Thursday, 14 June 1928
The Rouse met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Colne Valley Water Bill,
Mr. ROBINSON: 1. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will issue instructions to the area officers that they shall inform every man in receipt of a life pension or a final award, which may or may...
2. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of revolvers, cartridges, and rounds of ammunition that have been seized in London by the Metropolitan Police during the last...
3. asked the Home Secretary the number of liquor shops in England and Wales trading under an excise licence only on 1st January, 1921, and 1st January, 1928, respectively; and whether he intends...
4. asked the Home Secretary the number of hospital officers, male and female, in the prison service; how many, in each case, are registered by the General Nursing Council as ordinary nurses or as...
5. asked the Home Secretary what is the annual cost of the Borstal camps; how much of this is provided by the Treasury and how much by private charity; and when he proposes to place these camps...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL: 8. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the varying practice of the police in the matter of the sale of tickets in tombolas organised on behalf of...
9. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the number of London police magistrates now serving is two below the maximum fixed by statute; and whether he proposes to advise the increase...
Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE: 10. asked the Home Secretary whether, seeing that the grant of £500 made to Major Graham Bell Murray was made out of the Metropolitan police fund, and that such...
The following question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON: 12. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he intends to take following...
13. asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the adoption of dictaphones in all cases where private inquiries are held by the police of which a record has to be kept, with a view to...
14. asked the Home Secretary if a permit has been given to Dr. Voronoff to visit this country; if so, for what period is it available; and if such permit would allow him to carry out experiments...
32. asked the Minister of Health whether he can give figures as to the proportion of children suffering from tuberculosis, anæmia and glandular trouble at some recent convenient date, and at...
15. asked the Home Secretary the names of the seven textile firms in the West Riding of Yorkshire to whom permits have been given to employ young persons on the two-shift system, and the number...
Mr. MALONE: 17. asked the President of the Board of Education with regard to the 900 infants' departments closed in the last three years, what is the reason of their closing; how many infants...
18. asked the Minister of Health how many schemes for the purpose of slum clearance are now in operation in Great Britain; how many of these have been authorised; and the number of houses and...
24. asked the Minister of Health if he will consider the publication from time to time of housing costs in different parts of the country?
29. asked the Minister of Health if it is the custom of his Department to prescribe any policy as regard the preferential use of British or foreign building material in the construction of...
23. asked the Minister of Health when an announcement will be made in regard to the continuance or otherwise of the existing Rent Restriction Acts?
31. asked the Minister of Health the total number of houses that have been erected by municipal authorities since the end of the War and the percentage of A 2, A 3, B 3, and B 4 types, respectively?
19. asked the Minister of Health what reply his Department has made to representations from boards of guardians in Great Britain requesting that casual wards should be closed for a period of 21...
27. asked the Minister of Health how many children were in the workhouses of England and Wales on 1st January, 1928, or any other convenient date, who were over the age of three and had been...
28. asked the Minister of Health if he has yet received any definite information as to the provision of separation wards in Lambeth Hospital?
25. asked the Minister of Health whether slate quarries and slate mines are included in the category of productive industries under the terms of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Bill?
30. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the delay in rebuilding the Thames wall in Grosvenor Road; and will he convene a conference of the authorities concerned in order that the...
33. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the mother of a child who has reached 14 years of age is deprived of its allowance under the Widows', Orphans', and Old Age Contributory...
34. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health if he has received a communication from Messrs. James Proctor and Sons, Limited, barley millers, Liverpool, offering documentary...
Mr. ROBINSON: 35. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a man with two second-hand lorries engaged in the transport of live stock and goods has...
36. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that co-operative and registered societies obtain exemption from tax under Schedules C and D if they sell to persons not members...
Sir MERVYN MANNINGHAMBULLER: 38. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that His Majesty's Commissioners of Inland Revenue are claiming that Sections 34 and 35 of the Law of...
44. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the inland Revenue Department has abandoned its practice of making small re- funds of Income Tax by means of orders...
42. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why it was thought necessary to have a new coinage, seeing that the effigy of His Majesty is the same both on the old and the new coinage?
Major-General Sir ROBERT HUTCHISON: 45. asked the Prime Minister, in view of the recommendation of the League of Nations Disarmament Commission that all subsidies both to private and official...
80. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the inquiry proposed to be undertaken by the League of Nations Council into questions connected with the problem of the traffic in women...
82. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the British Government will be represented at the proposed International Conference to be summoned by the Council of the League of...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the decision of the Hague Court against the inclusion of the surplus proceeds from the liquidation of sequestrated German property abroad in the...
