Monday, 3 March 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three, of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
South Yorkshire Mines Drainage Bill (by Order),
"to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Bradford, Coventry, Isle of Thanet Joint Hospital Board, Stafford, Swansea and Whitstable," presented by Mr. WHEATLEY;...
Copy ordered, "of Treasury Minute, dated the 22nd day of February, 1924, on the subject of commuting the pension of two thousand pounds per annum payable to Lord Rodney from the Consolidated Fund...
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State, for India what amount accrued to the revenues of India from the salt duty for the financial year previously to the imposition of the recent enhancement of...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what are the reasons for the continued refusal to allow Mr. B. G. Horniman, editor of the "Bombay Chronicle," to return to India?
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether retired officers of the British Service residing in India are compelled to pay both British and Indian Income Tax on their retired pay;...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to the annual police report of the provinces of Behar and Orissa and Bombay and Sind, published in the Indian...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Crown Colonies Committee to be appointed by the Government of India and referred to in the Viceroy's speech on 31st January has in fact...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he will take steps to see that all officers of the Indian Political Department receive equal pay for equal service: whether he is aware...
7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether there is at present any censorship of native or British newspapers in India; what are the powers which are exercised under such censorship;...
9. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what is the total output of cotton in India during the last three seasons; the amount retained for home consumption and the amount exported, with,...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL: 8. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India
11. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the approximate area and population of the Jubaland territory which it is proposed to hand over to Italy; and whether the native...
13. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether two directors of one Suva firm have been appointed to the two unofficial seats on the Executive Council of Fiji; whether he has ratified...
15. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will arrange for the publication of all hitherto unpublished treaties or agreements with other countries?
16. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any conditions are attached to the granting of the loan to Hungary, under the auspices of the League of Nations, with regard to the...
Before the next question is asked, Mr. Speaker, may I ask whether you said, when you made your statement the other day, that we were to be rationed to two questions? [HON. MEMBERS: "No!"]
The following Question stood on the Order Paper in the name of 17. To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the seizure on Friday last of 186...
18. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Sudan Government is now withdrawing temporary allowances made to its pensioners calculated to meet the increased...
19. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is now prepared to arrange for the abolition of visas between this country and Czechslovakia?
22. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affaire when it is proposed to ratify the Treaty of Lausanne and to bring forward the necessary legislation?
26. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any fresh representations on the subject of the announcement of the Home Secretary respecting a revision of the Peace...
62. asked the Prime Minister whether he can make an announcement to the House as to the recent proposals made by the Government to the Allies in connection with the disarmament of Germany?
23. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is prepared to take immediate steps to call an international conference of representatives from the British, French, Italian,...
24. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state what is the number of French troops at present stationed in the Saar Valley; what is the present strength of the local...
28. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, at the approaching conference with plenipotentiaries of the Russian Soviet Government, the various firms representing different...
31. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that seven British-born subjects who were sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the United States of America for...
32. asked the Prime Minister whether he will reverse the policy of previous Governments by drafting any new legislation in language which will be intelligible to the ordinary citizen?
34. asked the Prime Minister whether he can see his way to bring in an amending Bill to the Trade Disputes Act to regulate peaceful picketing in cases where either mails or perishable food is...
35. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that Members of Parliament are subjected to what is now known as the postcard nuisance, and that many of these missives peremptorily demand...
36. asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to introduce legislation to give effect to the recommendations as to betterment contained in Section 3 of the Second Report of the Acquisition...
38. asked the Prime Minister what steps, if any, have yet been taken towards the construction of a rail way traffic and goods tunnel from Gravesend to Tilbury; and whether his advisers have...
39. asked the Prime Minister whether, inasmuch as provisions of the Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923, expire on 1st April next, he proposes to introduce any further legislation?
40. asked the Prime Minister whether he proposes to introduce legislation making provision for some collateral security which would protect ratepayers against illegal payments by boards of...
41. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government are prepared to carry out the recommendations of the Committee on National Expenditure of 1918 when setting up the Estimates Committee this Session?
