Monday, 5 May 1919
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Belfast Harbour Bill, Blyth Harbour Bill, Bristol Corporation Bill, Dover Harbour Bill, Dublin Port and Docks Bill, Manchester Ship Canal Bill, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Bill, Newport...
1. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware of the distress in the port of Kingston-upon-Hull by the prohibition of exports of coal from that port; and when permission to export...
Mr. GIDEON MURRAY: 3. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the fact that superannuation allowances to superannuated railway staffs are still based on the pre-war...
5. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will make representations to the Railway Executive Committee regarding the desirability of reopening the Old Kent Road, Deptford, and South...
6. asked the President of the Board of Trade how many gas undertakings are supplied with gas-scrubbing apparatus; and whether, in view of the great value to industry of producing a larger supply...
8. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether a Commission is proceeding to Japan to study the question of Japanese competition in the cotton industry; whether the composition of the...
Mr. KENNEDY JONES: 12. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that under the Temporary Increases of Charges Act, 1918, the town council of the borough of Hornsey applied...
15. asked the President of the Board of Trade if any decision has yet been come to by his Department as regards the rationing of gas and electric light in London and the South of England; and can...
2 and 52. asked (1) the President of the Board of Trade if he can state the quantities of Australian and New Zealand meat purchased by the Government and awaiting shipment to this country; the...
11. asked the President of the Board of Trade what was the average price of wheat per quarter for shipment f.o.b. at New York during January, February, March, and April, respectively, of the...
24. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he is aware that the proposal announced on 2nd April for the 1919 cereal crops fails to give effect to the pledge already...
Sir J. D. REES: 25. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, whether he is aware that the Agricultural Organisation Society has appointed agents to visit different areas in...
56. asked the Food Controller whether he will state why the summer price of milk produced in the four south-western counties has been fixed at 2d. a gallon less than for that produced in the rest...
16. asked the President of the Board of Trade if the tube and underground railways in London are charging the maximum passenger rates allowed under their powers, and if they can exceed their...
17. asked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been called to the present prices of clothes and boots; whether such prices are justified by the cost of the labour and material...
Mr. HUGH EDWARDS: 18. asked whether, by virtue of the financial assistance by way of advances made to the British-America Nickel Corporation, His Majesty's Government has stipulated any...
Mr. H. EDWARDS: 19. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the ss. "Royal," a British steamer interned at Hamburg during the War, was advertised for sale by auction on...
21. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, with a view to curtailing holiday traffic in August without loss to the revenue, he will take steps to reduce by one-half during the current...
23. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is the intention of His Majesty's Government that the territory of Southern Albania should be handed over to Greece, as was...
26. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture what are the terms of the undertaking with regard to building given, by the owner of the land at Strathbrook Road, Streatham, now...
26. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether any scheme of re-afforestation is contemplated by the Government; and whether he is aware of the serious position which...
30. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether the Machine Tool Department of the Ministry of Munitions is still in existence; whether a Machine Tool Department of the...
32. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether any financial assistance has been given to any electricity undertaking, municipal or company-owned, in respect of supply...
Mr. TALBOT: 38. asked whether steps can be taken to remove munitions of war from the brickyards which they now monopolise, in order that brick making can be resumed, in view of the shortage now...
Mr. KENNEDY JONES: 31. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions the number of the State manufactories started since the War now occupied or retained by his Department;...
Lieutenant - Colonel BUCKLEY: 33. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions if he will consider the advisability of allocating Army huts to such local authorities as may...
36. asked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that the Southampton Corporation are about to purchase fifty-four acres of land at Burgess Street for£225 per acre...
Sir J. D. REES: 37. asked whether a decision has been reached as regards the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee for the assistance of the blind, and the provision of funds for...
Colonel THORNE: 42. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that Mr. H. Lewsley, of 1, Conway Street, Nottingham, was approached by the Advisory Committee for the tuition of discharged...
Sir F. HALL: 57. asked the Pensions Minister if his attention has been called to recent staff appointments by war pensions committees in which it would appear that sufficient effort has not been...
60. asked the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the findings of the Holt Committee, he can now state that services in the K Company, Royal Engineers, will count for civil pensions?
68. asked the Secretary to the Admiralty if he is yet in a position to state whether a decision has yet been arrived at as to the position of officers serving under Agreement T. 124 in respect to...
