Thursday, 19 July 1923
The house met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
South Staffordshire Mond Gas Bill [Lords],
Motion made, and Question, "That the Lords Amendment be considered forthwith," put, and agreed to.—[Captain Bowyer.]
Section four of the Bastardy Laws (Amendment) Act, 1872 (which provides for the making of an Order on the putative father for the maintenance, etc., of a bastard child), shall, as amended by the...
1. asked the Minister of Pensions what is the number of permanent pensions issued for cases of disease other than tuberculosis; whether he could furnish detailed figures showing the nature of the...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether a consumptive ex-service man in Birmingham has had his pension of 80 per cent. wiped out at one cut; and, if so, what were the reasons for the withdrawal...
6. asked the Minister of Pensions how many Army and Navy pensioners there were at the end of June; how many receive permanent life pensions; and how many are receiving short term pensions?
8. asked the Minister of Pensions for what reason the Ministry refuses to grant treatment allowances on the certificate of a man's panel doctor that the man is unable to work?
14. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, seeing that no alteration is to be made in the area or constitution of the Wales region unless the local authorities were consulted, he will consult...
21. asked the Minister of Pensions whether the fact that he has caused to be advertised in the "British Legion" and the daily Press that a final award is binding for all time in respect of the...
22. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, seeing that out of 13,023 cases heard by the assessment appeal tribunal in the six months ending 31st December, 1922, the assessment was increased in...
80. asked the Treasurer of the Household the number of cases adjudicated upon by the Appeal Court held at Nottingham during the past year, and the number of decisions which have been given in...
2. asked the Minister of Pensions whether the regulation providing for sickness grants for widows and children was withdrawn at the request of the Special Grants Committee, or whether he received...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Mr. C. G. Pearce, late private, No. 203329, Wiltshire Regiment, was treated at the Middlesex Hospital on the 7th November, 1922, for a...
9. asked the Minister of Pensions whether the deputy commissioner of medical services (tuberculosis), Wales region, is attached to the South-Western region; whether he has any knowledge of the...
Mr. JONES: 10. further asked the Minister of Pensions how many hand-propelled chairs or tricycles have been issued in the Wales region; and whether, in view of the nature of the country, it would...
15. asked the Minister of Pensions what is the number of adult males employed by his Department as messengers at the wage of 27s., rising by annual increments of 1s. to 32s. a week; what...
66. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the financial position of the Hare Street Printing Works on 31st March, 1923, and the profit or loss incurred on the previous 12 months' working?
74. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the commissionaires employed on warding duties at the British Museum affirm that they have always been directly employed...
20. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is now able to state the results of his promised review into the cases of the 700 ex-service men now in pauper lunatic asylums?
67. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the furniture of ex-service men residing in houses erected by local authorities is being distrained upon for the nonpayment of...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 24. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there is any statutory obligation which requires particulars of the infliction of the death penalty to be...
27. asked the Home Secretary what difference there is between the treatment of a prisoner in the second division and that of an ordinary prisoner; and how many persons are now undergoing...
28. asked the Home Secretary how many persons during the last four years have become insane and been certified as such while undergoing terms of imprisonment; whether any of them have died in...
30. asked the Home Secretary whether the Government are prepared to give facilities to the Children, Young Persons, etc., Bill?
Captain ARTHUR EVANS: 31 and 32. asked the Home Secretary (1) what is the machinery for keeping stipendiary Magistrates informed of the subsequent progress of adults put upon probation, with...
33. asked the Home Secretary if he can promise a statement before the Recess as to the arrangements he may have in contemplation for allowing people desirous of doing so in the Welsh Courts to...
37. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that Mr. Fred. W. Kehrhahn, now residing at 9, Willmanns Park, Blankenese, near Hamburg, has on many occasions applied for permission during the last...
40. asked the Home Secretary the terms under which the premises now occupied by the Welsh Church Commissioners are held, together with the rent, rates, taxes, etc., payable in respect of the same?
43. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the new interpretation of the law as to the closing of retail confectioners' shops on Sunday is being enforced in some police areas and not...
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?
96. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he is aware of the great amount of discontent existing in the Navy on account of a recent Regulation under which chief petty officers and petty...
Viscountess ASTOR: 98. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether it is intended to retain in employment those apprentices in training in the Plymouth dockyards whose period of...
Captain BENN: 99. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what was the amount of the first Estimate put before Parliament for the Rosyth base; and what was the final total cost incurred?
Captain BENN: 46. asked whether the Committee which is considering the question of intoxicating liquor in British ships in American ports has yet reported; and whether it is the policy of the...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that foreign produced motor tyres now being sold in this country, to the detriment of British manufactured motor tyres, contribute nothing...
Captain BENN: 49. asked the Prime Minister when he will be in a position to publish the text of the draft reply to the German Note?
50. asked the Prime Minister whether he can make any further statement on the progress of peace negotiations at Lausanne; when it is proposed to commence and complete the evacuation if Allied...
53. asked the Prime Minister how many British troops remain in occupied German territory; what the yearly cost of upkeep amounts to; whether Germany is in arrear in her payments towards the cost...
52. asked the Prime Minister if he is prepared to receive a deputation from Scottish Members of Parliament who desire to represent to him reasons why the Government should set up a convention in...
56. asked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to the severe strictures on the attitude of the Ministry of Health in regard to the Warrington water scheme...
