Monday, 1 April 1935
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
I beg to present a petition from Mrs. Violet Van der Elst of 7, Addison Road, London, and 45,961 citizens of London, Chatham and Enfield, praying that Leonard Albert Brigstock be reprieved and...
Newcastle and Gateshead Waterworks Bill.
1. asked the Secretary of State for India whether a fair-wages clause is insisted on in connection with all contracts entered into with his Department?
2. asked the Secretary of State for India whether there are any retired officers of the British Army part of whose pensions are chargeable to Indian revenues?
3. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he will furnish a statement of the members of the All-India services, showing how many were British and how many were Indians as on 1st January, 1935?
4. asked the Secretary of State for India the total number of divisions that have taken place in the Central Assembly since the recent elections; and on how many occasions the Government have...
5. asked the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to the fact that salt exported to India from this country by the Salt Union Company is classified in India for...
Duchess of ATHOLL: 6. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that under a recent decree of the Travancore State Government, Indian members of the Anglican, Nonconformist, and...
Duchess of ATHOLL: 7. asked the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that a deputation from the depressed classes recently waited on the Home Member of the Government of Madras to ask...
8. asked the Secretary of State for India the reasons for the recent appointment of five retired military officers as additional district magistrates in the Indian Civil Service in Bengal?
11. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can give the House any information with regard to the proposed appointment of Brigadier-General Hammond and two other British...
16. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information as to the extent of Communist activities above Hankow and particularly in Szechuan?
17. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the official Japanese statement that the promise of Manchukuo to maintain an open door was...
18. asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department the price of Japanese bicycles imported into India at the present time as compared with the corresponding British product?
20. asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he will furnish the House with information he has received from His Majesty's ambassador or commercial attaché in the Union...
38. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether
41. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in m view of the possible competition with British brick manufacturers through depreciation of the belga, the Government intends increasing...
39. asked the President of the Board of Trade which trade agreements terminate before the end of the year 1937; and whether he will specify the dates on which notice of denunciation has to be...
10. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will direct His Majesty's Minister in China to represent to the Chinese Government that the extensive export duties on Chinese...
21. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the recommendations contained in paragraphs 44 and 45 of the report of the departmental committee on the reconstruction of the Royal Veterinary...
22. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether in respect of the application which has been made to his Department by the Esher Urban District Council for consent to enclose 1,497 yards of poor's...
24. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has any figures showing the amount of barley used by manufacturers of patent food; and, if so, can he specify the quantities of home and imported...
25. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the Canadian Government have recently passed regulations prohibiting the importation of pedigree cattle into Canada from this...
23. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is yet in a position to state what action he proposes to take to accelerate the revision of the Ordnance Survey maps which are, in many cases,...
27. asked the Postmaster-General whether further consideration has been given to the setting up of an inquiry directed to the preparation of the new charter of the British Broadcasting Corporation?
28. asked the Postmaster-General the loss entailed in carrying on the telegraph service at the present time; and whether he contemplates a reduction in the present rates so as to increase business?
32. asked the Postmaster-General whether he will arrange for the establishment of a night telegram-letter service to Kirkwall and Lerwick?
50. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can inform the House of any precedent under the common law where the Secretary of State has directed the Postmaster-General to...
34. asked the Minister of Labour why his Department refuses to refund the balance of the contributions, prior to 1928, paid in error to the Unemployment Insurance Fund by the employés in the...
35. asked the Minister of Labour whether he has considered the copy of the resolution passed at the ordinary monthly meeting of the Abertillery Urban District Council, in which it is stated that...
Miss WARD: 33. asked the Minister of Labour what financial provisions he proposes to make in order that the work of Mr. Malcolm Stewart may be carried on without interruption?
45. asked the Prime Minister whether the Dominion Governments have expressed their opinion of the Imperial Foreign policy now being pursued by His Majesty's Government; and, if so, whether he can...
46. asked the Minister of Health whether he is now in a position to give the House any information as to the proposed inquiry into the nutritional value of milk at certain schools and approved...
Lieut.-Colonel Sir ARNOLD WILSON: 48. asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the steady increase of fatal and other accidents, especially to juveniles, in connection with electric lifts in...
49. asked the Home Secretary whether the employés under the Carlisle State Management scheme are designated as civil servants; and, if so, whether they will be entitled to participate in the...
51. asked the Home Secretary whether he can make any statement with regard to the investigation now being carried on in this country by Dr. Ganz, Attorney-General to the Basle Government, in...
52. asked the Home Secretary whether he can give statistics as to the number of male persons found guilty of indictable offences by juvenile courts or ordinary courts of summary jurisdiction...
53. asked the Home Secretary the number of persons who are in receipt of State pensions above £2 per week and who have acquired wage-earning occupations since their retirement?
54. asked the Minister of Transport the approximate mileages of roads upon which building and improvement lines, under the Roads Improvement Act, 1925, the Public Health Act, 1925, and the latest...
13. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what has been the nature of our intervention in connection with Memel with the other signatory Powers to the Memel Statute; and whether he can...
Miss WARD: 36. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can give the House any information as to the position of the coal industry as a result of the working of the Central (Coal Mines) Scheme...
Miss WARD: 37. asked the Secretary for Mines whether any decision has yet been come to with regard to the unification of mining royalties?
47. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he can give the House an outline of the decisions arrived at as a result of the recommendations of the Stanhope Committee on the...
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
Charles Stuart Taylor, Esquire, for the County of East Sussex (Eastbourne Division).
Sir Henry Jackson reported from the Committee on Group C of Private Bills; That Mr. Stephen Davies, one of the Members of the said Committee, was not present within one hour after the time...
Considered in Committee [FOURTEENTH DAY—Progress,28th, March].
6.30 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Does the hon. Baronet the Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. Croft) desire to press opposition to any of the Clauses up to 186?
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
8.40 p.m.
There is an Amendment on the Order Paper—in page 109, line 12, to leave out from "tribunal," to end of the Sub-section—but in view of the fact, as the Committee are aware, that the...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
8.48 p.m.
I think the Amendment to this Clause in the name of the hon. and learned Member for Ashford (Mr. Spens) and that in the name of the hon. Member for Springburn (Mr. Emmott) and other hon. Members...
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."
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."
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
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 Department of Agriculture for...
Read a Second time.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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