Thursday, 17 January 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
The following Member took and subscribed the Oath:
"to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to Tyne-mouth," presented by Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS; read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for...
I beg to move, That there be laid before this House a return of the names of every Member returned to serve in the Thirty-second Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,...
Motion made, and Question proposed,
1. asked the Minister of Pensions what is the total number of trainees who have received concurrent treatment and training at the Prince of Wales Convalescent Centre, Barry, Glamorgan, throughout...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 2. asked the Minister of Pensions the number of cases during the last 12 months in which pensions have been reduced on the alleged grounds of errors discovered in the...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Sergeant Tansley, of 10, Little John Street, Nottingham, has made two applications to the regional director, Birmingham, in respect of a...
5. asked the Minister of Pensions the number of cases in which the pension appeals tribunal has postponed any final decision but in which the parties concerned are receiving no allowance of any...
11. asked the Minister of Pensions whether the great coats loaned to pensioners are old Army stores; what charge is made should the great coat be lost within twelve months, within two years, and...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether it is proposed to make the financial assistant secretary responsible for the Finance Branch and the Pension Issue Office; and whether it is proposed to...
9. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, although the late Deputy Commissioner of Medical Services at Ministry headquarters has no knowledge of nervous disorders, instructions have been issued...
15. asked the Minister of Pensions how many clerical employee of the Ministry of Pensions are at present under notice of dismissal; how many of these are ex-service men; how many are war widows;...
16. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will consider the desirability of transferring the issue of pensions from the pension issue office to area war pension committee offices; and whether...
17. asked the Minister of Pensions whether the duties of the Regional Director, London region, end on the 31st of January; and when this officer will cease to draw his salary?
7. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is in a position to make a statement with regard to ex-service men occupying the status of pauper lunatics; and whether he can inform the House the...
8. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been called to the case of Brown v. Turner, in the Bicester police court, in respect of which the cost of three trials within three...
18. asked the Minister of Pensions the number of ex-service pensioners whose pensions are supplemented by Poor Law relief; and, if not, whether he will cause such an inquiry to be made through...
24. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the employment of incompetent or unreliable presiding officers in a number of Parliamentary...
25. asked the Home Secretary whether he can state the full amount of compensation granted to the Irish deportees, and the amount of legal expenses incurred, if any, in dealing with this matter?
26. asked the Home Secretary what control His Majesty's Government has over the Special Constabulary in Northern Ireland?
28. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Mr. Wilfred Arnfield, who was sentenced at the Scunthorpe Police Court to 28 days'...
29. asked the President of the Board of Education how many physically and mentally defective children are on the roll of London special schools; and whether the figures show an increase or...
30. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he can state the number of qualified male teachers and female teachers who, after leaving their training colleges in England and Wales,...
33. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the approximate average price of the purchase of dollars of the second payment of $92,000,000 by Great Britain to the United States on...
34. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amount of Government War Stocks exchanged into the Three and a half per Cent. Conversion Loan since 1st April, 1923; and how much...
36. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will state the expenditure to date in dealing with the present epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease; and what amount is spent on scientific research as...
38. asked the Minister of Agriculture if his attention has been called to the large number of agricultural workers who, through no fault of their own, are being discharged as a result of the...
39. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the dissatisfaction expressed with regard to the delay in inspecting and dealing with the case of foot-and-mouth...
37. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been drawn to the conditions of employment on the drainage scheme under the Sow and Penk Drainage Board and river cleaning at Great...
27. asked the Home Secretary whether any restrictions are at present in force to prevent the entrance of aliens into this country for employment in non-trades union positions such as shop...
40. asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that Dartford is excluded from the London telephone area and that, in size and importance, it exceeds towns which are included; and, having regard...
41. asked the Postmaster-General if he is able to state how many licences have been taken out under the regulations for broadcasting what proportion of them are experimental; and what have been...
42. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that auxiliary sorters are employed at the Inland Revenue section, Mount Pleasant, for 3, 3½and 4 hours, on six evenings weekly, between...
43. asked the Postmaster-General whether the usual complement of auxiliary postmen was employed during the recent Christmas period; and, if not, will he state the reason?
44. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether he is prepared to favourably consider the proposal to fix a light at the top of the Cenotaph to be kept constantly shining; and whether he is...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 45. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the considerable expenditure of lime and money involved in the present method of Members being sworn in after a General Election,...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether anything has been done to dispose of the Government holdings in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company shares; and whether he will make a statement to the House on the...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the desirability of amending the law so as to enable invalids and inmates of hospitals to exercise the franchise at Parliamentary and other...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government have received complaints from British traders arising from the refusal of the German Government to comply with the provisions of the Reparation...
I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for War a question of which I have given notice, both public and private. It is with regard to the soldier Wood who was imprisoned and lost his stripes...
asked the Prime Minister if Lord Milner's Committee has presented its Report to the Cabinet, and, if so, can it be laid on the Table of the House?
[THIRD DAY.]
I beg to move, at the end of the Question, to add the words But it is our duty respectfully to submit to Your Majesty that Your Majesty's present advisers have not the confidence of this House....
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Commander Eyres-Monsell.]
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