Friday, 4 August 1922
The House met at Eleven of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society Order Confirmation Bill,
For the Borough of Hackney (South Division), in the room of HORATIO WILLIAM BOTTOMLEY, Esquire, expelled this House.—[Mr. McCurdy.]
I beg to present a petition from 230 seamen of the port of Hull, protesting against the new conditions of servitude imposed upon them by the Joint Maritime Board.
Mr. MALONE: 1. asked the Prime Minister if he can make a statement in regard to the decision of the Cabinet on the position of the Royal Air Force and the question of granting further support for...
2. asked the Prime Minister on what grounds the Foreign Office have refused to receive the official delegation from tile Government of the Riff now in London, with the purpose of requesting...
7 and 8. asked the Secretary of State for War (1) how many officers and non-commissioned officers, respectively, serving in the Army to-day have been seconded to the Royal Air Force for the...
Mr. FOOT: 5. asked the Secretary of State for War how many persons are at present employed by the Government in the manufacture of gas for use in war and in research relating thereto; and what is...
12. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what Great Britain's debt to the United States of America represents in the form of purchases of raw materials, food, and munitions; on whose behalf...
13. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the average amount of direct taxation in France per head per annum during the past three years; and what proportion of that taxation has...
Mr. FOOT: 14. asked the President of the Board of Education whether the effect of Circular 1259 will be to place upon the local rates the payment of £500,000, hitherto borne by the...
15. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he has informed local authorities that he does not intend to pay half the actual cost of the meals for necessitous children; and whether,...
Mr. FOOT: 16. asked the Minister of Agriculture the amount which will be repaid to farmers in respect to the two-pences; how many farmers will receive these repayments; and the approximate date...
Major-General Sir CECIL LOWTHER: 17. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the Derwent Board of Conservators have built a fish-pass at Cockermouth at great cost, and that...
20. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether ho will state the total weight of wheat purchased by the Government in Australia; the weight received; the price paid per bushel to the...
9. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that the chief engineer, Aldershot Command, has issued an order to the effect that only ex-Royal Engineers are to be...
(by Private Notice) asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the fact that large numbers of ex-officers, demobilised from the Indian Army under the recent Order, are now...
10. asked the. Minister of Labour whether he is aware that on 12th June the Trowbridge and district local employment committee, composed of representatives of employers and work-people, passed a...
11. asked the Minister of Health whether, in January, 1922, when Sir Wilmot Herringham was appointed to the General Nursing Council of England and Wales, there was only one vacancy on the...
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether he can give any reason for the undue delay in connection with the confirmation of the Scarborough Electricity...
It may be for the convenience of hon. Members if I ask the Leader of the House whether he can indicate what business the Government propose to take on the first day and the second day after we...
That they have agreed to—
Resolved, That this House, at its rising this day, do adjourn till Tuesday, 14th November, provided always that if it appears to the satisfaction of Mr. Speaker, after consultation with His...
I wish at the outset to express my grateful thanks to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Middleton (Sir R. Adkins) for giving me the opportunity of speaking first on a question which he...
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Question again proposed, "That this House do now adjourn.'
Mr. FOOT: I am quite sure that to-morrow, when those who are associated with the local authorities throughout the country, read of the decision of the right hon. Gentleman the President of the...
It is not my in tention to pursue the subject which has occupied the attention of the House during the last few minutes, but to claim the indulgence of the House while I raise one or two points...
hope the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I change the subject. I will only refer to the subject with which he has been dealing, by saying that the right hon. Gentleman made the usual...
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