Thursday, 26 November 1931
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Edinburgh Corporation (Sheriff Court House, &c.) Order Confirmation Bill (by Order),
1. asked the Minister of Labour if the disability pensions of ex-service men will be taken into account in the means test to be applied to applicants for transitional benefit?
2. asked the Minister of Labour how many married women in Glasgow have been put out of benefit through the operation of the Unemployment Insurance (Anomalies) Act?
3. asked the Minister of Labour if he will grant to applicants for transitional benefit, who are required to attend before a public assistance authority, permission to have the assistance of a...
5. asked the Minister of Labour the number of building trade workers unemployed on 1st November, 1931; and the weekly cost of unemployment benefit?
6. asked the Minister of Labour when the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance is expected to conclude its labours; and whether he will request the Commission to present another interim...
7. asked the Minister of Labour if he will give the latest available figures of the number of persons totally unemployed in Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, United States of America,...
11. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the present financial circumstances of the country, he will consider the advisability of making an investigation into the number of aliens...
12. asked the Minister of Labour whether, having regard to the fact that unemployed agricultural labourers are a burden on the ratepayers of rural areas, he will consider, pending their return to...
16. asked the Minister of Labour what are the intentions of the Government as to continuing the Unemployment Grants Committee after 31st December, 1931; will they be prepared to consider schemes...
17. asked the Minister of Labour whether, under the Order-in-Council, an applicant who has been an insured contributor since 1912, and for the first time makes application for benefit and...
18. asked the Minister of Labour the total number of married women now signing at the Burnley Exchange and the number signing at present at the Glasgow South Side Exchange?
20. asked the Minister of Labour if he will state how many workers have lost their employment in the brewing and allied industries since the increased Beer Duty was imposed; and what is the...
21. asked the Minister of Labour if he is prepared to give an assurance that in future contracts carrying grants under the Development (Loan Guarantees and Grants) Act, 1929 (Part II), the...
22. asked the Minister of Labour the number of boys and girls now drawing unemployment benefit and in attendance at the different juvenile bureaux; whether these boys and girls are, in all cases...
25. asked the Minister of Labour if he will state the number of persons employed in the newsprint mills in this country, together with the number of persons unemployed; and similar figures for...
29. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can state, in regard to the Sheffield and Attercliffe Exchanges, respectively, the periods of unemployment signed by civilians and by ex-service men...
4. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that in certain cases recently the hours of work in certain industries have been lengthened beyond the limit of the 48-hour week; if he will state...
31. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any definite advice is given to licensing justices in respect of plans submitted to them for new or remodelled public-houses; and,...
33. asked the Home Secretary if he is in a position to state the attitude of the Government towards the report of the Select Committee on Shop Assistants?
34. asked the Home Secretary whether he proposes to introduce a Bill for the consolidation or amendment of the law relating to factories?
35. asked the Home Secretary whether he can state the number of accidents, fatal and otherwise, which have occurred during the past 12 months in that portion of the London Road, Mitcham, which...
42. asked the Home Secretary how many motorists have reported under the provisions of the Road Traffic Act accidents to animals on the public road in which they have been concerned during the...
36. asked the Home Secretary if he will state the minimum sum for which any Income Tax defaulter has been sent to gaol during the present year; and the maximum period of detention hitherto in any...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir VIVIAN HENDERSON: 37. asked the Home Secretary whether he will set up a committee to consider what amendments may be necessary in the law relating to appeals from courts of...
38. asked the Home Secretary whether the Government of the Isle of Man has been asked for an expression of its views on the Statute of Westminster, particularly with reference to the...
40. asked the Home Secretary whether he proposes to introduce a Children Bill next spring?
41. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that a man named Sinclair was sentenced to six months' hard labour at the Spennymoor police court for keeping a betting house, and that this was his...
43. asked the Home Secretary if he is aware of the inconvenience to bona fide travellers wishing to obtain alcoholic beverages during the present hours when the sale of such beverages is not...
44. asked the Home Secretary if he has any record of the number of British citizens who, having become naturalised in the United States of America, have returned to this country; and if he can...
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider passing before the House rises emergency legislation to assist early next year the agricultural industry and to prevent the increasing...
47. asked the Prime Minister whether the Lord Privy Seal will continue to perform the duties in connection with unemployment attached to that office by the Labour Government?
48. asked the Prime Minister whether there has been any increase in the Army, the Navy, or the Air Force services in the Far East during the past two months?
49. asked the Prime Minister how many Royal Commissions, Committees of Inquiry, etc., were appointed by the late Labour Government; how many of these have issued reports; and whether the present...
52. asked the Home Secretary if he is able to make any statement with reference to the policy of the Government on the abolition of the death penalty?
53. asked the President of the Board of Education, for what reason the Victoria and Albert Museum now closes at 6 o'clock on Thursdays and Saturdays instead of remaining open till 9 o'clock, as...
54. asked the President of the Board of Education which local authorities have raised the fees in secondary schools; and what authorities have reduced the number of scholarships since 1st October?
55. asked the President of the Board of Education what recommendations to arrest expenditure have been sent to the local education authorities; and the number of secondary and primary schools the...
