Thursday, 11 May 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Provisional Order Bills (Standing Orders applicable thereto complied with),—Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That, in the...
As amended, considered.
2. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, under the new scheme for the assessment of parents'-need pensions, the amount of need is divided among the late soldier or soldiers' surviving single...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that the pension awarded to Mrs. Annie Callaghan, of 29, Keyden Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow, on account of her son, First-class Stoker...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that the appeal to the pensions appeal tribunal of Mrs. Thompson, of York, widow of the late W. J. Thompson, private, No. 121,894, Royal Army...
6. asked the Minister of Pensions how many forms M.P.A. 101 B, which state that, in accordance with the provisions of the Royal Warrant of 1919, the award notified in the communication...
Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER CLAY: 5. asked the Minister of Pensions how many hospitals are now maintained by the Ministry, where they are situated, and how many cot cases there are in each?
8 and 9. asked the Minister of Pensions (1) whether R. J. Baldwin, late private, No. 13,472, Royal Field Artillery, was awarded a disability pension of 13s. 6d., including allowances for his wife...
Colonel NEWMAN: 10. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he will use the good offices of His Majesty's Government with the appropriate Department of the Provisional Government of...
11. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland what he proposes to do for the help of an Irish loyalist, now a refugee in England, who has obtained a county court judgment for the value of his house,...
13. asked the Chief Secretary, in view of the fact that by the Act for the ratification of the Treaty the number of soldiers that can be raised by the Provisional Government is fixed in...
27. asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government has any information as to the number of men under arms in Southern Ireland to-day, excluding the Imperial troops; and what is the...
28. asked the Prime Minister whether he can as yet give any information regarding the kidnapping of three British officers and their driver at Macroom; whether His Majesty's Government consider...
43. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the amount that has been allocated for the payment of damages for malicious injuries in the area of Northern Ireland; and whether a Commission...
50 and 51. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) if he is aware of the facts which led up to the death of Mrs. W. J. Talbot, of Mount Talbot, County Roscommon, on 9th or 10th April;...
52. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the Irish Land Commissioners are demanding from Mr. W. S. M'Neill payment of instalments of money due from him in...
53. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of temporary members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, recently disbanded, are in a...
14. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, considering that the British officers engaged for service in the South Persia Rifles were offered and accepted a contract to...
15. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the continual reports in the Continental Press of the activities of General Wrangel and his...
16. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any official information to the effect that a group of two Russian armies are now being concentrated on the Polish...
Lieut.-Colonel WARD: 17. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Giolitti Government, through its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Sforza, caused a...
Mr. L. MALONE: 18. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any British troops have been engaged in the fighting for Pekin; and, if so, on whose side they were fighting?
20. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Mahommedan population of Egypt have this year abandoned the festal ceremony of the beginning of Ramadan as...
21. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the British authorities in the Sudan lately have been busy in inducing the Sudanese to sign declarations to the effect that they...
23. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are known to be working for revolution in this country; how many of these have been arrested, convicted, or deported since...
Mr. MALONE: 26. asked the Prime Minister when it is intended to bring before this House the legislation necessary to ratify the treaties concluded at Washington, namely, the treaty for the...
29. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether, in view of the widespread anxiety throughout the country that harm is being done to Anglo-French relations by the publication of inaccurate reports of the...
Colonel NEWMAN: 30. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he has been able to transmit to the British delegation at Genoa the fact that the people of this country are opposed to the grant of a money...
31. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he can assure the House that any proposal which may be submitted to the free vote of the House for the admission of Canadian store cattle, and the amendment...
33. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that Income Tax payers whose children are attending elementary schools, whole time, as student teachers-are being denied the...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 54. asked the President of the Board of Education whether the substantive grants to local education authorities for the current year for elementary schools will be paid on...
Mr. FOOT: 55. asked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to the resolution of the Denbighshire Education Committee granting permission to the director of...
57. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that the executive of the Association of Education Committees and also the County Councils' Association both consider that...
58. asked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been directed to the serious financial injustice to the Principality of Wales involved in the proposals of Circular...
34. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware that the present duty of 74s. per proof gallon on perfumery is crippling the industry; whether he will consider the question of separating...
35. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has yet given effect to the undertaking given by him in the Budget Debate on 18th July last and considered what relief can be given in the matter...
37. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total number of on-and off-licences issued for the sale of intoxicating liquors for the year ending 31st March last, and the total amount received on...
Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER CLAY: 38. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is proposed to revert to the pre-War purity of silver coinage; and what profit the Treasury anticipate during the...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 39. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount received each year from the Entertainments Duty since it was first imposed, and any variations in the rate levied each year?
40. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the details of the miscellaneous ordinary receipts, amounting to £22,000,000, estimated to be received in the year to 31s March, 1923; and...
42. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total sum in sterling paid by Germany since the Armistice to date as reparations to the British Empire and I the Allies in cash and kind, and...
44. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the result of the Budget pro- posal to tax salaried persons on their estimated incomes is to make many of them pay on their...
47. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware that the promoters of the Grampian Electric Supply Bill have received a letter, dated 20th April, 1922, from the Secretary of the Trade...
63. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that on some post parcels of artificial flowers imported for the use of a manufacturing millinery firm engaged in the export trade, a...
64. asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of permanent civil servants promoted in the Patent Office since the end of the War; how many of the men promoted were ex-service men and...
76. asked the hon. Member for Monmouth, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, what steps are being taken to find for demobilised officers, lately acting as instructors under the Forestry...
Sir HENRY COWAN: 67. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the dilatory methods of the German Government in dealing with British pre-War...
60. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the Report of the Geddes Committee that printing and similar enterprises by Government Departments cannot be as economical as...
65. asked the President of the Board of Trade if various trade associations obtain from the authorities at the Custom House unpublished particulars relating to foreign trade; on what basis the...
Sir J. D. REES: 68. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether the Departmental Committee on Deer Forests has reported that the land settlement policy of the Government has shown that even the less...
74. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that there is a large number of persons, mainly ex-service men, who purchased houses three or four years ago intending to reside in them, but are...
75. asked the Minister of Health whether, in considering the recent decision of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales, which recommends that no hospital shall be recognised as a...
Sir H. COWAN: 78. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to the fact that whereas members of the Royal Fleet Reserve and the Royal Naval Reserve,...
81. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that 830,000 acres have gone out of cultivation in this country during the last three years; and if he will state the number of agricultural...
70. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can now report the result of the interview between the chairman of the Manchester and District Local Employment Committee and Councillor Lawrence Flood...
72. asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to the fact that condensed milk produced in the United States of America does not ordinarily conform to the standard of quality...
77. asked the Postmaster-General what arrangements he will make to save from loss those persons who find themselves in possession of stocks of three-halfpenny postcards after the date on which...
Can the Home Secretary state what business will be taken next week?
"to amend the Law relating to the marriage of persons with their nephew or niece by marriage," presented by Mr. KENDALL; supported by Major Boyd-Carpenter, Mr. Cowan, Captain Evans, Mr. William...
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee A.
That they have agreed to,—
Lords Amendments to be considered To-morrow.
[7TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £729,545, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
Order for Second Reading read.
Again considered in Committee.
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Question, That a sum, not exceeding £729,545, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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