Tuesday, 28 November 1922
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
The following Members took the Oath and signed the Roll:—
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...
Ordered, "That the Standing Order be repealed."
All Estimates and Declarations, and Lists of Owners, Lessees and Occupiers, which are required by the Standing Orders of this House, shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office on or before the...
[FORM referred to in Pages 97 and 135.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a New Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the...
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether ho can yet state the total number of electors, male and female, for the Province of Burma Legislature; and when the election for this...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the action of the Viceroy, in overruling the Indian Assembly in the matter of the Bill for the protection of native princes, will be...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what decision ha6 been come to on the question of the application to the Indian Army of the Boyal Warrant of August, 1920, regarding the treatment...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the opportunity will be taken of the appointment of a Joint Committee in India to examine and report on the electoral rules for the Indian...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India how many police officers in India of more than 10 years' service have applied to retire on proportionate pensions up to date; and whether this...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War the number of men returned as missing during the War who are, rightly or wrongly, officially recorded as deserters?
7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War where the schools for vocational braining of soldiers are situated; whether the results of conducting these schools are satisfactory to his...
11. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War what number of men are at present in the British Army of Occupation in Germany; and what has been the total cost of this Army of Occupation since...
15. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the War Office satisfies itself that persons and firms are financially solvent before contracts to buy or to sell are entrusted to them?
Mr. DOYLE: 8. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War what steps the War Office takes to assure itself of the soundness of the Army agents with whom it deals; whether in the case of Sir...
12. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether 40 dis- abled soldiers were discharged from the Government Small Arms Factory, Enfield, owing to the resumption of full time and to their...
53. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that 700 mentally afflicted ex-service men have recently been transferred from the care of the Ministry of Pensions to the Poor Law guardians and...
54. asked the Prime Minister what opportunity will occur during the present Session for a discussion on the position of ex-service men and their dependants?
16. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he can give any details as to the financial results of the attempt to build locomotives in the State-owned works at Woolwich; and...
18. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any steps have yet been taken to revise the constitution of Ceylon, as promised; and will he scrutinise the scheme, when drafted,...
The following question stood on the Paper in the name of Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY:
22. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the estimated cost of the new residency for the High Commissioner in Bagdad?
21. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the retrenchments proposed by the Government in Fiji include the closing wholly or in part of the Indian hospital at Suva, and the...
Lieut.-CommanderKENWORTHY: 23. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies what subsidies are now being paid to Ibn Saud and to other Arab potentates, respectively, including the Sheruf...
Mr. RHYSDAVIES: 24. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of suicides which have occurred in England, Scotland, and Wales for each year from 1913 up to date: and, if...
25. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that men retired from the police force and pensioned off prior to the War at a comparatively low rate, rejoined the police forces during the late...
28. asked the Home Secretary if any allowances are made to the police attached for duty to this House when it sits beyond 11 o'clock for their food?
34. asked the Home Secretary whether, in accordance with the Prime Minister's promise to consider carefully the re-establishment of women, police, he is now prepared to make a statement on the...
29. asked the Home Secretary whether, in respect of recent cases of British women employed by Chinese resident in this country, the police should be accorded wider powers for periodic inspection...
30. asked the Home Secretary whether it is the intention of the Government to bring in a Bill to anend the present Workmen's Compensation Act, and, if so, when?
81. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that Section 10 of the Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act, 1919, 9 and 10 Geo. V., c. 92, which deals with the admission of former enemy aliens,...
Colonel NEWMAN: 33. asked the Home Secretary whether any decision has been come to with regard to the substitution for the present legal speed limit for motor vehicles of more drastic penalties...
36. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether he is aware that a schedule of temporary freights reducing traffic charges on the carriage of potatoes on the lines...
37. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport if 'he has received protests against the transfer of control of the Scottish railway systems from Scotland to London, involved...
38. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether a circular was issued by his Department to jobmasters and proprietors of garages on the question of the hire of cars for...
35. asked the Home Secretary whether there are certain by- laws in force in Hyde Park and other Royal parks for the regulation of the conduct of persons using the same which are different from...
39. asked the Postmaster-General how many temporary postal sorters engaged during the War have been displaced; how many of such were physically unfit for war service; whether those who were...
40. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is prepared to institute an inquiry into the question of providing a wide extension of the tele- phone system in rural areas at reasonable rates to...
41. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is able to give an approximate date for the re-introduction of Imperial penny postage?
43. asked the Post master-General if he can state approximately the number of internal telegrams sent per month at the 1s. rate, as against the average number previously sent at the pre-War rate...
44. asked the Post master-General whether his attention has been called to the varying degrees of efficiency of the various London telephone exchanges; and whether he is able to state which...
45. asked the Prime Minister if he will take into consideration at an early date the desirability of appointing an Estimates Committee of the House on similar lines to that which existed during...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 47. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the scheme submitted by the Middlesbrough Board of Guardians to the Ministry of Health whereby the money at...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 52. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that in many industrial areas, owing to the abnormal amount of unemployment, the local poor rates...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the large number of people who are desirous of possessing the ground upon which their homes are built, and in view of the many thousands who have...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether those who served in the mercantile marine during the period of the War and who suffered injuries and shocks consequent upon their service, can be placed upon...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether it is proposed to institute any public inquiry into the condition of agriculture, including the question of the discrepancy between the price obtainable by...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether he intends to continue a separate Ministry of Pensions, and for how long?
(by Private Jot ire) asked the Prime Minister whether the French occupancy of the Ruhr Valley is imminent; and, if so, whether such occupancy will receive the support of His Majesty's Government,...
I would like to ask the Prime Minister a question of which I have given him private notice, namely, whether—
Motion made, and Question put, That the proceedings on the Irish Free State Constitution Bill and the Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Bill be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the...
Resolution reported, That it is expedient for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make such provisions as are consequential on, or incidental to, the establishment of the Irish Free...
Considered in Committee.
The Constitution set forth in the First Schedule to the Constituent Act shall, subject to the provisions to which the same is by the Constituent Act so made subject as aforesaid, be the...
If the Parliament of the Irish Free State make provision to that effect, any Act passed before the passing of this Act which applies to or may be applied to self-governing Dominions., whether...
Nothing in the said Constitution shall be construed as prejudicing the power of Parliament to make laws affecting the Irish Free State in any case where, in accordance with constitutional...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Schedule stand part of the Bill."
Considered in Committee,
Motion made, and Question proposed. "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
(1) For the purpose of providing in Ireland cottages, with or without plots or gardens, for the accommodation of men who served ill any of His Majesty's naval, military, or air forces in the late...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
(1) His Majesty may, by Order in Council— (a) make such adaptations of any enactments so far as they relate to any 604 of His Majesty's Dominions other than the Irish Free State as may...
Governor of Northern Ireland.
(1) Any existing judge may, at or any time after the date on which the Constitution of the Irish Free State comes into operation, resign his office on signifying his desire to do so to His...
The office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland shall be abolished, and the person holding that office at the date of the passing of this Act shall be entitled to receive the like compensation for loss...
As from the date upon which the administration of public services relating to land purchase is transferred as respects the Irish Free State to the Executive Council thereof the office of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [Major Bamston.]
In pursuance of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House), Mr. Speaker has nominated
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