43. asked the Prime Minister whether it is proposed to set up a Select Committee to deal with the position and grievances of the ex-ranker officers; and, if so, when he hopes to be in a position...
44. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the evidence given before Mr. Justice Lush and the verdict of the jury and the observations of the learned Judge in the case in which a Mr....
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he is satisfied with the success of the King's Roll; and whether, in order to give a suitable lead to private firms, he will make immediate arrangements that...
80. asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of ex-service men who have been, and still are, in the occupation of holdings under the Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919, on the Ministry...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he has now considered the Report of the Anderson Committee with reference to the pay of the three fighting services; and whether he can now announce the...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the negotiations between the Government and the Commercial Airship Company were almost completed when he took office; and whether, in view of...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether he has set up, or is proposing to set up, a special Committee to deal with League of Nations work; what is the composition of this Committee; what are its...
56. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government still adhere, as being necessary for the full resumption of international trade, to the six fundamental conditions stated in the first...
57. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the labours of the Select Committee on the Nationality of Married Women and of the amount of valuable evidence taken, he can allow an opportunity...
59. asked the Prime Minister whether, with a view to creating more employment in this country, he will issue an Order to municipal and other public bodies authorised to place contracts, requiring...
63. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the demand for maintenance in connection with specified trades, he will consider the desirability of introducing a comprehensive system of...
60. asked the Prime Minister whether he will give an undertaking that no free railway pusses will be issued to Members of Parliament without first asking the sanction of the House for this new policy?
61. asked the Prime Minister whether, following the Report of the Wireless Committee, whatever decision may be come to by the Government he will give an assurance to the House that the Empire...
64. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many members of the subordinate staff of the Kingston Penitentiary, Jamaica, are without official quarters; and whether, in such cases, he...
65. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) whether, in view of the anticipated shortage of accommodation for visitors in London during the time of the British Empire Exhibition at...
69. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn by the Imperial Merchant Service Guild to recent piratical attacks on British ships trading in Chinese...
70. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonics whether any of the Dominions who agreed at the recent Economic. Conference to form an economic committee to consider and advise upon matters of...
71. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether after 1st April, 1924, Northern Rhodesia will have the status of a colony or of a protectorate; whether its constitution has yet been...
Sir F. HALL: 72. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Irish Free State Government has carried out the guarantees agreed upon with regard to the Irish Loyalists in connection...
74. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that, under the Criminal Injuries (Ireland) Acts, interest at the rate of 5 per cent. is payable on all sums awarded as...
73. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what date were the Dominions informed that the question of the precedence of Dominion High Commissioner in Great Britain had been settled; and...
75. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his Department communicated with any other Department of the Government in the case of the ss. "Hartington," from which cargo was discharged last...
76. asked the Minister of Agriculture how the prices received to-day by farmers for cattle, sheep, pigs, cheese and hay compare with the prices received a year ago?
82. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the Hop Controller has ever purchased any foreign grown hops; and, if so, whether he will state the amounts in each year of the Control purchased?
84. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the original outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Nottinghamshire, occurred on a farm at Farnsfield about a fortnight ago; that the...
86. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether he will consider putting a clock over Mr. Speaker's Chair on the Reporters' Gallery so that Members facing Mr. Speaker can tell for how long they...
87. asked the First Commissioner of Works if he can give any indication of the time which must elapse before he comes to a decision regarding a second golf course to be laid out in Richmond Park;...
88. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether, in view of the success that has attended the opening of lawn tennis courts in the public parks, he will consider the opening of courts in Hyde...
Mr. Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A: Mr. Hutchison.
Right honourable Arthur Henderson, Borough of Burnley.
REPORT [28th February.]
1. "That a supplementary sum, not exceeding £2,958,010, be granted to His Majesty to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March,...
3. "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 the 31st day of March, 1924,...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £3,606,504, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
Resolution reported, That, towards making good the Supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the Year ending on the 31st day of March, 1924, the sum of £2,958,020 be granted out of...
"to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four," presented accordingly, and read the...
Order for Second Reading read, and discharged; Bill withdrawn.
Read a Second time, and committed to a Standing Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. F. Hall.]
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