Thursday, 1 March 1928
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
"to empower the London and North Eastern Railway Company to provide road transport services; and for other purposes," presented, and read the First time; and ordered to be react a Second time.
"to empower the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway Company to provide road transport services; and for other purposes," presented, and read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time.
15. asked the President of the Board of Education why, having regard to the fact that the Board's medical officers, after their inspection of the Wingfield Orthopædic Hospital last April,...
4 and 16. asked (1) the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the use of a new motor spirit called ethyl; and whether he has held or will hold an official examination into the...
20. asked the Minister of Health how many persons died in England and Wales during the quarter ending the 31st December on whom coroners' inquests returned verdicts of death by starvation or...
14. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the Report of an inquest on a baby named Fuller, at Bury St. Edmunds, on 12th December, 1927, whose father was an unemployed...
Major MALONE: 1. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that many special Army campaign pensioners are now, in consequence of receiving benefits under the Old Age Pensions Act, having...
2. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in advising chief constables in the provinces of the increasing tendency towards rowdyism and that they should be ready to...
3. asked the Home Secretary whether any fresh facts or evidence have been presented to him for his consideration for the purpose of reviewing the sentence passed on Alexander (Scotty) Mason, who...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL: 9. asked the Home Secretary Whether, in view of recent events, he will consider the advisability of appointing some Government Department to be responsible for...
37. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury when Mr. Foxen Cooper was appointed official adviser on cinematograph films to His Majesty's Government; and what are his exact duties?
12. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the fire at a Grimsby factory which resulted in the death of a woman worker; whether the premises had been previously...
17. asked the Minister of Health whether the capacity of British brickyards is yet equal to the house demand; if so, if he is prepared to make it a condition of future housing subsidies that only...
27. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the reduction in the number of houses under construction in February, 1928, as compared with the same date in 1927; and, if so, have any steps...
28. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the reduction of £30 per house in the price of non-parlour houses included in contracts let by local authorities during the three months...
18. asked the Minister of Health how many children were in the workhouses of England and Wales on 1st January, 1928, who were over the age of three and had been there for longer than six weeks?
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE:
25. asked the Minister of Health whether the
26. asked the Minister of Health what proportion of the rates per head paid in 1914, 1926 and 1927, respectively, were for poor rates; and how much was general district rates?
30. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount collected from agricultural land for Death Duties in 1913, and the amount collected from the same source in 1926 or for the latest year in...
31. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total estimated receipts for the next five years from the war debt settlements and reparations which will accrue to this country?
35. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has any information to show that smuggling on the South-East Coast of England is on the increase; and whether his Department is taking...
36. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury in which year the annual payment which this country makes to the United States of America, in accordance with debt settlement, increases from the...
Mr. MALONE: 40. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why the Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Inland Revenue no longer contains the table, which was included until a few...
29. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of arrears of Corporation Profits Tax still outstanding and the proportion which is actually likely to be collected?
32. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the amount of compensation to ex-British civil servants in Ireland, under Article 10 of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, was guaranteed by the Government...
39. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amount of capital guaranteed under the Trade Facilities Act which has already been proved to be a bad debt beyond recovery; and what amount...
Sir NICHOLAS GRATTANDOYLE: 50 and 51. asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) the amount of capital invested in the Angora wool industry in this country and the number of persons employed...
41 asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that British trawlers calling at an Irish port have to report to the Customs officer on return to a British port, he will say...
43. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the fact that cattle having foot-and-mouth disease in one stage or another are slaughtered in the Argentine and the carcases exported to...
48. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can state, in connection with the slaughter of animals at King's Norton, Leicestershire, on 28th January, who were the contractors; and what...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether the Fisher Board of Inquiry took any evidence from the newspaper which first published the Zinovieff letter as to whether it was communicated to them by any...
47. asked the Minister of Agriculture, as representing the Commissioners of Crown Lands, whether the vacant site on the Quadrant, Regent Street, extending into Glasshouse Street, has been lets;...
52. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is able to make any provision from public funds, or any voluntary funds at his disposal, for the widows arid dependants of the crew of the...
53. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the inquiry by the Food Council into the prices charged for market garden produce has been abandoned; and, if so, for what reason?
54. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any cases have come to his notice of trading organisations in Great Britain of the Soviet Government not having honoured bills drawn on them...
55. asked the Secretary of State for Air what point has now been reached by the Royal Air Force squadron of flying boats on their way to Australia; whether schedule time is being kept; and when...
56. asked the Postmaster-General whether the negotiations for the new Hebridean mail contract have now been completed; and when the new and swifter steamers will be in commission?
57. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware of the considerable delays now taking place on the London-Paris telephone; where the fault lies; and whether he will undertake to look into...
58. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if the operations for the freeing of slaves in Burma have been concluded; and the number of slaves who have been made free?
7. asked the Home Secretary the approximate average number of the Metropolitan Police engaged in the prevention and detection of street betting, and the annual cost?
38. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Government can now state the decision at which it has arrived regarding the recommendations contained in the Fourth Report of the...
49. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he has yet conferred with the elective representatives of the Court of Policy of British Guiana who are now in this country; and with what result?
asked the President of the Board of Education whether he can state what provision is being made for the education of 10,000 children in Abertillery, in view of the fact that the Abertillery...
Will the Prime Minister say what is to be the business for next week?
"to amend the law with respect to the recovery of possession in certain cases of dwelling-houses in the occupation of agricultural workers," presented by Mr. Thomas Williams; supported by Mr....
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee B: Mr. Blundell and Captain Waterhouse; and had appointed in...
First Report from the Select Committee brought up, and read; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 35.]
[2ND ALLOTTED DAY.]
"That a sum, not exceeding £110,067,000, be granted to His Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the Charges for the following Civil and Revenue Departments (including Pensions,...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Sir G. Hennessy.]
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And sometimes to shout at each other.
