Iau, 1 Hydref 1931
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
London Electric, Metropolitan District, and Central London Railway Companies (Works) Bill [Lords],
1. asked the Minister of Labour what is now the position in regard to the transfers from necessitous areas of unemployed people; whether this policy of transfer is still to be carried out;...
2. asked the Minister of Labour if be proposes to take steps to ascertain the number of aliens who are now receiving unemployment benefit?
4. asked the Minister of Labour whether the inquiries into the possibility of providing adequate Employment Exchange facilities to serve the steadily growing population of the Erdington Division...
7. asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons in receipt of transitional benefit within the Barnsley Exchange; and, if possible, the number that will be affected within the County Borough...
8. asked the Minister of Labour if he will state what are the present rates of unemployment pay for men, women, boys, and girls in Germany, Belgium and France; and what family allowances are...
13. asked the Minister of Labour whether the limit of 26 weeks' unemployment benefit and the means test, as proposed by the Economy Bill, will be applied to disabled ex-service men who have not...
26. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that an organised and well conducted demonstration of unemployed people attended the Labour Exchange at Derby, on Monday last, and presented a...
27. asked the Minister of Labour how many men are at present employed on work schemes in the county of Durham which have received financial assistance from the State; and what are the total...
30. asked the Minister of Labour whether the new regulations for the guidance of public assistance committees in the administration of unemployment insurance transitional benefit under the...
32. asked the Minister of Labour if, in view of the conditions prevailing at the Employment Exchange, Freemasons Road, Custom House, he will consider the advisability of erecting a shelter to...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether any Minister is specially charged with the duty of preparing schemes for the relief of unemployment; and to whom should questions be addressed in Parliament...
Sir ROBERT YOUNG: 54. asked the Minister of Health whether unemployed workers will be automatically deprived of National Health Insurance benefits should the public assistance committee, under...
5. asked the Minister of Labour if he will state the alterations in percentages in salaries, wages, and hours in the motor industry during the two years ended 31st July, 1931; and how many...
18. asked the Minister of Labour how many aliens are now in this country under licence for a restricted period for the purpose of taking part in any industrial work?
37. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that in cases where Members of Parliament, parliamentary candidates, and their wives do not reside in the constituencies...
39. asked the Home Secretary whether it is proposed to recommend the councils of cities and boroughs in England to consider the question of making cuts in the salaries of recorders and other...
62. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the amount each year received by the Treasury for Death Duties from the commencement of their imposition to the year ended the 5th April,...
64. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of taxation per head, expressed in sterling, for the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States, respectively, for the year...
67. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of debt owed by France to Britain on the let September, 1931, and the rate of interest being paid on such debt; whether any proposals were...
70. asked the Chancellor of the Exchquer, seeing that taxpayers with incomes of £50,000 a year are left with a deficit of £3,000 after paying all taxes and insurances, while taxpayers...
71. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the number of countries which have discontinued the Gold Standard since 28th September, 1931; and whether any effort has been made since that date to...
73. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total amount paid to the North of Ireland Unemployment Insurance Fund during the last five years; and whether it is proposed to make any reduction...
76. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any new arrangement has been made with regard to the salaries of the Law Officers of the Crown; and, if so, what it is?
79. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will consider the advisability of reimposing, for Revenue purposes, the admission fee of one penny to Kew Gardens which was abolished in August, 1929?
83. asked the Secretary for Mines what will be the amount of the cut in the salary of the chairman of the Coal Reorganisation Commission?
40. asked the Home Secretary whether he is prepared to consider the substitution, in cases of wrongful conviction, for the phrase free pardon of some form of words more in consonance with the...
41. asked the President of the Board of Education whether, seeing that the carrying out of the reorganisation of village schools under the Hadow Report into senior and junior schools situated in...
42. asked the President of the Board of Education if he will state in respect of how many rate-aided secondary schools proposals to increase, fees have been submitted to the Board since the...
