Thursday, 15 February 1940
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
For the County of Northampton with the Soke of Peterborough (Kettering Division), in the room of John Francis Eastwood, esquire, O.B.E., K.C. (Magistrate of one of the Police Courts of the...
Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Canterbury) Bill,
asked the Minister of Labour what steps have been taken to inform unemployed persons, and particularly new claimants to standard benefit, of their rights in respect of winter allowance?
Mr. W. Joseph Stewart: asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that in the administrative county of Durham there were, on 11th December, 1939, 41,693 persons unemployed, and in the five...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the increased number of persons un employed in the Pontardawe area who have been thrown idle at the Gilbertson works and also by the Tirbach...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of wholly unemployed registered at Normanton, Castleford and Pontefract, at the latest date available, and the comparative figure in August, 1939?
asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons registered as unemployed and available for work who, when last in employment, were not insured for unemployment insurance?
Miss Ward: asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the decision at present ruling prohibiting the erection of Government factories in the counties of Northumberland and Durham, he...
asked the Minister of Labour (1) how many instructors at training centres with more than four years' service were dismissed in 1938 and 1939, respectively, with a month's notice, on the ground...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that many thousands of highly-skilled woodworkers are unemployed, and that the number is increasing; and what steps are being taken to utilise the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in association with other Government Departments, he is preparing plans to deal with the difficult situation that will arise in South Wales and Monmouthshire...
Mr. Jenkins: asked the Minister of Labour whether he can state at the most recent date the numbers of applicants for unemployment assistance at Pontypool, Blaenavon and Pontnewydd, to whom the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether any categories of retail distributive workers are included in the list of reserved occupations; and, if not, will he include the most important in a revised...
asked the Minister of Labour which firms on the Treforest trading estate come within the Trade Boards Acts for regulation of wages and hours?
Miss Ward: asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that every shipyard and every man will be required to meet the naval and merchant shipbuilding required for our war effort,...
Miss Ward: asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the decision to mobilise 1,000,000 women to assist in our war efforts, any training facilities are being provided to ensure that...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India, in view of the fact that the majority of Indians affected by the Ceylon Government's repatriation scheme are Indians from Malabar, and that the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Czech refugees have received the £200 emigration grant since the Czech trustees were appointed; and how many have been found...
asked the Home Secretary what were the names of the four sponsors of Mr. Duvivier; and are, or were, any of them members of the British Union of Fascists or the Link?
asked the Home Secretary whether, in the interests of police efficiency, citizens of Eire will in future be required to have visas for this country and to be under the same restrictions as...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will sanction the earlier opening of at least a proportion of cinemas and news theatres in London on Sundays, as a concession that would be appreciated by...
asked the Home Secretary whether the application of the Weekly Rest-day Act is being applied similarly to regular police, first reserve police and war reserve police; and whether, in those forces...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that cases have occurred in which intending applicants for chief constableships, who have had no previous police experience, have been granted...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has any statement to make regarding the dangers to the civil population of the possible use of a new war gas by the enemy?
asked the Minister of Health the number of school clinics which have been taken over as first-aid posts for air-raid precautions purposes?
asked the Minister of Health what increase he proposes to make in the billeting allowances for evacuated schoolchildren?
asked the Minister of Health whether any instructions have been issued to local authorities to supply institutions and householders with necessary window glass or a substitute for the immediate...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether the allowance paid to unpaid voluntary air-raid precautions workers for injuries received by them while on duty may also be paid when the injuries are the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has considered a complaint from the burgh of Kirkcaldy that Abden Home has been requisitioned by the military authorities to such an extent that the burgh...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that the percentage of under-nourished school-children in Tyneside and Durham areas was 10 per...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether the new arrangements for part-time education will include provision for nursery schools and classes operative before the...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will state the position at the present moment throughout the country with regard to the medical inspection...
asked the Parliamenetary Secretary to the Board of Education (1) how many children evacuated to the reception areas are now attending school half time, and how many full time; (2) how many of...
