Monday, 6 February 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman: asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he can furnish particulars of the murder of Major Bazalgette, political agent to the Orissa Federated States, in...
Sir N. Stewart Sandeman: asked the Prime Minister whether British ships have recently been sent to Valencia for the purpose of repatriating members of the International Brigade; and how many...
asked the Prime Minister whether the Polish Government have been consulted on the question of the retention of the League of Nations High Commissioner at Danzig; and what is the Polish attitude...
asked the Prime Minister what reciprocal undertakings have been given to this country in the Anglo-Portuguese treaties dating from 1373 to 1703 in return for a guarantee from Great Britain to...
asked the Prime Minister the number and the extent of claims for compensation received from British firms in China in respect of destruction of their property by Japanese military action?
asked the Prime Minister whether any shorthand records are now being kept by officials of his Department, in order to ascertain whether the recent slanderous broadcasts from German stations on...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of Herr Hitler's statement that his offers to limit armaments have been rejected, His Majesty's Government will again make it clear that they are willing...
asked the Prime Minister particulars of the reports he has received from His Majesty's Ambassador in Paris as to the number of Indian subjects who have been arrested in Paris and deported during...
asked the Prime Minister whether he can make a statement concerning the recent agreement between the German and Czechoslovak Governments, by which the Czechoslovak Government have agreed that...
asked the Prime Minister whether the recent statement of the French Foreign Minister that in the case of war the forces of Great Britain would be at the disposal of France, just as all the forces...
asked the Prime Minister how far the terms of the Anglo-Italian Agreement have been carried out in Libya for the progressive reduction of Italian troops; and whether he has any information as to...
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, what steps he is taking to organise the development of the export trade to Argentine of British-produced glass articles to compete with the...
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he can now make a full statement with regard to the arrangements made for the New York World's Fair; what are to be the special...
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether, in view of the fact that the Government are prepared to assist any industries which are properly organised in recapturing and...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will issue a White Paper showing precisely what he has done within the past six months to increase the interchange of imports and exports...
asked the President of the Board of Trade, what action he has taken, or intends to take, in order that manufactured goods shall be clearly marked as to the origin of the goods?
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is prepared to carry out an immediate survey of shipyards closed as redundant, with a view to ascertaining the possibility of reopening these...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he intends to invite representatives of farm workers in England and Scotland to confer with him in the preparation of a long-term agricultural policy;...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the recent case in connection with the revised Bacon Marketing Scheme under which a single pig was despatched by itself...
asked the Minister of Agriculture how many attested herds there are in the county of Carmarthen up to date; how many herds are waiting to be tested; what is the cause of the delay in testing;...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has considered representations from egg-producing organisations as to the uneconomic price of English eggs, National Mark eggs having fallen 3s. per...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has any statement to make about the flood danger in the Fens; what progress has been made since March, 1937, in flood precautions; and whether the...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the increased danger to vulnerable positions caused through the changed conditions of aerial warfare since the issue of the White Paper on the...
asked the Prime Minister whether arrangements can be made to ensure that during the coming visit of the French President to this country he will be received in two or three of the principal...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the continued decline in the numbers of men and boats and in the earnings of the herring industry, and, in particular, the distress of...
asked the Postmaster-General how many applications for telephones to be connected to the Greenock exchange are waiting to be dealt with; and whether he has any statement to make on the subject?
asked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been called to the system of football pools now being organised by Automatic Credit Pools, Limited, whereby postage and postal orders are...
asked the Postmaster-General what quantity of telegraph poles were imported by his Department during 1938; and what percentage of these were carried in British ships?
asked the Postmaster-General the number of occasions on which Cabinet Ministers, including the Prime Minister, and other Members of the Government have had the use of broadcasting to make...
asked the Postmaster-General whether the broadcasts of news bulletins in Italian have been finally discontinued; and, if so, for what reason?
asked the Minister of Health whether panel doctors are expected, and permitted under the regulations, to supply any drug they wish to panel patients?
asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider issuing instructions to public assistance authorities authorising them to exclude from the income of an applicant's household when assessing...
asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the proposal of the Birmingham City Council to impose a means test on the tenants of their municipal houses, which will result...
asked the Minister of Health the number of local authorities who have up to the present time sent their proposed five-year programmes to his Department; and what is the aggregate total amount of...
asked the Minister of Health whether steps are going to be taken in the event of evacuation as the result of national emergency to ensure that the local authorities of evacuated areas shall not...
asked the Lord Privy Seal what steps he has taken to augment the equipment for fire-fighting in the estuaries and narrow waters; and whether, having regard to the importance and vulnerability of...
asked the Secretary of State for War, what steps are being taken to increase the establishments and strengths of the Yeomanry regiments of the Territorial Army; and whether it is proposed to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to a new card game, first introduced in America, ridiculing prominent English personages, including...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the recent thefts of explosives from factories and other places in this country; and will he take steps to safeguard all stores of explosives so as...
asked the Home Secretary in how many cases a court imposed a sentence of imprisonment on a person not less than 16, but under 17, years of age in the years 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, and 1937,...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of established shorthand-typists employed in Government Departments as on 1st April, 1938, and how many of them fell within each of the...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the undertaking by his predecessor that they hoped to be able to place as many as 10,000 ex-Service men in the Civil Service...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how much money is raised annually by tariffs on articles of imported foodstuffs which are also grown in this country?
asked the Minister of Transport what steps are being taken to secure reasonable uniformity in the lighting of portions of traffic routes, as recommended by the Departmental Committee on Street...
asked the Minister of Transport the number of occasions during the past five years when there have been fires on electric trains on the Southport and Liverpool railway line; and whether he will...
Sir N. Stewart Sandeman: asked the Under-Secretary of State for Burma whether he can make a statement regarding the present situation in Burma?
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Burma whether the Government of Burma is giving any assistance to improvement of the existing road to the Chinese frontier whence it is continued to Yunnan;...
asked the Prime Minister whether the Government have approached other nations with a view to raising jointly the requisite finance for the extensive preparations necessary to render the area of...
asked the Prime Minister whether the present Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence is to have any duties or any staff additional to those which appertained to his predecessor; and whether...
Estimate presented,—of the further sum required to be voted for the service of the year ending 31st March, 1939 [by Command]; Referred to the Committee of Supply, and to be printed. [No. 45.]
Order for Second Reading read.
Read the Third time, and passed.
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