Tuesday, 4 December 1934
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
1. asked the Secretary for Mines the number of inspections made by His Majesty's inspectors on the afternoon and night shifts during 1934, giving separate figures for Lancashire?
2. asked the Secretary for Mines whether the inquiry into overtime in the Scottish coalfield has started; and if the workmen's representatives will be asked to meet the inspector at each colliery...
3. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can now make a statement as to the position of the negotiations with Poland for export coal?
5. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that it is nine years since the report of the Royal Commission classified the depths of coal seams; will he consider issuing a statement...
Captain SHAW: 7. asked the Secretary for Mines whether his attention has been directed to the dispute at the Woodside colliery, Stonehouse, where 11 miners have refused to join the union for...
8. asked the Secretary for Mines the number of persons killed in mines and quarries in Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1933?
10. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is now in a position to state if any inquiry is to be held into the loss of the steamship "Millpool"?
13. asked the President of the Board of Trade the present position with regard to clearing negotiations with Turkey?
14. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has considered the communication addressed to him by the Fife Small Burghs Association in relation to the inadequacy of the representation...
15. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has received any recent communication from the East of Scotland Milk Producers' Association with reference to the recommendations of the...
17. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many schemes relating to endowments have been received by the Scottish Education Department from the commissioners appointed under the Act of...
16. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the cause of the long delay in bringing forward the Bill dealing with damage done by red deer?
19. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has yet considered the report of Sir Richard Redmayne upon the working of the five-day week at Messrs. Boots, Limited; and whether he can make any...
23. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has received any report from his factory inspector in connection with the death of a man at the Fulham gas works who was killed...
Mr. A. RUSSELL: 20. asked the Minister of Transport whether he will state the numbers of motor vehicles, including both commercial and non-commercial vehicles, which have made use of the improved...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir ARNOLD WILSON: 22. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can state the number of acres let for allotments and the number of allotment holders in England and Wales in...
24. asked the Home Secretary whether he has called for an inquiry into the causes that led to the recent suicide of the Dartmoor convict; and, if so, whether he will state what conclusions he has...
25. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in view of the official investigations undertaken by his Department, he can now state the decision which has been reached in the settlement of...
26. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will state the present situation in the Memel territory; and whether the present Government there is adhering to the terms of the...
28. asked the Minister of Health, with reference to page 244 of his last annual Report (Cmd. 4664), how many casual wards have been closed as redundant in the last three years; what is the...
33. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will place in the Library of this House a copy of the recent report on health insurance for Palestine, presented by the High Commissioner?
34 and 35. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) whether he is aware that, since in many of the Midland districts the former local assessors of Income Tax have been pensioned, the general...
39. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will give an assurance that the House of Commons will be consulted prior to the granting of Treasury sanction to a loan for Japan or...
40. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why the total deadweight National Debt is £409,000,000 higher than in 1931?
41. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will enumerate those examinations for appointments in the Civil Service for which Welsh is included, as an optional subject and as a...
42. asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the advisability of including within the terms of reference of the Arm Inquiry Committee the problem of the supply of arms that would arise...
21. asked the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the fact that at the present time it is provided under the inland post warrants of 1923 to 1926 that no postal packet containing a ticket of...
27. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the German Government recently deprived Dr. Gustav Regler of his nationality on the grounds that he was the author of...
Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That in the case of the following Bills, referred on the First Reading thereof, no Standing Orders...
Considered in Committee, under Standing Order No. 69.
10.41 p.m.
10.43 p.m.
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to extend by a further period of two years the period during which the powers of the Commissioners appointed under...
Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the operation of the Sessional Orders relating to Witnesses and to report what amendments, if any, are necessary.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson,.]
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