Thursday, 8 December 1927
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Grampian Electricity Supply Order Confirmation Bill [Lords],
2. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that Scottish patients who are undergoing treatment in hospitals situated in the South of England have fewer opportunities of visiting their homes...
Mr. ROBINSON: 3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, in the case of a man suffering from war wounds and who has to undergo operative treatment, full treatment allowances are paid to him and...
Mr. ROBINSON: 4. asked the Minister of Pensions the number of officers, nurses, and men, respectively, in receipt of conditional pensions; how many of these have been in force for four years or...
5. asked the Minister of Pensions whether the assessment of a final award in lieu of pension has been notified to Leonard Baker, late private 25,287, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment; and, if so,...
6. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the cost to date of the extradition proceedings in the case of Lord Terrington?
7. asked the Home Secretary whether he will state the country of origin of the four motor cars fitted with wireless that are used by the flying squad of the Metropolitan Police?
Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL: 18. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the increase in the number of crimes of violence, involving the safety of the police, and the extent to which...
8. asked the Home Secretary whether his Department is furnished with reports by the police of all accidents to vehicles in England and Wales which involve personal injuries, and, if so, whether...
10. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the in creasing number of accidents to passengers from or entering tramcars within the Metropolitan area, he will issue regulations prohibiting...
15. asked the Home Secretary whether he is able to give any figures with regard to the annual reduction of accidents, if any, in Parliament Square since the roundabout system of traffic was adopted?
9. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the case of a cloak-room porter employed at an Oxford Street restaurant who, on Friday last, was sentenced to three months'...
11. asked the Home Secretary whether the Government propose to take any steps in the near future to remove the existing anomalies in the closing hours of licensed premises and to restore the...
12. asked the Home Secretary if he will publish a statement giving the statutory requirements, including those relating to workmen's compensation, so far as they are administered by his...
13. asked the Home Secretary, for the latest convenient date, the average cost per head per week of persons in His Majesty's prisons in England and Wales and in the County of Durham, respectively?
14. asked the Home Secretary whether he contemplates any changes in the penal methods applied to habitual criminals?
Sir F. HALL: 19. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the oath of allegiance to the Soviet republic taken by a number of British delegates to the recent Bolshevik...
20. asked the Home Secretary if his attention has been called to a case of the public production of a stage play by a provincial theatrical management without obtaining the necessary licence or...
21. asked the President of the Board of Education what practical results have been derived from the reports of the researches and experiments of the Department of Scientific Research into methods...
22. asked the President of the Board of Education how many medical men and inspectors (education) are allocated to the Special Services Department of the Board of Education; are special schools...
23. asked the President of the Board of Education whether it is the intention of the Board of Education to hand over the special schools to the board of control; and whether, having regard to the...
24. asked the President of the Board of Education whether any estimate has been formed and, if so, what is such estimate, either in totals or percentages, of the annual wastage in the teaching...
26. asked the Minister of Health whether any municipalities have decided to award pensions to blind unemployable men and women; and will he give the House the particulars?
Dr. VERNON DAVIES: 37. asked the Minister of Health if he has any evidence of any cases of foot-and-mouth disease in human beings during recent years; and, if so, will he give details of such...
Dr. DAVIES: 38. asked the Minister of Health if he will give a list of the common articles of food which are analysed under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts; and the number of samples of each...
43. asked the Minister of Health if in view of the health conditions prevailing in many offices, he is satisfied that the inspection of offices at present carried on, and the powers of local...
44. asked the Minister of Health what is the mortality during the last five years of persons suffering from tuberculosis?
Captain CROOKSHANK: 27. asked the Minister of Health whether the incidence of insurable sickness, etc., affected by the National Health Insurance Act is lower among insured contributors in the...
64. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will instruct inspectors of taxes not to demand payment of the first instalment of Income Tax under Schedule B assessments in all cases where...
72 and 73. asked the Minister of Agriculture (1) whether the village farm at Horbling, Lincolnshire, will be let to a tenant who will reside in the farmhouse or to a farmer who intends to put a...
74. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the Lancashire County Council, having an opportunity of securing four well-situated farms for the purpose of establishing cottage...
Mr. ROBINSON: 28. asked the Minister of Health whether, seeing that the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1925, makes no provision for the payment of pensions to the women...
36. asked the Minister of Health for the latest convenient date the average cost per head per week of persons maintained on indoor relief in Poor Law institutions; and the most frequent rate of...
47. asked the Minister of Health how many ex-sanatoria patients have become chargeable to the guardians in the last five years; and what is the cost per year of an ex-sanatoria patient who...
52. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the fact that the county boroughs of East Ham and West Ham have passed resolutions urging him to review the whole...
54. asked the Minister of Health whether he proposes to introduce next Session a Bill to reform the Poor Law?
29. asked the Minister of Health how many dwellings have up to the present been reconstructed under the terms of the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, in the counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire,...
49. asked the Minister of Health what local authorities in England and Wales have been granted permission to transfer houses built under the Housing, &c., Act, 1923, to the Housing (Financial...
55. asked the Minister of Health whether he will give an estimate of the saving of the taxpayers' money arising from the reduction of the housing subsidy as from the 1st October last?
34. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that land skirting the new arterial road near Manchester is selling at £800 per acre; and will he give powers to local authorities to rate...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the case of one of the late Irish Crown Solicitors, a man over 60 years of age, who was dismissed from his office by the Free State...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether, seeing that the French and British Governments during the War sequestrated certain commercial properties belonging to Swiss subjects, and known as the Basle...
48. asked the Minister of Health what contribution to the local rates in the Poplar area, in the last available year, is made from, the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, the Equalisation of Rates...
60 asked the Chancellor. of the Exchequer whether, in view of the fact that the Bank of England refuses to recognise the rights of Scottish holders (under age) of British funds to transfer, with...
62. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why the terms offered on the occasion of the flotation of the recent Palestine loan, guaranteed by the British Treasury, represented a yield of £4...
Lieut.-Colonel MOORE: 63. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total amount of the gifts made by individuals to the Exchequer during and since the War?
68. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what investments have been held by the Government since 1914, showing for each investment the Department concerned, the date and cost of acquiring the...
69. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the statutory amounts payable to the Sinking Fund in the years 1925–26 and 1926–27, together with the amounts actually paid, less Budget...
65. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of the royalties paid by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company to the Persian Government for the year 1926; and whether there is any likelihood of a...
70. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the number of hours overtime worked by Customs and Excise departmental clerks employed in London Central collection...
71. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what local authorities have resolved in favour of powers to be given by Parliament for the establishment of municipal banks within their areas?
Would the Prime Minister kindly state what is to be the business next week?
[4TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
I beg to move to leave out the Clause. This Clause is one of the most important in the Bill, because it sets up absolutely new classes and deals with them most inadequately. It proposes to...
I beg to move, in page 2, line 26, to leave out Sub-section (1).
I beg to move, in page 4, line 6, to leave out the word "thirty," and to insert instead thereof the word "twenty." This subject has been fairly well debated already, and there is no question on...
I beg to move, in page 5, to leave out from the word "whom," in line 40, to the end of the Clause. In 1924 we altered Section 8 of the principal Act in order to equalise in some measure the...
Amendments made:
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Order for consideration read.
Resolved, That the Special Order made by the Electricity Commissioners under the Elecricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1926, and confirmed by the Minister of Transport under the Electricity (Supply)...
Whereupon Mr. SPEAKER, pursuant to the Order of the House of 8th November, proposed the Question, "That this House do now adjourn."
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