Monday, 23 July 1923
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Birkenhead Corporation Bill,
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any of the provincial Governors have indicated in any way the opinion that, in view of the present situation in India, steps should be...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, in any of the provincial governments in India, the holding of joint meetings of ministers and the executive has been practised, and...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether suitable places of refuge and defensive posts have been prepared in each station and cantonment in India; and whether these are ready for...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any hostel accommodation is provided by the Government of India at the Universities of India for the sons of English officials or other...
Colonel NEWMAN: 5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, having regard to the changes that are being effected both in the Indian Army and in the method of Indian government...
7. asked the Under-Secretray of State for India why the rupee is still officially taken at 2s.?
8. asked the Under Secretary of State for India if his attention has been drawn to the resolution passed by the Indian National Congress at its final sitting on 1st January, 1923, to the effect...
11. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India why the circulation in India of the "Workers' Weekly" has been forbidden by the Indian Government; and whether any other Socialist papers legally...
14. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he can state how many coal mines in India are under the direct control of the Government or Government-controlled railways; what is the...
16. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that a memorial submitted to the Secretary of State by certain Imperial Service officers of the Telegraph Branch of the Indian...
18. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he can give a statement showing how many times the Government of India have been defeated in the legislative assembly in each year since the...
19. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his Department are prepared to lay before the House copies of the questionnaire which it is proposed to lay before the Court inquiring...
20. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to the reports of the Government of Bombay Labour Office, in which it is stated that 97 per cent. of the...
21. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether ex-Private Joseph Dowling, late of the Connaught Rangers, is still detained in prison; whether he is detained by His Majesty's...
22. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, before Departmental construction of the railways now contemplated in Kenya was adopted, any attempt whatever was made to find...
23. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received a communication from the Archbishop of Cyprus protesting against the present administration of that island and...
25. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the estimated total amount, including war charges, for which the British Government will become liable under the proposed...
28. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that slave-holding is still practised in the mandatory territories of South-West Africa, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar; what...
29. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies the amount of the yearly salary and expenses of Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner for Iraq, and the total cost of the mansion built for him...
30. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the repeated pledges of the British Government to see that proper compensation, in accordance with Article 10 of the...
31. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is aware that Joseph McPeak, a British subject residing in Scotland, on proceeding to Dublin to instruct a solicitor on behalf of his...
36. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies what Clause of the Treaty or of any Act of Parliament passed by the British Parliament authorises the Irish Free State to abolish the...
48. asked the Prime Minister the date of the Order in Council under which the Irish records, the property of the British nation, were handed over to the Irish Free State, and on what date such...
32. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies what colonies, if any, are not participating in the British Empire Exhibition?
33. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will state the reasons for giving complete exemption from Income Tax in the Tanganyika territory to all incomes earned by the...
37. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is aware that the Governor of Ceylon stated publicly at Jaffna that all his recommendations as regards the reform of the constitution...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the disappointment of supporters of the Government at the postponement of the debate on the capital levy from this day to an unknown date, he can...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouth in 1896 recommended the appointment of a Commission in order to survey with the utmost...
49. asked the Prime Minister whether he will take the necessary action to secure that future Joint Committees of the two House of Parliament will be so constituted as to give the House of Commons...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the advisability of an alteration of the present method of payment of Members of this House to one of payment according to the number of...
51. asked the Prime Minister if he is aware that the meat prices in London have jumped up in consequence of the dock workers' dispute; if he can state whether the cost of handling meat is now...
53. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that the Courts have interpreted the Treaty of Peace orders as vesting in the Crown, for the purposes therein specified, the separate...
55. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the proposals submitted by the late Prime Minister on behalf of the British Government in January of this year at the...
Captain BENN: 54. asked the Prime Minister whether he can now make a statement as to the Imperial airship scheme; and can he state by which Department the scheme will be controlled?
57 asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) the weighted average nominal weekly hours of labour (exclusive of overtime) for adult male labour in the States of Queensland, New South...
61. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether he will provide special facilities for the passing through all its stages of the necessary Bill, which is already prepared, for the reopening...
Third Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, brought up, and read;
"to make provision for Voting by absent voters at local government elections," presented by Mr. MIDDLETON; supported by Mr. Arthur Henderson, Mr. Ammon, Mr. Charlton, and Mr. Arthur Greenwood; to...
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had added the following Members to Standing Committee D (during the consideration of the Summary Jurisdiction (Separation...
That they have agreed to, Oyster Fishery (Roach River) Provisional Order Bill.Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill, without Amendment.Thornton Urban District Council Bill.Rugby Urban...
So much of Lords Message as relates to Sittings of Parliament, considered:
Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD: I beg to move, That this House deplores the enormous and growing expenditure on the naval and air forces and on other military preparations which is beginning once more...
Order for Consideration of Lords Amendments read.
(2) This Act shall, so far as it relates to England and Wales, be construed as one with the Agricultural Holdings Acts, 1908 to 1921, and, so far as it relates to Scotland, he construed as one...
A Bill, intituled, An Act to amend the Agricultural Holdings Acts, 1908 to 1921.
As amended (in the Standing Committee) considered; read the Third time, and passed.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Colonel Leslie Wilson.]
Debates in the House of Commons are an opportunity for MPs from all parties to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.
