Llun, 17 Gorffennaf 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
I have to inform the House that I have received from Sir Harold Austin, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados, a copy of the following Resolutions agreed to by that House:
COLNE VALLEY WATER BILL.
asked the Under secretary of State for India whether he has any further statement to make respecting Indian Federation; and whether His Majesty's Government intend to suspend further plans in...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the urgency of raising milk-yield standards in India, he will take steps to encourage the experiments which are being made with...
asked the Prime Minister the names of His Majesty's Government's delegation to the next Assembly of the League of Nations?
asked the Prime Minister whether he can give any information to the House as to the numbers of the Inter national Brigade, and their respective nationality, who are still prisoners of war, held...
asked the Prime Minister whether he can make a statement on the present situation in the Far East; and whether the Japanese Government have replied to the representations of His Majesty's...
asked the Prime Minister whether he can now make any further statement on the negotiations between His Majesty's Government and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
asked the Prime Minister whether he now has any report from the League Secretariat concerning his inquiries regarding the importation of arms and ammunition into Danzig?
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the harmful effect upon international relations of sensational and exaggerated newspaper posters and headlines in a section of the Press; and...
asked the Prime Minister whether he has any information as to the number of German military effectives in Italy and Libya, respectively, and as to the establishment of an Italian naval base in...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will make a further statement regarding the order of the prefect of the province of Bolzano, in Italy, that all foreigners must leave the district; whether he...
asked the Prime Minister whether he has any further in formation regarding Miss Church and Mr. John Lennox who are in the hands of the secret police in Vienna; and whether consular officers have...
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether the £6,000,000 credit allotted to Turkey under the Anglo-Turkish (Armaments Credits) Agreement Act has been entirely utilised,...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will consider giving some assistance to the Potato Marketing Board in their propaganda campaign for the increased consumption...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will consider taking some steps to assist and encourage the home canners to utilise an additional amount of home-grown...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will circularize the various corn trade associations throughout the country, drawing their attention to the many instances...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has now heard from the Herring Industry Board regarding the report of Mr. Sam Reid, Greenock, and Mr. G. W. B. Leslie, Sumburgh, relative to spotting...
asked the Postmaster-General how many postal packets and parcels were handled during the past six months at the post office at Whitefield, Lancashire; the number of houses and other premises...
Mr. Anderson: asked the Postmaster- General how many telephone kiosks are now in use in the country; how much was collected during the past six months from these kiosks for telephone calls; and...
asked the Postmaster- General whether he is aware of the continued tardiness in the transit of Anglo- Canadian mails, in some cases 11 to 15 days being occupied between Toronto and London; and...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he has any recent information regarding the ex tent to which the greetings telegram ser vice is used by the public?
asked the Postmaster- General whether he is able to say how the total telephone traffic between the United Kingdom and other countries during the 12 months ended 31st March last com pares with...
asked the Postmaster- General whether he can give the reasons for the long delay by his Department in delivering the telegram despatched to Gosport on the occasion of the "Thetis" disaster?
asked the Postmaster-General what increase has taken place in the number of wireless receiving licences during the last 12 months; how many prosecutions for evasion of the licence fee have been...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider taking the necessary steps to secure that Members of this House are prevented from being financially interested, as directors or shareholders, of...
asked the First Commissioner of Works how much of the old Palace of Whitehall it has been found possible to preserve in reoccupying the site; and what steps are being taken to incorporate the...
asked the Minister of Health whether the Southport Corporation have now completed the acquisition under compulsory powers of the land and properties in Lord Street comprising 4,437 square yards...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in considering plans for providing useful alternative employment when the present rearmament scheme comes to an end, the Government will have regard to the...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether, in order to remove the effect on the public mind of the depressing slogan, "We must be prepared," he will arrange to substitute for it the slogan," We are...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can make a statement on the measures which have been taken by his Department for regulation of coal supplies in time of war?
asked the Minister of Labour whether the negotiations by his Department with the trade unions and the employers' associations in the furniture trade are completed; and will he make a statement in...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has considered the communication from the urban district council of Ince-in-Maker- field, requesting consideration being given to the establishment of a...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether, in view of the delays occasioned by the Board in connection with the application for permission to erect a...
asked the Secretary of State for War the number of underground oil-storage tanks or reservoirs that have been constructed along the Thames estuary for the use of his Department in emergency;...
asked the Secretary of State for War what building contractors were given the opportunity of tendering for the ammunition store and buildings at Rainford, near St. Helens, Lancashire; and whether...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the decision not to hold a compulsory church parade for militiamen on their first Sunday in training, he will entirely abolish compulsory...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that no provision is made for the grant of dependants' allowances to dependants, such as widowed mothers, of Territorials who are...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total income assessed for taxation for the years ended March, 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1938?
asked the Minister of Transport what action he takes to prevent local authorities imposing a speed limit on an unlighted trunk road by erecting street lamps and thus placing the road in a...
May I ask the Prime Minister, first, for what purpose it is proposed to suspend the Eleven o'Clock Rule to-night; secondly, whether he can make any statement as to Friday's Business; and thirdly,...
Thomas Lewis Horabin, Esquire, for the County of Cornwall (Northern Division).
Read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Thursday, and to be printed. [Bill 201.]
That they have agreed to, —
Resolution reported from the Select Committee; That, in the case of the Senior Public Elementary Schools (Liverpool) Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with: —That the Bill be...
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make provision for authorising the Board of Trade, in the event of war and in other circumstances,...
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 69.
Considered in Committee.
Resolution reported: That for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to extend the powers of the Board of Trade to give guarantees for the
Considered in Committee.
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 Sileby Gas Light and Coke Company,...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn." — [Mr. Buchan-Hepburn.]
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