Results 1-20 of 40 for speaker:Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Clause 6. — (Beer — Customs and Excise.) (14 June 1950)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: I would like to take up the Financial Secretary on the reference he made to taking a penny off the pint last year. That was misleading, because, in fact, he took three-farthings off, and the brewers took one farthing off.

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Clause 6. — (Beer — Customs and Excise.) (14 June 1950)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: I did not understand that the hon. Gentleman said so. If he did I apologise. There is no doubt that beer is rationed today by the pocket. The only thing which is responsible for the drop in consumption is the length of the working man's pocket, and unless this taxation can be eased the trade will continue to fall. May I admit that I am a brewer? We are often told in private enterprise that...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Clause 6. — (Beer — Customs and Excise.) (14 June 1950)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: Is the hon. Member aware that television ends when the average public house closes?

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Clause 6. — (Beer — Customs and Excise.) (14 June 1950)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: The hon. Member says that the rents are the same as during the war, but is it not a fact that the rents of council houses have gone up since the war?

Orders of the Day — Licensing Bill (14 December 1948)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: Could the hon. Gentleman give us the names of the places where he had those meals?

Oral Answers to Questions — National Insurance: Outworkers, Gloving Industry (13 July 1948)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: asked the Minister of National Insurance whether he is aware that outworkers in the gloving industry are classed as self-employed; and whether, as this operates as an undue burden upon them, he will amend the regulations to enable them to be classed as employees.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Insurance: Outworkers, Gloving Industry (13 July 1948)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that until the new Act came into force the employers paid their share of the contribution, as did the employees, and that by his ruling now the employees' rate of weekly contribution will go from 1s. 10d. to 6s. 2d. a week? Is this not a very undue burden on them, and will the right hon. Gentleman reconsider the matter?

Orders of the Day — Clergy Pensions Measure (11 March 1948)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: As a great grandson of an Archbishop of Canterbury who, in his time, had the honour of crowning Queen Victoria and of officiating at her marriage, I whole-heartedly support this scheme, and I hope it will have the unanimous approval of this House.

Oral Answers to Questions — British Army: Brigade of Guards (Uniforms) (16 December 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: asked the Secretary of State for War when it is intended to compensate the W.Os., N.C.Os. and guardsmen of the Brigade of Guards for the tunics and blue trousers which were their own property and which were handed into store on the outbreak of war in 1939; and on what basis the compensation will be made.

Oral Answers to Questions — British Army: Uniform, Brigade of Guards (9 December 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: asked the Secretary of State for War where the full dress uniform of the Brigade of Guards is stored; in what condition it is now; and how often it is examined and precautions taken against depreciation by moth, etc.

Oral Answers to Questions — British Army: Uniform, Brigade of Guards (9 December 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he is aware that, at least in so far as the tunics and the blue serge trousers are concerned, they are the private property of the warrant officers, N.C.Os. and guardsmen concerned; whether his Department paid these people on their uniform being handed in, and if not what steps are being taken to pay them, or their next-of-kin?

Housing (Service Huts) (9 December 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: In my own constituency there are several camps which have been taken over by squatters. They are all Nissen huts, and they have been converted by the people who took them over. They have been converted extremely well, and they have made extremely good temporary houses. When the time comes, as we all hope it will come very soon, for permanent houses to replace those temporary huts, it will be...

Housing (Service Huts) (9 December 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: How does the hon. Gentleman suggest that housing, which is not useful for ordinary people, may be useful for agricultural workers? Is it that they do not need the usual amenities?

Housing (Service Huts) (9 December 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: That is what the hon. Gentleman said.

Oral Answers to Questions — British Army: Brigade of Guards (Dress) (2 December 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: What has happened to the full dress uniforms which were put into store in 1939?

Oral Answers to Questions — Armed Forces: Deserters (12 November 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that from the card index system which was in force during the war—in which I was proud to share—it is possible to discover the number of absentees and deserters from any unit, certainly as far as the Army is concerned?

Orders of the Day — National Service Bill: Clause 1. — (Liability to be called up for service.) (6 May 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: Can the hon. Gentleman tell us whether these men were sent off as combatant soldiers or not?

Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Supply: Mobile R.E.M.E. Workshops (28 April 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: asked the Minister of Supply whether he is aware that, at the Mount Farm Depot, near Dorchester on Thames, there are hundreds of mobile R.E.M.E. workshops as well as mobile generators rapidly deteriorating from exposure to the weather; what steps he proposes to take to stop this waste of valuable and scarce equipment; and what transport is allotted for the personal use of the officer...

Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Supply: Mobile R.E.M.E. Workshops (28 April 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: Is not the Minister aware that the lathes and similar engineering machinery with which these lorries are equipped are rapidly deteriorating, and that, since many of them have lost their canvas tops, the generators are deteriorating too; and that the officer in command uses a large Packard, which seems to be a waste of petrol?

Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry: Five-Day Week (3 April 1947)

Lieut-Colonel William Kingsmill: asked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he is satisfied that, if the five-day week comes into operation in the coalmining industry in May next, an increased output of coal can be relied upon, and that the target of 200,000,000 tons of open-cast and mined coal can be anticipated.