Iau, 22 Gorffennaf 1943
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Mr. BOULTON) reported His Majesty's Answer to the Address as followeth:
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the difficulty that men and women find themselves in, who desire to return home to Ireland during the shut-down weeks, that there are no...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the railway warrants issued to workers who have been directed are not available for two days either side of the Bank Holiday on a return...
asked the Minister of Labour the age above which trade union officials are reserved against military service or direction into another civilian occupation?
asked the Minister of Labour whether, having regard to the essential nature of the hotel industry, he will exercise restraint in the transference of women engaged in domestic work in hotel to...
Mr. Astor: asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider giving the right of reinstatement to persons directed by him into other employment under Regulation 58A; and whether he is aware...
asked the Minister of Labour whether the calling-up of more of the personnel in food shops will mean the closing of any such shops, co-operative stores or private enterprise; what authority it...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the number of claims for unemployment insurance benefit which are disallowed on account of ignorance of the correct procedure in applying for...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the visit to this country of newspaper editors from West Africa and the West Indies, he will make arrangements for a similar visit from...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that Mr. Justice Cassels, on Wednesday, 5th May, at Manchester Assizes, passed a sentence of four years' penal servitude...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will state the date and terms of his circular to magistrates on the subject of Defence Regulations relating to Trespass?
asked the Home Secretary whether he is yet in a position to state the Government's proposals as regards redistribution of Parliamentary seats?
asked the Home Secretary whether he will see his way to provide for the recoupment to the local authority of a pension paid to an officer who was formerly a part-time unpaid volunteer in the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will take into consideration the condition of men in Northern Ireland who served in the Royal Irish Constabulary which was an armed force to the time of its...
asked the Home Secretary on what grounds Major Leonard Cripps, of Liverpool, was granted an exit permit enabling him to visit America recently, in view of the fact that, since his arrival there,...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider favourably the proposal that civil servants serving overseas should, by post or by proxy, exercise the franchise?
asked the Home Secretary whether it is obligatory for part-time wardens to sign the log book reporting every entrance and exit to and from the wardens post in addition to signing the duty register?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport what steps he intends to take in regard to a workman in the goods transit shed at Crewe who refuses, in spite of summonses and...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will issue instructions to passport officials to grant travel permits to teachers in Northern Ireland who desire to take refresher courses in Britain during...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that Parliamentary by-elections covering considerable areas are permitted during the war, he will consider the advisability in connection...
asked the Home Secretary whether consideration has been given during recent years to the constitution and adequate use of prison libraries; and whether qualified advisers have been consulted to...
asked the President of the Board of Education what steps he is taking to remedy the inadequate secondary school facilities in Newcastle-under-Lyme, especially for girls; and what provision he...
asked the President of the Board of Education, what information has been provided for him by local education committees, showing the present weight and height of schoolchildren as compared with...
asked the Minister of Health, whether consideration will be given to informing private enterprise building industry what is expected of them in the post-war housing programme and to not...
asked the Minister of Health, as the rentals payable by occupiers of local authority houses completely liquidate the cost in 40 to 6o years, why, at the end of such period, is the house not...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that after the last war there was a considerable amount of scamping in housing contracts by certain private builders; and, in order to prevent a...
asked the Minister of Health when he will be in a position to report on his consultations with local authorities respecting the shortage of housing accommodation and the requisitioning of empty...
asked the Minister of Health whether the promised system of allowances for cases of tuberculosis undergoing remedial treatment is now in force; what steps he is taking to make it known to medical...
Miss Rathbone: asked the Minister of Health whether he has now received the Report of the Midwives' Salaries Committee; whether it is to be published; and what action he proposes to take on it?
asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the information sent to him relating to a shortage of 27 midwives and four sisters at maternity hospitals and for domiciliary visits in the...
Mr. Astor: asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that certain employees of local authorities, who have given satisfactory service for as long as 20 years and who would normally...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in the interests of mothers and of control of children, as a war-time measure, he will agree to the provision by local authorities of home helps in special...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that approximately 16 cwts. of onion seed were incinerated in the King's Pike, Victoria Dock, at the beginning of June; and to what...
asked the chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is now able to make a statement on the exchange rate fixed for the occupied territory of Italy?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he will issue a White Paper giving his reasons for recommending that many people should be obliged to drink pasteurised milk,...
asked the Prime Minister whether he can make a statement on the recognition that is to be made of men and women who have served in the Armed Forces at home and abroad, those who have been...
asked the Prime Minister whether any action is proposed by the Government to carry out the suggestions in Section 19 of the Report on the Women's Services that members of the Auxiliary Services...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that women officers are not allowed batmen, he will consider granting them the equivalent in allowances in lieu thereof?
