Iau, 29 Mehefin 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that there are a number of unemployed men between the ages of 20 and 21 years who are anxious to join the Militia immediately; and whether he will...
asked the Minister of Labour what instructions have been issued to the medical boards charged with examining militiamen as to the standard of health required for service?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will set up in Liverpool a local tribunal in connection with the Military Training Act, 1939?
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in the case of a one-man business where the owner is called up for service, a grant will be made to provide wages for a competent substitute to carry on...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the nature of the instructions issued by him to the appropriate authorities upon the acceptance of recruits for the police force before such...
asked the Minister of Labour whether the Commissioner for Special Areas has made any decision with respect to the clearance and preparation of sites suitable for the establishment of new...
asked the Minister of Labour the present average rate of interest charged on the loans or overdraft of the Unemployment Insurance Fund?
asked the Minister of Labour whether it is the generally accepted policy of the Unemployment Assistance Board that wages obtained by applicants in their last week of work should meet all normal...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the fact that numbers of unemployed local men applied at the Harrogate Employment Exchange for work at the military camp there and were told...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the action of the officials of the Montrose Employment Exchange in asking for a police report on an applicant, Mr. James McIntosh; under what...
asked the Minister of Labour what steps have been taken to obtain premises or a suitable site for premises for the projected Unemployment Assistance Board offices to serve the Romford...
Mr. W. Joseph Stewart: asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that in Durham County there are 26,000 persons who have been unemployed for more than a year; and what schemes the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has considered the evidence of long hours submitted during the hearing of a case affecting the Eldorado Ice Cream Company; and will he inquire into the...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of aliens who were originally admitted into this country under permit to take up positions in the sugar-beet factories who have since been given permission...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has considered the advisability of setting up a trade board for the catering trade, in view of the low wages and long hours imposed upon women employed in...
asked the Minister of Labour the average increase in the rent of houses which were decontrolled in consequence of the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restriction) Act?
asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the decision in the case of Lord versus Welch heard at the Bradford county court on 14th June, 1939, relating to back-to-back...
asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been directed to the serious concern of the urban distrtict council of Ince-in-Makerfield at the extensive damage, caused by mining...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether, in view of the advice he has received that tenement houses in Glasgow offer protection to citzens during air-raids if suitably strengthened, he can state what...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether his attention has been called to the report of the Lichfield Rural Head Wardens Association which alleges lack of information, organisation, and equipment to a...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he will include in any scheme for the compensation for death or injury sustained by members of Civil Defence Organisations or their dependants a provision...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he is aware that it has been established by scientific re- search that sandbags, if treated with a preservative, are strengthened, have a much longer life, and...
asked the Minister of Health what arrangements he has made to compensate owners of houses in reception areas for damage done to their property by refugees?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what number of black-listed schools there is in Wales; what number of schools where application has been made and refused; what is the...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he has considered the report of the accident in which Dorothy Hertz, Rita Hertz and another child were knocked down and pinned...
asked the Prime Minister when he anticipates that the report of the Royal Commission on the Geographical Location of Industry will be published?
asked the Prime Minister whether he can make any statement on the recent defence discussions at Singapore?
asked the Minister of Health what steps he is taking to prepare schemes in rural and industrial areas in Wales, in view of the report on tuberculosis in Wales, to improve housing, water supplies,...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that a considerable amount of ice cream is made without cream or milk; and whether he will bring in legislation to compel ice cream makers to...
Miss Rathbone: asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that a statutory declaration of conscientious objection to vaccination made by the wife of a labourer in the Royal Arsenal,...
asked the Minister of Health, (1) whether he will set up a committee of investigation to inquire into the present state of efficiency of X-ray plant in hospitals and to report on the relative...
asked the Minister of Health when he intends to issue an up-to-date consolidation of the National Health Insurance Acts; and whether it is intended also to issue an approved societies' handbook?
asked the Minister of Health how many non-contributory old age pensioners were; drawing public assistance from the Middlesex County Council at the last available date.
asked the Minister of Health when an application to vary the zoning of land on and near the Manor House Estate, By fleet, Woking, was received; by whom it was made; what is the nature and purpose...
