Monday, 4 August 1924
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Clyde Valley Electrical Power Bill [Lords],
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the post of Public Health Commissioner at Simla will be vacant in August of this year; and whether those considered for the appointment...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, now that the Punjab Government has notified that it has been Compelled to prosecute the publishers of newspapers containing matter...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he can give any information regarding the document signed President in Council, Red Bengal, posted on the walls of public buildings in Calcutta...
5. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if it has now been finally decided whether the railway lines in Kenya and Uganda, authorised under the Supplementary Estimate for £3,500,000...
8. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the estimated sum of £2,500,000 for the Takoradi harbour works includes the erection of necessary administrative buildings, such as...
Lieut.-Colonel T. WILLIAMS: 9. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can give particulars concerning the killing of members of a British patrol in Mosul?
10. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has determined the constitution of the Committee which he is setting up to inquire into land questions in West and East Africa; and,...
11. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that on the management of the Pirbright cattle-testing station a loss was incurred in 1922–23 of £1,778 on total outgoings,...
16. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Mrs. Marguerite Harrison was ever in British employ; and whether her reports were ever received by any British Government Department...
17. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the short time remaining for discussion, he will issue a Paper giving particulars of the financial proposals to be submitted to...
18. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the Government are aware of any treaties or conventions concluded between signatories to the Treaty of Versailles which have not been...
19. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the reports of the existence of a secret treaty between Japan and Soviet Russia; and whether he can...
23. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the decision of the Court of Appeal on Wednesday last in the case of T. J. Brocklebank Limited v. The King, and the...
25. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the conflict of expert opinion regarding the effect on military and naval strategy of the construction of a Channel tunnel, and the fact that the...
26. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the general interest in the question of the limitation of armaments, he will, when making his promised statement to the House upon the Treaty of...
Mr. EDMUND HARVEY: 27. asked the Prime Minister whether he will be willing to consider evidence from Mrs. Stan Harding to show that her condemnation and imprisonment in Russia, as the result of...
28. asked the Prime Minister whether, if the Lithuanian Government has now ratified the Memel Convention, he will take immediate steps to accord full diplomatic recognition to the representative...
29. asked the Minister of Agriculture what is the nature of the proposed drainage works to be undertaken in the basin of the Great Ouse; what is the estimated Cost; when work will begin; and how...
42. asked the Minister of Labour the date on which the new unemployment benefit will commence for those who are qualified?
Duchess of ATHOLL: 31. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that, out of 991 outbreaks of sheep scab occurring between January, 1923, and April, 1924, 882 occurred in England and...
43. asked the Postmaster-General whether he will investigate the circumstances that arose at Lochboisdale, South Uist, on the 2nd ultimo, owing to the failure of the mail steamer "Plover" to...
50. asked the Secretary for Scotland whether he is aware that the Scottish Education Department at present refuse to supply to the pupils leaving school before the end of the session the results...
33. asked the Minister of Labour if he will make provision in the Hours of Industrial Employment Bill whereby the existing agreements between employers and their workpeople shall be exempt from...
36. asked the Minister of Labour the number of alien musicians employed within the area of Greater London, and also the number of musicians of British nationality within such area who are...
37. asked the Minister of Labour the number of alien waiters employed within the area of Greater London, and the number of waiters of British nationality within such area who are registered at...
39. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the evidence he has received of low pay and bad conditions of work in the catering trade, he proposes to set up a trade board?
40. asked the Minister of Labour how many inspectors and investigators are employed in the Trade Board Department; by how many have these numbers increased since he took office; and will he ask...
54. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he has reconsidered his decision to exercise compulsory powers of purchase at Lulworth Cove; what steps he has taken to get another site for War...
47. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the price of bread is to be raised to 10d. a loaf in London on Monday next; and whether it is disproportionate to the real condition of the...
46. asked the Minister of Health whether all the brickfields in the country are now working at their full capacity; and, if not, is he taking any steps to see that all the brickfields will turn...
53. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air if the present Air Force Regulations provide, in the event of Air Force pensioners, being recalled or invited to return to service in case of a...
56. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that in the Metropolitan prisons there are insufficient cells set apart for offenders suffering from tuberculosis and...
57. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that Eugene Guidici, who has been in this country for over seven years, is now in the hospital of Pentonville Prison serving a sentence, passed...
58. asked the Home Secretary whether the men engaged with the Metropolitan Police for the licensing of stage carriages pass any examination in mechanical engineering or coach-body building, or...
59. asked the Home Secretary if his attention has been called to the widespread feeling existing that capital punishment has failed to act as a deterrent to homicide; if he is prepared to...
61. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the advisability of issuing, in a simple and concise form, a statement of the changes effected by the passing of the amended Old Age...
63. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any representations have been received as to the payment of allowances to copying typists who, by reason of their skill in the use of...
64. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many counsel were briefed in addition to the Attorney-General for the prosecution in the recent trial of Vaquier; and what sums each counsel,...
20. asked tile Prime Minister what arrangements have been made to deal with any serious disturbance in, or urgent matters connected with, the Dominions and Crown Colonies during the absence of...
62. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has any information to give in regard to the claim put forward by the officers of the Silesian Frontier Delimitation Committee; and...
21. asked the Prime Minister whether in sanctioning the appointment of a Southern Irish minister plenipotentiary in America to take charge of all affairs relating only to the Irish Free State,...
22. asked the Prime Minister whether, having regard to the definite pledge of the British Government, in their letter addressed to the Irish Provisional Government, dated 26th July, 1922, and...
32. asked the First Commissioner of Works if he will place an enunciator in the Map Room of the Library?
66. asked the Minister of Transport whether his attention has been called to the increasing number of police charges under the Motor Car Acts and the convictions recorded for these offences; and...
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the report in the Press of the murder of Mrs. H. E. R. Evans at her hacienda, Puebla, Mexico, and whether he...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he has any statement to make with regard to Ireland?
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: The Prime Minister asked me to repeat today a question which I put to him last week regarding the Allies' Conference. I would like to know whether he has any information to...
Ordered, That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted at this day's Sitting from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[The Prime Minister.]
That they have agreed to,— Old Age Pensions Bill,Pensions (Increase) Bill,Post Office (London) Railway Bill,St. Helen's Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order Bill, without...
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 244.]
Order for Second Reading read.
I desire this afternoon to take advantage of the Second Reading of this Bill to raise one or two questions concerning industrial disputes which are unhappily in existence at this time, and to put...
In the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's speech, in which he dealt with the burden thrown upon local authorities by unemployment, he announced two concessions, and those who are affected...
On 2nd May, 1923, I proposed the following Motion That the present system of imposing upon the Catholics of England the burden of building their own schools is contrary to religious and economic...
I am sure we have all heard with great satisfaction the declaration of the President of the Board of Education that he will administer the existing law with the strictest impartiality. At times...
Order for the Third reading read.
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Question, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
I am sorry to detain the House at this late hour, but I feel I am bound to ask the attention of hon. Members for a little while to the case of the pensions which have been paid to certain ranker...
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