Mr. Jenkins: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he can state the number of schools in Monmouthshire now operating a two-shift system in order to provide...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that many hospitals have closed down their massage departments as a war-time economy, and that as a consequence, not only have a number of skilled...
asked the Minister of Health what additional powers are now being conferred on the Welsh Board of Health over and above those which the board now holds?
asked the Minister of Health whether he can make any statement as to the number of cases of influenza and their severity reported up to the present?
asked the Minister of Health in how many tubercular sanatoria non-tubercular soldiers are receiving treatment; and whether this arrangement is temporary or permanent
asked the Minister of Health whether he will state the present position with regard to the camps built by the National Camps Corporation, Limited?
asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider the inclusion in the pension scheme at 60 years of age of single women who have at some time been insured, in view of the difficulty that so...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Prime Minister whether he will state the name of the Member of the War Cabinet who presides over the committee which is constantly sitting to deal with questions...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what steps he is taking to prevent a landlord either during or at the change of tenancy charging an increased rent for land on which residual values still exist...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what is the approximate number of acres of sugar-beet offered up to the 1st February for the 1940 contract compared with the corresponding figures for 1939; and...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the bad effects of the increasing destruction of poultry by foxes in many rural areas, he will advise farmers, smallholders and poultry...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what is the latest estimate of the loss in agricultural production caused by rats and mice; and whether, in view of the inadequacy of the present methods of...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, as farmers cannot obtain even 20 per cent. of their requirements of straight-run feeding-stuffs based on their consumption...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will assure the House that His Majesty's Government will not assent to the suggestions made to them to abandon those principles which led them to denounce the...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will make it clear that the alleged report of the Secret Session of this House in the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" is a complete fabrication and bears no...
asked the Prime Minister whether he intends to amplify at an early date the principles expressed by himself and other members of the Government respecting the basis of a desirable peace...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what steps are taken to ensure that every proposal for the enclosure of common land which requires his approval under Section 194 of the Law of Property Act,...
asked the Minister of Health whether, in order to emphasise the importance which the Government attach to increased food production at home, he will ask the local authorities concerned to say...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that local authorities, where final orders have been made under Sections 11 or 25 of the Housing Act, 1936, in respect of houses which are still...
asked the Minister of Health whether the Government, since the war, has assumed any control over the policy of the teaching hospitals, particularly with regard to the proportion of men and women...
Miss Rathbone: asked the Minister of Health whether any steps have been taken to oblige local authorities to introduce methods of collecting and utilizing household food refuse, waste paper,...
asked the Minister of Health whether, owing to the increased expenditure required for the necessaries of life, he will consider the urgency of an early amendment of the National Health Insurance...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether the Central Advisory Committee has completed its consideration of any of the matters referred to it regarding the Royal Warrant of September last; and...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that the provisions of compensation to persons injured by enemy action on land and on sea are operating to the disadvantage of the latter class...
Will the Prime Minister state the business for next week, and also for to-day?
Estimates presented for the Navy for the financial year 1940 [by Command]; Referred to the Committee of Supply, and to be printed. [No. 52.]
Estimate presented of the further numbers required to be voted for the Navy for the year ending 31st March, 1940 [by Command]; Referred to the Committee of Supply, and to be printed. [No. 53.]
That they have agreed to,
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Considered in Committee (Progress, 14th February).
6.32 p.m.
6.37 p.m.
Amendments made:
As respects any agricultural land within a catchments area but not within an internal drainage district, the powers conferred on the council of the county or county borough within which the land...
Section five of the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act, 1924, shall have effect as if after paragraph (b) there were inserted the following paragraph— (bb) fix a minimum rate of wages...
Nothing in Sections sixteen, seventeen or nineteen of this Act shall deprive any riparian owner or other person legally interested in the flow of the waters of any stream (including persons so...
If the Minister during the period of the war is satisfied that the agricultural production of any land is being diminished by reason of the condition of the roads leading to such land and if he...
9.8 p.m.
9.20 p.m.
9.32 p.m.
Order for Second Reading read.
Resolutions reported:
1. "That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £55,200, be granted this Majesty, to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1940,...
2. "That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £127,500, 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,...
3. "That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £2,880, 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,...
4. "That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £3,400, 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,...
5. "That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £10,000, 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,...
6. "That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £10,200, 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,...
7. "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, 1940,...
8. "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, 1940,...
9. "That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £7,120, 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,...
10. "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, 1940,...
Resolved, That the Order made by the Secretary of State under the Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932, for extending Section one of that Act to the rural district of Ploughed, which was presented on...
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