Monday, 17 December 1934
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Provisional Order Bills (No Standing Orders applicable).
Bill to be read a Second time Tomorrow.
1. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that in the northern coastal region of the Bombay Presidency Japanese rayon goods are being sold at prices below the Customs duty;...
4. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that, owing to the high tariff on imports into China, smuggling has grown so profitable that...
6. asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he can give any intimation as to the results of the recent visit of British trade representatives to Manchukuo; whether any...
3. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will ascertain from the Association of Trust Companies if any further progress has been made since 4th December by the Chilean...
5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can make a statement with regard to the situation in Abyssinia and the fighting that has taken place there; whether instructions...
8. asked the Minister of Agriculture when the proposed Milk Reorganisation Commission will be appointed; and how soon it is likely to commence its examination of the working of organised milk...
11. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that under the recent order of the Milk Marketing Board villagers who from time immemorial have purchased milk at the farmhouse door at a...
13. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether any portion of the £750,000 authorised to be spent in the next four years under the provisions of the Milk Act is being utilised at the present...
14. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the number of fat cattle consigned for slaughter to markets and abattoirs, has been in excess of or below the normal since the commencement of the...
12. asked the Minister of Agriculture the total cost to the consumer up to the present of the wheat quota?
Lieut.-Colonel Sir ARNOLD WILSON: 9. asked the Minister of Agriculture which, if any, of the arterial roads completed in the past 10 years are as yet fully set out on ordnance maps of 25-inch,...
10. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether be has seen the report of the judgment of the High Court, dated 30th November, 1934, to the effect that the City of London is not entitled to limit...
18. asked the Postmaster-General whether it is customary for full-time postmen to receive a half-holiday each week?
19. asked the Postmaster-General whether he will issue fresh instructions in order to mitigate the frequent inconvenience caused to the public through the obligation to place five impressions of...
16. asked the Postmaster-General how much extra staff he proposes to employ to open and investigate the correspondence passing between Great Britain and the Irish Free State?
20. asked the Attorney-General whether his attention has been drawn to the recent declaration of Mr. Justice Talbot in regard to the trial of actions in the commercial list; why there is a...
Mr. WEST: 21. asked the Minister of Health how many houses are still controlled under the Rent Acts?
Mr. WEST: 22. asked the Minister of Health how many persons are drawing contributory and non-contributory old age pensions?
26. asked the Minister of Labour whether it is the intention of the Unemployment Insurance Committee administering Part I of the Unemployment Insurance Act to raise the allowances for children to...
27. asked the Minister of Labour whether the Government have any plans for dealing with labour at present surplus to industrial requirements besides the Depressed Areas (Development and...
28. asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he is aware of the hardship that has been caused in the Stoke-on-Trent area by the removal from that district on 16th November of the...
29. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that Sir Charles Craven informed the Electric Boat Company of America, on 6th January, 1933, that the Admiralty had promised Vickers,...
32. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the date of application to the prison staff of the removal expenses circular, for the Civil Service generally, dated 24th October, 1925?
33. asked the Home Secretary whether he has received a report from his factory inspector in connection with an engineer who was killed at the Savoy Hotel, London, on Sunday evening last; and...
34. asked the Home Secretary whether he has considered the representations from the Association of Municipal Corporations which seek to secure support to an amendment to the law relating to the...
35. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that a moiety of fines imposed for offences under the Licensing Consolidation Act, 1910, and other Acts such as the Chimney Sweepers Act, 1894,...
36. asked the Home Secretary whether he has received from his factory inspector a report in connection with the death of a man who was working on a steel girder at the Tunstead chemical works;...
37. asked the Minister of Transport whether the London Passenger Transport Board are proposing to institute a superannuation scheme to cover all their workers; and, if so, when it is proposed to...
38. asked the Minister of Transport when it is proposed to give effect to the promise given to the House when the London Traffic Bill was under consideration, on behalf of the London and North...
41. asked the Minister of Transport whether, in connection with the new Order made under the Road Traffic Act, 1930, permitting drivers of goods vehicles employed in the retail distributive trade...
40. asked the Minister of Transport whether he is now in a position to make a report on the emission of smoke and noxious fumes from the new Battersea power station, in the light of his pledge to...
43. asked the Prime Minister whether he will make use of the offer of Senator Nye to allow the use of the documents produced in the United States of America arms inquiry for the investigation...
31. asked the Secretary for Mines if he has any statement to make in respect to the fall of roof at the Birley East pit, Woodhouse, Sheffield, where three men were entombed and fatally injured?
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any statement to make on the recent breach of the peace in the Saar in which a British member of the Saar...
Estimate presented—of a further Sum required to be voted for the service of the year ending 31st March, 1935 [by Command]; Referred to the Committee of Supply, and to be printed.
The following notice of Motion stood upon the Order Paper:That the draft Unemployment Assistance (Determination of Need and Assessment of Needs) Regulations, 1934, dated the eleventh day of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Sir F. Thomson.]
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