Mawrth, 12 Rhagfyr 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Major Sir James Edmondson) reported His Majesty's Answer to the Address, as followeth:
The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD reported His Majesty's Answer to the Address, as followeth:
Provisional Order Bills (No Standing Orders applicable).
Ordered, That, if at any time the Chairman of Ways and Means is of opinion that in order to facilitate the progress of the Bills then referred to the Committee on Unopposed Bills under Standing...
Ordered, That in the case of an Opposed Bill promoted by a municipal or other local authority containing clauses by which it is proposed to create powers relating to Police, Sanitary, and other...
Mr.Whiteley: asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is now prepared to include in the regulations stemming plugs as a permitted method to be used in shotfiring?
Mr. David Adams: asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that of the salary of the personnel of the assistant coal officers and the liaison officers, totalling £12,700 per annum,...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Secretary for Mines whether, in view of his decision to suspend the rationing of gas and electricity, and that of coal, to 100 per cent. of previous deliveries but...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can make a statement indicating what progress has been made in the development of producer-gas-driven vehicles?
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary for Mines whether he has any information as to the granting of rent and coal allowances by the Northumberland and Durham coalowners to miners who are serving in...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Secretary for Mines what steps he proposes to take with regard to the increase in the accident rate to boys of 16 to 18 years employed underground in the coal mines of...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that competent typists capable of statistical work are being paid £2 10s. per week and shorthand typists £2 17s. 6d. in the department...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why many of the staff being taken on temporarily by Government Departments are people who have never previously worked as clerks and in many cases...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that there is grave discontent and distress among the wives of civil servants because their husbands are to be evacuated to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of complaints that in many cases, after getting export licences, exporters are unable to secure the necessary supplies from the...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in connection with the despatch of Government trade delegations to foreign countries, he will consider a plan in...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that French quota committees are refusing import licences to British textile firms in consequence of the restriction on French...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is prepared to issue some statement as to which home-manufactured articles are in demand for export so that in cases...
Mr. Vyvyan Adams: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will now take steps to improve the supply of batteries for electric torches?
Miss Ward: asked the President of the Board of Trade, in view of the necessity for the equitable treatment of all interests in price control, whether he intends to establish machinery which...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that typewriters are being imported into this country at approximately 50 per cent. of the pre-war quantities; and that the Import...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will take steps to ensure that all companies directly or indirectly concerned with Government contracts or the supply of essential goods...
asked the Minister of Shipping whether arrangements are being made to supply an adequate amount of shipping tonnage to meet the increased demand for coal from this country to markets overseas,...
asked the Minister of Economic Warfare why the Order-in-Council dealing with German exports is based on the precedent of March, 1915, and not that of February, 1918, which was much more thorough?
asked the Minister of Economic Warfare whether he can give this House any information about the trade agreement between Germany and Rumania; and what steps His Majesty's Government have taken to...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is satisfied with the issue of cigarettes, tobacco and matches to the forces in France; is he aware that some companies have only received 50 per...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether sufficient practice is given to gunners with anti-aircraft guns to ensure a high degree of accuracy against enemy aeroplanes?
asked the Secretary of State for War what are the instructions issued to commanding officers with regard to granting of leave to men whose relatives are seriously ill or who wish to attend the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware of the conditions under which horses were being kept by the Scottish Horse Regiment, Dunkeld, Perthshire, last month; that nearly 700...
asked the Secretary of State for War the number of officers who have been given commissions, or approved for commissions, since the war started who have been educated at public elementary schools?
