Iau, 25 Mawrth 1943
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
made the following communication to the House: I have to inform the House that I have received the following telegram from the President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey: "While making...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is in a position to state what provision is to be made to enable young men and women whose careers have been interrupted by the war to resume or begin...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that, under recent directional orders, full-time women agricultural workers on the land have been directed to do part-time...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, before he decided on the latest call-up of persons employed in the distributive trades, he consulted with the Ministry of Food, employers and trade unions...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he received any report regarding police interference at a workers' meeting of those employed at a certain ordnance factory; will he say from whom the report...
asked the Minister of Labour how many disabled persons are being trained for industrial work and how many for the professions, respectively, under the Tomlinson Scheme?
asked the Minister of Labour whether the Industrial Health Research Board is specifically represented on the newly formed Industrial Health Advisory Committee; how liaison will be maintained...
asked the Minister of Labour whether there is any shortage of male labour in the munition and other war production factories in the Metropolitan area?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will make arrangements by which a childless married woman, whose husband lives at home, who has no domestic help but who has voluntarily taken on...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, since the Control of Employment Order offers, as an alternative to application to a labour exchange, recourse to an employment agency approved by his...
asked the Minister of Labour why the Essential Work Order is applied to British Restaurants and not to essential works canteens?
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the world-wide importance of the service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, he will cease calling up men or women working at the British...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that a man who has appealed against his discharge from his employment is frequently unemployed for some time owing to the delay in the hearing of...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the President of the Board of Education, whether, in view of the desirability of a more widespread knowledge of finance, he will ensure the inclusion in the...
asked the President of the Board of Education when he contemplates being able to bring in the promised new Education Bill?
asked the President of the Board of Education whether he has formed any estimate of the number of elementary and secondary men and women teachers, respectively, who will be available during the...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the dissatisfaction in certain South Wales hospitals as a result of the Welsh Board of Health refusing to allow boards of management to pay the...
asked the Minister of Health whether any action has been taken hitherto to give effect to Regulation 33B in relation to contact cases?
asked the Minister of Health (1) why the Burnley Corporation tender of £1,832 8s. 8d. for a war-time nursery at Rosehill School, being the only tender submitted, has been refused by his...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in adopting the medical recommendations of the Beveridge Report, he will safeguard the position of doctors who have planned to make provision for their...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the conflicting policies which still obtain in regard to the pasteurisation of milk supplies in Great Britain, he will institute a comprehensive...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will hold an inquiry into the provision made for the dental treatment of patients at the Moss Side State Institution for Mental Defectives, in view of the...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the acute difficulties with which nursing homes, catering for maternity cases, have to deal in respect of shortage of midwives and domestic...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that no specific representative or specialist of psychological medicine sits on the Representative Medical Committee; and whether he will take...
asked the Minister of Health to what extent his Department concerns itself with the bona fides of the many products which are advertised as containing large proportions of vitamin C.
asked the Minister of Health the number of widows deprived of widows' pensions in cases where the husband has not made the necessary 104 contributions and give figures for each of the past five years?
asked the Minister of Health whether he can furnish an estimate of the weight of paper that will be needed and the number of man-hours involved in the proposal to furnish every person with a new...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the desirability of encouraging the building of houses of chalk in certain suitable districts, in view of the availability of material on...
asked the Minister of Health whether his Department is permitting local authorities to acquire land now for their post-war housing schemes at prices in excess of the value of such land on 31st...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that men who are serving in the Forces and have let their houses on an annual tenancy or for a short term of years are unable to regain...
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning whether the pre-war regulations as to the number of houses to the acre will continue to apply in post-war housing development schemes?
asked the Minister of Health whether individual application for industrial billeting should now be made on the typewritten form provided by his department through the Supply Ministries concerned...
