Wednesday, 12 December 1928
The House met at a quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Account ordered, Of the Receipts and Payments of the Accounting Officer of the Vote for the Supreme Court on behalf of the Admiralty Division in Prize for the year ended the 31st day of March,...
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any instruction is issued to officials at the ports with regard to passports for recruits for the French Foreign Legion?
3. asked the secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has now received the Report of His Majesty's Consul-General at Loando regarding the case of Mr. A. J. Brewer, second officer of the...
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the reply of His Majesty's Government to the Government of Egypt, sent on the 12th ultimo, was an official reply to the formal request...
5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, seeing that the Assembly of the League of Nations has recommended the Council, at its meeting this month, to appoint an advisory...
6. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement as to engagements hitherto made by States, members of the League of Nations, for the pacific settlement of...
8. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any communication from the German Government on the question of linking reparations and evacuation or on the question...
9. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many military officers, civilian officials, and clerical workers, male and female, are employed under the Rhineland High Commission in...
12. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether permission can he given to chief and petty officers' messes in shore establishments to purchase ales and stouts direct from the brewers, in the...
13. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether any British firms were supplied by the contractors for the Singapore Naval Base contract with any plans or drawings in order to explain the work...
18. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what percentage of machines or pilots of the Naval Air Arm is fitted with parachutes; and how this compares with the corresponding figure for the Royal...
21. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the great percentage of claims for unemployed insurance for which applicants are refused benefits at the Walworth Road (Borough) Employment...
27. asked the Minister of Labour whether it is in accordance with his instructions that men who have been disqualified from drawing unemployment benefit for a period of six weeks are compelled to...
32. asked the Minister of Labour whether his Department have prepared an estimate of the number of unemployed in the woollen textile trade, with the cost to the industry?
36. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that the practice of inquiry into family incomes is still being carried out by his Department; if he can state the reason why this practice...
38. asked the Minister of Labour if he can give an estimate of the number of single men and single women unemployed between the ages of 20 and 30 in the mining areas; and the number of training...
39. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that last week 12 men were discharged from a large building alteration going on at the corner of Commercial Street and White-chapel Road to...
40. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has received a request from the Bristol Unemployed Association, dated the 6th November, and backed by three of the Members for Bristol, asking him to...
41. asked the Minister of Labour if his attention has been called to the lack of accommodation at the Employment Exchange at Radcliffe and to the lengthy periods those attending this office have...
23. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has received any representations from the employers or employés in the boot and shoe industry that the conditions of labour in that industry in...
24. asked the Minister of Labour if his Department have received any protest from the Clyde District Committee of the Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades Unions against the transfer of men to the...
28 and 29. asked the Minister of Labour (1) the total number of miners who have now been transferred to other parts of the country; (2) the number of miners now transferred from each coalfield in...
33. asked the Minister of Labour what steps are being taken, or will be taken, to accelerate the machinery of the Unemployment Grants Committee when applications are made to them under the terms...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government has come to a decision as to what action, if any, it intends to take to relieve the distress in the Welsh and Durham coalfields?
25. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has any information as to the number of persons in the newspaper trade within the Metropolitan area who have been discharged from their employment as a...
34. asked the Minister of Labour what was the purchasing power of £1 sterling in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, and in the period of January to September, 1928, based on the Ministry of Labour's...
44. asked the Minister of Labour what was the number last year in the United Kingdom of persons employed by the brewing, whisky, distilling and tobacco manufacturers?
46. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the statement by the United States Secretary of State to the effect that the United States Government would consider any...
48. asked the Secretary of State for Air if he can make any statement with regard to the arrangements for establishing an air port at Sheffield?
Sir NICHOLAS GRATTAN-D OYLE: 49. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether he has received any representations as to the...
50. asked the President of the Board of Trade what progress, if any, has been made with the revision of the 1907 Weights and. Measures Regulations, including the making of Regulations for...
51. asked the President of the Board of Trade what the importation in pounds weight of raw and thrown silk retained for home consumption was for the first 10 months in each year of 1924; 1026,...
52. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can make any further statement with regard to the proposed alteration in the Spanish tariff on manila rope and other ropes manufactured in...
54. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has yet received an application, supported by the executive committee of the National Associations of Trade Unions in the Textile Trade,...
55. asked the President of the Board of Trade to what countries and of what value were the exports last year of beer, stout, whisky, and to-bacco?
53. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the present state of the Patent Law, he will consider introducing legislation to amend it, particularly with a view to...
57. asked the Minister of Health what is the number of schools of medicine in London and the rest of the country, respectively, from which women are excluded; and whether, in view of the...
59. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that assessment committees in various urban and rural districts are raising the assessment on dwelling-houses by from 5 to 20 per cent.; and...
65. asked the Secretary for Mines if any agreement has been come to between the Government and the colliery proprietors whereby the collieries must pass on to their customers the reduction in...
61. asked the Minister of Health if widows in receipt of pension are permitted to draw the pension if they migrate to the Dominions?
62. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that an official under his Department instructed the Newport Board of Guardians to treat the stoppage at Nine Mile Point Colliery,...
64. asked the Secretary for Mines if he has any information as to the measure of success which has attended research into the distillation of coal in Germany; whether a process or processes are...
66. asked the Minister of Agriculture the beet - sugar factories where a 12-hour day has been in operation during 1928, and the beet-sugar factories where the 8-hour day has been in operation...
68. asked the Postmaster-General whether he will consider the suitability of commemorating the postal conference in London next year by reintroducing the principle of the penny post, having...
69. asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that men employed in the telephone department of the Government in the Manchester district have received preliminary notice to leave the service;...
70. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that a club licensing certificate for 12 months was issued in July, 1927, to the
Mr. MacDONALD: Will the Prime Minister be good enough to tell us what the business for next Friday is to be?
I beg to Move: That leave be given to bring in a Bill to assimilate the procedure in certain Crown proceedings in the High Court to the procedure in actions between subjects; to authorise certain...
"to assimilate the procedure in certain Crown proceedings in the High Court to the procedure in actions between subjects; to authorise certain Crown proceedings to be brought in county courts; to...
I beg to move, That the Draft of the Order proposed to be made by the Minister of Health and the Scottish Board of Health, with the approval of the Treasury, under Section 5 of the Housing...
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question, as amended [11th December], That in the case of the Local Government Bill and the Local Government (Scotland) Bill (which Bills are...
Read the Third time, and passed.
Resolution reported, That it is expedient to authorise, the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of such additional expenses of the Land Purchase Commission, Northern Ireland, as may be...
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 71A.
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