Monday, 24 February 1919
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Belfast Harbour Bill (by Order),
Sir Joseph Walton, Borough of Barnsley, took the Oath and signed the Roll.
Estimate presented of the further Sum required to be voted for the service of the year ending 31st March, 1919 [by Command]; referred to a Standing Committee, and to be printed. [No. 23.]
Order [14th February] referring Civil Services (Supplementary Estimate, 1918–19), presented 11th February, and Civil Services and Revenue Departments (Estimates, 1919–20) and Civil...
Order [18th February] referring Navy Estimates, 1919–20, to the Committee of Supply, read, and, so far as it relates to Votes other than Votes A and 1, discharged.
1. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the large numbers of industrial insurance policy-holders who are protected under the Courts Emergency Powers...
3. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give an assurance that none of the fifths and wrack lying in the Surrey Commercial and other docks in the United Kingdom and shipped to the...
43. asked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is in a position to state what is the policy of the Government with respect to improving the living conditions of the people in...
Major NEWMAN: 57. asked the Prime Minister whether he can give a pledge that, by legislation or regulation under the Defence of the Realm Act, the hardship now threatened to the middle classes by...
4. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will institute an inquiry into the causes of the overcrowding of trains and the measures necessary to give relief to a long-suffering public?
Mr. KENNEDY JONES: 11. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the existing railway controversy, he will lay upon the Table of the House an analytical statement of the rates...
6. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that letters are now coming in to this country, passed by the Censor, from Austrian firms soliciting a renewal of business with...
8. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether a Committee is being formed, or about to be formed, to assist the Board of Trade in coming to decisions as to the removal or retention of...
10. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that paper is at present being sold in the United States at under 3d. per lb.; whether he is aware that the controlled price for...
14. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the train ferry and wharves at Richborough have now been taken over by the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Company; on what terms and...
15. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that there is still great shortage of coal in some London districts and that small buyers have to wait in queues at local coal...
18. asked the Secretary of State for India whether there is any reason why the officers and men of the Indian Army who were employed under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies...
19. asked the Secretary of State for India what steps have been taken to give an increase of pay to the British officers of the Indian Army such as has already been given to the Indian officers?
20. asked the Secretary of State for India whether the Indian patriot, Lajpat Rai, may yet be permitted to return from America to this country?
21. asked the Secretary of State for India whether Sir Francis Hopwood's Report has yet been received; if not, when it is expected; and whether he hopes to introduce his Indian Bill during the...
22. asked the Secretary of State for India whether the regulations under the Arms Act have yet been discontinued in India?
23. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he can say where the paper used by the Indian Army headquarters at Simla for the publication of Army Orders, etc., is manufactured; whether he...
24. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he can assure the House that the Government of India, in meeting Amendments in Select Committee of the Imperial Legislative Council to the Bills...
25. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether all the Germans formerly employed in the German consulate, bank, post office, trading firms, and other places in the British...
28. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Sir Walter Townley, the British Minister at the Hague, recently tendered his resignation; what reason was given for such resignation;...
29. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the labour unions and farmers' leagues in Canada are expressing vigorous opposition to the sending of Canadian troops...
30. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether in view of the unsatisfactory working of the Anglo-French condominium in the New Hebrides, and the fact that the commercial and...
31. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether his Department have the necessary authority to consider and, if approved, to put into operation urgent schemes for the...
32. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture if he is aware that the Tottenham Urban District Council claim that a notice was served upon the local gas company on the 13th...
34. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he is aware that there are forty trawlers at present lying in Hull Docks awaiting repairs, which cannot be carried out...
35. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, whether he is aware of the need of an announcement on the subject of summer milk and cheese prices; and whether he is in a...
38. asked the Minister of Munitions whether an inquiry has been made into the circumstances under which tanks were adopted for military purposes; whether the Report has been received; and...
40. asked the Minister of Munitions whether arrangements are being made to retain in the Government service discharged Service men who have been working in the Ministry of Munitions as temporary...
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir JOHN HOPE: 41. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether his Department has kept a list of contractors who have been struck off the Government...
42. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether he is aware that men who are being discharged from the Royal Arsenal are receiving the bonus to which they are entitled...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether certain sections of the late Ministry of Information have now been incorporated in the Foreign Office; whether he can state what functions they are...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the increasing number of persons in the United Kingdom in receipt of out-of-work donations, he is prepared to announce a policy by which this...
Colonel BURN: 46. asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government have considered the desirability of consolidating various provisions relating to compensation to workpeople in respect...
Colonel BURN: 47. asked the Prime Minister whether, having regard to the fact that the Ministry of Labour is pressing employers and trade unions to adopt the provisions of the Report of the...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether the National War Aims Committee is still in existence; whether he can state what work it is doing; and whether it is proposed to utilise this organisation in...
65. asked the Prime Minister whether, in the forthcoming Industrial Conference, it is his intention to put forward the principle of the co-partnership of capital and labour as a solution of the...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the necessity of circumscribing infection of the present influenza epidemic; and whether he proposes to take legislative or...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether the Order dated 30th January, 1919, and issued by the Ministry of Labour Demobilisation and Resettlement Department, enabling an employer to apply for the...
52. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government intends to introduce proposals this year concerning the reform of the Second Chamber or the relations between the two Houses of Parliament?
53. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the indignation aroused among the relatives of soldiers killed in France by the refusal of the Government to allow them to...
55. asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to provide that the disposal of Government property shall be so arranged as to permit purchase by individuals, especially in regard to...
56. asked the Prime Minister if he will arrange for a Select Committee to be appointed to consider the best means of giving immediate treatment to ex-Service tuberculous soldiers and sailors?
Major NEWMAN: 58. asked the Prime Minister whether he will give the total cost of the Dardanelles Commission to date?
59. asked the Prime Minister whether he will include in the terms of peace a stipulation that the German Government shall disclose the names of all persons and associations in this country who...
Mr. KENNEDY JONES: 60. asked the Prime Minister whether he will obtain authority from Parliament to compel the attendance of witnesses if necessary at the Coal Investigation Committee, to enforce...
63. Colonel BURN: 63. asked the Prime Minister if he will, through the British representatives at the Peace Conference, demand the immediate return of all British guns captured by the Germans...
68. asked the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the register of Parliamentary voters for the University of Oxford; whether the addresses of a large...
69. asked the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the inconvenience caused to electors at the recent General Election in many rural districts owing to...
70. asked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that envelopes containing election addresses of candidates, which were posted early in December after being addressed...
71. asked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that boards of guardians and other local authorities are anxiously awaiting a pronouncement on the subject of the next...
72. asked the Pensions Minister whether soldiers compulsorily retained to form part of the Army of Occupation in Germany or who subsequently form the said Army receive the war bonus...
73. sked the Pensions Minister how many disablement pensions were awarded during the year 1918, and how many applications were made for alternative pensions?
74. asked the Pensions Minister whether many widows of Soldiers and sailors are not enjoying the State benefits to which they are entitled owing to lack of knowledge as to the procedure to be...
Mr. GRATTON DOYLE: asked the Pensions Minister whether there is discontent amongst naval and military pensioners at the proposed transfer of power to train disabled soldiers and sailors from the...
77. asked the Pensions Minister whether he is aware that the promised 20 per cent. addition to all pensions is in fact only being given to non-commissioned officers and men and is being denied to...
78. asked the Pensions Minister the name of each of the members of the Committee recently appointed in connection with the supply and fitting of and repairs to artificial limbs, and the...
79. asked the Pensions Minister whether Private A. Plowright, No. 21296, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was passed into the Army on the 27th January, 1915, Class A1, and was discharged on the 17th...
On Friday last I put a series of questions down to the Minister of Labour when I attended here in the usual course to put them, neither the Minister nor his Parliamentary representative was...
May I call your attention to the state of the Order Paper? A large number of the questions have not been reached. Four Members are responsible for thirty-three starred questions, and each one of...
I beg to move, That leave be given to introduce a Bill to constitute a Commission to inquire into the position of and conditions prevailing in the Coal Industry. I apologise to the House for...
"to constitute a Commission to inquire into the position of and conditions prevailing in the Coal Industry."
Resolution reported,
Bill presented accordingly, and read the first time; to be read a second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 10.]
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