Wednesday, 10 May 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Ossett Corporation Water Bill [Lords],
"to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Ashton-under-Lyne, Greenford, Ilfracombe, Margate, and New Mills," presented by Sir ALFRED MOND; read the First time;...
Mr. L. MALONE: 3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs where the Committee appointed to consider the question of the education of Chinese on British lines is holding its...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there is in force a commercial treaty between Britain and Spain; if not, whether one is contemplated or under discussion; and by...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware of the recommendations made by His Majesty's Minister at Berne and of His Majesty's Consul-General at Zurich in...
10. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the total number of torpedoes fired by the German fleet at the battle of Jutland and the average range can be approximately stated;...
Mr. MALONE: 12. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether any applications have been made by discharged, demobilised, or retired naval ratings, who are unemployed or in...
Mr. MALONE: 13. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether it has been decided to discontinue the firing of the sunrise and sunset gun, popularly known as morning and evening...
15. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the regulations governing the repayment of the cost of season tickets for officials on transfer from one establishment to another...
16. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the recent concession instituted as a permanent measure by Admiralty Fleet Order No. 555 of 1922, authorising the issue of a free...
17. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether it is contemplated that the ships at present lying in the Medway for sale to be broken up will be sold to German firms for the...
21. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what saving would accrue in the Estimates, 1922–23 and 1923–24, if Pembroke Dockyard were abolished entirely; and what sum would...
14. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can furnish the House with any information as to schemes for settlement in the Queen Charlotte Islands?
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether steps can be taken to publish the Report of the Joint Army and Navy Board appointed by the United States Government to inquire into...
23. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has received a communication from the joint committee of London co-operative societies and the London district of the National Union of Distributive...
24. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has been made aware of the decision reached by the Association of Joint Industrial Councils and Interim Reconstruction Committees in favour of...
35. asked the Minister of Health whether he has made any recommendation as to the salaries to be paid by local authorities to women health visitors; and, if so, whether he is satisfied that the...
38. asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of statements made by the local medical officer at a recent meeting of the Swansea Board of Guardians to the effect...
41. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the decrease in the cost of living and in the wages of the workers, he will give favourable consideration to the suggestion now being made in...
58. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the Kingston-on-Thames Corporation have houses ready for occupation which they are refusing to let; one instance is that of Mr. F. C....
59. asked the Minister of Health, having regard to the fact that, according to the medical officer of health for Bradford, persons are paying as much as 7s. per week for a furnished...
Sir F. HALL: 60. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Edmonton District Council has notified the tenants on its housing estates that they must discontinue taking in lodgers...
63. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that, for the year 1920, in the city of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 843 births occurred in one-room dwellings and that 167 of those children died, mortality...
Mr. DOYLE: 39. asked the Minister of Health whether ho has yet taken any, and, if so, what steps to deal with the question of the sale of impure milk in Newcastle-on-Tyne, wherein it is stated on...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the repeal of Part I of the Agriculture Act of 1920, and the necessity of drastic reduction in expenditure, it is the intention of the Government...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the statement by the Lord High Chancellor that he would be surprised if the recent appointment of the hon. and learned Member...
25. asked the Minister of Labour if he will instruct the Appointments Department to ask all Government Departments to furnish a list of the vacancies now existing, and likely to exist, in the...
27. askd the Minister of Labour if he will lay upon the Table of the House a copy of any regulations, instructions, or recommendations issued to local employment committees in connection with the...
31. asked the Minister of Labour the average sum per week which is being paid in unemployment benefit to women suitable for domestic service who do not accept situations when offered them?
28. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can state the national loss in time and wages, respectively, through industrial unrest in the last two months?
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 47. asked the Prime Minister whether this country is jointly responsible with its Allies for the decisions of the Reparation Commission as to the indemnity payments to...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether the text of the recent pact or agreement between the Italian Government and the Sublime Porte has been received by His Majesty's Government; whether, in view...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether the Royal Dutch and Shell groups of oil interests, or other oil companies, have approached His Majesty's Government for diplomatic support in obtaining...
50 and 52. asked the Lord Privy Seal (1) if he can now fix the date for the promised discussion of the Canadian cattle embargo question; (2) if, in view of the promises made to Canada and the...
51. asked the Lord Privy Seal if he is aware that an understanding was given by the Japanese that, under certain circumstances, they would withdraw their forces from Siberia; and if he can make...
