Thursday, 2 December 1920
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Lanarkshire Tramways Order Confirmation Bill (by Order).
4. asked the Minister of Pensions if the powers given to him under Section 2 of the War Pensions (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1919, to require information from employers for the purpose of...
5. asked the Minister of Pensions whether a decision has yet been arrived at regarding pensions for widows of officers in the Mercantile Marine who died whilst on service with the Admiralty, and...
6. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will state the number of officers' friends in the employ of his Department; the monthly expenditure incurred in the administration of this branch of his...
9 asked the Minister of Pensions (1) whether, taking into consideration the increased cost of living, ho is prepared to revise the allowances payable to disabled men receiving or willing to...
13. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will give instructions that all discharged soldiers and sailors suffering from temporary loss of memory attributable to the recent War be re moved from...
Mr. ALFRED DAVIES (Clitheroe): 14. asked the Minister of Pensions how many applications for pensions have been submitted to the district commissioner of medical service acting at...
21. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland what steps he is taking to expedite the provision of cottages and plots for ex-service men in Ireland who have applied for them?
Colonel NEWMAN: 36. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the percentage of disabled ex-service men employed in Government offices only amounts, two years after the conclusion of...
16. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland how many prisoners in Ireland have been shot dead while trying to escape, according to police reports, up to the end of November of this year and during...
18. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether Sergeant James O'Donoghue, Royal Irish Constabulary, was murdered on the streets of Cork by three unknown men on the evening of 17th November;...
19. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the motors cars conveying police and wit nesses from a court-martial at Derry on Tuesday last, which were ambushed when five persons were...
20. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland which provision of the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act is held to authorise the making by Order in Council of the new Regulation 80a, published in...
22. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether there is any embargo on emigration from Ireland to Great Britain or elsewhere; and, if not, whether it is the intention of the Government to...
23. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether his inquiries as to the attacks upon co-operative property in Ballintrillick, Ballymote, Nenagh, and Littleton, resulting in the destruction of...
39. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the near approach of Christmas, he will get into touch with the representatives of all shades of opinion in Ireland in order to see if, with the...
40. asked the Prime Minister whether any Members of Parliament are known to belong to the Irish republican army; and, if so, under present conditions, would they be allowed to enter this country...
44. asked the Prime Minister whether he can, with due regard to the public interest, lay upon the Table of the House the documents found in the possession or at the house of Mr. de Valera when he...
47. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether, when he communicates to the Press the names of cadets of the auxiliary force, Royal Irish Canstabulary, or of men of the Royal Irish...
48. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if his attention has been drawn to a passage in Cardinal Logue's pastoral letter which states that a general indiscriminate massacre of innocent and...
49. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has any information to the effect that Sinn Feiners are digging trenches on the roads with the object of entrapping military motor lorries in...
54. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he can state who is responsible for the official issue of the photograph entitled, "Grim reality from the Kerry front, after the battle of...
55. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland how many civilians, including members of the Irish republican army, have been killed and wounded, respectively, in Ireland from December, 1918, to date?
56. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he can give an Estimate of the total value of property destroyed in Ireland from December, 1918, to date?
58. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in the case of soldiers, Royal Irish Constabulary, and other servants of the Crown, killed in Ireland during the pre- sent disturbances, the...
(by Private Notice) asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether incendiary fires are still continuing in the city of Cork; whether his attention has been called to the report just published of...
Mr. O'CONNOR: I regret that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has not seen his way to put an end to this destruction of property which is going on now. May I ask whether cans of petroleum...
25. asked the Prime Minister whether he has now had an opportunity of referring to the signed statements of certain British prisoners of war who were in Russia at the time of Mr. George...
26. asked the Prime Minister whether any Report has yet been received from our Ambassador at Berlin respecting the progress of the arrangements for the trial of alleged German war criminals and...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 42. asked the Prime Minister if any steps have yet been taken under the article of the Versailles Treaty which provides for Germany to give every facility for any...
27. asked the Prime Minister whether, now that the country is at peace, he will dissolve the Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) and remit its officials to reproductive industry, hand over the...
Major BARNES: 32. asked the Prime Minister if the Serbs are attacking Albania and using poison gas; and, if so, whether the Allies can use their influence to stop this action and to secure a...
33. asked the Prime Minister whether the continued fall in the price of wheat now justifies a reconsideration of the Government control of wheat with a view to the reduction of the price of bread?
34. asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government is taking any steps in pursuance of the desire generally expressed at recent Imperial Conferences for improved news services between...
Colonel NEWMAN: 35. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the fact that the staffs of Government Department number 366,243 two years after the conclusion of...
