Tuesday, 12 February 1924
The House met—after the Adjournment on Tuesday, 22nd January—at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath:
For the Borough of Burnley, in the room of David Daniel Irving, esquire, deceased.—[Mr. Spoor.]
1. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether it is intended to reintroduce the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill which was reported by a Select Committee of both Houses in July last; and...
2. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any experimental investigation is taking place in order to ascertain whether beef imported from Australia and New Zealand can be shipped in a...
4. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the increased use of internal combustion engines, he will take measures for the production of such fuel in this country?
5. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will consider the desirability of the construction of a road and railway tunnel under the estuary of the Humber with a view of relieving...
6. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can give any estimate of the loss to the country caused by the railway strike in regard to trade stoppages and hindrances to export, as well as...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 10. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether, in industrial areas where the rates are already excessive, he will sanction the payment to the...
12. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether he is aware that drivers of motor cabs frequently cannot afford to make the necessary lump sum payment demanded for an...
7. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he has con- sidered the pension claims of the ex-Army ranker officers and what action the Government proposes to take in the matter?
8. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether he proposes to put into force the recommendations of Lord Mackenzie's Committee on Trawling?
9. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether, in view of the urgent necessity for a school in the Riddrie district, Glasgow, he will take steps to have one built with all speed?
13. asked the Postmaster-General whether he proposes to continue the Advisory Committee of business men; if so, whether he will give their names and qualifications; and, if not, whether he...
14. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware of the delays in accepting new subscribers at the Hampstead telephone exchange; that the controller has to inform the new stub-scriber that a...
15. asked the Postmaster-General whether his Department is pursuing investigations into the. commercial possibilities of wireless telephony; and, if so, with what result?
Mr. T. THOMSON: 16. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will suspend the reduction of pensions due to alleged errors in the original assessment of dependence until the Government has had time to...
17. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether His Majesty's commercial diplomatic officers in foreign countries have been given any instructions to hold themselves at the service of...
18. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps have been taken for the purpose of effecting the de jure recognition of the Russian Government?
19. asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the provisions for the extraction from Germany of 26 per cent. of the value of goods exported from Germany to tins country will...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 22. asked the Minister of Health if he will receive a deputation representing those necessitous local authorities whose claims have already been brought to the notice of his...
30. asked the Minister of Labour the number of men unemployed in each month of the last three months of 1923, and the number whose unemployment books were out during that period in the following...
31. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can give an undertaking to the House that the proviso shall be abolished in unemployment relief schemes under direct labour whereby only 75 per cent....
Mr. T. THOMSON: (by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the unemployment Grants Committee have refused to allow the Middles-brough corporation to buy 400 tons of...
23. asked the. Minister of Health what is the total number of houses sanctioned for building under the Housing Act, 1923, up to the 31st December, 1923; what is the total number of houses of each...
Mr. MARDY-JONES: 24. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that private medical practitioners experience difficulty in obtaining supplies of glycerinated calf lymph of the same...
26. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the pollution of the atmosphere by coal smoke, he will take immediate steps for having the question considered with a view to a satisfactory...
28. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that permission has been refused to Mr. and Mrs. Townend, 17, Hartsholme Drive,. Swanpool, Lincoln, to take with them to Bermuda the two boys...
20. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Foreign Office has received an invitation from the League of Nations to state what would be the attitude of this country towards...
21. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the present position regarding the Ruhr Valley occupation; what negotiations he has had with the Allies regarding the separatist...
33. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to a memorial now being widely circulated appealing for a world conference on reconstruction whether this represents the policy...
34 and 35. asked the Prime Minister (1) whether he proposes to make any reduction or alteration in the respective amounts payable in respect of Ministerial salaries; (2) whether he proposes to...
37. asked the Prime Minister whether any Members of the Cabinet are connected in any way with trades union organisation or work; and whether he proposes to apply to them the same rule affecting...
38. asked the Prime Minister if ho can state the policy of his Government with respect to agriculture; and whether he proposes to introduce any remedial legislation during the present Session?
39. asked the Prim: Minister what privileges and concessions are extended by the British Government to Mr. Howard Carter in his work of exploration in Egypt; and whether, in return for any State...
41. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will at an early date introduce a Bill to amend the Old Age Pensions Act by abolishing the thrift disqualification?
43. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total amount of the repayment of war debts of France to the United States of America. Japan, Switzerland and Spain, and also the individual amounts...
