Monday, 8 May 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Padiham Urban District Council Bill, Read the Third time, and passed.
For City of London, in the room of the right hon. Sir ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, K.G., O.M., now the Earl of Balfour, called up to the House of Peers.—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
Dr. MURRAY: 1. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the steamer "Gael," at present carrying mails and passengers between Stornoway and Kyle, is about 60 years old;...
2. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has received an application for the imposing of a duty, under the Safeguarding of Industries Act, upon imported French silks; and, if so,...
3. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can state what reasons there were for appointing a Committee to investigate the dumping of cotton gloves into Great Britain as a result of...
4. asked the President of the Board of Trade if, before appointing a Committee to consider the imposing of a duty of 33⅓ per cent, under the Safeguarding of Industries Act on safety pins...
5. asked the President of the Board of Trade how many applications he has received under the Safeguarding of Industries Act, Part II, for the imposing of a duty on imported goods; whether he can...
10. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to a financial appeal which has been issued on behalf of the London hospitals alleging, among other reasons,...
Dr. MURRAY: 17. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that toy viewscopes are being detained at the ports with a view to levying a duty of 33⅓ per cent, on the...
Dr. MURRAY: 18. asked the President of the Board of Trade why he has appointed a Committee to consider the imposing of an additional 33⅓ per cent. upon optical and scientific instruments...
79. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he can explain why the collector of Customs at Globe Wharf has held up a consignment of egg-timers on the grounds that they are dutiable as...
7. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can state the revenue realised in the past financial year from the Customs duties on motor cars and parts thereof, watches and clocks,...
8. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether a Report has been prepared on the recent Departmental inquiry ordered by him into the high price of beer sold to the public; and whether he...
9. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether masters of merchant ships are still permitted to take on board stocks of tobacco duty free; whether there is any means of ensuring that...
11. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether it is part of the duties of any Department of the Board to collect information regarding trusts and combines; whether he has any information...
12. asked the President of the Board of Trade the number and value of glass bottles imported from Holland and Germany during the years 1921 and 1913, respectively?
14. asked the President of the Board of Trade what is the total number of firms who are now registered under the Registration of Firms Act; what were the total fees paid during last year under...
15. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether all the new ships which have had to be surrendered by Germany to this country have yet been handed over; can he state the total number of new...
Mr. MACLEAN: 61. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there are 10,000 soldiers of the Wrangel Army in Bulgaria who were lodged there at the expense of the chief Allied...
Mr. MACLEAN: 62. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Rumanian Government has complained to the Allies that there is still a large quantity of war material in...
16. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether all the stocks held by the late Ministry of Food have now been disposed of; if all the accounts of this Department have been completely paid...
Colonel NEWMAN: 21. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, under the agreement entered into between the Government of this country and the Provisional Government of the South of...
27. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to statements which have appeared in the Press to the effect that the Irish Free State Constitution, which has for some time...
Colonel NEWMAN: 85. asked the Chief Secretary whether, to assist persons who have claims awarded in respect of property against the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, he will advise...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State fox the Colonies whether any British officers have recently been kidnapped in Southern Ireland; whether they have yet been released; and what...
Sir J. D. REES: 22. asked the President of the Board of Education what is estimated to be the total expenditure on education from taxes, rates, and any other source whatsoever, distinguishing...
23. asked the President of the Board of Education (1) whether he has received any report from his inspectors with reference to the accommodation at Brasshouse Lane School, Smethwick; whether the...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 28. asked the Prime Minister whether the effect of the Government's decision that the cost of school feeding this year in excess of £300,000 must be borne by boards of...
42. asked the President of the Board of Education whether it is proposed to refer any of the recommendations of the Geddes Committee respecting education to any Departmental or other Committee;...
Colonel NEWMAN: 29. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to statements that the rights in the oil-producing areas of Russia are being conceded on terms by the Russian...
Mr. L. MALONE: 53. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a sum of money, and, if so, how much, has been paid to Mr. Gibson and Mrs. Froom for services in Petrograd in...
59. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the German Government has appointed as its diplomatic representative in Russia a person who till recently was manager of Messrs....
63. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Government have any information as to the reported Treaty between Germany and the Ukraine Soviet Republic, under which...
30. asked the Prime Minister whether he will circulate the Treaty recently signed between the Italian Government and the Porte, together with the correspondence connected with it, as soon as the...
31. asked the Prime Minister if he can make a statement with regard to the recommendation in the Geddes Report that a fee of 10s. should be charged on the filing of returns by friendly societies,...
Sir J. D. REES: 35. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether, in view of the fact that Allied Powers are concluding separate treaties with Turkey providing for concessions calculated to prejudice...
37. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether, on 26th April, 1917, or at any other date, a pledge was given by or on behalf of the then Government that the cattle embargo should be removed?
43. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport if he is aware that considerable hardship is being experienced by blind ex-service men who are engaged in businesses which...
