House of Commons debates
Thursday, 26 November 1936
- Preamble (0 speeches)
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
- Petition (Unemployment, South Wales). (1 speech)
I beg to present a humble Petition from county councils, city councils, and other local authorities in South Wales and Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Pembrokeshire and from other bodies and...
- Private Business. (0 speeches)
- Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. (0 speeches)
- Exchanges (Recruiting). (8 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether coloured pictorial recruiting posters are now hung in all Employment Exchanges; and whether he will instruct exchange officials to give recruiting leaflets to...
- Commissioner for Special Areas (Reports). (12 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour, whether, in addition to the three published reports from the Commissioners for the Special Areas, Vile Government have received any other report or reports on the...
- Catering Trades (Park Royal Training Centre). (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether the Government training centre at Park Royal is receiving from South Wales and Durham a number of unemployed would-be trainees for the catering trades...
- Juveniles. (10 speeches)
Mr. W. JOSEPH STEWART: asked the Minister of Labour the percentage of rejections on medical grounds of applicants for the juvenile transfer centres and the men's instructional centres at Durham...
- Training Centres, Durham. (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour how many training centres there are in the county of Durham and where they are situated; and whether it is his intention to set up training centres in each division...
- Special Areas. (8 speeches)
Mr. J. J. DAVIDSON: after the Minister of Labour whether any further special consultation with regard to the Special Areas have taken place; and, if so, has he anything to report to the House?
- Assistance. (12 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour what conditions govern the payment of benefit to the dependants of a claimant in receipt of unemployment assistance benefit who has died before benefit is paid?
- Mexborough and Thorne. (3 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour how many persons were receiving unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance at Mexborough and Thorne on the latest date for which figures are available?
- Trading Estates. (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour what progress, if any, is being made in establishing the new trading estates in South Wales; will he give the location of these estates; and whether any applications...
- Dock Workers. (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether the National Joint Council for Dock Labour have completed their investigation into the question of dock workers signing eleven times a week; and when are the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Building Trade (Wet Time). (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can make any statement with regard to a national scheme for the payment for wet time in the building trade?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Christmas Pantomime (Miss Barbara Vernon). (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Labour whether the application made to him for permission for Miss Barbara Vernon to appear in pantomime at the London Hippodrome was in order; and will he state the reason...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Aliens (Employment). (2 speeches)
Mr. DAVIDSON: asked the Minister of Labour the total number of aliens who have received permission to start employment in this country for the years 1934 and 1935, respectively, and for the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prisoners. (11 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will direct that the Churchill rule (1910) concerning political prisoners be made operative?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Coroners. (4 speeches)
asked the Home Secretary what steps he proposes to take to implement the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on Coroners?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Transport. (0 speeches)
- Motoring Offences. (9 speeches)
asked the Home Secretary whether he will take steps to secure that notice shall be given to persons whom the police intend to charge with motoring offences as soon as is practicable after the...
- Roads (White Lines). (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport whether, to prevent motor accidents and to help motorists and other road users to drive with more safety, he will take steps to have all roads marked with white...
- Speed Limit. (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware that the reluctance of magistrates to convict motorists charged with exceeding the 30miles-per-hour limit in built-up areas is largely due to...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Explosion, Newcastle. (5 speeches)
asked the Home Secretary whether he has received a report on the explosion in a house situate in Scotswood Road, Newcastle, where several lives were lost; and has he any statement to make?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Italians (British Domicile). (8 speeches)
asked the Home Secretary whether he has any record of the number of Italians who left this country during the course of the ItaloAbyssinian war and who have returned here and secured employment;...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Metropolitan Police. (0 speeches)
- Disciplinary Board (Appeals). (8 speeches)
asked the Home Secretary the number of police officers who have appealed to him against the findings of the disciplinary board during the three years ended to the last convenient date; and in...
- Detective-Sergeant Whitehurst. (2 speeches)
asked the Home Secretary whether Detective-sergeant Whitehurst is now serving in the Metropolitan Police; and, if so, what is his present rank and to what division he is attached?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education. (0 speeches)
- Political Literature in Schools. (6 speeches)
asked the President of the Board of Education what steps are taken by his Department to prohibit the distribution of political literature to school children during school hours in the case of a...
- Free Meals, Yorkshire. (4 speeches)
asked the President of the Board of Education how many local authorities in Yorkshire now provide free meals for children who show symptoms of sub-normal nutrition; and how many such authorities...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Public Health. (0 speeches)
- Pneumonia and Emphysema. (3 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health the mortality rate
- Milk (Pasteurisation). (10 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the report sent him from the Institute for Dairying who found that a disturbingly high proportion of pasteurising plants, both in London and...
- Rural Water Supply (Atcham Scheme). (4 speeches)
Mr. ARTHUR DUCKWORTH: asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the considerable opposition among the ratepayers in the Minsterley, Pontesbury, and Hanwood districts of Shropshire...
- Sewage Disposal (Epping Rural District). (7 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health the position regarding the various sewage schemes in the rural council area of Epping; and whether a grant will be made towards such schemes?
- Smoke Abatement. (7 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health whether he can give an estimate of the annual cost imposed upon the public through the emission of smoke from domestic and industrial chimneys whether any steps are...
