Mawrth, 6 Mehefin 1939
The House being met, the Clerk at the Table informed the House of the unavoidable absence of Mr. SPEAKER from this day's Sitting.
Private Bills [Lords] (Standing Orders not previously inquired into complied with),—
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can make any further statement about the efforts of the city and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh, to preserve the buildings of Taylors' Hall in the...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has any statement to make regarding communications he has had with the Clyde Fishermen's Association regarding the basking sharp menace in the...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the erection of timber houses in Scotland is being held up for lack of timber, much of which is imported from Canada; and what...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether farmers who, desiring to improve their land in a time of emergency, ploughed up poor permanent grass this year before the policy of the ploughing...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the average price received by the producer of white fish in Aberdeen in the month of April this year was only 1.87d. per pound;...
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he is yet in a position to state the date and place when the next Imperial Conference will be held?
asked the Secretary for Mines (1) the average output per person employed in the Yorkshire coalfield each year from 1920 to the year 1938; how many persons were employed; and the average wages...
asked the Secretary for Mines in view of the fact that the Agreement made in December last between the Governments of Great Britain and France stipulated that at least 49.5 per cent. of the...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can give particulars of the number of workmen certified as disabled from the various scheduled industrial diseases in coal mines in 1938; and if he will...
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether the memorandum drawn up in South Africa upon closer co-operation between the Union territories and the High Commission territories is now...
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs what recent conversations have taken place between His Majesty's Government in Great Britain and the Governments of Canada, Australia and New...
asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of lascar seamen now employed in British ships; and what increase in the number has taken place since 1930? The President of the Board of...
asked the President of the Board of Trade, when it is pro posed to introduce the Bill dealing with war insurance?
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the exchange of goods by barter between the United Kingdom and the United States of America?
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the scrap-iron merchants in this country, who are refraining for patriotic reasons from exporting scrap which, in many cases is...
asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of trawlers in the fishing industry which were lost in the last year; the number of such vessels which were replaced; and whether all these...
asked the Secretary of State for War the number of men that have offered their services to the Territorial Army for the three months ended to the last convenient date, and the intake of recruits...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether it has been decided to issue a medal to those concerned in the operations in Palestine; and, if so, what are the conditions or qualifications on which...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether, having in view the fact that Lincolnshire in England, Fife in Scotland, and Flint in Wales, are the first counties to complete their unit...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware of the difficulties in which Territorial units are being put owing to the delay, sometimes of months, in getting new officers of whom the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can yet make an announcement on the pay of Territorial adjutants in view of the fact that at present Territorials who are employed as full-time...
asked the Secretary of State for War the number of officers and non-commissioned officers being appealed for from the Territorial Army as full-time instructors for the Regular Army, and, as the...
asked the right hon. and gallant Member for Rye, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, whether any progress has been made in connection with the establishment of a national forest park in...
asked the Minister of Transport whether any steps are in contemplation to give effect to the proposals in relation to road accidents of the Select Committee of the House of Lords?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the arrangements for the calling up of men under the military training scheme?
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in connection with the medical inspection of militiamen preparatory to training, he will take into consideration the desirability that it should include an...
asked the Prime Minister whether he has completed his inquiry into the matter of allegations made at the Manchester assizes on the 19th May to the effect that the German consul in Liverpool had,...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will state the reasons why Lord Hankey has been appointed a member of the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations in succession to Lords Hailey and...
asked the Prime Minister the date when the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations will be meeting to consider the British Government's new White Paper proposals with regard to Palestine?
asked the Minister of Health whether he will request local government authorities to obtain a standard frequency of milk samples for bacteriological analysis so that possible existence of...
asked the Minister of Health whether any cripples or invalids, other than blind people and expectant mothers, are to be regarded as coming within the priority class of evacuees; and, if not,...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what sum would be required to increase the weekly amount of the old age pension to each recipient in Scotland by 10s.; and how many old age pensioners would...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the large borrowing operations which will have to be undertaken by His Majesty's Government in the future, with its con sequential effect...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total amount of subsidies paid to each industry since 1931, including the recently announced amount to be paid to agriculture, and to what extent the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is satisfied that it is in the national interest to permit the National Fund to remain in the absolute control of a private banking institution...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he estimates will be the loss to the revenue from decline in National Defence Contributions and Income Tax payments from dealers in second-hand motor...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the basis of extraction of sugar on which the new scale of Customs Duty on raw sugars is based, and in particular what is the normal yield in good...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the present position with reference to the cleaning and re-erection of the Elgin marbles in the British Museum?
asked the Pay master-General, as representing the Lord President of the Council, whether he can give any information on the experiments carried out by mining engineers in Canada into the...
I desire to make a brief personal statement. Yesterday the hon. and gallant Member for the Wycombe Division of Buckinghamshire (Sir A. Knox) put the following question to the Secretary to the...
May I ask the Prime Minister how far it is proposed to proceed to-day in the event of the Motion for the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule being carried?
"to provide for securing farmers against low prices for oats, barley and fat sheep, and for securing a market for barley, for promoting the ploughing up in the year nineteen hundred and...
Colonel Gretton reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee B (added in respect of the Water Supply Bill): Sir William Davison;...
That they have passed a Bill, intituled, "An Act to provide for the modification of the law relating to the administration of justice in the event of the outbreak or probability of war and for...
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
Sub-section (6) of Section 31 of the principal Act and that part of the Unemployment Insurance (additional benefits and reduction in contributions) (Agriculture) Order, 1938, made by the Minister...
Before any regulation is made under Section one or Section two of this Act the Minister shall cause the regulation to be laid in draft before both Houses of Parliament, and such regulation shall...
Section forty-four of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1935 (which relates to appeals to the Umpire from Courts of Referees), shall have effect as if after Sub-section (6) thereof, the following...
If a claimant for benefit is pregnant and a medical practitioner certifies that in his opinion she is within four weeks of childbirth she may apply to an insurance officer to be exempted from the...
Mr. Deputy-Speaker: Mr. Ernest Brown.
10.1 p.m.
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
I beg to move, in page 7, line 36, to leave out "flaked or rolled wheat mixture." This is the first of a series of Amendments to meet a difficulty which arose during proceedings in the Standing...
I beg to move, in page 14, line 30, to leave out from" the "to the end of line 31, and to insert" thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and forty." This is in accordance with an undertaking...
1.10 a.m.
I beg to move, in page 36, line 7, after "ash," to insert "derived from the wheaten content of the substance."
Amendments of principal Ad.) Sir R. Dorman-Smith: I beg to move, in page 41, to leave out lines 35 and 36.
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 69.
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered; read the Third time, and passed.
1.42 a.m.
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