Tuesday, 3 July 1923
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Private Bills [Lords] (Standing Orders not previously inquired into complied with).
3. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that the s.s. "Strandhill" (late the "Lincoln Land"), which sailed in the early part of March from the Clyde with a cargo of spirits...
4. asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of British ships entering and cleared from Baltic ports during 1922; the gross registered tonnage; the corresponding figures for German...
5. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the final consignment of Australian wool purchases, under the Imperial purchase scheme, has now been shipped; what is the total amount of wool...
6. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether be will take immediate steps to prevent the closing down of the coastguard station at the Butt of Lewis, owing to the protection it affords...
14. asked the Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health the number of smallholders who have applied to the Land Courts for revaluation of their buildings, and the new valuations fixed,...
16. asked the Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health when the rent of the houses now occupied for two years under the Mid-Lanark housing scheme will be fixed?
Mr. THOMAS HENDERSON: 12. asked the Solicitor-General for Scotland whether he is aware of the sentence of 15 months' imprisonment passed on Thomas Hatman, on a charge of sedition, by Sheriff...
8. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any decision has been reached as to the treatment of the very large number of applications to the Reparation Claims Department which have been...
Captain ARTHUR EVANS: 9. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War at what rate of exchange were the other ranks of the Army of Occupation in Germany paid on 25th May, 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd...
11. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if any compensation was given to Mr. Wintour when he retired from his appointment as Director of Army Contracts during the Great War?
18. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether an order has been issued prohibiting the driving of mechanically propelled vehicles under the Walpole Road, Deptford,...
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport the date upon which the Surrey County Council agreed to the construction of the arterial roads to by-pass Kingston-upon-Thames...
20. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether he is aware that certain highway authorities are serving notices on owners of kerbside pumps ordering them to remove...
21. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether his Department has made any study of one-way streets in foreign cities; and whether he is prepared to recommend similar...
22. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport if, in view of the progress now being made in America with concrete roads, whether he has received any official reports showing...
24. asked the Postmaster-General if it is proposed to give the Marconi Company a monopoly of wireless communication within the Empire by means of a licence for the working of the Empire wireless...
26. asked the Postmaster-General whether he has received any complaints as to the efficiency of the present system of broadcasting; and whether he proposes to hold any inquiries into the matter?
27. asked the Postmaster-General whether some 50 or 60 Members of the House were recently invited to inspect the Marconi wireless installation at Ongar and Brentwood; and, if so, whether the...
28. asked the Postmaster-General the total sum of public money expended in connection with the Sutton case and the Liverpool telegraph case, in both of which the House of Lords decided against...
32 and 33. asked the Postmaster-General (1) with whom rests the decision of selecting matter in the nature of news, whether originating in England or elsewhere, for transmission from wireless...
36. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether his attention has been called to the case of some 50 officials of the Irish Post Office who retired owing to the change of...
39. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the expenditure of the head office of the Welsh Church Commission amounted to £13,444 for 1922, and is...
41. asked the President of the Board of Education if he has received a copy of the notice served by the sanitary inspector of the Epsom Urban District Council on the clerk of the managers of the...
42. asked the President of the Board of Education if he will consider the advisability of securing and publishing accurate information on the cost to the Universities and Colleges of Oxford and...
43. asked the Minister of Health the prices of the principal materials used in the construction of houses on 1st January and 1st April last and at the present time?
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 44. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total amount which had been received up to the 31st March, 1923, from all Land Values Duties since 1910, including Mineral...
45. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of the Entertainments Duty received by the Treasury from the proceeds of this year's Naval and Military Tournament; and whether, in view of...
47. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will give the date upon which the Committee, appointed in May, 1922, to examine the question of the percentage grant system last met;...
48. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware of the existence of a body styling itself the Government Staff News Association, purporting to be established on behalf of...
49. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what is the number of rooms occupied by the Land Valuation Office; the number of caretakers and cleaners employed for these rooms; and the...
The following question stood on the Paper in the name of the hon. Member for Linlithgow.
1. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, seeing that no issue has been made of the return of shipping casualties and loss of life since that covering the period from 1st July, 1914,...
Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD: (by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister, supposing the Finance Bill tomorrow be disposed of before 11 o'clock, what business he would then propose to take?
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to limit the hours of employment. The purpose of this Bill is to establish by law a maximum working week of 48 hours, and I emphasise...
"to limit the hours of employment," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 184.]
I beg to move That leave be given to introduce a Bill to amend the Trusts (Scotland) Act, 1921. This Bill which I ask leave to introduce has for its objects the amending of the Trusts (Scotland)...
"to amend The Trusts (Scotland) Act, 1921," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Tuesday next, and to be printed. [Bill 185.]
That they have agreed to, Caledonian Railway Bill, without Amendment.Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill, with Amendments.
Lords Amendments to be considered To-morrow.
Ordered (under Section 7 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) to be considered To-morrow.
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
Reported, with Amendments, from the Local Legislation Committee; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Chairmen's Panel: That they had appointed him to act as Chairman of Standing Committee B (in respect of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Bill...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had added the following Fifteen Members to Standing Committee B (in respect of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Bill...
Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS further reported horn the Committee; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee D: Mr. George A. Clark Hutchison, Mr. Kirkwood, Sir Francis Lowe,...
As amended, further considered.
Paragraph (a) of Sub-section (3) of Section one hundred and thirty-seven of the Income Tax Act, 1918, shall be read and construed as if for the word "may," wherever the same occurs therein were...
As from the first day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the Excise Duty now chargeable under Section four of the Finance (New Duties) Act, 1916, at the rate of fourpence per gallon on...
The new import duties and the additional Customs duties on dried fruits imposed by Part I of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915, shall, subject to the provisions of Section eight of the Finance Act,...
(1) Any person convicted before a Court of summary jurisdiction in Northern Ireland of an offence against Sections sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty- 294 three, twenty-four,...
(3) Where an assurance company carries on both ordinary life assurance business and industrial life assurance business, the business of each such class shall for the purposes of the Income Tax...
(1) Where any emoluments, pension or annuity are or is payable by or through any public Department in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, but otherwise than out of the public revenue of Great...
(1) Without prejudice to any right of appeal under the Income Tax Acts or the Acts relating to Inhabited House Duty, any person aggrieved by the amount of the annual value of any property...
(1) An assessment, an additional first assessment or a surcharge in respect of Income Tax chargeable for the year 1920–21 or any subsequent year of assessment may be amended or made, as the...
As from the commencement of this Act such parts of Section four of the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, as are not repealed by Section fifty-seven of the Finance Act, 1920, shall be repealed.
(1) Part I of this Act so far as it relates to duties of Customs shall be construed together with the Customs (Consolidation) Act, 1876, and any enactments amending that Act, and so far as it...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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