Thursday, 21 March 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Llanfrechfa Upper and Llantarnam Water Board Bill,
"to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the Southend-on-Sea Corporation Act, 1926, relating to the Southend-on-Sea Corporation Trolley Vehicles," presented by...
Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE: 1. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has considered the case of Mr. Frank Faulkner, of 3, Devonshire Terrace, Northampton, who was discharged from Birmingham...
3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, in view of his recent pledge to reconsider certain special cases which have gone beyond the seven years' limit and the experience gained in his...
5. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can estimate the cost of extending the police widows' pension scheme to include the pensioners of before September, 1918, in...
6. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the growing number of cases in which the public are being imposed upon by fraudulent employment agencies; and whether it is...
9. asked the Home Secretary whether he has any records of any persons being arrested in the Metropolitan police area for taking films on private property; and whether there are any police...
11. asked the Home Secretary whether Miss Alma Ewert, a German fraternal delegate to women's demonstrations in this country, who was refused permission to land at Harwich on Friday, the 8th...
67. asked the Minister of Labour the names of the firms who have been granted permits during the past 12 months to import aliens for clerical work, giving the number of aliens in each case?
12. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that during the past five weeks visits have been made by persons claiming to belong to the special branch of the Criminal Investigation Department...
13. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that there is dissatisfaction throughout the country over the exemptions allowed under the Shop Hours Act, 1928; and does he propose to take any action...
14. asked the Home Secretary the present position with regard to the request of the clubs for a restoration of their pre-War privileges?
15. asked the Home Secretary whether the Isle of Man Bill for old age pensions, widows' pensions, and orphans' allowance has been again submitted for assent; and has the Measure received assent...
16. asked the Home Secretary if he will co-operate with the Queensland Government to secure, jointly or otherwise, compensation for Mr. Hubert Storey, who was mistakenly arrested on his arrival...
17. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of recent cases in which prisoners have been detained in prison for five or six weeks awaiting trial when nearby Assizes and sittings of the Central...
18. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he will set up a committee of his Department to report upon means of encouraging the study of the foreign languages most used in...
19. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he has had a report on the sanitary condition of a school at Paddock Wood, Kent, where five children died from diphtheria: and, if so,...
24. asked the President of the Board of Education whether it is still the policy of the Board to limit handicraft classes to 20 boys; and if he can state the number of classes which exceed this...
25. asked the President of the Board of Education what instruction in Welsh is at present given in Llandovery College; and, seeing that the intent of the founder of the college is not observed...
21. asked the President of the Board of Education whether His Majesty's inspectors have reported that sundry elementary schools in receipt of grant are insufficiently heated in cold weather; and...
22. asked the President of the Board of Education whether any of the elementary schools in receipt of grant during the school year 1925–26, not provided with an adequate supply of drinking...
30. asked the Minister of Health whether he will set up a committee to advise upon the feasibility of a policy of segregation of mentally and/or morally unfit and subnormal persons?
33 and 34. asked the Minister of Health (1) whether he is aware that there is dissatisfaction at his declared intention to refrain for the present from publishing the Report of the committee...
35. asked the Minister of Health whether he has now completed his inquiries regarding the pollution of the River Darenth and, if so, will he state the result; and what, if any, steps will be...
36. asked the Minister of Health whether in view of the increasing requirements during recent years of water (other than potable) per head of the population and the inceasing expenditure of water...
Brigadier-General WRIGHT: 37. asked the Minister of Health what is the cost per child of carrying on day nurseries; and what are the difficulties in the way of the extended adoption of these...
31. asked the Minister of Health the number of houses under
32. asked the Minister of Health the average rent per room charged by the public authorities in the Metropolitan area for houses subsidised in the various housing schemes sanctioned by the...
39. asked the Minister of Health why he has refused to receive a deputation from the construction, and the number authorised but not started, under the Housing Acts of 1923 and 1924,...
42. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can explain the circumstances in which the staff of the Inland Revenue Department cannot be paid the salaries due to them on 1st April, 1929, until...
49. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether a decision has yet been reached with reference to the deputation from the Association of Ex-service Civil Servants which waited upon the...
44. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what have been the appropriations from the Road Fund in the years 1926–27, 1927–28, and 1928–29, respectively, for other purposes than...
