Thursday, 21 September 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 all women employed at the Romford London and North Eastern Railway factory to fill sandbags are shut out from a day's work if they arrive one...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can make a statement indicating what changes, if any, are contemplated in the work of the Commissioner for Special Areas during the emergency?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider issuing a token badge to all persons in reserved occupations under the age of 41 who are retained for work on national essential services?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what arrangements are being made to provide for the continuation, as far as practicable, of facilities for adult education, and for...
Miss Ward: asked the Minister of Health whether he will arrange for a further opportunity in the near future to register for evacuation to be given to mothers with young children, expectant...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether, in view of the difficulties local authorities are experiencing in meeting the expenditure incurred under the Civil Defence Acts...
Miss Ward: asked the Home Secretary whether he will arrange that payments made in connection with Civil Defence will be at such convenient periods as to ensure that no hardship will be involved...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has considered the representations from the Jarrow, Heb-burn and Felling councils regarding the difficulties of providing people with air-raid protection under...
asked the Home Secretary when he anticipates that a sufficient supply of bedding and blankets will be available for the Auxiliary Fire Service; whether he intends to rely largely on gifts of...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that in the Civil Defence Services qualified volunteer help is being discouraged in favour of paid service, thus largely increasing the public...
asked the Home Secretary whether any steps are being taken to put the requisition of motor vehicles on to a more efficient and fairer basis, and to remedy the many unnecessary cases of hardship...
Mrs. Adamson: asked the Minister of Health whether he is prepared to put into operation immediately the scheme for the provision of cheap milk for mothers and young children on the same basis as...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that women offering to enrol for training as nurses are being informed that no more women can be accepted for training as nurses or assistant...
asked the Minister of Health whether any arrangements are to be made for partial remittance of London rents to those who, in order to maintain schools or colleges for young persons or...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the special circumstances now prevailing, he will authorise a modification of the regulations governing attestations relating to vaccination...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has delegated any of his functions under Section 39e (2) of the Defence Regulations, 1939, to any mayor, justice of the peace, or chief officer of police; and,...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the advisability of withdrawing the description enemy aliens now placed on every registration card of Austrian and other refugees, in view of the...
Viscountess Astor: asked the Home Secretary (1) whether the Government are considering a return to the wartime restrictions on the sale and supply of alcoholic beverages as a measure of national...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will take steps to ascertain the present value of the capital owned by individuals liable to Income Tax?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the considerable distances many persons have to travel in connection with their war work, he will consider more generous Income Tax...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he proposes to allow the Bank of England to continue to collaborate with the Bank for International Settlements, in view of the passing of the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to advertisements in the Press by companies offering to insure real properly against damage arising from enemy action;...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the preparations for a war of three years' duration, he will take steps immediately to introduce economies in the civil administration...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will now issue instructions for the release of the blocked bank accounts of those friendly Czech aliens who have escaped here, have funds...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will arrange for the employment of women inspectors to replace male inspectors formerly employed in the National Mark grading of agricultural produce,...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can make a statement as to the method by which the Government's reserve of tractors is to be made available for the use of farmers?
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can make a statement showing the extent to which the county committees have now undertaken their work of increasing food production?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information whether he has considered the protest from the National Union of Journalists concerning failure to provide the public with...
asked the Prime Minister whether it is intended to form an Imperial War Council; and whether the council will have a representative in the War Cabinet?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information whether he is satisfied that the dropping of leaflets on German soil meets with the approval of the nation and of neutral peoples;...
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he is aware that certain food retailers are refusing to sell certain commodities, namely, sugar, unless the customer purchases some other...
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the working of the Bennett scheme at Manchester wholesale fish market?
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether Mr. Turkington, debt collector of Gallowgate, Glasgow, who was recently sentenced at Glasgow High Court to 12 months imprisonment for various...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is now prepared to consider Falkirk and Grange-mouth, with Stirlingshire, as probable areas of danger from air attack; and what steps he is...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that Scottish farmers consider the com pulsory insurance scheme against war risks to be impossible and financially disastrous for...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the war risks insurance of stocks at 6 per cent. Per annum is a tax that is likely to ruin many businesses where valuable stocks...
(by Private Notice) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the subject of prices and the prevention of profiteering?
Ordered, That for the remainder of the Session, whenever the House adjourns from Thursday to the following Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday Members desiring to give Notice of Questions for Oral...
That they have agreed to,—
Motion made, and Question proposed,
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners;
Question again proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."
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And sometimes to shout at each other.
