Monday, 22 May 1933
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Great Western Railway Bill,
2. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he will consider the possibility of the Government arranging a scheme of insurance for the pensions of British officers and officials who have...
3. asked the Secretary of State for India for what reasons the subscribers to Indian family pension funds have been asked to decide whether they would prefer their various funds to be withdrawn...
4. asked the Secretary of State for India whether the Government of Bengal have yet reported to the Government of India on the representations made to them by members of the Legislative Assembly...
5. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he will give instructions to the Government of India to consider the advisability of preparing and issuing an annual statement of the foreign...
6. asked the Secretary of State for India if any decision can yet be announced with regard to the question of the transference of the administration of the Settlement of Aden from the Government...
7. asked the Secretary of State for India what action the Government of India propose to take with regard to the representations made to them by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce...
Mr. CHORITON: 9. asked the Secretary of State for India if he will inform the House of the amount of the duties lately recommended by the Indian Tariff Board, showing increases or decreases,...
10. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he can inform the House as to the terms of the Resolution passed by the Indian Legislative Assembly in relation to the terms of the White Paper...
12. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with reference to the proposals for negotiating a commercial agreement with Japan, whether he will give assurances that this country will not...
15. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether representatives of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics have been invited to attend the World Economic Conference?
16. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can make any statement as to the progress of the Disarmament Conference?
17. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the authorities of Manchukuo have ordered a British subject, Mr. E. Lenox Simpson, editor of the Harbin "Herald," to...
18. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the report adopted by the Council of the League of Nations on 18th March, 1933, concerning the dispute between Peru...
23. asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department what measures of assistance it is proposed to give to the scheme of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce to send a trade-mission ship to...
34. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, during the continuance of the proposed tariff truce, His Majesty's Government will be debarred from taking any special action to meet...
37. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he has received any report with regard to the applications made to the Import Duties Advisory Committee by the lace trade for protection?
25. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he has considered the memorandum sent to him from the Live stock Emergency Committee, composed of all the main cattle auctioneers in the United Kingdom,...
26. asked the Minister of Agriculture the reason for the fact that, despite the restriction scheme, the imports of beef in April, 1933, were 12,399 cwts. higher than in April, 1932?
27. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he can give information as to the regulation of milk products from Dominion and foreign sources into this country?
29. asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that, owing to the discontinuance of the morning passenger train service from Aberdeen to Alford and the consequent carriage of the mails by goods...
30. asked the Postmaster-General if he will waive the regulation which requires that applications for work sent under the halfpenny post shall have printed or rubber-stamped letter headings, in...
Captain CAZALET: 31. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether he can give the House any information about the representations he has received as regards the future of Covent Garden Opera...
32. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that convicts responsible for recent disturbances at Mahara Convict Prison, Ceylon, have, on the decision of two prison...
33. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can give the House any information as to the action the Government proposes to take on Sir Samuel Wilson's report on his visit to Malaya?
38. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the fact that there were only two persons prosecuted for low flying in the Metropolitan district in 1932, and that there...
39. asked the Home Secretary what action he proposes to take in view of the resolution he has received from the League of Nations Union urging that we should show practical sympathy with the...
Captain CAZALET: 40. asked the Home Secretary whether he can make a statement with regard to the proposals of the Prison Commission relative to an alteration of statutory rules governing prison...
44. asked the Home Secretary whether other Departments of State were consulted with a view to ascertaining whether redundant buildings were available which were suitable for adoption for the...
45. asked the Prime Minister if he is able to state what reply His Majesty's Government will send on behalf of His Majesty to President Roosevelt's message.
46. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that an instalment, extending to about 160 pages, of the minutes of evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Income Tax...
47. asked the Minister of Transport the salaries and conditions of the engagement of the chairman and members of the London Passenger Transport Board under the London Passenger Transport Act?
42. asked the Home Secretary whether the State breweries at Carlisle are brewing light ale for sale at 4d. per pint; and, if so, if he can state the gravity of the beer?
May I ask the Prime Minister the business for Friday?
Considered in Committee.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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