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that when a court-martial decision is ultimately given on members of His Majesty's Forces who have been detained in custody for an alleged...
asked the Secretary of State for War what number of soldiers of the Regular and the Territorial Army have been freed from other military duties to perform full-time clerical work on the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Territorial Army officers are not being allowed to occupy the higher posts in the Army, that brevet colonels of several years...
asked the Secretary of State for War what course is open to a man who possesses technical qualifications such as the Army is appealing for, but finds himself posted to a unit where they will not...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will withdraw the instructions to commanding officers that soldiers should apply to them before marrying and present certificates from two...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider arranging for the British forces to brew their own beer behind the lines, as the farmers did in England, and so obtain draught beer...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can give an assurance that the troops now being called up will not be asked to serve under canvas during the coming winter?
asked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that salutary drill has been insisted on in France which is not consistent with the assurances given by the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will take all possible steps to obtain the widest publication of the salient features of the White Paper dealing with family and dependants'...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware of the difficulty and inconvenience experienced by men of the Armed Forces when proceeding on leave, by the fact that their railway...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that in cases where a soldier is awarded field punishment he forfeits not only his own pay but his allotment to his wife, often imposing...
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will consult with the director of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service as to the advisability of paying increased allowances on...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that private soldiers are being charged a minimum of 3d. to attend performances given for their entertainment; why is this charge made,...
asked the Secretary of State for War how many liaison officers and members of the missions attached to the French Army and French general headquarters have not passed the interpretership...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that large numbers of men stationed in this country are still without greatcoats; that many of them are not getting any allowance for the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether, when purchasing horses for the Army, buyers will be instructed, where possible, to give priority to geldings and mares unlikely to be of value for...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether the £50 a day which it costs to keep 23 German officer prisoners includes the rent for the mansion and the cost of erecting the barbed-wire...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider arranging that the House should meet in the forenoon and adjourn before darkness sets in?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will furnish the latest figures of the increase in total bank deposits since 1st August, and state as far as he is able the origin of such increase?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will give an assurance that claims which have been established against the Czech assets now blocked in this country will be met without further...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has considered the resolutionof the Scottish Old Age Pensioners' Association calling for an increase in the payments to old age pensioners, in...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the estimated loss to the revenue since poundage charges on postal orders were suspended; and whether, seeing that the chief benefit through such...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, for the assistance of the revenue and for public convenience, he will consider permitting motorists who motor only at week-ends to pay a proportion...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government is considering the advisability of introducing legislation to amend the Compensation (Defence) Act, 1939?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the reduction of the Bank of England rate to 2 per cent. and of the Joint Stock Banks rate of interest on deposit to half per cent., he...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will take steps to ensure that no profit accrues to the banks either by way of interest from any augmentation of the existing volume of general...
Miss Rathbone: asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware of the hardship inflicted on those candidates for certain grades of the Civil Service who, having already...
Mr. J. J. Davidson: asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the total number of children who have returned to Glasgow from evacuation areas; and how many are receiving full-time or part-time...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will take steps with the appropriate Government Departments to secure that more canning factories be set up in the Clyde area to make...
asked the Attorney-General whether he has noted the observations of the learned judge at Manchester Assizes on 24th November when passing sentence of five years' penal servitude upon a solicitor...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that in Article 49 of the Royal Warrant it is stated that in the case of an unmarried soldier killed in the present war his parents cannot...
(by Private Notice) asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has any statement to make as the result of his recent conversations with the French Minister of Finance.
May I ask the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make to the House concerning business?
I would like to ask your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on a question relating to the proposed Secret Session to-morrow. I wish to ask whether it is not the fact that any Member who repeated outside,...
David Robertson, esquire, for the Borough of Wandsworth (Streatham Division).
Appropriation Accounts presented,—of the sums granted by Parliament for the Civil Services for the year ended 31st March, 1938, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General...
Appropriation Accounts presented,—of the sums granted by Parliament for Revenue Departments for the year ended 31st March, 1939, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
Considered in Committee.
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Considered in Committee.
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Considered in Committee.
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Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Select Committee be appointed to examine the current expenditure defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament for the Defence Services, for Civil...
Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in the arrangements for the Report of Debates and to inquire into the expenditure on stationery and printing for this House and...
I beg to move, That, in accordance with the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act, 1919, this House do direct that the House of Laity (Postponement of Election) Measure, 1939, be presented to...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now Adjourn."—[Mr. Buchan-Hepburn.]
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