Thursday, 7 November 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Resolution reported; That for the purpose of any Act of the present Session providing among other things for the exception from the provisions of the Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Act, 1896,...
1. asked the Minister of Labour if she can make a statement with regard to the work of the local boards of assessors under the Unemployment Insurance Acts since they were set up?
4. asked the Minister of Labour whether she is aware that since the 1st May last eight foreign bands have been allowed to enter this country to take up employment; and whether she is willing to...
6. asked the Minister of Labour if her attention has been drawn to the delay in the rendering of decisions by the Umpire under the Unemployment Insurance Acts; and if she will take steps to...
7. asked the Minister of Labour if new regulations have been made for dealing with the cases of insured persons whose unemployment benefit has been disallowed pending inquiry into their...
9 and 21. asked the Minister of Labour (1) whether the application to her Department of the Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners in respect of dock improvement and extension schemes falls to be...
15. asked the Minister of Labour if she has been able to make arrangements for a copy of the local unemployment index to be avail able to Members in the Library; and whether she will arrange for...
17. asked the Minister of Labour what has been the increase in the numbers on the unemployment register between 3rd June and 28th October of this year, and in what industries have in creases been...
19. asked the Minister of Labour the number of men registered as engaged in the civil engineering industry, and also the number unemployed in the same industry during the last four months?
23. asked the Minister of Labour whether she is aware of an application by the Dundee Town Council to the Unemployment Grants Committee for a grant of £16,000 to facilitate the esplanade...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he will give a day for the discussion of the problem of the relief of unemployment in Scotland as distinct from Wales and England?
2. asked the Minister of Labour how many foreign boxers have been admitted into this country since 1st June, 1929; whether the British Boxing Board of Control were consulted in each case or in...
18. asked the Minister of Labour how many people were employed in the rayon and silk industries on 1st October, 1925, and how many on 1st October, 1929?
20. asked the Minister of Labour what measures the Government propose to take to counteract the effect which will be produced by the raising of the school-leaving age in accentuating the...
22. asked the Minister of Labour what number and percentage of the workers in this country are employed on conditions as to hours hot less favourable than those contemplated in the Washington...
25. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the large number of serious and other accidents that have taken place at Hyde Park Corner and Trafalgar Square, owing...
26. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the increasing danger of the roads due to dangerous driving; and whether he has considered, or will consider, the...
32. asked the Home Secretary the number of police who could be released from traffic duty if mechanical control of traffic at cross roads were generally to be adopted throughout the Metropolitan...
27. asked the Home Secretary when the last review of police requirements in the Metropolitan Police District was considered; and whether he is at present considering augmenting the Metropolitan...
37. asked the Home Secretary whether the Government propose to take any action to further increase the pensions of pre-War pensioners of the police so as to bring them into line with the pension...
29. asked the Home Secretary whether he has yet been able to take any, and, if so, what steps to facilitate the investigation at present being carried out by the London Cancer Hospital into the...
30. asked the Home Secretary the number of orders approved for the working of the two-shift system under the Employment of Women, Young Per sons, and Children Act, 1920, since March last?
31. asked the Home Secretary whether he has received, in accordance with the Statutes, the Annual Report of the Council of Judges on the administration of justice and its improvement, as...
33. asked the Home Secretary how many cases of murder came to the knowledge of the police authorities between 1st January, 1929 and 1st November, 1929; in how many of these cases arrests have...
34. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the case of Doris Pearce, aged 10, a girl removed from the custody of unsuitable parents and now in charge of the Middlemore...
35. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that for the three years 1925, 1926 and 1927, inclusive, no less than 18,465 persons who were subsequently acquitted were held in custody awaiting...
36. asked the Home Secretary if his attention has been drawn to the escape from Devizes Mental Hospital of a patient named Littleton Watson; is he aware that this patient was transferred to...
38. asked the Home Secretary whether he proposes to advise the setting up of a Select Committee to consider the question of capital punishment in accordance with the Resolution of the House of...
