Wednesday, 11 July 1923
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Ordered, That, in the case of the Dover Harbour Bill, Standing Orders 82, 236, and 237 be suspended, and that the Committee on Unopposed Bills have leave to consider the Bill...
For the Borough of Leeds (Central Division), in the room of ARTHUR WELLESLEY WILLEY, Esquire, deceased.—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is yet in a position to make a statement on the result of the negotiations for peace with Turkey at Lausanne; and when is it...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that before the War the Montenegrin Government obtained a 5 per cent. loan mainly provided by British capital, on...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that at the council meeting of the League of Nations held this month the statement was made that the information upon...
9. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the fact that under American law English women married to Americans are regarded as aliens, he can state whether any...
11. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the American Government has made concessions in the direction of carrying wine in British ships operating between Eastern...
13. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if the lands, buildings, and fortifications, formerly the property of the British Government, at Berehaven, Haulbowline, and Lough Swilly have been...
15. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in view of the decision promulgated in Admiralty Fleet Order, No. 1,703, Item No. 1, regarding the institution of port welfare committees at the...
18. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the Government of the Straits Settlements have made any offer to contribute towards the cost of the proposed naval base at Singapore by...
17. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that the publication of the Returns of the number of courts-martial held and summary punishments inflicted on seamen in the Royal...
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the naval pensions shown with Greenwich Hospital pensions, on page 2369 of the Navy List, are paid from Greenwich Hospital funds;...
14. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether any war vessels of any kind are now being constructed for foreign Powers in private dockyards in Great Britain; if so, how many; and is there any...
21. asked the Minister of Labour what sums have been expended in relief of unemployment in Great Britain, including unemployment insurance, provision of work, as well as other forms of relief, by...
22. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that Mr. R. Drinkwater, of Ulverston-in Furness, has been refused unemployment benefit, although he has 32 stamps on his card, and that the...
23. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that last week an additional 7,000 boys and girls in the Glasgow area left school and are now in search of employment; and whether he will take...
28. asked the Minister of Labour if, in view of the fact that there is no systematic register of aliens in this country, he will state what steps are taken by the Employment Exchanges to...
32. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that a man in receipt of unemployment pay was stopped 3s. 10d. on account of his doing an evening's work for which he received 3s.; and...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 43. asked the Minister of Health whether he is now in a position to reply to the request for assistance based on the revised formula submitted to his Department some time ago by...
89. asked the Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health if he will state, with reference to a Circular letter issued by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, dated 8th December, 1922,...
26. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will submit a Return to the House showing the total number of staff reductions in his Department from 1st January, 1923, to 30th June, 1923, and the...
78. asked the First Commissioner of Works what is the total number of staff employed by his Department at the present time, together with
36. asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed persons in France on the 31st March for the years 1921, 1922, and 1923?
99. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many temporary employés were serving in Government Departments on 1st July, 1921, 1922, and 1923, respectively; and, of the total number...
38. asked the Minister of Health if he has received a complaint against the sanitary inspector of the Basford Rural District Council failing to give certificates regarding defective property in...
39. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received a communication from the Tilbury Urban District Council protesting against the decision of the Ministry to demand an increase of rent of...
42. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the fact that the shortage of houses will still be acute at the end of this year, he proposes to continue in force the relaxed bye-laws of the...
Mr. THOMSON: 59. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the fact that, at several housing conferences of representatives of local authorities held in the North of England last week, it...
62. asked the Minister of Health the average price per acre of land purchased for housing schemes and the average rateable value per acre of the same land prior to acquisition?
63. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the fact that local authorities are able to obtain loans for housing purposes at 4¾ per cent. or less, and that the present rate at which...
69. asked the Minister of Health if, in view of the adoption of the Housing Bill, he will consider the desirability of issuing a weekly announcement of houses sanctioned under the Measure,...
73. asked the Minister of Health whether, with regard to the list of prices of materials issued by the Building Materials Prices Committee, he can state the quotations, respectively, for Fletton...
77. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether there are any empty, houses on the Well Hall estate, near Woolwich; and whether they are being offered for sale or are they also available for...
41. asked the Minister of Health whether he approved of the advertisement of the Stapleford Rural District Council for a highway surveyor and sanitary inspector at a salary of £175 per annum...
44. asked the Minister of Health whether the Brook Fever Hospital at Shooters Hill is about, to be permanently closed; and whether he can state the reason for this course?
