Mawrth, 6 Hydref 1931
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
I beg to move, That the promoters of every Private Bill which shall have originated in this House or been brought from the House of Lords in the present Session of Parliament shall have leave to...
Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Chepping Wycombe) Bill,
Motion made, and Question proposed, That there be laid before the House a Return of Motions for Adjournment under Standing Order No. 10, showing the date of such Motion, the name of the Member...
Return ordered, showing, with reference to Session 1930–31, (1) the total number of days on which the House sat; and (2) the days on which Business of Supply was considered (in continuation...
Return ordered, respecting application of Standing Order No. 26 (Closure of Debate) during Session 1930–31, (1) in the House and in Committee of the whole House, under the following heads:
Return ordered, of the number of Private Bills, Hybrid Bills, Bills for confirming Provisional Orders, and Bills for confirming Schemes under the Public Works Facilities Act, 1930, introduced...
Return ordered, of the number of Public Bills, distinguishing Government from other Bills, introduced into this House, or brought from the House of Lords, during Session 1930–31; showing...
Return ordered, of the number of Public Petitions presented and printed in Session 1930–31, with the total number of signatures in that Session (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No....
Return ordered, of the number of Select Committees appointed in Session 1930–31 and the Court of Referees; the subjects of inquiry; the names of the Members appointed to serve on each, and...
Return ordered, of the days on which the House sat in Session 1930–31, stating for each day the date of the month and day of the week, the hour of the meeting, and the hour of adjournment;...
Return ordered, for Session 1930–31 of (1) the total number and the names of all Members (including and distinguishing Chairmen) who have been appointed to serve on one or more of the five...
1. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if his attention has been drawn to the circumstances under which a bank teller, on duty alone in a branch bank, was murdered in Clydebank on the 12th...
3. asked the Secretary for Mines the average output per person employed in mines in Glamorgan from 1920, each year, to 1931, also the average wages paid per person for the same period?
5. asked the President of the Board of Trade how much Soviet Russian wheat, barley and oats is credited to other countries by reason of transit through those countries; and whether any flour was...
7. asked the President of the Board of Trade the value of the imports into the United Kingdom, the value of the exports of produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom, and the value of exports...
Lieut.-Colonel MOORE: 29. asked the Prime Minister whether he has considered the desirability of broadcasting an appeal to British subjects throughout the world, and especially in our overseas...
10. asked the Minister of Transport whether the London and Home Counties Joint Electricity Authority have arrived at a decision with reference to reducing the number of variations in the basis of...
11. asked the Minister of Transport if he is aware that proposals are on foot by the Guildford Rural District Council for a 60-foot by-pass road through the Shere valley; that such proposals, if...
12. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will give the number of permits issued to foreign dance bands to enter Great Britain from 1st January, 1931, showing the number of musicians employed...
16. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that the Alexandra Palace trustees will be in a difficulty if the suggested grant by the Unemployment Grants Committee is withheld; if he is aware...
17. asked the Minister of Labour whether his Department has yet fixed the standard of income before public assistance is to be given in Scotland; and whether the old age or other pension is to be...
13 asked the Minister of Labour (1) the total number of dependants for whom benefit was paid at the Darlington Employment Exchange for each of the last four weeks for which figures are available;...
18. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the investigation held by the Disciplinary Board of the Metropolitan Police into the charges in which one inspector and 23...
20. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether his attention has been drawn to the transgression of air navigation rules by the flying of a civil aeroplane on 30th September under the...
Sir GEORGE HAMILTON: 21. asked the Minister of Agriculture the total number employed in all categories at the Ordnance Survey establishment at Southampton in 1913–14 and in 1930–31;...
22 and 23. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty (1) if he will snake a statement as to the recent unrest in His Majesty's Navy, and what is the present position; (2) whether it is his intention...
25. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the changed conditions of unemployment relief, he will give an undertaking that there will be a fortnightly publication of the numbers of...
28. asked the Prime Minister whether he will give a day for the discussion of the Motion standing in the name of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood):...
31. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the approximate cost to date to the State of the loans from France and America on account of the crisis?
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the rapid spread of the Colorado Beetle in France towards the Channel coast; and what action he...
(by Private Notice) asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what arrangements have been made in regard to the use by Members of their railway vouchers in the event of the Dissolution of...
Mr. ALEXANDER: I shall he glad if the Prime Minister will kindly tell us how far he proposes to go with business to-day, and, if possible, what is the remaining business; also, can he now tell...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. PERRY: 6. "To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if his attention has been called to the increase of 20 per cent....
Ordered, That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[The Prime Minister.]
That they have agreed to,—
Fourth Report from the Select Committee brought up, and read.
Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence, brought up, and read.
Report from the Joint Committee, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, brought up, and read.
Considered in Committee.
I beg to move, in page 1, line 6, to leave out from the word "that" to the word "there" in line 8. It will be difficult in the excitement caused by the announcement of the election to bring the...
I beg to move, in page 2, line 36, to leave out the word "six" and to insert instead thereof the word "twelve." We are dealing to-day and we were dealing yesterday with two Bills, the less...
I beg to move, in page 2, line 13, to leave out the word "hundred," and to insert instead thereof the word "thousand." I do not intend to repeat anything that I said when we discussed the penalty...
Considered in Committee; and reported, without Amendment.
I beg to move, That further proceedings on the London Passenger Transport Bill be suspended till the next Session of Parliament:That on any day in that Session a Motion may be made, after notice,...
Read a Second time, and committed to a Committee of the whole House for To-morrow.
Whereupon Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER, pursuant to the Order of the House of the 9th September, proposed the Question, "That this House do now adjourn."
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