Wednesday, 17 April 1940
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. Speaker in the Chair,
asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make with reference to the publication of a White Book by the German Government on alleged Polish diplomatic documents, including some...
asked the Prime Minister whether he can make a statement about the German naval activities on the Danube outside German territory?
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, under existing regulations, any servant of the Crown serving in the Department of Civil Aviation, or the Minister or Under-Secretary of State in...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has considered or will consider with the Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry, the selection of clerk-typists and shorthand-typists for...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will consider providing the necessary financial support to make possible a gliding camp for air cadets?
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the suggestion made to his predecessor by the hon. Member for North Salford regarding the provision of...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that some resentment is felt in certain cases by British merchant seamen, fishermen, and others, who are assisting naval operations, in...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, whether he is aware that during the last war a sum of over £2,000,000 was expended upon the camouflaging of ships; that this, in spite of its...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty why permission was given, on April 9th, for the publication of false reports of the landing of British troops in certain Norwegian ports?
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the position with regard to the application by Mr. C. Brudenell-Bruce, of Virgin Islands Tobacco, for a loan from the Colonial Development Fund, for...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what reply was sent to the New Zionist organisation which, on 14th February, offered to assist him in weeding out German agents from among illegal...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that, on 2nd March, after the proclamation of the curfew in Tel Aviv about 12 o'clock mid-day, a boy named Mizrachi, aged 15...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that, so long ago as 1936, the Carnegie Corporation of New York offered a sure of $80,000 for the establishment of a central...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, whilst Lord Hailey is discussing forms of government in the Dependencies with Government officials and others, it is...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what form of inquiry will be made into the shooting of African strikers in an industrial dispute in the copper belt of Northern...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the recent proposals for trade unionism in Malaya include the legalising of trade unions in line with the proposals of the...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can now supply the return asked for, on 22nd November, 1939, by the hon. Member for Consett, for particulars to be ...
asked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware that the quays at Greenock Docks have not yet been fenced off; that further casualties took place on Tuesday and Friday of the week before last...
asked the Minister of Transport whether the estimated payments to be made in 1940 by way of grants to highway authorities for improvements of roads and new construction, as stated in Appendix No....
asked the Minister of Transport in what capacity the services of Sir Henry Maybury are being retained by his Department; and whether he is also being employed by any other Government Department...
asked the Minister of Transport what special measures are being taken to deal with the Whitsun traffic between the South coast of Wales and the North coast of Somerset and Devon, in view of the...
asked the Minister of Transport what applications he has received from the railway companies to increase their rates and fares; and whether he proposes to remit them for decision to the Railway...
asked the Minister of Transport (1) whether he is prepared to arrange for the supply of platform tickets by automatic machines at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, and Queen Street Station, Glasgow,...
asked the Minister of Information whether he will exercise his right of veto with regard to British Broadcasting Corporation news bulletins?
asked the Minister of Information what is the relationship between the Ministry and the Defence Departments in the administration of the censorship; and whether the Defence Departments exercise...
asked the Attorney-General what reply he has made to the request from the Bar Council, the Law Society, or other professional quarters, on the subject of legal representation before the military...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is prepared to see that, if any rationing scheme is introduced for livestock foods, poultry feeding should be included on a parity basis...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the protected area covers practically 40 per cent. of Scotland, and that the present regulations, unless relaxed, will have a very...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the public authorities which are beneficiaries under the Welsh Church Acts are to receive the properties and the portion of the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will consider rescuscitating the research unit dealing with rat and mouse control that was found effective during and after the last war, but which...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the absence of Departmental imaginative fore-thought has clogged war preparations and commercial effort; and will he set up a non-political panel...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will, in preparing schemes of employment for demobilised men after the cessation of hostilities, request his economic advisers to examine the policy and...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether, in connection with maize and barley held for emergency in county warehouses, which are usually held by...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he will consider taking 50 per cent. as a basis to the end of September, 1939, in respect of sugar for...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether it is the desire of his Department that consumers who can afford it should purchase the weekly additional four ounces of butter...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he can now give any estimate of the effect on the supplies of butter and bacon of the German occupation of Denmark?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether, in view of the undertaking given by the London Bakers Advisory Committee that free samples of bread would not be condoned during...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he will inform the House as to who will receive the 5s. per ton levy on the surplus potatoes which the Ministry of Food itself is...
asked the Minister of Supply whether he is purchasing the total output of the Northern Aluminium Company, Limited?
asked the Minister of Supply whether he will take steps to review the circumstances associated with the control of commodities required for national needs, with a view to taking possession of...
asked the Minister of Supply whether his Department has foreseen and prepared for the difficulties of either processing for sale as finished goods, or for sale as raw materials, whatever post-war...
asked the Minister of Supply whether, as goods cannot be made for export without raw materials, he will direct all controls to try, in cases of doubt, to find reasons promptly why they should...
asked the Minister of Supply what steps he is taking to see that all the scrap-iron of the Empire is sent to this country; and in particular whether we are buying the amounts that have hitherto...
asked the Minister of Supply whether he is aware that small manufacturers who have organised into companies at his request, in order to receive contracts for distribution among their members, are...
asked the Minister of Supply whether he is aware that the firm of Patons and Baldwins, Limited, has sent to shops in Haddington, which deal in wool, a notice stating they had received a circular...
Reported, without Amendment, from the Committee on Unopposed Bills; to be read the Third time To-morrow.
Reported, without Amendment, from the Committee on Unopposed Bills (with Report on the Bill).
Reported, without Amendment, from the Committee on Unopposed Bills (with Report on the Bill).
Reported, with Amendments, from the Committee on Unopposed Bills (with Report on the Bill).
Order for Second Reading read.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Report of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population be now taken into consideration."—[Mr. Elliot,]
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Grimston,]
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