asked the Home Secretary whether he can give any information in connection with the fire at the offices of Messrs. Schenkers, shipping agents, Queen Victoria Street, on Monday, when a young girl...
asked the Home Secretary the number of applications received under the Factories Act since 25th April last to exempt employers from the provisions limiting the hours of labour of young persons,...
asked the Home Secretary whether his Department intends to offer evidence to the Royal Commission on Workmen's Compensation on the special position of workmen who, by reason of having suffered...
asked the Home Secretary whether the Government can hold out any hope of early legislation enabling British women marrying aliens to retain their citizenship?
asked the Home Secretary what powers he has devolved on local authorities to ban, under penalty, the advertising or disseminating of news and propaganda on footpaths, roadways and street walls;...
asked the Home Secretary how many tenants of Langdale Mansions, Stepney, received hospital treatment following the eviction of several tenants on 17th June; what was the extent of their injuries;...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that cinema proprietors, in seeking to secure the necessary statutory steps to obtain a draft order for the opening of cinemas on Sundays, are...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations were made to him, previous to the introduction of the Budget, in favour of the repeal of the Medicine Stamp Duties; and by whom, or on...
Colonel Sandeman Allen: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that in the instructions to civil servants concerning removals there has appeared a recommendation that the rail...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer on what day he communicated to the Bank of England representatives on the Board of the Bank for International Settlements the view of the French Government...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the approximate cost of paying the old age pension to all women whose husbands have reached 65 years of age; and what is the estimated number of...
May I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to Questions 77 and 79 on the Order Paper to-day—
May I ask the Prime Minister what will be the Business for next week?
Reported, with Amendments [Title amended], from Standing Committee B.
"to authorise certain payments out of the Exchequer to milk marketing boards in respect of certain milk; to extend the powers and vary the duties of such boards as to the making of payments or...
Minutes of Evidence taken this day reported from the Select Committee.
Colonel Gretton reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A (added in respect of the Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Bill...
Colonel Gretton further reported from the Committee; That they had added the following Ten Members to Standing Committee B (in respect of the Disused Burial Grounds Act (1884) Amendment Bill):...
Colonel Gretton further reported from the Committee; That they had added the following Fifteen Members to Standing Committee C (in respect of the Mining Industry (Amendment) Bill): Mr....
Resolution reported from the Select Committee;
That they have agreed to,— Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Hailsham Water) Bill,Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Luton Water) Bill,Ministry of Health Provisional Order (South...
Considered in Committee [Progress, 28th June.]
(1) If the Minister declares to the Commissioners that in any accounting period the total receipts of a business under armament contracts were not less than two hundred thousand pounds or, if the...
(1) For the purposes of armament profits duty, the standard profits of a business shall be computed in accordance with the following provisions of this Section:
(1)For the purposes of the armament profits duty the profits arising from a business in any year constituting or comprised in the standard period, or arising in any chargeable accounting period...
(1) As from the data of any change in the persons carrying on a business, the business shall, for the purposes of armament profits duty, be deemed to have been discontinued and a new business...
(1) Where the total receipts of a business under armament contracts in any accounting period falling wholly or partly within the three years beginning with the first day of April, nineteen...
(1) The provisions of the Fifth Schedule to the Finance Act, 1937 (which relate to the assessment and the collection of the national defence contribution, appeals and supplementary provisions)...
The amount of the armament profits duty payable in respect of a. business for any chargeable accounting period shall, in computing for the purposes of Income Tax or the National Defence...
(1) In the provisions of this Act relating to armaments profits duty— (a)the expression "the Commissioners" means the Commissioners of Inland Revenue; (b)the expression "the Board of...
(1) The duties of Customs chargeable on tea under Section one of the Finance Act, 1936, shall be at the following reduced rates, that is to say:
Section twenty-two of the Finance Act, 1920 (which provides for a deduction of tax in respect of dependent relatives), shall have effect as if the words "fifty pounds" were substituted for the...
Sub-section (1) of section eighteen of the Finance Act, 1920 (which, as amended by section forty of the Finance Act, 1927, section eight of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1931, section twenty of the...
Resolution reported,
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 Newton Abbot and District Gas and...
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