Thursday, 12 July 1923
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Great Western Railway (Additional Powers) Bill [Lords],
2. asked the Minister of Pensions what is the exact present position of the 700 ex-service mental cases for which the Ministry will accept no responsibility, on the grounds that their malady was...
Sir F. HALL: 53. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that after the termination of hostilities sorters in the London postal service were invited to compete for a number of vacancies for...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions how many parents' pensions were withdrawn in the North-Western region in the six months ending 30th June, 1923; whether pensions are being terminated on the...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether the wife of an ex-service man in receipt of a pension can claim her portion of the pension without having a deed of separation; and whether, when a wife...
5. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, in view of the fact that the Naval and Military War Pensions, etc. (Transfer of Powers) Act, 1917, empowers the Special Grants Committee to make...
6. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware of the difficulty experienced by many ex-service men of understanding the effect of decisions made by the Pensions Appeal Tribunal; and will...
7. asked the Minister of Pensions whether an ex-service man in receipt of a pension of £2 per week for the loss of both legs amputated above the knee is entitled to an additional sum for...
15. asked the Minister of Pensions what progress has been made with the preparation of the medical records of the War; what sum has been expended on these records up to 30th June, 1923; when it...
18. asked the Minister of Pensions whether any instructions, oral or written, have been issued to medical officers in the whole-time employ of the Ministry when serving on resurvey or final award...
Mr. ROBERTS: 19. asked the Minister of Pensions what is the number of medical referees in the part-time employment of the Ministry; what is the number who have been superseded as the result of...
24. asked the Minister of Pensions what is the total number of pensioners receiving treatment for War neurosis and other shell shock conditions; and whether he is satisfied with the provision...
27. asked the Minister of Pensions if, when a pensioner is ordered by the Ministry's medical officers to get home treatment from his panel doctor which necessitates complete cessation from his...
30. asked the Minister of Pensions how many pension awards, other than those for actual disablement, have now been made permanent; whether there are any awards of over eight years' standing still...
9. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has further considered the question of transferring the Yorkshire regional office from Leeds to Newcastle; whether, in view of the volume of work in...
73. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer which Minister is responsible for the Disposal Board; if that body is still operating; if the Treasury consent is necessary for their transactions or any...
96. asked the President of the Board of Trade how recently there was an examination of the staffing at Cornwall House; what was the total staff of all grades employed at the British Clearing...
31. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of burglary occurred in Sheffield during 1921 and 1922, respectively; and will he also give the number in respect of which...
35. asked the Home Secretary why Marks Greenberg, a Russian, who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for stealing clothes on 16th May at Old Street Police Court, and...
36. asked the Home Secretary if his attention has been called to the fact that listeners-in in the London area are to be asked to take part in an arranged crime in which descriptions of the...
37. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that certain licensing authorities have lately called on licensed holders and asked them to disclose their turnovers and profits; and whether he will...
38. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the sentence of two years' imprisonment passed by the presiding judge at Winchester Assizes recently upon Albert Davies, a...
39. asked the Home Secretary when the Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories for 1922 will be published?
42. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that English women police are to be sent to Cologne to look after and assist German women and girls; and if such proposal has his approval, and where...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 43. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that a number of people will not be able to take their annual holidays until after the middle of September; and...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he is yet in a position to make any statement with regard to the responsibility and control of the air arm of the Royal Navy?
51. asked the Prime Minister whether any communications have been received from the Government of the United States of America or from the Government of Japan on the subject of the projected...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether the promised Increase of Pension Bill for pre-War pensioners and pensioners of the Royal Irish Constabulary who retired prior to 1st April, 1919, will be...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the strong feeling prevailing in the self-governing Dominions, other than Canada, that the privilege extended to Canada of importing store...
82. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has drawn the attention of the Postmaster-General and of the railway companies to the remarks in the Report of Lord Linlithgow's Committee with...
83. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has been in consultation with the Departments concerned with a view to implementing the recommendations of Lord Linlithgow's Committee to the...
Captain DIXON: 84. asked the Minister of Agriculture what was the average price of fat and store cattle for the months of January, February, March, April, and May in 1922, and the average prices...
85. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that the Hampshire branch of the National Farmers' Union passed a resolution calling attention to the injustice of owners of shooting land...
