Iau, 2 Tachwedd 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock,Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
asked the Minister of Labour the number of ex-miners employed at the Bridgend Royal Arsenal and the Employment Exchanges from which they are recruited?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to give an undertaking that increases of wages to meet the increased cost of living will not be taken into account in assessing the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can give information as to the total number of persons on the unemployment register in Stepney in September, 1938, and September, 1939?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that approximately 30 per cent. of upholsterers are unemployed or on part-time; and as this trade is included in the list of reserved occupations,...
asked the Minister of Labour whether the strike of hosiery workers at the factory of Messrs. Howard Ford and Company, Woolton, Liverpool, which has been in progress many months, has yet been settled?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that some members of conscientious objector tribunals are engaging in arguments with applicants, exchanging Biblical quotations which are causing...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the extension of opening hours of shops beyond the hours specified in the recent order of the Home Office he will now consider a limitation of the...
asked the Minister of Labour the extent to which joint bodies, representative of employers and employed for the purpose of co-operating in the supply of war requirements, have already been set up...
asked the Home Secretary whether he can make a statement regarding the experiment in street lighting recently carried out in Liverpool; and whether he intends to adopt this form of lighting for...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the difficulties confronting the Civil Defence committees arising from the refusal of tenants occupying ground-floor tenements to allow steel...
asked the Home Secretary the total number of householders prosecuted for infringement of the lighting regulations in the Metropolitan police area for the four weeks commencing 16th September and...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that considerable divergence in expenditure on air-raid precautions work exists between different local authorities of equal size, and of...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in consultation with the Minister of Transport, he has now come to a decision as to the instructions to be issued to local authorities for settling the terms of...
asked the Home Secretary what instructions, and in what form, have been issued since the outbreak of war to county councils and county borough councils to disband or suspend the meetings of...
asked the Minister of Health how many applications he has received from reception areas for extensions and improvements to the water supply; in how many cases he has given consent; and the...
asked the Minister of Health whether advice has been tendered to billeting authorities by his Department on the undesirability of billeting evacuated persons, especially children, in houses in...
asked the Minister of Health how many members of the visiting staffs of the voluntary hospitals in London have enrolled to date under emergency conditions in the categories enumerated by him,...
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the fact that German agents are sending out leaflets by post from neutral countries accusing this country of supplying Poland...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that night clubs in London are giving semi-nude cabaret shows; and whether he will take the necessary steps to control such entertainments?
asked the Home Secretary whether it is the intention of His Majesty's Government to promote legislation bringing within the scope of the Workmen's Compensation Act the disease known as bysinosis,...
asked the Home Secretary the present position with regard to the hearing of the cases of aliens by the tribunals appointed for the purpose; the numbers that have been dealt with; the numbers,...
asked the Home Secretary whether he can give any information in connection with a boy who fell down a manhole into a sewer at Hayes, Middlesex; and whether any reward is being given to the...
Mr. Vyvyan Adams: asked the Home Secretary whether he is taking any steps to deal with the oral and written propaganda, favourable to the enemy, emanating from the British Union of Fascists?
Mr. V. Adams: asked the Home Secretary at what date it is proposed to resume summer time after the re-introduction of true time?
asked the Prime Minister whether he will publish a list of the pooled commodities so far sanctioned by the Government, together with the names of the controller in each case?
asked the Prime Minister whether he will grant a day, or half a day, in which to discuss the White Paper dealing with German atrocities?
Mr. David Adams: asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider appointing a Ministry of Peace Aims, whose exclusive duty will be to ensure that the momentous problems affecting the peace...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what sum of money it is estimated has been, or is being, expended upon the building of a headquarters for the activities of the Milk Marketing Board?
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the serious depletion of capital in the hands of farmers and their consequent inability to finance the extensive developments required by the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the serious position likely to develop in the milk industry, where, owing to the inducements offered to cereal and meat production and the...
Mr. Adamson: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that less than half of the Women's Land Army trainees at Harper Adams Agriculture College, Salop, were taken into agricultural...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will authorise all education committees to complete all schools under construction and make provision for committees to...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education how many children in England and Wales of school age are not in attendance at school; and the percentage in proportion to the school...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that parents of children of school-age now in the Greater London area are, in many cases, paying small weekly fees...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that there is a shortage of supplies, and a great rise in cost, of medicinal vegetables and plants hitherto obtainable from overseas which could...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the dissatisfaction among members of the medical profession arising from the fact that many medical men making application for commissions in...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the issue of a form, S4/7, by the London Insurance Committee refusing to permit the transfer of doctors chosen by insured persons; whether this...
asked the Minister of Health the number of beds available for tuberculous patients in hospitals and sanatoria before the outbreak of war and at the present time; and what arrangements are being...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the essential part played in the national effort by the health and social services and by the special war-time adjustments made,...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he can now give an undertaking to workers who are offering their lives for the defence of the country that, except for any unforeseeable claims on social...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why a discount of 2½per cent. is now given for early payment of Income Tax, and why this is allowed for payment under Schedule D and not for that under...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether British citizens resident in Eire, and liable to Irish Income Tax, who volunteer for and join the British Forces for the war, will also be charged...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what considerations have led to the decision to reduce the bank rate to 2 per cent.?
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that registrars are charging 3s. yd. each for copies of birth certificates in the case of children of members of His Majesty's...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware of the hardship felt by the parents of young sailors, soldiers and airmen stationed so far from their homes that they cannot...
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether his attention has been called to the intensified German propaganda in support of German export trade to South American countries and...
Will the Prime Minister state the business for next week?
"to restrict the distribution of circulars, and the publication of advertisements, relating to the insurance of property against war risks, to provide for the imposition of certain conditions and...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [Captain Margesson.]
4.5 p.m.
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