Thursday, 9 March 1939
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock.
asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons, male, who are signing the unemployed register at Leigh Employment Exchange who have been out of employment for more than six months; and the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether the Unemployment Assistance Board has requested the advisory committees to interview un employed persons with a view to advising as to whether allowances...
asked the Minister of Labour whether it is intended to introduce the legislation to deal with the distressed areas outside the boundary of the Special Areas before the Easter Recess?
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed persons taken over by the Unemployment Assistance Board from Liverpool public assistance committee on 1st April, 1937; the number of these...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of men who have come from the special areas to work on the land settlement scheme at Potton, Bedfordshire, and, after being there some time, have been...
asked the Minister of Labour how many persons were in receipt of unemployment benefit or assistance during the 12 months ended 31st December, 1938?
asked the Minister of Labour how many persons are registered as being available for employment at each of the Employment Exchanges in the county of Derbyshire?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can provide reliable statistical evidence to show that young men had been receiving unemployment benefit who had declined to avail themselves of...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can now make a statement as to the results of his inquiries into the case of the men from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and district, who were recently engaged for...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will take steps so that in future the nationality of all persons on the employed register is shown?
asked the Minister of Labour whether it is his intention to intro duce the Unemployment Insurance Bill before Easter?
asked the Minister of Labour the average weekly number of payments made by the Unemployment Assistance Board during 1938, and the cost of the administrative services of the Board, together with...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of cases disqualified from unemployment benefits by the court of referees sitting at Wigan that have appealed to the umpire during the last 12 months; and...
asked the Minister of Labour what industries have been set up in the derelict villages in the county of Durham, the nature of the industries, the number of adults, and the number of young persons...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can estimate how many men were employed on the maintenance, improvement and construction of roads and bridges for the years 1937–38 and 1938–39?
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that, according to particulars supplied to his Department, many persons employed in the cinema industry are still compelled to work 70...
asked the Minister of Labour what preparation is being made for the final discussion of the convention on contracts of indigenous workers at the next annual conference of the International Labour...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the Mossley Woolcombing and Spinning Company, Limited, Lancashire, have recently posted a notice informing their employes that the working...
asked the Minister of Labour what remuneration and allowances are to be paid to special officers appointed to act under Sir Herbert Morgan regionally in stimulating and coordinating the work of...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the fact that immunisation is now commonly used in the prevention of diphtheria and that in certain areas this form of treatment...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will appoint a Royal Commission under a chairman of judicial experience to investigate the whole question of pasteurisation of milk in the light both of...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Health whether, with a view to protecting the public, he will introduce legislation to prevent the big combine millers from depreciating the quality...
asked the Minister of Health how many of the nuisances and defects in vessels reported by port medical officers of health in respect of 1937 were remedied at the port of detection?
Mr. W. Joseph Stewart: asked the Minister of Health whether a complete survey of the burning spoil-heaps in the country has yet been made; and, if so, what action the Government propose to take...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the shortage of accommodation in rural areas for the urban population which will be evacuated in the event of war, he will issue special...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered a communication from the Association of British Chambers of Commerce drawing his attention to the methods by which local authorities collect...
asked the Minister of Health whether arrangements have yet been made in the event of hostilities for the Governmental control of medical supplies and distribution to those areas which will be...
asked the Prime Minister whether he can provide Parliamentary time for a discussion of the present situation in the cotton industry?
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the ruling of the Court of Appeal that a workman, incapacitated through sickness, is entitled to wages and National Health Insurance benefits...
asked the Minister of Health the method adopted by the Registrar-General in assessing the proposed salaries of registrars under the schemes to be put into operation in consequence of the 1931 Act?
asked the Minister of Health on what date he proposes to publish the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the prices of building materials with reference to increased cement prices?
asked the Minister of Health whether he will reconsider the decision to make the whole of the Isle of Wight a reception area for purposes of evacuation, and consider the advisability of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it was on his advice that in a case heard, on 1st February, 1939, in the Brentford Police Court instructions were given to ask that...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that only single women are being asked to apply for the vacancies now advertised in the women's police force; and whether he will consider making...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the cost of the maintenance of juvenile offenders at approved schools is imposing a heavy burden on local authorities; and will he consider the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the losses sustained by tenants of tied houses in the licensed victualling trade, many of whom have invested their life savings, only to find that...
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the strictures on gaming machines as a contributory cause of juvenile delinquency recently made by the chairman of the East...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will give particulars of the films about which his Department was consulted by the British Board of Film Censors during the last two years; and whether the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the advisability of setting up a committee to conduct an inquiry with a view to securing that equal opportunity shall be given to the freedom of...
Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman: asked the Home Secretary how many Basque children remain in this country and what steps are being taken to repatriate them?
asked the Home Secretary what control and investigation are exercised in London of the origin and bona fides of the large number of individual and bodies of persons who appeal for public charity...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will speed up the issue of the 1938 Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories so that it may appear at the latest not later than the end of June, 1939?
asked the Home Secretary whether he has considered the circumstances of the case of Mrs. Margaret Louise McAuley, sentenced to death at Manchester Assizes on 2nd March last for the murder of her...
Mr. Vyvyan Adams: asked the Home Secretary what steps he is taking to quell the organised breaking of meetings irrespective of political party by Fascist gangs in the East End of London?
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the growing feeling in this country against the entry of an increased number of aliens, he will give an assurance that none of the Communist or...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will issue a table setting out the offences for which flogging or birching, respectively, may be ordered and the courts which may inflict the punishment?
asked the Home Secretary under what statutory authority he releases reprieved murderers and other criminals, respectively?
"to amend the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1935 to 1938, and to provide for the payment of contributions under the National Health Insurance Act, 1936, and the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age...
May I ask the Prime Minister to state the business for next week?
Colonel Gretton reported from the Committee of Selection; That they had added the following Fifteen Members to Standing Committee C (in respect of the Adoption of Children (Regulation) Bill): The...
In pursuance of Standing Order No. 80 (4), Mr. Speaker has nominated Captain John Helias Finnie McEwen, a member of the Chairmen's Panel in the room of Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, resigned.
Order for Committee read.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a number of Air Forces, not exceeding 118,000, all ranks, be maintained for the Service of the United Kingdom at Home and abroad, excluding those on the...
Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding £14,670,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Pay, &c, of the Royal Air Force, which will come in course of payment during...
Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding £4,250,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Works, Buildings and Lands, including Civilian Staff and other Charges connected...
Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding £16,870,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Technical and Warlike Stores, including Research and Development Services, which will...
Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding £4,787,000, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense of Civil Aviation, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st...
Resolved, That an additional number of Air Forces, not exceeding 6,000 all ranks, be maintained for the Service of the United Kingdom at Home and abroad, excluding those on the Indian...
Resolved, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £100, 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,...
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [6th March]: That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty in pursuance of the provisions of Section 309 of the Government of India Act,...
Order read for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [6th March]: That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty in pursuance of the provisions of Section 157 of the Government of Burma Act,...
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