Mercher, 3 Mai 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
For the Borough of Southwark (North Division), in the room of Edward Anthony Strauss, esquire, deceased.—[Colonel Kerr.]
Mumbles Pier Bill [Lords],
asked the Prime Minister whether steps are being taken to make the guarantee given to Rumania and Greece reciprocal?
asked the Prime Minister whether the Whangpoo Conservancy Board has yet been allowed to resume its work of dredging the approach to Shanghai?
asked the Prime Minister (1) to what extent the assurance recently given by His Majesty's Government to Poland was inconsistent with the provisions of the Anglo-German Naval Treaty; and whether...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether waiters and other workers employed at the Montrose Royal Air Force flying school are still forbidden to join a trade union; whether this policy is...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that when persons join the Auxiliary Air Force they are called upon to pay an increased premium for life insurance up to 20s. per cent.,...
asked the Secretary of State for Air what steps have been taken to remedy the state of affairs revealed in the Air Services Appropriation Account, 1937, which shows that efforts of the Air...
Mr. W. Joseph Stewart: asked the Secretary of State for Air the number of persons that have enlisted in the Royal Air Force in Durham and Northumberland during the years 1937, 1938, and 1939,...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether any decision has been arrived at with regard to uniforms for the Observer Corps?
asked the Secretary of State for Air what action has been taken with regard to those officials who produced an estimate of £434,710 for the building of the Newfoundland mailplane base which...
asked the Minister of Transport under what authority motorists are compelled to obey the signals of Royal Automobile Club and Automobile Association scouts?
Mr. Rathbone: asked the Minister of Transport how many districts there are in which numbers of people are waiting to take driving tests; how long the average waiting period is likely to be; and...
asked the Minister of Transport the rate of wages being paid by the contractor and sub-contractors to the lorry drivers engaged in connection with the re-surfacing of the main roads in the...
asked the Minister of Transport whether his attention has been drawn to a recent case in the Scottish High Court by which road hauliers who make use of removable containers for the purpose of...
asked the Minister of Transport particulars of the number of regulations made by his Department restricting the use in selected streets in the London area of horse-drawn and other slow-moving...
Mr. Adamson: asked the Minister of Transport the percentage of motor cars up to 10 horse-power, and each additional 5 horse-power, above that rating involved in fatal and non-fatal accidents,...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Transport whether he can now make some statement regarding the introduction of the Electricity Distribution Bill?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty the quantity of boat-oars manufactured from American ash and purchased from the United States of America, for the 12 months ended to the last...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in view of the fact that Herr Hitler has denounced the Anglo-German Naval Treaty, it is now proposed to scrap the two battleships of...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty the number of young men between the ages of 20 and 21 years who have joined the Navy during the past 12 months from the respective mining...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that the Greek ship "Aghios Nicoloros," carrying refugees to Palestine, was recently fired on by one of His Majesty's ships,...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has seen the statement, signed by 200 members of Congress, protesting against the proposed abandonment by Great Britain of the Balfour...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the reasons which recently led to a censorship being imposed by the Cyprus authorities on the newspaper "Embros"; and whether he will specify the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the imports of British textiles into those Colonies where preferential tariffs exist show any increase during the last six months?
asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the specific election pledge against conscription given by his predecessor at the opening of the general election campaign at...
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he has now completed his examination into the questions that have arisen in regard to the working or organisation of the Fleet Air Arm; and...
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what decision has now been arrived at with regard to the acceptance as volunteers in the Defence services of this country of aliens of proved...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is now in a position to announce any alterations in the areas provisionally listed as evacuation, reception, and neutral.
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether his attention has been called to the appeal which has been issued in Switzerland by the Cantonal Governments to all families to store a...
asked the Paymaster-General, as representing the Lord President of the Council, whether he can make any statement as to the injuries caused to 16 children and two men at Paignton, on 20th April,...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has considered the petition of Mr. J. W. Butler, of Trinidad, respecting his allegations of unjustifiable degradation; and whether he is...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the present position in the Gold Coast of the cocoa trade and also of the textile, cotton, imports into that district; and whether the results of the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the number of registered trade unions in Jamaica, Trinidad, and British Guiana, respectively; and the approximate membership of the registered...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can make any statement as to the present position of the project of the Government of Barbados to settle approximately 1,000 persons in...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the approaching celebrations of the tercentenary of the Barbados Assembly, he will arrange for transforming...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the statement made in this House by the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies on 25th July, 1923, that the land in...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on how many occasions within the last 20 years has habeas corpus been abrogated or suspended in any part of the Colonial Empire, and where; under...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what progress has been made in the formation and development of labour departments in the interests of native labour in Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya,...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any legislation has been introduced or is in course of preparation in Ceylon, to implement the recommendation of the joint...
