Monday, 22 April 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Aire and Calder Navigation Bill [Lords],
1. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any bonfires of foreign cloth have been permitted in India within recent weeks; whether any such bonfires have been prohibited and, if so,...
2. asked the Under-secretary of State for India whether he is now in a position to give the terms of reference and full personnel of the Royal Commission to inquire into labour conditions in India?
3. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he will give the number of women employed underground in those mines it is proposed to exempt from the Regulations prohibiting the use of...
4. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is in a position to inform the House of the names of the delegates and advisers constituting the Indian delegation to the forthcoming...
5. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any of the 16 persons arrested on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Mr. J. P. Saunders at Lahore, on the 17th December last, have...
7. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India what steps have been taken to implement the Viceroy's announcement on the 28th January last that an officer of the Indian Civil Service would be...
8. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that the Bar Council of the High Court of Judicature at Rangoon has issued a rule, under the Bar Councils Act of 1926,...
10. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India when the final trial of the 31 persons arrested in March for waging war against the King is to take place; have the accused persons applied to the...
9. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he will consider the desirability of publishing a précis of the causes and aims of the subversive propaganda in India which has...
11. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any action is being taken by his Department to abolish the system of child adoption known as mui-tsai in Hong Kong; and can he give...
12. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether Sir John Chancellor has been approached with a view to expediting the change in the taxation by tithe and wergo; and whether, as this old...
14. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any statistics as to liquor importation and consumption and crime resulting therefrom in Palestine for comparable periods since...
13. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will take steps to free the British West Indies from American broadcasting monopoly by arranging for a British service to cover the...
15. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the experience of Mauritius in a similar situation will be taken into consideration in connection with the drink problem on the Gold Coast?
16. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received a communication from the Kikuyu natives respecting the liberation of Harry Thuku; and, after the seven years' banishment...
17. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any information to give the House as to the mediation to be exercised by the Vatican between the clericals and the Labour...
19. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the points of dispute between His Majesty's Government and the Government of Iraq and on the possibility of the...
20. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Workmen's Compensation Bill in Malaya has yet been passed?
21. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received any telegrams or communications from the. Supreme Moslem Council protesting against the grant of the Dead Sea Concession...
23. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether the Report issued by the committee appointed by the Irish Free State Government to inquire into grievances of British ex-service men...
24. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs if it is within the scope of the operations of the Empire Marketing Board to arrange public culinary displays of selected Empire and Home...
25. asked the Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department the amount of the subscription promised by the Government to the Travel Association; and are any special films being taken with the...
26. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether any steps are being taken by his Department for the purpose of preparing a scheme of marking British meat, so that the public will know at a glance...
27. asked the Minister of Agriculture what increase, if any, has been made in the scale of heavy-horse grants since 1914; and how much those grants cost last year?
41. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he can state why, in the case of a landholder to whom a loan has been granted under Section 7 (7) of the Act of 1911 by the Board of Agriculture...
32. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, if he is aware that tenders were invited last July for constructing an addition to...
33. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the actual agreement between His Majesty's Government and the Egyptian Administration prohibiting the passage of foreign civil...
34. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when the subject of Germany being given a mandate for one of her former colonies was last under discussion; and what was the attitude...
36. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received a communication from the town clerk of Hull, with a resolution of the City Council passed on 11th April, last, drawing attention again to...
Dr. VERNON DAVIES: 37. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received any reports from his inspectors regarding the emission of fumes from artificial silk works?
38. asked the Minister of Health what has been the annual increase of population in the United Kingdom during each year since 1924?
39 and 40. asked the Minister of Health (1) whether the three women members of the staff dismissed by the board of the Lock Hospital two years ago were exonerated by the committee of inquiry;...
42. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state what reduction of Scottish harbour dues will be made in the approaching herring-fishing season as a result of the Budget proposals?
44. asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons absorbed into industry in each year since 1924?
45. asked the Prime Minister whether the National Radium Trustees will have power to expend any of the funds in an endeavour to discover sources of supply independent of the Belgian company?
47. asked the Prime Minister whether in view of the formal statement of representatives of the Russian Soviet Government that Russia, following upon the resumption of diplomatic relations with...
48. asked the Minister of Labour the amount of the grant which has been made to the cost of carrying out the Lee Conservancy new works and navigation improvement scheme between Bow and Hackney;...
49. asked the Minister of Labour how many aliens were permitted to enter this country during the 12 months ended 31st December, 1928 for the purpose of taking up employment other than as domestic...
50. asked the Postmaster-General-when it will be possible to publish the list of rural stations and post offices which it is proposed to equip with telephone call-boxes under the new financial...
52. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of new cases in the last three years in which he has given authority for the letters of individuals to be opened during their...
51. asked the Secretary of State for War the number of men and women employed in the Royal Army Clothing Department who receive an annual holiday of at least one week's duration with pay?
53. asked the Home Secretary whether he proposes to take steps, by legislation or otherwise, to prevent geographical restrictions being imposed by magistrates among the conditions on which...
Order [14th March], "That the Bill be committed to a Standing Committee," read, and discharged; Bill withdrawn.
"to enable leaseholders in occupation of houses or premises whose original leases were granted for a term of not less than twenty-one years to maintain their tenure," presented by Mr. Clarry; to...
REPORT [15TH APRIL].
1. "That— (a) Income Tax for the year 1929–30 shall be charged at the standard rate of four shillings in the pound, and in the case of an individual whose total income from all...
2. "That the excise duty payable on bets made with a bookmaker shall cease to be chargeable as from the sixteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine."
3. "That the railway passenger duty shall cease to be chargeable as from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine."
4. "That— (a) the duties of Customs charged by Section seven of the Finance Act, 1925, for a period of four years beginning on the sixteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-five,...
Resolution reported, That the customs duty chargeable on tea until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, shall cease to be chargeable as from the twenty-second day of April,...
"to reimpose Income Tax and to apply with respect to Income Tax and the annual value of property the like provisions (subject to the exception of certain temporary provisions contained in the...
Considered in Committee, and reported, without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Sir G. Hennessy.]
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