Wednesday, 31 March 1926
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKERin the Chair.
"to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to Dunfermline and District Tramways,"presented by Sir JOHN GILMOUR, and ordered (under...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what instructions have been given to His Majesty's Minister at Peking with regard to the use of force to ensure that the treaty rights of Great...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware of the gravity of the situation in China, and of the probability of the collapse of trade and industry, both Chinese and...
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has approached the other Powers who were signatories to the Washington Agreement with a view to making joint proposals to the Chinese...
5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is intended to purchase a house. in Prague for the Legation; and if he will indicate which is the House selected?
6. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the total estimated cost for 1926–27 of the British diplomatic establishment in Turkey; how many official residences, including summer...
Captain CROOKSHANK: 9. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can now make any further statement with regard to the English high school for girls at Constantinople?
7. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his Department will do all in its power to-make mutual arrangements with whatever countries on the Continent- may be possible to extend...
10. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can give an estimate of the extent of the slave trade across the Red Sea; and whether he now has any information as to how the...
11. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of the declaration of the League of Nations' Commissions that Germany has faithfully fulfilled her Treaty obligations and in view of...
12. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can make any statement with regard to the representations made to Madrid respecting the new decree organising the sale and use of...
13. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether at or prior to the recent meetings of the Council and of the Assembly of the League of Nations any views were exchanged on the...
15. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty to state what action is being taken or contemplated to provide housing accommodation at Devonport for the established men and families transferred to...
16. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the total amounts of reductions made from the wages of established men are in excess or deficiency of the sum required to pay their pensions and...
18. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether in view of the fact that an average of over 1,300 men are invalided out each year from His Majesty's Navy, and that, in the event of their...
19. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether in view of the disadvantages suffered by married officers in the Navy, he will grant passages to the wives and families of naval officers serving...
20. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether there is any rule or Regulation governing the period of employment of officers below flag rank at the Admiralty; whether any such officers now...
21. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the rules governing the qualifying period of sea-time for promotions have been modified since before the War; and, if so, to what extent and for...
27. asked the Minister of Labour to what sections of out-workers or home-workers the Unemployment Act is being applied?
31. asked the Minister of Labour the reasons why Mrs. R. Price, 72, Aldred Road, S.E.17, Book No. Borough 144,840, was refused unemployment insurance benefit on the 26th March without being...
33. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that hardship is caused in certain cases owing to the Regulation under which refunds of unemployment insurance contributions paid in error...
34. asked the Minister of Labour if, in view of the hardship to ex-service pensioners involved in the issue and operation of Circular 82/22, which authorises rota committees to take into account...
23. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the unreliability of the live register as an indication of the extent of juvenile employment, he will see his way to defer his intended...
25. asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed persons in the paper-making industry for the most recent convenient date; and the comparable figures for the two previous years?
35. asked the Minister of Labour if he will re-introduce the specifications as to boys and girls in his weekly unemployment return?
36. asked the Secretary of State for Air when it is proposed to start the building of the airship R101?
37. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he purposes to bring forward the question of airship policy for the consideration of the British Dominions at the Imperial Conference in the autumn?
38. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether the experiment of a separate Air Service and Air Ministry has been tried in France; and, if so, whether it has been maintained or discontinued?
Captain CROOKSHANK: 39. asked the Secretary of State for Air what progress has been made with regard to the recently created Territorial air squadrons?
40 and 41. asked the Secretary of State for Air (1) if he is in a position to state what is the total cost of the Brennan helicopter, apart from the £50,000 paid to the inventor, in the...
44. asked the Postmaster-General whether he will consider the desirability of permitting smallholders sending parcels of their own produce through the post at half rates, such smallholders...
51. asked the Postmaster-General whether he will reconsider the proposal to sell the wireless station at Abu Zabal, Egypt, to a private firm seeing that the plant has recently been improved at a...
62. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the post of Director of the Government Labour Office at Bombay is to be combined with that of Director of Information; and, if so, whether...
63. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he will inform the House of the considerations which the Government of India had in view in inviting Mr. Narottam Morarji to proceed to...
64. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that 17 men belonging to a village near Viramgam, Gujerat, were recently arrested for trying to...
65. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the terms of reference of the Committee appointed to inquire into the possibility of improvements in Indian agriculture include the...
45. asked the Prime Minister what steps His Majesty's Government propose to take to give effect to the recommendations of the Imperial Economic Committee on the subject of promoting the sale in...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the fact that the statue of Lord Nelson, erected in Dublin in 1808, is to be pulled down; and whether this statue can be...
