Monday, 26 June 1933
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock,Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
London Midland and Scottish Railway Bill,
1. asked the Secretary of State for India in what Indian States European officers are now being employed as Ministers; and whether it is the intention of His Majesty's Government that the States...
2. asked the Secretary of State for India the number of Indians who have been repatriated from tine Federated Malay States in each of the past five years; and whether the Government of India has...
3. asked the Secretary of State for India when the present protection for the Indian steel industry expires; and what steps the government of India propose to take with a view to holding a...
4. asked the Secretary of State for India what action the Government of India propose to take to wards the proposals now under consideration by the Government of Burma to curtail existing mail...
5. asked the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to the case of 40 political prisoners who are on hunger strike in the Andamans; if so, will he state how many deaths...
9. asked the Secretary of State for India the number and names out of the 500 and more Princes of India who have themselves publicly declared in favour of federation as at present proposed in the...
11. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the fine of £2,200 imposed upon the master of the British steamer "Datchet" for an alleged...
Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS: 12. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will now reconsider the decision to retain in the draft disarmament convention the reservation respecting police...
13. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government are still convinced of the desirability of an autonomous regime in the territory known as Eastern Galicia;...
16. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can arrange to publish in the Board of Trade Journal in the next quarterly review of the volume and value of our overseas trade an...
19. asked the Secretary for Mines how many explosions occurred in coal mines during 1930, 1931 and 1932, and the number of lives lost as a result of these explosions?
20. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what further provision is to be made for the borough of Leyton, Essex, by way of clinics as to the sight, hearing, throat and limb...
21. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is prepared to issue a circular to the local authorities concerned as to the desirability of allocating some proportion of the...
22. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the recent prosecution of a motorist attempting to cross a road when the green light was changing to amber, he will state, for public information,...
30. asked the Minister of Transport whether, in view of the growing menace to public health, particularly in the case of young children in large cities and the drivers, caused by the exhaust...
23. asked the Home Secretary if he can now make any further statement as to what action, if any, he proposes to take with regard to the co-ordination and reduction in numbers of the provincial...
24. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, in view of the proposed default of the German Government on its contracted obligations, he will take steps to forbid inter-bourse transactions...
25. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware of the difficult position of the British cotton spinning and weaving trades and of the yarn trade, arising in part by reason of the lack...
28. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Government are now in a position to consider the claim for the establishment of ex-service P-class and temporary paper keepers,...
29. asked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware that the chief engineer of the London and Home Counties Joint Elec- tricity Authority has been retained by the Margate Corporation to...
31. asked the Prime Minister if he will afford an opportunity for discussion by this House of the propriety of further payments of War Debts being made by, without a corresponding payment of...
14. asked the Postmaster General whether he is aware of the inconvenience caused to English shippers and mercantile firms owing to the abolition of the week-end cables to India and the East; and...
In the event of the Motion for the suspension of the Eleven o'clock Rule being carried, may I ask the
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
REPORT [21ST JUNE].
"That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £22,500,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March,...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn." —[Captain Margesson.]
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