Monday, 26 May 1919
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Bankers' Guarantee Trust (Transfer) Bill [Lords],
1. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the can state the intentions of his Department with regard to the Report of the Fuel Research Board on Gas Standards, which recommends a...
Lieut.-Colonel W. GUINNESS: 3. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether prices are fixed for certain classes of imported timber; whether such prices are considerably higher than the...
4. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that, in connection with the com plaint regarding the services of workmen's cars at Peterborough, no such cars are available in...
5. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that the drifters and trawlers now working from Great Yarmouth are charged for their coal 55s. per ton whilst the same coal is retailed...
Colonel BURN: 6. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the manufacturing costs in all classes of machinery have risen in this country since the Armistice owing to the...
Colonel LAMBERT WARD: 11. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether an agreement has been entered into with Japan and Italy to allow those countries to import brushes into the United...
Mr. KENNEDY JONES: 20. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that, in consequence of the uncertainty which manifests itself in, this country in relation to wages and cost...
28. asked who are the members of the Committee appointed to determine the relations between the Consular and Diplomatic Services and the Department of Oversea Trade and what are their terms of...
33. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Oversea Trade Department if he will state what measures the Government have adopted, or propose to adopt, to assist British firms in the provision of...
34. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Oversea Trade Department whether a statement has been prepared showing the development of British import and export trade in 1918 expressed in the...
Mr. GRATTON DOYLE: 57. asked the Prime Minister whether it has been brought to his notice that reports are in circulation in America that the British censorship is making use of its opportunities...
Major NEWMAN: 7. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has been able to estimate the reduction in the output of coal that will be entailed by the reduction of working hours as from...
Major NEWMAN: 8. asked the President of the Board of Trade what fee or remuneration for out-of-pocket expenses is paid to members of the Commission now sitting and taking evidence with regard to...
Major NEWMAN: 9. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether instructions have been issued by the Coal Controller that deliveries of coal are to equal those in the same period of 1917 and...
10. asked the President of the Board of Trade what are the wages paid to silk operatives in Japan on the silk manufactured goods at present being imported into this country, and the number of...
12. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, under the proviso contained in Section 2 (2) of the Companies (Particulars as to Directors) Act, 1917, exemption has been granted to any...
13. asked the President of the Board of Trade the names of the fifteen London and suburban railway stations which have been permanently closed by the Railway Executive Committee?
15. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the very serious situation created in the coalmining industry of the Tipton, Old Hill, and Kingswinford areas of Stafford shire,...
Colonel THORNE: 16. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that the Government have estimated that 20,000 tons of binder twine will be required for the coming harvest; of this...
Sir F. HALL: 17. asked the President of the Board of Trade if America is now able to import steel into this country at a price which enables manufacturers in the United States to undersell...
Lieut.-Colonel AUBREY HERBERT: 25. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the proposed partition of Turkey is in agreement with the 14 points?
Lieut.-Colonel A. HERBERT: 26. asked what steps are being taken to punish those German and Turkish officials responsible for the Armenian massacres?
Lieut.-Colonel HERBERT: 27. asked if the Allies have landed at Smyrna in the cause of self-determination or for the sake of self-interest?
Lieut.-Colonel ARTHUR MURRAY: 30. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is yet in a position to announce the name of the successor to the Earl of Reading as His...
31. asked the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs to what new States the Government has given recognition within the past five years?
32. asked (1) the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether British banks desiring to establish branches in the United States have to obtain a licence, are subject to a differential...
Mr. TALBOT: 35. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether the Report of the Committee for investigating the costs of production of wheat and other agricultural produce...
Mr. J. JONES: 36. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he is aware that recently a temporary labourer employed at Kew Gardens was promoted to the position of...
29. asked why the censorship of letters, etc., is still continued in the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey?
37. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether his attention has been called to the Report of the Controller and Auditor-General on the appropriation accounts of the...
18. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that, owing to the inadequacy and frequent breakdowns of the pumping arrangements in the coal mines of the Tipton, Old Hill, and...
Major NEWMAN: 19. asked the President of the Board of Trade what amount of public money has been advanced to individuals or companies under the Flax Companies (Financial Assistance) Act; how much...
Lieut.-Colonel W. GUINNESS: 38. asked how many motor cars are allotted for the use of officials of the Ministry of Munitions?
Mr. TYSON WILSON: 40. asked the Parliamentary Secretary whether he has received any protests regarding the proposal to close down the national machine-gun factory at Burton-on Trent; and whether...
