Llun, 2 Hydref 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
asked the Undersecretary of State for India whether he has considered the statement of policy recently issued by the working committee of the Indian National Congress calling on the British...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will obtain reports from His Majesty's Minister late in Warsaw, and from our Consuls late in Katowice and Krakow as to the actual results of air-raid bombings...
Mr. De la Bére: asked the Minister of Agriculture what steps the Government are taking to prevent the controlled prices fixed for the sale of livestock being fixed under the cost of...
Mr. De la Bére: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can make some statement of the steps the Government are taking to preserve the normality in the prices charged by distributors...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what acreage is occupied by golf links; and whether he will take or authorise any powers necessary to secure access to this acreage for sheep grazing at such...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what objections he has to the setting-up of a central wages board for agriculture; and whether he has consulted the agricultural workers' union on the issue recently?
asked the Minister of Agriculture what assistance is being afforded to fruit-growers to pick, market and store their excessive supply of fruits, in view of the fact that the normal channels are...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will make a statement as to the policy of His Majesty's Government with regard to the continuation of fox hunting and the maintenance of packs of...
asked the Postmaster-General the number of branch offices that are closed in London and elsewhere; the reason or reasons for their being closed; and the prospects of their being reopened in the...
asked the Postmaster-General the number of superannuated officers of his Department who have been invited to return for service during the war; how many have accepted the offer; and what are the...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he will reconsider the inland postage rates for parcels sent to men in the armed forces, as these greatly increased rates cause much hardship to poor persons?
Mr. Whiteley: asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider introducing legislation to permit some relaxation of rates of houses containing furniture in cases where young men have been...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that on21st April, 1939, the clerk to the Essex County Council, on the instructions of the appropriate committee, informed all members of the...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will assure the House that no responsibility in respect to adult education has been transferred to the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the refusal of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to remit the Death .Duties payable on the property...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will direct that in official references to war enemies, they shall be spoken of as Nazis and not as Germans, so as to distinguish those in Germany who are on...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information on what grounds Mr. C. L. Shard has been appointed editor of the India section of the Empire Publicity Division?
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make regarding the recent Russo-German declaration?
Order for Second Reading read.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn." — [Mr. Grimston.]
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