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in connection with the statement in the agricultural survey to the effect that there was 2 per cent. less land under cultivation...
asked the Minister of Agriculture why the Bulls (Cheshire) (Control) Order, 1943, which was signed on 29th June, 1943, and came into operation on 12th July, 1943, provided that in certain parts...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the need for all agricultural machinery to be available for the harvesting of this year's crops, he will take steps to speed up deliveries...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the successful treatment of the warble-fly pest by the use of salt and water; and whether he proposes to take any action to encourage the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether it is the intention of his Department to encourage, or to ignore, the homœopathic treatment for immunising cattle against tuberculosis, which has...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what complaints he has received from dairy farmers as to the want of cleanliness of milk churns returned empty to them from factories; and whether any Order...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the withholding of acreage payment for a crop of wheat or rye which has been heavily patched with barley will create serious anomalies...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food why Algerian wine which originally cost the equivalent of about 3d. a bottle, and which was bought by His Majesty's Government, can only...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will make arrangements whereby none of the material, such as clothing and footwear, required to meet the needs of the inhabitants of the...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he has any statement to make on the progress of gliding in the Air Training Corps?
asked the Attorney-General whether the Lord Chancellor's Department has approved the request of the Law Society for an increase in solicitors' fees?
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies in what circumstances the inquiry into nutrition in the Gold Coast was recently abandoned; and whether he can give any explanation of this?
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will explain the reason for the increase in the importation of gin from 8,000 to 31,000 gallons during the past year into the Gold Coast;...
asked the Secretary of State for War, whether Dr. Worthington, who had been appointed principal architect for North Africa and Egypt to advise on the planning and construction of cemeteries of...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can give any information in connection with the public sale of goods made by Italian prisoners of war in the Chippenham, Wiltshire area; whether he...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he has considered the resolution of the Cowdenbeath Town Council, forwarded to him by the honourable Member for West Fife, on increased soldiers' pay...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty how many successful and how many unsuccessful prosecutions have taken place under Statutory Rule and Order No. 1206 of 1940?
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I should like in a word to say how we in Scotland stand in relation to the housing measures announced to-day by my right hon. Friend the...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he can state the Business for our next series of Sittings?
That they have agreed to—
Ordered, That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[Mr. Eden.]
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £1,000,000,000, be granted to His Majesty, towards defraying the expenses which may be incurred during the year...
Considered in Committee [Progress, 1st July].
Amendment proposed [1st July]: In page 1, line 8, to leave out from "Minister," to the end of line 15.—[Mr. Hogg.]
Amendment made:
Amendment made:
Amendment made: In page 4, line 9, after "decision," insert: specifying that it is made on that ground."—[Sir W. Womersley.]
I beg to move, in page 4, line 19, at the beginning, to insert: (1) Where, in the case of any such claim as is referred to in Section one, Section two or Section three of this Act in respect of...
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Again considered in Committee.
I beg to move, in page 5, line 1, to leave out Sub-section (2). My reason for claiming that we should discuss this second Sub-section separately is that I wish to avoid confusion. We have just...
I beg to move, in page 5, line 6, at the end, to insert: (2) Where, in the case of an appeal to the Tribunal under Section one, Section two, Section three or Section four of this Act the...
I beg to move, in page 5, line 27, at the end, to add: (2) Any decision of the Minister given before the passing of this Act which corresponds, apart from any difference arising from the terms of...
Amendments made:
I think it might be convenient if the Amendment in the name of the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg)—in page 6, line 5—is discussed at the same time as that in the name of the...
On a point of Order. There is an Amendment in my name on this Clause.
I beg to move, in page 7, line 2, after "made," to insert: or whose appeal under this Act has been granted. I shall be willing to withdraw this Amendment, if the Attorney-General says it is not...
I beg to move, in page 7, line 27, to leave out from "forces," to the end of line 28. This Amendment and the further Amendments to this Clause are to implement in this Measure the changes which...
This Act in its application to Scotland shall have effect subject to the following modifications:— (a) for references to a judge of the High Court nominated by the Lord Chancellor there...
This Act in its application to Northern Ireland shall have effect subject to the modification that for the references to the Lord Chancellor there shall be substituted references to the Lord...
I beg to move, in page 8, line 9, at the end, to insert: and the Lord Chancellor may, if he thinks fit, remove any member of such a Tribunal. There is an Amendment down by my hon. Friend the...
I beg to move, in page 5, line 10, to leave out "have regard to," and to insert "be bound by." That is in accordance with the undertaking I gave to the Committee.
Resolutions reported: "I. Whereas it appears by the Navy Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1942, that, as shown in the Schedule hereunto appended, the total...
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed.
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That for the purpose of any Act of the present Session to amend the Coal Act, 1938, it is expedient to authorise the treatment, for the purpose of mineral...
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 Wandsworth and...
Resolved, That the Order made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department extending Section I of the Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932, to the Urban District of Driffield, a copy of which was...
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