Thursday, 12 July 1934
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the chair.
Sunderland and South Shields Water Bill [Lords],
6. asked the Minister of labour whether he can now state the name of the chairman and the names of the other members of the statutory comitee under Part I of the Unemployment Act; and what salary...
7. asked the Minister of Labour the total amount of money vated by theis House for the National Council of Social Service; the amount spent by them; and where it was spent?
9. asked the Minister of Labour the names of the organisations that are recognised by the court of referees and the umpires to select the person or persons to put the case for the workers before...
10. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the large number of women who will be affected by the working of the Unemployment Assistant Board, he will ensure that a due proportion of the...
1. asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons totally unemployed and partially unemployed in Wigan for the years 1930, 193], 1932 and 1933, ending on 31st March, giving separate figures...
11. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that, under the scheme for grouping Employment Exchanges for the purpose of removing anomalies in connection with the discharge of temporary...
46. asked the Lord President of the Council whether he is now in a position to state the total number of surplus workers in the respective areas where investigations are being made by the four...
2. asked the Minister of Labour the number of registered unemployed in the County of Carmarthen on 30th June of each of the last three years; and the number representing the coal, steel, and...
3. asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons receiving ordinary benefit and transitional benefit in the Wales division on the latest available date, as compared with June, 1932, and...
8. asked the Minister of Labour the cost of commissioners and their staff in the County of Durham from their appointment to the latest available date; and whether such cost has been sanctioned by...
12. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the 25th anniversary of Their Majesties' coronation and of the desire of manufacturers to produce articles in...
13. asked the Home Secretary whether he has received a report from the chief inspector of police for Richmond, Surrey, in connection with a meeting of the Richmond branch of the British Union of...
14. asked the Home Secretary on whose authority a raid was made on the Stainforth Democratic Workmen's Club on 26th June; whether the documents and books have now been returned; and what action,...
17 and 18. asked the Minister of Health (1) whether
22. asked the Minister of Health whether he proposes to introduce legislation in order to carry out the recommendations of the departmental committee on the composition and description of food?
19. asked the Minister of Health what number of nurses were employed by local authorities in Wales in 1926, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933; and the number for Glamorgan, separately, for each of the years?
15. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether the Board's recommendation last year that the annual reports of school medical officers should be abridged as much as...
16. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he can now give the names of the 10 local education authorities which are intending shortly to use their school meals...
20. asked the Minister of Health what was the number of houses built and under construction at the last convenient date under the Housing Act, 1930; and what additional number of houses is added...
21. asked the Minister of Health which insurance committees have now applied for the abandonment of economy cuts in the salaries of their officials; and whether approval has been given to such...
23. asked the Minister of Health whether he has yet filled the post of medical officer for maternity and child welfare rendered vacant by the resignation of Dame Janet Campbell and, if not, when...
5. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will state the number of temporary clerks in the employ of his Department, the number of clerks who have been employed by managers of local branch...
24 and 25. asked the Minister of Health (1) the percentage of married women wage-earners to all married women in England and Wales in 1911, 1921 and 1931; (2) in what town in England was the...
26. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is now able to make a statement on the methods adopted by Canadian motor-car manufacturers to fulfil the 50 per cent. content for preference...
29. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware of the hardships inflicted on those carrying considerable stocks of artificial silk through the sudden reduction of the excise duty...
47. asked the Lord President of the Council whether he is prepared to give time for the Motion in the name of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery) and other hon. Members on the...
53. asked the President of the Board of Trade, what tariff and other commercial concessions have been made to Great Britain by Canada since the Anglo-Canadian Trade Agreement?
55. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can make any statement on the subject of the new tariff preferences being granted by New Zealand in favour of United Kingdom goods?
27. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has considered the position of foreign investors resident abroad under the German debt agreement signed on 4th July, 1934, which discriminates...
30. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much is contributed annually to the British Exchequer by Bermuda, Cyprus, Ceylon, Mauritius, the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong and India in respect...
32. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the different dates upon which the year is presumed to end in respect of national finances and, in...
28. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total interest cost of the floating debt for the financial year 1933–34, when the average rate of interest was 12s. 6d. per cent.?
31. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if alcohol distilled from molasses and used as motor fuel is subjected to taxation as such; and, if not, will he state the reason for such exemption?
33. asked the Minister of Agriculture what has been the highest ground rent charged in respect of the recent building leases in Regent Street to a sitting tenant; and what alternative was...
39. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been drawn to the serious position of the export trade in ships' biscuits, owing to the incidence of the wheat quota; and what...
36. asked the Minister of Agriculture how much chilled meat has been imported into this country from Uruguay and Brazil during April and May last; and whether he is aware that this meat competes...
38. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the protests by representative associations of periodical and magazine publishers against the publication of the...
40. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the rivers of the Yorkshire Ouse watershed are potentially salmon-producing, but contain numerous obstructions to the passage of...
41. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the application made to him to prevent access to Rombalds Moor, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, during the months of April, May, August...
Dr. McLEAN: 42. asked the Minister of Agriculture how many revised plans the Ordnance Survey published in 1913 and 1933, respectively; and what number of revised plans it is hoped to publish this year
44. asked the First Commissioner of Works why the general public are still deprived of part of the Botanical Gardens, Regent's Park, by tennis courts used only by relatively few persons; and will...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the recommendation contained in paragraph 5 of the Special Report from the Committee of Public Accounts relating to the...
48. asked the First Commissioner of Works whether, with regard to the fireguard strip at the west side of the National Gallery, his Department will divest the strip of the temporary structures...
50. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the demand for houses and business premises in Tel Aviv and Haifa is considerably in excess of the supply; what has been...
Dr. McLEAN: 59. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has yet received the report of the Committee of Investigation for Scotland on the report of the Consumers' Committee with...
60. asked the Minister of Transport how many accidents, fatal and non-fatal, took place in Whitechapel Road, Mile End Road, and Commercial Road, Stepney, respectively, during 1933; how many of...
61. asked the Minister of Pensions whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Mrs. Lilian Eliza Bennett, who in 1919 was granted a dependant's pension in respect of the loss of her son,...
62. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will not protest to the Brazilian Government against the continued ill-treatment of British subjects by the action of the...
63. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is yet in a position to make a statement regarding the seizure in the post by the Chinese Government of Oriental Affairs, a British...
Will the Lord President of the Council tell us what business will be taken next week and when the Cattle Industry Bill will be available. Has he any statement to make on the programme of business...
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.
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.
Reported, with an Amendment [Provisional Order confirmed]; Report to lie upon the Table.
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
That they have agreed to,—
Mr. William Nicholson reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had discharged the following Members from Standing Committee C: Colonel Crookshank, Major Harvey, and Sir Frank...
[15TH ALLOTTED DAY.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £99,519, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment...
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Again considered in Committee. [Captain BOURNE in the Chair.]
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment: read the Third time, and passed.
Resolution reported, That, for the purpose of any Act of the present Session relating to local loans, it is expedient to authorise the remission of arrears of principal and interest due to the...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed, without Amendment.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Order [11th July] that the Bill be committed to a Standing Committee be read and discharged."—[Captain Margesson.]
Order for Second Reading read.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Statement of the Estimated Income and Expenditure of Greenwich Hos- pital and Travers' Foundation for the year 1934 be approved."—[Captain. Euan...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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