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The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKERin the Chair.
Legal and General Assurance Society Bill [Lords],
"to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Bradford, Leek, New Quay, Runcorn, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, and Whit-stable," presented by Sir ALFRED MOND; read...
6 and 7. asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) the quantities and value of the imports of gold, both bullion and coin, into this country for the year 1921, and also the exports of same...
8. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the Government hold any stocks of Colonial butter now or if they have any control over any stocks held in this country or due to arrive here...
9. asker the President of the Board of Trade whether, since the announcements made by his Department on the 14th September and 14th December, 1921, and 13th February,
10. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether it has been brought to his notice that in the year 1921 the total value of the imports of fabric gloves into Great Britain from all countries...
11. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has yet corapleted his consideration of theprimâ facie case put forward by the British silk manufacturers for the application of the...
12. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give the date when he received notice of objection to the imposing of a duty upon the importation of synthetic camphor; when the same was...
13. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that within the last fortnight a City firm imported 30 parcels of millinery sprays which were detained by the Post Office for...
Mr. FOOT: 15. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the complaint which has been referred to a committee of inquiry under the Safeguarding of Industries Act (Part II), regarding snap...
Mr. FOOT: 16. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he was aware, before setting up the Committee to inquire into whether serious unemployment was being created in the press-button and...
Dr. MURRAY: 17. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that the 1,050,000 lenses and prisms imported into this country during the past six months chiefly consisted of toy...
Dr. MURRAY: 18 and 19. asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) if he is aware that sodium pyrophosphate (cream of tartar substitute) is still retained in the key list under Part I of the...
21. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is prepared to take action with a view of exempting from the operation of the Safeguarding of Industries Act articles of trifling value...
Mr. FOOT: 14. asked the President of the Board of Trade the total value of exports from the United Kingdom to Germany for the quarter ending 31st March; and can he also give the total value of...
25. asked the Prime Minister whether the date of the next meeting of the assembly of the League of Nations has been fixed; if so, what is the date; whether the question of the admission of...
26. asked the Prime Minister whether the question of Eastern Galicia has been considered at Genoa; and whether, in view of the continued neglect by the Polish Government of the recommendations...
37. asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government is aware of preparations alleged to have been made in France to mobilise troops to extend the occupation of German territory if...
Colonel NEWMAN: 39. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the difficulty experienced by Austria in obtaining a sufficient supply of coal to enable her industries to compete in the...
76. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the chief of the military organ of liquidation in Bulgaria receives 35 times as much pay as the...
27. asked the Prime Minister if his attention has been called to reports to the effect that the Egyptian Constitution Commission has declared the Sudan to be an inseparable part of Egypt; and, if...
28. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that large numbers of ex-service men and loyalists have been forcibly compelled to leave Southern Ireland, abandoning their property and means of...
36. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the many cases of destruction of, and injuries to, property in Southern Ireland which have occurred since the date of the truce, on 11th July,...
Lieut.-Colonel A. MURRAY: 29. asked the Prime Minister whether he has any information to give to the House with regard to the progress of events at the Genoa Conference?
Mr. MALONE: 32. asked the Prime Minister whether the Anglo-French oil agreement signed at San Remo on 24th April, 1920, is still in operation: if so, what steps His Majesty's Government take to...
33. asked the Prime Minister whether he and Signor Giolitti met at Lucerne and pledged themselves to give official recognition to the Soviet Government when the Bolshevist Armies occupied Warsaw;...
Colonel NEWMAN: 40. asked the Prime Minister whether, in the event of the British delegation at Genoa considering the reply of the Russian Government to the Memorandum of 3rd May, or as it may be...
78. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has now any information as to the preparations being made by the Bolshevist Government to attack Poland and Roumania, reports...
Sir F. HALL: 79. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any reply has been received from the Soviet Government regarding the representations addressed to it recently with...
Mr. HURO: 34. asked the Prime Minister whether any communications have been made to the Canadian Government, through the Canadian High Commissioner or otherwise, since the Imperial Conference of...
