Tuesday, 18 December 1934
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
I beg to present a Petition to this Honourable House as followeth: Your Petitioners, believing vivisection to be morally unjustifiable, scientifically useless and dangerous and demoralising to...
Sea Fisheries Provisional Order Bill,
1. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can see his way clear to permit the Scottish warders to submit the interpretation of Clause 18 of the Stanhope Report, with particular...
2. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the houses and grounds of the prison staff at Perth are still in a bad state; and if any progress is being made to improve...
5. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the rector of Lenzie Academy, Dumbartonshire, has been suddenly deposed from his post without warning or hearing by the...
9. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether in order to allay the general uneasiness, he will now make an announcement that it is intended to give the Scottish Milk Marketing Board...
Mr. LAW: 10. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many convictions have been recorded against Scottish and English trawlers, respectively, for offences under the Illegal Trawling Act?
12. asked the Secretary for Mines the number of prosecutions that were instituted under the Coal Mines Act, 1911, and regulations, during the years 1932, 1933, and the nine months ended the 30th...
11. asked the Secretary for Mines the length in mileage of the main ventilating and haulage roadways in the coal mines of the various inspectorate districts of the country, giving the number of...
13. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is satisfied that the time taken for stemming and shotfiring in the mines of Great Britain is in accordance with the coal mines regulations; whether...
16. asked the Secretary for Mines the present position and intentions of the British Government with regard to the International Convention for reducing the hours of labour in mines?
Mrs. WARD: 17. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that several collieries in the Cannock Chase coalfield have had to hold their men off owing to shortage of wagons; and, as this is...
18. asked the President of the Board of Trade the number and names of the new industries that have been established in Great Britain since the imposition of the new tariffs in 1931; the places...
19. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will publish a statement giving particulars of the arms and munitions and naval and military stores, not including sporting arms and...
22. asked the President of the Board of Trade who will be the British representatives at the forthcoming international shipping conference; and what countries are also sending representatives?
23. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give an estimate of the balance of trade, including invisible exports, between Great Britain and the rest of the world during 1934 or...
Duchess of ATHOLL: 20. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in connection with the negotiations for trade agreements with Turkey and Poland, he is consulting with representatives of...
25. (for Mr. MALLALIEU) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been drawn to a recent pronouncement by the French Prime Minister that the policy of trade restrictions...
21. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will draw the attention of the Food Council to the large difference in the retail price of fresh herrings and the price received by the...
26. asked the Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education whether he has considered the resolution from the Staffordshire Education Committee approving the policy of raising the school age...
27. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education the proportion of rural areas in which re-organisation under the Hadow scheme has been completed; and whether he will stimulate the...
31. asked the Attorney-General whether he is now in a position to state when he proposes to comply with the requirements of Section 1 (2) of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation)...
Major MILLS: 32. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the derelict condition of the McCreagh estate, in the parishes of Barton Stacey, Bullington, and...
33. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will give the number of persons registered as being unemployed in the county of Glamorgan; and will he give the number in receipt of insurance benefit...
35. asked the Postmaster-General whether the arrangements have been completed for intermediate despatches of mails for West Africa to be carried by German and Dutch vessels; and whether, as this...
36. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps he proposes to take to protect British investors who have been compelled to submit to a unilateral arrangement upon defaulted...
37. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when it is proposed to hold the next meeting of the Air Sub-Committee of the Disarmament Conference?
Viscountess ASTOR: 39. asked the Minister of Health how many local authorities empowered under the Maternity and Child Welfare Act of 1918 to set up maternity and child welfare centres have, up...
40. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the nuisance caused to residents in West Chelsea by the emission of noxious fumes from the factory owned by the Morgan...
Mr. TODD: 41. asked the Minister of Health in what particulars his Department is dissatisfied with the conditions in the hopfields in Worcestershire and Herefordshire; and in which districts...
42. asked the Minister of Health the number of houses reconstructed under the provisions of the Housing (Rural Workers) Act during the year ended 30th September, 1934?
44. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any supplementary terms of reference or instructions, other than those appearing on pages 1 and 2 of the report, were issued to the...
45. asked the Prime Minister whether the proposed British arms inquiry will investigate the part played by British firms in the rearmament of Germany and, in particular, the existence and nature...
46. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the estimated annual cost to the Exchequer owing to loss of revenue through the concession on oil; and also the amount of the loan for the building of...
47. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is his intention to order a special issue of coins to commemorate the Royal Silver Jubilee next year; and, if so, will he give particulars of...
First Report of the Select Committee brought up, and read;
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Amendment to Question [17th December], That the draft Unemployment Assistance (Determination of Need and Assessment of Needs) Regulations, 1934, dated...
Resolved, That the draft of a Special Order proposed to be made by the Board of Trade under the Gas Undertakings Acts, 1920 to 1934, on the application of the Berkhamp-stead Gas Company, which...
The following Motions stood upon the Order Paper:That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty praying that the Provisional Regulations, dated the 7th November, 1934, made by the Minister of...
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