Wednesday, 14 February 1940
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the advisability of publishing the correspondence that took place between Great Britain and Czecho-Slovakia after Munich, on the subject of the...
asked the Prime Minister what is now the position regarding the supply of oil from Rumania to Germany; whether British concerns in Rumania are, or may be, obliged to sell oil to Germany; and what...
asked the Prime Minister whether the attention of the British Government has been called to the serious increase in the traffic in narcotics in Nanking, and the occupied areas of Kiangsi,...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he has investigated allegations of illegal practices pursued by a clerk of works employed in his Ministry to supervise contract works, information of...
asked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware that on occasions certain railway carriages are labelled reserved and are not fully occupied; and whether he will consult with railway...
asked the Secretary of State for Air what steps he is taking to ensure that there is an adequate emergency water supply in Dumbartonshire, in view of the work being carried on there by his...
Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman: asked the Minister of Information whether verbatim reports of other Parliaments, foreign, Dominion and Colonial, are received regularly, and are studied by the Ministry?
asked the Minister of Information whether the regional officers of his Department are still in existence; and, if so, what are their exact functions?
asked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been called to the decision of the Treasury that an officer on pension of the service re-employed in his old grade will be paid the current...
asked the First Commissioner of Works whether local bricks are being used in the building of hutments on the outskirts of Cheltenham?
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what were his reasons for requisitioning the fishing boats of Loch Fyne in the midst of their fishing season; and what steps he is taking to prevent ruin...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in view of the murdering of unarmed seamen by German airmen, he will consider ceasing to send ships out to pick up these German airmen when their...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in view of the continued machine-gunning of the crews of British trawlers and fishing-boats by enemy aircraft, he has taken adequate steps for their...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that, on Friday, 2nd February, two inmates of the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar died as a result of carbon...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of sublieutenants, Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve, promoted to the rank of lieutenant after attending a course in a shore...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he has any statement to make as to how the five enemy merchant vessels now loading cargoes in the port of Rotterdam managed to escape detection when...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether some steps can be taken in the case of death casualties to make available a death certificate to the nearest relative free of charge, or, otherwise,...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he contemplates using Palmer's site, Jarrow, for one of the proposed shipbuilding yards?
asked the Minister of Shipping whether merchant ships built under the Government scheme and transferred to the control of his Ministry will be managed by him as regards conditions of service of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it is now possible to say when legislation is likely to be introduced which would enable residence in certain British Protectorates,...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has anything to report about conditions in Palestine; whether he has fully realised the universal Jewish adherence to the Allied cause;...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds Mr. P. F. Trade well has been transferred from pilot age duties at Colombo to Galle; whether he has suffered any diminution of income...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the right of public meeting and the publication of newspapers can still be exercised in all British Colonies; how many publications have been...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of making adequate arrangements in advance for the summer season, he will free householders whose livelihood consists in the letting of apartments...
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. TINKER:
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that farmers are being refused any supplies of sugar-beet pulp unless they guarantee to grow a certain acreage of sugar-beet for 1940; and...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that fox and stag-hunting damages agriculture, handicaps the food supply, discourages the allotment industry, takes away fit men and women from...
asked the Minister of Agriculture on what grounds he has decided to give preference in feeding-stuff supplies to cattle and sheep before pigs and poultry; whether the decision is connected with...
asked the hon. Member for Central Leeds, as representing the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (1) what arrangements are made in the case of vacant livings for placing at least a proportion of the...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether his attention has been called to the serious shortage of coal in the Borough of Reigate; and what steps he is taking to relieve the situation?
asked the Secretary of State for War whether lie can give an assurance that steps have been taken to provide immediately for any deficiency that may arise in the supply of woollen comforts for...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has considered resolutions from a number of organisations in Leyton protesting against defence regulations affecting the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will reconsider his refusal to allow Mr. Ivor Montagu to go to Russia as a representative of a British newspaper seeing that we are not at war with Russia,...
asked the Prime Minister whether it is proposed that the Minister of Information shall, in future, be responsible for all forms of propaganda both in neutral and enemy countries, including the...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will publish a White Paper on the conduct of the war at sea by Germany against British and neutral merchant shipping, and against lightships and their crews,...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Food whether, in view of the proposed transfer of staff from the Pigs and Bacon Marketing Boards to the bacon and ham branch of the Ministry of Food,...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Food whether, in connection with the investigation of the costs of the baking industry and the proposed modification of the scale by the Ministry of...
50. Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Food whether, in connection with the relation of the price of bread to the price of flour, upon which the maximum price of bread is fixed, he...
asked the Minister of Food whether he has found it possible to meet the Argentine Government's wishes concerning the allocation of the meat quota increase from that country; and whether the...
asked the Minister of Food what objections he has to the formation of pig clubs at the present time; and what facilities he can offer to existing pig clubs for that proportion of feeding-stuffs...
asked the Minister of Food why those business concerns in Doncaster who, prior to control, used all the tripe produced in Doncaster, are now denied the tripe produced at the central...
asked the Minister of Food the reason for delay in issuing the potato prices Order; and whether he is aware that this delay in issuing the order has been used by some farmers as an excuse for...
asked the Minister of Food whether he is aware that, on 7th February, a Tottenham dustman, in the course of his employment, collected a dustbin containing 20 lbs. of rashers of bacon; will he...
Mr. Haslam: asked the Minister of Food whether measures are being considered, similar to those taken in the last war, for bringing into general use a standard bread, containing middlings, bran...
asked the Minister of Food what percentage of the full butter ration was applied for by retailers in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Glasgow, respectively, for the fifth and sixth weeks of...
asked the Minister of Food whether he is aware that Messrs. Boots, Limited, chemists, 42/44, Warwick Way, London, S.W.1, have been registered by the local food control committee for the sale of...
asked the Minister of Food what steps he is taking to educate the public in the best uses of food in war-time, and to encourage the gas and electrical supply industries to resume their...
asked the Minister of Food whether, since the omission of manufactured feeding-stuffs or mixtures from the Feeding-Stuffs (Maximum Prices) Order has led to profiteering on an extensive scale, he...
Ordered,
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
3.50 p.m.
3.56 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
4.22 p.m.
4.29 p.m.
The first Amendment—in page 9, line 18, to leave out from "borough," to "is," in line 20—is out of order.
10.8 p.m.
10.11 p.m.
Brigadier-General Brown: I beg to move, in page 13, line 33, after "required," to insert: and after giving notice to the occupier, at all reasonable times.
10.18 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
The Chairman: Mr. Wilfrid Roberts.
Resolved,
Resolved,
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