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The House met at a Quarter before Three of 'the Clock, Mr. SPEAKERin the Chair.
London County Council (Money) Bill by Order),
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that letters sent by business firms in this country to business firms in Germany are frequently opened by the Belgian...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that when our fishermen are arrested for alleged offences in Icelandic waters by Danish gunboats they are, in some cases,...
Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE: 3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when the Committee appointed to consider the question of the education of Chinese on British lines, and...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the suggestions put forward at the Genoa Conference for the simplification of the visa for the benefit of travellers have been...
14. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what action is taken by the Foreign Office on behalf of British travellers who are deprived of their money in crossing any foreign...
17. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what duties are performed by the Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet during the periods at which he is not officiating at naval courts...
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if it is proposed to return to the rule of 55 years being the retiring age for lieutenants promoted from the lower deck when once the list...
8. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government have any information in regard to the decision of the Budapest municipality, recently reported, to send...
25. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the statement in the Press by a manufacturer of cane furniture that out of five disabled trainees placed in his workshop...
26. asked the Minister of Labour whether it is with his approval that men in receipt of unemployment benefit are disqualified for continuing to serve on the workers' panel for the courts of...
27. asked the Minister of Labour what class of unemployed men are being sent from South London to the Belmont Institution, Epsom; what travelling facilities are provided for these men whereby...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 30. asked the Minister of Health whether it is now the Government's settled policy to refuse all further financial assistance to local authorities who desire to provide...
32. asked the Minister of Health if he will state how many local authorities he has received resolutions from requesting him to extend The Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restriction)...
34. asked the Minister of Health if he will grant the Return, Housing of the Working Classes, standing in the name of the hon. Member for the Spen Valley Division of Yorkshire? [Return showing,...
36. asked the Minister of Heatlh whether the Whitefield Urban District Council are giving preference to ex-service men in letting the houses that have been built under the housing schemes; how...
41. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the applications for new houses on the register of Bradford Corporation is approximately 6,000, including over 4,000 ex-service men,...
Mr. A. T. DAVIES (Clitheroe): 31. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to a statement made by the Medical Officer of Health for Grimsby to the effect that of the...
Dr. MURRAY: 35. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, which sufferers from fever attend from all parts of the world, a drug known...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 89. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that a case of miscellaneous goods, under Mark 600, which arrived on the 11th April at Leith per ss. "Coblenz,"...
Mr. DOYLE: 37. asked the Minister of Health (1) what immediate steps he proposes to take to safeguard the health of the inhabitants of the city of Newcastle-on-Tyne, in view of the report of the...
Sir J. D. REES: 39. asked the Minister of Health whether Mr. Cooper's Report en the wasteful expenditure of the Poplar guardians will be published as a White Paper; whether he has yet decided...
43. asked the Minister of Health whether any sum of money has been offered to and accepted by the Government from the Rockefeller Trustees for the purpose of establishing an institute in London;...
44. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the salaries of officials in British East Africa have been reduced; if so, upon what basis; and whether a similar reduction will take...
Mr. MALONE: 45. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that the Committee appointed to investigate the practicability of a Ministry of Defence and the Committee appointed to...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether a Lord of the Treasury has been appointed in succession to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; whether the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has...
50. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether his attention has been called to the publication of a letter alleged to have been written by the Admiralty on 8th October, 1921, informing Lieut.-Commander...
48. asked the Prime Minister the terms of reference for the Hague Conference; and whether the existing treaties of peace, disarmament, and reparation payments will be debarred from the...
51. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the freight rates upon raw produce carried on the West African railways are inflated with a view to providing a surplus; whether such...
56. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether the wireless apparatus carried by aircraft, both British and foreign, and operating on the recognised air routes between England and abroad, is...
58. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the serious state of depression in the fishing industry, which is due to high railway freights, the price of coal, and also to foreign...
59. asked the hon. Member for the Pollok Division of Glasgow, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, what is the annual cost in rent and upkeep of the Board of Education Inspector's...
60. asked the hon. Member for the Pollock Division of Glasgow, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, what are the present charges for admission to the Tower of London and if there are...
61. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what would be the extra charge, present and recurrent, to the Indian Treasury of increasing the Indian Civil Service pensions of men retiring...
62. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what are the offences for which men when convicted are treated as special class prisoners in gaol with all the consequent concessions?
54. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether regulations have been made segregating Indians in Uganda; and, if so, when these regulations were made and how are such regulations...
Mr. MALONE: 55. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many acres have been granted to Japanese and American subjects, respectively, in the Federated Malay States and also in the...
63. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the recent raising of the price of each volume of the Calendar of State Papers from the former 15s. to £3 will...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 64. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is now in a position to state what was the total amount of the National Debt on 31st December, 1918, so that a...
Lieut.-Colonel A. MURRAY: 74. asked the Secretary for Scotland when the Allotments Bill for Scotland will be introduced?
78. asked the Secretary of State for War whether his Department make any arrangements for the relatives of soldiers killed in France and Belgium to visit the graves and cemeteries now established...
79. asked the Financial Secretary to the War 'Office whether pre-War pensioners employed in Government offices on or before 1st April, 1919, who were medically examined and graded, but were...
80. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any information that the lascar crew of the Peninsular and Oriental mailboat "Egypt" were seized with panic and, with revolvers in...
83. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the statement issued by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in London to the effect that, officially, Canadians...
81. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can now state when the claim for £1,000 made on the 12th October, 1918, by Mr. Austin Kendall, I.C.S., of 47, Wynnstay Gardens,...
84. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of senior mixed departments in elementary schools for the years 1910, 1916, 1921 and 1922, and the number of headships of such schools...
85. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will inquire into the case of Mr. J. W. Bee, late No. 17,247, quarter-master sergeant, North Staffordshire Regiment (number of identity certificate,...
Sir J. D. REES: 7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the reports now being received of atrocities committed by Greeks upon Turks in Pontus and Ionia, the...
Sir J. D. REES: 15. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government and the Government of the United States of America have agreed that in respect of...
66. asked the Postmaster-General whether he will refund to firms which at present hold large quantities of the envelopes stamped with the two-penny embossed stamp the sum which they paid to the...
88. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the men Hogan and Cooley, convicted in January last of felony, described by the learned judge as non-political, and sentenced to...
52. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether Nigeria carries a debt of £6,000,000 as a share in liability for War charges; if he will state the amount of the interest and...
53. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he anticipates the Budgets of the West African dependencies to show a credit balance or deficit for the year ending 1923?
May I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the practice of so many hon. Members not appearing in the House to put the questions standing in their names on the Order Paper. This practice causes...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the proceedings in the Ard Fheis in Dublin yesterday, he can make any statement in regard to the proposed...
Mr. GIDEON MURRAY: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prevent the importation from overseas of money, valuable securities or property intended to be used for seditious...
"to prevent the importation from overseas of money, valuable securities, or property intended to be used for seditious propaganda; and for purposes connected therewith," presented accordingly,...
I beg to move That leave be given to bring in a. Bill to suspend temporarily the spring register of electors prescribed by the Representation of the People Act, 1918. This Bill, if brought in,...
"to suspend temporarily the spring register of electors prescribed by The Representation of the People Act, 1918,"presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon...
I wish to ask the Leader of the House a couple of questions relating to business. I wish to ask first in regard to to-morrow, and then in regard to the business to be taken on the Order Paper of...
Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill,
Report from the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills, in respect of the Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords] (pending in the Lords), brought up, and read;
Report from the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills, in respect of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill [Lords] (pending in the Lords), brought up, and read;
Order for Second Reading upon Friday, 30th June, read and discharged; Bill withdrawn.
Mr. JOHN WILLIAM WILSON reported from the Chairmen's Panel: That they had appointed Sir Watson Rutherford to act as Chairman of Standing Committee A (in respect of the Trade Union Act (1913)...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A (added in respect of the Chartered Associations (Protection of...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee B (during the consideration of the Law of Property Bill [Lords]): Sir...
Resolutions reported from the Select Committee; "1. That, in the case of the Dartmouth Harbour Commissioners (Reconstitution) Bill [Lords], Petition for additional Provision, the Standing Orders...
That they have passed a Bill, intituled, "An Act to convert the existing capital of the Croydon Gas Company; to authorise the raising of additional capital; and for other purposes." [Croydon Gas...
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Amendment to Question [15th May], "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
Order for Second Reading read.
I beg to move, That, in the opinion of this House, strikes, lock-outs, unemployment, distress, speculations, profiteering, bankruptcies, and stagnation of trade are caused by the fluctuating...
Order for Second Reading read.
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Amendment to Question, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Resolutions reported, 1. "That a sum, not exceeding £3,483,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the expense of works, buildings, and repairs, at home and abroad, including the cost of...
Resolution reported, That a sum, not exceeding £750,000, be granted to His Majesty to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March,...
Order for Third Reading read.
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