Wednesday, 1 June 1921
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Lochaber Water Power Bill (by Order),
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Jewish population of Upper Silesia, comprising 20,000 people, a large proportion of the industrial...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether any decision by the tribunal sitting in Belgium on the Polish-Lithuanian dispute is in any way binding on His Majesty's Government; and whether, in view of...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Persian Government proposes to dispense with the services of certain British officers and civilian officials who were...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the latest information he has regarding the political complexion of the Angora Turkish Government in Asia Minor; whether it is...
Sir J. D. REES: 7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what progress has been made in closing camps of Armenian and other refugees; and what is the monthly cost now being...
8. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that it is the wish of the lower deck that the Welfare Committee should be again formed and a sitting held this year; and...
9. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is now in a position to make any statement regarding naval officers' marriage allowances?
10. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty how many paymaster-lieutenant-commanders or paymaster-lieutenants have been appointed to relieve the chief writers at the naval ports;...
11. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty to what documents Sir Julian Corbett will have access in compiling the Naval History of the War, and which of these documents will not be...
12. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty when the post-War disability scale of pensions will be applied to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines?
13. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the arrangement recently made in the dockyards as to the order of discharge of men serving in the yards is being carried out, or if...
14. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that the estate of every man of the lower deck who was killed on service during the War was credited with the full...
17. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Secretary to the Admiralty is a member of the Board; and, if so, when this change was first brought about?
15. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Government of Peru has yet made any remittance in respect of the claims made against them by the British emigrants who went out...
18. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to a statement in the Press on 20th May with regard to ex-service men in the building trade; whether the number of...
24. asked the Minister of Labour if any of the trainees under the training scheme are sent to political organisations for the purpose of learning to be political agents or to occupy similar...
21. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can yet state the result of his investigations into the adequacy of the piece-rates paid to workers in the linen trade at Belfast?
22. asked the Minister of Labour whether there is a strike of dock labourers at Glasgow harbour and that an office for the employment of free labourers to take the place of the strikers has been...
23. asked the Minister of Labour how many women and girls are now claiming unemployment benefit under the general classification of domestic service; what in general is the character of their...
25. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to a case at Jarrow Police Court, on the 26th May last, when a woman admitted that, though she had not worked for four years...
27. asked the Minister of Labour if he has recently received a communication from the Pressed and Stamped Metal Trade Board concerning the delay to give effect to his promise of the 23rd March...
29. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that payment of assimilation arrears due from 1st July, 1920, under the Whitley Scheme have not yet been made to the Irish staff of the Ministry of...
40. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he will now make available for Members a complete file of the "Weekly Summary," as promised in the House on 4th May?
41. asked the Chief Secretary whether the trial of two constables for having beaten and shot John P. Greene, a Kitchener scholar at University College, Galway, on 14th May, 1921, is proceeding;...
42. asked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware of the discontent among the prison officers owing to the delay in promulgating the assimilation scheme; when this will come into force; when it...
43. asked the Chief Secretary if he is aware that the creameries of Glenmore, Glen-pipe, and Mullinvat, and consequently four auxiliary creameries, were closed by order of the military on 25th...
52. asked the Chief Secretary whether the principal of the publicity branch of his office receives a salary from the Ministry of Health Vote; what salary he receives; and, in view of the fact...
57. asked the Chief Secretary whether he can give any particulars of the murder of Major Compton Smith, D.S.O., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who left his home in mufti to meet the monthly nurse who was...
58. asked the Chief Secretary whether he can state the number and the nature of the guard usually posted at the Dublin Customs House before it was burned?
(by Private Notice). asked the Chief Secretary whether a Chancery Judge at Dublin, on the 26th May, ordered the issue of a Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Military Governor of Cork to produce on the...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 35. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the appreciable improvement in the health of urban populations at the present time, attributable by...
36. asked the Minister of Health what is the estimated number of dwelling-houses required; and if in the estimate he has made due provision for the replacement of the very large number of...
39. asked the Minister of Health whether the scheme for developing 2,787 acres at Dagenham into a garden city for the accommodation of 120,000 people, which was commenced last September, was...
37. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received representations from societies approved under the National Health Insurance Acts who have difficulties in meeting their administrative...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether coal delivered by Germany as reparation to France and Belgium is now being offered by the French and Belgians for importation into this country; whether any...
50. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he is aware of the former practice by which Members were paid by their constituencies, until the beginning of the seventeenth century, when the desire of the...
61. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when he proposes to publish the evidence given before the Departmental Committee appointed by the late Secretary of State for the Colonies to...
64. asked the Secretary of State for War whether British troops or officers are being used for the suppression of disorder in Egypt; and whether a British detachment has been sent to Upper Egypt,...
I gave notice that at the end of Question Time to-day that I should ask your ruling or advice, Mr. Speaker, on a question which, I think, is a growing menace to this House; that is, the gross...
I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, "the failure of His Majesty's Government to issue...
"to amend the First Schedule to the Agriculture Act, 1920," presented by Lieut.-Colonel A. MURRAY: supported by Mr. James Gardiner, Major Howard, Mr. Royce, Mr. Wintringham, and Major Mackenzie...
Falmouth Docks Bill [Lords],
That they have passed a Bill, intituled, "An Act to assimilate and amend the law of real and personal estate, to abolish copyhold and other special tenures, to amend the law relating to...
Resolutions reported from the Select Committee; 1. "That, in the case of the West Ham Corporation [Lords],—Petition for Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with: That the...
Mr. JOHN WILLIAM WILSON reported from the Chairmen's Panel: That they had appointed Mr. Turton to act as Chairman of Standing Committee B (in respect of the Dentists Bill) and Sir Samuel Roberts...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection: That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A (added in respect of the Police Pensions Bill): Mr. Macquisten.
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS further reported from the Committee: That they had added the following Fifteen Members to Standing Committee B (in respect of the Railways Bill): the Lord Advocate, Mr....
[12TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £75,010 be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
I beg to move, "That this House do now adjourn." I move the Adjournment of the House to call attention to a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, the failure of His Majesty's...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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