Iau, 4 Gorffennaf 1935
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
South Essex Waterworks Bill.
1. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has any information as to the increase or decrease in the overtime worked in any industry in this country?
7. asked the Minister of Labour whether it is intended to introduce legislation during the present Session extending unemployment insurance to agricultural workers?
8. asked the Minister of Labour whether the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee has yet considered the inclusion of pit-head bath attendants as insured contributors to unemployment...
9. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can now state when the report of the commissioner for the special areas will be published?
10. asked the Minister of Labour what results have been obtained from experiments made in any district from sharing of work schemes?
11. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider the advisability of using the accumulated surplus of the Unemployment Insurance Fund in granting bonuses to all insured men and women on...
12. asked the Minister of Labour the practice adopted by the Unemployment Assistance Board in the relief of needs arising under hire-purchase agreements?
13. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has considered the resolution passed by the Association of Education Committees calling upon the Government to introduce legislation to enable local...
6. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that in Clydebank persons have been asked to go to training camps and, when they refused to go, an official of the Clydebank Employment...
2. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in his negotiations for a shorter working week, he has made contact with the employers in the wholesale and retail distributive trades?
17. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of factories inspected by his Department which have frontages to the Great West Road?
18. asked the President of the Board of Education how many private schools have been inspected by representatives of local education authorities during the past 12 months, and how many such...
20. asked the President of the Board of Education how long the wooden hut has been in use as an elementary school at Warmsworth, near Doncaster; and when a permanent building will be provided?
21. asked the President of the Board of Education how many elementary school classes there are with more than 50 pupils on the roll; and what progress is being made in reducing this number?
22. asked the Minister of Health whether he will state the amount owing to local authorities by miners on account of relief granted during the 1926 strike; the number of miners involved; the rate...
41. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he has received the amended scheme for the drainage of parts of the South Wales coalfield by means of adits which would carry the water to the sea by...
43. asked the Secretary for Mines whether there has been any improvement in the matter of Sunday work in pits in Scotland?
Miss WARD: 23. asked the Minister of Health whether he can state in percentages the number, respectively, of rural district councils, urban district councils, and municipal corporations, which...
25. asked the Minister of Health when he anticipates the completion of the survey by local authorities under the 1935 Housing Act?
26. asked the Minister of Health the number and names of the local authorities that have not put superannuation schemes into operation?
27. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the fact that the corporation of Glasgow is proceeding to replace their £2,500,000 loan by the...
59. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has considered the protest from the Blackface Breeders' Association with regard to the damage done by straying deer; and if it is the...
60. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is in a position to state in detail the circumstances under which three unemployed men were imprisoned for failure to pay rates to the...
Mr. GRAHAM: 61. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether any inquiry has been made by his Department into the position of the squatters in the burgh of Hamilton and the county of Lanark;...
Mr. GRAHAM: 62. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the four Lanarkshire county councillors who were charged with fraud at the recent sitting of the High Court in...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is now in a position to state whether he is prepared to release Mrs. Kelly, who is an expectant mother and due to give...
28. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that a rebate of 10 per cent. is being refused on foreign pitch-pine decking for supply to local shipyards when it is cut in...
51. asked the President of the Board of Trade the result of his representations to foreign Governments regarding their failure to observe the limitations of exports of food products to this...
30. asked the Minister of Agriculture what is the total acreage of farms administered by the Crown Lands Commissioners which are at present without tenants, and over what counties this acreage is...
34. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the representatives of the beet-sugar industry were informed in 1930 or 1931, on behalf of the Treasury, that the beet-sugar subsidy...
35. asked the Minister of Transport whether he has given any further consideration to the traffic congestion and consequent danger arising from omnibus and tramcar stops being located on the near...
36. asked the Minister of Transport what is the approximate total sum payable to the London County Council from the Road Fund in respect of the rebuilding of Lambeth Bridge, and how much has been...
37. asked the Minister of Transport whether he has in mind any regulations to deal with the question of lights at abnormal levels at the front and rear of motor vehicles?
38. asked the Minister of Transport whether he can make any statement with regard to the proposal to amend the motor car registration methods at Hove to enable the owners and residents of Hove to...
39. asked the Minister of Transport whether he will consider exercising the powers inherited by him from the Road Board under the Act of 1910 to build and maintain, entirely at the cost of the...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to grant facilities for the further stages of the Peace Bill?
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider taking steps to see how far agreement could be reached between all parties in the House that when the next vacancies occur the Chairman and...
47. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether he will take steps to preserve the remains of the ancient building at Acton Burnell in which Parliament sat in 1283?
48. asked Secretary of State for Air whether he is now in a position to make any statement in regard to the outcome of the negotiations which took place between the British delegation which...
50. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the evidence and findings of the inquiry into the loss of the "Blairgowrie," "Usworth," "La Crescenta," and "Millpool," presided over by Lord...
Vice-Admiral CAMPBELL: 65. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information concerning the case of Captain A. W. Kane, the master of the British steamer "Brompton...
53. asked the the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will lay upon the Table the text of our treaties between 14th July, 1884, and 27th January, 1886, whereunder, on the withdrawal of...
54. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can make any statement as to the floating of the new Kenya loan, more especially in regard to its amount, its interest, and its uses?
57. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received any comments from the Government of India following the report of the special officer sent by that Government to report...
May I ask the Prime Minister what the business is for next week?
Reported, with Amendments [Provisional Order confirmed].
Reported, with an Amendment; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Reported, with Amendments.
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Reported, with Amendments [Title amended]; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Reported [Provisional Order not confirmed]; Report to lie upon the Table.
That they have agreed to—
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 105.]
Report from the Committee, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, brought up, and read; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had added the following Ten Members to the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills (in respect of the Public Health (Water...
[10TH ALLOTTED DAY].
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £899,488, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £90, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £74,127, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £2,062,724, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment...
Resolved, That the draft of a Special Order proposed to be made by the Board of Trade under the Gas Undertakings Acts, 1920 to 1934, on the application of the Farnham Gas and Electricity Company,...
Amalgamation of Gas Undertakings—Compensation for Loss of Employment.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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