Wednesday, 28 June 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Halifax Corporation Bill [Lords],
Major C. LOWTHER: 1 and 2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) whether the British members of the Mixed Claims Commission to be set up in Mexico have yet been appointed;...
Mr. L. MALONE: 4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a protest has been received from the Angora Government referring to the neutrality of the Constantinople zone,...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what was the treatment recommended for Barakat Pasha; whether the treatment was recommended by a qualified dentist; and whether, in the...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what are the names of the Egyptians who are at present concerned in the negotiations with this country; and which of them are opposed to...
7. asked the Under-Secretary of St-ate for Foreign Affairs whether Lord Granville's Egyptian despatch of 1884, to the effect that in important questions affecting the administration of Egypt the...
8. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the revenues of the Egyptian State Railways constitute one of the securities to the foreign bondholders for the payment of...
9. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware of the dissatisfaction which exists as a result of the prolonged inflation of the numbers in the Civil Service staff...
39. asked the Minister of Pensions the names of the officials now employed in the Publicity Branch of the Ministry of Pensions and the salaries paid in each case; whether these officials are...
53. asked the Secretary of State for War if he will give the number of officers employed in the Press or Publicity Department at the War Office; and how many of these are service men and how many...
52. asked the Postmaster-General if he will give the number of officers employed in the Press or Publicity Department at the Post Office; and how many of these are service and how many...
10. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what vessels of war are at present stationed on the North American and West Indies station; what would be the extra cost of sending those...
12. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty by how much the cost of the work carried out at Pembroke Dockyard on H.M.S. "Capetown," H.M.S. "President," and the R.F.A. "Oleander,"...
Vice-Admiral Sir R. HALL: 15. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what is the total estimated saving from the reduction of table money and allowances to flag officers and...
16. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether it is proposed to carry out experiments with the various methods of attack from the air against any of the capital ships due to be...
17. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that the first share-out of prize money was granted in full to the estate of every rating of the Royal Navy who was killed in...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 21. asked the Minister of Health if he will state the total amount of money borrowed for the purposes of financing the various Government assisted housing schemes by local...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 23. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the disparity existing between different provincial Poor Law areas with regard to the numbers of people receiving relief, and...
24. asked the Minister of Health whether under the Colne Valley Water Act any preferential arrangement as to the supply of water has been given to members of the National Federation of Building...
25. asked the Minister of Health what action he proposes to take with reference to the Doncaster Provisional Order, having regard to his decision to advise the setting up of a Royal Commission to...
28. asked the Minister of Health if he will consider the desirability of calling a conference representative of both landlords and tenants to consider an agreed-on policy at the expiration of the...
20. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can make any statement as to unemployment in London at the present time; whether there has been a general decrease for men, women, and young persons...
18. asked the Minister of Labour if he can state the number of glove workers who were totally or partially unemployed during the first week in May?
30. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he can state the extent to which gun-running from abroad is now being carried on in Irish waters; how many ships are known to have landed...
32. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can inform the House of the existence of any obstacles in the way of the Irish Provisional Government raising an adequate force to...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he could give the House any account of the happenings in Dublin during the last 24 hours?
31. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it is proposed to appoint Mr. Abramson to a post in Palestine; if so, will he say what his name was before it became Abramson; and what...
33. asked the Secretary of State for Air if he is aware of the system whereby the Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes supply goods in their shops at ordinary retail prices, less 8 per cent., and...
Mr. MALONE: 34. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the extent to which wireless telephony is being utilised in France to assist agriculture by broadcasting a weather...
36. asked the hon. Member for the Pollok Division of Glasgow, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether he can explain the delay in clearing the lake buildings in St. James's Park...
38. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any information which would indicate that critics of the British Dyestuffs Act have been in consultation or negotiation with...
40. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, bearing in mind the need for special diet in cases of diabetes and tuberculosis, he will reconsider and revise the terms of Circular 2097, whereby...
41. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will give consideration to the terms of Article 11 of the Royal Warrant whereby the eligibility of a widow to be granted a pension is, among other...
42. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the number of captains and subalterns whom it is proposed to discharge from the Indian Army; what procedure is being adopted in the selection for...
43. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he is aware that the late Mr. Stanley Patrick Eaton, manager of the rubber plantation of the Pullangode Rubber Company at Manjeri, was murdered...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether O'Brien or Connolly, The murderers of the late Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, were released from prison in England or Scotland under the Treaty arrangements...
Lieut.-Colonel A. MURRAY: 46. asked the Prime Minister if he can give the House any information with regard to the proceedings at the Hague Conference?
48. asked the Secretary for Mines whether the reduction of 9s. per ton in London in the prices of the best house coal is also being proportionately introduced in the prices of coal in the...
49. asked the Secretary for Mines if he is aware that coal is selling in London at 40s. per ton; can he say what the coal-getter at the coalface gets per ton; what is charged for royalty, rent,...
50. asked the Secretary for Mines if he is aware that miners' wages are only 20 per cent. above 1914 wages, or one-fifth; that the cost of living is 80 per cent., or four-fifths, above 1914...
51. asked the Postmaster-General what is the increase in Post Office receipts for the period from 1st April to 17th June, compared with the corresponding period of last year; and what proportion...
Lieut.-Colonel MURRAY: 57. asked the hon. Member for Monmouth, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, if he can say when the Annual Report of the Forestry Commission will be published?
60. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the fact that he has stated that the Metropolitan police women patrols will be reduced and not disbanded, he will...
62. asked the Home Secretary if the night guardianship of the Palace of Westminster is to be taken from the police and entrusted to a body of amateur constables; and, if so, whether, owing to the...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will inform the House what is the exact position in which the claim of Mrs. Stan Harding against the Russian Soviet Government for...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has received any report as to the tarring and feathering of three Mormons; whether any arrests have taken place; and, if not, whether any steps are being taken...
59. asked the Home Secretary whether the disciplinary sentence upon Convict Conmy, living in chains for six months for having broken prison, can be reviewed in consideration of the severity of...
"to provide for the better protection of the public in relation to the sale of bread," presented by Mr. BALDWIN; supported by Mr. Munro and Sir William Mitchell-Thomson; to be read a Second time...
"to remove doubts as to the powers of the Board of Trade under the British Empire Exhibition (Guarantee) Act, 7920," presented by Mr. BALDWIN; supported by Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame and Sir William...
"to regularise the position of all persons trading as chemists and druggists or pharmacy store proprietors in the sale of drugs, the dispensing of doctors' prescriptions, and the sale of patent...
Hampshire Rivers Fisheries Provisional Order Bill,
Read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to he printed. [Bill 168.]
That they have agreed to,
Read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 167.]
Ordered (under Section 7 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) to be considered To-morrow.
Lords Reason to be considered upon Friday, and to be printed. [Bill 170.]
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee B: Mr. Carr; and had appointed in substitution (during the...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee C (added in respect of the Allotments Bill [Lords]): Mr. Banton; and...
Considered in Committee [Fifth Day].
"Notwithstanding anything in the Income Tax Acts, the income of a wage-earner who is casually employed by the hour or less period and who is not in the regular employment of one employer shall...
Where in any year of assessment any profits or income in respect of which a person has been charged or is chargeable under Case III of Schedule D finally cease to arise to that person he shall,...
The Finance Act, 1920, shall be amended by the omission of Sections fifty-two to fifty-six, inclusive.—[Sir Arthur Fell.]
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section sixty, Sub-section (1), of the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, the proviso to Sub-section (5) of Section seven of the Finance Act, 1894, shall...
Where, on the death of the testator, the property passing has been settled by the will of the deceased or, having been settled by some other disposition, passes under that disposition on the...
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Finance (New Duties) Act, 1916, and the Finance Act, 1917, or the Finance Act, 1919, Entertainments Duty shall not be charged on payments for...
Any Estate Duty which has or shall become payable in respect of lands or chattels settled in the manner referred to in Subsection (5) of Section five of the Finance Act, 1894, shall,...
Section one hundred and forty-eight of the Income Tax Act, 1918, which provides that appeals in certain cases may be made to the Special Commissioners instead of to the General Commissioners,...
