, and...
89. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what is the present strength of the personnel employed in the collection of Customs duties and the total annual cost to the Exchequer of the...
Major OWEN: 46. asked the Prime Minister whether he proposes to introduce, during the present Session, a Measure of Devolution for Wales?
47. asked the Home Secretary whether he will state the nature of any replies he has given to deputations from the London Cinematograph Exhibitors with reference to the present position of the...
Sir F. HALL: 48. asked the Home Secretary what were the conditions attached to the permit issued recently to Mr. Gustav Sabottka, a German, to enter this country; what were the reasons ad- vanced...
49. asked the President of the Board of Education whether further negotiations have taken place with a view to an agreed plan for assisting the voluntary schools in reorganisation and for the...
50. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of pupils attending the rate-aided secondary schools in Lancashire; and the number of free places granted in such schools?
51. asked the President of the Board of Education if he intends to grant the return, of which notice has been given by the hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough (Captain Crookshank) regarding...
52. asked the President of the Board of Education if he can give the average number of children getting meals under the provisions of the Feeding of School Children Act; and will he state the...
53. asked the President of the Board of Education if he will call for reports as to the relative value for physical development of military training given in the officers' training corps in...
54. asked the Minister of Health if the consideration of the whole question of ophthalmic benefit, under the National Health Insurance Acts, has now been completed by the sub-committee of the...
56. asked the Minister of Health the number of beds and the number of patients in the Wells Mental Hospital, Somerset?
68. asked the Minister of Health whether steps are being taken to prevent the flooding of houses with sewage water in the Borough of Kensington?
74. asked the Minister of Health if he can now give an account of the results obtained at the British Red Cross clinic for rheumatic diseases at Peto Place; and if proposals to extend this work...
76. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the importation of German salt containing particles of rock and insoluble calcium; and wheher, to avoid injury to health,...
78. asked the Minister of Health when the surveys of the health services of local authorities by the officers of his Department will be sufficiently advanced for him to say in how many areas no...
79. asked the Minister of Health how soon he will be able to publish the memorandum on human and bovine tuberculosis promised on 6th February, 1930?
80. asked the Minister of Health if he has received the report of the Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee on the recom- mendations of the Departmental Committee on London cleansing;...
61. asked the Minister of Health if he will state the population to be rehoused and the number of new houses to be built under new five-year schemes in England and Wales, giving separate figures...
69. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the unsatisfactory condition of much property in Somers Town, in the neighbourhood of St. Mary's Parish Church; and what...
72. asked the Minister of Health how many grants have been made under the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, 1926, for the re-conditioning of agricultural houses in the counties of Devon and Cornwall,...
77. asked the Minister of Health whether he can give the House statistics of the number of condemned houses in the borough of Southwark?
66. asked the Minister of Health what number of men and what number of women, respectively, are in receipt of pensions under the Widows', Orphans', and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act; and how...
67. asked the Minister of Health the number of men and women in receipt of old age pensions who find it necessary to have such pensions supplemented by assistance from the public assistance...
73. asked the Minister of Health on what date the report from the committee surveying national insurance and pensions schemes was submitted to the Government?
84. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is proposed to renew the customs duties on packing or wrapping paper which are shortly due to expire?
88. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will in future make it a condition that every Dominion or Colonial loan seeking admission to the Treasury list of trustee securities under...
90. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in the case of a murder trial in which the Public Prosecutor takes up the case, he can say whether the costs incurred by the...
91. asked the Minister of Agriculture what progress has been made with the setting up of catchment area boards under the Land Drainage Act?
92. asked the Minister of Agriculture what is the average price per quarter of wheat at the present time; and what steps he is taking to ensure a remunerative price to British agricultural producers?
93. asked the Minister of Agriculture if his attention has been called to the effect upon agriculture in the urban district of Selby by the failure of the sugar-beet factories and the beet-sugar...
96. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware that the Glasgow Corporation education committee are asking for a reduction of teachers' salaries at the present time; if he will see...
Can the Prime Minister tell us what the business will be next week?
"to extend the period during which payments are to be made to the fund constituted under section twenty of the Mining Industry Act, 1920," presented by Mr. Shinwell; supported by Mr. William...
Mr. Frederick Hall reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A: Major Colfox; and had appointed in substitution: Mr. William...
Mr. Frederick Hall further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee B: Major Colville and Major George Davies; and had appointed in...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), further considered.
I beg to move, in page 6, line 25, to leave out from the word "take," to the first "the," in line 27, and to insert instead thereof the words: reasonable steps to reserve or enforce any right for...
I beg to move, in page 9, line 29, to leave out the words "by any corporation or company." The deletion of these words is designed to ensure that property belonging to, say, the Central...
I beg to move, in page 10, line 10, after the word "Minister," to insert the words, "after consultation with the Minister of Labour." This is a very simple Amendment, and I am inclined to think...
I beg to move, in page 12, line 2, to leave out the second word "an" and to insert instead thereof the words "a hired." in moving this Amendment I wish to bring to the attention of the House...
I beg to move, in page 12, line 29, to leave out the word "purchase," and to insert instead thereof the word "acquire." The Amendment has been put down in order to ensure the use of a word which...
I beg to move, in page 13, line 10, at the end, to insert the words: (2) The person appointed to hold a local inquiry for the purpose of this section shall be a person to be agreed upon between...
I beg to move, in page 13, line 33, at the end, to insert the words: Provided that if the Minister proposes to acquire any land under this section in respect of which, if the acquisition were...
I beg to move, to leave out the Clause. This Amendment is in order to pave the way for the new Clause which appears on the Order Paper, in connection with which I shall have to move to recommit...
I beg to move, in page 14, line 26, after the word "provide," to insert the words "at such rents as may seem to him reasonable." This is the first of a series of Clauses put into this Bill with a...
I beg to move, in page 17, line 19, at the end, to insert the words: (3) As respects any expenditure defrayed for the purposes mentioned in this section before the date of the commencement of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the House do now adjourn."—[Mr. T. Kennedy.]
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