Thursday, 20 April 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
For the Borough of Sheffield (Hallam Division), in the room of Sir Louis William Smith, deceased.— [Captain Waterhouse.]
Private Bills [Lords] (Petition for additional Provision) (Standing Orders not complied with),
asked the Minister of Labour the average weekly payment made to those temporarily and permanently unemployed and included in the 1,800,000 registered unemployed when the records were taken in...
asked the Minister of Labour what his Department is doing, by means of a more vigorous policy, to transfer unemployed men and women to meet the periodical demand for indoor labour in holiday...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that there is plenty of well-paid and well-treated domestic employment awaiting women and girls all over the country; whether he has taken further...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed persons in the county of Fife who have received training at training centres and the number placed in employment each year since 1935?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that Mr. Jack Smith, aged 19, of School Lane, Emley, who was employed at Messrs. Firth Brothers, Limited, Scissett, Huddersfield, on work of...
asked the Minister of Labour whether the Unemployment Assistance Board contemplate modifying the household means test in the near future?
asked the Minister of Labour the total number of persons at present unemployed in Scotland?
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that the recent inquiry held by his Department into the working conditions and hours of work of persons employed in the cinema industry...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has considered staff representations regarding the need for providing anti-aircraft shelter for staff and applicants at the different Employment Exchanges;...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he is in a position to state the number of householders eligible to receive an Anderson shelter whose premises do not permit of the erection of such a shelter;...
Mr. W. Joseph Stewart: asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he is aware that in the Boldon urban district, County Durham, in connection with air-raid precautions, there is no mobilisation...
asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he is in a position to make any further statement with regard to the policy of His Majesty's Government in relation to deep air-raid shelters?
asked the Minister of Labour whether any progress has been made in the efforts to regulate wages and conditions in the furniture industry; what organisations of employers and of work men his...
asked the Minister of Labour what recent steps have been taken by his Department to induce the spreading out of holidays among industrial people; and whether he will bring to the notice of local...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider recommending to the British Broad casting Corporation a daily National Ser vice appeal lasting for five minutes and spoken by different...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education which Lancashire local authorities are supplying to school children one pint of milk a day; and also which authorities deliver the milk...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what action he proposes to take to deal with the unsatisfactory school feeding arrangements in the city of Cardiff as revealed in a...
asked the Minister of Health the number of vacant dwellings, houses and flats, and their rateable value in Manchester and Liverpool on the latest date these records were last taken, and at the...
asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been directed to the indiscriminate apportionment by local authorities according to frontage of the cost of construction of roads flanking...
asked the Minister of Health what steps he has taken to advise local authorities concerning the keeping of poultry on their housing estates?
asked the Minister of Health whether he considers that he will be in a position to sanction modifications of the model building by-laws issued by his Department, in connection with the Public...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the growing apprehension caused by the constant increase of the burden of local taxation, he will consider calling a conference of local...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in connection with the taking of the next Census, instructions will be given that unemployed man shall be taken on in preference to those who already have...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the known pressure of some employers to induce young employés to join certain approved societies, he will consider altering the regulations...
asked the Minister of Health whether the plans for the new maternity unit at Whiston county hospital have yet been passed; and when building is to begin?
asked the Minister of Health whether he can now state what hospitals in the city of Liverpool are equipped with the apparatus known as iron lungs?
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Health the percentage of water content in the bread sold in England and in the United States, respectively?
Mr. Jenkins: asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the proposal of the Monmouth Town Council to establish a refuse tip in a thickly populated area has aroused intense local...
asked the Minister of Health on what date the last inspection was made of the burning pit- heap at the Garswood Hall Collieries Company, Limited, Bryn, near Wigan; whether he is aware that it is...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Minister of Health the total number of old age pensioners, and the number and percentage of these in receipt of Poor Law relief?
asked the Minister of Health what steps have been taken hitherto to give effect to the recommendations of the Interim Report on the Rehabilitation of Injured Persons, of February, 1937?
asked the Minister of Health what action he proposes to take with reference to the case of John Shone, 19½, Alma Street, Willenhall, Staffordshire, who, before obtaining a grant of 10s. per...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when and to what extent he is proposing to revise the regulations dealing with silicosis; and will he also consider chang- ing the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the cost and time occupied by the police in London and elsewhere, he will consider, as a special measure to be taken in...
