Wednesday, 30 July 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Staffordshire Potteries Water Board Bill,
Copy ordered "of Indenture made the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, between Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited, whose registered office is situate...
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will request the Government of Mexico to fulfil its obligations towards British subjects in accordance with the Mexican Government's...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any representations have been made to any of the signatories to the Washington Convention that the alteration of the elevation of the...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Soviet authorities in Tiflis have informed the local manager of the Russo-Caucasian Company, Limited, that the...
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any proposal has been put for ward, officially or unofficially, by the Soviet Government for a loan in this country on the ultimate...
5. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he will state what progress has been made with the consideration of the granting of marriage allowance to officers in the Royal Navy;...
6. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that the cost of bread baked in the Navy victualling yard at Malta was equivalent in 1922–23 to 1s. 0½d. per...
9. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what ships under the Admiralty are now stationed in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf with the object of dealing with the slave traffic?
12. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that the Russian Government has great engineering requirements for which it desires to place orders in this country; and...
13. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty with reference to the Treasury Regulation, dated 11th August, 1914, on the subject of the civil pay of civil servants called up for service...
16. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether any decision has been reached by the Board with reference to the abolition of fees for naval cadets, as in the case of the American...
18. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if the inter-Departmental Committee which has been examining the question of the utilisation and position of the Royal dockyards has made...
19. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that the arrangements made for Members of Parliament to witness the Naval Review were quite inadequate, and that the...
20. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he can give the Admiralty reason for recommissioning H.M.S. "Maine" with Maltese ratings in the face of the unemployment at home?
7. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty how many destroyers and submarines are building and how many projected in the British Empire and Japan, excluding vessels not yet sanctioned...
22. asked the Minister of Labour how many acres it is proposed to reclaim in the Wash; and what is the estimated cost per acre?
24. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will submit a Return to the House showing the average percentage per 1,000 of unemployed persons refused uncovenanted benefit in London and Greater...
Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON: 69. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of the grants made by the Unemployed Grants Committee to local authorities to assist unemployment works schemes during...
25 and 26. asked the Minister of Health (1) whether, before giving his approval to the erection by the London County Council of five-story dwellings containing about 537 tenements, with...
28. asked the Minister of Health whether he can state the arrangements he has made concerning the facilities to be given whereby bricklayers' labourers may rapidly become fully-fledged craftsmen;...
32. asked the Minister of Health how many of the 247 villages in the administrative county of Warwick are now ineligible for the extra subsidy under the Housing (Financial Provisions) Bill, as...
34. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the fact that the success of the new housing scheme is contingent upon the supply of labour available, and of the great importance, therefore,...
38. asked the First Commissioner of Works if, with a view of improving the acoustic properties of the House, and of enabling the Members and visitors the better to hear the answers to questions...
40. asked the First Commissioner of Works when and by whom the decision was taken to place a painting of the introduction into the House of the hon. Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth...
39. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether his attention has been called to the suggestion to restore certain parts of Hadrian's Wall; and whether he will give his earnest consideration to...
31. asked the Minister of Health if he will consider the desirability of allowing local authorities to impart to people who wish to obtain it information as to birth control methods without...
37. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the breaking-up of homes of persons in receipt of Poor Law assistance caused by the action of certain boards of guardians in refusing to...
42. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that Sir H. Hambling and Major Hills wire nominated by His Majesty's Government as directors of Imperial Airways, Limited;...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether the Govornment will give special facilities to the Legitimacy Bill so that it may become law as soon as possible?
46. asked the Prime Minister when it is proposed to take the Second Reading of the Building Materials (Charges and Supply) Bill?
47. asked the Prime Minister whether it is any part of the policy of his party to guarantee a fair price to the farmer for his produce; and, if so, how and when he proposes to give effect to it?
48. asked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware of the traffic congestion which prevails at Aid-gate; if he is aware that the traffic difficulties at this spot are aggravated by the...
51. asked the Minister of Transport if any contracts are in course of completion or have recently been signed for new roads with a surface similar to that of the new Great North Road south of...
53. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give the total number of millions of tons of foreign steel imported into this country in the first six months of 1923 and the first...
54. asked the President of the Board of Trade if any report has been received by him of an encroachment on the foreshore at Sea-view,. in the Isle of Wight; and, if so, is any and what action...
56. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any payment has yet been made, and, if so, to what amount, to British nationals whose property was requisitioned by Turkish authorities in...
57. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether, considering that there has been a considerable increase in the catch of whales as compared with last year in Shetland, he will inquire into the...
58. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of ex-service men who have been appointed to the teaching staff of elementary schools from the various training schemes since their...
59. asked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the speech made by his military secretary, Lieut.-General Sir William Peyton, in opening a memorial hall at...
60. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can give the number of people convicted of methylated spirit drinking since the addition of pyridine was made compul- sory; and if...
62. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the publication, in a paper known as the "Workers' Weekly," of Friday, 25th July, of an open letter addressed to the fighting...
63 asked the Home Secretary (1) the dates on which Prisoner Bottomley was received at and removed from Wormwood Scrubs and Maidstone prisons, respectively; the number of visits the prisoner had...
66. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the serious objections raised by the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham in connection with the proposed granting...
67. asked the Home Secretary whether, having regard to the deception, and often injury to their health, inflicted upon poor people by advertisers of patent medicines, who allege that they are...
68. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the opening to the public upon payment of an entrance fee of the bungalow at the Crumbles, which has since been stopped by...
72. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can give the estimated aggregate profits of distilleries and of wine and spirit companies of the United Kingdom, respectively, for 1913, and for...
73. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps the Government takes to make sure that spirits exported under bond reach their appointed destination, and are not sold free of duty on the...
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: I want to ask the Leader of the House whether his attention has been drawn to a Notice of Motion which appears on the Blue Order Paper circulated this morning, which stands in...
Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us what business he proposes to take to-day if the Motion standing in the name of the Prime Minister be carried?
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Law relating to suicide. I ask the special indulgence of the House in moving for leave to introduce a Bill concerning a subject...
"to amend the Law relating to suicide," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to he read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 230]
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Constitution of the Port of London Authority. This Bill is one which has been considered for some time by the local authorities...
"to amend the constitution of the Port of London Authority," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 231.]
That they have agreed to,
Lords Amendment to be considered Tomorrow.
Lords Amendments to be considered To-morrow.
Read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 226.]
Read the First time: to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 227.]
Read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 228.]
Read the First time; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 229.]
Reported, without Amendment, from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills.
Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7) Bill [Lords],
Resolution reported from the Select Committee: That, in the case of the imperial Institute Bill [Lords], the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with—That the Bill be permitted to proceed.
[19TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding £1,229,500, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Admiralty Office, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £8,560,339, be granted to His Majesty, to complete? the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
A further programme estimated to cost £13,500,000 has been authorised by the present Government, towards which the Road Fund will contribute a maximum of £10,400,000."
"That a sum, not exceeding £1,518,536, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £5,221,680, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £5,939,552, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £1,217,983, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charges which will coma in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £1,347,678, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £60,717,308, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in "course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £14,506,195, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £445,000, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day...
"That a sum, not exceeding £1,385,000; be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £120,000, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day...
"That a sum, not exceeding £1,988,500, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £5, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of...
"That a sum, not exceeding £98,500, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day...
"That a sum, not exceeding £300,000, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day...
"That a sum, not exceeding £35,000, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day...
"That a sum, not exceeding £950,000 (including a Supplementary sum of £800,000), be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course...
"That a sum, not exceeding £37,861,904, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
"That a sum, not exceeding £10,105,000. 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, for...
"That a sum, not exceeding £27,000,100, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charges for Army Services, including Army (Ordnance Factories), which will come...
"That a sum, not exceeding £2,291,000, 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, for...
Considered in Committee.
Resolution reported,
"to authorise the Treasury to guarantee a loan to be raised by the Government of the Irish Free State for the purposes of land purchase in that State," presented accordingly, and read the First...
Resolutions reported—
Resolved, That the draft of a Special Order proposed to be made by the Board of Trade under Section 10 of the Gas Regulation Act, 1920, on the application of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of...
Resolved, That the Statement of the estimated Income and Expenditure of Greenwich Hospital and of Travers' Foundation for the year 1924–25 be approved."—[Mr. Hodges.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Lords Amendments be considered forthwith."—[Mr. Shaw.]
Lords Amendment:
Lords Amendment:
Lords Amendment:
Lords Amendment
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. F. Hall.]
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