64. asked the Minister of Transport the sum expended on wages out of £1,000,000 expended on road construction?
65. asked the Minister of Transport what number of railway and canal bridges in Great Britain are in need of reconstruction owing to inadequacy to carry modern traffic?
8. asked the Home Secretary what is the number of convictions of motor drivers for excessive speed during the last 12 months to any convenient recent date; has he any data to show what proportion...
45. asked the Prime Minister what action he proposes to take regarding the reply of the oil companies to his communica- tion regarding the rise in price of petrol and other oils; and whether he...
46. asked the Prime Minister if he is prepared to grant the request which he has received from the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations that the Government should immediately...
48. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that threats of legal proceedings are being sent to Income Taxpayers who have paid the whole of their Income Tax with the exception...
50. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will state the typical or average rents charged for small holdings under county councils?
51. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is giving any assistance to the movement which is now being carried out to encourage the consumption of more fish throughout this country?
52. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the Government of Transjordan has given to certain Arab refugees 100,000 dunams of land between Amman and Derna free of...
53. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can state the results of the Vatican intervention in the troubles between the Maltese Government and the Church?
54. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the net capital expenditure on schemes of land settlement in Scotland for the year 1928–29; and what amount of expenditure is...
55. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the total amount of the grants applied for and the total amount distributed under the agricultural drainage scheme in Scotland during each of...
58. asked the Postmaster-General if any permanent male clerical officers in his Department are redundant at the present time and being transferred to other Departments; and, if so, why boys and...
59. asked the Postmaster-General whether there is any provision in the Regulations relating to wireless licences whereby totally incapacitated persons may be excused the payment of the annual licence?
60. asked the Postmaster-General whether he is in a position to state when wireless telephonic communication will be available between London and Buenos Aires?
61. asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that, even when the telephone dial is correctly used, a subscriber is sometimes connected to and answered by another subscriber in the wrong...
Mr. MALONE: 63. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has considered the Report of the Food Council on their inquiry into retail milk prices and profits in London and, in...
68. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he has anything to report to the House with regard to the helicopter experiments now being made?
69. asked the Secretary of State for War the number of rate fixers employed in the explosives section of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich?
70. asked the Secretary of State for War whether there has been an exceptional amount of illness and mortality amongst the troops on the Rhine during the past three months?
71. asked the Secretary of State for War if he will cause inquiries to be made into the conditions in which troops recently returned to this country from China on board the s.s. "Neuralia,"...
7. asked the Home Secretary whether he can indicate generally the results of the working of the Lead Paint Act, 1926; and whether he will now consider the propriety of ratifying the International...
27. asked the Minister of Health if he will give the estimated number of insured persons under the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1925?
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he can give the House any information regarding the wholesale arrests reported to have taken place in Bombay, Calcutta, Poona, and other Indian...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can make any statement as to the reported financial Agreement with Egypt and whether it will require ratification by this House?
May I ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if there has been any change in the programme of business up to the Adjournment which was announced on Tuesday, and, further, whether the Government are...
On a point of Order. May I call your attention, Sir, to a statement made to-day in an interruption by the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy). He...
On a point of Order. With reference to the Third Reading of the Methodist Church Union Bill early this afternoon, was it in order that this procedure should have been adopted before we had...
"to amend the Canal Boats Acts, 1877 and 1884," presented by Mr. Gosling; supported by Miss Bondfield, Mr. Robert Morrison, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Benjamin Smith and Mr. March; to be read a Second time...
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee B.
Doncaster Area Drainage Bill,—That they concur with the Commons in their Resolution, communicated to them on Tuesday last, "That it is expedient that the Doncaster Area Drainage Bill be...
So much of the Lords Message as relates to Railway (Air Transport) Bills considered.
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had added the following Member to Standing Committee A: Mr. Mond.
Mr. William Nicholson further reported from the Committee; That they had added the following Ten Members to the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills (in respect of the Justices of the Peace...
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had nominated the following Five Members to serve on the Joint Committee of Lords and Commons on Railway (Air Transport)...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Bill reported, without Amendment.
I take this opportunity of again calling attention to the proceedings at the Labour Conference in Geneva—proceedings of an extraordinary character—and I hope to demonstrate that if...
8.0 p.m.
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 71A.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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