Colonel BURN: 41. asked the Prime Minister what arrangement is contemplated for Whitsuntide; when will the House rise; and for how long?
42. asked the Prime Minister whether there is any prospect of a decision upon the advisability of proceeding with the construction of the Channel tunnel in the near future?
43. asked the Lord Privy Seal what decision has been come to by the Government to carry out their intention of accelerating the reduction of expenditure; and whether he will state precisely why...
50. asked the Secretary for Mines the number of accidents, fatal and non-fatal, that occurred in the mines of Great Britain during the year 1921 as a result of shot firing; whether safety...
51. asked the Secretary for Mines if oil has been struck in D'Arcy bore, Midlothian; what is the depth; whether the strata reached are oil bearing; and what is likely to be the quantity of oil...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 53. asked the Secretary for Mines whether, in view of the high retail prices still charged for household coal despite the big reduction in production costs, the...
Sir J. D. REES: 64. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Boxer indemnity, when paid, is, or is not, the property of the British taxpayer; and, if it is, whether he...
Sir J. D. REES: 77. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why a Committee to consider the question of educating Chinese on British lines has been appointed; and what portion of...
66. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the number of British Missions, excluding the ordinary diplomatic missions, in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey?
72. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received yet any report as to the protection afforded at Miami, Florida, to British coloured citizens and to those...
74. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has any figures to show the number of merchants and other business men of British birth or nationality resident in Iceland; and...
59. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport if his attention has been called to the resolutions passed by the county councils of Kent, Essex, and Hertfordshire, calling for...
60. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport if he is aware that the railway companies are refusing to give cheap fares for workmen's annual excursions and, by insisting...
61. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether he is aware of the serious condition of disrepair of most of the roads in the County of Durham, especially of those...
Mr. MALONE: 62. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether his department has recently made special inquiries into the state of congestion on the omnibus and...
63. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport if he is aware that the railway-rate for a ton of bar-iron from Low Moor to Liverpool, which is £1 11s. 4d., instead of...
54. asked the President of the Board of Education the proportion of girls receiving secondary education to the number of boys, and the total number in each case?
55. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he has investigated the proposal of the education committee of the Kent County Council to purchase a motor-car for the delivery of stores...
57. asked the President of the Board of Education whether, with reference to the contributory scheme for the superannuation of school teachers, the amount of the pension payable will be...
56. asked the President of the Board of Education whether the number of the staff employed in the geological survey has risen from 49 in 1914 to 84 in 1922; whether the expenditure in the same...
80. asked the Minister of Agriculture what it is estimated will be the cost of the councils and advisory committees for England and Wales for the year ending 31st March, 1923; and what will be...
82. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, during the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Cheshire and North Staffordshire, the Board of Agriculture contracted with the North...
4. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has received a resolution expressing the view that there can be no sufficient supply of milk at a reasonable price unless the producers...
84. asked the Minister of Agriculture the total acreage of land under cultivation as allotments each year or for the past five years?
86. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what difference, if any, as regards treatment in gaol is shown to persons convicted in India of treason or sedition, and known as political...
87. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the trials of rebel leaders in the Moplah rebellion by special judges are still going on; how many weeks, on an average, have these cases...
Mr. L. MALONE: (by Private Notice) asked the Lord Privy Seal whether his attention has been drawn to the leading article published on 12th May in the "Chicago Tribune," a most influential paper...
46. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether, on receipt of the confirmation of the statement that the Turks in Asia Minor had murdered 10,000 Greeks, followed by the seizure of their widows and...
"to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1906, so far as they relate to venereal disease," presented by Major COLFOX; supported by Lieut.-Colonel Raw, Captain Elliot, Mr. Neville...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection; That they bad discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A (during the consideration of the Railway Fires Act (1905)...
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Beading read.
Read a Second time, and committed to a Standing Committee.
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [1st May] "That the Bill be now read a Second time."—[Mr. Inskip.
Read a Second time, and committed to a Standing Committee.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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