Wednesday, 25 June 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
West Cheshire Water Bill,
"to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to London and North Eastern Railway (Dock Charges, Scotland)," presented by Mr. WILLIAM...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what effect the new United States immigration law, which comes into force on 1st July next, will have on the number of persons allowed to enter...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the attention of His Majesty's Government has been drawn to the further reports of the continued reign of terror in Montenegro;...
7. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to the fact that a recent Admiralty Order causes a reduction of 1½d. per hour in the wages of men...
8. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that His Majesty's Ship "Weymouth" has been ordered to sail for the East with relief crews early in July; that this will...
9. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he will follow the precedent established in 1922 and publish, for the information of the men, a list of requests advanced by the 1924...
10. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether any of the tubercular naval invalids included in the 97.9 percentage for 1923, considered to be non-attributable to service, have...
11. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty why naval lunatic ratings, whose insanity is attributable to service, have their pensions withheld and appropriated to the cost of their...
12. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty from what ships or establishments will the officers and ratings required to put the Admiralty yacht "Enchantress" into temporary commission...
16. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that the Navy, Army and Air Force Institute is at present running the officers' mess of His Majesty's submarine depot at...
17. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether any decision has yet been reached with reference to the payment of a marriage allowance to officers of the Royal Navy?
18. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the case of Mr. Albert Oldland, of 41, Gerrish Avenue, Redfield, Bristol, who lost his toes due to frost bite during the...
22. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that Mr. J. Parkin, 6, York Street, Willington, County Durham, served nearly three years in the fighting line, being twice wounded; that he has...
21. asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons, men or women, registered as unemployed in this country in each individual trade separately?
23. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that many labour employment committees are demanding the production of documentary evidence that work is being sought; that this is proving a great...
24. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that the unemployment benefit of Joseph Hornby has been disallowed owing to the fact that, on the 4th April, in company with other members of the...
29. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is taking any steps to prevent the recurrence of errors such as those representing over a half a million sterling referred to in the Unemployment Fund...
32. asked the Minister of Labour the number of Employment Exchanges maintained by his Department in the County of London; the total staff which are employed at the same; and the approximate...
19. asked the Minister of Labour the principle adopted by his Department when men are transferred from one Employment Exchange to an Employment Exchange in another district for employment on...
25. asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons who have applied for uncovenanted benefit in the following Glasgow Employment Exchanges: South Side, Govan, Bridgeton, Springburn, Glasgow;...
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any intimation has been received from the Russian Government that they are prepared to place orders in this country which will provide work...
33. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the Bristol mineowners have threatened to lock out the miners in the Bristol area unless they consent to dishonour the national agreement...
37. asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to complaints about the conditions under which men and women passing through villages in search of work are compelled to sleep in...
39. asked the Minister of Health what number of new working-class houses he estimates to be necessary to make up for present arrears, to replace old houses to be closed between now and 1938, and...
Mr. SIMON: 41. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of Professor Bowley's recent estimate that the rate of increase of the population of Great Britain will steadily become less during...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 42. asked the Minister of Health whether he is prepared to introduce legislation which will enable members of local authorities to receive a housing subsidy under the...
Mr. T. THOMSON: 54. asked the Minister of Health with regard to his recent negotiations with the representatives of local authorities as to the terms of his new Housing Bill, whether he will say...
55. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Kingston-upon-Thames housing committee submitted certain proposals for the erection of houses, with the respective estimates, for his...
57. asked the Minister of Health the number of houses built under the 1923 Act which are being occupied as alternative dwellings such as week-end cottages?
59. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received a letter from the Tottenham Urban District Council drawing his attention to five cottages in Woodville Grove, Tottenham, which have,...
60. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the housing conditions in Angmering, Sussex, are most unsatisfactory; that a large number of houses in that district have already been...
61. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that houses built by the Building Workers' Guild at Irlam were £260 cheaper than the same size and quality of houses built by...
62. asked the Minister of Health the number of slum areas in the county of London his Department has given sanction to for clearance under the Housing Act of last year; and will he state...
65. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Bristol Brick Company, Limited, on 16th June again raised the price of bricks in Bristol by 4s. 6d. per thousand for common...
