Iau, 18 Rhagfyr 1941
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.]
Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That in the case of the following Bill, referred pursuant to the Order of the House of 25th...
I beg to move, That the Grand Union Canal Company be relieved from the obligation to promote not later than the Session of 1946 a Bill to consolidate the Acts relating to the several parts of...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will endeavour to make arrangements in connection with the direc- tion of married women into industry that they shall be granted reasonable time off when...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has considered the case for exemption of persons liable to unemployment insurance, whether British subjects or aliens, from the payment of arrears which...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will continue to use the services of local authorities for the payment of wages and accounts payable by the National Fire Service,...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will investigate what proportion of full-time women Civil Defence workers are working shifts which amount to the minimum of 48 hours per week and no longer;...
Miss Rathbone: asked the Home Secretary whether he can make a statement showing how the prospects of bringing refugees interned in Australia back to this country or sending them to the' United...
asked the Home Secretary how many Germans have been convicted and executed as spies and how many British subjects since the outbreak of war?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and Buildings whether a decision has yet been reached as to the accommodation of all regional offices in one building in a city of which...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether any steps are being taken to establish Home Guards in India on the British models?
asked the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that at a public meeting held at Nagpur the Deputy Commissioner described Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru as a Quisling; that there was such an...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the grave developments in the Eastern situation, he is prepared to make a statement with a view to an immediate settlement of the Indian...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether, having regard to the war situation in the Far East and the threat to India arising therefrom, he will reconsider the proposals already brought to...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the beneficiaries under the Welsh Church Acts view with alarm the prospect of the re-appointment of the Welsh Church Commissioners, after the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will give for the years 1939 and 1940 the respective numbers of motorists prosecuted and convicted for the following offences: manslaughter, dangerous driving,...
asked the Home Secretary whether he can give any information about the case of a young girl who was in the care of a woman charged, at the South-Western Police Court, with assaulting this girl of...
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to adjudications by the justices at St. Clears, on 5th December last, whereby the same fine of £1 was imposed upon a defendant...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the recent escape of Thursion from Dartmoor was due to the relaxation of the regulations concerning the treatment of prisoners...
asked the Home Secretary how many police under 40 years of age are serving in the police forces of every kind in the United Kingdom?
Mr. Bower: asked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been drawn to the extent to which entry into certain of the professions is being restricted owing to the...
asked the President of the Board of Education whether he proposes to use some of the vacant places in public schools for evacuated secondary school boys in areas where the secondary schools are...
asked the President of the Board of Education how many children, under the age of seven, are now not receiving full-time education?
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that Mrs. Sullivan, of Leigh, has had £5 8s. deducted from her pension and she claims she has not had any relief from the Assistance Board;...
asked the Minister of Health how many war-time day nurseries have now been established?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many persons paid from public funds are in receipt of salaries and/or other emoluments free of Income Tax; what is the annual loss to the Treasury...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many accounts of British nationals, who were resident in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the war and are now outside the sterling area, have been...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what proportion of the staff of the offices at present evacuated to seaside and provincial towns will be granted leave, with or without travel...
asked the Minister of Information whether he is satisfied with the arrangements now in force for providing suitable speakers for the weekly war commentaries throughout the country; and what...
asked the Minister of Information why, on a recent occasion, a telephone conversation in Welsh between a parent in North Wales and his soldier son in Northern Ireland was prohibited by the...
asked the Minister of Information whether he is aware that, six days after Japan declared war, members of local information committees received by post Ministry of Information's weekly war...
asked the Minister of Information why he stopped a proposed broadcast by J. E. W. Gibb, which he had been invited by the British Broadcasting Corporation to give on Tuesday, 2nd December, on...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is satisfied that the de-restriction on the manufacture of low-priced unornamented utility cups and saucers is having any effect upon the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade, what arrangements exist for enabling women, who are replacing men in garages and other places where boiler suits and other protective clothing is...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether owners of one-man businesses who have been called up, and whose businesses have as a consequence to be closed down, will be automatically allowed...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether, as he has decided to distribute the fruit juices and cod liver oil for young children through child welfare...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the changed war situation, involving the British Empire in operations on a world-wide scale, he will now consider the formation of an Empire War...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the urgent demand for labour, he will arrange that the War Office take over the building of their camps from the Ministry of Works and Buildings with...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider setting up a Select Committee to inquire whether the fact that Members are entitled to take subsistence allowances for fire-watching duties at...
Commander King-Hail: asked the Prime Minister whether there has been arranged an exchange of senior staff officers between the Chinese High Command and the British Commander-in-Chief in the Far...
asked the Prime Minister, since attention has repeatedly been drawn to the inadequate use made of the camouflage principle known as compensative or counter-shading, and in particular to a group...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that, owing to the prohibition of general leave for men in the Fighting Services, accommodation for temporary lodgings in towns and villages nearby to...
asked the Minister without Portfolio whether it is his intention to set up a committee to consider the post-war problems of Wales and Monmouthshire?
That they have agreed to—
Ordered, That, notwithstanding the practice of the House, the Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Bill may be considered in Committee immediately after the Bill has been read a Second time."— [Mr....
Can the Lord Privy Seal now announce the length of the Christmas Recess and the Business to be considered when the House meets again?
Order for consideration of Lords Amendments read.
Read a Second time, and committed to a Committee of the whole House; Bill immediately considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed.
Resolved, That the Special Order made by the Electricity Commissioners under the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1936, and confirmed by the Board of Trade under the Electricity (Supply) Act,...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [Mr. James Stuart.]
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Question again proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."
I am sure I express the general feeling of the House when I congratulate the Joint Under-Secretary of State for War on his very comprehensive survey of the magnificent work of the Home Guard, and...
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