The following question stood on the Paper in the name of Lieut.-Commander KEN WORTHY:
54. asked the Lord Privy Seal when the Treasury Estimate will be taken authorising the grants to Oxford and Cambridge?
77. asked the President of the Board of Education whether, having regard to the dissatisfaction widely expressed by school teachers with the proposal that they should be required to make a,...
78. asked the President of the Board of Education if he will state the number of women teachers whose War service was formerly recognised by the Board as teaching service; at what date the Board...
55. asked the Lord Privy Seal if he can yet name a day for the introduction of the Allotments Bill; and if the Scotch Bill will be introduced simultaneously with the English?
56. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether his attention has been called to the Report of Major Yowell, the American relief worker in the Near East and the director of the Kharput unit, in which he...
Colonel NEWMAN: 61. asked the Minister of Health whether a general scheme for the observance of Empire Day has been arranged for by the various local authorities in England and Wales; and, if so,...
64. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he is aware that Samuel Williams obtained permission to retire on pension from the Dublin Metropolitan Police in April, 1917, for service in France,...
Colonel NEWMAN: 72. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether a British subject domiciled in the Irish Free State who desires the assistance of his Government where injured in person...
Sir F. HALL: 81. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the instruction he has issued to the effect that postal orders overstamped with the Irish Free State stamp are not to be...
65. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the War gratuities of men domiciled in Great Britain who served in the Australian Commonwealth forces are in part retained in the form of...
70. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been called to complaints that unprovoked assaults have recently been made upon citizens in Sierra Leone by British...
74. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the sufferings which cattle undergo in their transit from Canada and other countries for slaughter at British ports;...
76. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he has received any information tending to show the loss or threatened loss, owing to the persistence of industrial...
80. asked the Postmaster-General if he is making any concession to British monthly trade newspapers, seeing that their foreign competitors can still come into this country at a halfpenny, whilst...
83. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why other work was found in the Public Trustee Office for the lower clerical men in that Department when their own work was redundant owing to...
84. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the inquiries as to the funds available for the settlement of the balance due from the Expeditionary Force Canteens and Navy and Army...
85. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the views of the Government of India have now been received on the question of the adjustment of the pay and pensions of those officers of...
86. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is prepared to give consideration to the application of Mr. Bernard Schleif-stein, who applied for naturalisation in the year...
Colonel NEWMAN: 87. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that on the 30th ultimo a large body of men sought entrance to Durham Cathedral during divine service, and that, owing to their...
Mr. FOOT: 88. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total sum realised since the Armistice from the sale of War stores?
89. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether in compiling the Budget he took into special consideration any exceptional estimate of national unemployment; and whether it will be necessary to...
94. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the approximate total acreage of what he calls amenity lands, which are to be subject to assessment under Schedule B at only one-third of their...
96. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the details of the miscellaneous special receipts, amounting to £90,000,000, estimated to be received in the year to 31st March, 1923; and...
97. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the full details composing the amount of the National Debt at 31st March, 1922, specifying separately each class of Exchequer Bonds, National...
90. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, seeing that the co-operative movement in the country is paying an unequal share towards taxation, he will, to the extent of such inequality,...
100. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware of the false position in which all sellers of tea are placed in view of their only having 3⅓d. allowed them with which to...
90. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the Stock Exchange Committee are allowing their members to charge the public on pre-War carry-over 9 per cent, interest,...
95. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the loans to Allies and Dominions, amounting as at 31st March, 1922, to £2,017,461, are all repayable in the United Kingdom sterling or...
104. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the collection of Entertainments Duty at two theatres within the London area, within the last 12 months, at the King's,...
69. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can now inform the House whether the three British officers who were kidnapped in Southern Ireland about a fortnight ago are still in...
At the end of Questions—
I beg to move, That leave be given to introduce a Bill to prevent the application of public money to vivisection experiments. This is a Bill which I claim is a practical attempt at economy, and...
Stoke-on-Trent Corporation (Gas Consolidation Bill) [Lords],
Sir JOHN LEIGH, Baronet, for Borough of Wandsworth (Clapham Division).
Order for Second Reading read.
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [9th May], "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
Considered in Committee.
I beg to move, "That this House do now adjourn." It is with some reluctance and with a feeling of responsibility that I move the Adjournment of the House to-night, in order to call attention to...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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