Thursday, 5 July 1934
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Provisional Order Bills [Lords] (No Standing Orders applicable),
"to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Acts, 1899 and 1933, relating to the London Midland and Scottish Railway," presented by Sir Godfrey Collins; and...
5. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to state the result of his inquiries into the wages and conditions of employment in the French firm at Mossley, Lancashire?
6. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has received any of the reports of the commissioners appointed to investigate conditions in certain distressed areas; whether he intends to publish...
7. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that the money to be collected through pilgrimages to cathedrals is intended to be of benefit to the unemployed, he will take steps to...
2. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to state when Part II. of the Unemployment Act will come into operation?
3. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will give the names of the persons that he has selected to serve on the Statutory Committee under the Unemployment Act, Part I, and also the names of...
11. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether offices where machines are used for accountancy purposes are subject to Home Office regulations and inspection?
13 and 15. asked the Home Secretary (1) what progress is being made with the scheme to provide modern section houses, or, alternatively, reconditioning the existing one, in which about a quarter...
14. asked the; Home Secretary how many short-service constables have joined the Metropolitan Police since the inception of the new system; and whether he is yet in a position to state if the...
12. asked the Home Secretary whether he will furnish the House with a return of the total strength of the Northumberland County Police Force and with a return of the number of dismissals, rank...
Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS: 16. asked the Home Secretary what has been the nature of the response elicited by the invitation to leaders of all parties to consult as to the best method of guaranteeing order...
17. asked the Horn Secretary whether he is aware that considerable distress is caused to relatives of persons who are fatally injured just within the boundaries of one coroner's jurisdiction...
18. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that William Church, of 80, Windmill Lane, Stratford, E.15, a painter and decorator by trade, was visited in December, 1933, by detectives at 8...
19. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the courageous act of Snowie Thompson, an Australian cowboy, who, in Kensington High Road on 9th June, noticing a pair of...
20. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education how many children are concerned where the local authorities have put in operation the raising of the school age from 14 to 15; and...
21. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that, although the film "Invisible Man" is not permitted for exhibition to children under 16 years of age, the...
22. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether the conversations have taken place between the West Riding, Yorkshire, Education Committee and His Majesty's Inspectors;...
23. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that many of the tenants affected by the Birmingham Corporation's scheme of slum clearance in Emily Street are desirous of staying in their present...
28. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the rules governing the conduct of civil servants in relation to membership of trade unions apply equally to the staffs of trustee savings banks?
26 and 27. asked the Minister of Health (I) whether he will state the percentage in England of married women wage-earners to all women wage-earners in 1911, 1921, and 1931; (2) what was the total...
29. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amount of foreign oat products in bond on 1st April and 1st June, respectively?
30. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total sum of outstanding loans from the Public Works Loans Board to local authorities where the rate of interest is in excess of 5 per cent.;...
31. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if his attention has been called to the case of two men who were recently fined at Portsmouth £74,709 for smuggling 4,463 lb. of tobacco;...
35. asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of emigrants from this country to the Dominions during the last five years; and the number of immigrants of British nationality into this...
33 and 34. asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) the number of prosecutions which his Department undertook against debtors under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Acts for failing to keep...
37. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that landowners in Skye have been relieved by the Department for Land Settlement from their obligation to take over sheep stock...
53. asked the Minister of Transport what has been the average number of vehicles carried per day and per week by the Firth of Forth ferries at Queensferry since the new ser- vice began; and what...
36. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that a member of the Glasgow Town Council was present in a public house in Bridgeton on Saturday evening, 23rd June, and mainly...
40. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the producers of certified and Grade A milk in Scotland have requested an opportunity of being heard by the Departments of...
42. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether one-half of the pay of officers in the Royal Air Force has now been restored as compared with the time when the cuts were made in 1931; and...
41. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air if he has any information to give regarding the proposed aerial bombing station at Luce Bay, Wigtownshire?
43. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether he will place four garden benches in the small circular rose garden leading out of the Hylas garden of St. John's Lodge, Regent's Park, and two...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether he will state when the Economic Advisory Committee last met; and if it is intended that it shall in future meet regularly?
46. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he has any information to give regarding the recent accident at Polmaise Colliery, Fallin; and what inquiries are being made to ascertain the cause of...
48. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he will cause inquiry to be made into charges of breaches of the Mines Act at Bothwell Castle Colliery, Bothwell, Lanarkshire; and, if it is found that...
50. asked the Postmaster-General the amount held by the Post Office from telephone sub- scribers' deposits at the end of 1933; and the approximate amount of revenue derived as interest on the...
51. asked the Postmaster-General the principle upon which some telephone kiosks in rural areas are erected without guarantees being required?
56. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what restrictions there are on the immigration of Arabs into Palestine and the return of Palestinian Arabs to their own country from places to...
57. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is now in a position to give details as to the profits of the Pacific Phosphate Company, Limited, in relation to Ocean Island, the...
Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS: 58. asked the Lord President of the Council whether the Government still propose to endeavour to obtain a convention at Geneva for the general reduction or limitation of air...
59. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether his attention has been called to the fact that dependents of some of the Rochdale Territorials who attended their annual training...
10. asked the Home Secretary whether an inquest was held on the death of the gunman, Mr. Hill, who was alleged to have shot himself in a wood; if he can state the type of bullet extracted from...
52. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether the Government are prepared to consider the ending of the dispute between the Irish Free State and this country on the basis of a...
May I ask the Lord President of the Council the business for next week.
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Reported, with Amendments [Provisional Order confirmed]; Report to lie upon the Table.
Reported, without Amendment [Provisional Order confirmed]; Report to lie upon the Table.
Reported, without Amendment [Provisional Order confirmed]; Report to lie upon the Table.
Reported, without Amendment [Provisional Order confirmed]; Report to lie upon the Table.
That they have agreed to—
Read the First time; and ordered (under Section 9 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 167.]
Read the First time; and ordered (under Section 9 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 168.]
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee D: Mr. Emmott and Lord Fermoy; and had appointed in...
Order for Consideration as amended (in the Standing Committee), read.
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Amendment made: In page 1, line 12, leave out from "1925," to "and," in line 13.—[Sir G. Collins.]
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