Thursday, 2 March 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that discrimination is exercised by employers in the London area and other parts of the country against Irishmen leading to their dismissal, as a...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of skilled engineers, boiler-makers, and those engaged in ship building and ship repairing, placed on the unemployment register since January, 1938?
asked the Minister of Labour the total number of unemployed in Hull at the last available date; and how many of these have been unemployed for three months, six months, nine months, one year, two...
asked the Minister of Labour how many miners have been transferred under the Government scheme from Special Areas to the Kent coalfield; how many of these men were unemployed in January; and how...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed persons taken over by the Unemployment Assistance Board from the West Ham Public Assistance Committee on 1st April, 1937; the number of these...
asked the Minister of Labour (1) whether he will have a committee appointed to inquire into the reason for the abnormal amount of sick leave at the Nab Lane; premises at Blackburn; (2) whether...
asked the Minister of Labour whether the Commissioner of the Special Areas has considered the representations of the Maesteg Urban District Council for new industries in the Maesteg Valley to...
asked the Minister of Labour whether in view of the fact that the trading estate at Treforest has absorbed a considerable number of unemployed persons from the many special areas in South Wales...
asked the Minister of Labour what steps the Government are now proposing to take in the Cockfield district of county Durham to give employment, seeing that 48 per cent. of the insured workers are...
asked the Minister of Labour how many partially disabled miners and miners suffering with miners' nystagmus and other scheduled industrial diseases whose compensation has been either reduced or...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the number of boys unemployed under 17 years of age has increased from 48,432 in December, 1938, to 67,422 on 16th February, 1939, an...
asked the Minister of Labour the numbers of young men who have refused to attend instructional classes; and what percentage this is of the total applicants for benefit eligible for such centres?
asked the Minister of Labour how many workers in Scotland, under the age of 35, exhausted their unemployment benefit during last year?
asked the Minister of Labour what percentage of the total unemployed registered on any convenient date in January, 1939, had been unemployed for more than three months?
asked the Minister of Labour how many cotton operatives were registered at Burnley Employment Exchanges as unemployed on the last convenient date in February, 1939; and how many of these had been...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can make any further statement as to what plans the Government has to establish industries in the derelict villages of the Special Areas?
asked the Minister of Labour the number of un employed persons, under 21 years of age, who are undergoing training in Northumberland?
asked the Minister of Labour the amount provided by the Exchequer to the North-East Trading Estate Company?
asked the Minister of Labour how many men, juveniles, and women were registered as unemployed at the Holloway, North London, Employment Exchange, Medina Street, N., at the week-end, 25th February?
asked the Minister of Labour particulars of any alterations that have taken place in the schedules for training the unemployed men or women during the previous 12 months; and how many openings...
asked the Minister of Labour how many waiters and chefs travelled from London to be employed at the lunch on the Team Valley Trading Estate on Wednesday, 22nd February, 1939; how much did they...
asked the Minister of Labour how many men, juveniles, and women were registered as unemployed at the King's Cross Employment Exchange at the week-end, 25th February, 1939; and the figures for...
asked the Minister of Labour how many printing trade insured workers were registered as unemployed at the City of London Employment Exchange at the week-end, 25th February, 1939; and the figures...
asked the Minister of Labour how many persons are registered as unemployed in the Thorne area; how many are in receipt of unemployment assistance; and what steps His Majesty's Government are...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has considered the copy sent to him of a programme entitled, "We can conquer unemployment"; and, if so, whether he proposes to take any action to promote...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has now decided to raise the standard of income for those entitled to be insured for unemployment?
Mrs. Adamson: asked the Minister of Labour (1) the total number of young persons and women, respectively, unemployed in each of the Dartford, Erith, Crayford, and Bexley districts on the last...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed registered at the Rotherham Employment Exchange during the last three months of 1937, and the number in the corresponding period of 1938; and...
asked the Minister of Labour what number of factories on the Treforest Trading Estate come under the Trade Board rates for the payment of their employés; and will he enumerate the firms?
asked the Minister of Labour what is the present staff establishment at Pontypridd Employment Exchange; how many are permanent and temporary, respectively; and what are the respective totals per...
asked the Minister of Labour what representations he has received with respect to the hardship caused by umpires' decisions in antedating cases, whereby applicants have been deprived of benefit...
asked the Minister of Labour the numbers of unemployed at the Farnworth Employment Exchange on 31st January, 1939; and what were the corresponding figures on 31st January, 1938?
asked the Minister of Labour the number of females denied unemployment benefits in the areas controlled from the Wigan and St. Helens Employment Exchanges as a result of refusing work to which...
asked the Minister of Labour what number of men over 45 years of age are signing on at Royston and Cudworth Employment Exchanges; and whether he intends to do anything in this district?
asked the Minister of Labour (1) the number of unemployed persons in the Cradley Heath area of Staffordshire for January, 1938, and January, 1939, respectively; (2) the number of unemployed...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the large increase in unemployment in the Tees-side area, particularly in the shipyards and iron works; and what proposals has he to deal with...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of men and women, respectively, registered as unemployed at Tottenham Employment Exchange at the latest available date; and the corresponding figures for...
Mr. W. Joseph Stewart: asked the Minister of Labour whether any scheme is now in operation with a view to draining the waterlogged coal measures in Southwest Durham; and what progress has been...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the number of unemployed in the distributive trades has now reached nearly a quarter of a million; and what steps he proposes to take to...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has now considered the many representations made to him that benefits and allowances to the unemployed should be increased; and what action is it intended...
asked the Minister of Labour what countries have ratified the Maritime Conventions adopted by the International Labour Conference at Geneva, in October, 1936?
asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the difficulty which has arisen owing to the action of the Zurich General Accident and Liability Insurance Company, Limited,...
asked the Minister of Labour the reasons supplied to him for the relay in negotiating agreements between the cinematograph exhibitors and the employes for those areas in which agreements have not...
asked the Paymaster-General, as representing the Lord President of the Council, whether any research experiments are being conducted with the gas turbine using coal-dust as fuel, in view of the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has any information as to when the Committee for Public Works appointed by the International Labour Office will hold its first meeting?
asked the Minister of Labour whether the report submitted to him on conditions of employment in the distributive trades, by the committee representing employers and employed, will be published...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can give an estimate of the number of family allowances being paid in industry?
May I ask the Prime Minister the business for next week, and for what purpose he proposes to suspend the Eleven o'Clock Rule to-night?
Reported, with Amendments, from the Committee on Unopposed Bills (with Report on the Bill).
Reported, with Amendments, from the Committee on Unopposed Bills (with Report on the Bill).
Ordered, That so much of the Lords Message [28th February] as relates to the time and place of meeting of the Joint Committee on the Breaking up of Streets by Statutory Undertakers be now...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £5,942, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year...
Resolved, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £790,020, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending the 31st day of March,...
Resolved, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £10, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March,...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
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