Thursday, 12 December 1929
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Glasgow Corporation Bill,
1. asked the Minister of Labour whether she can state the number of boys who have been transferred for employment to the borough of Southwark in the county of London area for the 12 months ended...
5. asked the Minister of Labour whether she is aware that certain Employment Exchanges in the Liverpool area employ part-time clerks at weekends for the making up of accounts; that these clerks...
6. asked the Minister of Labour if she will give the average annual increase or decrease, as between the first week in June and the first week in December, for the years 1925 to 1928, inclusive,...
7. asked the Minister of Labour whether she is aware of the inconvenience caused to the unemployed of Beverley by the inadequate accommodation at the Employment Exchange, which has only one small...
10. asked the Minister of Labour whether she has received any representations from the Plymouth and District Trades Council supporting the recommendation that Plymouth should be regarded as a...
11. asked the Minister of Labour if her attention has been called to the case of Mr. Albert Farrington, Tyldesley Road, Hindsford, Atherton, whose claim for unemployment benefit was before the...
14. asked the Minister of Labour how many men training facilities are available at Brandon; and how many are now under training there?
22. asked the Minister of Labour if she is aware that on 5th December, 1929, a number of men were sent by the Warrington Employment Exchange to the Partington Steel Works, Irlam, for work on the...
86. asked the Minister of Health the number of unemployed men in receipt of Poor Law relief, and the amount of relief paid to them, in each board of guardians area in the county of Durham?
23. asked the Minister of Labour whether she will consider calling a conference of business men with a view to finding some better means of utilising the unemployment fund?
2. asked the Minister of Labour if any steps have been taken to safeguard British labour conditions by negotiating with the Governments of foreign competing countries concerning the general...
12. asked the Minister of Labour whether she has received any protests from trade unions against the provisions of the Washington Conference limiting working hours to eight per day?
16. asked the Minister of Labour whether the Government is prepared to consider the setting up of a Trade Board in the distributive trades?
17. asked the Minister of Labour whether her attention has been called to the dismissal, in Hull, at a week's notice, of 130 tramway men who volunteered to operate the tramway service during the...
24. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the proportion of prisoners whose sentences expired between 1918 and 1925 and upon whom the cat was inflicted who have...
25. asked the Home Secretary whether he has given further consideration to the observations of the Recorder of London in a recent case and calling attention to the Sex Disqualification Removal...
26. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to complaints regarding the annoyance caused to residents in the immediate neighbourhood by loud speakers installed in shop...
27. asked the Home Secretary whether, considering the whole of the adult education in prisons is carried on by voluntary agency, he will consider having this work taken over by his Department,...
29. asked the Home Secretary the figures of married men in criminal lunatic asylums who are serving terms under commuted death sentence?
30. asked the Home Secretary when ex-Constable Wilkins, of the C Division Metropolitan Police, was retired in police orders; whether he was granted a pension; and, if so, the amount?
31. asked the Home Secretary if there have been any resignations from the Royal Commission on Licensing; and, if so, how many and on what grounds?
32. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that many bicyclists have either no red rear reflectors on their bicycles or else have them placed in a position where they cannot reflect the...
35. asked the Home Secretary how many prosecutions were instituted by the police for the dangerous driving of motor vehicles in cases where accidents had taken place during the last six months;...
34. asked the Home Secretary whether he can state the number of aliens who have previously been engaged in various commercial undertakings in this country and against whom criminal process has...
38. asked the Horne Secretary whether he has any information regarding recent receipt by the Communist party of Great Britain of money from the Third International: and, if so, whether he...
39. asked the Home Secretary how many clubs in the Metropolitan police area have been raided by the police during the past three months; what has been the nature of the offences alleged; how many...
40. asked the Home Secretary whether, now that the final Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government has been received, it is proposed to proceed with those petitions of incorporation...
Mr. SIMON: 84. asked the Minister of Health whether he will appoint a Departmental Committee on the recruitment of local government officers in accordance with the recommendations of the Final...
42. asked the Home Secretary whether the Government propose to adopt the same attitude towards Derby sweepstakes as that laid down by the then Home Secretary in this House on 2nd May, 1929?
43. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the cruelty involved by hunting, he will arrange for a public inquiry into the whole question with a view to the abolition of all forms of sport...
44 and 49. asked the President of the Board of Education (1) what steps he proposes to take to secure the additional men teachers who will be required to teach the extra 200,000 boys who will be...
51. asked the President of the Board of Education if he will state, in respect of each county, what proportion of children over 14 years of age can be accommodated on the appointed day in...
52. asked the President of the Board of Education whether it is proposed to develop a new kind of education in connection with the training of school children in the final years of their tuition...
53. asked the President of the Board of Education if he has considered the burden that will be placed upon the managers of all non-provided schools throughout the country by the raising of the...
54. asked the President of the Board of Education when the proposed Education Bill will be introduced; and whether it is proposed to submit it for Second Reading before Christmas?
55. asked the President of the Board of Education whether the Board of Education is satisfied that geographical and historical text-books now in use have been brought thoroughly up to date; and...
