Thursday, 7 March 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Llanelly Corporation Bill, read the Third time, and passed.
"to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the Don-caster Corporation Act, 1926, relating to the Doncaster Corporation Trolley Vehicles," presented by Colonel Ashley;...
4. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will give particulars of the attendance on the North-west Wales war pensions committee of the members from South Carnarvonshire during the last three...
5. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will enumerate the local prisons which have been closed sinced 1st January, 1919, in England and Wales; and what is the estimated...
7. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the largely increased electorate and the consequent necessity for more presiding officers and poll clerks, many of whom have never had previous...
13. asked the Home Secretary what action is to be taken to make it possible for men transferred from mining areas to employment elsewhere to use their vote in the parliamentary division in which...
9. asked the Home Secretary what medical examinations are made of women and girls entering British ports from France; under what regulations these examinations are made, and in what cases; if he...
18. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he can give any information as to the date of publication of the second section of the Report of the Departmental Committee on Mental...
34. asked the Minister of Health whether any communication has passed between his Department and the Kent local authorities with reference to the sanitary conditions that exist during the...
10. asked the Home Secretary whether he has received any requests from organisations in the Metropolitan area representing taximeter cab owners or drivers asking him whether, in view of the...
58. asked the Minister of Transport if he is aware of a recent inquiry into an accident at Queen Street Station, Glasgow; that the inquiry was held in the offices of the company concerned,...
Mr. BECKETT: 11. asked the Home Secretary whether he has received a request from Mr. H. P. O'Brien for permission to visit some Irish prisoners now in Maidstone gaol; whether the request was...
14. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the action of the Standing Joint Committee of the County of Warwick in selecting as Chief Constable of the County of Warwick...
15. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that, although a Canadian Government emigration agency has for some time been established in Cardiff, it had not up to 15th...
16. asked the President of the Board of Education if he will give a list of the black-listed schools in Wales and Monmouthshire which he proposes entirely or partly to rebuild during 1929?
17. asked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to the action of the Glamorgan Education Committee in placing a ban on any of their students becoming...
19. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of elementary schools in the London area that have been closed or converted to other purposes during the last three years; and what...
Mrs. RUNCIMAN: 21. asked the President of the Board of Education whether the closing of Warminster and other secondary schools under reorganisation schemes of local education authorities has his...
20. asked the President of the Board of Education how many divisional committees of the miners' distress fund are now in existence; how much money they have spent; and for what purposes?
24. asked the Minister of Health whether, seeing that a contributor to the national health and pensions insurance, if he loses his card, must replace the card by stamping a duplicate card for any...
25. asked the Minister of Health whether it is the policy of his Department to instruct boards of guardians not to allow out-door relief to any unmarried couples with children, or whether boards...
29. asked the Minister of Health how far boards of guardians are restricted by his Department in the amount of relief they can give to single men, and how far they are allowed to take into...
66. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland why he has refused to sanction the request of the Govan Parish Council that the allowance paid for children of unemployed persons might be raised to...
26. asked the Minister of Health the number of house? built by the Camberwell Borough Council and the Chelsea Borough Council under the Wheatley and Chamberlain Acts; and whether he has...
30. asked the Minister of Health whether he has any information as to the number of working-class houses converted into factories and workshops in the County of London during the last four years;...
32. asked the Minister of Health the number of houses under construction at the end of each month from June, 1928, to date by local authorities under the 1924 Act.
33. asked the Minister of Health, with regard to the fact that he has refused permission to the Maid-stone Borough Council to remit to the tenants of its houses a surplus arising from the fixing...
47. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amount advanced on mortgage by building societies in 1928 or for the latest available year and, for comparison, the amount so advanced in the...
35. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the annual deliveries of free coal which certain royalty owners exact from the colliery lessees are taken into account when assessing the incomes...
36. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total amount of revenue derived from the taxation of sugar, tea, coffee and cocoa for the financial years 1927 and 1928; and what increase would have...
39. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the opening of the flat-racing season on the l8th March, he will consider some readjustment of the Betting Duty?
46. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he authorised the issue recently of a circular by the Inland Revenue Department regarding the liability to Income Tax of regular visitors to this...
48. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the aggregate amount of the savings of the people in National Savings Certificates, deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank, Trustee Savings...
49. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total amount provided in the Defence Estimates for 1929–30 in respect of the present cost of the forces of the Crown and exclusive of...
50. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether petrol for the use of the Navy, Army, Air Force, and Civil Departments pays tax or is supplied free of taxation?
37. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware of the recent rise in the price of petrol; what are the functions and responsibilities of the two Government representatives on the...
38. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the action of a Norwich firm of brewers in employing British barley only for brewing purposes; whether to...
45. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will consider the abolition of the Import Duty on tea and the imposition of a countervailing Import Duty on corn, for the purpose of...
51. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the necessity of indirect collection of tithe through the regional agents can be waived when the interest charges thereon amount to more than the...
52. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, seeing that in connection with schemes for the relief of unemployment tile-drainage schemes for the improvement of agricultural land would rank for...
53. asked the Minister of Agriculture the estimated cost of stabilising the price of wheat at 60s. a quarter?
41. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has received a request from the Hull Chamber of Commerce and Shipping that the Inland Revenue Stamp Office in Hull should be properly equipped by...
55. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department as representing the First Commissioner of Works, if the building operations have yet been started with the new Employment Exchange...
23. asked the Minister of Health what is the reason that the unemployment returns, both in total and in detailed sectional classes of the building trade, have risen roughly in proportion to the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether the Government have yet come to any decision with regard to the extension of the period during which the present relaxation of the contributory conditions for...
59. asked the Minister of Transport if he will state the amount of capital raised by the Central Electricity Board under the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1926?
60. asked the Minister of Labour the number of establishments on trade board lists on 31st December, 1928; the number of inspections made during 1928; and what percentage of the first figure the...
62. asked the Postmaster-General if his Department keep records enabling him to assess the standard of efficiency in the telephone system as regards quickness and accuracy of connection; and, if...
63. asked the Postmaster-General the number of letters sent and received by air during each of the last six months?
65. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether, in view of the proved usefulness of the Empire Marketing Board, he will suggest to the Governments of the Overseas Dominions the...
Can the Prime Minister say what business will be taken next week?
May I ask leave of the House to make a personal explanation? During the speech yesterday of the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, East (Miss Wilkinson), who introduced a Bill, under the Ten Minutes...
Estimate presented of a further Sum required to be voted for the service of the year ending 31st March, 1929 [by Command]; referred to the Committee of Supply, and to be printed.
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had added the following Member to Standing Committee B: Mr. Hammersley.
London County Council (Co-ordination of Passenger Traffic) Bill,
Bill committed.
Order for Committee read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Postponed Proceeding resumed on Question, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."
I beg to move, to leave out from the word "That," to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof the words: in view of the growing menace to civil communities in the development of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a number of Air Forces, not exceeding 32,000, all ranks, be maintained for the Service of the United Kingdom at home and abroad, exclusive of those...
Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding £3,323,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Pay, etc., of His Majesty's Air Force at home and abroad, which will come in course of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £1,700,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Works, Buildings, Repairs, and Lands of the Air Force,...
Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding £6,585,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Technical and Warlike Stores of the Air Force (including Experimental and Research...
Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding £450,000, he granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Civil Aviation, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn."—[Sir G. Hennessy.]
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