49. asked the Prime Minister if his attention has been directed to the paragraph under the heading of pig iron, on page 12 of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Control of the Coal...
54. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the hardship imposed upon some widows under the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1925, whereby a...
55. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the housing conditions in rural districts, he is prepared to grant financial assistance towards making the many existing ill-conditioned...
56. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that miners' nystagmus and other diseases to which miners are liable are not included in the Third Schedule of the Workmen's Compensation...
57. asked the Secretary for Mines the number of lead and zinc mines on the Home Office list in 1913; how many there are at the present time; and what number of men were employed in these mines on...
67. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is yet in a position to state when a Report may be expected from the Departmental Committee now sitting with reference to the Company...
68. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, with reference to the recent decision of the Trade Facilities Act Committee to provide a guarantee of £650,000 for the extension of the...
70. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the remarks of the Marylebone magistrate in connection with a summons issued by the Metropolitan...
71. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that in certain motor parking places in the Metropolitan police area men are given licences by the police to look after ears without any...
Mr. ERSKINE: 73. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the grinding-wheel industry could be doubled, to the advantage of all concerned, if a measure of safeguarding were...
74. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon what date the Government contract which expires 30th June, 1930, for the purchase of Australian zinc concentrates was made; what is the estimated...
76. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount by which the National Debt has been reduced by surpluses and sinking fund since 1920–21, and the savings in interest during the same period?
75. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give an approximate statement, in sterling, of the annual charges and percentages for the National Debt services
78. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that temporary clerks who, as the alternative to dismissal, are offered another appointment which involves a transfer to another...
79. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if his attention has been called to the far more economical, and yet equally efficient, system of printing the telephone directories in New York...
80. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that a German mission, mainly composed of officers, is being sent to East Africa to pay the native soldiers who served in the...
81. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he has any information regarding the disturbances taking place on the Turco-Iraq frontier?
26. asked the Minister of Labour for what reason he is discharging disabled ex-service men engaged on telephone and other duties in his Department and substituting girls in their place?
42. asked the Secretary of State for War whether the cost of the cavalry regiment added to the establishment from India, can be assumed to be£108,700, or whether addition must he made...
43. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will reconsider the case of Captain T. Bromley, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who, having been convicted of defalcations by court-martial, and...
52. asked the Postmaster-General whether he has received any complaints against the action of his Department in cutting up the turf, etc., in Kensington Gardens for the purpose of laying electric...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he was aware that a demonstration organised by the London unemployed was forcibly broken up and dispersed by the police in Hyde Park...
Will the Prime Minister inform the House what business he proposes to take when we resume after Easter; and can he at the same time give us any indication as to when the Budget statement will be...
I rise to ask for your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on a comparatively minor point, but one of some importance to Scottish Members. Under the Local Legislation (Scotland) Act, 1899, it is in the...
I desire to ask your guidance, Mr. Speaker on a point that has just been raised for the second or third time in the last three months in this House. I refer to the last statement by the right...
I beg to give notice that, on this day four weeks, I shall call attention to the lack of facilities for recreation in urban industrial areas, and the consequent need of acquiring or preserving...
I beg to give notice that, on this clay four weeks, I shall call attention to the question of the exploitation of the labour of native races in Crown Colonies and Mandated Territories, and move a...
I beg to give notice that, on this day four weeks, I shall call attention to the Reparation Fund and Inter-Allied Debts, and move a Resolution.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do meet To-morrow, at Eleven of the Clock; that no Questions shall be taken after Twelve of the Clock; and that at Five of the Clock Mr....
First Report from the Select Committee, with Minutes of Evidence, brought up, and read.
"to amend the Protection of Animals Act, 1911,"presented by Dr. SHIELS; supported by Sir Frank Sanderson, Mr. David Grenfell, Mr. Hannon, Mr. Thomas Williams, Sir George Hume, Mr. Whiteley, Sir...
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A (added in respect of the Midwives and Maternity Homes...
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Considered in Committee.
I beg to move, "That the Clause be postponed." There cannot be any doubt that this Clause very intimately affects the approved societies. Not only does it alter the whole of the financial...
I beg to move, That it he an Instruction to the Committee on the Bill to leave out Clause 3. I wish to express my regret that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Swansea (Mr. Runciman)...
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Postponed Proceeding resumed in Committee.
Question again proposed, "That those words be there inserted."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again."—[Mr. Chamberlain.]
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