Wednesday, 4 June 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Southern Railway Bill (by Order) (King's Consent signified),
"to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Minister of Transport under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Girvan, Great Yarmouth and Teignmouth," presented by Mr. GOSLING...
"to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the Keighley Corporation Act, 1912, relating to Keighley Corporation Trolley Vehicles," presented by Mr. GOSLING; read the...
"to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the St. Helen's Corporation Act, 1921, relating to St. Helen's Corporation Trolley Vehicles," presented by Mr. GOSLING;...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will give directions for the publication of the findings and recommendations drawn up at The Hague last spring by the Committee of...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he proposes laying upon the Table of the House, in the form of a White Paper, the representations which have been made to the Liberian...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Rumania has undertaken the liabilities in connection with the property to which she has succeeded under the Treaty of St. Germain?
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any additional grant has been received from the Government of Peru in compensation to the British emigrants who returned from Peru in...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if His Majesty's Government will ask for a Report from His Majesty's Ambassador in Paris, who is the British representative on the...
7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that considerable friction, threatening a breach of the peace, has again arisen between Poland and Lithuania in regard to...
8. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Admiralty have given orders for the Admiralty yacht "Enchantress" to be temporarily commissioned; whether he is aware that this...
12. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that a dispute exists between Messrs. Vickers and Company, Barrow, and the Boilermakers' Society concerning the...
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty when the verbatim Report of the 19th Men's Canteen Committee meeting, held on the 25th April, 1924, will be issued for the information of...
20. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that certain warrant officers who are now in receipt of naval pensions will suffer hardship when the 5½ per cent....
25. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the experiments with the divisional system in His Majesty's ships have shown that this system would benefit His Majesty's naval...
26. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether, seeing that the established men in His Majesty's dockyards retiring since the 20th March, 1922, receive pensions which are...
28. asked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty whether, seeing that the yardscraftsmen in His Majesty's dockyards have had a grievance regarding the number of hours worked in comparison with the very...
(by Private Notice) asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether it has been decided to detail a division of destroyers for service in the Red Sea; whether he is aware that such...
17. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware the Japanese light cruiser "Naka," of 5,570 tons, and armed with seven 5.5-inch guns, was very badly damaged by the...
22. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what will be the destroyer strength of the British, American, and Japanese Navies in 1919; and what the position is to-day, eliminating in...
29. asked the Minister of Labour whether any statistics are available to show the number of women at present in receipt of unemployment benefit who had not completed their eighteenth year in...
33. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can give any figures showing the amount of unemployment among agricultural labourers at the present time?
34. asked the Minister of Labour the number of appeals arising under Section 8 (1) of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920, made to the Court of Referees and the umpire during 1923, and the...
35. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that porters employed in hospitals do not come within the scope of the Unemployment. Insurance Act; and whether he will consider bringing them...
41. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is prepared to re-open the Employment Exchange at Eltham?
Mr. T. THOMSON: 55. asked the Minister of Health whether in those cases where unemployment is above the average for the rest of the country, he would recommend the Government to make larger...
43. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that, owing to a strike of boys connected with ship repairing at Birkenhead, a number of men were suspended; that on the dispute ending all...
44. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the necessity for the Government to make further efforts to relieve unemployment, any of the following proposals will receive their support...
31. asked the Minister of Labour what countries represented at the Washington Convention have refused to ratify the proposal for a 48-hour week; if he has any information as to the reasons for...
40. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that considerable dissatisfaction is expressed by the employer members of trade boards through the action of the Government in only allowing...
45. asked the Prime Minister if he can now state the Government's decision on the Donald Wireless Report?
46. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to a speech made in Northampton on 31st March, 1924, by Major Evans, a permanent civil servant in the Ministry of Pensions, in...
53. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that a large number of habitable houses in Champion Park and Denmark Hill, Camberwell, have been recently sold for purposes of demolition; for what...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 55. asked the Minister of Health if he can give any figures showing the number or percentage of building operatives engaged on the construction of working-class houses...
58. asked the Minister of Health whether he is now in a position to make a statement regarding his official attitude towards the right of local authorities to enter into contracts with the...
63. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the case of a landowner in a north-eastern district who, in spite of the prevailing scarcity in bricks, refuses to sell...
67. Junior asked the Minister of Health how many dwelling-houses have been built under the auspices of public utility housing societies since 1919; whether these societies have received any...
69. asked the Minister of Health if he will introduce legislation to enable him to prevent owners of land with building materials in it from increasing their prices for these commodities?
