Thursday, 18 April 1940
The House met at a quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. Speaker in the Chair.
Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Blackburn) Bill,
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that single men at Blaina, Monmouthshire, had been offered employment at Chepstow through the local Employment Exchange and, upon refusal to...
Mr. Graham White: asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been drawn to the present high rate of unemployment in the ship-painting industry; and what steps he proposes to take to...
Mr. J. J. Davidson: asked the Minister of Labour the total number of part-time women employees at present signing at the Maryhill Employment Exchange; and how often they sign per week?
asked the Minister of Labour whether opportunities are provided for men of 50 years of age and upwards to train for industrial jobs; and whether he can state the number of such men already...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the varying practice of different tribunals hearing applications for exemption from service in the Armed Forces on conscientious grounds, he will...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will reconsider the incidence of hardship affecting men in higher age groups with a view to enabling longer periods of exemption being granted in cases...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is yet in a position to announce the composition of the committee which he proposes to appoint in connection with the revised cost-of-living index?
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that some children, whose schools have been evacuated from a vulnerable to a nearby safe area, are living at home, travelling to and from school...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can give an estimate of the expenditure upon camouflage up to the present date; whether he is aware that the application of paint...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is now in a position to supply the Falkirk and district area of Stirlingshire with steel shelters and other protection against air-raids; and whether he will...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that Mr. J. La Thangue, of 132, Aldborough Road, Seven Kings, a civil defence volunteer, who was injured in the course of air-raid precautions...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will make provision for the local education authorities, as such, to be consulted when the revision of grants under the 1937 Act relating to air-raid...
asked the Home Secretary whether he proposes to set up any committee, such as that set up in 1915, to consider the health of munition workers; and what steps are being taken at the present time...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what sums he has received since the beginning of the war from the air-raid precautions wardens of the Virginia Water group of the Egham Urban District...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has prepared, or is preparing, large necessary schemes of building, including especially slum-clearance, which will provide considerable employment in the...
asked the Minister of Health the number of tubercular patients in Wales and Monmouthshire now waiting for admission to sanatoria; whether the number on the waiting list is on the increase; and...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that, in the case of certain invalids, such as tuberculosis patients, on public assistance and forbidden by medical advice to work, great hardship...
asked the Minister of Health what additional duties are to be placed on the Welsh Board of Health, and from what date are the additional duties to be undertaken?
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware of the application for a pension made by Mrs. E. J. Mullins, of 42, Rydal Avenue, Warrington, widow of Mr. Michael Mullins, late driver, Royal...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India, whether he has any further statement to make respecting the present political position in India?
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the many changes in factory life brought about by the emergency, he will issue the annual report of the Chief Inspector of Factories this year, before...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has completed his examination of the position consequent on the recent decision of the House of Lords regarding the operation of the Truck Acts; and whether he...
asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the conference of British diplomatic representatives recently held in London?
Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman: asked the Prime Minister whether he will give instructions that in all Government communications the word "German" is used and never the word "Nazi"?
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will introduce legislation to ensure the maximum food production per acre from the land of this country, as distinct from the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture when he will be prepared to give the acreage of grassland ploughed out in each county, and the acreage allotted to that county?
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the total number of men now released from the Army on agricultural grounds has yet reached the maximum agreed upon; and whether any more men are now to...
Mr. White: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is satisfied with the progress made to date in the provision of additional allotments; and whether it is still his wish that 500,000 fresh...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will take steps to ensure an immediate expansion of the hatching programme for poultry-keepers, in view of the present...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his Department is taking steps to provide newly-ploughed land with humus derived from the large supplies of town waste, or whether this method is being...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the serious damage now being caused by rooks, he will, by order or otherwise, empower county war agricultural committees to insist upon the...
asked the Home Secretary whether refugee tribunals are in the habit of calling the sponsors before the court?
asked the Home Secretary whether he can now say when the Workmen's Compensation Bill will be introduced?
asked the Home Secretary the average and maximum hours of work per week in Government factories, including overtime?
asked the Home Secretary whether he has any information, including statistical returns, respecting the number of juvenile delinquents whose cases have been considered in the courts during the...
asked the President of the Board of Education whether any negotiations or consultations are proceeding between his Department and the public schools, concerning making these schools more...
asked the President of the Board of Education what decision has been reached about the provision of air-raid shelter for the elementary schools of Worthing?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what is the amount of tax remission on gifts to charities that can be obtained by a person with a charity trust who himself pays Surtax on the highest...
Mr. Davidson: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total amount of civil, judicial and hereditary pensions for the years 1936 and 1939, respectively?
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department how many commercial attachés there are in the Central American countries
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that the closing of the day nurseries in Glasgow involves the working mothers of small children in the anxiety and expense of leaving...
Mr. Davidson: asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the total number of full-time agricultural workers employed in Scotland for the years 1937, 1938 and 1939, respectively?
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will indicate what steps are taken, or representations made, by price regulation committees with reference to large war-time price increases...
asked the Minister of Economic Warfare whether, in view of the German attack on Denmark and the seizure of the large accumulation of stocks there, he will impose a strict rationing scheme on all...
asked the Minister of Information why the application of Messrs. Lawrence & Wishart, Limited, for an export permit covering their publications has been refused; and whether the application of...
asked the Minister of Information what steps are envisaged to prevent information of military importance from being taken across the border from Northern Ireland to Eire, and thence by the German...
asked the Minister of Supply whether he intends to advise the public of the need for extreme care and discretion in the use of timber, especially with the object of avoiding as much as possible...
asked the Minister of Supply whether he is aware that the County Brook Mill Company, Foulridge, who are engaged on Government contracts at their Foulridge mill, are working overtime and being...
Will the Prime Minister state the Business for next week?
Captain Sir William Jocelyn Ian Fraser, C.B.E., for the County of Lancaster (Lonsdale Division).
"to provide for the payment of supplementary allowances in respect of wives and children to male workmen entitled to weekly payments by way of compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act,...
Reported, with Amendments [Title amended], from the Committee on Group A of Private Bills (with Report on the Bill).
Second Report from the Select Committee brought up, and read; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 113.]
3.50 p.m.
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Boulton.]
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