Thursday, 7 February 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Private Bills, That in the case of the Petition for the following Bill the Standing Orders have not been complied with, namely:
Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That in the case of the following Bill, referred on the Second Reading thereof, the Standing...
Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That in the case of the following Bill, referred on the First Reading thereof no Standing Orders...
"to empower the London and North Eastern Railway Company to provide air transport services; and for other purposes," presented, and read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time.
"to authorise the union of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodist Church, and the United Methodist Church; to deal with heritable and movable property belonging to the said...
"to transfer to and vest in the Windermere Urban District Council the undertaking of the Windermere District Gas and Water Company and to authorise that Council to supply water and gas; and for...
I beg leave to present a petition, signed by 9,829 persons, praying that this House do prevent the practice of vivisection, believing that it is wrong to inflict pain and disease on living animals.
1. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that George Lister, late A. B. 55/3423, Royal Navy, Reference No. ll/N/21540, who has been detained for 12 years in Broadmoor Asylum, has applied...
2. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Mr. A. E. Rogers, of 35, Mount Vernon Street, Liverpool, who joined up for war service in January, 1917, and was discharged from...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that James Reilly, late private Highland Light Infantry, No. 12,715, and lately residing on the south side of Glasgow, died in Craig-lochart...
5. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention was called to the trials of two disabled ex-service men, Mr. Holden and Mr. Sarll, on 10th January at the Central...
6. asked the Home Secretary if he has now completed his inquiries into the facts as to how many colliery companies in Great Britain have insured and how many have not insured against their...
7. asked the Home Secretary whether, in order to afford the electors the opportunity of making themselves acquainted with the opposing arguments on the subject of club regulations, he will cause...
8. asked the Home Secretary if he will specify exactly what restrictions remain under the Defence of the Realm Act?
9. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that some thousands of miners and other workers transferred from depressed industrial districts to employment, or...
10. asked the Home Secretary whether it is his intention to introduce this Session a Bill to implement the recommendations of the inter-Parliamentary Committee in connection with charitable...
11 and 12. asked the Home Secretary (1) if he will appoint a special commission to inquire into and report upon the police supervision of night clubs; (2) how many night clubs have been closed in...
14. asked the Home Secretary the number of officers at Maidstone Prison against whom disciplinary action has been taken during the past 12 months; whether at disciplinary inquiries officers are...
15. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that at the New Gallery Cinema, Regent Street, on Sunday last, 3rd February, the Film Society presented a film entitled "The End of St....
23. asked the President of the Board of Education what staff Mr. Curtis-Bennett has at his disposal for the organisation and co-ordination of the various charitable and other funds for the relief...
24. asked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware that South Shields is not included as a distressed area in connection with relief from the Lord Mayor's Fund; and, as there are...
29. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware of the delay of over six weeks that has occurred in setting up the local relief committee at Aberblaengwyn, adopted for...
37. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the conditions prevailing in certain mining areas of Durham and Northumberland; and whether, in view of the fact that...
38. asked the Minister of Health whether he will lay upon the Table of the House a copy of the Report presented to him by his inspector and medical officer who recently visited the South Wales...
48. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the conditions of overcrowding and poverty prevailing in the mining areas of Durham and Northumberland; whether he is aware...
25. asked the President of the Board of Education how many education authorities have initiated reorganisation schemes with separate buildings for junior and senior schools; how far it has meant...
27. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware of the hardship imposed upon some of the poorest people in Liverpool in having to make provision for the rebuilding of St....
32. asked the Minister of Health the kind of test work the West Ham Poor Law Commissioners insisted upon being undertaken by men receiving Poor Law relief; if he is aware that one man refused...
36. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that in certain seaports, including Hull, many workers at the docks and other casual labourer, employed in work of national importance, are...
51. asked the Minister of Health the number of boards of guardians which have forwarded him resolutions urging that authority should be given to chairmen of parish councils or to guardians to...
35. asked the Minister of Health whether it is his intention to introduce legislation this Session to amend the conditions under which compensation is paid for property included in an improvement...
39. asked the Minister of Health whether work is still being continued at the mine in Cornwall where radium deposits have been found; and, if not, whether there is any proposal to restart operations?
43. asked the Minister of Health with regard to the schemes which have been submitted to the Ministry by county boroughs and other local authorities for building new maternity and child-welfare...
44. asked the Minister of Health whether he proposes to issue to Members a revised financial memorandum relating to the Local Government Bill prior to the Report stage being taken?
45. asked the Prime Minister whether, seeing that electricity is not a matter of transport and that the merchant marine is, he will interchange those two sections of the Ministry of Transport and...
56. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the number of Custom House officials on 31st December, 1923, and 31st December, 1928, respectively?
47. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the great and growing distress in the mining areas, the impossibility of absorbing more than a very small number of unemployed miners in general...
50. asked the Minister of Health the extra cost of taking the census every five years; and whether any part of this cost will fall on the rates?
52. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the cost to the Exchequer if unemployment benefit were made a national charge?
53. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total cost of the public social services at 31st March, 1924, and the cost per head of the population?
54. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the amount of the National Debt on 31st December, 1928; how much it works out at per head of the population of the country; the interest paid on...
55. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether there is any information available at the Treasury to show the number of British subjects who are not permanent residents of other parts of the...
57. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, seeing that the receipts of wireless licences amounted to £1,250,000, of which £824,000 was paid to the British Broadcasting...
58. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the statement of a magistrate that 20 men have committed suicide in the last few months in consequence...
59. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will give details of the share capital representing cable communications only in the various companies within the Communications Company?
61. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether there are any official arrangements for the preservation of films which are of national or historic importance and interest?
63. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the cases in which sub-contracts of Government contracts are being placed abroad, either in part or as a...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can give the House any information as to the cause of the trouble between police and unemployed miners at Nine...
Can the Prime Minister state what business will be taken next week?
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Chairmen's Panel: That they had appointed Mr. James Brown to act as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills (in respect of the Agricultural...
"to amend the Licensing Act, 1872, and the Licensing Acts, 1910 and 1921; and for other purposes relating thereto," presented by Colonel Gretton; supported by Major Carver, Sir George Courthope,...
Resolutions reported from the Select Committee; 1. "That, in the case of the Salford Corporation, Petition for Bill, the Stand- 1952 ing Orders ought to be dispensed with:— That the parties...
That they have appointed a Committee consisting of six Lords to join with a Committee of the Commons to consider all Private Bills for the exclusive purpose of consolidating the provisions of...
Considered in Committee.
Amendments made:
Amendment made:
The following Amendments stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. E. BROWN:
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Commander Eyres Monsell.]
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