56. asked the President of the Board of Education why the National Schoolmasters' Association are not represented on the teachers' panel (elementary) of the Burnham Committee?
57. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he has sanctioned any arrangements between a university and a local education authority for broadcasting lectures on special subjects to...
Mr. PRICE: 58. asked the President of the Board of Education the number of primary and secondary schools in the West Riding of Yorkshire which it was proposed to build during the ensuing 12...
59. asked the Minister of Health the total number of insured pensioners in receipt of local public assistance?
61. asked the Minister of Health when the Census particulars as to housing will be published; and when the publication of the report on the Census Returns will be completed?
62. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the increase in overcrowding in the East End of London caused by the diversion of dwelling-houses to industrial purposes; and whether he...
Mr. PALMER: 63. asked the Minister of Health whether, owing to the difficulty many purchasers of houses are faced with in having to meet their instalments, he will introduce legislation granting...
Mr. PALMER: 64. asked the Minister of Health whether, owing to the drop in wages, he will introduce legislation to reduce the maximum rent payable under the Rent Restrictions Act by 10 per cent.?
66. asked the Minister of Health whether his Department has held up any housing schemes submitted by local authorities since 1st October on the grounds of economy; if so, what schemes are...
67. asked the Minister of Health if he will consider, as promised by his predecessor on 30th July last, some way of amalgamating the returns compiled with regard to houses occupied, erected, or...
69. asked the Minister of Health what progress has been made under the powers under the Housing (Rural Authorities) Act, 1931; whether the committee appointed thereunder has held any meetings;...
76. asked the Minister of Health the number of houses in England and Wales which were estimated to be dealt with under slum clearance schemes as part of the Housing Act, 1930, during the...
88. asked the Minister of Health whether he will introduce legislation to provide that persons evicted from their homes owing to unemployment arising out of the present industrial depression...
90. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that in Birmingham and other towns tenants who are themselves in many cases protected by the Rent Restrictions Acts are sub-letting their...
68. asked the Minister of Health the total of the surplus funds of approved societies and branches, as ascertained at the third valuation, and the sum certified for distribution in additional...
74. asked the Minister of Health the number of insured pensioners continuing in employment, as compared to the numbers dismissed from employment upon attaining the age of 65 years?
Mr. PRICE: 79. asked the Minister of Health if he will prepare a White Paper showing the various scales of relief authorised by the public assistance committees in England and Wales, and...
89. asked the Minister of Health whether, as it is the practice of health authorities owning infectious diseases hospitals to convey patients from their homes to the hospitals, he will issue a...
Mr. HUTCHISON: 91. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will consider the desirability of granting a housekeeper's allowance for widows on the same scale as such allowances are now...
94. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the valuations being carried out under Section 3 of the Finance Act of 1931 are in any way affected by the recent fluctuations in the value of...
103. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, seeing that it would be impossible to impose a full range of import duties, particularly as regards agriculture, while our present monetary...
104. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, with a view to increasing national revenue, he will consider the adoption of the policy of including advertising matter in all Government...
105. asked the. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can give the consumption of beer in the month preceding the introduction of the increased tax in the September Budget, as well as the consumption...
107. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the abolition of the man-servant tax, in view of its small revenue to the county authorities and in order to encourage people to...
108. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is proposed to take any steps at an early date for the conversion of the War loans; and what will be the estimated annual saving in interest...
113. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will consider amending the Medicine Stamp Acts with the object of rendering all medicines protected by registered names or trade...
92. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware of the dissatisfaction in the Civil Service over the recent wage cuts; and if he can promise an increase of salary to all the low-paid grades?
97 and 98. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) the annual total of the reparation payments, including payments in kind, required to be made by Germany to all the creditor nations,...
99. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the necessary increase in the customs staff to deal with the anti-dumping duties recently imposed, he will consider utilising the...
100. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the repeal of the Section of the Finance Act, 1926, which allows private persons to bring into this country foreign dresses on...
111. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he can give the number of British-made and foreign-made typewriters, respectively, used in the Departments of the Govern- ment; and...
114. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many Government factories, or similar structures, built in the War, are now unoccupied and earning no rent whatever, and where they are and...
117. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can state approximately the extra cost, on the basis of current prices, of the proposal to supply His Majesty's Forces in the United Kingdom with...
Would the Prime Minister state the order for business next week?
That they have agreed to,—
Read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 12.]
Considered in Committee.
I beg to move, in page 2, line 3, to leave out the word "thirty-three," and to insert instead thereof the word "thirty-two." 4.0 p.m. The object of this Amendment is to reduce the period for...
"Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions contained in Section 104 of the Government of India Act."—[Mr. Entwistle.]
Considered in Committee, and reported, without Amendment; to be read the Third time To-morrow.
I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that the Unemployment Insurance (Transitional Payments) Regulations, 1931, dated the 16th day of October, 1931, made by...
Resolved, That the draft of a Special Order proposed to be made by the Board of Trade under the Gas Undertakings Acts, 1921 and 1929, on the application of the Rhyl urban district council, which...
Debates in the House of Commons are an opportunity for MPs from all parties to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.
