Thursday, 15 March 1928
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Barnet District Gas and Water Bill,
"to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to Luton," presented by Mr. Chamberlain; read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and...
Resolution of the House of the 13th day of March relative to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (Road Transport, Scotland) Bill, and the London and North Eastern Railway (Road Transport,...
Mr. ROBINSON: 2. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will cause a life pension to be granted to Mr. R. Strand, of 79, Cleaver Street, Blackburn, who was discharged with 100 per cent. pension in...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, in view of the multiplicity of forms which war pensioners are required to fill up, his Department will devise methods of procedure which will allow as...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that Mr. W. Henderson enlisted in His Majesty's Navy during the War and was classed A1 on his entry; that he was discharged as suffering from...
7. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has in contemplation any changes in the method of paying war pensions; what those changes are and when they will be introduced; what classes of...
8. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that Mrs. Devlin, 55, Sandyfaulds Street, Glasgow, had a pension granted to her for the death of her son on active service in 1917 of 15s. 6d. a...
9. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is prepared to consider that, instead of increasing the number of women police, he will recommend the employment of women to act as...
16. asked the Home Secretary what is the practice obtaining in the payment of police pensions in London and the provinces so that in a leap year the pensioner shall not lose one day's pension;...
10. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that local authorities are doing little to avail themselves of the powers conferred upon them during the life of the present Parliament to check...
11. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the fact that, whilst the total sum which can be awarded to a widow and her young children as compensation for the death of...
12. asked the Home Secretary whether paragraph 5 of Statutory Rules and Orders, 1928, No. 84, which requires the provision of adequate means of escape in case of fire from buildings in which...
19. asked the Home Secretary whether the Home Office has received any Reports as to the conditions of health of workpeople employed in artificial silk factories; and, if so, will he make known to...
21. asked the Home Secretary the total number of prosecutions which have taken place on the instruction of the factory inspector in Glasgow and district during the past year; the number in which...
14. asked the Home Secretary if he will give the number of proceedings for drunkenness and convictions for drunkenness, male and female, in the Metropolitan police district and the City of London...
17. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the following cases: at Sheffield Police Court on the 20th February, 1928, when a youth, 19 years of age, previously convicted
18. asked the Home Secretary the arrangements of which he has approved whereby police or other authorities utilise the services of road scouts of automobile organisations in substitution for...
Mr. W. M. ADAMSON: 22. asked the President of the Board of Education what number of new schools were erected under the sanction of his Department for the years 1925 to 1927, inclusive, and the...
27. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of certificated and uncertificated teachers, respectively, employed during 1927?
24. asked the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the fact that the school children at South Woodham, in Essex, have to cross the River Crouch by boat, and have to wait about...
26. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of elementary school children, 14 years of age, who left school during 1926 and 1927, respectively?
29. asked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to the recent conviction of Henry Smith by the Tower Division Petty Sessions for letting his son, aged 15...
30. asked the President of the Board of Education, if he will give the latest results of tests of feeding school-children upon full cream liquid milk?
35. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that for the quarter ending December, 1927, the infantile mortality rate in the urban district of Houghton-le-Spring reached the figure of 210 per...
Dr. VERNON DAVIES: 36. asked the Minister of Health if he will issue a circular to all local authorities pointing out that, in view of the difficulty of diagnosing diphtheria and the desirability...
39. asked the Minister of Health whether he now has in contemplation legislative or other means whereby local authorities can levy a partial rate for the purpose of dealing with the growing...
41. asked the Minister of Health where the calves are procured which are used in connection with the production of lymph at the Hendon factory; and how are they disposed of after they have been...
50. asked the Minister of Health whether, since 16th June, 1927, it has been found possible to bring the statistics of insanity up to date; and whether he can now give the number of married...
Mr. GREENWOOD: 53. asked the Minister of Health whether he has been informed of a resolution passed on 28th February, at a meeting of 600 representatives of local authorities and voluntary...
32. asked the Minister of Health how many distress committees under the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905, are now functioning?
