Monday, 18 July 1927
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Derwent Valley Water Board Bill,
"to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to Ayr Burgh (Water, etc.)," presented by Secretary Sir JOHN GILMOUR; read the First time;...
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India is appointing a committee to investigate the opium traffic in India; if so, what are the terms of reference; and...
2. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Report of the proceedings of the Conference which took place at Mount Abu on 27th June between the representatives of the Government of...
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to the discovery of a vaccine the use of which by the Bengal Health Association in Kulpi Thana, Bengal, has...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India has received any representations from bodies representative of Indian industrial and commercial opinion in regard...
6. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India has received from the associated chambers of commerce in India or other bodies any representations in regard to the...
7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he has caused any inquiries to be made regarding the assault upon an Indian servant at Spencer's Hotel, Madras; and, if so, what the...
8. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will now state the facts as to the recent disturbances in Kenya Colony with the Somalis; and if his Department has yet received an official...
15. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is in a position to state the names of the members of the East African Commission?
16. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in the event of the inclusion of the Tanganyika Territory in an East African Customs Union, steps will be taken to ensure that such a...
17. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Report by the experts appointed to consider railway construction in East Africa has now been made; and whether he is in a position to...
9. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether there has been any development of the port of Walfisch Bay since the war; what tonnage of ships the harbour will accommodate; whether he...
10. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what action is being taken to give effect to the proposals for the organisation of medical research in the Colonies which was made at the recent...
12. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can give any information as to the cause of the recent riot in the mosque of Khadimain?
19. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs how long the negotiations new in progress regarding the sale of the Cornerbrook Paper Mills are expected to take?
20. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs how many cases have now been heard by the Irish Grants Committee; whether he can form any opinion as to when the labours of the committee...
22. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether, in view of the importance of migration to all parts of the British Empire, he will consider the reorganisation of the Overseas...
26. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department the full details of the Government export insurance scheme; and whether the scheme will apply to Russia among other countries?
24. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department the number of barrels, and the value, of cured herrings exported to the Continent of Europe for the six years 1911 to 1913...
48. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any application has been made to bring jam manufactured from foreign fruit, whether abroad or in this country, under the Regulations of the...
49. asked the President of the Board of Trade if, seeing that the value of imported eggs in shell for the six months ending June was £7,219,622, of which the value of eggs from China was...
Dr. VERNON DAVIES: 51. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give the weight and values of the imports of cotton yarn from Belgium for the last 12 months for which statistic are...
27. asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of cases of foot-and-mouth disease that have been notified from the Staffordshire district, and the number of cattle slaughtered in consequence?
28. asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of smallholders in the six counties of North Wales; whether the number for the 12 months ending 30th June last shows an increase or a decrease as...
29. asked the Minister of Agriculture what is the estimated daily consumption of fresh and tinned milk in Great Britain respectively; what proportion of the fresh milk is distributed by the large...
Sir WILLIAM LANE MITCHELL (for Mr. FOOT MITCHELL): 47. asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the desirability of instituting an emergency inquiry into the depression in agriculture?
31. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, seeing that visas have now been abolished for travellers between Germany and the United States, he will consider the desirability of...
32. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Rumano-Hungarian Mixed Arbitral Tribunal on 10th January of this year delivered a considered judgment declaring...
33. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the policy of His Majesty's Government as regards the maintenance or otherwise of British trade in the Yangtse region under existing...
34. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is now in a position to state the attitude of His Majesty's Government to the question of the negotiations regarding the future...
58. asked the Secretary of State for War whether when the two battalions of the brigade of Guards, now stationed in China, come home, he will consider the expediency of sending them home through...
40. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he has in his Department any information as to the circumstances in which the ships of Von Spee's squadron obtained coal from the s.s. "Lowther...
41. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of capital ships in 1913 and in 1927?
43. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the large amount of litter left
36. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what was the total British merchant-ship tonnage lost during the Great War by the action of enemy cruisers, enemy submarines, moored and floating mines,...
44. asked the Minister of Health why branch secretaries of trade unions are debarred from signing forms in connection with applications for widows' pensions under the Widows', Orphans', and Old...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he intends to introduce legislation for equalising the franchise as between men and women during the Autumn Session?
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he has yet set up a Committee to deal with the use of wheel-less tubs in the Somerset coalfields; if so, whether he is in a position to give the names of...
53. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the weekly cost of keeping a lad at, the Stranraer Industrial Reformatory?
50. asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of ships cleared at the various ports in this country during the past year; the number in 1924 and in 1922; and the num- ber of inspectors...
asked the President of the Board of Education if he has sanctioned the proposal of the Hull Education Committee to establish a child welfare and school clinic in East Hall?
57. asked the President of the Board of Education how far the teaching of cookery is compulsory in elementary schools; and what education authorities make special provision for it by trained...
60. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the revenue derived during the last financial year from safeguarding duties from lace, gas mantles, cutlery, gloves and other safeguarding...
61. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any typewriters of foreign manufacture have been purchased by the Stationery Office since November, 1918?
62. asked the Minister of Transport why cheques for classified roads are sent through county councils; if he is aware that this method of working causes increased expenditure in both national and...
63. asked the Minister of Transport if he is prepared to introduce legislation with a view to obtaining for the public improved facilities for rail- way travel on Sundays, especially in...
64. asked the Minister of Transport whether a decision has been arrived at to close Piccadilly to traffic in the near future; if so, on what date; what is the probable duration of the stoppage;...
54. asked, the Minister of Labour whether he proposes to include agricultural workers within the scope of the new Unemployment Insurance Bill which he proposes to introduce?
25. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department if he has any further statement to make with reference to the French embargo on imported coal; and if he will give shippers...
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Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee A: Mr. Smedley Crooke, Mr. George Harvey, and Major Steel;...
That they have agreed to— Grimsby Corporation Bill,Greenock Burgh Extension, &c., Bill,London County Council (Money) Bill,Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill, with Amendments.
As amended, considered.
If, on an application made by any individual, either at the time of making his return for the purposes of Super-tax for any year or within the time limited for appealing against the assessment...
No instrument chargeable with stamp duty under the heading "Letter or Power of Attorney, and Commission, Factory, Mandate, or other instrument in the nature thereof" in the First Schedule to The...
(1) If in connection with a scheme for the reconstruction of any company or companies or the amalgamation of any companies it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue...
"Sub-section (1) of Section fifteen of the Finance Act, 1925 (which makes allowances in respect of earned incomes), shall have effect as if for the words "one-sixth" there were substituted the...
"As from the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, the duty chargeable upon lace, imposed by Section six of the Finance Act, 1925, shall cease."—[Mr. Gillett.]
"(1) One penny shall be substituted for twopence in Sub-section (1) of Section thirty-six of the Finance Act, 1918.
"Section twenty-eight (Amendment as to allowance for repairs) of the Finance Act, 1923, shall continue to have effect until the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, on which...
"As from the thirty-first day of July nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, Entertainments Duty within the meaning of the Finance (New Duties) Act, 1916, shall be charged at the rate set out in the...
Notwithstanding anything contained in this or any other Act to the contrary, the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, Schedule (1) (c) (Provisions applicable to retailers' off-licences, Spirits (2)...
Where a recognised law agent, acting for a trust, satisfies the Income Tax Commissioners that— (a) under the trust the sole beneficiary is, or all the beneficiaries are, not liable to...
I beg to move, in page 2, line 19, at the end to insert the words: Provided that notwithstanding any repeal effected by this Act the exemption given by section three of the Finance Act, 1925,...
I beg to move to leave out the Clause. This Clause, which imposes a duty upon certain classes of china and pottery, has been debated at fairly great length on the Money Resolutions and the Second...
I beg to move, in page 6, line 16, after the word "was," to insert the words: (within the meaning of the said paragraph (5) as that paragraph will have effect on and after the first day of...
I beg to move, in page 9, line 9, to leave out the words "is imported after the date of the passing of this Act," and to insert instead thereof the words has been since the twenty-fifth day of...
Amendments made: In page 11, line 30, after the word "copyright," insert the words and the reference to royalties or sums paid periodically for or in respect of a copyright shall not include...
Amendment made: In page 17, line 5, at the end, insert the words and Sub-section (1) of Section eighty-four of the Income Tax Act, 1918. shall have effect as if— (a) the words 'for any year...
I beg to move to leave out the Clause. I make no apology for moving this, because there has been so much confusion of thought, not merely in this House but outside, as to what the Chancellor of...
Resolution reported, That it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of the sums which, under any Act of the present Session to amend the Law relating to the...
Resolution reported, That it is expedient that there shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament such sums as may he payable by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under any Act of...
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