Iau, 9 Tachwedd 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Mr. J. J. Davidson: asked the Minister of Labour the total number of registered unemployed persons in Glasgow up to the latest available date?
Mr. Davidson: asked the Minister of Labour whether machinery exists for the purpose of transferring unemployed persons to paid air-raid precautions work; and, if so, how many have been so...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that many architects, surveyors and kindred professional men in business on their own account who are outside all the social in surance schemes...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can now say if employment has been found for Mr. James Mclntyre, Greenock, who, at the request of an official of the Ministry of Labour, was released from...
asked the Minister of Labour whether unemployed men cultivating allotments will be allowed to sell any of the produce of allotments after supplying their household needs; and whether he will see...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can now make a statement on the question of taking part of the allotment made by a man serving in His Majesty's Forces for a dependant into account by the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the complete information on which he was to base the new cost-of-living index figure was collected by July, 1938; and whether he can now make...
asked the Minister of Labour whether it is the practice of tribunals dealing with conscientious objectors to discriminate adversely between those who base their appeal on religious and on ethical...
asked the Minister of Labour whether it is with his authority that female applicants for clerical and typing duties in the War Office, Ministry of Supply and other Government Departments are...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether vacancies in the administrative posts of the Civil Service will occur in the near future; whether he can state the method of selection; and...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, with a view to securing the wholehearted cooperation of India with this country, he will immediately issue a pronouncement that it is the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why cable messages to the Amritz Bazar Patrika, of Calcutta, on 28th and 29th October, were mutilated, in view of the fact that the censored...
asked the Home Secretary whether it is proposed to review the present scale of payments under the Workmen's Compensation Act in relation to the increase of the cost of living; and whether it is...
asked the Home Secretary whether his Department has any information as to the sources from which the organisation calling itself the British Council for Christian Settlement in Europe derives its...
Mr. Davidson: asked the Home Secretary the number of paid air-raid precautions workers in Glasgow who are engaged in other partial or full-time employment?
asked the Home Secretary whether he has considered the reports from air-raid precautions wardens in Culross, Buckhaven and North Queens-ferry, all expressing dissatisfaction with the...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the number of prosecutions of householders, some successful and others dismissed, in different parts of the country, both in vulnerable and...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that middle-aged men who joined the Metropolitan Police War Reserve before war was declared and have since been called up for full-time duty have, in...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the urgent need to expedite the re-opening of schools which are now closed because of the absence of air-raid precautions, and the difficulty of local...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Minister of Health whether any definite instructions have been given by the Ministry as to the number or proportion of medical officers who should be trans- ferred...
asked the Minister of Health how many London hospital beds were evacuated at the commencement of war, and how many of these beds are to-day available for the treatment of civilian sick?
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that 12 motor coaches, with drivers, requisitioned for ambulance work have been standing in the roadway opposite a North London town hall since...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the large number of qualified and experienced hospital nurses at present disengaged, he will permit local air-raid precautions committees to...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has now reconsidered the arrangement whereby auxiliary firemen injured in the course of their duties are expected to apply to the Unemployment Assistance...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that a western county council gave permission for cinemas in seven towns to be open at five o'clock on Sundays; and will he give the authority under...
asked the Home Secretary the number of British-born subjects detained for more than a fortnight in this country without trial, and the numbers of such persons so detained since the declaration of...
asked the Home Secretary what criticism or commentary has been issued through the Press and Censorship Bureau to the Press during the last three weeks, with reference to speeches made in this...
asked the Home Secretary how long friendly aliens, who have been temporarily interned or whose application has been rejected, have to wait before their appeal can be heard; how many of such...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that elementary schools in the West Riding of Yorkshire are closed owing to no air-raid shelters being provided;...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what steps are being taken to ensure that officially and unofficially evacuated children now approaching secondary school age shall not...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, why the Government have decided that schoolchildren may now leave school on attaining their fourteenth birthday without waiting for...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to the handicap experienced by young university graduates seeking appointments in teaching from...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will explore the possibilities of an agreement being effected relative to the flogging provisions contained in the Criminal Justice Bill, and give facilities...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will take steps to suspend the Ground Game Act for the period of the war as under the present restriction farmers cannot keep the rabbit pest down...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the fact that the ploughing-out campaign requires a considerable amount of fencing to be done by farmers, he will arrange for adequate...
asked the Minister of Agriculture why the figures fixed by the Milk Marketing Board for milk going into manufacture have been subjected to censorship and withheld from the public?
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether owing to the greatly superior quality of their mutton, he will introduce a special grade for hill ewes?
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the rising costs of production and the desirability of ploughing up the maximum amount of land, he proposes to raise the standard wholesale...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is in a position to state the intentions of the Government with regard to the production and distribution of potatoes?
(by Private Notice) asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the control of the manufacture of margarine?
asked the Minister of Health whether, having regard to the urgent need for the provision of new houses in various areas in Wales, and in particular in the rural areas, revealed in the Report on...
asked the Minister of Health what arrangements he is making for the re-opening of infant welfare centres in London, in view of the fact that more than 50 per cent. of the infant population of...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will take steps to set right the position of a practitioner who signed the British Medical Association scheme for the protection of medical practices, and...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that considerable dissatisfaction exists among specialists practising physiotherapy because of the scanty utilisation of their expert skill in...
Mr. De la Bére: asked the Minister of Health whether, with a view to removing any uncertainty which may exist in the minds of would-be patients who have in the past taken rheumatic...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether, in connection with the Royal Warrant, he proposes to publish a schedule giving the standard degree of disablement, as was done in 1923, for the guidance of...
Miss Rathbone: asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that there has been a widespread impression among service men's dependants that the Unemployment Assistance Board...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can make a statement about coal rationing.
May I put it to you again, Mr. Speaker, that there are 102 questions on the Order Paper to-day and that only 72 have been answered? In view of the fact that the House is not sitting on Monday,...
(by Private Notice)asked the Prime Minister whether he can now make any statement regarding the communication received from the King of the Belgians and the Queen of Holland?
May I ask the Lord Privy Seal to state the business for next week?
That they have agreed to,—
BILL [Lords.]Read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Tuesday next, and to be printed. [Bill 285.]
Lords Amendments to be considered upon Tuesday next, and to be printed. [Bill 286.]
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Lieut.-Colonel Kerr.]
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