asked the Secretary for Mines the numbers of young men between the ages of 20 and 21 years in the respective mining districts of the British coalfields?
asked the Secretary for Mines whether any arrangements have been made in an emergency to supply farmers with paraffin and petrol for their tractors and to whom should they apply for a permit; and...
asked the Under secretary of State for Burma, whether he is aware that the Chinese Government are building a railway to the Sino-Burmese frontier; and whether he can give an assurance that no...
asked the Undersecretary of State for Burma the total tonnage, value, country of origin, and summary description of munitions of war which passed through Burma during 1937, and during the first...
Miss Rathbone: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will supply figures showing the total production in the British Empire during 1938 of antimony, petroleum, mercury and...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he will identify the county councils which have refused to transfer control of the air-raid wardens to the police?
Borough or Urban District and Decision.
Dumbarton: Milngavie—Refused.
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that many local authorities have passed resolutions urging the Government to undertake a larger proportion of the expenditure on the demolition of...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether having regard to the widespread dissatisfaction with the present law relating to ex-service pensions and the administration thereof, he will introduce...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the approximate amount of film used by British cinematograph film producers, including newsreel producers, in 1938; and what will be the approximate...
asked the Prime Minister whether any discussions took place with Colonel Beck during his recent visit to London with regard to the settlement of Polish Jews in the British Empire; and whether any...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has considered the desirability of raising the age for the employment of juvenile labour in Kenya to 14 years; and with...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received the report of the Anglo-American Committee which investigated the possibility of settling Jewish refugees in British Guiana;...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has intimated to British shipowners the express desire of the Government that all orders for new tonnage shall be placed in British shipyards;...
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is now in a position to give any information for the guidance of farmers regarding the Government's plans for expanding the home...
I desire to make a personal explanation in regard to a statement I made during the Debate yesterday on the motor car tax. I made a statement that the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Sir S. Reed) had...
Motion made, and Question put, 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...
Reported, without Amendment, from the Select Committee (with Minutes of Evidence).
4.8 p.m.
Sixteenth and subsequent Resolutions considered.
16. "That— (1) Income Tax for the year 1939–1940 shall be charged at the standard rate of five shillings and sixpence in the pound, and, in the case of an individual whose total...
17. "That Income Tax for the year 1938–1939 in respect of the excess of the total income of an individual over two thousand pounds shall be charged at rates in the pound which respectively...
18. "That there may be included in any Act of the present Session relating to finance such Amendments of Section twenty-one of the Finance Act, 1922 (which relates to Surtax on the undistributed...
19. "That the enactments relating to the National Defence Contribution shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect subject to such Amendments as will secure that, in the case of the...
20. "That, in the case of persons dying after the twenty-fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, the rates of estate duty set out in the Second Schedule to the Finance Act, 1930,...
21. "That the enactments relating to estate duty shall, in the case of persons dying after the twenty-fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, be amended with regard to— (a)...
22. "That the whole or any part of the sums required in the current financial year for the purposes mentioned in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of Sub-section (4) of Section twenty-three of the...
23. "That the National Debt Commissioners shall as and when the Treasury request, pay into the Exchequer out of their account of unclaimed dividends, under Part VII of the National Debt Act,...
Resolution reported:
"That it is expedient to amend the law relating to the National Debt, Customs, and Inland Revenue (including Excise), and to make further provision in connection with finance."
"to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise), to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise) and the National...
As amended, considered.
5.8 p.m.
Amendment made: In page 4, line 12, after the second "the," insert "county and of the."—[Lieut.-Colonel Acland-Troyte.]
Amendment made: In page 6, line 4, leave out from "to," to "and," in line 7, and insert "a borough, there shall be substituted a reference to a burgh and references to urban or rural districts...
Not amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
Amendment made: In page 5, line 43, after "entitled," insert "in possession."—[The Attorney-General.]
6.58 p.m.
7.0 p.m.
11.18 p.m.
Amendments made:
Amendments made:
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Import Duties (Exemptions) (No. 4) Order, 1939, dated the fourth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, made by the Treasury under the Import...
Resolved, That the Additional Import Duties (No. 2) Order, 1939, dated the twelfth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, made by the Treasury under the Import Duties Act, 1932, a copy...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Amendment of the Aberdeen and District Milk Marketing Scheme, 1933, a draft of which was presented to this House on the 30th March, be...
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