39. asked the Home Secretary if he will give instructions that a record be kept of the kind of animals used for each experiment in vivisection, the total period during which each animal was...
41. asked the President of the Board of Education if he has been requested by the representatives of the non-provided elementary schools to arrange a conference with a view to an amicable...
42. asked the President of the Board of Education if local education authorities are in the habit of conferring with teachers and parents when devising schemes of reorganisation designed to give...
44. asked the President of the Board of Education how many of the 29 existing and 15 contemplated nursery schools are open-air schools; and whether he proposes to sanction any further nursery...
53. asked the President of the Board of Education if the Reports of the inspectors of his Department indicate that there is any difference between the moral and ethical standards of the children...
54. asked the President of the Board of Education the numbers, taken at the most convenient recent date, of children attending non-sectarian and sectarian elementary schools, respectively?
55. asked the President of the Board of Education whether any, and if so, what steps are being taken to ensure that the supply of trained teachers shall be sufficient to meet the demand which...
56. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware of the increasing tendency to confine the appointment to headships of secondary schools to members of the older universities,...
57. asked the President of the Board of Education if it is his intention to make any change in the system of appointing supplementary teachers in elementary schools in rural districts?
59. asked the President of the Board of Education if he will consider the providing of adequate playing-ground accommodation for children in rural and urban areas, having in view the Government's...
60. asked the President of the Board of Education how many local education authorities have regulations limiting or forbidding the employment of married women teachers; how many married women...
62. asked the President of the Board of Education, in view of the fact that the accommodation required in senior schools in 1932, after the raising of the school-leaving age, will be...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the signature of the peace pact by the Government of the United Kingdom, he will consider the advisability of effecting a change in the title of...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the apparent success of the Lord Privy Seal in opening up new markets in Canada for British coal and steel, he proposes to make arrangements for a...
48. asked the Prime Minister if he will grant a whole day for the discussion of the Government's promised agricultural policy at an early date?
63. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received any representations from boards of guardians, or other bodies, since June last desiring to generally discontinue test work for able-bodied...
64. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received any representations from authorities in the necessitous areas in relation to further national relief and assistance; and whether he has...
65. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the action of certain local authorities in purporting to take general action in cancelling debts incurred by way of...
66. asked the Minister of Health whether any applications have been made by local authorities for approval of additional expenditure for providing increased allowances for milk at maternity...
68. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the water shortage which took place last summer, he can state whether any comprehensive local investigations by advisory regional committees...
72. asked the Minister of Health whether any steps are being taken to ensure that the most up-to-date methods of dealing with the effluent of sugar-beet factories are utilised, in view of the...
67. asked the Minister of Health what action he proposes to take to deal with the inflation of the prices of building materials by trusts, price rings, and other trade organisations; and whether...
69. asked the Minister of Health whether, in extending the right to become voluntary contributors to certain other classes under the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Bill, he...
(by Private Notice) asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he is in a position to give the House any information regarding the air disaster which occurred at Foster Down yesterday?
Mr. TINNE: I handed in two questions yesterday at the Table. One of those questions, which related to the issue of the 5 per cent. Conversion Loan, has been suppressed in to-day's Votes and...
I desire to raise a point of Order. There are several questions on the Order Paper to-day with regard to the forthcoming Conversion Loan. Those questions were put down at the earliest possible...
Would the Prime Minister state what will be the business of the House next week?
Reported, with Amendments, from Standing Committee A.
"to prevent unauthorised persons taking and driving away motor vehicles," presented by Mr. Secretary Clynes; to be read a Second tune upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 60.]
Mr. Frederick Hall reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee A: Brigadier-General Clifton Brown, Mr. Hall-Caine,...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. T. Kennedy.]
Considered in Committee.
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: I beg to move, in Clause 1, line 6, at the beginning, to insert the words: Subject to the same conditions as are provided in the case of old age pensions by paragraph (3) of...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. T. Kennedy.]
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