Thursday, 21 February 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
I beg to present an humble petition from the Trustees of the British Museum, humbly praying this Honourable House to grant them such further support towards enabling them to carry on the...
Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Bill (by Order),
3. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will make provision whereby disabled ex-service men who have been struck off the pensions list, but whose disability has since recurred, should be afforded...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware of the case of Mrs. E. Dickin, 51, Spring Gardens, Ilkeston, whose pension has been reduced from 14s. to 12s. per week on the assumption of...
6. asked the Minister of Pensions whether a man who has lost both legs below the knees as a result of war service, and who, through crawling, has now contracted fluid in both knees and, as a...
7. asked the Minister of Pensions, if, when dealing with revision of the scale of pensions in the case of Army-pensioner ranker officers, he will also undertake to consider the position in this...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 13. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will favourably consider the revision of the Regulations which prevent on the death of husband or wife the transfer of the...
14. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that John Webb, No. 61819, Machine Gun Corps, of The Cottage, Battery Lane, Portishead, Somerset, an ex-soldier with 10 years' service, who...
15. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has given instructions for the withdrawal of Circulars 356 and 363; and, if not, whether Members of Parliament can he supplied with copies?
16. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has now considered the question of affording to pensioners skilled legal assistance in the presentation of their cases before the tribunals and...
19. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that the need pensions of smallholders in the Highlands are partly based upon an estimate of income from the holding, and that, owing to the...
21. asked the Minister of Pensions what proportion of final awards made during the past 12 months has been assessed at disability nil?
29. asked the Minister of Pensions approximately the number of widows and children who are at present receiving pensions from his Department; and whether the numbers show an increase or decrease...
30. asked the Minister of Pensions whether any hospitals are still maintained by his Department for pensioners or for treatment; will he state how many there are and where they are situated, and...
31. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will consider the desirability of granting full disability pensions to all those with war disability during the period of their unemployment in view of...
32. asked the Minister of Pensions the sum estimated to have been saved by the reduction of dependants' pensions; what was the method adopted in the investigation; whether the individual...
9. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that a considerable number of ex-service men engaged as temporary civil servants under the Ministry in Edinburgh have received notice of dismissal...
10. asked the Minister of Pensions if it is his intention to be responsible for some 600 ex-service men who are suffering from mental trouble, who are, at the moment, under the care of the guardians?
12. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware of the conditions under which his Departmental staff work in the General Post Office buildings, Spring Gardens, Manchester, of the lack of proper...
35. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the excessive speed at which many cars are driven along the Thames Embankment during the...
36. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware of the great discrepancy between the amounts of pensions received by pre-War police pensioners and those who...
Mr. EDMUND HARVEY: 37. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Prison Commissioners have reported that, in carrying out their arrangements for educational work in...
39. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of aliens permitted to enter this country during the six months ending the 31st January, 1924; from what countries they...
40. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department what contribution Guernsey has offered to the Imperial Exchequer; and what is the amount of pensions and dependant allowances paid...
42. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the police regulations provide for any appeal against adverse reports on probationers, or if probationers refused full...
43. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that Stanley Crutchley, aged 14, of 20, Ezard Street, Higher Openshaw, Manchester, was, on the 3rd February, 1920,...
44. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that a person convicted by a court of summary jurisdiction who has a right to appeal from such conviction to a...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the requisitioning of His Majesty's Government, on or about the 30th July, 1914, of the battleships which were in course of construction in...
The following Question stood on the Order Paper in the name of Mr. ERSKINE:
had given notice of the following question:—
(by Private Notice) asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can now make a statement as to the policy of the Government in regard to the acceleration of the construction of...
52. asked the Prime Minister when a statement may be expected detailing the plans of the Government in regard to unemployment: and, if the plans of the Government are not yet matured, what...
53. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the danger to the country arising from recurrent unemployment, the Government proposes to make an inquiry into the underlying causes and possible...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the strikes during the past month, he is at once prepared to introduce legislation similar to that adopted by the Labour Government of the...
May I ask the Prime Minister if he has any statement to make to the House with reference to the position in the dock dispute?
Sir F. HALL: 51. asked she Prime Minister whether any decision has been come to by the Government to the effect that during the dock strike the police forces are not to be allowed to protect men...
54. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether a committee of mine-owners and miners has yet been appointed to arrive at an adequate definition of miners' nystagmus in...
55. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that large numbers of electors in the county constituencies are unable to vote owing to the distance of polling...
56. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he intends at as early a date as possible to introduce a Bill having for its object the codification of the law of...
57. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can see his way now to reduce the price of taxicab fares in London, or whether, as has already been successfully done in...
58. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, with regard to the letter received from the private secretary to the Secretary of State for the Home Department on 14th...
59. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether reasons for the reprieve of death sentences are ever published; and whether any statement has been made, or can be made, as...
60. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of immigrants admitted into the United States from the British Isles last year; how many of these went from...
61. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any instructions have been issued to the Metropolitan Police Force instructing them to attend all political meetings,...
63. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the widow of a constable who retired on a medical certificate before the 1st September, 1918, and who subsequently rejoined...
65. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can see his way to consider increasing the number of women police in the Metropolitan area to the original strength?
66. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been drawn to the explosion and fire at Erith on Monday, 18th February, in which 11 girls and one man, engaged...
67. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that many moneylenders make, upon those applying for loans, charges in respect of investigations out of all...
Should I be in order now, Mr. Speaker, in asking what has gone wrong with the screens which should wash the air before it enters this chamber?
Could the Prime Minister tell us what will be the business for next week?
"to provide for the regulation of Moveable Dwellings," presented by Major WHELER; supported by Brigadier-General Cockerill, Sir Henry Cautley, Captain Terrell, and Mr. Forestier-Walker; to be...
That they have agreed to,—
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding, £730,100, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £10, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending,...
Motion made, and Question proposed. That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £10, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending...
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Again considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £34,500, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
I beg to move, That this House do now adjourn.
Again considered in Committee.
Postponed Proceeding resumed on
Ordered, That the Committee of Public Accounts do consist of Fifteen Members.
Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to control the arrangements for the Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms in the department of the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House:
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. F. Hall.]
It is not my wish to take up hon. Members' time, especially after the very serious statement we have just heard, but I feel it my duty to call attention to a matter that is pressing and urgent,...
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