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Frederick Jones, aged 29, sentenced at the East Sussex Quarter Sessions at Lewes, on Tuesday, 4th April, to three...
asked the Home Sectary whether he is aware that Herr Ernst Lahrmann, of Liverpool, combines the post of representative of the Leipzig Industies Fair with that of a keypoint leader of the German...
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the pronouncements of certain licensing benches against the playing of darts and other innocent and skilful games on licensed...
asked the Home Secretary how many aliens present themselves every week on the average at Bow Street police station; whether he is aware that the long waiting queues which they form arouse most...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will give consideration to the need to have the proceedings of the House of Commons broadcast on suitable occasions?
asked the Prime Minister whether he is now in a position to make any further statement with regard to the policy of His Majesty's Government in relation to a Ministry of Supply?
asked the Home Secretary why two converging marches of the British Union of Fascists were allowed to take place through the banned area of East London on Sunday, 16th April; and whether this...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will arrange for Parliamentary time to discuss the Motion asking for old age pensions to be increased to £1 which now stands on the Order Paper in the...
asked the Home Secretary (1) the number of whippings carried out in His Majesty's prisons for offences against prison discipline in 1938, and the nature of the instrument used; (2) the number of...
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the action of a police wit ness at Bootle who wore a mask while giving evidence in a betting case, and to the statement...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the growing number of minor shoplifting charges coming before children's courts, he will consider introducing legislation making it illegal for the...
asked the Home Secretary the present strength of the women police in the Metropolitan Police district; the total strength of this establishment which he has sanctioned; and whether there are any...
Mr. V. Adams: asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the existence of a body calling itself the Anglo-German Fellowship; and whether he is satisfied that its activities do not result in...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that foreign refugees are being employed in the musical instruments industry at low rates of wages; and will he take steps to prevent this being done?
May I ask the Prime Minister the Business for next week, and how far he proposes to go to-night?
"to secure improvement in the health and quality of live poultry, and in the marketing of poultry and eggs; for making better provision for securing the marking of preserved eggs; and the...
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee A.
Colonel Gretton reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee A: Mr. Burke, Colonel Clarke, Mr. Ede, Sir Francis Fremantle, Mr....
Colonel Gretton further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee B; Major Braithwaite and Mr. Eckersley; and had appointed in...
Colonel Gretton further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee D: Commander Bower, Mr. Davidson, Major Oscar Guest, Mr. Higgs, and Mr....
Colonel Gretton further reported from the Committee; That they had added the following Ten Members to the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills (in respect of the Local Government Amendment...
Considered in Committee.
The first Amendment on the Paper, in the name of the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander), is out of place here, as I think he knows; and the next Amendment, in the name of the hon....
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A recognised company shall each year, prepare and submit to the appropriate Minister an annual report on their operations in that year; and the Minister, upon receiving any report submitted to...
The use of the camps provided under the provisions of this Act shall be confined to the following purposes only, that is to say: (a) camp schemes for pupils in State-aided schools in consultation...
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Consideration of Lords Amendments read.
Lords Amendment: In page 2, line 1, after "servant," insert "or agent."
Lords Amendment: In page 2, line 37, leave out from "of" to the end of line 38.
Lords Amendment: In page 4, line 37, leave out "and."
Lords Amendment: In page 7, line 37, leave out "in the event of his incapacity or resignation."
Lords Amendment: In page 10, line 12, at the end, insert "in writing to the Board of Trade."
Lords Amendment: In page 10, line 26, after "force" insert: and also— (a) in relation to any holder of a principal's licence who is not a corporation, his nationality or the fact that he...
Lords Amendment: In page 14, line 32, leave out "in the public interest so to do" and insert: so to do in the interests of persons who have invested or deposited or may invest or deposit money...
Lords Amendment: In page 17, line 22, leave out paragraph (a) and insert: (a) in relation to any distribution of a prospectus to which Section thirty-five or Section three hundred and fifty-four...
Lords Amendment: In page 21, line 14, leave out "of all persons" and insert" showing with respect to each person."
Lords Amendment: In page 22, line 9, leave out from "of" to "manager," in line 11.
Lords Amendment: In page 26, line 5, leave out from "of," to the second "any," in line 6.
Lords Amendment: In page 26, line 21, at the end, insert: (2) If either House of Parliament, within the period of forty days beginning with the day on which any such rules or regulations as...
Lords Amendment: In page 27, line 23, at the end, insert: the court means, in relation to any industrial and provident society, the court having jurisdiction to wind up the society.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Lieut.-Colonel Kerr.]
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