Section eighteen of the Finance Act, 1920 (10 and 11 Geo. V., c. 18), shall be read as if after the words "the claimant," in the first line thereof, there were inserted the words "if a widow,...
As from the commencement of this Act, such parts of Section four of the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, as were not repealed by Section fifty-seven of the Finance Act, 1920, shall be...
Paragraph 4 of the. Second Schedule to the Finance Act, 1920, shall have effect with the substitution of the words "Tractors, agricultural tractors, and agricultural engines, other than such...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill he now read a Second time."
Again considered in Committee.
Paragraph 4 of the Second Schedule to the Finance Act, 1920, shall have effect with the substitution of the words "Tractors, agricultural tractors, and agricultural engines, other than such...
(1) The present scale of Entertainments Duty as imposed by the Finance (New Duties) Act, 1921, as amended by any subsequent enactment, and so far as it applies to cinematograph theatres, shall be...
Section one, Sub-section (4), paragraph (a), of the Finance (New Duties) Act, 1916, shall read as though there were inserted at the end of Section one, paragraph (a), the words:
(1) Corporation Profits Tax shall not he charged on the profits of an association which is registered under Section twenty of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, as a company with limited...
The following provision shall be substituted for the provision in section six, subsection (1), of The Finance Act, 1919:— Provided that where the brewer is the occupier of a house of an...
Where the entertainment is provided by a society which is established solely for the purpose of promoting the interests of agriculture, or some branch thereof, and which is not conducted for...
Sections four, five and six of the Finance (New Duties) Act, 1916, and Section eleven of the Finance Act, 1916, are hereby repealed.—[Sir Hatford Mackinder.]
Section thirty of The Finance Act, 1919, is hereby repealed so far—as it affects interest—accruing due after the commencement of this Act.—[Lieut.-Colonel Royds.]
The provisions of Sub-section (1) and of paragraphs (a) and (c) of Sub-section (2) of Section one hundred and fifty-seven of the Income Tax Act, 1918 (which relates to the (late when the payment...
If any person makes an insurance on his life or on the life of any other person with any insurance company legally established in the United Kingdom or in any British possessions or lawfully...
The duties chargeable on the following excise liquor licences, that is to say, retailers' on-licences for spirits, beer, or wine, retailers' off-licenees for spirits, beer, or wine, shall be...
Any allowance granted to a widow in respect of a child or children under the Royal Warrant of the second day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, shall he, and shall be deemed always to have...
Where any person shall after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and eighteen, have expended any capital sum on buildings or equipment, or which shall be provided in pursuance of...
If any person shall prove to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that debts taken as good in his final accounting period proved to be bad in whole or in part within six months from the end of...
An owner paying Mineral Rights Duty shall for the purposes of Income Tax and Super-tax be allowed as a deduction or as a repayment in respect of expenses of management or supervision one-eighth...
The preferential rate of duty to be levied on sugar consigned from and grown, produced, or manufactured within the British Empire shall be two-thirds of the full rate instead of five-sixths of...
(1) The duties of excise chargeable under section seven of The Finance Act, 1918, and sections eight and nine of The Finance Act, 1919, in respect of tobacco grown in Great Britain (in this...
That for Schedule A, Rule No. VI., paragraph (c), of The Income Tax Act, 1918, there shall be substituted the following:—
Section seventy of the Income Tax Act, 1918, is hereby repealed.—[Mr. Pennefather.]
(1) Where a part only of the interest in any trade or business of any person, being the proprietor thereof or a partner therein, passes by any means to some other person or corporation, then...
In lieu of the Customs and Excise payable on spirits consumed in Great Britain there shall from the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be charged, levied, and paid a duty of...
Where any land or chatels settled by Act of Parliament or Royal Grant pass on the death of any person any Estate Duty payable in respect thereof, or of any interest therein, under Sub-section...
1. A company which is aggrieved by any direction given under Section fourteen of this Act may appeal to the Special Commissioners against the direction by giving notice of appeal to the Clerk to...
Major Barnes, Mr. Bowerman, and Lieut.-Commander Chilcott nominated Members of the Select Committee.— [Colonel Gibbs.]
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