Mr. ERSKINE: 49. asked the Prime Minister whether he will appoint a Select Committee to advise and report as to what, if any, further disciplinary action might with advantage be taken against...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government can give any promise or assurance that the work for which the Welsh Church (Temporalities) Commission was appointed shall be completed by the...
52. asked the Prime Minister whether he has detailed the. British representatives for the Assembly of the League of Nations; if so, who are they; whether it is proposed to send a woman...
54. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the resentment shown by dock workers towards any further reduction in their standard of living and the grave social consequences involved when men...
55. asked the Home Secretary if he can now say if the tribunal set up under the Restoration of Order Ireland (Indemnity) Act, 1923, has yet started work; and, if so, how many claims for...
57. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that when an execution takes place in Pentonville prison, which is in the vicinity of a London County Council school, notices are posted upon the...
60. asked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Lowestoft Bench decided on Monday 2nd July that the parents summoned by the local...
63. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, in view of the success of the air pageant at Hendon, he will consider the advisability of giving similar exhibitions on a modified scale in big...
64. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, in view of the popular interest aroused by the Royal Air Force pageant, he will consider the advisability of affording to the public, and to the...
Mr. MARTIN: 65. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will state the number of passengers carried to and from Croydon Aerodrome during the past 12 months; and the number of accidents,...
67. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he can state the increased amount voted for the Air Service by the French Government since the Prime Minister's recent statement in the House to...
70. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has any estimate of the amount of money that has been collected by the French Customs stations in the occupied districts of the Ruhr on the...
71. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of the 22,300,000 guaranteed by the Government under the Trade Facilities Act to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for the construction...
72. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the increase of retired pay, due to reassessment and granted only to officers who served in the late War, of officers who retired before the War...
76. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how Government property is valued for the purposes of contributions to local rates; if any valuation is made; and, if so, what steps are taken to secure...
Mr. GRAHAM WHITE: 80. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether His Majesty's Government are still interested in the Hoffman Manufacturing Company, Limited?
77. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what amount of expenditure was incurred by this country up to November, 1922, in connection with the conferences or meetings between...
81. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether considering that the British Government has no responsibility for loans issued by the Secretary of State for India under the East India...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 86. asked the Minister of Health whether he approves of the charge made to tuberculous persons in the London area in respect of institutional treatment; and, if so, why, in this...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 87. asked the Minister of Health if he will give the particulars which indicate that the percentage of cases of small-pox has increased with the reduction in the number of...
89. asked the Minister of Health the number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief in England and Wales at the end of March; if he is aware that the total number of unemployed and their...
90. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been directed to the danger of infection to the frequenters of public libraries through the use of books previously handled by persons...
91. asked the Minister of Health if he has received a copy of the quarterly report, to the end of June, 1923, of the inspector of midwives to the Cumberland County Council; and if, having regard...
92. asked the Minister of Health whether he will inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Charles P. Keating, who was given an over-dose of atropin at the Walthamstow hospital;...
93. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the certain shortage of building material, he will consider the desirability of employing available and serviceable unemployed labour on...
94. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that export prices, fixed by the German Government, for goods shipped to this country are higher than the prices fixed for similar...
95. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that 90 per cent. of the films shown in this country are produced in the United States of America; that American producers,...
(by Private Notice)asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the postponement of the Colonial Office Estimates, he will issue instructions deferring the further...
Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD: Can the Prime Minister make a statement as to the business for next week?
Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD: May I ask the Prime Minister if he will now make his statement on the European situation.?
Reported, so far as amended, from Standing Committee D.
"to transfer the powers and duties of the Ministry of Agriculture, under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1914, so far as they relate to Scotland, to the Board of Agriculture for Scotland,"...
"to regulate offices and the employment of young persons therein; and for other purposes connected therewith," presented by Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM; supported by Mr. Snowden, Mr. Broad, Mr. Ede, Mr....
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Chairmen's Panel: That they had appointed Mr. Gilbert to act as Chairman of Standing Committee B (in respect of the Education (Institution Children) Bill...
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee B: Mr. Cautley, Mr. Garland, Captain Sidney Herbert, Sir...
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON further reported from the Committee: That they had added the following Ten Members to the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills (in respect of the Town Councils (Scotland)...
That they have agreed to,— Forestry (Transfer of Woods) Bill.Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill.Marriages Provisional Order Bill, without Amendment.Ministry of Health...
Lords Amendments to be considered tomorrow.
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £185,969, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £3,060,591, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £642,935, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Gibbs.]
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