Wednesday, 30 January 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Barmouth Urban District Council Bill,
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any and, if so, what steps have been taken by the Nanking Government to abolish likin (internal customs duties) in accordance with...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the tenants of Lot No. 111b, in the ex-British concession at Hankow, were forcibly ejected by Chinese troops at the...
Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE: 9. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government propose to open negotiations with the Chinese Government for the revision of the...
11. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the damage done to the war memorial at Hankow on the 4th January, 1927, and to which Mr. Chen on behalf of the Nationalist Government...
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of the fact that a number of French and Italian representatives of high rank attended officially the funeral on the Riviera and the...
Mr. THOMAS: (by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any statement to make regarding the attitude which His Majesty's Government propose to adopt in...
5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether suitable recognition was spontaneously and at once given by the German Government to our Government as to the rescue of her nationals...
8. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, what has been the attitude of the Afghan factions towards the British Mission or Consulates?
Mr. MALONE: 6. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any special instructions have been issued to His Majesty's representative in Belgrade regarding relations with the new...
7. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what decision he has reached in the case of Mr. A. J. Brewer, second officer of the Clan Line ss. "Clan Lamont," who, after arrest on the...
10. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the German Government has submitted a Memorandum on the British proposals for the revision of the 1914 international agreement for the...
12. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to a statement by Mr. Kellogg in Washington on 24th January that another attempt would be made before 4th...
13. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of requests which have been made during the last two years by officers of the ex-mate class to take specialist courses; and what number have...
15. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether seeing that a man who is eligible for both disablement and service pensions under the existing regulations is only awarded the larger pension in...
Mr. ROBINSON: 17. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he will consider the desirability of making the marriage allowance payable to married ratings above the age of 21?
18. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is in a position to announce any decision with regard to a pension or superannuation fund for captains and officers oft the Royal Fleet...
19. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether a reply can now be given to General Request, No. 15, of the 1922 Welfare Conference?
20. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what rates of Income Tax were charged on the income of naval officers for the financial year 1915–16?
21. asked the Minister of Labour how many unemployed miners have now arrived in London to take up temporary employment at the Royal parks; how many are married men: whether their wives and...
22. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the great volume of unemployment continuing amongst dock labourers, he is now prepared to reexamine the system of unemployment relief for...
23. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that by a recent decision given by the umpire under the Unemployment Insurance Acts an unemployed person ceases to be entitled to unemployment...
24. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that at no time during the last two years have less than 200,000 miners been wholly or temporarily unemployed; and if he can give an estimate of...
26. asked the Minister of Labour the number of men and women, respectively, who have been refused benefit at the Stockport Employment Exchange for the last 12 weeks on the ground of not genuinely...
27. asked the Minister of Labour what number of miners were unemployed in Wrexham and district during the months of October, November, and December, 1928; whether any miners have been transferred...
28. asked the Minister of Labour whether the application of Mr. John Twist, of Parkfield Terrace, Haydock, for unemployment benefit was in order when made at the Employment Exchange at St....
31. asked the Minister of Labour the total amount of unemployment benefit paid in November and December, respectively, through the exchanges in the Glasgow area; and the greatest number of...
34. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that since the operation of the new Unemployment Insurance Act persons who are to appear before Courts of Referees in Glasgow are summoned from the...
43. asked the Minister of Labour why his Department has issued a Circular stating that men engaged on work such as snow clearing must not have their insurance cards stamped, as this work is not...
Mr. HORE-BELISHA asked: 45. the Prime Minister if he can make a statement as to the present position in the distressed areas; and whether he is satisfied that provision is being made that all...
47. asked the Prime Minister to which Minister questions should be addressed relative to decisions by courts of referees and the umpire under the Unemployment Insurance Act?
37. asked the Minister of Labour when the governing body of the International Labour Organisation meets in March to consider the draft Report on the Hours Convention prepared by the office, the...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the United States of America and Hungary have set up national committees to consider the simplification of the calendar; whether His...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether the Government will consider what assistance and encouragement it can give towards creating an amalgamation of the coking interests in Durham and...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Shops Acts, 1912 to 1928. Last year we had a Bill which dealt with the regulation of shop hours. That Bill was confined to the...
"to amend the Shops Acts, 1912 to 1928," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Wednesday, 13th February, and to be printed. [Bill 42.)
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Coroners Acts, 1887 to 1926. Last year I asked for leave to bring in a similar Bill and the House was good enough to grant it. I...
"to amend the Coroners Acts, 1887 to 1926,"presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 43.]
Read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Tuesday next, and to be printed. [Bill 44.]
Considered in Committee. [Progress, 29th January.]
The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN: With regard to the first three Amendments on the Paper, two in the name of the hon. And learned Member for Moss Side (Mr. G. Hurst)—in page 03, to leave out from the...
I beg to move, in page 93, line 33, at the end, to insert the words: and except that as affecting freight transport hereditaments it means the first day of December, nineteen hundred and...
Amendment made:
Amendment made: In page 99, line 32, at the end, add the words—(4) The Minister may by order direct that the provisions of Part III of this Act and such other provisions of this Act as...
"The Minister shall, before the expiration of the second fixed grant period, in consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned and with any local...
"It is hereby declared that it is the intention of this Act that in the event of substantial additional expenditure being imposed on any class of local authorities by reason of the institution of...
"Upon application being made to the Minister by the council of any county or county borough requesting that the contributions of the council towards the expenses of any voluntary association...
(1) The council of every county, as soon as may he after completing the first general review of the circumstances of districts wholly or partly within the county made or treated as hvaing been...
(1) The grounds on which an application by an urban district council can be made under Section 15 of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, for an order declaring a road to be a...
"As from the appointed day, a county council may by agreement with the council of any urban district within the county undertake, in consideration of such payments as may be agreed, the...
(1) As from the appointed day a reduction or increase in the value of any hereditament in the county of London occasioned in the course of any year by that hereditament having become or ceased to...
Where a valuation list in force on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, is amended with respect to any hereditament on the ground that it was or was not on that date an...
"On and after the appointed day a person who has become an inmate of any Poor Law institution for the purpose of obtaining medical or surgical treatment shall not, so long as he continues to...
"As from the appointed day the following provisions shall have effect with respect to functions relating to infant life protection and vaccination formerly discharged by Poor Law authorities:...
"If, as respects any parish, the period for the making of parochial adjustments limited by paragraph 5 of the Seventh Schedule to the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, has been extended in...
"Nothing in this Act with respect to main roads or county roads shall affect the liability of any person or body of persons not being a highway authority to maintain and repair any highway or...
"(1) As from the appointed day it shall, subject to the provisions of this Section, be lawful for the council of any county to defray any expenses necessarily incurred by members of the council...
Question put, "That this be the Second Schedule of the Bill."
I beg to move, That a humble Address be presented to His Majesty praying that the Regulations, dated the 26th day of November, 1928, entitled the National Health Insurance (Medical Benefit)...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Commander Eyres Monsell.]
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