Lieut.-Colonel A. MURRAY: 41. asked the First Commissioner of Works by whom the suggestions for alterations to Hampton Court Palace gardens were submitted to him; and whether he will give the...
42. asked the Postmaster-General how many cables there are between the British Isles and North America; and how many of these cables touch British territory only?
44. asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware of the fact that when trunk calls to Glasgow are given to the London exchanges subscribers are in formed that the operator is not allowed to state...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 45. asked the Prime Minister if his attention has been called to the report which has been published in the "Daily Herald" with regard to the conditions obtaining at...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the fact that numerous brickfields throughout the country are unable to resume operations owing to lack of capital; and...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether the Allies sanctioned the Polish occupation of the Lithuanian city of Vilna; whether he is aware that the Lithuanians desire to have no connection with...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government will take immediate steps to have the body of the late Captain Fryatt removed from its resting-place in Belgium to this country for...
49. asked the Prime Minister if he will consider the advisability of placing Government lorries on the streets of London, operated by members of the Vehicle Workers' Union, in order that the...
50. asked the Prime Minister if he will consider the advisability of the Government introducing a Bill to give them powers to compel the London General Omnibus Company to immediately reduce their...
Mr. KENNEDY JONES: (by Private Notice) asked the Leader of the House whether his attention had been called to the practically unanimous wish of the London and Greater London Members,...
Mr. G. MURRAY: 51. asked the Prime Minister whether the extreme fluctuations in the foreign exchanges are handicapping trade, and that until the exchanges are placed upon a more stable basis any...
52. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the published statement that the provisional claim of the Chartered Company against His Majesty's Government of...
53. asked the Prime Minister if the date suggested for the Peace celebrations, namely, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th August, can be reconsidered and regard paid to the fact that this time will be the...
54. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government have further considered the suggestion as to the granting of free railway passes to Members between their constituencies and Westminster, and...
56. asked the Prime Minister if he will take steps to remove the disparity between the pensions for widows who have lost their husbands in the country's service and the amount of benefit at...
58. asked the Prime Minister if he will give the names of the gentleman forming the Committee to advise the War Cabinet on the subject of the control of the liquor trade?
59. asked the Prime Minister if he can assure the House that the Committee on the unemployment donation will report before the House rises for the Whitsun vacation?
60. asked the Prime Minister what reply Admiral Koltchak made to the proposal to allow assistance to Russia as proposed by Dr. Nansen; and whether he declined to suspend hostilities in order that...
Sir J. D. REES: 62. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether it has been decided to appoint a special Commission for expediting the repatriation of enemy civil and military prisoners of war upon the...
63. asked the Postmaster-General which London telephone exchanges the records of observations were made resulting in the discovery that on the average only one call in every 160, approximately,...
64 and 65. asked the Postmaster-General (1) the exact amount of the adjusted net revenue, surplus or deficit, on the telegraph and telephone services for each of the years from 1912-13,...
68. asked the Minister of Reconstruction whether the Hamworthy brickfields are being used as an ammunition dump; and whether, in view of the fact that building operations in the South and West of...
78. asked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that the rural district council of Sedgefield, in the county of Durham, has declined to approve plans for erecting houses...
77. asked the President of the Local Government Board if he is aware of the fact that ironstone firms, after disturbing the land to get the required mineral, are leaving the land in an unfit...
79. asked the President of the Local Government Board whether, seeing that the general public are benefiting through the agencies of local libraries and that their extension is somewhat hampered...
. Mr. DAVISON: 81 asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the industrial conditions now existing in a large number of foundries in the United Kingdom which prejudicially affect the...
82. asked the Minister of Labour if his attention has been drawn to the discharge of workmen employed upon hut building at Wainfleet St. Marys, Lincolnshire, the reason given being that they were...
84. asked the Under-Secretary of State to the Air Ministry whether he is aware that Leading Air-Mechanic Daniel Mahoney, No. 62750, late 49th Squadron, Royal Air Force, who had served twenty...
85. asked the Under-Secretary of State to the Air Ministry whether he is aware that one of the co-opted members of his Timber Committee was the official responsible for sanctioning the use of...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 83. asked the Under-Secretary of State to the Air Ministry whether any decision has yet been arrived at as to awarding technical pay to officers in category B of the...
87. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he can give any information as to the pay and emoluments of the kept-on engineer officers, Royal Navy?
