Monday, 25 February 1935
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in, the Chair.
For the Borough of Lambeth (Norwood Division), in the room of Sir Walter Greaves-Lord, K.C. (one of the Justices of His Majesty's High Court of Justice).—[Sir Frederick Thomson.]
Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Guisborough Joint Smallpox Hospital District) Bill.
3. asked the Secretary of State for India what posts in the Civil Service in India, or civil posts under the Crown in India, are appointed, respectively, by the Secretary of State in Council and...
4. asked the Secretary of State for India to what services recruited by. the Secretary of State the right to premature retirement on proportionate pension extends; and how many officers of these...
1. asked the Secretary of State for India what States are at present governed by minors or by rulers not yet invested with full ruling powers, or by rulers otherwise disqualified from exercising them?
2. asked the Secretary of State for India what units of the Indian Territorial Force have been sanctioned in each of the various provinces of British India since 1919; and what was the strength...
5. asked the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to the disorganisation of the shellac market owing to attempts in London to corner supplies; whether he is aware...
6. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the number of fatal accidents and injuries among British visitors to Swiss mountain and pleasure resorts, he will inquire...
8. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the British Government took part at the January council meeting in the discussions which resulted in the Abyssinian Government...
10. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Minister at The Hague has now furnished a report on the investments of Mrs. Nugent Cahill in the Amsterdam firm of...
11. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the lack of uniformity of the administra tion of the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, and the Tuberculosis Order, 1925, by...
12. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can make any statement with regard to the appointment of the committee contemplated in Section 2 (3) of the Wheat Act, 1932, to consider the...
17. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has considered two proposals put before his Department by the Unemployment Insurance Board under the special scheme for a revision of the method of...
19. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been drawn to the large numbers of foreigners who have obtained employment in England in recent years as domestic servants; whether he...
40. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will issue a White Paper showing the supplementary grants that will be paid to the various local authorities, and the amount paid to each...
18. asked the Minister of Labour the number of advisory committees which have been established under the Unemployment Act, 1934, and the number of these committees which have met to give advice...
44. asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of His Majesty's Government to proceed in present circumstances with the. Unemployment Insurance Bill [Lords]?
20. asked the Minister of Health whether he can furnish an estimate of the number of houses that are owned by their occupiers?
21. asked the Minister of Health whether he has been in communication with the Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District Council concerning the drainage of Audley parish; and, if so, what he proposes...
22 and 23. asked the Minister of Health (1) how many persons throughout the country under the Health Insurance Acts are placed in the category 3 (5a), and the same information separately as it...
25. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he has inspected, or caused to be inspected, any automatic fire-damp detectors when in actual operation in a coal mine; and whether he is yet in a...
28. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the Italian Government has decided to impose a quota upon imports of coal into Italy; that this quota will severely limit...
26. asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of soft-timber standards imported from Canada from 1932 to the nearest available date in 1934; and whether the standards from Canada are...
27. asked the President of the Board of Trade the probable expense to this country incurred by the appointment of representatives of the Government to serve on an Anglo-Argentine committee to...
29. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will, in addition to the inquiry with respect to the affairs of Messrs. James and Shakespeare, under Section 182 of the Companies Act of...
30. asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he is aware that an officer or man may serve by transfer or re-enlistment in the armed forces of two or more Empire countries for a...
31 and 32. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) whether the International Tin Committee is from time to time informed as to the direct and indirect interests in tin of the members of...
34. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can inform the House as to the number of burglaries and other robberies which have taken place in the Metropolitan police...
35. asked the Home Secretary the reasons for proposing to apply to non-inflammable films the regulations which have been made applicable to inflammable films in the interest of protection against...
37. asked the Home Secretary whether he has given instructions to the Postmaster-General to stop any telegram from a private individual to the Irish Free State with reference to the forthcoming...
38. asked the Home secretary whether he will now take the necessary steps to enable Mrs.. Brown-bill, of Pannal, Yorkshire, to be set at liberty?
41. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will consider exempting from taxation all petrol used for aircraft?
42. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will give the number of the directors of the Cable and Wireless Company; and whether the number has been reduced lately in accordance...
43. asked the Prime Minister whether, in the last ten years, any information has reached any Government Department that satisfied it that any British firm manufacturing armaments had sought...
Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS: 45. asked the Prime Minister whether it is proposed to convene the adjourned World Economic Conference; and, if so, at what date?
Mr. V. ADAMS: 46. asked the Prime Minister whether he is now able to specify a date for the introduction of a measure to preclude the further spoliation of the countryside through ribbon-building?
47. asked the Prime Minister what is the Government's decision about raising the school age after hearing the opinions of the deputation which met him on 21st February?
7. asked the Secretary of State for Foregin Affairs what Italian troops and military supplies have passed through the Suez Canal in the last six months?
14. asked the Postmaster-General whether, in regard to the exceptional promotion of an assistant supervisor in the Central Telegraph Office, he is aware that the controller of the Central...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is in a, position to make any statement in regard to the proposal of the German Government for a direct exchange of...
May I ask the right hon. Gentleman how far he intends to go if the Motion which he is about to move is carried? May I also enter, not a violent but a mild, protest at the regularity with which...
The Chairman of Ways and Means reported, That, after conferring with the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, for the purpose of determining in which House of Parliament the respective...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £100,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £73,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £2,146,300, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the...
(By Order).
Again considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceding £602,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £2,955, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £1,250, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
Considered in Committee, and reported, without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed, without Amendment.
Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make further and better provision for the prevention of overcrowding in Scotland, the re-development of areas in...
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