Miss Ward: asked the Prime Minister to whom he has entrusted the selection and training of personnel for assistance in reconstruction work in Europe; what qualifications are laid down for...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the recent claim broadcast by the German news agency that more than 30 ships of a convoy, totalling 200,000 tons, were sunk in a recent attack in...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can give the figures, to date, of the farmers and livestock owners who have entered the veterinary inspection scheme for the control of the diseases...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what reports on the work of the Italian prisoners as agricultural labourers have been received; and whether he will allow more Italian labourers to be made...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that some milk producer/retailers are employing Land Army girls to distribute milk from door to door, and that the rate of wages in their...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the growing rat pest, he will investigate the possibility of encouraging the raising of a strain of cats specially suited for dealing with...
asked the Minister of Pensions in how many cases, to the latest convenient date, have ex-Service men who have been refused pensions been referred to an independent medical expert; in how many of...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether any committee has been set up in India similar to the Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment set up here; and whether there is any Province...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can make an up-to-date statement regarding the duty of the public to carry, or not to carry, gas-masks?
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the unsatisfactory nature of the sleeping accommodation for women members of the National Fire Service who have to be...
asked the Home Secretary what steps have been taken to benefit from the experience of the last London air-raid; and is it intended to ask all local authorities to check their shelters and welfare...
asked the Home Secretary the figures for juveniles convicted for offences during the war years; and whether an increase or decrease can be deduced from these?
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that regular members of the Lincoln City Police Force have each to surrender 18 coupons per annum for uniforms, and whilst this has been done no new...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that prison officers who are recalled to work at their previous trades during the war period and in the national interest, are charged a higher amount...
asked the Home Secretary what progress has been made during the last 12 months in the provision of adequate accommodation in approved schools for children requiring it; and in what areas is the...
asked the Home Secretary for what purpose the words, "or otherwise," have been added by Statutory Rule and Order, No. 295 of 1943, to Article 1 of the Control of Noise Order of 1940?
asked the Home Secretary whether any decision has been reached on the proposals set out in the Report of the Committee on Electoral Machinery; and whether consideration is being given to the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that many old age pensioners, who are still capable of useful work, find that they will lose their old age pension if the money they earn...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the post-war currency proposals, shortly to be published in a White Paper, are put forward for consideration as the accepted policy of His Majesty's...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the increased cost of living and the lower level at which Income Tax takes effect, he will consider making allowances in respect of...
Miss Ward: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any woman is included on the Civil Service Arbitration Tribunal, either on the panel representing the Treasury or on the panel...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of men of military age being employed by the War Damage Commission in war-time posts; and whether it will be possible to use the part-time...
asked the Attorney-General whether, in view of the wide disparity, both in court awards and in settlements made out of court for accidental injury, he will consider laying down a scale of minimum...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport whether, in making new schemes for the rationalisation of retail deliveries, the Government undertakes to find other employment...
May I ask the Prime Minister to state the Business of the House for the next Series of Sittings?
I desire to make a statement about the proceedings in the House on Tuesday of last week on the Motion for a new Writ in respect of the Eddisbury Division, in order to make it clear that these...
That they have agreed to—
Fourth and Fifth Reports from the Select Committee brought up and read; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [Nos. 68 and 69.]
Lords Amendments considered, and agreed to.
Resolution reported: That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make provision for regulating the remuneration and conditions of employment of catering and other workers and, in...
Considered in Committee.
I beg to move, in page 1, line 15, at the end, to insert: except members of the family of the proprietor. If this Amendment is agreed to, the first lines of Sub-section (2) will read: The workers...
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Again considered in Committee.
Mr. Craik Henderson: I beg to move, in page 1, line 25, to leave out from "fit" to "into," in line 26. Paragraph (a) empowers the Commission to make such enquiries as they think fit or as they...
Resolved, That the Orders made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department extending Section I of the Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932, to— (1) the City of Bradford and(2) the Rural...
Resolved, That the Draft of the Special Order proposed to be made by the Minister of Fuel and Power under the Gas Undertakings Acts, 1920 to 1934, on the application of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Sir J. Edmondson.]
I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty praying that the Order in Council dated 16th December, 1942, made under the Emergency Powers Defence Acts, 1939 and 1940,...
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