Monday, 18 June 1934
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
St. Helens Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order Bill,
1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many contracts for the new League of Nations buildings at Geneva have been awarded to countries which are up to date in their subscriptions...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the official announcement by the Russian Soviet Government denying that any agreement or understanding...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can state the number of Japanese troops who are still south of the Great Wall; and whether, in view of the provisions of the Nine-Power...
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to the default by the German Government on the Dawes and Young loans; and what action the Government intends...
5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any recent approach has been made to the German Government with a view to establishing a convention, of the states of Europe to prepare...
6. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is in a position to make any further statement on the economic arrangements recently made between Italy, Austria, and Hungary?
9. asked the Minister of Agriculture what progress is being made in the direction of setting up the association of smallholdings, to take advantage of the grant of £50,000 per annum for...
Mr. HASLAM: 10. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he has considered the terms of the resolution adopted by the Conference of Egg and Poultry Producers at Caxton Hall, on 8th June; and if, in...
Mr. HASLAM: 11. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is in a position to state what restrictions on dead-meat imports, both from our Dominions and foreign sources, will be proposed after 30th...
8. asked the Minister of Agriculture how many qualified veterinary surgeons are employed by his Department exclusively for inspecting cattle, and farm sheds and buildings, and other duties...
Captain CAZALET: 17. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he will consider issuing a return of all instruments, showing the nature and extent of the authority and relevant...
19. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air, with regard to that part of the oil for the Royal Air Force which is obtained from Russian Oil Products, whether he will consider the desirability...
20. asked the Minister of Health what is the total sum paid out of the Exchequer to recoup local authorities for loss of rating revenue through the whole or partial exemption of agricultural land...
Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS: 21. asked the Minister of Health what is the Government's policy with regard to compensation in respect of good house property condemned in a bad area?
Mr. YOUNG: 22. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that since the Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Barnet, has been removed one mile from the...
23. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to make the use of safety glass obligatory for all taximeter cabs that may be licensed in future?
24. asked the Home Secretary what instructions have been issued to the Metropolitan Police in connection with the pedestrian crossing-places recently painted on the carriage-ways of a number of...
26. asked the Home Secretary if he has received a report from the police inspector at Leicester in connection with a Fascist meeting to which Fascist detachments from the various Midland centres...
28. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amount paid in Excise Duty by the beet-sugar factories from the commencement of the subsidy period until the end of the 1933–34 season?
29. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has any information as to the amount of unclaimed dividends lying to the balance of special accounts throughout the country of all...
32. asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the importance of the subject and the widespread interest displayed, he will allocate a day for the discussion of monetary policy?
Captain ARTHUR EVANS: 33. asked the Prime Minister if His Majesty's Government propose to reply to the United States War Debt Note with regard to payment in kind by this country; and if they will...
12. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has received any report from the Scottish Milk Marketing Board as to the offer of Scottish co-operatives to sell milk retail at Is. 8d. a...
13. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware of the serious decline in the building of municipal houses in Scotland owing to the refusal of local authorities to build under the...
14. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland under what authority Army officers have been giving private lectures in Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow, to members of the Red Cross and Voluntary Aid...
15. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can yet state under what ordinance Akhi Meyr is charged and when the association with which he is alleged to be connected was declared...
16. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the inhabitants of the old city of Jerusalem are still to be exempted from the future payment of local rates or taxes, in view of the...
As amended, considered.
The Irish Free State (Special Duties) Act, 1932, is hereby repealed, and any Customs duties imposed under that Act shall cease to be charged.—[Mr. G. Hall.]
As from the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, the provisions of the Import Duties Act, 1932, shall be deemed not to authorise the imposition of customs duties upon foodstuffs...
Sub-section (1) of Section six of the Finance Act, 1933 (which reduced the rate of rebate on certain hydrocarbon oils), shall cease to have effect, and as from the seventeenth day of April,...
Where an estate in respect of which estate duty is payable on the death of a person dying after the commencement of this Act comprises or consists of agricultural property, the amount of estate...
As from the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, there shall, in lieu of the duties of excise charged on matches under Section eight of the Finance Act, 1927, be charged the...
Section eighteen of the Finance Act, 1932 (which provides for additional deductions in respect of wear and tear of any machinery or plant during any year of assessment), shall have effect as if...
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Order read for Consideration of Lords Amendments.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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