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The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKERin the Chair.
Northampton Corporation Bill, Sunderland and South Shields Water Bill,
"to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Minister of Transport under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1867, relating to Oulton Broad and Portnockie," presented by Mr. NEAL; read the...
For the County of Berks (Newbury Division), in the room of Sir WILLIAM ARTHUR MOUNT, baronet (Chiltern Hundreds).—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India, considering that the effect of Section 98 and Schedule III of the Government of India Act is to confer not a right but only aspes successionis to...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India, whether he will inquire as to a circular, alleged to have been issued by the inspector-general of prisoners, Bombay, to the effect that political...
Colonel NEWMAN: 4. asked the Secretary of State for War what arrangement has been come to with the Minister of Defence of the Provisional Government of the South of Ireland relative to the...
6. asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the existing conditions in many parts of Ireland, he will grant to married non-commissioned officers and men of the Irish regiments...
7. asked the Secretary of State for War whether any British regiment is now in the Dublin area; if so, whether any casualties have occurred recently; whether the troops are allowed out of...
9. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether there is any further news of the three officers and one man captured at Macroom; whether there is still any hope of their being alive; and...
13. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in case of awards made in defended cases for compensation for malicious injuries to property sustained between 21st January, 1919, and...
14. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that General Doran, an ex-member of His Majesty's forces, was on 22nd May arrested at Rosslare...
53. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that pensioners of the Royal Irish Constabulary are having compulsory deductions made from their pensions in respect of claims for...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of Sate for the Colonies if he will make a statement to-day on the position of affairs in Ireland?
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can give the House any information as to the invasion of Ulster territory from the South and West, and what steps have been...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Colonics if ho is aware that there are several munition factories in Ireland, that these factories are in full work, and if he will...
(by Private Notice) asked the Colonial Secretary under what Clause of the Treaty, or by what authority, has the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in yesterday's "Gazette" dissolved the Parliament of...
5. asked the Secretary of State for War if he will consider the advisability in the case of junior officers retired under the scheme of Army reduction being given a step in rank on being placed...
10. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Colonial Office and the Treasury consider themselves bound by a statement of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain to the effect that,...
11. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can give the House any information on the financial position of the Government of Iraq; whether the budget is expected to balance this...
Mr. MALONE: 12. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will issue as a. White Paper particulars of the concessions in Palestine granted to Mr. Pinhas M. Rutenberg?
15. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the authority under which he has appointed the State Management Districts Council as the body responsible for accounting to the State for...
16. asked the Home Secretary whether he received in July, 1919, from Mr. B. Weinberg, Editor of the "Jewish Family Friend," an application for naturalisation; and, if so, can he give the grounds...
18. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to Article 16 of the recommendations of the Third Commission (Economic) at Genoa relating to visas and passports; and what steps...
Mr. MALONE: 19. asked the Home Secretary when the Report of the Tipton ammunition factory explosion disaster will be published?
20. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether he is aware that the Scottish Board of Health has issued a circular intimating that it is proposed to reduce the grant for milk and meals for nursing...
22. asked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been called to the case of a counter clerk and telegraphist at Gracechurch Street branch office, who was called upon to make good the...
23. asked the Postmaster-General whether the temporary permission which was granted to the Marconi Company to conduct a wireless telegraph service between London and Paris has been confirmed by...
24. asked the Postmaster-General by how many the establishment will be reduced when the proposals to abolish the 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. deliveries and institute a 3.30 p.m. delivery in the outer...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 25. asked the Postmaster-General why sample packages, marked "No Value," which are accepted by foreign countries for delivery in the United Kingdom are being detained by...
28. asked the Postmaster-General whether he realises that many telephone subscribers are sceptical as to the record of calls accredited to them at their respective exchanges; and whether he is...
29. asked the Minister of Pensions why in the case of John Melia, of Heywood, whose appeal was allowed by the House of Lords Tribunal, the amount of £24 3s. 8d. was deducted, an amount that...
30. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that Corporal Shoeing-Smith John Walker, No. 7426, Royal Field Artillery, has had his claim to pension disallowed although the symptoms of his...
31. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been called to the case of the late Sapper F. Alsopp, late, of the Royal Engineers, who was enlisted as A 1 and sent to Mesopotamia...
32. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Mrs. Munro, widow of the late William Ross Munro, private, No. 11,874, 5th Dragoon Guards, has been refused a pension in respect of her...
34. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether any notification was made to Dr. Tolmie, then Minister of Agriculture, that the British President of the Board of Agriculture could not carry out the...
Mr. Fournier:1. Is there an embargo on Canadian cattle exported to Great Britain?2. If so, have any representations been made since January, 1918, to the Imperial Government asking for the repeal...
35. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that in the Air Ministry (R.D. 3) there are cases of ex-service men men serving for half the pay under men very much younger than...
36. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is able to give the approximate number of com- mercial British planes in actual service in this country as compared with the number of German...