43. asked the President of the Board of Education by how many places the South Shields County Borough Council propose to increase the facilities for secondary education in their area; and what...
44 and 51. asked the President of the Board of Education (1) what is the product of a penny rate per child in attendance at elementary schools in the following county boroughs: Hastings,...
52. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of replies he has received to Circular 1413, issued by the Board of Education relating to the Government's measures for effecting...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he can make any statement as to the intentions of His Majesty's Government respecting the London Passenger Transport Bill?
47. asked the Prime Minister whether, in the case of appointments to directorships of companies by the Government or subject to the approval of the Government, it will be made a condition of the...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether the Economic Council is still functioning; whether its membership has been changed since the present Government came into office; and, if so, in what respect...
53. asked the Minister of Health whether, when the Rent Restrictions Acts are being extended by the means of the Expiring Laws Continuance Act, he will consider the introduction of legislation...
58. asked the Minister of Health whether the investigation which he is conducting into the paving charges on owner-occupiers of new houses have reached a stage at which definite results can be...
55. asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to the fact that the public assistance committee of Huntingdonshire has, in defiance of the Ministry, decided to convert part of...
57. asked the Minister of Health whether "he can introduce legislation enforcing a definite bacteriological standard of milk to be fixed and make it an offence for producers and retailers to sell...
60. asked the Minister of Health if he will state what steps have been taken to investigate the theories of Mr. Todd with regard to the prevention of puerperal fever submitted to the Ministry of...
59. asked the Minister of Health what percentage of the population of England and Wales died of tuberculosis in the years 1911 to 1930, inclusive?
66. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is contemplating giving any relief by moratorium or otherwise to mortgagors of property whose mortgages are being called in at the present time and...
72. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps are in contemplation for dealing with the financial and economic situation that will arise next February when the stand-still arrangement for...
77. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he has now received a report concerning the condition of the banks of the River Lee at Stamford Hill, Tottenham and what steps are to be taken to effect...
80. asked the Postmaster-General what proposals are now under consideration for an alteration in the present system of deriving revenue from wireless licences and the allocation of such revenue...
85. asked the President of the Board of Trade when the men employed by the Northern Lights Commissioners will receive the money which has been deducted from their wages as uniform allowance?
86. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is contemplating the making of orders, in consultation with His Majesty's Treasury, to prevent profiteering in food, coal, and other...
87. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has yet considered the quota proposal for the shale-oil industry; and with what result?
91. asked the hon. and gallant Member for Rye as representing the Forestry Commissioners the amount already expended on the Glen-Shiel-Kintail forestry scheme; whether it is proposed to expend...
(by Private Notice) asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if there is any truth in the statement that the Sheerness Royal Dockyard is to be closed down?
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. MACQUISTEN:
"to authorise the Board of Trade, in case of need, to take exceptional measures for preventing or remedying shortages in, or unreasonable increases in the price of certain articles of food or...
"to ensure that a fair-wage clause shall be inserted in all contracts for the carrying of British mails," presented by Mr. Freeman; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed....
Considered in Committee [Progress, 30th September].
Question again proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
I beg to move, in page 13, line 12, after the word "not," to insert the words "citizens of or." The purpose of this Amendment and of the following Amendment in Subsection (1, b) of Clause...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question put, "That this Schedule be the First Schedule to the Bill."
I beg to move, in page 16, line 24, column 1, at the beginning, to insert the words "Exceeds 2d. and." This Amendment deals with the general alterations which we are making in the scale of the...
I beg to move, in page 18, to leave out lines 5 to 21. It will probably be for the convenience of the Committee if the various Amendments on this Schedule are discussed together. The attack that...
REPORT [29th SEPTEMBER].
1. "That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £13,700,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March,...
2. "That a sum, not exceeding £7,000,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1932, for...
REPORT [29TH SEPTEMBER.]
"to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, and to appropriate the further supplies...
Debates in the House of Commons are an opportunity for MPs from all parties to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.
