Tuesday, 21 May 1935
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Provisional Order Bills (No Standing Orders applicable).
1. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the continued loss of employment in the monumental marble industry through the continued importation of manufactured marble...
I asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the first monthly instalment of 60,000, payable in accordance with the terms of the recent Anglo-Rumanian debt, was received on the date on...
4. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the Brazilian Government has taken steps to ensure that the terms of the recently concluded Anglo-Brazilian debt agreement shall be fulfilled...
33. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that in the first quarter of 1934 622 motor cars were imported into Great Britain from America at a cost of £81,491, and in the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what regulations are enforced governing the sale and price of coke and coalite in the streets; and whether he is aware that coalite is at present being...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the Government will consider making a grant to the Manchester development committee to assist them specifically in connection with the setting up...
2. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can now report what result has developed from consultations by the Board of Trade with the committee of the Stock Exchange, designed to...
7. asked the President of the Board of Trade the amount and the value of nickel imported into Germany from Canada for the years 1933 and 1934, respectively, and for the first three months of 1935...
23. asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he will instruct the British commercial representative in Germany to compile a statement showing the rates of pay of German...
8. asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the Army Council have yet come to any decision as to the recommendations of the committee appointed to examine the promotion situation...
10. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that under Section 22 of the Police Pensions Act, 1921, the police pension funds were abolished; whether any list has ever been...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can state the basis on which he calculates that the expenditure on able-bodied unemployed borne by the local authority in Glasgow is 5 per...
12. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is in a position to state the result of his inquiries into the case of Mr. John Mulholland, who is an inmate of the Argyll and Bute...
9. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the approximate number of children in Scottish schools who are now receiving free milk; what proportion of the whole this number represents;...
13. asked the Secretary for Mines how many pithead baths have been opened at mines in Great Britain; how many men and boys are already catered for by them; how many baths are under construction;...
14. asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can give the average daily output of coal per man working at the coal face in Yorkshire in the years 1913 and 1934?
16 asked the Secretary for Mines what steps have been, or will be, taken to guarantee that the undertaking to be given by the Treasury to licensees, under the Petroleum Production Act, that the...
18. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether any estimate has been made showing the number of people who would, in the case of the cessation of support to the sugar-beet industry, be thrown out...
17. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can state for a convenient date in the month of October, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1934, the total number of registered unemployed for the Labour...
19. asked the Attorney-General whether in 'view of the fact that it is not in the public interest that any action should lie for breach of promise alone, he will consider the reform of the breach...
21. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware of the falling off in the number of students which the insistence of the Board of Education on the raising of...
25. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether any firms which are at present building ships for His Majesty's Navy pay royalties and/or commission to foreign firms or Governments on the...
26. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any regulations are in existence to control the influx of cheap Irish Free State labour into this country through the Ulster ports?
28. asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the suggestion made at the annual meeting of the Carlisle and District Nursing Association, to which his attention has been drawn, that...
29. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received a report from one of his national health insurance inspectors in connection with the case of George Pennington, who was formerly in...
30. asked the Minister of Health whether he can state the number of houses built in the six months ended 31st March, 1935, and, for comparison, the figures for the corresponding period a year ago?
36. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware of the recent decision of several large building societies which have agreed to demand a minimum of 5 per cent. interest on...
34. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been drawn to the prosecution at the Scunthorpe Police Court, on 10th May, 1935, of two employes of the Scunthorpe...
35. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what is the average rate of interest on Treasury bills for the current financial year up to the latest available date?
22. asked the Minister of Transport whether he will indicate to the London Passenger Transport Board that the convenience of the public would best be served, when omnibus stops are changed, by...
27. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the appointment by the President of the Council of the League of Nations of the chairman of the SinoBritish Commission to determine...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received a report from the Governor of Nyasaland with regard to the administration of the hut tax?
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that cases have recently occurred where intoxicating liquor has been supplied to natives of the New Hebrides at Epi, Ambrim,...
Estimate presented,—of a further sum required to, be voted for the service of the year ending 31st March, 1936 [by Command]
That they have agreed to,—.
Ordered (under Section 7 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) to be considered To-morrow.
Ordered (under Section 7 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899) to be considered To-morrow.
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 69.
10.59 p.m.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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