Llun, 27 Chwefror 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. Speaker in the Chair.
Coventry Corporation Bill,
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India on what principle "Mein Kampf" is permitted unrestricted circulation in India, while publications by the late Right Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald are...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to the recently announced change of policy by Congress to the effect that they will in future intervene by...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he has any information as to the circumstances leading to the issue of an Order in the Rajkot State prohibiting meetings and processions;...
asked the Prime Minister whether Sir Robert Hodgson is participating in the negotiations now being conducted between M. Berard, the French envoy, and the Spanish insurgent authorities; and...
asked the Prime Minister whether he has been informed by the Czech Government of the details of the demands made by the German Government for the handing over of the Wilko-wittz ironworks near...
asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the decision of the Ger man Government to exclude from Germany a very large number of citizens, including a proportion of...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will give particulars of the bombing by Japanese warplanes of a British military post in Shamchun, near Hong Kong; whether any damage was done by the...
asked the Prime Minister whether Annex 7 of the Anglo-Italian Agreement, under which the Italians agreed to let British missionaries enter Abyssinia, has been carried out; and whether properly...
asked the Prime Minister what representations he is making to the Italian Government to secure that Annex 3, Part 4, of the Anglo-Italian Agreement, which provided that Italy was not to establish...
asked the Prime Minister whether in view of his anxiety to promote peace and his apprehensions regarding the financial consequences of re armament, he will consider an approach to the United...
asked the Minister of Pensions the number of disabled ex-servicemen in receipt of pensions who are 60 years of age and over; and the total amount of pension payments they receive annually?
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he has, during the past three months, with a view to developing the work of his Department, himself visited Northern centres and...
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he can make any further statement on the inclusion of Scottish films in the New York Exhibition?
Mr. David Adams: asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether it is the intention of the Government that, during his visit to Soviet Russia, he shall obtain information as to the...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will arrange for the Inter-Departmental Inquiry on Air Disarmament to include an investigation as to plans for the adequate supervision of civil aviation to...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the reports of the air-raid precautions investigators have revealed the ignorance which exists among the women of the country as to the wages...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the recent increase in the number of Italian troops in Italian East Africa, His Majesty's Government propose to continue the negotiations for the...
asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government have made any representations to the Italian Government following the notification to His Majesty's Ambassador in Rome by the Italian...
asked the Paymaster-General, as representing the Lord President of the Council, whether, in view of the national importance of the question, he will consider instituting a more ex tended series...
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he can make any statement regarding the purpose of the additional grant to be made to the Travel Association of Great Britain and...
Mr. De la B ère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will have some inquiry made regarding the increase in the percentage relationship between the price of home-grown wheat and...
Mrs. Adamson: asked the Minister of Agriculture how many complaints regarding the non-observance of the pro visions of the Agricultural Wages Act and the orders made there under were received...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has considered the communication from the Council of Scientific Poultry Breeders Association concerning the plight of the poultry-breeding industry in...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the purchase of the Richmond and Gordon estates, in the counties of Moray and Banff, by the Crown Land Commissioners, has been completed; whether he can...
asked the Minister of Agriculture the total number of agricultural holdings as distinct from ½-acre holdings administered by the Land Settlement Association, and the number of such holdings...
asked the Postmaster-General what steps are taken to check foreign news broadcasts and, whenever possible, to correct any inaccurate statements in subsequent British news broadcasts in foreign...
asked the Postmaster-General what was the total volume of mail despatched by Imperial Airways, Limited, during the past Christ- mas season; and how this compares with the amount despatched at...
asked the Postmaster-General the amount of overtime worked by sorters and postmen, respectively, in Liverpool, Leeds, Hull, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow during the months of October and...
asked the Postmaster-General the number of new entrants who have been accepted by the engineering department in the London area during the year 1938?
asked the Postmaster-General the amount of overtime worked by the engineers engaged in the telephone service of the London area during the months of September, October and November, 1938?
asked the Postmaster-General particulars of the number of telephone kiosks reported to have been wilfully and maliciously damaged in the Westminster district of London and/or other districts...
asked the First Com missioner of Works whether he will submit to the Royal Fine Art Commission the model for the memorial to King George V?
asked the First Com missioner of Works whether he will give facilities for a party of Members to inspect the excavations on the site of the Palace of Whitehall?
asked the First Com missioner of Works whether he is aware of the unsatisfactory lighting of the Committee Rooms of the House; and if he has included in his scheme of reconditioning an...
asked the First Commissioner of Works whether the Royal Fine Art Commission have now approved designs for the proposed memorials in Trafalgar Square to the late Lord Jellicoe and the late Lord...
Mr. Edmund Harvey: asked the First Commissioner of Works on what grounds the Board of Education is being moved from its offices adjoining White hall; whether the grave objections to its removal,...
asked the Lord Privy Seal particulars of the manner in which his Department have arranged for and equipped shelters capable of resisting blast and splinters from high-explosive bombs as a...
asked the Lord Privy Seal how many men and women have volunteered for civilian defence since the issue of the national service booklet?
(by Private Notice): asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any statement to make on the Palestine Conferences?
Ordered, That the Select Committee on Parliamentary Elections (Mr. Speakers Seat), which stands adjourned until Wednesday, be further adjourned until Wednesday, 8th March, at Four o'clock....
Read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Tuesday, 7th March, and to be printed. [Bill 77.]
Order for Second Reading read.
As amended, considered; read the Third time, and passed.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn." —[Captain Margesson.]
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