Monday, 16 July 1923
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Maidstone Corporation Bill,
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India how many Moplah prisoners are now detained in the Andaman Islands; whether they are accommodated in the convict barracks in the penal settlement or...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what is the total number of men, women, and children under the age of 14 that are employed in underground work in the coal mines of Bengal, Central...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India when the Act for legalising and protecting trade unions in India was first drafted; how long has it been under consideration of the various...
7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that the police force in the Punjab has been recently reduced by 4,000; and whether this reduction was carried out with the...
9. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will raise at the coming Imperial Conference the question of the Quebec Succession Duties Act of 1914, so far as it affects the...
10. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether in maintaining a railway staff in any of the African Crown Colonies, it is the custom only to employ men who have specified duties...
11. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will state how many Government-owned wireless stations there are in the British West Indies and where; whether it is proposed to...
12. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will consider the advisability of offering to pay a sum approximating to the cost of taking up the Voi-Tafeta Railway to some...
14. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if his attention has been called to the fact that the Rutenburg Company in Palestine is erecting electric standards in Jaffa against the...
16. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware of the inadequate salaries which are being paid to the staff at the Imperial Institute who, though on a par with civil...
19. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if any decision has yet been arrived at on the question of the transfer of Aden from the Government of India to the control of the Colonial...
20. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will state the nature of the Irish records which were saved from destruction in the Four Courts; whether some of these records...
21. asked the tinder-Seeretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the officials of the Irish Post Office and other civil servants in Southern Ireland, who retired in consequence...
22. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Irish Grants Committee can and have made any advances to persons still resident in Ireland against claims or awards for...
23. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can now give particulars as to the total amount of defended decrees for malicious damage in Southern Ireland between January,...
25. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the French Government recently proposed for sale at Marseilles a number of Russian war vessels, ice breakers, freight and...
24. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if the Ceylon National Congress and other political associations in Ceylon passed resolutions criticising the proposed scheme for the...
27. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Agreement signed with the Rumanian Commission for the settlement of private debts due to British commercial...
28. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many foreign stations pick up the wireless bulletin of news prepared in his Department and transmitted through the Leafield Station;...
29. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can give any information as to the recent attack upon the Canton-Kowloon Railway; whether the owners of the railway,...
30. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what was the number of British citizens who were in 1920–21 induced to go out to Peru for employment as advertised in England by...
32. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in order to arrive at a definite settlement, His Majesty's Government will be prepared to submit the Tangier question to the...
32. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in view of the anticipated signature of the Treaty with Turkey, whether the Russian Government will be invited to sign the Straits...
46. asked the Prime Minister how much the military occupation of Constantinople and the Dardanelles has cost this country since the Armistice of 1918; and whether any part of this sum is...
52. asked the Prime Minister whether the recent German Note on reparations was addressed to the Government of the United States of America as well as to His Majesty's Government and the other...
Mr. SOMERVILLE: 53. also asked the Prime Minister the exact effect of the pending withdrawal of the British troops from Constantinople on the finances of the country; what provision for the...
34. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the British authorities have been unable to arrest the 200 deserters from British ships who form part of the...
35. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any official representation has been made to the United States Government regarding the conditions prevailing on Ellis Island?
37. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he is aware that over 100 British emigrants landed in Freemantle, Western Australia, on 3rd May last; whether he has...
Mr. SIMPSON: 39. asked the Minister of Agriculture how many bulls are kept for service in England and Wales and, of these, how many are non-pedigree animals?
40. asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of prosecutions undertaken last year of persons alleged to be responsible for growing injurious weeds; the total amount inflicted in fines, with...
43. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the recommendation of the Departmental Committee on the Distribution and Prices of Agricultural Produce that the...
44. asked the Minister of Agriculture how many co-operative dairy schools are now being held or are in contemplation; and what steps he is taking to further this method of stimulating...
41. asked the Minister of Agriculture the total rent roll of the post-War small holdings estates of county councils in England and Wales as fixed when the first tenants entered, the total sum...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether, as the British Government in June, 1921, decided to construct a naval base at Singapore, such decision was communicated to the conference at Washington,...
55. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the waste of food caused by the dockers' strike and the fact that this movement is now disowned by the union leaders as well as by the unofficial...
Captain BENN: 62. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his Department is preparing any evidence for the Imperial Conference in reference to the extension of Imperial Preference on...
63. asked the Minister of Labour the total number of men employed on Government-assisted and other schemes by local and other authorities between 1st January and 30th June, 1923, showing the days...
64. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that a very considerable number of able-bodied men and their dependants are in receipt of relief in the parishes and unions of Poplar,...
69. asked the Minister of Health whether the South- wark Board of Guardians will receive from the Metropolitan Poor Law fund the sum of £104,764 for the half-year ending June, equal to a...
65. asked the Minister of Labour, in view of the fact that, as the result of an investigation recently held, it has been found that the cost of living is nearer 100 per cent. than 69 per cent.,...
66. asked the Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health whether the views of school management committees in secondary-school areas in Scotland have been ascertained with reference to the...
68. asked the Minister of Health the number of children who died before the age of 12 months in the London County Council area, Glasgow, West Ham, and Stoke-on-Trent during the year ending March,...
70. asked the Minister of Health why he is pressing upon the Tilbury Urban District Council to increase the rent of the various houses under their control by several shillings per week; if he is...
72. asked the Minister of Pensions whether the Yorkshire regional headquarters of the Ministry of Pensions is to be transferred to Newcastle; if he will state the population in the present...
(by Private Notice) asked the President of the Board of Trade if he has any statement to make about the present position of the proposed Commercial Treaty with Czechslovakia?
73. asked the hon. Member for Cheltenham, as Chairman of the Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms Committee, whether he is aware that the prices of food in his various Departments are much higher than...
Report from the Joint Committee, in respect of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill [Lords] (pending in the Lords), brought up, and read;
Second Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, brought up, and read;
That they have agreed to,
Lords Amendments to be considered To-morrow.
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Amendment to Question [20th March], That, in view of the failure of the capitalist system to adequately utilise and organise natural resources and...
Resolved, That the statement of the estimated income and expenditure of Greenwich Hospital and of Travers' Foundation for the year 1923–24 be approved."—[Commander Eyres-Monsell.]
Resolved, That the draft of a Special Order proposed to be made by the Board of Trade under Section 10 of the Gas Regulation Act, 1920, on the applications of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of...
Order read for Consideration, as amended (in the Standing Committee).
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
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