37. asked the Secretary of State for Air which country now possesses the most powerfully-equipped air force; and whether any country has to-day a greater ratio than the two-Power standard...
40. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider the desirability of posting in the window of each Employment Exchange a complete list of the names and addresses of those in receipt of...
Captain TERRELL: 41. asked the Minister of Labour how many women are in receipt of the unemployment donation at the Falmouth Employment Exchange; how many of them are registered as domestic...
38. asked the hon. Member for the Pollok Division of Glasgow, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether he can make any statement as to the effect of the increased prices for all...
Sir J. D. REES: 59. asked the President of the Board of Education whether grants from public funds for phonetic research are provided in the Budget for 1922–23?
61. asked the President of the, Board of Education whether he is aware that a number of children who have won scholarships in the county of London have been refused by the London County Council...
62. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if his Department is giving preference to the products of the Empire in placing orders for Navy supplies; and has his attention been called...
64. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty the reason for the employment of a naval Vice-Consul at Callao at a salary and allowances of £600 per annum borne on Naval Votes?
43. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to page 235 of the "Labour Gazette" for May, 1922, which contains statistics showing that in July last the percentage...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he is in a position to give the names of the British representatives at the Hague Conference; whether any members of His Majesty's Government intend to visit...
Mr. MALONE: 47. asked the Prime Minister if he has any particulars regarding the recent treaty between Russia and Italy?
48. asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he can make any statement concerning the communications which have taken place between the Lord Chancellor and the hon. and learned Member for Upton?
49. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has yet received the deputation representative of the interests concerned regarding the suggested imposition of a fee of 10s for annual...
50. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if his attention has been called to the statement of the chairman of the Commercial Union Insurance Company to the effect that a scheme was under...
Mr. FOOT: 51. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that a post package, No. 956, containing 35 dozen lamp-blown Christmas-tree ornaments, arrived in London on the 6th May,...
67. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that duties paid on parcels N 1/763 and N 1/122 forwarded to the Customs at Grimsby on the 11th May were only acknowledged on...
68. asked the Financial Secretary to the Teasury whether he will make improved arrangements for dealing with goods over which a dispute arises, as in the case of a recent consignment of Japanese...
52. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why the gross expenditure of the Mint, including coinage, has gone up from £143,374 in 1913–14 to £383,160 in 1921–22 and...
54. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any import duty is still being imposed on motor chassis to be used for taximeter cabs, chars-a-bane, hotel omnibuses, and funeral hearses; and,...
Sir J. D. REES: 56. asked the Minister of Health whether steps can and will be taken to restrain local bodies from accepting tenders for housing at rates substantially higher than those at which...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. HOPE: 57. asked the Minister of Health when the Departmental Committee now considering the practicability of amalgamating unemployment and health insurance cards and...
63. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty the strength of the German Navy in ships, torpedo-boats, submarines, etc.; how many new ships, etc., have been added in the last 12 months;...
Present Strength.
65. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the women in the Civil Service consider that reorganisation has been used as a cover to grade their work lower than that...
73. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many messengers are employed in the Civil Service in an established capacity: how many in an unestablished capacity; how' many are ex-service...
71. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if it has been decided in the interest of economy to close the stamp office at Portsmouth in July next; if so, will he state in what way economy...
May I ask the Leader of the House what business he proposes to take to-night, and if he can tell us what business he proposes to lay before the House when it reassembles?
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do meet to-morrow at Eleven of the Clock."—[Mr. Chamberlain.]
Land Drainage Provisional Order (No. 2) Bill,
That they have agreed to—
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee B.
Read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday, 12th June, and to be printed. [Bill 146.]
Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, brought up, and read.
I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time." The Bill is to give power to certain public utility authorities, namely, the authorities in charge of harbours and docks and piers, to...
Not amended (in the Standing Committee) considered.
In the case of canal or inland navigation undertakings of which possession was retained or taken by the Minister of Trans- port under the powers contained in Section three of the Ministry of...
Not amended (in, tire Standing Committee), considered.
It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Scotland, on the application of any persons interested and after such inquiry as he may direct, without compensation to cancel or to suspend for a...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
"(3) No person shall be qualified to be appointed assistant master unless he is either at the time of his appointment an officer of the Master or is a barrister or solicitor of not less than five...
"(2) It is hereby declared that the provisions of Sections one hundred and thirty-three to one hundred and forty-three of the Lunacy Act, 1890, relating to vesting and other Orders, as amended by...
This Act may be cited as the Lunacy Act, 1922, and shall be construed as one with the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1911, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1922.
Considered in Committee reported without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed.
Considered in Committee.
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £290,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make further provision with respect to the cost of medical benefit and to the expenses of the administration of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."[Lieut.-Colonel Sir John Gilmour.]
I propose to speak concerning the condition of a number of our men who are suffering as a result of the War. If in this matter I have not followed the usual procedure by giving the Minister of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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