40. asked the Minister of Health whether he can now make any statement as to the effect of the recent inundations in the Midland and West Midland counties?
43. asked the Minister of Health what the intention of the Government is regarding the suggested compulsory disinfection of East India wool; whether he is aware that if this Regulation is brought...
46. asked the Prime Minister if he is aware that for different can see both the Japanese and American warship building programmes have been retarded for at least one year; and whether he will...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that the Government have information that Communist organisations in this country have received and are receiving money from foreign...
49. asked the Prime Minister what steps are taken to ensure that State expenditure upon the properties of the Forestry Commissioners, the Crown woods, and the properties of corporate bodies and...
50. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the unopposed Second Reading of the Blind Persons Act (1920) Amendment Bill and the necessity for this reform, he can see his way to star this...
51. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Committee of experts on finance, known as the Dawes Committee, while making recommendations as to the capacity of Germany to pay...
52. asked the Prime Minister when it is proposed to introduce the Financial Resolutions guaranteeing the principal and interest of the Four and a-half per Cent. Land Stock for the Irish Land...
69. asked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware that the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company are threatening to close down the line between Strathaven and Darvel; and, if so,...
71. asked the Minister of Transport whether, in view of the formal intimation now communicated by Sir Henry Maybury to the Dundee Town Council, confirmatory of the Minister's own explicit...
72. asked the Minister of Transport whether he has any statistics as to the approximate number and value of buildings which have been damaged or collapsed as the result of vibration due to heavy...
Captain BENN: 73. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the report of the court which investigated the circumstances attending the loss, with all hands, of the British s.s....
75. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether his attention has been drawn to the untidiness of the British Empire Exhibition grounds, to the litter of paper and...
78. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the effect of the revised police regulations in force for omnibuses at the British Empire. Exhibition is to give...
76. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether it is the intention of the Government to extend the hop control for a further period now that there is no longer any need for war-time measures; and...
77. asked the Home Secretary what is the present position of the Departmental Committee which he has decided to set up to inquire into the question of assaults on girls; and whether he is in a...
79. asked the Home Secretary whether a concession has recently been made by the licensing authorities at Scotland Yard to the London General Omnibus Company by passing a type of vehicle with a...
80. asked the Home Secretary how many men and women, respectively, of Russian nationality, are at present resident in this country; and, in the case of those who are wage earners, under what...
81. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any undertaking was given to him that reductions of the Entertainments Duty in the Budget would result in reductions in the price of seats to a...
82. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of Super-tax payers for each year since 1914?
83. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will state the papers in which on any occasion any of the dwelling-houses in Gretna or Eastriggs have been advertised; whether he is aware...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any data are available as to the approximate number of Germans belonging to the so-called patriotic societies, and whether he is aware...
30. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has any statement to make with reference to the present crisis in the building industry?
48. asked the Prime Minister whether he is able to make any statement to the House with reference to his recent meeting with the French Premier?
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prevent the sale of liquids or products made in imitation of and purporting to be vinegar. This is a short but exceedingly necessary Bill...
"to prevent the fraudulent sale of liquids or products made in imitation of anti purporting to be vinegar," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday...
Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 1) Bill,
Sir JOHN BRUNNER reported from the Committee on Group E of Private Bills; That, for the convenience of parties, the Committee had adjourned till Friday, 4th July, at Eleven of the Clock.
MR. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee C: Captain Sidney Herbert; and had appointed in substitution:...
That they have agreed to,
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 71A.
Order for Second Reading read.
Read a Second time, and committed to a Standing Committee.
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 71A.
Read a Second time.
Read a Second time, and committed to a Standing Committee.
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [21st May], "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
Motion made, and Question proposed. "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. F. Hall.]
A remark which fell from an hon. Member above the Gangway causes me to rise to ask the Minister of Health whether he can do anything to assist in regard to important questions arising in the...
I am delighted to see the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture here, because this is the first opportunity we have had of really getting to know what it is that he intends to do...
I am very glad to have this opportunity of raising a point which arises neither from the speech of the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. T. Johnston) or the hon. Member who has just sat down....
Debates in the House of Commons are an opportunity for MPs from all parties to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.
