Tuesday, 7 March 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Private Bills (Standing Orders not previously inquired into complied with),—Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That, in the...
2. asked the Secretary of State for India what is, approximately, the extra cost of the Government of India and the provincial establishments under the reform scheme in comparison with what it...
4. asked the Secretary of State for India if certain firms, including the Roperie and Sailcloth Company, of Bath Street, Leith, were recently invited to quote for the supply of goods to the India...
7. asked the Secretary of State for India what the deficit on the Indian Budget is estimated to be in 1921–22 and what deficit has to be met and provided for in 1922–23; whether the...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether India, through her representative at the Imperial Conference of 1917, became a party to the unanimous adoption of the principle of Imperial Preference; and...
Mr. L. MALONE: 6. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he has any evidence to show that Mustapher Kemal Pasha is the recognised leader of the Turkish people; whether he is aware that an...
16. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can now state the results of the inquiries of the Inter-Allied Military Commission of Control in Germany with regard to the secret manufacture...
47. asked the Prime Minister if his attention has been drawn to the appeal made to the League of Nations, in a memorandum of December, 1921, by the leaders of all political parties in the Saar...
8. asked the Secretary of State for India whether Sir Alexander Whyte's Committee, which was appointed to settle the details of the proposed constitution and reforms for Burma, has yet submitted...
10 and 11. asked the Secretary of State, for War (1) whether, although the Corps of Military Accountants is now responsible for the preparation of appropriation accounts, the Accounting...
17. asked the Secretary of State for War the amount of money expended in recruiting advertisement during the current financial year, and the number of recruits obtained?
18. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will give an undertaking that none of the regiments proposed to be disbanded shall be disbanded until the present disorder in India, Egypt, and...
20. asked the Secretary of State for War what decision has been arrived at by the Army Council regarding the promotion, pay, and pensions of the officers of the Royal Malta Artillery?
22. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the M.I. 5 Department still exists; what is the annual cost for the same, including rent and staff; what is the number of its...
13 asked the Secretary of State for War (1) whether the Estimates for 1922–23 have been framed in accordance with the Cabinet instruction of 1919 on the assumption that no great war is to...
55. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the possibility of adding, when the various Estimates are submitted this year, an explanatory note in each case where any economy is...
21. asked the Secretary of State for War whether the Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes have lent the sum of £14,730, secured by a mortgage, to the Schools and Services Supplies, Limited;...
23. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make an investigation as to whether, under the mui tsai system of Hong Kong, the mui tsai girls of any household do, upon the death of...
25. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is now in a position to make any further statement as to the murders of Lieutenant Genochio, Royal Engineers, Lieutenant Meade, Royal...
28. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies for what reason the sale of furniture and other stores at the military barracks at Birr, King's County, was suddenly stopped by order of the...
29. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that wholesale raids and enforced levies have recently been made by the Irish Republican Army in County Tipperary; whether...
33. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any of the persons kidnapped from Northern Ireland have not yet been released; if so, for what reason; whether any of the Ulster special...
34. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the House can be informed of the total amount of stores and munitions of all kinds transferred ostensibly to the Irish Provisional...
75. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is continuing to supply Ireland with postage stamps which the Irish Provisional Government is now defacing by blocking out the head of His Majesty by...
Mr. MALONE: 32. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it is proposed to set up a joint board, includ- ing Jews and Arabs, to control immigration into Palestine; and, if so, what...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether there are any and, if so, what restrictions on the emigration of British working men into Kenya Crown Colony or into the Tanganyika mandated...
Mr. DOYLE: 36. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to a statement by an hon. Member of this House to the effect that he is prepared to prove that...
37. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the many hardships and difficulties which have arisen in the administration and working of the Rent Restriction Act; whether...
38. asked the Home Secretary whether he is now in a position to say why it was that in the prosecution of Hogan and Cooley, sentenced for theft of machine guns and rifles from Chelsea and Windsor...
Captain BENN: 39. asked the Home Secretary what witnesses appeared before the Geddes Committee to give an account of the work of the women patrol; and whether any members of the women's force...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 40. asked the Home Secretary whether, when preparing further legislation for lighting of road vehicles, he will favourably consider the possibility of securing adequate protection...
41. asked the Home Secretary for what reason a detachment of mounted police broke up a procession of unemployed in Kennington Road, S.E., on Thursday evening, 23rd February; whether he is aware...
42. asked the Home Secretary how many aliens are now in prison awaiting deportation; and how many have been in prison over three months?
43. asked the Home Secretary whether he has made any and, if so, what orders under Article 14 of the Aliens Order, 1920, giving exemption from registration to persons of alien origin; and how...