45. asked the Prime Minister whether there is any fund from which some public recognition of the gallantry displayed by the officers and men of the s.s. "Trevessa" could be made?
47. asked the Prime Minister whether any instructions have been given to prohibit the holding of no-more-war demonstrations at the end of this month?
48. asked the Prime Minister if he is aware that practically the whole of the iron ore mines in West Cumberland have been closed down, and that most of the blast furnaces in the same area have...
57. asked the Minister of Health if he is satisfied with the manner in which the Vaccination Acts are being administered; and, if not, if he is prepared, in view of the present serious epidemic...
58. asked the Minister of Health the result of his consultation with the Minister of Agriculture with a view to the adoption of the recommendations of the Departmental Committee for the...
61. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that Florence Hall, detained ostensibly under Section 24 of the Lunacy Act, 1890, in Guildford infirmary, is at present well enough to be...
Captain ARTHUR EVANS: 66. asked the Minister of Health whether he has any information relating to the management of the Leicester municipal farm; whether he is aware of the serious financial loss...
74. asked the Attorney-General if he will give the number of cases in which costs on the County Court scale only were allowed on judgments signed in the High Court during the year 1922?
80. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he will explain why, after four years, only four war cemeteries in Palestine out of 34 have been constructionally completed and only about...
81. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that a circular has been issued by the chief area officer for West Ham notifying that, in future, all claims for travelling expenses or...
83. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that, since the transfer of the coastguard service to the Board of Trade, 201 station officers are employed at £2 19s. per...
85. asked the President of the Board of Trade what action his Department has taken, or proposes to take, on the recommendations of the Merchant Shipping Advisory Committee regarding the rules for...
90. asked the Secretary of State for Air what proportion of airmen are burnt to death in aeroplane accidents as against violent death by defective engines, steering, or frame construction; and...
94. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many inquests were held in the County of London during the year ending 30th June, 1923; and in how many cases a verdict was returned...
95. asked the Home Secretary whether he will institute an inquiry into the whole question as to the desirability of the use of the national Flag for advertising purposes?
Viscountess ASTOR: 96. asked the Home Secretary whether the system under which the 20 Metropolitan women police have worked during the current year has proved efficient; and whether he can give...
98. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the fact that when licensed vehicle drivers in the Metropolitan area are summoned by the magistrates for minor offences they...
100. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Inter-Departmental Committee announced officially on 22nd March to work out the details of the creation of a central organisation to...
101. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies the extent to which the various Crown Colonies indulge in State trading apart from railway construction; whether he will inform the House...
102. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that, owing to the wide difference between the sentences imposd on white and coloured people, respectively, there...
52. asked the Minister of Health if, in accordance with the wishes of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and in order to meet the feelings of the inmates and friends of inmates in Tooting Bec...
54. asked the Minister of Health whether, in accordance with the pledge given by his predecessor, he proposes to consult both the consultative council and representatives of the approved...
79. asked the hon. Member for Tonbridge, as representing the Charity Commissioners, what steps have been taken to provide almshouses in Bedfordshire under the will of the late William George...
86. asked the President of the Board of Trade when a further distribution will be made by the British Clearing Office upon the amount of awards of the Anglo-German Mixed Arbitral Tribunal in...
Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD: Will the Prime Minister tell us what business he proposes to take on Friday?
As amended (in the Standing Committee and on Consideration), to be printed. [Bill 193.]
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee D: Sir Norman Rae.
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee B.
That they have agreed to—
Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Bridlington Extension) Confirmation Bill [Lords],
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
In determining for the purposes of Section twelve of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1923, what rent is properly payable in respect of a holding, an arbiter shall not take into account...
Where under Section twelve of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, a demand in writing for an arbitration as to rent to be Paid for the holding has been made and has been agreed to, the...
For the purposes of removing doubts, it is hereby declared that— (a) in the principal Act, as amended by this Act, the expression "allotment" includes an allotment garden within the meaning...
(1) During the continuance of this Act, Section one of the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as "the principal Act"), which provides that an occupier of...
As from the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and during the continuance of this Act— (1) the annual value of all agricultural lands and heritages in Scotland shall,...
(1) The Secretary for Scotland shall ascertain and certify with respect to the local financial year ending the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and each succeeding local...
As from the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and during the continuance of this Act, every certified classification within the meaning of the Act of 1896 which was in...
Order for Second Reading read.
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