Wednesday, 2 August 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Staffordshire Asylums Bill (by Order),
"to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to Glasgow and Rutherglen Corporations," presented by Mr. MUNRO; and ordered (under Section...
In cases of Bills included in the second class, and of Bills of the first class, in respect to which plans are required to be deposited, such notices shall also contain a description of all the...
In cases of Bills for constructing gas works. Or sewage works, or works for the manufacture or conversion of the residual products of gas or sewage, or for making or constructing a sewage farm,...
In the months of October and November, or either of them, immediately preceding the application for a Bill, the notice shall be published once in the "London," "Edinburgh." or" "Dublin Gazette,"...
"in the Months of October and November, but not later than the twenty-seventh day of November, a short notice of the principal subject matters of the Bill (but without particulars except as...
On or before the fifteenth day of December immediately preceding the application for a Bill for power to take any lands, or houses compulsorily or for compulsory user of the same, or for an...
Statement ordered," of the number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief in England and Wales on the night of the 1st day of January, 1922 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 230, of...
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Anglo-Persian Oil Company has negotiated the exclusive rights to drill for oil over the whole of Macedonia with the Greek...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any information as to the serious condition of the Church of St. Sophia, in Constantinople; whether it runs grave...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any protests have been made to the Chinese Government regarding the numerous illegal imposts on British river traders made by...
Mr. MALONE: 4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any decision has yet been reached in regard to the commutation and allocation of the sum remaining due in respect of...
6. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether men of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines are being, or are going to be, refused permission to reengage at the expiration of their...
7. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will confer with the Air Minister and consider the advisability of dropping 3,0001b. to 4,000lb. bombs within 20 feet of the side...
8. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that there is dissatisfaction among ex-service naval men as to the rate of distribution of naval prize money; and whether...
9. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if there is any other country in the world in which the Air Force unit working with the Navy is under the control of a separate Air Ministry?
Mr. FOOT: 10. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether any inquiry has been made as to the time which would be required for the alteration of slip No. 3 at Devonport dockyard to...
13. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware of the case of Chief-gunner Slight, who was specially recommended for gallant conduct under exceptional circumstances, on His...
14. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can say that the risk of life in submarines is the same for all classes; if so, whether he will explain the differentiation in...
15. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether there are any aircraft defences to any of our dockyards, fuelling stations, or naval establishments abroad other than Malta?
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS: 45. asked the Prime Minister whether he is able to announce the decision of the Government as to the advancement of the date for the commencement of the two new battleships?
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 17. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will invite the Committee, which he recently appointed to make inquiries with a view to devising means whereby the innocent...
20. asked the Minister of Labour what is the estimated cost per insured person receiving benefit per week of administering unemployment benefit in the case of a benefit paid directly through an...
Mr. MALONE: 26. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act will expire before the House reassembles, he has considered taking powers...
27. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can give the figures of the unemployed, as recorded by his Department, on 29th July, and at the end of each fortnight during the preceding three...
Mr. MALONE: 32. asked the Minister of Health the reasons why he does not favourably consider the definition of a necessitous area as recently submitted to him by certain Poor Law authorities; and...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 42. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the experience of the actual administration of the one-week gap period in the payment of unemployment benefit has shown...
54. asked the Prime Minister whether he proposes during the Recess to publish the Report of the Cabinet Committee on the question of unemployment; and whether the Cabinet Committee, which is...
19. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the reduction of the scale of allowances in respect of attendances at trade board meetings has caused annoyance to the representatives of...
29. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to a proposal on the part of the Brighton Corporation to lease the Brighton Aquarium for the term of 60 years for the...
30. asked the Minister of Health the number of persons who were found by the verdict of a coroner's inquest to have died of starvation, or to have had their deaths accelerated by privation in...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 31. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the figures in the Registrar-General's Report for 1920 showing that the marriage rate was the highest on...
38. asked the Minister of Health when the Cabinet will be able to consider, as suggested, the desirability of temporarily assisting private building enterprise by partial or complete remission of...
39. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that there are a number of hardworking people who, by reason of their thrift, have been able to purchase a house to live in but who, under the...
40. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that in the district of Grays there is still a waiting list of several hundred applicants for houses: that the Department recently gave...
34. asked the Minister of Health the number of county and borough council lunatic asylums who have no women members on the visiting committees of their asylums; and how many women patients are...
35. asked the Minister of Health whether he has yet received the auditor's report on the accounts of the Edmondsley Parish Council, county Durham; and, if so, whether he will indicate the nature...
Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD: 36. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the absence of housing accommodation for the workmen and their families employed upon the new...
37. asked the Minister of Health how many local authorities, guardians and municipal, have, so far as his information goes, been notified by the banks that the latter cannot permit any more...
33. asked the Minister of Health whether he can state what the estimated extra cost would amount to if, in estimating the means of old persons for the purpose of assessing the amount of their old...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 43. asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland why two assistant under-secretaries are employed in the Irish Office as compared with one in 1921–22; who is the...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the statement that a monopoly concession over the Russian oilfields is about to be granted to a single oil group, he will take steps to...
Captain COOTE: 50. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Supreme Council has asserted the right of Eastern Galicia to independent existence, subject to precise definition of its...
Captain TERRELL: 52. asked the Prime Minister whether he will issue a return showing all the pledges given by Members of the Government on the occasion of the Imperial War Conference in 1917 and...
Captain TERRELL: 53. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the definite pledges given to British farmers in October, 1919, that home food production should be encouraged, the injury...
55. asked the Prime Minister whether, before he consents to write off France's war debt to this country, he will, in the interests of world peace, endeavour to secure a substantial modification...
56. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the temporary demand for coal for export, and the necessity for alleviating the distress amongst the miners, he will recommend to Parliament a...
Sir F. HALL: 58. asked the Prime Minister whether any time limit has been imposed within which the terms of the proposed Irish Free State Constitution shall he submitted for approval by the...
Mr. GIDEON MURRAY: 60. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether an Englishman, Scotchman, or Welshman, who has not been domiciled in the Irish Free State for seven years before the...
66. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how much has actually been paid to the claimants so far under the awards before Lord Shaw's Commission sitting in Dublin; and what proportion...
64. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any information that letters arriving in Dublin from Belfast with British stamps on them are surcharged the amount of postage;...
61. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Government will publish, as a Parliamentary Paper, the Report made by Colonel Robertson, in which he gave his reasons for advocating...
63. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether His Majesty's Government will consent to guarantee the loan to Belize, British Honduras, for providing an adequate water supply for the...
Sir F. HALL: 67. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, why the Colonial Office published the correspondence leading up to the resignation of Colonel T. E. Lawrence of his post in the...
68. asked the Secretary of State for Air how much it costs to keep an effective pilot in the air in France, United States, Japan and Great Britain: and whether there are any figures to show the...
Captain TERRELL: 71. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, when the Canadian cattle embargo is raised, there will be protection, through special marking or designation, to the public against...
Colonel MILD MAY: 72. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the resolution extensively circulated by the Fly Fishers' Club, protesting against the Salmon and...
74. 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 progress made towards the agreed-on...
Mr. GIDEON MURRAY: 75. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the Report of the Departmental Committee on local taxation in Scotland as to what...
76. asked the Secretary-of State for War whether it is contemplated to dispose of the barracks at Knightsbridge and the land upon which they stand; and, if so, to what other quarters the Guards...
78. asked the Secretary of State fen whether service in the Army prior to 18 years of age is reckoned as service towards limited engagement but not as qualifying service towards pension; if so,...
79. asked the Secretary of State for War if he has decided that because a man was in an exempted occupation during the War, or in a low medical category, he is therefore exempt from substitution;...
93. asked the Minister of Pensions the nature of the pensionable post relinquished by the non-service man appointed as Press Officer in his Department; what was the special experience which has...
84. asked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of Mr. James Duncan, of Kirkdale, Liverpool, who suffered loss of effects, value £32 10s., as a...
Sir C. KUNLOCH-COOKE: 86. asked the President. of the Board of Education whether his attention has been directed to the proceedings before the Slough magistrates in a prosecution for...
87. asked the President of the Board of Education if, seeing that it is a statutory obligation of the Government under the Provision of Meals Acts, 1906 to 1914, to pay half of the expenditure on...
82. asked the Postmaster-General whether he can inform the House what effect the reduction in postal rates has had on the Post Office revenue; and whether he can see his way to restore penny...
98. asked the Minister of Pensions how many widows to date have been refused pensions because their husbands have died more than seven years after discharge from the forces, notwithstanding that...
89 and 96. asked the Minister of Pensions (1) whether he is aware that disabled men who were granted payments as advances or other- wise by local pension committees in 1919 and later are being...
90. asked the Minister of Pensions the average number of disabled men who received special diet or allowance for this purpose during the three months ended 31st March, 1922; the number of such...
(by Private Notice) asked the Leader of the House whether he is aware that the Local Government and other Officers' Superannuation Bill has now passed through all its stages in both Houses,...
"to amend the Married Women (Maintenance) Acts, 1895 and: 1920, and Section five of the Licensing Act, 1902," presented by Mr. SHOUT: supported by Sir Ernest Pollock and Sir John Baird: to be...
Reported, without Amendment; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, brought up, and read;
That they have agreed to—
Third Report from the Select Committee brought up, and read.
Order for Second Reading read.
I desire to draw attention to certain very urgent questions connected with the present position and the prospects in the Indian Civil Service. I think the time has not yet come to debate the...
I beg to move, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the Question to add the words "upon this day three months." I am sorry that after so extremely interesting a Debate on an...
As amended, considered.
If at any time after three years from the passing of this Act or (as respects any district outside the borough with respect to which an Order has been made in pursuance of this Section) after...
Motion made, and Question, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill," put, and negatived.
(1) Where it is shown that any animal or article liable to be seized under Sections 116 to 118 of the "Public Health Act, 1875," and Section 28 of "the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890,"...
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Amendment to Question, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
At. 8.15 p.m. I was saying that on the whole, if one could get to the Minister of Pensions, one could always obtain personal sympathetic consideration from him. I greatly fear that the Minister...
There is a very simple method by which the Attorney-General can set this matter right without any further discussion. I quite acknowledge that he is as sympathetic as any other Member of the...
Order for consideration of Lords Amendment read.
Resolved, That the statement of the estimated income and expenditure of Greenwich Hospital and of Travers' Foundation for the year 1923 he approved."—[Commander Eyres-Monsell.]
Resolved, That the Special Order made by the Electricity Commissioners under the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1919, and confirmed by the Minister of Transport under the Electricity (Supply)...
Ordered, That the Lords Reason for disagreeing with one of the Commons Amendments, and Lords Amendment. proposed in lieu of one of the Commons Amendments disagreed to by the Lords, and Lords...
(1) The restrictions imposed by Section forty-one of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, on the compulsory acquisition of land which has been acquired by any corporation or company for...
Sub-section (4) of Section twenty-one of the Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919 (which imposes a penalty on a person causing damage to crops growing on an allotment cultivated as a garden),...
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