56. asked the President of the Board of Education whether the number of London County Council junior scholars admitted to Dulwich College has been reduced since the approval of the new scheme for...
59. asked the President of the Board of Education if it is the policy of the Government at once to develop facilities for free secondary education; if so, will he state to what extent this policy...
Sir N. CRATTAN-DOYLE: 62. asked the President of the Board of Education what proportion of students at present receiving instruction in secondary schools and universities, assisted by grants from...
63. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of pupils engaged in ordinary daytime occupations who are at present enjoying free training or education in evening schools and...
65. asked the President of the Board of Education if he has received any complaints as to the structural condition of the Sutton and Cheam, Cheam Common, Girls' Church School; and, if so, what...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the growing dissatisfaction of the men and women compelled to take their matrimonial troubles to the Police Courts with that method of...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he will provide this House with an opportunity to discuss the business of the forthcoming Naval Conference before its assembly?
Mr. MANGER: 47. asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to indicate before a Division is taken in the House those votes which will be regarded as Votes of Confidence by the Government?
48. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that the navy of the United States of America is no longer taken into account in fixing the size of the British Navy, he will state the...
66. asked the Minister of Health, whether any representations have been received by him from boards of guardians or committees asking his permission to increase the dietary issued to able-bodied...
75. asked the Minister of Health whether the inquiry which he has set up into test work has yet investigated the conditions which prevail at Prince Rock, Plymouth; and when another system is...
67. asked the Minister of Health whether in view of the fact that there are no effective regulations for the operations of speed boats at seaside places, he proposes to invest local authorities...
68. asked the Minister of Health if he will furnish a Return of the numbers and beds, comparable with that given in the House of Commons on 1st March, 1926, for hospitals provided by local...
71. asked the Minister of Health if he has yet received the Report of the committee considering the question of the disposal of London refuse?
73. asked the Minister of Health what were the infantile mortality rates fur 1928 in East Ham, North Kensington, and the Norland Ward of the Royal Borough of Kensington?
76. asked the Minister of Health whether he is now in a position to announce any concessions in respect of the Vaccination Acts, which he promised to consider after receiving a deputation in...
91. asked the Minister of Health how many cases of small-pox occurred in this country as the result of the outbreak on the steamship "Tuscania," how many of these were fatal, the districts in...
90. asked the Minister of Health how many local authorities have provided institutions for the residential care of the mentally defective; and how many have not up to the present made that provision?
93. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that large quantities of fruit preserved in sulphur dioxide are being imported and sold here in competition with...
95. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the fact that, if a co-operative society invests reserve funds directly in the purchase of land, the income it...
69. asked the Minister of Health the additional benefits that are payable to members of the Navy, Army, and Air Force insurance fund?
77. asked the Minister of Health the date on which his town planning department was set up; the cost per year since that date; the number of the present staff; and the duties carried out, by the...
78. asked the Minister of Health when the application forms for pensions and allowances under the new Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1929, will be available in the post...
79. asked the Minister of Health whether he is providing office accommodation for the staff of the Greater London regional planning committee; if so, what is the estimated cost; the number of the...
81. asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider the possibility of encouraging the erection of a limited number of small houses for aged people, similar to those erected by the miners...
Mr. SIMON: 82. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the standard of overcrowding adopted by the Registrar-General in the Census and by the majority of medical officers of health:...
Mr. SIMON: 83. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that no information is available as to the number of occupied houses in the country since the date of the last Census; and whether...
85. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the excessive rents often charged under the sub-letting of furnished rooms in which the furniture is of a scanty character, he will consider...
87. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of conditions of overcrowding in Bethnal Green and certain adjoining areas, and of special housing problems of congested industrial areas in East...
92. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called by the Hawarden Rural District Council, in the County of Flint, to the different rents paid by occupiers of houses on...
Mr. ALLEN: 96. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the proposed substantial reduction in German income tax and tax on real property, he will state the total amount which the...
97. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware that the uncertainty as to whether the silk and artificial silk duties will be retained or discontinued in the next Budget is seriously...
(by Private Notice) asked the First Commissioner of Works whether he has anything to communicate with regard to the possibility of the flooding of private dwelling-houses and other buildings in...
Would the Prime Minister tell us what are now his proposals for business in the present sitting, and, with reference to that, will he give us an opportunity for discussing the very important...
Reported, with Amendments, from the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills.
Order for resuming To-morrow, adjourned Debate on Second Reading [29th November] read, and discharged. Bill withdrawn.
Order for Consideration, as amended, read.
(1) If on a claim for benefit it is proved by an officer of the Ministry of Labour that the claimant, after a situation in any employment which is suitable in his case has been notified to him by...
Condition (iv) in sub-section (1) of section seven of the principal Act (which prescribes the statutory conditions for the receipt of benefit) shall cease to have effect.—[Miss Bondfield.]
Mr. W. M. Adamson, Mr. Compton, Mr. Everard, Mr. Jenkins, Sir Joseph Lamb, Mr. Philip Oliver, Major Salmon, Mr. Savery, Mr. Tinne, Mr. Tout, and Mr. R. S. Young nominated Members of the Select...
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