- Oral Answers to Questions — National Health Insurance. (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Health how many approved societies have, within the past year, withdrawn any benefits previously granted; and whether he can give any details?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Housing (Overcrowding). (2 speeches)
Mr. ROSTRON DUCKWORTH: asked the Minister of Health the names of those towns in the country which have decided to build flats, in order to relieve overcrowding, under the provisions of the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Import Duties Orders. (2 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether, in future notices appearing upon the Order Paper of motions for approval of Import Duty Orders, he will, for the convenience of the House, state...
- Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance. (0 speeches)
- Able-Bodied Unemployed (State Maintenance Cost). (6 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the cost to the State if it, took over complete responsibility for the maintenance of all able-bodied unemployed in this country; and what is the cost at the...
- Income Tax. (6 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is the practice of the Treasury in assessing industrial concerns for Income Tax, in cases where it appears that sums entered as expenses are...
- Monetary Policy. (5 speeches)
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is prepared to give legislative recognition to this country's new standard, namely, stability of the internal general price level; and whether he...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Private Bill Procedure (Select Committee). (4 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister whether he proposes to set up a Select Committee to inquire into Private Bill Procedure?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Physical Training. (4 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister whether, in connection with the proposals of the Government for the development of physical training, it is intended to appoint a Minister of Physical Culture; and, if...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Deputation to the Prime Minister. (5 speeches)
asked the Prime Minister whether he will inform the House of the names of the individuals accompanying the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) at an interview given by him...
- Oral Answers to Questions — The Coronation (Free Churches). (2 speeches)
asked the Lord President of the Council whether he will consider the advisability of taking steps to promote the participation in the Coronation service of representatives of the Free Churches?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Parliamentary Debates (Official Report). (2 speeches)
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether a decision has yet been reached as to the setting up the Parliamentary Debates in a type and style different from that now used; and, if so,...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Benefit Clubs. (4 speeches)
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of complaints received by the Metropolitan Police for the three years ended to the last convenient date, with regard to defalcations in...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. (0 speeches)
- Land Drainage (Rates). (5 speeches)
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the injustice being done to ratepayers in built-up areas owing to the basis of assessment being 33 1/3 per cent. of the annual value, he will...
- Sugar Beet (Transport Charges). (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Agriculture, for what reasons the Sugar Commission has decided that, in respect of the 1937 contract, the British Sugar Corporation shall confine the defraying of railway...
- Pedigree Cattle. (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of pedigree cattle which have been exported to the British West Indies during the present year, including those awaiting exportation at the present...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. (0 speeches)
- United States (Negotiations). (6 speeches)
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he proposes to initiate negotiations for a trade agreement with the United States of America now that the Presidential election is finished?
- Woollen Textile Industry. (2 speeches)
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any trade agreements have been entered into with foreign countries during the last 12 months affecting the woollen textile industry; and, if so,...
- Litiialan Products, Limited, Bridgend. (2 speeches)
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that a firm sent its chief executive to Lithalan Products, Limited, Bridgend, Glamorgan, with a view of taking over the entire sales...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Share-Pushing (Departmental Committee). (4 speeches)
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can now state the constitution and terms of reference of the Departmental Committee which is to consider the question of fraudulent share-pushing?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office. (0 speeches)
- Facilities (Alderney). (2 speeches)
asked the Postmaster-General what steps he has taken to establish telephone communication, either by cable or wireless, between this country and Alderney, in view of the fact that no such...
- Automatic Telephones (Lincoln). (3 speeches)
asked the Postmaster-General the date when the city of Lincoln will have the automatic telephone system installed?
- Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. (0 speeches)
- Recruiting. (3 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for War whether the experiment of permitting men below recruiting standard to join the Army has been successful; whether these men will now revert to the ordinary...
- Liver Galvanising Company. (2 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for War when his officers last inspected the work engaged upon for his Department by the Liver Galvanising Company, of Manchester; and whether the report indicated...
- Oral Answers to Questions — British Airways (Foreign Machines). (4 speeches)
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air what steps he has taken to ensure the availability as soon as possible of medium-sized airliners of British manufacture to replace those aircraft of...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Balearic Islands. (6 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the position in the Balearic Islands; and whether we have any representatives in the islands?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy (Clerical Staff, Malta). (2 speeches)
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that, after long negotiations between the official and staff sides of the Departmental Whitley Council in the Admiralty, no agreement was...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Anglo-Argentine Trade Agreement. (12 speeches)
(by Private Notice) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can make any statement as to the progress of the trade negotiations with Argentina?
- Business of the House. (7 speeches)
Can the Prime Minister tell us the business for next week, and also for what purpose he is proposing the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule to-night?
- Selection (Standing Committee). (0 speeches)
- Standing Committee a. (0 speeches)
Colonel Gretton reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee A: Viscountess Astor, Major Courtauld, Mr. Holdsworth, and Mr....
- Bill Presented. (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day — Public Order Bill. (101 speeches)
Considered in Committee [Progress, 23rd November.]
- Clause 4 (Prohibition of offensive weapons at public, meetings and processions), ordered to stand part of the Bill. (0 speeches)