33. asked the Minister of Health how many approved societies have been compelled to abandon their schemes of additional benefits through lack of funds, temporarily or otherwise, since the results...
34. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that complaints are made by members of some approved societies against the provision imposed upon them that they must attend dental clinics during...
Dr. DAVIES: 43. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that many employers refuse to allow insured women employés to remain at work during the late months of pregnancy; and if under...
37. asked the Minister of Health if he will state the number of able-bodied men and women who applied for relief to the Pontypridd and Merthyr Tydvil Bcards of Guardians during 1927; the number...
51. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that, under the West Ham Guardians, relief committee clerks, present members of the salaried staff, perform the work previously executed...
54. asked the Minister of Health the total number of persons who were in receipt of Poor Law relief on 1st March, 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928?
56. asked the Minister of Health whether medical advice will be obtained as to the, diet to be supplied to vagrants in the casual wards where stone-breaking has been introduced?
38. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received from the Barnsley Board of Guardians a protest against the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1925, throwing upon...
Mr. ROBINSON: 44. asked the Minister of Health the actual cost of parlour and non-parlour houses, respectively, at convenient dates in 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927, specifying the cost of land,...
47. asked the Minister of Health the number of local authorities in England and Wales that are now building houses under the 1923 and 1924 Housing Acts by direct labour; and the amount of...
48. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the existence of trusts and combines in the industries which supply material for building, he will take such steps as are within his power to...
55. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received any complaints, and, if so, how many, against local authorities who have refused to grant certificates for the subsidy to private builders...
46. asked the Prime Minister if he will receive a deputation of members representing investors in British rubber companies who, as a result of the fall in values following upon the announeement...
59. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total quantities of wine imported from Foreign and British countries, respectively, and cleared for Home consumption, during the calendar years 1925,...
Sir GEORGE HAMILTON: 60. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the actual date when the Royal Commission on Awards recommended the payment of £987 to Dr. Mole, the Australian, for the tank...
Captain CROOKSHANK (by Private Notice): asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can now inform the House which are the cavalry regiments to be converted into armoured car regiments?
Sir G. HAMILTON: May I put to you, Mr. Speaker, a small point of Order? I should like to ask your ruling as to whether, when a Question is handed in at the Table and disallowed by the Clerks at...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether, seeing that some two years ago he undertook to provide an opportunity to discuss the Estimates of the three fighting Services as a whole and together, so...
"to amend the law relating to the sale by retail of excisable liquors," presented by Lieut.-Colonel Fremantle; supported by Sir Herbert Neild, Rear-Admiral Sueter, Sir Cooper Rawson, Lord Apsley,...
Reported, without Amendment, from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills.
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Sir Arthur Churchman reported from the Committee on Group B of Private Bills; That, for the convenience of parties, the Committee had adjourned till Monday next, at a Quarter-past Eleven of the Clock.
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A: Major Yerburgh; and had appointed in substitution: Mr....
Mr. William Nicholson further reported from the Committee; That they had added the following Fifteen Members to Standing Committee C (in respect of Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Bill):...
Mr. William Nicholson further reported from the Committee: That they had added the following Ten Members to the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills (in respect of the Reorganisation of Offices...
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had nominated the following Five Members to serve on the Joint Committee of Lords and Commons on Railway (Road Transport)...
Order for Committee read.
8.0 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed. That 101,800 officers, seamen, boys, and Royal Marines be employed for the sea service, together with 450 for the Royal Marine Police, borne on the books of...
Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding £14,445,700, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Wages, etc. of Officers and Men of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, and Civilians...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £1,805,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Works, Buildings, and Repairs, at home and abroad, including the...
Motion made, and question proposed, That, a sum, not exceeding £4,062,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Victualling and Clothing for the Navy, including the cost of...
Resolved, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £450,000, be granted to his Majesty,
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £25,858 15s. 1d., he granted to His Majesty, to make good an Excess on the Grant for Beet Sugar Subsidy, Great Britain, for the...
Considered in Committee.
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