Sir F. HALL: 47. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether arrangements can be made for the speeches delivered to the Joint Select Committee by counsel in support of and in opposition...
Sir F. HALL: 73. asked the Minister of Transport whether it is proposed to take the necessary steps for the appointment of the Royal Commission on Transport before the end of the Session; and...
48. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Inter-Allied Commission at Sofia has yet decided what recommendation to make as to the remission or suspension of reparation payments...
51. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the effect of water-mark disease on cricket-bat willow trees; and, in view of the fact that diseased trees are a menace to the whole...
49. asked the Minister of Agriculture how many head of pedigree animals have been exported from the East India Dock quarantine station up to the end of May; and to what countries of the Empire...
50. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will give statistics for each of the six counties of South Wales and Monmouthshire showing the number of bulls, boars, heavy horses, and rams approved...
53. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the fact that the Lincolnshire Beet-Sugar Company, Limited, have placed orders for sugar machinery capable of dealing with 1,000 tons of...
57 and 59. asked the Minister of Labour (1) whether he is aware that Luther Miller, of Common Side, Church Gresley, a miner with a wife and six children, who qualified for unemployment benefit in...
60. asked the Minister of Labour the number of insured workers in each of the industries which have been safeguarded by legislation?
70. asked the Secretary- of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the Govan Parish Council and the Govan Employment Exchange have an arrangement between them that an unemployed man or woman...
59. asked the Minister of Labour the total number of workers employed in the gramophone industry in 1924 and 1927, respectively; and, if not, can he give the figures for the three largest companies?
61. asked the Minister of Labour the names of the countries which have already unconditionally ratified the Washington Hours Convention; and the names of the countries which have decided to...
74. asked the Secretary for Mines the number of men and boys employed in the mining industry in the county of Durham in the month of May for the years 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, and 1928, respectively.
62. asked the President of the Board of Trade what was the amount of coal exported from this country for the months of January, February, March, and April for the years 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927,...
63. asked the President of the Board of Trade, whether he can now give a complete list of foreign firms which have established branches, or are in process of establishing branches, of their...
64. asked the President of the Board of Trade the total production of aluminium hollow-ware in this country, and the amount exported, in each of the last six years.
65. asked the President of the Board of Trade what countries, if any, have ratified the recommendations made by the International Conference at Washington on the subject of sea pollution by the...
66. asked the President of the Board of Trade how many men are engaged on the lighthouse service abroad at the Bahamas, Falkland Islands, Sombrero Island, and Morocco, Cape Spartel?
69. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he has received any intimation that a fleet of Italian aeroplanes is to visit London during the present month; and, if so, what steps he is taking...
68. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he has received a complaint from the Kings-wood Urban District Council regarding low flying at Hanham; whether he is aware that the aeroplanes...
71. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many applicants for small holdings residing in Skye have been offered small holdings in Ross-shire (mainland); how many have accepted the offer;...
72. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs with reference to the Native Juveniles Employment Act of Southern Rhodesia, whether regulations are being made that will ensure a standard...
77. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether a member of any of the public services in India, who elected not to come under the new pension rules of 1919, which were the outcome of...
79. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the total amount of money allocated by the central and provincial governments of India for the education of Indians and Europeans, respectively,...
78. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the attention of the India Office has been drawn to the passage of the Domestic Servants Bill in Kenya Colony; is he aware that this Bill...
81. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs which of the Dominion Governments have now replied on the Kellogg note; which have accepted the American terms and which have inserted the...
84. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of men employed by the Admiralty at Hong Kong and Singapore; and how many of these men have gone out from home yards under agreement?
83. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware of the inconvenience that is caused to ex-naval and ex-established workers from His Majesty's dockyards when making applications for...
22. asked the Minister of Health whether, seeing that clerical officers and writing assistants are at present employed on overtime in sections of his Department, and in view of the fact that...
41. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any decision has been reached regarding the recommendations made by the Departmental Committee on The Assurance Companies Act, 1909, that...
Would the Prime, Minister kindly state what business it is proposed to take next week?
On a point of Order. In view of the intense interest in the Debate on the Prayer Book Measure and the representations which have been made from outside by the many who are not able to get into...
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had nominated the following additional Member to serve on the Joint Committee of Lords and Commons on Private Bills...
That they have agreed to—
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [13th June], That, in accordance with the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act, 1919, this House do direct that the Prayer Book Measure,...
Resolution reported,
"That during a period of five years beginning on the thirteenth day of June, 1928, there shall be charged on the importa tion into the United Kingdom of wrought enameled hollow-ware, whether of...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Commander Eyres Monsell.]
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