37. asked the Prime Minister whether the British Government has instructed its chief delegate or its representatives on commissions of the League of Nations Assembly to vote in favour of the...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 43. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the principal cement manufacturers in this country have recently demanded from their customers an undertaking that...
91. asked the Minister of Health whether the Government will put in hand, without delay, a temporary comprehensive scheme for providing all classes of material required for house construction in...
Sir F. HALL: 45. asked the Lord Privy Seal if the High Commissioner for Palestine has been asked to submit a Report upon the conditions obtaining in Palestine before any steps are taken to...
57. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is the case that a widower left with possibly several small children, and who has to employ a female person or relative as housekeeper, is, in...
Lieut.-Colonel BELL: 61. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether in his proposed Regulations he will provide for the importation in bulk of power alcohol in a denatured condition...
The following question stood on the Paper in the name of Mr. T. THOMSON: To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can see his way to publish the four Reports submitted by the Committees set...
Colonel NEWMAN: 67. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that certain schoolmasters paid by the education authority are avowed rebels, and are disseminating Socialist...
69. asked the President of the Board of Education, in view of the rapidly diminishing supply of male teachers and the failure of the new scales of pay and conditions of service now obtaining to...
71. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that in. some parts of the country the Firearms Act, 1920, is being administered in such a way as to interfere with...
75. asked the Home Secretary what was the average number of men employed in the Metropolitan Police Force, and the total cost of the Force to the Exchequer and to the rates in each of the years...
76. asked the Homo Secretary what steps he is immediately prepared to take to check the large numbers of undesirable aliens who are now entering this country, handicapping the limited employment...
Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS: 83. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that conflicting rulings have been given in different parts of the country as to whether gamekeepers are insurable...
88. asked the Minister of Health the number of salaried officers receiving £500 per annum or more employed by the six Metropolitan borough councils, Bethnal Green, Camberwell, Deptford,...
89. asked the Minister of Health whether the hospitals and in firmaries of Denmark are State owned and controlled; whether any charge is demanded from those who need treatment; and whether such...
90. asked the Minister of Health whether it is proposed to transfer the members of the staffs of insurance committees engaged on sanatorium benefit work to the new authority under the Public...
Mr. PRESTON: 92. asked the Minister of Transport if his attention has been drawn to the surface of the country main roads which, though perhaps well adapted to motor traffic, are dangerous and...
93. asked the Minister of Transport whether railway passengers are charged heavy rates for parcels carried by them when travelling which the servants of the company claim to be other than...
Major BARNES: (by Private Notice) asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will defer the Second Reading of the Dyes Bill until after the Report has been made by the Sub-Committee on Dyes appointed by...
(by Private Notice) asked the Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture if his attention had been drawn to the fact that a large number of landowners throughout England are not...
(by Private Notice) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that a large German firm of glass manufacturers are communicating with firms in this country to the effect that...
I beg to ask the Leader of the House if he can tell us what will be the business for next week?
At 11 o'clock this morning I sent to the Prime Minister a Private Notice Question on a matter of urgent public importance. It refers to the Treasury. May I ask that question now, as it deals with...
That they have agreed to,—
"to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Trusts in Scotland," presented by Mr. MUNRO; supported by Mr. Morison and Mr. C. D. Murray; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be...
"to amend the Law of Land Tenure in Scotland," presented by Mr. MUNRO supported by Mr. Morison and Mr. C. D. Murray; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 251.]
"to amend the Law of Conveyancing in Scotland," presented by Mr. MUNRO; supported by Mr. Morison and Mr. C. D. Murray; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 252.]
"to amend the Law relating to Housing in Scotland; and for purposes in connection therewith," presented by Mr. MUNRO; supported by Mr. Morison and Mr. C. D. Murray; to be read a Second time upon...
"to regulate the importation of Dye-stuffs," presented by Sir ROBERT HORNE; supported by Dr. Addison, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Bridgeman, Mr. Kellaway, and Sir Philip...
Lords Amendments to be considered Tomorrow, and to be printed. [Bill 255.]
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee A.
reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had added the following Member to Standing Committee E (in respect of the British Empire Exhibition (Guarantee) Bill): Lieut.-Colonel Buckley.
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £150,905, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
Considered in Committee; Reported, without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed.
Committee to consider of authorising the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of a sum equal to the proceeds of the duties on licences for mechanically-propelled vehicles and for carriages and of...
Whereupon Mr. SPEAKER, pursuant to the Order of the House of 19th October, proposed the Question, "That this House do now adjourn."
Might I ask the Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury to tell us the order in which the Supplementary Estimates are to be taken to-morrow?
Major BARNES: At question time I asked the Lord Privy Seal if he would defer the Second Reading of the Dyestuffs (Import Regulation) Bill until after the Report had been made by the Special...
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