Iau, 5 Hydref 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, MR. SPEAKER in the Chair.
BAIRD TRUST ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has completed his investigation into the cost-of- living index; and whether he can now make a statement thereon?
asked the Minister of Labour the date on which winter allowances will be made, and the scale allowed, to applicants for assistance from the Unemployment Assistance Board?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has onsidered the representations from the London District Committee of the Musicians Union com plaining that West End hotels, restaurants and clubs are...
asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the grave consequences of un employment and commercial loss resulting from the action of His Majesty's Government in...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed juveniles in the county of Carmarthenshire; and whether he will take steps to re-open the junior instruction centres that have been closed...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will explain why ex-service men who are for a very long period out of employment and drawing monetary help under means test rules are not allowed to offer...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that electricity undertakings are increasingly discharging both fully-skilled and semiskilled men, particularly those engaged on the mains...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of skilled and unskilled workers now employed in the Kirkcaldy district linoleum industry, showing the number of men, women, youths and girls in the industry?
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the increase of unemployment of 18,896 persons in the dressmaking and millinery trades, compared with last August, and the fact that most of this...
asked the Minister of Labour whether it is proposed to set up local panels to decide as to necessary exemptions from military service of men indispensable for important industries?
asked the Minister of Labour the number of professional and technical persons enrolled on the Central Register; and whether any of these have been found employment in Government Departments?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that at some collieries in Yorkshire mine workers are being told that if they leave their present employment they will not be employed at any...
asked the Minister of Labour what action he proposes to take in. connection with the report of the committee which considered conditions of employment in the distributive trades?
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many regulations have been made by him under Section 71 of the Factories Act, 1937; to what industries they refer; and at what date each...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that when F. Preston, of Scarborough, was convicted at Leeds Assizes in 1938, he was denied access to hundreds of documents which had been concealed...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will instruct the police to inform British-born wives of enemy aliens when they call to register of their rights, under Section 10 (6) of the British...
asked the Home Secretary what steps are being taken to implement the repeatedly given assurances that the thousands of Jewish refugees admitted to this country since the Nazi regime came into...
asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the Govern- ment to set up a National Salvage Council?
asked (1) the Paymaster-General, as representing the Lord President of the Council, whether the form of prayer set forth by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for use on 1st October last was...
asked the Home Secretary how many factory inspectors are carrying out their normal work at the present time, and how many were doing so three months ago; and whether he will consider the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will make arrangements for air-raid directions concerning shelters, ambulance stations, fire stations and casualty stations at present exhibited in the public...
Miss Ward: asked the Home Secretary whether he will set up machinery whereby urgent questions of Civil Defence which, for obvious reasons cannot be placed on the Order Paper, will be answered...
asked the Home Secretary whether volunteer air-raid wardens and other Civil Defence personnel who lose wages through responding to an air-raid warning may be paid from public: funds for the loss...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the form of mask for head-lights which is about to be made compulsory by the Home Office throws a beam of white light over two feet high and is...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that many of the Metropolitan borough councils have now reached a position where they are unable to meet their financial obligations without bank...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will make a statement with regard to the effective provision of camping facilities made to date under the Camps Act, 1939?
asked the Minister of Health whether he will make arrangements with the Minister of Transport or otherwise, whereby when a doctor certifies that it is advisable for the parent of an evacuated...
asked the Home Secretary why the recent request of the Leeds City Council for approval of a by-law making it an offence for vehicles to pass on the near side of stationary tramcars has been...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will make a statement respecting the operation of the Education Act, 1936, the number of exemptions already granted and the...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what are the exact duties of the schoolmasters of evacuated children; how many hours teaching do they do each day and on how many days...
Mr. Rostron Duckworth: asked the Minister of Health whether, after the lapse of a fitting period, he proposes to publish the answers he has received from the local authorities concerned, in...
Mr. Rostron Duckworth: asked the Minister of Health the latest figures of housing construction in 1939 and the progress of slum-clearance and the relief of overcrowding; and whether any...
asked the Minister of Health whether it has been decided that the quinquennial revaluation due to take place next year is to be postponed; and if so, are any steps being taken to facilitate...
(by Private Notice)asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has now reached a decision on the question whether the premiums paid for the insurance of commodities under Part II of the...
May I ask the Prime Minister to state the business for next week?
Considered in Committee [Progress, 4th October].
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [Mr. Munro.]
7.52 p.m.
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