Thursday, 31 January 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr SPEAKER in the Chair.
Read a Second Time; and ordered to be considered To-morrow.
Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Montgomery and Somerset, presented by Mr. Chamberlain; read the First time; and to be referred to the Examiners of...
1. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, in view of the fraudulent character of certain tea bonus schemes, he will take steps to have them prohibited?
2. asked the Home Secretary whether approval has been given to the Bill of the Manx Legislature for the provision of widows' pensions and old age pensions?
3. asked the Home Secretary the total of the new electorate and the figure by which this exceeds the official estimate?
4. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the action of the Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, magistrates, who at the local juvenile court, on Wednesday 16th January last,...
5. asked the Home Secretary what part of the Regulations made under the Defence of the Realm Act is still in operation?
6 and 7. asked the Home Secretary (1), under what authority, legal or otherwise, police officers, as distinct from Customs officers, examine and/or take possession of papers and documents in the...
8. asked the President of the Board of Education whether, in order to stimulate trade in the distressed mining areas, he will make representations to those responsible for the administration of...
10. asked the President of the Board of Education if any part of the Lord Mayor's Relief Fund has been or will be available for distressed iron and steel workers and their families throughout the...
11. asked the President of the Board of Education if there are any women members on the executive committee of the Lord Mayor's distress fund; and, if so, how many?
12. asked the President of the Board of Education why it is that only £2,000 has been allocated to the West Riding of Yorkshire from the Lord Mayor's Fund; whether an organisation has been...
13. asked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware that the Hampshire County Education Authority is advertising for an uncertificated woman teacher with salary under Scale 2; and...
17. asked the Minister of Health if he has received complaints as to the large in- creases recently made in the assessments of voluntary hospitals; and whether, having regard to the benefits...
18. asked the Minister of Health the quantity of radium at present in this country which is not being used, and who are the owners?
Mr. FOOT MITCHELL: 25. asked the Minister of Health the result of the communications he recently addressed to the Governments of the countries concerned in the importation of certified carcases...
19. asked the Minister of Health the number of cases receiving Poor Law relief in Durham county that are classified as unemployed; and the amount of relief paid to these cases during the last six...
20. asked the Minister of Health 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...
56. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he can state the total number of teachers in Scotland who have passed all the examinations and training required and yet have not been able to...
21. asked the Minister of Health the number of subsidy houses built in England and Wales during 1928 and the number built by private enter prise?
22. asked the Minister of Health the total number of epileptics in general Poor Law infirmaries and Poor Law institutions, respectively?
24. asked the Minister of Health if, seeing that on the passing of the Local Government Bill the duties of poor law authorities are transferred to another body, he will consider the advisability...
Lord HENRY CAVENDISH-BEN-TINCK: 29. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Berks, Bucks, and Oxford Vagrancy Committee have passed a resolution to close the Newport Pagnell...
30. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that, at the Brentford casual ward, the casuals were served with skilly on Christmas Day and that some of them were afterwards put on to...
31. asked the Minister of Health the approximate number of boards of guardians which at the time he took office were in the habit of giving outdoor relief to able-bodied men?
23. asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to Leaflet W.P.4 (revised), which has been issued from local post offices to claimants for widows' and orphans' pensions, the...
Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE: 28. asked the Minister of Health why the administrative county of Northamptonshire was omitted from the tables of estimated grants and deficits contained in Command...
33. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any arrangement has been made between the British Government and the Government of the Irish Free State to take back British coins at present in...
Mr. MALONE: 34. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has received any representations concerning the desirability of reverting to penny postage; and, if so, what action he intends to take?
36. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the late Mr. James White, financier, of Foxhill, Swindon, died having paid no Income Tax or Super-tax from 1921 till the time of...
39. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what reason there is for the difference in treatment as regards compensation between dockyardsmen who are injured abroad on the one hand and...
41. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has considered the claims put forward by the P-class of ex-service civil servants as regards their pay and prospects; and whether he...
42. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the Government Departments to which for the first time women have been appointed within the last year; and whether, in view of the success of...
43 and 44. asked the Minister of Agriculture (1) the amount and worth of retained imports of
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he can give the House any information as to the proposed
47. asked the hon. And gallant Member for Rye, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, what is the maximum acreage for which the Commissioners could provide or procure transplants for...
48. asked the hon. and gallant Member for Rye, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, if he is aware that the Reconstruction Committee recommended a planting programme of 1,180,000 acres for...
49. asked the hon. and gallant Member for Eye, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, whether his attention has been called to the large number of acres in Devon and Cornwall that were...
50. asked the hon. and gallant Member for Rye, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, how many men have been discharged by the Commissioners since 1st October last?
51. asked the hon. and gallant Member for Rye, as representing the Forestry Commissioners how many acres of trees have been cut down since 1914; and how many acres have been replanted up to date,...
52. asked the hon. and gallant Member for Rye as representing the Forestry Commissioners whether they have taken any land in the Neath Valley, Swansea Valley or Afan Valley for the purposes of...
53. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware that a number of persons living in slum-clearance houses in Glasgow, and whose only income for two adults and three children is 29s....
55. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether, in allocating the grant for education to the respective counties and burghs, the deductions per £ on valuation, which takes place under...
57. asked the Minister of Transport if he is aware that on passenger trains between Glasgow and London carriages are being lit by gas; and, in view of a recent accident and the findings of the...
58. asked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been drawn to the telauto-graph apparatus in use in the French postal service by which signatures can be sent both by telegraph wire or...
Major-General Sir NEWTON MOORE: 59. asked the Postmaster-General whether he has any information regarding the contemplated establishment of an air-mail service by the Commonwealth Government...
60. asked the President of the Board of Trade the constitution and personnel of the court of inquiry to be held into the loss of the s.s. "Vestris"; and when the inquiry will take place?
May I ask the Prime Minister what business it is proposed to take next week?
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee A.
Ronald Deane Ross, esquire, for County of Londonderry.
That they have agreed to,—
First Report from the Select Committee brought up, and read; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Ordered (under Section? of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland). Act, 1899) to be considered To-morrow.
So much of the Lords Message as relates to the Suspension of Bills considered.
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Chairmen's Panel: That they had appointed Mr. Short to act as Chairman of Standing Committee B (in respect of the Northern Ireland Land Bill).
Sir Leolin Forestier-Walker reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee B: Major Colfox; and had appointed in substitution: Mr....
Sir Leolin Forestier-Walker further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Member from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills (added in respect of the Agricultural...
Considered in Committee. [Progress, 30th January.]
The three Amendments standing in the name of the hon. Member for East Bradford (Mr. Fenby) and other hon. Members—(1) in page 106, line 22, to leave out the words "the standard," and to...
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [14th December],"That the Bill be now read the Third time."
Order for Third Reading read.
Considered in Committee, and reported, without Amendment.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn.—[Commander Eyres Monsell.]
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