Thursday, 25 June 1931
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Rotherham Rural District Council Bill [Lords],
I beg to present a humble petition from the Mercantile Marine Service Association and the Imperial Merchant Services Guild, signed by 8,729 British-born navigating officers all in active service...
1. asked the Minister of Labour if she has any information about any cases other than the flour milling industry where arrangements are being made to provide workmen displaced as the result of...
2. asked the Minister of Labour whether, with regard to situations offered to unemployed women at seaside boarding-houses, she has yet issued any instructions to her officers requesting that the...
4. asked the Minister of Labour whether she will consider taking steps to extend the period of time from six weeks to 12 before a person classified as temporarily unemployed is transferred to the...
5. asked the Minister of Labour whether she will again consider the advisability of legislation to abolish the practice under which a worker's representative on a court of referees is...
6. asked the Minister of Labour if she is prepared to make better provision at the Parkhead Employment Exchange for unemployed men, to prevent them from standing in the rain and snow during bad...
8. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that an unemployed man who seeks a situation in one of His Majesty's Dominions rather than remain unemployed in Britiain thereby...
7. asked the Minister of Labour if unemployment insurance schemes are in operation in New Zealand, West Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland; and, if so, what...
13. asked the Minister of Labour what is estimated to be the amount of the anomalies of each of the four classes of workers whose total anomalies are estimated by the Royal Commission on...
15. asked the Minister of Labour whether she can state the number of applicants who have applied for, and been refused, benefit at the Employment Exchanges of Ruther-glen, Cambuslang, and...
19. asked the Minister of Labour the position with regard to schemes of work submitted by the Goole Urban District Council for consideration by the Unemployment Grants Committee?
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Labour whether the Unemployment Grants Committee are authorised to accept applications for schemes of work for next winter which are submitted after 30th...
3. asked the Minister of Labour to what extent allowance is made for house rents and travelling expenditure in the comparative statistics from which the cost-of-living figure is compiled?
14. asked the Minister of Labour whether she is taking any action to prevent another dispute in the woollen textile industry, having regard to the further reduction of wages threatened by the...
18. asked the Minister of Labour whether she will inquire into and report on the results obtained in countries in which the experiment of compulsory holidays for industrial workers on a modified...
20. asked the Minister of Labour whether, seeing that British dance bands are forbidden entry into the United States and France, she will take steps to enforce similar restrictions on the entry...
25. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the total number of visas authorised for Soviet citizens to come of this country to study methods of production of goods since the present...
23. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of recent happenings in connection with sweepstakes organised in Ireland, and the extensive public interest taken in them, he will now consider...
24. asked the Home Secretary if his attention has been called to the recent judgment of the High Court in the case of the Liverpool police versus Shand and others; and whether he proposes to...
Viscountess ASTOR: 27. asked the Home Secretary the number of sexual offences committed against girls under 16 years in England and Wales for the last 12 months; and whether the figures show an...
Viscountess ASTOR: 28. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the continuous widespread demand for improvement in the general standard of films, he will appoint a committee of inquiry to go...
29. asked the Home Secretary how many juvenile delinquents have appeared before the police courts in Devonshire during 1930, and how many have been put upon probation?
30. asked the President of the Board of Education if he is satisfied with the present student-teachership system as a preparation for the teaching profession or whether, in view of the criticisms...
33. asked the President of the Board of Education in how many cases during the last complete 12 months for which figures are available his Department drew the attention of local education...
32. asked the President of the Board of Education in view of the fact that his Department is co-operating with the advisory committee of the land utilisation survey of Great Britain in using the...
34. asked the President of the Board of Education how many and which of the local education authorities for elementary education in England and Wales have not received approval to the current...
35. asked the President of the Board of Education how many local education authorities for elementary education have availed themselves of the recent permission to make payments out of the...
38. asked the Minister of Health whether he can now state the total population as at the recent Census?
40. asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the representations made to him by the Manchester and Salford Better Housing Council upon the profiteering in the letting of furnished...
57. asked the Minister of Health whether he is yet in a position to make any announcement on the intentions of His Majesty's Government further to accelerate the building of cottages and small...
