Iau, 22 Mehefin 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
I beg to present a petition signed by 210,000 British subjects relating to the position of the Jews in Europe and elsewhere, and making a Prayer to this Honourable House: Your Petitioners humbly...
British Overseas Airways Bill (Standing Orders applicable thereto not complied with).
asked the Minister of Labour whether, having regard to the fact that well over 50,000 applicants sought assistance during 1938 in the Swansea district of the Unemployment Assistance Board and...
Mr. W. Joseph Stewart: asked the Minister of Labour the number of factories on the Team Valley Trading Estate that are now in production; the number under construction; and the number of persons...
asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the closing of the woollen mills in the Drefach and Velinore district of Carmarthenshire; how many weavers from this district...
asked the Minister of Labour why circulars Nos. 28 and 29, prohibiting the employment of men over 30 years of age in erecting air-raid shelters, have been issued; and, in view of the fact that...
The following question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Miss WILKINSON.
asked the Minister of Labour the approximate cost of granting to unemployed persons an extra week's benefit or allowance; and if he will consider the desirability of granting such extra benefit...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed workers in Scotland at 31st December last; the number unemployed at 31st May last; and the number of Irish workers who have settled in...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the success of the experiment begun in 1929, whereby unemployed men from the distressed areas were housed in camps for work on the Middle Level...
asked the Minister of Labour whether any Irish labour is now employed in the construction of an Army camp at Kinmel, North Wales; and, if so, will he state the number so employed?
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed in Barnsley at the end of May, in the years 1937- 1938 and 1939?
asked the Minister of Labour whether in agreeing to the erection of a new factory for the processing and manufacture of cloth at Moorside, Workington, he recognised that the manufactured products...
Mr. J. J. Davidson: asked the Minister of Labour the total number of registered unemployed in Glasgow for the years ended March, 1938 and 1939, respectively?
Mr. Davidson: asked the Minister of Labour the number of trainees now at Glenbranter camp, Argyllshire, and how many are employed on road work?
asked the Minister of Labour the total reduction in unemployment in the Special Areas since the com missioners were first appointed; and whether the latest figures show a down ward or upward trend?
asked the Minister of Labour how many of the men employed at the military camp at Harrogate were drawn from the registered unemployed at Normanton and Castleford?
asked the Minister of Labour whether any conditions were attached by the Egyptian Government to the ratification of the Draft Convention on Officers' Competency Certificates?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the Scott Insulated Wire Company, Limited, of Queensland Works, Queensbury, London, N.W.9, dismissed 20 of their employés on 3rd May...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to state what action he intends to take regarding the intimation by Scottish Oils and Shell-Mex, Limited, to youths of 19 years of age...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of his consultations with representatives of the universities and schools, he is now able to make a further statement with regard to the antedating...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that Mr. Rallinson, of 17, Shadyside, Hex-thorpe, Doncaster, has been passed as fit for military service even though he wears a glass left eye;...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in the event of a holiday period to which a militiaman is entitled falling within his period of training, steps will be taken to ensure that such holiday is...
asked the Minister of Labour what was the result of the call-up of men in city of Liverpool under the Military Training Act; what number failed to report; and what number registered as...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in assessing needs of applicants for public assistance, regard will be had by public assistance committees to allotments and payments coming into a household...
asked the Minister of Labour the cost-of-living index figure for the 12 months ended the last convenient date and the comparable figure for the previous 12 months?
asked the Minister of Labour what is the position of aliens between the ages of 20 and 21 years, permanently resident in this country, in view of the Military Training Act, 1939; whether it is...
asked the Prime Minister what arrangements are being made for carrying on the duties of those members of the Government of military age who in the event of war will be serving with the Navy,...
Mr. Vyvyan Adams: asked the Prime Minister when it is proposed to take the Report stage of the Criminal Justice Bill in order to resolve the controversy upon the penal use of flogging?
asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the advisability of causing an investigation to be made by means of a Select Committee of inquiry or otherwise into the practicability of...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what resolutions he has received from education authorities expressing the view that the suggested payment of 50 per cent, of the cost...
asked the Minister of Health whether he can make a statement on the information he has received as to the success or failure of the scheme for registration for the evacuation of children under...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the inevitable eventual results of a continuance of our existing birth-rate; and whether, in the light of the experiences of other countries,...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the rent strike of tenants of Birmingham council houses still continues and that the arrears of rent now exceed £20,000; and whether, in...
asked the Minister of Health what progress is being made in the housing redevelopment of clearance sites in the Hulme division of Manchester; and whether it is intended that proposed housing...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Minister of Health how many local authorities in England and Wales have made application for the Exchequer contribution of £6 10s. per annum for 40 years...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is now in a position to state the circumstances regarding the precautions taken on 5th and 6th June to ensure the purity of the water supply of Hucknall,...
asked the Minister of Health what steps he proposes to take to implement the assurance given with regard to the Rating and Valuation (Postponement of Valuations) Act, on 18th March, 1938; that...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Minister of Health what progress is being made towards securing a smokeless atmosphere, particularly in connection with new housing blocks, municipal housing schemes,...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will appoint a committee to inquire into the working of the appeals tribunals for widows' and orphans and old age pensions, seeing that the tribunals have...
Mr. Rathbone: asked the Minister of Health whether he has received repre sentations from the Torpoint Ratepayers' Associaton and others concerning the heavy burden which is arising through...
Viscountess Astor: asked the Minister of Health the number of parishes in each county which have a piped water-supply, and the number without such a piped supply?
(by Private Notice):asked the Prime Minister whether he has any further information to give to the House regarding the situation in the Far East?
May I ask the Prime Minister, first, whether he can say anything about the arrangements for the short Adjournment of the House to-day, and, secondly, whether he will state the business for next week?
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee B.
Reported, with Amendments, from the Committee on Unopposed Bills.
Reported, with Amendments [Title amended], from the Committee on Unopposed Bills (with Report on the Bill).
Reported, with Amendments, from the Committee on Group G of Private Bills.
That they have agreed to,
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
Colonel Gretton reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee D: Captain Arthur Evans and Lieut.-Colonel Mayhew; and had...
The Chairman of Ways and Means reported, That after conferring with the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, for the purpose of determining in which House of Parliament the respective...
Mr. Speaker: In accordance with the wish of the House, the Chairman will suspend the sittings of the Committee this afternoon at 5.15 in order to enable Members to take part in the welcome to...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed,
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Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
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Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Resolution reported— That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for raising further money for the development of the postal, telegraphic and telephonic systems, and...
Resolved, That Captain Sir William Brass be added to the Select Committee on Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms (House of Commons)." — [Mr. James Stuart.]
Ordered, That so much of the Lords Message [20th June] as relates to the appointment of a Committee on the Water Undertakings Bill [Lords] be now considered." — [Mr. James Stuart.]
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