Monday, 2 June 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Southern Railway Bill,
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether it is the practice of the Government in India to issue in statistical form information with regard to unemployment, health and education...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, seeing that the Bombay Government appointed. a Technical and Industrial Education Committee in March, 1921, that a Report was presented by...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the scheme for the reorganisation of the Royal Indian Marine on a combatant basis has been accepted in principle by the Government of...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, to avoid treating British members of the All-India Services on a different footing from British members of the provincial services in...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any interest has been paid to India on the sum of about £7,000,000 advanced by the Government of India from time to time for military...
6 and 7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India (1) whether he can state how far effect has been given to the recommendations of Lord Inchcape's Committee on Retrenchment to reduce the...
10. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he has any information with regard to the murder of Sub-Inspector Roy at Chittagong; and whether this was a political murder, and was in...
12. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India how many civil surgeons are employed in the United Provinces, and of these how many are commissioned European officers?
13. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India in what provinces the Forest administration is a reserved subject and, in those provinces, what percentage of the gazetted staff is European; and...
14. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he can give the names of the non-official members of the Committee appointed by the Government of India to inquire into the working of the...
48. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, considering that there is no retiring age for brevets in the Indian Army, and that a brevet-lieutenant-colonel of the Indian Army retires...
49. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that the Esher Committee on the Indian Army recommended that the Army in India should be entirely under the control, real as...
68. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether, in view of the Indian Tariff Bill and the new proposals which have been made within the last few days, he is taking...
16. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any arrangement has yet been made for the payment of the cost of the armies of the Allies which occupied Bulgaria from the date of the...
17. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has information to the effect that the President of the United States desires to call another conference on the subject of the...
18. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what progress has been made at the Mosul Conference; and whether the Government intends to refer any points still at issue to the League of...
19. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state what obligations His Majesty's Government has entered into with regard to the Rumanian annexation of Bessarabia whether this...
21. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the name of the Consul appointed to Montenegro can now be stated; whether consular premises have been secured at Cettinje; whether he...
22. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that a large number of British subjects have invested their savings in Austrian railways, guaranteed as to principal and...
25. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state the composition and destination of the illicit export of armament material from Austria during the last 12 months; if His...
23. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Turkey balances her Budget; and, if so, if the revenues assigned under the decree of Muharrem are allowed for in the Budget?
27. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any news of the two British missionaries who were captured by Chinese bandits at Taiwan?
41. asked the Prime Minister whether he will postpone the Second Reading of the China. Indemnity (Application) Bill until such time as the Chinese Government alter the conditions of their Trade...
30. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has yet received from the British Residency at Cairo particulars concerning the complaint of the treatment of certain British...
The following question stood on the Paper in the name of Sir H. BRITTAIN:31. To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there is any intention of appointing a representative of the...
66. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has yet received any reply to the communication addressed to the Irish Free State Government on the subject of the alleged...
The following question stood on the Paper in the name of Captain WEDG-WOOD BENN:32. To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if there are any unpublished documents dealing with the...
35. asked the Prime Minister whether he has received from M. Poincare any information as to Germany's recent preparations for war: and, if so, whether he will publish as a White Paper any...
34. asked the Prime Minister whether the Southborough Committee has yet presented its final Report; and, if not, whether the Report will be published before the Whitsuntide recess?
36. asked the Prime Minister if it can be arranged that the Forestry Commission shall be placed under some Department of the State so that a Minister shall be responsible for the allocation of...
37. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the strong feeling which exists against the practice of inundating Members of Parliament with demands for pledges upon the details of specific...
39. asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government has yet readied a decision with regard to fees at present paid for cadets under training for the Royal Navy, His Majesty's Army, and...
43. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that the provisions of the Scotch Lunacy Acts differ in many particulars from those of the English Lunacy Acts, it is intended to include...
49. asked the Prime Minister if he can arrange for the amended Prevention of Eviction Bill, on its return from another place, to be promptly dealt with in this House so that it may receive the...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that all applicants in Bristol for an extension of time prior to eviction are being informed either that not further extension can be given or...
74. asked the First Commissioner of Works why it is that his Department has practically ceased to build working-class houses, in view of the great shortage of this type of dwelling-house in many...
44. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the necessity for the Government to take further steps to deal with unemployment, the Government will take steps to assist in the construction of...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that in the issue of the "Daily Herald" of the 29th May an account was given of certain proceedings of the Committee of Privileges, and that the...
Sir F. HALL: 47. asked the Prime Minister whether it is intended to raise the question of reparation for the murder of Captain Cromie, of the British Embassy, with the Soviet delegates?
51. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is yet in a position to announce the name of the Chairman of the Irish Boundary Commission?
52. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has yet received the Ordinance introduced into the Gold Coast Colony at the instance of parties interested in local diamond mining;...
33. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Kenya Government is contemplating or has effected the removal of native inhabitants from the Loldaika hills, in the vicinity of the...
61. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to the state of the railway construction camps on the Thika railway extension in Kenya; and whether he can...
62. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any decision has been reached regarding municipal representation in Nairobi; and whether such decision is in accordance with the...
Lieut.-Colonel T. WILLIAMS: 55. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when the Iraq Treaty will he discussed in this House?
Mr. MILNE: 56. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that a meeting was held at the Imperial Institute on the 22nd May, under the auspices of the Fifth and Seventh...
Lieut.-Colonel T. WILLIAMS: 54. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the number of Jewish immigrants to Palestine and emigrants from. Palestine during the years 1922 and 1923, excluding...
57. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the system of trial by assessors, coupled with the power of the Judge to overrule the findings of assessors, is causing...
69. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can state what proportion of the agricultural labourers in this country are employed by persons who own the land which they occupy and what...
71. asked the Minister of Agriculture the exact position with respect to outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Great Britain on 1st June, 1924?
72. asked the Minister of Agriculture if any public funds are being spent as a subsidy towards the agricultural industry and, if so, the total amount for the current year?
73. asked the Minister of Agriculture what was the total number of smallholders each year under the Smallholdings Acts and the Land Settlement Facilities Act since 1908?
70. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is satisfied that, under the international arrangements made between this country and France and Belgium, the traffic in worn-out horses for...
60. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if, in view of the fact that a sum was allocated from public funds to the Irish Distress Committee in London for the relief of people who had to...
64. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if, taking the various cotton-producing countries within the Empire, he will state how many foreign steamship lines, trading between the ports of...
67. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been called to the case of persons domiciled and resident. in Great Britain Who possess property situate both in Great...
75. asked the First Commissioner of Works what War-time buildings still exist in Regent's Park; and when it is proposed to demolish the last of them?
May I ask what steps the Deputy-Leader of the House has taken to circulate copies of the Housing Bill, so that we may see it before we begin to discuss the Government proposals to-morrow?
I wish to ask your ruling, Mr. Speaker, on a point of Order. I sent in to you the text of a Private Notice question, of which I gave notice to the Minister, and I understood you to rule that it...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Committee to consider the case of the police strikers, dismissed the farce in 1919, has been arranged for; if...
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee B (added in respect of the Auxiliary Air Force and Air Force...
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee D: Mr. Pilkington; and had appointed in substitution: Mr Hobhouse.
Orders for Second Reading read.
Read a Second time, and committed to a Standing Committee.
Read a Second time, and committed to a Standing Committee.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. A. Parkinson.]
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