70. asked the Secretary of State for War why the widows of Royal Engineer officers who had elected for permanent Indian service and who were in all respects, while alive, treated in the same way...
39. asked the Minister of Labour if he will give the total number of unemployed persons registered on the books of the Tottenham Unemployment Exchange during the three months ending March of the...
40. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the large number of persons drawing out-of-work pay, he will discuss with the Road Board the practicability of finding employment for some of...
Colonel THORNE: 41. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that Miss Nellie Featherbridge, aged under seventeen years, made a claim for donation benefit at the Warrington Labour Exchange on...
43. asked what becomes of the unemployment contributions paid by hired men in the Royal dockyards when these men are established; and are the contributions they have paid returned to them?
61. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he is aware that those Army non-commissioned officers who joined as instructors to the New Armies, and who trained men during the War, have been...
62. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if the War gratuities due to naval officers are paid at once; if such gratuity has been earned and should be paid instead of being doled out in...
63. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the engine-room personnel, which form about 35 per cent. of the total personnel of the Navy, have any representatives on the Jerram Committee...
64. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in the event of his not being able to publish the Report of the Jerram Committee, together with the evidence taken, he will consider the...
Major NEWMAN: 44. asked the Food Controller whether he is aware of the dissatisfaction at the shortage of whisky and the poor quality and high prices for beer charged to the public; whether he is...
Major NEWMAN: 46. asked the Prime Minister whether it is intended during the present Session to introduce legislation dealing with the hours of opening of licensed premises and kindred matters,...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether, seeing that the Agricultural Wages Board, a body appointed during wartime and for purely war purposes, does not adequately represent the farmers' interests,...
Lieutenant - Colonel LOWTHER: 48. asked the Prime Minister whether he is in a position to lay upon the Table of the House any records of the factories, works, mines, concessions, businesses, and...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether, since the abolition of the Ministry of Information, propaganda work in foreign countries is still being carried on, and, if so, by what Department; whether...
50. asked the Prime Minister if, in view of the Government promise to introduce a Bill for the prevention of dumping, he will furnish a statement giving the principal provisions of the laws or...
58. asked the Postmaster-General whether further consideration has been given to the representations of the Deptford Borough Council regarding the need for increasing the existing postal and...
59. asked, the Postmaster-General if he will state the number of telegrams transmitted to the Post Office for Government Departments in January, February, and March, 1914, 1918, and 1919,...
71. asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the fact that a 1914 star with rosette and also a 1914–15 star have been awarded, he will consider the advisability of awarding...
72. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that an Order has been issued to soldiers attached to agricultural companies and who are engaged on agricultural work to report at...
71. asked the Secretary of State for War whether parcels and letters may be sent to the soldiers at Archangel, and, if not, for what reason?
75. asked the Secretary of State for War if there is any reason why Driver James Hicks, No. 123,928, Army Service Corps, of A.P.O., S. 20, British Epeditionary Force, France, should not be...
76. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that hardship and distress is being imposed upon owners of house property recently occupied by troops on the East Coast of England by...
77. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that men over forty-one years of age who are now on leave in this country are under orders to return to Russia at the expiration of...
78 and 79. asked the Secretary of State for War (1) whether, in view of the general rise in wages and salaries and the consequent increase in the cost of living, steps have been taken...
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 80. asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that great difficulty is experienced by soldiers passing through London, to and from leave or were in...
Sir F. HALL: 81. asked the Secretary of State for War the number of motor vehicles at the transport depot at Kempton Park at the date of the signing of the Armistice, and the number now; whether...
asked the Home Secretary, as acting Leader of the House, whether certain persons of American nationality have been given passports from Paris to Ireland for the purpose of unofficial political...
asked the Foreign Secretary whether he can give the House any information as to the alleged suppression by Allied troops of the revolutionary Government in Hungary, and whether Count Apponyi was...
May I ask the Home Secretary whether he is in a position to say when the Second Reading of the Irish Housing Bill will be taken?
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to a resolution passed at a, mass demonstration of the City and Metropolitan Police at Trafalgar Square yesterday, and what action,...
reported from Standing Committee C that they had agreed to the following Resolution:—
Committee to consider of authorising the payment, out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of any expenses that may be incurred by the Secretary of State in carrying out the provisions of any...
DISABLED MEN (FACILITIES FOR EMPLOYMENT) BILL,—"to enable arrangements to be made as to employers' liability to pay compensation in respect of men disabled by service in His Majesty's...
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
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