Mr. MALONE: 45. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether he is aware of the difficulty and discomfort of travelling on omnibus and underground routes at certain...
47. asked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware of the excessive railway rates to which home-grown timber is now subject; and whether, in view of the fact that the high rates for round...
Mr. J. JONES: 48. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether the fair wages clause is incorporated in contracts for work on new roads towards which public money is...
40. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that the health of Zaghloul Pasha is suffering on account of the climate of the Seychelles; that a medical report to this...
Major BARNES: 50. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any constitutional means at present exist in Egypt for giving an indemnity against the operation of martial law in...
52. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the political situation now existing in Mexico; whether Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution, 1917, has yet become law;...
56. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the great inconvenience caused to passengers from France to England by the present practice of...
Mr. MACLEAN: 60. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any definite information as to the cause of the breakdown of the Russo-Japanese Conference at Darren; and...
64 asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department (1) whether the Brazilian Government accords to certain countries a preference in import duties to the detriment of British...
68. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the question of the great diminution in the number of plovers in the country owing to the sale of the birds and...
Mr. MALONE: 76. asked the Minister of Labour the total amount of the grant made to the Unemployment Grants Committee presided over by Lord St. Davids; how much of this sum has been allocated; and...
81. asked the hon. Member for Cheltenham, as Chairman of the Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms Committee, whether he is aware of the resentment felt by Members of the House of Commons in consequence...
67. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been drawn to the very prolonged torture of animals during a recent slaughter for foot-and-mouth disease at Thrumpton and to the...
69. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will take steps to make it obligatory that all foreign-owned fishing vessels landing catches in England shall bring a manifest filled up after the...
70. asked the Minister of Agriculture how much money is allowed to the Admiralty representative in France for the purpose of selling first-class reconditioned British fishing vessels to France;...
73. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what is the present state of affairs in the Champaran district of Behar; and what steps have been taken by the Behar Provincial Government for the...
74. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to the statement that the Gandhi revolutionary flag was flown over the Industrial Exhibition at Bhagalpur...
75. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether considerable savings have resulted from the investigation of the Technical Costs Branch into contracts during 1921–22; what was the...
80. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what is the amount of the goodwill, patents, and patent rights in the new organisation of the British Cellulose Company?
86. asked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that men entitled to a bonus after seven years' service in the ordnance factories at Woolwich are in some cases being refused; that Mr. W....
Mr. T. THOMSON: 93. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total amount of national indebtedness on capital account at each of the following dates: 31st December, 1918, and on 31st of March in...
94. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that Mr. T. Murphy, of Heywood, a man of 84 years of age, has had his old-age pension reduced to 4s. per week, because a pension of...
25. asked the Prime Minister when it is expected that the Lord Chancellor's health will be sufficiently restored to enable him to leave Genoa and return to his duties in London?
In the event of the Report stage of the Budget Resolutions being concluded before It o'clock tomorrow night, what business do the Government propose to take?
"to provide for the better government of Scotland and Wales, and for other matters relating thereto, "presented by Mr. MURRAY MACDONALD; to be read a Second time upon Monday, 22nd May, and to be...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee B (during the consideration of the Empire Settlement Bill):...
[1ST MAY].
1."That, in lieu of the Customs Duty now payable on tea, there shall, on and after the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and...
2."That, in lieu of the existing Customs Duties on cocoa, there shall, on and after the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be charged the following reduced duties, that is to...
3. "That there shall, on and after the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-two—
4. "That the duties of Customs, specified in the first column of the following table which were imposed by Part I of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915, and continued by Section One of the Finance...
5. "That the additional duties of Excise upon medicines imposed by Section Eleven of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915, and continued by Section Two of the Finance Act, 1921, until the first day of...
6. "That the duty charged on payments for admission to entertainments shall extend to— (a) payments for admission to an entertainment, which are made to some person other than the...
7. "That— (a) Income Tax shall be charged for the year beginning the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, at the rate of five shillings in the pound, and the same Super-tax...
8. "That Income Tax chargeable under Case III of Schedule D shall be computed, in the case of the year of assessment in which the profits or income first arise, on the full amount of the profits...
9. "That— (a) Such profits or gains arising or accruing from an office, employment, or pension as are now chargeable to Income Tax under Schedule D (other than profit or gains chargeable...
10. "That any income— (a) of which any person is able, or has at any time since the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, been able, by the exercise of any power of...
11. "That where a reasonable proportion of the actual income from all sources for any period ending on any date subsequent to the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, of any...
12. "That— (a) Interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum without deduction for Income Tax shall be charged on Excess Profits Duty and Munitions Exchequer payments, in the case of any...
Resolution [3rd May] reported, That it is expedient to amend the law relating to the National Debt, Customs, and Inland Revenue (including Excise), and to make further provision in connection...
"to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise), to alter other duties, and to amend the Law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise), and the National...
I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty praying that the Order made by the county borough of Southend-on-Sea, and laid before Parliament on the 8th day of March, fixing...
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