Wednesday, 29 June 1921
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Tendring Hundred Water and Gas Bill [Lords.],
For the County of Down (West Down Division), in the room of DANIEL MARTIN WILSON, Esquire, K. C. (Recorder of Belfast).—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
1 asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will say when His Majesty's Government propose to allow the Egyptian Assembly to meet, or, alternatively, to allow a General...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the official Japanese statement to the effect that there ought to be a political as well as a...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is intended to continue to permit Greek warships and troopships to use the waters of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and...
6. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether officers and men of the Royal Navy or Royal Naval Reserve who served in defensively armed merchant ships may count such service as...
6. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he will take immediate steps to afford the Trinity House Brethren the necessary protection for their lighthouse staff on the South-West...
34. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland what means of transport are at present in use for the supply of foodstuffs to Western Donegal?
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether a reply to his letter to the hon. Member for East Clare (Mr. de Valera) has been received and what is the nature of this reply?
1. asked the Minister of Labour whether Sergeant Edward Watersworth, No. 694,138, Labour Corps, served from 1914 to 1918, and again enlisted in May, 1919, and was discharged in December, 1919;...
8. asked the Minister of Labour how many ex-service men have now applied under the Government scheme for employment in the building trades; how many are now employed; what is the attitude of the...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. HOPE: 64. asked the Postmaster-General whether, in considering applications for vacancies in the Post Office ex-service men will have priority of consideration; and whether...
Mr. A. T. DAVIES: 9. asked the Minister of Labour what number of industrial disputes involving changes of wages have been satisfactorily settled by the Ministry without stoppage of work during...
11. asked the Minister of Labour if the committee representing the Labour party and its associates have responded to his invitation to submit for investigation the statistical and other bases of...
12. asked the Minister of Labour what is the annual cost to the State of the fees and expenses paid to labour and trade union representatives for attendance at Unemployment Committees and other...
Mr. F. HALL: 13. asked the Minister of Labour whether the Unemployment Insurance Regulations at present in force are of a temporary character; and, if so, whether the new Regulations will be...
Mr. ALFRED DAVIES (Clitheroe): 18. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the lack of uniformity in the decisions of adjoining employment exchanges on the question of holidays; that...
Colonel NEWMAN: 21. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the Regulations that are being laid down by employment exchanges as to the terms on which women may be...
22. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the attitude of the local Labour Ministry in Belfast in regard to the payment of unemployment donation last week; whether...
29. asked the Minister of Health the nature of his latest reports indicating the present state of the health of the children in those districts where unemployment is most pronounced?
10. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to make any statement to the House respecting the date when the rates of wages fixed by the Grocery Trade Board will come into...
19. asked the Minister of Labour what salary the divisional controller of the Employment Exchange in the Bristol area is paid, including war bonus; and whether any increase has been made within...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government is pledged to pay till September more than 21s. a week to boys under 15 years of age; and whether, in the event of the Government being thus...
75. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the office of surveyor in the prisons department is amongst the list of offices scheduled by the Treasury in the Minute issued in...
79. asked the Home Secretary whether the patrol staff of the National Gallery has been reduced from 19 to 14; if so, how many of the 14 men who have been retained are post-War pensioners in...
Mr. A. T. DAVIES: 23. asked the Minister of Health what amount has actually been paid over in grants to private builders of houses on 31st May; what number of houses have been promised by private...
31. asked the Minister of Health how many housing schemes dealing with slum areas have been submitted to his Department by the London County Council since 1918; the names of such schemes and what...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 32. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the state of overcrowding still existing in the county borough of Middlesbrough, and that despite a shortage of over 3,000...
24. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that Ireland made a very large contribution to the medical and nursing staff of the nation during the War, and that the skill of those serving was...
25. asked the Minister of Health whether ladies are employed as enumerators for Census purposes; whether any efforts were made to employ ex-service men for this purpose; and how many women and...
27. asked the Minister of Health whether the next-of-kin to private patients in mental institutions, including the next-of-kin to ex-service men, are informed by the lunacy authorities that they...
37. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many of the 30,000 horses to be slaughtered in Mesopotamia by 1st August have been killed to date; what method of killing these animals is...
39. asked the Secretary of State for War whether trouble resulted from a decision to commandeer a Young Men's Christian Association hut for purely military purposes in one of the Dublin barracks;...
Major HENDERSON: 42. asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that since the issue of the Army Order, dealing with the Special Reserve, about April of last year, no steps have been...
53. asked the Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that the Committee appointed to consider the respective merits of certain explosive factories declared their preference for Gretna...
56. asked the Secretary of State for War whether the Government has yet come to any decision as to issuing a medal to all troops who were engaged on home service during the War; whether he is...
Colonel NEWMAN: 33. asked the Minister of Health whether the charge which has been incurred by the local authorities on behalf of the ratepayers in paying a subsidy to the wives and dependants of...
(by Private Notice) asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that on Friday last about 11 p.m. several small groups of men and boys who along with others had been visiting the coal outcrop...
46. asked the Prime Minister what progress has been made since the 25th October last with the consideration of the equitable readjustment of Government subventions in the relief of rates, and in...
Mr. A. T. DAVIES: 47. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that titles and orders are conferred upon men as a reward of distinguished public service, while women are only...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether he can definitely promise that the Imperial Conference will consider the amendment of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, with a view of...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether it is the case that any Germans against whom the Allies have preferred charge of inhumanity and offences against the usages of war will be liable at any time...
82. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if any part of the payment made by Germany on 31st May was deposited in the United States of America; and, if so, what was the amount, and what was the bank?
Lieut. - Colonel W. GUINNESS: 63. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that since the measured-message rate has been in force the annoyance of being cut off in the middle of a...
Sir J. HOPE: 67. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether he has received the Report of the Committee on the Cost of Working Class Dwellings in Scotland; and when it will be published?
68. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether any arrangement has yet been made with the Disposal Board regarding the machinery in the Fife Mining School, Cowdenbeath?
69. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether it is his intention to introduce legislation to place voluntarily insured persons on the same footing as persons compulsorily insured under the...
71. asked the Minister of Transport whether, in view of the decrease in the cost of labour owing to the fall in the Board of Trade index number, the public may anticipate in the near future some...
77. asked the Home Secretary whether alien immigration into this country is being restricted as much as possible in view of the prevalent unemployment; and whether this policy will be followed in...
78. asked the Home Secretary on what grounds a deduction of £1,200 has been made from the amount payable to East Sussex on last year's claim for police pay; whether it has been deducted in...
May I ask what business the Leader of the House proposes to put down for to-morrow, in view of the sudden bereavement of the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Churchill)? Supposing the...
That they have agreed to,
Lords Amendments to be considered To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 156.]
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 157.]
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 158.]
1ST ALLOTTED DAY.]
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act there shall be charged, levied, and paid on the goods specified in the Schedule to this Act, on the importation thereof into the United Kingdom, duties...
(1) If, on complaint being made to the Board to that effect, it appears to the Board that goods of any class or description (other than articles of food or drink) manufactured in a country...
As amended (in the Standing Committee) considered.
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
The Guardianship of Infants Act, 1886, is hereby repealed.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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