Iau, 7 Medi 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education how many children of school age are still in London; whether arrangements are being made for some kind of education for them in the...
asked the Minister of Health whether any plans have been worked out for the evacuation from overcrowded areas of infirm and aged people who are not able to evacuate at their own expense; and, if...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can make a report upon the evacuation of children and other classes in Scotland?
Mr. Vyvyan Adams: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps are now being taken by His Majesty's Government to deal with organisation such as the Link and the Anglo-German...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Supply the number of Government contracts that have been placed on the cost plus system; and whether he will discontinue this system in future and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that a British vessel has recently fired upon a boat or ship containing refugees when trying to land...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he pro poses to open his emergency Budget?
asked the Prime Minister whether he has any official information in connection with the German air raiders in Poland using gas balloons filled with yperite or yellow cross gas?
asked the Prime Minister whether he will make available to Members of this House a translation of the note to the German people of which the Ministry of Information state more than 6,000,000...
GERMAN MEN AND WOMEN.
asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make with reference to the general position in the Far East and with regard to the four Chinese subjects at Tientsin, in connection with...
Mr. O. Lewis asked: the Prime Minister which Member of the Government will reply in the House of Commons to questions about the work of the Ministry of Information?
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister for Home Security whether he will take into immediate consideration the issue of an order with regard to the hours of shop closing, so as to ensure...
May I ask the Prime Minister whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the general situation, as he promised yesterday?
May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he can state the business on re-assembly of the House?
"to provide, in connection with the present emergency, for amending the Universities and College Estates Act, 1925, and for extending the powers of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and...
"to provide for the modification of the law relating to the administration of justice in Northern Ireland as respects the period of the present emergency and for purposes connected therewith,"...
"to make such special provision with respect to patents, registered designs, copyright and trade marks, as is ex- pedient to meet any emergency which may arise as a result of war," presented by...
Resolved, That for the remainder of the Session whenever the House stands adjourned and it is represented to Mr. Speaker by His Majesty's Government that the public interest requires that the...
Order for Second Reading read.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
4.7 p.m.
Order for Second Reading read.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Amendment made: In page 4, line 30, insert:
Amendment made: In page 8, line 14, insert "grant or."— [Mr. Peake.]
Amendment made: In page 9, line 20, insert: but the following provisions of this Subsection shall have effect as respects any such fireman who ceases to serve in any fire brigade in order to...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
—(1) Where during the period of the present emergency a person serving as a constable or fireman ceases so to serve in order to serve in His Majesty's forces, the appropriate authority...
— (1) For the purposes of the appropriate pension enactment— (a)any period for which a person to whom Section one of this Act applies serves in His Majesty's forces during the period...
.For the purpose of the Police Pensions Act, 1921, and the Fire Brigade Pensions Act, 1925, and any other Act or any rules or scheme providing for the pensions of firemen, a war injury within the...
Notwithstanding anything in Section sixteen of the Fire Brigade Pensions Act. 1925, a pension receivable by a person under that Act shall not be suspended for any period for which he takes...
4.53 p.m.
That they have agreed to—
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn till Wednesday next." — [Captain Margesson.]
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