66. asked the Home Secretary whether, in the case of the application made by the relatives of Mr. Solomon Oppenheim, a person of Polish nationality now resident at Kertch, Russia, that ho may...
46. asked the Prime Minister if he will appoint an expert committee, including some Members of both Houses of Parliament, to consider what can best be done to remedy or lessen the evils of...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether it is proposed to invite representatives of organised labour to join the British delegation to the Genoa Conference; and whether representatives of commercial...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 50. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government have considered the hardship which will be inflicted on thousands of ex-service men if the unrestricted sale of houses built by...
52. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether the Government anticipate that they will be able to introduce the Bill promised in the King's Speech on overseas settlements and Empire migration before the...
54. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will take steps to secure that such delays as eight weeks do not occur between the arrival of a parcel of scientific plant from Germany,...
56. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the amounts of Government securities that could be redeemed each year, up to and including 1927, if the necessary money for redemption were...
57. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the aggregate numbers of the persons employed under the Customs authorities, and what were their aggregate salaries at the beginning of January...
Mr. THOMSON: 93. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the overtime at the Savings Bank Department is caused by arrears of balancing the postmasters' accounts; whether this work...
58. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total amount of the sums paid, and to be paid, out of public moneys to the occupiers of land in respect of the wheat and oat crops of 1921...
Colonel NEWMAN: 60. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is satisfied that the co-operative movement in Great Britain is contributing its fair proportion of the burden of taxation now...
Mr. FOOT: 59. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can state the amount which has been expended in relief of the unemployed Cornish miners, both out of national and local funds; and...
95. asked the Minister of Health whether the medical reports and statistics obtainable in connection with the National Health Insurance Scheme indicate that any increase of sickness, particularly...
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that no money was received last Friday in Manchester to pay out benefits under the National Insurance scheme; that the unemployed...
Mr. MALONE: 63. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that Mr. Edgar T. Whithead, a member of the Workers' International Famine Relief Committee, was stopped by instructions of the Home...
65. asked the Home Secretary, in connection with the issue of certificates by the Metropolitan police to women travelling to Brazil, whether any such certificates have been withheld; and, if so,...
69. asked the Home Secretary whether he can give approximately the number of Mormon missionaries at present carrying out an active campaign in this country?
71. asked the Home Secretary whether all the charges in the County Courts have recently been increased; can he state approximately how much; is he aware that these increased charges operate very...
72. asked the Home Secretary if there is any difference of powers for police purposes in London between the Metropolitan and the City Police Forces; are their powers equal in all parts of the...
76. asked the Postmaster-General if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the high postal charges in this country are inducing an increasing number of British firms to post their...
79. asked the Postmaster-General if his attention has been called to the development of wireless telegraphy under private enterprise in the United States; whether he is aware that the number of...
84. asked the Postmaster-General whether in London and surburban London there are now postal collections varying from 10 p.m. to midnight on Sundays; whether letters collected at these times are...
78. asked the Postmaster-General whether he can state the result of his inquiry into the subject of ex-service men employed in his Department as part-time auxiliary sorters for three nights a...
86. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in order to encourage egg-production as a home industry, he will consider the issue of regulations for the marking of foreign eggs?
87. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether Home Grown Sugar, Limited, has ever paid any dividend cither on the capital advanced by the Government or on that subscribed by the public; whether...
88. asked the Minister of Agriculture the amount estimated required for compensation for animals slaughtered under the foot-and-mouth disease regulations; from what fund is the compensation...
91. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has received complaints of the excessive assessment of land used for poultry breeding; and whether he can issue an Order that such...
92. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if his attention has been called to the complaint concerning the delivery of a parcel addressed to Messrs. Stewart and M'Donald, Limited,...
99. asked the Secretary for Mines the difference in price of pit timber, iron rails, wagons, tubs, and pulleys, and the general plant connected with, the proper working of coal mines in Great...
100. asked the Secretary for Mines if he can say what the royalty, rents, and wayleaves were in 1914 and now in the County of Northumberland; what were the ships' freights in June, 1914, and now;...
101. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that miners' organisations throughout the country, including the General Federation of the Colliery Firemen's Deputies and Examiners'...
Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, I sent a question to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and I forwarded a copy to you, stating that I proposed to ask the right hon. Gentleman to-day to give some...
Reported, with Amendments [Title amended]; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Reported, without Amendment [Provisional Order confirmed]; Report to lie upon the Table.
That they have agreed to,—
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
Reported, with an Amendment, from Standing Committee A.
Read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 47.]
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That a Supplementary gum, not exceeding £465,868, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £100, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £1,737,600, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
I beg to move That Part II of the Mining Industry Act, 1920, shall not cease to have effect. In submitting to the House the Motion which stands in the names of my hon. and right hon. Friends and...
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