88. asked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that the twelve men employed in the supply depot, butchery department, Portsmouth, are not receiving the 12½per cent. bonus...
This is the day for questions to the Secretary of State for India. Why is the right hon. Gentleman not here?
Mr. MURRAY MACDONALD: Can the Leader of the House find a day for discussing the Motion on Federal Devolution which stands in my name on the Paper?
Mr. G. MURRAY: (by Private Notice) asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether the Convention relating to Air Navigation has yet been agreed to by the Allied and Associated Powers, and,...
(by Private Notice) asked the Leader of the House whether he is aware that the attitude of the Home Office with regard to the National Union of Police and Prison Officials has created a crisis...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he can give us any information as to the Whitsuntide Recess?
May I ask, Mr. Speaker, whether, having regard to the large number of supplementary questions which were asked at Question Time to-day, and to the fact that it has been generally admitted that...
RESTORATION OF PRE-WAR PRACTICES (NO. 3) BILL,—"to make provision with respect to the restoration after the present War of certain trade practices and to amend the law relating to munitions...
Ordered, That the Proceedings on the Housing, Town Planning, etc. Bill and on Consideration of the Lords Amendments to the Ministry of Health Bill be exempted at this day's Sitting from the...
Ordered,
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee C: Mr. Illingworth; and had appointed in substitution: Sir...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
The definition of the expression "working classes" contained in the Schedule, Clause 12 (e), of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1903 (3 Edw. VII., cap. 39), shall not apply to this...
The powers conferred upon a tenant for life by the Settled Land Act, 1882, shall include the following further powers: (a) A power to sell or grant for such consideration in money, or otherwise...
(3)The Local Government Board may approve any such scheme or any part thereof without modification or subject to such modifications as they may think fit, and the scheme or part there of 'when so...
(1)Where the Local Government Board are satisfied that a local authority have failed or are not prepared to fulfil their obligations as to the preparation of schemes under this Act, or their...
Where a representation is made to the Local Government Board as respects any county district that the local authority have failed to exercise their powers under Part I. or Part II. of the...
(1) If it appears to the Local Government Board that the carrying out by a local authority, or by a county council to whom the powers of a local authority have been transferred under this Act, of...
(1)Where money is borrowed by a county council for the purpose of the provision of houses for persons in the employment of or paid by the council, or of acquiring land for such houses, the...
(1) Where land included in any scheme made under Part I. or Part II. of the principal Act (other than land included in such a scheme only for the purpose of making the scheme efficient and not on...
(2) Where a local authority has agreed to purchase land for the purpose of Part III. of the principal Act, then at any time after such agreement has been made, the local authority may, after...
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (6) of the First Schedule to the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, any order for the compulsory acquisition of land which is duly submitted...
(2) The purposes for which land may be acquired under Part III. of the principal Act shall be deemed to include— (a) the lease or sale of the land, under the powers conferred by this Act,...
Where a local authority have under Section four of the principal Act passed a resolution that an area is an unhealthy area and that an improvement scheme ought to be made in respect of such area,...
A local authority or a county council may, notwithstanding anything in Section three hundred and twenty-seven or Section three hundred and thirty-two of the Public Health Act, 1875, be authorised...
Lords Amendments considered.
It shall be the duty of the Minister in the exercise and performance of any powers and duties transferred to him by or in pursuance of this Act, to take all such steps as may be desirable to...
(1) There shall be transferred to the Minister— (d) all the powers and duties of the Board of Education with respect to the medical inspection and treatment of children and young persons:...
(1) The Minister may appoint such secretaries, officers, and servants as the Minister may, subject to the consent of the Treasury as to number, determine:
(5) Sub-sections (2) to (4) of Section eleven and Section twelve of the New Ministries and Secretaries Act, 1916, shall apply to the Minister and the Ministry of Health, and to the office of the...
"(3) In the case of a draft of an Order providing for any transfers of powers or duties to or from the Minister under Sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section3 of this Act, the Order shall not be made...
(1)For the purpose of promoting the health of the people in Ireland and exercising the powers conferred on him by this Act the Chief Secretary shall be the Minister of Health for Ireland, and it...
(1) This Act may be cited as the Ministry of Health Act, 1919, and shall come into operation upon such day or days as may be appointed by Order in Council, and different days may be appointed for...
Motion made, and Question proposed,
May I ask the Patronage Secretary of the Treasury what will be the course of business to-morrow?
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