Only a few days to go: We’re raising £25,000 to keep TheyWorkForYou running and make sure people across the UK can hold their elected representatives to account.
Donate to our crowdfunderThursday, 18 May 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKERin the Chair.
Private Bills [Lords] (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...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 2. asked the Minister of Pensions how many of the permanent and temporary members of the various headquarters staffs and their branches are ex-service men, and their...
23. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether a scheme prepared by the Board of Agriculture for constituting holdings on the site of Nigg Camp, Ross-shire, and approved by the Treasury, has now...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will reconsider the case of Mrs. Jane Machin, of Starkholmes, Matlock, whose son, Leading-seaman Ivor Machin, No. 182,420, H.M.S. "Defence," was...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been called to the case of W. J. H., late No. 971,162, Royal Field Artillery, who was demobilised in August, 1919, and who applied for...
Colonel BURN: 1. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, in view of his statement that discharged and pensioned sailors and soldiers should not suffer on account of the Geddes Committee Report,...
6. asked the Secretary of State for Air what is the total personnel of the Royal Aircraft Establishment; and what are the numbers, respectively, of technical staff, clerical staff, skilled...
8. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that a certain firm of bankers are endeavouring to recover from ex-officers money which was paid to them...
7. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether his attention has been drawn to the letter issued by the Agent-General for Tasmania regarding Commander Burney's proposal for establishing an...
10. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will consider the publication of the list of those British undertakings, financial and commercial, in respect to whose creditors...
20. asked the hon. Member for the Pollok Division of Glas- gow, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, if his attention has been drawn to the efforts now being made to re-establish the...
Mr. G WYNNE: 5. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, 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...
22. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to a speech of Mr. Moylan, delivered at the Dail Eireann in Dublin on 28th April, in the presence of all the...
49. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office what recognition is being made to the temporary unestablished civilians attached to the Royal Engineers in Ireland whose connection with his...
(by Private Notice) asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can give the House the Terms of Reference to the Irish Distress Committee presided over by the hon. and...
Mr. MALONE: 13. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of the fact that the Reparation Commission have received a reply to their last Note from Germany recognising the...
16. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that, although inspectors of weights and measures can take legal action against the seller of goods where it is proved...
17. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that members of the State Management Council recently visited Maryport, near Carlisle, with the view to purchasing 29 licensed houses in West...
27. asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government has received details of the armed risings of the Greeks in the Samsun and Baffra areas of the Black Sea coast of Turkey in Asia...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 28. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that, owing to continued unemployment, the present cost of school feeding is imposing an extra charge upon the ratepayers in...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 29. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government propose this Session to pass a Bill amending the present Criminal Law Acts?
Mr. G. MURRAY: 21. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when the Report of the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies upon his official visit to the West Indies will be published?
30. asked the Prime Minister whether the Dutch Government will pay for all the expenses of the proposed conferences regarding Russia to be held at The Hague in the same manner as the Italian...
Captain BENN: 34. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he can state, apart from reductions consequent upon the Washington Agreement, what is the net annual saving effected in the Naval Estimates?
Captain BENN: 35. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he can give the House any official information about the progress of the movement for the reform of the House of Lords?
36. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can arrange in the weekly Revenue and Expenditure Returns to show separately the expenditure on the fighting services, the Civil Services, and...
37. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of the Treasury Bills shown in the Floating Debt Return for March, 1922, consisted of bills deposited as collateral security for external...
38. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can arrange to show separately in the Weekly Revenue Return the Excise revenue from beer and whisky?
Mr. MALONE: 39. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether His Majesty's Government has abandoned, or contem- plates abandoning, the scheme of international credits unanimously adopted at...
40. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any appeal by the Inland Revenue Department has been lodged in the Union Pacific Railroad Rights case; and, if not, whether those persons who...
42. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the fact that the Ministry of Health has in recent years, as a condition precedent to granting sanction to loans or to agreeing to certain...
44. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received resolutions from the Horwich Urban Council asking for the extension of the Rent Restrictions Act, 1920, and requesting the continuance of...
45. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, under the Trade Facilities Act, 1921, £100,000 cash has been guaranteed to Messrs. Hugh Stevenson and Sons, Limited, and Messrs....
Lieut.-Colonel MURRAY: 46. asked the Postmaster-General on what principle, and subject to what conditions, licences for wireless broad-casting stations are given to industrial concerns?
47. asked the Minister of Labour whether, seeing that paragraph 6 of Circular U.I.A. 505 C compels local employment committees to refuse benefit to a single man or woman who lives with an adult...
18. asked the Home Secretary when the Wild Birds Protection Bill will be introduced?
19. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that between 1,500 and 1,600 deaths of children occur every year in Great Britain as a result of being left alone in rooms with...
Major BARNES: 25. asked the Prime Minister if the Government have knowledge of any other pledges than those already disclosed given by the Government since 3rd August, 1914, on which they propose...
Mr. ALFRED DAVIES (Clitheroe): —by Private Notice—asked the Minister of Health whether it is a fact that a recommendation or instruction has been given by his Department to any...
I beg to ask the Leader of the House what business he proposes to take next week; also whether we may expect the Prime Minister to be in his place next week, to make a statement upon the...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A: Mr. Trevelyan Thomson; and had appointed in sub stitution:...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee B (during the consideration of the Canals (Continuance of Charging...
Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, brought up, and read.
That they have agreed to,
[8TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Motion made, and Question proposed; That a sum, not exceeding £95,284, 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 proposed on consideration of Question, That a sum, not exceeding £95,284, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider and report whether in fixing the present scales of salaries for teachers in grant-aided schools any...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
Debates in the House of Commons are an opportunity for MPs from all parties to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.