Thursday, 14 February 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Great Western Railway Bill (by Order),
"to authorise the Corporation of the City of Glasgow to widen a road and reconstruct a bridge in the city; to extend the time for the construction of tramways and other works; to make provision...
Ordered, That the Lords Message [7th February] relating to Private Bills (Consolidation) be now considered.—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]
1. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that employés of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company, who may be in receipt of salary during sickness, are called upon by...
2. asked the Minister of Pensions why Mr. N. Fitzsimmons, 3, Stopford Street, Liverpool, an ex-service man in receipt of a disability pension, has been refused treatment by the Ministry of...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will refer the case of S. Hedley, 246, Storforth Lane, Birdholme, to the pensions (entitlement) appeal tribunal; whether he is aware that Hedley...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that men who wear surgical boots have to hand over to area headquarters an old pair as soon as it has been ordered to be replaced, and that, as...
6. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what agencies the police rely in dealing with road accidents in the Metropolitan Police area beyond the London County Council district...
8. asked the Home Secretary whether he has considered a review of the position of pre-War police pensioners, with a view to abolish the means limit which now applies in respect of the pre-War...
9. asked the Home Secretary whether he is in a position to make a statement with regard to any changes in the Metropolitan police organisation for dealing with clubs, gaming, and other disorderly...
13. asked the Home Secretary whether clerks in the employ of the Metropolitan Police who usually handle large sums of money are covered by any guarantee policy or bond issued by insurance companies?
18. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that upon a burglary taking place in Wandsworth a few days since, the police being notified over the telephone, 35 minutes elapsed before an officer...
10. asked the Home Secretary if he will state the number of accidents that have occurred in the building industry during the last 12 months?
11. asked the Home Secretary whether he has yet received any response to his appeal for a rich man to offer £100,000 for a new Borstal institution?
12. asked the Home Secretary whether extra magistrates will be appointed for London in view of the congestion existing there and the overwork thus entailed on the present staff?
14. asked the Home Secretary the number of hooks printed and published on the Continent of Europe that have been banned from, circulation in Great Britain for the 12 months ended to the last...
15. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that a joint confectionery and tobacco business can sell confectionery until 9.30 p.m. across the counter, but cannot sell cigarettes across the...
19. asked the Home Secretary the number of applications made since October, 1928, for the operation of the two-shift system under the Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act, 1920,...
20. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the action of the appointed members in the second chamber of the Isle of Man legislature in holding up the work of the...
21. asked the Home Secretary whether he has received from the legislature of the Isle of Man the revised Bill dealing with old age and widows' insurance; and is it intended to recommend approval...
22. asked the President of the Board of Education how many open-air classes have been regularly held in London schools during the year 1928; how many children attended them; how did the...
25. asked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware that the Halifax Education Committee have made an application to his Department for approval to the erection of manual and cookery...
30. asked the President of the Board of Education the names of the local education authorities in whose areas are situated the 66 maintained, and two other secondary schools, stated in the...
24. asked the President of the Board of Education how many elementary schools in England have been divided into senior and junior schools under the Board's scheme of reorganisation on this basis;...
23. asked the President of the Board of Education if he will give the definition of a distressed mining area for the purposes of the Lord Mayor's fund; and if he will explain how these areas are...
29. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that, under the auspices of the Lord Mayor's fund, soldiers' uniforms and overcoats are being sent into the distressed areas...
33. asked the Minister of Health what it is now proposed to do with Hollesley Bay; whether the Ministry of Labour has refused to take it over; and, if so, in whom it is proposed that it shall be...
81. asked the Minister of Labour the number on the live register at Abertillery, Blaina, and Crumlin, Monmouthshire, of men, women, and juveniles who have been transferred and found employment in...
34. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Central Midwives Board has directed
82. asked the Minister of Labour how many persons, men, women, and boys, were registered on 31st January at the Hackney, Poplar, Limehouse, and Stratford Employment Exchanges; and how many were...
37. asked the Minister of Health whether he has now received the report of the committee appointed to inquire into the London Lock Hospital; and whether it is his intention to have it published?
38. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the report the master of the workhouse at Honiton made to the board of guardians with reference to the conditions that...
39. asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider simplifying the form of the reports issued by his Department in cases of pensions appeal, in view of the fact that these reports...
41. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the protest made by the Essex vagrancy committee against the lack of provision in the Local Government Bill for making the vagrancy...
42. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that under the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, the assessment of provincial hospitals in England and Wales has been increased from £1.56...
53. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that in consequence of the increase of assessments as the result of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, water rates where charged on rateable...
76. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that the railway freight rebates which came into effect on the 1st December last are adversely affecting merchant and inland millers in their...
44. asked the Minister of Health what schemes for the clearance of insanitary areas have been sanctioned by him during the 12 months preceding the 1st February, 1929; and the dates upon which...
Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE: 54. asked the Minister of Health whether he has any statistics to show the number of the population now living in condemned property, in dwellings unfit for human...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he will make public the terms of the reply to the request of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation for an inquiry into the condition of the iron and steel...
68. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amount of duty received in the last financial year in respect of each of the commodities upon which a duty has been imposed under the...
89. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the fact that foreign manufacturers of corrugated paper boxes, by using a certain amount of heavier material...
56. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why, under the agreement as to double Income Tax made with the Irish Free State, commencing with the financial year 1926–27, persons living in...
57. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give sympathetic consideration in his forthcoming Budget to the reduction of legacy duties levied in cases where sums are left for charitable...
59. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any consultation with the Treasury took place before the recent rise in the Bank rate was decided upon?
61. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can state the total income of persons resident in Great Britain derived from investments in Germany for the years 1924, 1925, 1926. 1927 and 1928,...
67. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state, for any convenient period, how much money was collected in duties on radium compounds prior to the temporary suspension of...
58. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government has considered the Interim Report of the Royal Commission on the National Museums and Galleries; whether the urgent proposals made...
Mr. MALONE: 60. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the proposals drawn up by the French members of the committee of experts on the German reparation...
64. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer in view of the success attending the protective incidence of the artificial silk duties, he will consider taking away the excise duty altogether; and...
69. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what is the total amount paid as pensions to ex-Lord Chancellors from 1st April, 1928, up to date?
70. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Communications Company has yet been formed; whether any agreements or contracts have been concluded; and if it is the intention of...
71. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the recommendations by the Board of Education and the Central Welsh Board for the preservation and fostering of the Welsh...
85. asked the Minister of Labour what scale of salary is being paid to the regular temporary clerks at the Employment Exchanges; whether, if posted to out-stations where there is no living...
73. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can give any estimate of the total area of land on the coast of Wales which has been lost for economic purposes through erosion during the present...
74. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the condition of the Royal Veterinary College; and whether his Department will take any action to secure that it...
75. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the recommendations in the eighteenth of the economic series of reports issued by the Ministry of Agriculture may be taken as the official policy of...
77. asked the Minister of Agriculture how many applications for improvement loans have been received by the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation and for what amount; and how many applications, and...
78. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether there is a demand for eggs with the national mark; whether the price of these eggs has been higher than for unmarked eggs; and whether the supply of...
80. asked the Secretary of State for Air how many private aeronautical inventions have been submitted to his Department during the present year; how many were exhaustively tried out; how many...
87. asked the Post-master-General whether, in view of the establishment of an air service to India, he proposes to mark its inauguration by the issue of special stamps or a special air-mail envelope?
88. asked the Post-master-General what income has been derived from the Government's beam wireless telegraph system during the current financial year to the latest available date?
May ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will be good enough to tell us what is the Government business next week?
Reported, with Amendments, from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills.
"to restrict the opening of shops and trading on Sunday; and for other purposes connected therewith," presented by Sir Frank Sanderson; supported by Sir Herbert Nield, Sir Arthur Shirley Benn,...
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection: That they nominated the following Six Members to serve on the Joint Committee of Lords and Commons on Private Bills...
That they have agreed to—
So much of the Lords Message of this day as relates to the time and place of meeting of the Committee on Private Bills (Consolidation) considered.
As amended, further considered.
With regard to the first Amendment on the Paper, in the name of the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Sir E. Turton)—in page 89, line 20, at the end, to insert the words: Provided also...
I beg to move, in page 91, line 14, after the word "repair," to insert the word "of."
In page 94, line 16, at the end, insert the words: (3) A transferred officer who on or before the date of his transfer by virtue of this Act shall have attained the age of 50 years and shall have...
In page 94, line 29, leave out the words "having been," and insert instead thereof the words: was on the twelfth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.
I beg to move, in page 95, line 33, to leave out from the beginning to the word "subject," in page 96, line 2, and to insert instead thereof the words: (1) Where any officer by whom the annual...
Amendment made:
I beg to move, to leave out the Clause. This is the Clause which has already caused considerable discussion in this House, and in the country and the Press. The House will remember that on the...
I beg to move, in page 146, to leave out from the word "companies," in line 33, to the word "and," in line 35. In the Bill it is provided that the fund during the first year shall provide half of...
I beg to move, in page 106, line 27, at the end, to insert the words: 'Infectious disease' means any of the diseases named in the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889, Section 6, and any...
The Amendments to the Fourth Schedule are out of Order, because they involve a charge.
Amendment made:
Amendment made:
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: I beg to move, in page 139, line 15, at the end, to insert the words: 2. References in any enactment to Subsection (2) of Section 11 of the Local Government Act, 1888, shall be...
Grand Junction Company Bill (by Order).—Read a Second time, and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
REPORT [11TH FEBRUARY].
"That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £366,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1929,...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Commander Eyres Monsell.]
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