42. asked the Minister of Health how many local authorities in Essex have made by-Jaws regulating the dumping of house and trade refuse in their respective areas; whether ho is aware that the...
49. asked the Minister of Health if he will expedite a decision in relation to the purchase of land needed for the Tirnsbury sewerage scheme in the Glutton rural district?
Mr. PERKINS: 51. asked the Minister of Health whether he will take steps to encourage the sale of fresh English milk in this country by restricting the sale of tinned milk, marked unfit for...
52. asked the Minister of Health what steps are being taken to make use of talking films for the pur- pose of giving instruction in hygiene, mothercraft, etc.?
66. asked the Minister of Health whether he will issue regulations requiring that all animals "tuberculin-tested for the purpose of the Milk (Special Designation) Order of 1923, and which react...
Mr. LONG DEN: 44. asked the Minister of Health if he will issue a general circular to public assistance authorities to the effect that relief should be given according to need in all cases and...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he is now in a position to state the contributions that are to be made by members of the Cabinet by a voluntary reduction of their emoluments; and whether he...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he is now in a position to inform the House as to the date of his proposed visit with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Berlin?
48. asked the Prime Minister whether he can now indicate when he proposes to review, as promised, the working of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, in its application to local government...
83. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether the Government propose to modify Section 4 of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, so as to permit of all children who have qualified for...
Mr. MACLEAN: 84. asked the Lord Advocate whether he is aware that a practice has grown up in Glasgow of fore-handing rents contrary to custom and contract, to the prejudice of poor tenants; and...
50. asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the delay and the consequent hardship caused to the widows who now come within the provisions of the amending Widows', Orphans', and Old Age...
61. asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the representations sent to him from Garndiffaeth, Abersychan, and other parts of Monmouthshire, asking for financial assistance to...
65. asked the Minister of Health whether he proposes to take any steps to sec that old age pensioners who omitted to claim their pensions immediately they were entitled to them are not precluded...
68. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is prepared to set up a committee with a view to inquiring into the question of reducing or abolishing the interest on War Loan stock?
69. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of profit earned by farmers in the United Kingdom during the year 1929–30, as disclosed by the payments under Schedules B and D; and...
74. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, seeing that there is no foot-and-mouth disease in the Irish Free State, and that there is already a Customs barrier between Northern Ireland and the...
79. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the burden which will be inflicted on pig breeders by the proposed withdrawal of the financial support hitherto...
70. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he is yet in a position to state the results of his consideration of the question of railway vouchers for Members of this House?
71. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury in how many rating appeals under the De-rating Acts the Attorney-General has appeared?
72. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether it is the intention of the Government to undertake a survey of all land which was subject to the rights of common on the 1st of January, 1926, as...
73. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will consider the advisability of introducing legislation to prevent the conveyance of land bearing tithe rentcharge without the liability being...
Sir GEORGE HAMILTON: 81. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can state the value of the imports of natural camphor and synthetic or artificially-produced camphor for the years...
82. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state what were the Terms of the case granted by his Department of part of the foreshore at Weston-super-Mare to a private company for the...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary for Mines whether he has any information to give the House with regard to an inrush of water at Scremerston Colliery, Northumberland, resulting in the loss...
Will the Prime Minister tell us what business it is proposed to take next week; and may I also ask whether, for the general convenience of Members, he can make any statement as to the probable...
Reported, with Amendmente, from Standing Committee B.
That they have passed a Bill, intituled. An Act to empower the Corporation of Scarborough to construct street improvements and waterworks and to confer further powers upon them in regard to their...
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
"to provide for the sanctioning and enforcement of rates of wages," presented by Mr. Hayday; supported by Mr. Hicks, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Tillett, Mr. Bromley, Mr. Walkden, and Mr. Dallas; to be read...
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Member from Standing Committee A: Mr. Hackings and had appointed in substitution: Mr. Womersley.
Mr. William Nicholson further reported from the Committee; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee B: Mr. Alpass, Sir Ernest Bennett, Mr. Bennett, Major Colfox, Mr....
[11TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £397,313, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
Order for Third Reading read.
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