Thursday, 28 February 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
City of London (Various Powers) Bill (by Order),
1. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will state the number of
Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS: 95. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is arranging for all temporary messengers and minor grades of the Civil Service to be eligible for sick pay?
2. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will take steps to provide an opportunity for re-examination of disabled men whose disablement was assessed as under 20 per cent., and on that basis...
5. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will give instruction that, when medical boards are held, all answers to questions which are entered upon the proceedings shall be read over to the...
6. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will consider the desirability of amending the law relating to the right of appeal against final awards in such a way as to allow such appeal to be...
7. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will give instructions that all medical officers of the Ministry who are on the list for visiting men who have made application for treatment shall...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 8. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will authorise the payment of the travelling expenses of any relative, friend, or other person who, in the opinion of the local...
10. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will issue to officials dealing with applications for pre-war dependants' pensions received from crofters and small landholders instructions that the...
15. asked the Minister of Pensions the number of blind pensioners pensioned by his Department; what is the average pension received by such pensioner; whether, if such pensioner is the inhabitant...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions how many of the men who were discharged from the headquarters of the Ministry from 1st July to 31st December, 1923, were temporary ex-service men; and will he...
53. asked the Prime Minister whether it is the Government's intention to insist that at least 75 per cent. of the unskilled labour employed in schemes set up under the Trade Facilities Act shall...
Sir F. HALL: 97. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether girls of 16 to 17 years of age are still being appointed as writing assistants for purely routine work in the Civil Service...
20. asked the Minister of Pension if he can explain the delay in dealing with the reparation claim made by Mr. E. Henderson, No. S/3731/P2, 14, Robb Street, Springburn, Glasgow?
21. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware of the great difficulty under certain conditions at night in London experienced by drivers of vehicles of seeing...
Sir F. HALL: 22. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will consider as to the introduction of legislation to prevent the intimidation and violence at present...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the heavy losses caused during the last five years by industrial disputes, he will consider the advisability of introducing legislation making...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether he contemplates any legislation to deal with the abuse of peaceful picketing?
23. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether James Bernard Stolerman, Joseph Englestein, and Julius Brust, who were convicted of arson on 28th September, 1923, are...
35. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will state what is the present attitude of the Government to naturalisation; whether he is aware that every obstacle is...
26. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of prosecutions which were made, during the last annual period, of persons summoned for selling tobacco illegally between...
27. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can give information showing the total number of persons killed and the total number injured by industrial accidents in...
28. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that the same fares for taxi-cabs are charged as when the price of petroleum was...
30. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he proposes to establish or to consider the establishment of Appeal Tribunals, disciplinary, for the police and prison services?
31. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that there are in prisons many inmates mentally and medically unfit confined in observation cells, but in charge...
32. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the increasing traffic difficulties and increase of street accidents, any steps can be taken to alter the...
33. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, if prima facie evidence of injustice to a police probationer be produced, there is any court to which he may appeal, or if...
38. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that, under the Police Pensions Act of 1921, the widows of policemen with long service pensioned off before 1st...
40. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider the question of providing wind screens or sentry-boxes in very exposed and windswept beats for Metropolitan...
34. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that a person meeting with an accident on the public streets of the City is compelled to remain, if seriously...
39. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is proposed to print all forms in connection with future Parliamentary elections in bulk and to circulate these skeleton...
Sir F. HALL: 41. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in the event of the Government being satisfied that a number of omnibuses in excess of general requirements is...
42. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department the date on which it is proposed to put into operation the Report on pay, etc., of the prison service?
51. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the statement in the Press that the Russian Soviet Government has expressed its unwillingness to apply for admission to the...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the general lack of information with regard to the objects, extent, and cost of the British intervention in the civil war in Russia following the...
64. asked the Prime Minister whether he has information about propaganda against the British Empire in Afghanistan, India, Persia, and other countries carried on by the Soviet Government of...
90. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can now make any statement as to the personnel, both on the British and on the Russian side, of the Commission which is to be set up to consider...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to make such arrangements as may be necessary to enable the salaries of Members of Parliament to commence to accrue from the date of their election?
Mr. T. THOMSON: 49. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government have yet considered how far they are going to continue the restrictions of their predecessors in refusing to allow local...
54. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government have had time to consider the immediate construction of the Lower Thames tunnel between Gravesend and Tilbury, and the construction of the new...
Sir G. DOYLE: 55. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the principle that the Government of the day should be a reflex of the will of the majority of the electors voting, he will state...
Duchess of ATHOLL: 44. asked the President of the Board of Education whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce at an early date a Bill providing for a superannuation scheme for...
66. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that some education authorities are requiring supply teachers to pay Unemployment Insurance; and whether, if they make such...
67. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he will consider introducing a short Bill amending the Education Act, 1918, to enable the continuance of visits of school children to...
69. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware of the hardship that will be suffered by uncertificated teachers by the decision to discontinue the acting-teachers'...
70. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that scholars in central schools who reach the age of 16 before the completion of the educational year have to leave owing to...
56. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government intends to grant a public inquiry into the disastrous explosion at Slade Green?
57. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the seizure of 186 cases of liquor on the White Star liner "Adriatic" by agents of the Treasury sent from Washington; whether...
58. asked the Prime Minister if His Majesty's Government definitely repudiates the view that Macedonia is mainly Bulgarian and should receive autonomy?
59. asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce during the Session a Bill providing for the rating and taxation of land values?
61. asked the Prime Minister whether any steps have been taken or are in immediate contemplation for modifying any post-War Allied agreements in addition to the reparation levy on German goods?
72. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he is in a position to state when the auxiliary Air Force Bill will be introduced?
74. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air what is the total number of commissioned officers borne on the active list of the Royal Air Force; how many of these are held to be competent to fly...
75. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether his attention has been called to the case of Mr. W. H. Bailey, who, having been given a post at Bir Salem under the Palestinian Supply...
79. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air what is the policy of the Air Ministry with regard to the status and retired pay of those officers who have served in the Royal Air Force during the...
73. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air what is the present position with regard to the air-transport treaty between this country and Czechoslovakia; and what is delaying the start of...
77. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air if he can give the approximate total expenditure of the French Government on army, navy and civil aviation as provided in the latest estimates?
78. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether any estimate has been formed as to the relative cost to the country of proposals for nationalised building and equipping air-ship routes,...
80. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he has any information with regard to the proposed American attempt to fly round the world; whether he will obtain a Report from the...
81. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he will inquire into the possibility of a postal air service for the Western Isles of Scotland?
86. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will consider the advisability of basing the assessment of Income Tax under Schedule D on the profits of the year of assessment instead of on...
87. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would have been the additional cost of Old Age Pensions if the 895,924 recipients, on the last Friday in March, 1923, had all been drawing the full...
96. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any payment on account of Sugar Duty was paid or allowed to the English beet-sugar companies in Great Britain for last year; and, if no...
May I ask the Lord Privy Seal what business it is proposed to take next week?
First Report from the Select Committee brought up, and read.
Mr. Griffiths reported from the Committee of Selection; That, in pursuance of the provisions of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, they had selected the following twenty-five...
Mr. Griffiths reported from the Committee of Selection; That, in pursuance of Section 1, sub-section (3), of the Parliament Act, 1911, they had appointed Mr. Royce and Mr. Turton from the...
Mr. Griffiths reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee A (added in respect of the Rent Restrictions Bill): Sir Henry...
Considered in Committee.
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.
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 on...
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 on...
Order for Second Reading read.
Read a Second time, and committed.
Again considered in Committee.
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Question, 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...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Select Committee be appointed to examine such of the Estimates presented to this House as may seem fit to the Committee, and to suggest the form in...
Ordered, That the Lords Message [21st February] relating to Consolidation Bills be now considered.—[Mr. Griffiths.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Clynes.]
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