73. asked the Minister of Health whether he proposes to afford to local authorities who are at present engaged in the preparation of housing schemes under the Housing, etc., Act, 1923, the...
56. asked the Minister of Health whether the General Nursing Council for England and Wales duly submitted its amended election scheme before the 14th March, 1924, as required; if so, whether such...
61. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received any representations from urban or rural district councils or other bodies as to the increasing number of hoardings for bill-posting being...
47. asked the Prime Minister what are the Government's proposals in regard to the development of light railways?
90 and 91. asked the Minister of Transport (1) if he has received a representation from the Dumbarton Town Council for a grant towards the making of a new road in connection with housing scheme...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government is prepared to facilitate the Blind Persons Act (1920) Amending Bill by introducing the necessary Financial Resolution?
49. asked the Prime Minister whether the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, who left England by aeroplane on 30th May for Vienna via Prague, is making this journey in connection with the public...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to a statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Slaithwaite on 16th May on the subject of electoral reform; whether, in...
52. asked the Prime Minister the names of the Soviet Delegation now sitting at the Foreign Office; and whether any undertaking has been obtained from them to abstain from propaganda of a...
52. asked the Prime Minister if there are any unpublished documents dealing with the responsibility of Admiral von Tirpitz in the matter of the German submarine campaign during the Great War; and...
70. asked the Minister of Health if he will take steps to compel the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company to immediately recondition their land known as Navigation Road, Burslem, as in...
74. asked the Minister of Health if he will notify the heads of all mental institutions to send up to the officers of the Board of Control a photograph of every service patient suffering from...
75. asked the Attorney-General whether he is now in a position to state that the operation of the Law of Property Act, 1922, which is due to come into force on 1st January, 1925, will be postponed?
76. asked the Attorney-General if he has yet received the opinion of the highest judicial authorities as to the desirability of continuing the exceptional privilege of reply exercised by law...
78. asked the, Minister of Agriculture if, considering the difference between the price of fish at the quayside and in the shop, he will set up a committee of inquiry in order to discover the...
79. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the amounts of compensation paid for dairy cattle slaughtered in Cheshire during the earlier months of the outbreak of...
80. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can inform the House whether the commercial treaty between His Majesty's Government and Poland has yet been ratified?
83. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department if he will state the capital, interests, and profits during 1919–23 of Messrs. J. Lyons & Company, Limited, which...
The following question stood on the Order Paper in the name of Mr. LINFIELD: 82. To ask the Postmaster-General, whether, in view of the fact that, in addition to the ordinary duty of 48 hours per...
85. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether his attention has been called to the fact that at one of the restaurants at the British Empire Exhibition run by...
86. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department what number of waiters and waitresses are employed by Messrs. Lyons and Company in their restaurants at the British Empire...
88. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can now announce his reply to the application of the semi-skilled and unskilled workers of Woolwich Arsenal that the recent advances granted to...
89. asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in order to encourage thrift amongst non-commissioned officers and men of the Army, he will re-introduce an unrestricted system of allotments to...
Captain BENN: May I ask the Prime Minister whether he intends that the Lords Amendments to the Prevention of Eviction Bill shall be considered by this House so that the Bill may be passed before...
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether he is in a position to make any statement as to the progress of the Irish negotiations?
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prohibit the sale of certain vacant dwelling-houses and to cause the same to be made available for letting. The Bill, which is quite a...
"to prohibit the sale of certain vacant dwelling-houses and to cause the same to be made available for letting," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to increase the powers of joint electricity authorities. I do not need to press on the House the urgency of this problem, because last week...
"to increase the powers of joint electricity authorities," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday, 16th June, and to be printed. [Bill 162.]
Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill,
Read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Wednesday, 18th June, and to be printed. [Bill 159.]
That they have agreed to, Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No 1) Bill,Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill,Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Watford Extension) Bill,...
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
Lords amendments to be considered To-morrow, and to be printed [Bill 161].
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 71A. [Progress, 3rd June. ]
I beg to move, That this House urges upon the Government the desirability of extending the operations of the Forestry Commission and, generally, of promoting the interest of Afforestation, as a...
Resolution reported,
"That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £5,000, 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, 1925,...
Resolutions reported,
1. "That a, Supplementary Funs, not exceeding £350,000, he granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Technical and Warlike Stores of the Air Force (including Experimental and Research...
2. "That a Supplementary so in, not exceeding £150,000, he 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...
Order for Third Reading read.
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