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to the wholesale, evictions now taking place all over the country of respectable tenants, some with large...
(by Private Notice) asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the release of Mr. Gandhi has been permitted unconditionally, or whether he has given any undertaking to refrain in the...
Mr. MILNE: (by Private Notice) asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the assassin who murdered Mr. Day in Calcutta on the 19th January, 1924, was a member of the Non-co-operation...
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the imminence of the dock strike due to start on the 16th February; whether he is aware that negotiations in...
(by Private Notier) asked the Prime Minister whether he can assure the House that neither he nor any member of the Government is any longer in any way connected with the Labour and Socialist...
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister on what days he himself personally will be available to reply to questions?
I wish to raise a point of Order in connection with the distribution of tickets for seats arising out of what, took place this morning. I myself and others, who may be called first nighters, came...
think it would be convenient if we could be told what is to be the course of business to-day. It has been stated that there is to be a Motion for the Adjournment of the Debate and it would be...
Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, baronet, for the City of London.
On Wednesday, 13th February, to call attention to the necessity for tegulating imports and the protection of home industries, and to move a Resolution.— [Mr. Milne.]
On Wednesday, 20th February, to call attention to Mothers' Pensions, and to move a Resolution.—[Mr. Duke.]
On Wednesday, 20th February, to call attention to the Communist organisation in Great Britain, and to move a Resolution.—[Jiajor Kindersley.]
On Tuesday, 26th February, to call attention to the grievances of ex-Army ranker officers, and to move a Resolution.— [Colonel Perkins.]
On Tuesday, 26th February, to call attention to certain broken pledges of the Government, and to move a Resolution.— [Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. Nail.]
On Tuesday, 26th February, to call attention to the dangers likely to arise from Imperial Preference, and to move a Resolution.—[Mr. Vivian.]
On Tuesday, 26th February, to all attention to the Rent Restrictions Act, and to move a Resolution.—[MR. Sherwood.]
I beg to move, "That Mr. Robert Young be the Chairman of Ways and Means." The House will remember that a Resolution moved by the late Government that two hon. Members of this House should be the...
Consolidation Bills,—That they communicate that they have come to the following Resolution, viz.: "That it is desirable that all Consolidation Bills of the present Session be. referred to a...
I beg to move,
want to appeal to the country to keep step. I see in the newspapers from day to day all sorts of stories about enormous loans that my colleagues are considering, enormous flotations of loans that...
What do we propose to do? First of all, we must carry on the administration of the country. There are a large number of things of no party import at all, but of national import, and these we...
There are two important agreements which have been signed and which must he ratified. There is the Treaty with Turkey signed at Lausanne, and the more recent Treaty, which, I am glad to say, has...
There is another very important matter to which I have fallen heir—fallen heir to it in a rather inconvenient form. I refer to Imperial wireless. I believe that for about 12 years this...
Then there is the matter of the ex-service men. We have already taken administrative powers to put an end to the internment of ex-service men whose reason was impaired in pauper institutions, and...
There are one or two very large questions which any Government coming in now must strive to handle, or, at any rate, conceive in a large way. Small pettifogging methods and policies and proposals...
Then we come to the problem of labour. We have had a great deal of criticism—and some of it indeed to-day—about how the only problem relating to the building of houses is trade union...
Now there is the other question, the question of unemployment. Here, again, we are faced with a problem at which, in my view, we have hitherto rather nibbled. Two things have to be secured, and...
One of the great factors in connection with this is the financial position of the country, and upon that we shall have to make a proposal a little later on. The position to-day is this: Owing...
I come to the point when we deal with "doles," as they are called, or insurance. Two expedients have been adopted which never had any rational foundation, and sooner or later they had to be...
We come to agriculture. In agriculture we have a subject of the most pressing national interest. I have not shared the views of the agriculturist who said the industry was "on its last legs."...
The Government propose to support, either by loans or by guarantees, co-operative enterprises controlled by the agricultural community, organized and directed mainly to deal with agricultural...
I have one further word to say, and that is about foreign affairs. In that connection I must explain to the House that, when I had to consider whether I would or would not take the Foreign...
The final aim of the Foreign Secretary must be to come to an agreement upon armaments. That is the test of a successful Foreign Secretary. I have that at the back of my mind. I feel quite sure...
Order for Second Reading read.
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Question, "That this House do now adjourn."
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