Thursday, 12 February 1931
The House met at a quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Marriages Provisional Orders Bill,
1. asked the Minister of Labour if she has any information with regard to present unemployment in foreign countries, with the relative rate of increase from the normal, specifying which countries...
5. asked the Minister of Labour the number registered as unemployed in the building trade on the last convenient date?
2. asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons registered as unemployed at the Grimsby Employment Exchange for the months of January 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1931, respectively?
6. asked the Minister of Labour the number of people disallowed unemployment benefit in Liverpool and the reason for disallowance during the months of November, 1930, December, 1930, January, 1931,
3. asked the Minister of Labour whether she has any information to give the House as to the prospective shortage or surplus of juvenile labour during the next five years?
7. asked the Minister of Labour if she will give the total number of women registered as unemployed in Birmingham during each week in January last?
8. asked the Minister of Labour whether she is aware that, although over 500 miners are unemployed at Cannock, Staffordshire, which is distant only two or three miles from the Littleton Colliery,...
11. asked the Minister of Labour the present numbers of men and women in training centres and the extent of the accommodation which is at present available?
17. asked the Minister of Labour how many schemes for the relief of unemployment have been put forward by the corporation of the city of Hull during the last 18 months; how many have been...
15. asked the Minister of Labour the number of insured persons between the ages of 16 and 64 years classified as belonging to the group of musical instrument manufacture in Great Brirtain as at...
20. asked the Minister of Labour if she can give reasons for the percentage of unemployed in the stone-quarrying industry being greater in Cornwall than in Aberdeenshire?
21. asked the Minister of Labour how many persons who applied for new unemployment insurance books during 1930 had at one time or another been agricultural labourers?
23. asked the Minister of Labour whether she is prepared to recommend schemes for the limitation of the total labour strength of the principal industries by the elimination of those workers at...
24. asked the Minister of Labour whether, when a person registered at an Employment Exchange is found to have no further prospect of employment in the occupation for which he is registered, he...
26. asked the Minister of Labour how many unemployed persons were drawing benefit payable from the Unemployment Insurance Fund, benefit payable from moneys provided by Parliament under the...
27. asked the Minister of Labour what steps are taken in the Employment Exchanges to bring to the notice of those seeking work the demand for kerb dressers in different parts of the country and...
34. asked the Minister of Labour if she will make available for Members of the House the memorandum submitted by her Department for the information of the Royal Commission on Unemployment?
37. asked the Minister of Labour the position with regard to a scheme for the building of new municipal offices submitted by the Pontefract Borough Council in October, 1930, for consideration by...
38. asked the Minister of Labour how many local authorities have now had schemes approved for grant under Part II of the Development (Loans Guarantees and Grants) Act, 1929; what proportion of...
4. asked the Minister of Labour the number of permits issued by her since Jane, 1929, to enable Russian nationals to obtain employment in this country?
10. asked the Minister of Labour whether her attention has been called to a recent decision of the governing body of the International Labour Office to revise the convention on night work and to...
12. asked the Minister of Labour what is the cost of the inquiries held by her Department into the question of instituting a trade board for the catering trade?
13. asked the Minister of Labour what records employers in. the bespoke tailoring trade, who pay by the log or garment piece-rates, keep to prove to the Inspectorate Department that such...
19. asked the Minister of Labour the classes of a non-industrial type to which is applied the cost-of-living index which is based on an industrial budget; and whether she can arrange for the...
28. asked the Minister of Labour whether she proposes to introduce a measure providing for the decasualisation of labour in the dock, harbour, canal, and building industries, and other industries...
29. asked the Minister of Labour what is the total percentage of reductions in wages suffered by the weavers in the cotton industry since the end of 1919 to the present day?
36. asked the Minister of Labour whether the delegates of His Majesty's Government to the international labour conferences, held under the auspices of the League of Nations, between December,...
45. asked the Prime Minister in view of the Government's decision not to build the Channel tunnel and the discomfort experienced by many passengers during the winter months in the small...
49. asked the Home Secretary what county police authorities have not yet established remand homes, other than places within the precincts of prisons and places of detention, for children and...
54. asked the Home Secretary whether he can give particulars of the interviews he has had with delegations with reference to the opening of cinema theatres on Sunday evenings; and has he come to...
56. asked the Home Secretary whether a number of fare-meters with black dials have been passed by the London authorities as suitable for taximeter cabs; why the use of such meters has been...
58. asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the case of Mr. George Washington, ex-councillor of Harwich, who was recently sentenced to three months' imprisonment without the option of a...
60. asked the Home Secretary how many female prisoners gave birth to children during their sentences last year; and what arrangements are made so that these children are not born within the...
61. asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider setting up a departmental committee for the purpose of considering the Poor Prisoners' Defence Act, 1903, with the object of amending it so...
63. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of fee-paying students of the Royal College of Art in each of the seven college years up to and including that ended in July, 1930;...
64 and 65. asked the President of the Board of Education (1) whether any appointment was made following the advertisement for a staff inspector of arts in April, 1924; whether there is at present...
68. asked the President of the Board of Education the latest figures in his possession showing the number of children who because of physical disability are receiving no public education; and if...
66. asked the President of the Board of Education if he will publish a list of condemned or black-listed schools, showing in each case the date when the school was condemned or blacklisted by the...
67. asked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware that the list of public elementary schools which was formerly published annually has not been issued since 1927; and if he will...
70. asked the President of the Board of Education what percentage of the schools represented on the Headmasters' Conference, generally known as public schools, have been inspected by the Board of...
71. asked the President of the Board of Education how many new secondary schools were sanctioned for erection by local education authorities during the year 1930; the approximate number of new...
72. asked the President of the Board of Education how many State scholarships were awarded to men and women, respectively, in 1930; how many of these awarded to each sex are to be held at Oxford...
73. asked the President of the Board of Education how many authorities have not yet received approval to their current triennial programmes, and the number of children educated out of the...
77. asked the Minister of Health whether the application of the Eccles and Patricroft (Lancashire) Hospital, to be registered under the National Health Insurance Act for the supply of drugs,...
78. asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the scheme for the drainage of Amersham, Chalfont St. Peter, Chalfont St. Giles, Chesham Bois, Chenies, Coleshill, Great Missenden,...
79. asked the Minister of Health whether, as under the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926, the sale of milk from tubercular cows for human consumption is forbidden, he will introduce legislation...
82. asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the representations from the councils of Cambridge or other towns showing the adverse effects on local rates as a result of the Derating...
83. asked the Minister of Health if he will give the latest figures of the number of houses, including re-housing schemes under the Act of last year, that local authorities in England and Wales...
84. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the lack of a water and sewage system at Margaretting; and, seeing that this is being provided for in the surrounding...
Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON: 88. asked the Minister of Health how many State-aided houses have been built in the area of the Ashby-de-la-Zouche Rural District Council for each year during the past seven...
Mr. WINTERTON: 89. asked the Minister of Health how many State-aided houses have been built in the area of the Loughborough Rural District Council for each year during the past seven years; and...
85. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the case of Mrs. E. F. Bailes, 10, Cromwell Road, Shenfield, Essex, who served as a nurse in asylums for over 11 years,...
93. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, seeing that His Majesty's Government settled the French claim for the transport of British troops during the War at 27 francs instead of 92...
94. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the average production of new silver from the mines during the three years 1927, 1928, and 1929 only exceeded the production...
97. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to receive a report from the Howard Frank Committee?
98. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the Covent Garden Opera Syndicate, which it is proposed to assist with public money, is engaged mainly in the performance of...
99. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is now willing to consider extending the date of the expiration of the import duties on packing and wrapping paper, translucent pottery, buttons,...
100. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the profits of a board set up under the Marketing Bill will be subject to taxation in the same way as the profits of a company, or whether it is...
102. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the proposed reduction of bonus will be applied to civil servants now receiving £3 weekly or less?
116. asked the Minister of Pensions what decision he has reached in regard to the proposal to discharge the women clerks from the women's branches of the pension issue office at Acton in order to...
107. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can make any statement regarding the beet-sugar subsidy to be paid for the 1931 crop?
108. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the Government's conditional offer of £150,000 to the Royal Veterinary College is confined to rebuilding on the present Camden Hill site or...
110. asked the Minister of Agricuture if he has yet purchased or arranged for the purchase of seeds for allotment holders out of the Supplementary Estimate granted on 16th December last?
112. asked the Minister of Agriculture what progress has been made with the formation, under the Land Drainage Act, of the catchment area which includes the River Nene, Northamptonshire?
111. asked the Minister of Agriculture what steps, if any, have been taken towards ensuring that Dovedale shall be preserved as a national park?
115. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air Whether he is now in a position to state what decisions have been arrived at on the report of the Aeronautical Research Committee on the accident...
(by Private Notice) asked the Primo Minister whether he can state what is the decision of the Government regarding the relation of the letter which he is sending to Dr. Weizmann to the White...
I rise to ask, Mr. Speaker, a question of which I have given you private notice, regarding the accuracy of the OFFICIAL REPORT. It will be within the recollection of you, Sir, and of the House,...
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: Before the Prime Minister comes to any conclusion as to the Committee to be set up arising out of yesterday's decision, will he communicate in the usual way with the leaders of...
May I ask the Leader of the House what the Business will be for next week?
I beg to move, That this House, gravely concerned at the widespread and increasing unemployment among the people, calls upon the Government to formulate and to present to Parliament an extensive...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. T. Kennedy.
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