Mr George Bowyer: Will the right hon. Gentleman see that this inquiry does go on until all the reasonable grievances have been heard?
Mr George Bowyer: 70. asked the Lord Privy Seal for how many of the unemployed work has been provided by legislation passed by the Government since June, 1929; at what cost to the taxpayer; and under what Acts of Parliament?
Mr George Bowyer: I want to ask the House to listen to me for a few minutes while I appeal on behalf of an Englishman whose wife is detained in Russia. When I saw Mr. Walford a few weeks ago, I took particular care to take down careful notes of what he told me, because the story is almost unbelievable, in that it has involved such tremendous delays with the Foreign Office. Mr. Walford married a Russian...
Mr George Bowyer: 33. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that Mrs. Walford, a Russian subject, the wife of Mr. P. R. Stewart Walford, a British subject, has been detained in Russia ever since her marriage there to Mr. Walford in February last, though her husband has been in this country trying to arrange for her release from Russia so that she may come and join him in England;...
Mr George Bowyer: What is the use of keeping an Ambassador in Moscow and having a Russian Ambassador in London if British subjects suffer these indignities and delay? Will the right hon. Gentleman tell me how long Mr. Walford has to wait considering that he was married last February?
Mr George Bowyer: In consequence of the unsatisfactory nature of the reply, I beg to give notice that I shall raise this question on the Motion for the Adjournment.
Mr George Bowyer: 36. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that members of the Royal Air Force in Iraq, whilst in hospital, are deprived of their Colonial allowance and have to pay 2s. 6d. a day as a hospital charge, thus undergoing a total loss of 11s. 6d. a day; and whether he will see that this Colonial allowance is restarted forthwith and/or what other help he can give?
Mr George Bowyer: Will the hon. Gentleman call for a report on this matter from Iraq and thus learn of the great difficulties and distress of feeling which there is in that country upon this subject at this time?
Mr George Bowyer: 18. asked the Minister of Labour what was the highest and lowest weekly figure of unemployment during the period October, 1924, to June, 1929; and what is the highest and lowest weekly figure since that date?
Mr George Bowyer: The last fact given by the right hon. Lady was the date upon which she took up her new duties. Was not that so?
Mr George Bowyer: 20. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that a separation order under the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Woman) Act, 1895, providing for weekly payments by a man to his wife, has been held to be enforceable and the man committed to prison if default is made in payment under such order on the application of a collecting officer appointed by the Court where...
Mr George Bowyer: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in some cases the man who has gone abroad has actually died and yet the order is enforceable in this country?
Mr George Bowyer: 65. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will stop the export of all horses, sound or unsound, for slaughter?
Mr George Bowyer: Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether recently any representative of the Ministry of Agriculture has been abroad to see these slaughter places, and will the Minister satisfy himself that no cruelty takes place now?
Mr George Bowyer: 65. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the new credit of £800,000 to help the wheat farmers of France to dispose of their bumper crop of last season by dumping it abroad; and what steps, if any, he proposes to take to protect agriculturists in this country from this dumping?
Mr George Bowyer: 79 and 82. asked the Minister of Health (1) whether he will adopt the suggestion made by Lord Dawson of Penn that an embargo be placed upon the importation of all parrots for a reasonable period, in view of the danger of a spread of parrot disease; (2) whether he has received notice of the warning of an epidemic of parrot disease which was given last week by the doctor at the inquest on Miss...
Mr George Bowyer: 4. asked the Minister of Labour what action she proposes to take to extend unemployment insurance to agricultural workers?
Mr George Bowyer: May I ask whether it is true that this matter has been postponed until next Session?
Mr George Bowyer: 7. asked the Minister of Labour whether any steps will be taken this Session to ratify the Washington Hours Convention or whether this matter will have to be postponed?
Mr George Bowyer: 59. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the agricultural policy of His Majesty's Government has been or is being placed before the Agricultural Conference now sitting?
