Thursday, 14 December 1939
The House met at Twelve of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair
Glasgow Water and Tramways Order Confirmation Bill,
THE CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS reported, that, in accordance with Standing Order 87, he had conferred with the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, for the purpose of determining in...
Mr. Adamson: asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been drawn to the stoppage of work at the premises of the Newport Hosiery Company, Portland Street, Newport, Monmouthshire,...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of cases at the most recent date being assisted by the Unemployment Assistance Board in the County Borough of West Ham?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has any special measures in view to deal with the abnormal increase in unemployment in the Linlithgow area, caused by the closing of the factory which has...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can now give the date when the minimum wage rates proposed by the Scottish Baking Trade Board will become operative; and when the measure to speed up the...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any communication has recently been received from Mr. Gandhi; and whether there have been any recent developments towards a satisfactory...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to issue his first monthly report as to the action taken by him under Regulation 18 (B) of the Defence Regulations relating...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that under Regulation 60A, Sub-section (2), Part D, issued under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, the Derby Town Council have sanctioned an order...
asked the Home Secretary on what principle he has sanctioned expenditure on 295 air-raid wardens, ambulance drivers and auxiliary firemen for the city of Oxford, while the whole of the paid...
Miss Rathbone: asked the Home Secretary whether he is satisfied that local authorities have, in fact, generally carried out the instructions given them in the Air-Raid Precautions Circular No....
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the authorities in London have been in occupation of private premises for many weeks past for the purposes of Auxiliary Fire Service and other...
asked the Home Secretary the present total monthly cost of air-raid precautions; and what proportion of this will be paid out of local rates?
asked the Home Secretary whether street lighting in Glasgow during the black-out is to be in operation by the middle of January; whether he will state the plans upon which this street lighting is...
asked the Home Secretary whether the appointment of Councillor Manning, a member of the Camberwell Borough Council, to the post of controller of air-raid precautions in the borough of Camberwell...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has any statement to make with reference to the present carrying out of the lighting regulations; and whether he is satisfied that all necessary precautions...
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the reorganisation of air-raid precautions work in Dudley, part of which has been the approval of a system of summoning voluntary...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that local authorities are hampered in their work by deficiencies in equipment used for air-raid precautions; that, in particular, in the district of...
asked the Home Secretary why less than half the sirens were sounded during an air-raid warning in a certain town in Scotland, and none at all in immediately adjacent towns; whether the warning...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what approaches have been made to the Government to raise the grant in connection with the provision of air-raid shelters for schools...
Mr. Jenkins: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether it is intended to provide additional temporary accommodation for evacuated schoolchildren in the reception areas...
asked the Minister of Health whether he can now state the decison of the Government with regard to billeting allowances for evacuated teachers and the provision of travelling facilities for...
asked the Minister of Health the number of persons it was contemplated would be evacuated under the Government scheme, the number that were evacuated and an estimate of the number that have...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the necessity of maintaining the most experienced available surgical skill in London, where the first and most critical effect of any air attack...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is now able to assist the five other Government Departments concerned with billeting in the city of Hereford and its neighbourhood by agreeing to the...
asked the Home Secretary the reasons for confining the Order applying the silicosis scheme to the slate-quarrying and mining industry to operations underground; is he aware that this restricted...
asked the Home Secretary whether the 13 regional commissioners, salary £2,500 a year, and the 12 deputy regional commissioners, salary £1,000 a year, have commenced work, and what...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is now able to state the nature of the recent changes made in the organisation of the Press and Censorship Department under Sir Walter Monckton; and what...
asked the Home Secretary whether the letter which was written by a certain M. Kuusinen when a member of the Third International to the Communist party of Great Britain precisely detailing the...
asked the Home Secretary the total number of Indian seamen charged with offences in connection with their refusal to resume duties; and how many are still in custody or are being charged?
Miss Rathbone: asked the Home Secretary whether he has now considered the advisability of granting some right of appeal, similar to that enjoyed by interned aliens, to those aliens who have not...
asked the Home Secretary whether he can arrange for a test case to be carried to the highest legal tribunal in the country to ascertain what, under the law, is the exact position of pedestrians...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will instruct all Departments to treat letters received from hon. Members as communications of urgency, and, in particular, those personal letters on such...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will introduce legislation to ensure that in cases where the State, through any of its public services, acquires land for any purpose, war or civil,...
asked the Miʼnister of Agriiulture what was the cost of the tour of the eight girls which the Potato Board sent on tour last summer; and whether the board regards the experiment as having...
Mrs. Adamson: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that 178 acres of agricultural land, known as Blackdale Farm, in the Dartford rural area, has been lying vacant since early...
Mr. Adamson: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that an order made by the Staffordshire War Agricultural Committee enforces the ploughing-up of grassland on a farm holding at...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that advertisements are appearing in the provincial Press to the effect that Land Army girls are available for employment; whether these...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can give an estimate of the acreage of land not being cultivated but which is capable of cultivation; and whether he proposes to take effective...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the shortage in the country of seed oats, and whether he is considering a scheme to control them?
asked the Minister of Agriculture what steps he has taken to organise the establishment of pig clubs throughout the country; whether he is aware that the present shortage of feeding-stuffs has...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education the number of education authorities who make use of the milk-in-schools scheme; the number of other authorities who supply milk at...
asked the Minister of Health whether, with a view to the proper control of local government, he will request local authorities to resume regular meetings of the whole council in all those cases...
Mr. Jenkins: asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the meeting of the Cardiff Public Health Committee at which a report was made to the effect that the mortality...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will require that bread supplied in institutions controlled by public authorities shall be made of flour containing the wheat germ with the B series of...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that a referee has recently decided that a nurse, a British subject whose home is in Great Britain, serving with a British unit of His Majesty's...
That they have agreed to:
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. James Stuart.]
1.42 p.m.
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Question again proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."
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