57. asked the President of the Board of Education, if he is aware that since the introduction of the Pharmaceutical Society's new regulations, 1920, no technical college under his Board will be...
59. asked the President of the Board of Education if his Department has informed the Surrey Education Committee that years spent on war service will not be allowed to non-graduate teachers in...
61. asked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware that an advertisement was recently issued inviting teachers between the ages of 30 and 50 years to apply for appointment as...
62. asked the President of the Board of Education, whether his attention has been drawn to the decision given by the magistrates at Lowestoft that parents had reasonable cause for not sending...
65. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the fact that numerous Scottish landed estates have recently been formed into limited liability companies;...
69. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will consider the advisability of appointing a Royal Commission to inquire into the basis and incidence of direct and indirect taxation and...
71. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what the Imperial taxation per head is in Great Britain, France, Belgium and Germany?
63. asked the Secretary of State for Air how many large type flying boats of modern design are available for the service of the Royal Navy in home waters; how many in the Mediterranean and East...
64. asked the Secretary of State for Air the amount of public money already spent upon the Brennan helicopter at Farnborough and the time the experiments have taken; and if the progress made...
81. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport when the statistical statement provided for in Item 14 of the Eighth Schedule to the Railways Act, 1921, and now overdue, will...
84. asked the Minister of Health whether he can state the number of nurses who have applied for registration under the Nurses Registration Act, 1919, up to 14th July, 1923; and whether existing...
85. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of his contention that the insurance officer cannot cancel the decision of the Court of Referees, he will vary the wording of the last paragraph...
86. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware of the hardships being imposed upon men drawing unemployment benefit at Yarmouth by the operation of Regulation S.E. 7,572/2, Boarding, Apartment,...
88. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies who, by name, were the actual parties to the negotiations which took place in January, 1922, between the British Government and the Irish...
90. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the creation of a Marine Reserve police force by the Board of Admiralty to police the naval ordnance depots in place of the...
91. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he has taken action in the case of Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant C. A. Harper, E company, Royal Army Service Corps, stationed at Kelia,...
92. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War, with reference to the contract for preserved corned beef for the Army which was placed with Messrs, Armour and Company, if he can state bow many...
93. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is yet in a position to announce the findings of the Committee which has been investigating the question of the system of accountancy in...
Captain A. EVANS: 94. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he has yet come to any arrangement with the Ministry of Labour which would facilitate as far as possible the employment of...
95. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if Osman Digna, who has been a prisoner for many years at Wadi Halfa, has expressed a desire to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca before he...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that it has been the practice of previous Governments to publish from the Foreign Office reports from our consular staffs and others upon...
Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD: Will the Prime Minister inform us what business we are to take next week?
Reported, with Amendments, from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills.
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee A: Mr. William Greenwood and Sir Beddoe Rees.
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON further reported from the Committee; That they had added the following Members to Standing Committee D (during the consideration of the Summary Jurisdiction (Separation and...
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee B.
That they have agreed to,—
[17TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £1,280,400, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Admiralty Office, which will come in course of payment...
Order for Consideration of Lords Amendments read.
(4) Where within fifteen months before the passing of this Act a local authority have submitted to the Minister proposals for assisting persons or bodies of persons undertaking to construct...
(4) Assistance given by a local authority under this Section in respect of a house, may be made subject to such conditions as the local authority may with the approval of the Minister impose,...
(2) This Section applies to any society, body of trustees or company established for the purpose of, or amongst whose objects or powers are included those of, constructing, or facilitating or...
(1) A local authority for the purposes of Part III of the principal Act may, subject to such conditions as may be approved by the Minister, at any time before the first day of October, nineteen...
(1) Sections seven and nineteen of the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act, 1919, and any enactments amending those Sections, and Section eight of the Housing Act, 1921, are hereby repealed; but,...
(4) Where a scheme to which this Section applies has been carried out, whether before or after the passing of this Act, by the London County Council within the area of a metropolitan borough, the...
Where the land included in a scheme made, whether before or after the passing of this Act under Part I or Part II of the principal Act, comprises premises in respect of which an old on-licence is...
(1) Section twenty-six of the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act. 1919 (which relates to by-laws respecting houses divided into separate tenements), shall, in its application to the...
Lords Amendment:
Where it appears to the Minister that on account of the special architectural historic or artistic interest attaching to a locality it is expedient that with a view to preserving the existing...
The Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899, shall have effect subject to the following amendments:—
This Act shall apply to Scotland, subject to the following modifications: (1) References to the Minister of Health in this Act, except in Section ten, shall be construed as references to the...
3. Section forty-one relating to the assessment of compensation shall in its application to schemes both under Part I and Part II
MINOR AMENDMENTS OF HOUSING ACTS. Enactments to be amended. Nature of Amendment. Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, 63 & 54 Viet, c. 70. s. 38 (10) The words "at the expense of the...
ENACTMENTS REPEALED. Session and Chapter. Short Title. Extent of Repeal. 9 Edw. 7. c. 44 The Housing Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909. Sub-sections (3), (4), (5), (6) and (8) of Section...
Read the Third time, and passed.
Read the Third time, and passed.
Order for Third Reading read.
Not amended (in the Standing Committee), considered; read the Third time, and passed.
Resolved, That the Special Order made by the Electricity Commissioners under the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1922, and confirmed by the Minister of Transport under the Electricity (Supply)...
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