Thursday, 24 October 1940
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.]
For the Queen's University of Belfast, in the room of Colonel Thomas Sinclair, C.B. (Chiltern Hundreds).—[Captain Margesson.]
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider increasing the scales of remuneration for members of statutory committees in view of the rise in the cost of living and subsequent wage...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in cases where married women with children have left employment in vulnerable areas, such as London, in order to seek safer areas, he will see that their...
asked the Minister of Labour whether the colour bar, which now operates as a distinction against certain British subjects of mixed parentage, born and resident in this country, in their search...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is satisfied with the proportion of workers who are now working overtime upon the day shift in munition factories?
Miss Ward: asked the Minister of Pensions whether, in view of the investigation into the household means test in connection with the unemployed, he will immediately institute an inquiry into the...
Mr. Graham White: asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider the advisability of making application for the release from internment, subject to security conditions, of distinguished...
asked the Home Secretary how many of the 1,000 persons detained under Section 18B who had not had their cases heard by the advisory committee by 3rd October, had been detained at that date for...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the air-raid warden service is now an efficient and disciplined body and that the head wardens have discharged responsible duties with great...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that there is considerable unemployment among skilled building trade workers; and whether he is prepared to harness this unused skill and labour to...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider making a regulation requiring visitors arriving at hotels and signing hotel registration forms as British subjects to produce their registration...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that members of the air-raid precautions, wounded in carrying out their duties, have their wages reduced after a limited number of weeks; and whether...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has any estimate of the approximate accommodation available in suitable basement and other underground shelter for those sheltering from air raids; whether he...
asked the Home Secretary whether it is being found possible to do anything to increase the safety of inhabitants of His Majesty's prisons during air raids?
asked the Minister of Health whether he will make arrangements to evacuate the old and infirm who are occupying beds in the London hospitals?
asked the Home Secretary whether, under the new merger scheme of the London Fire Brigade and the Auxiliary Fire Service, a regular fireman and an auxiliary, injured on duty, will now both be...
Miss Ward: asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider the desirability of establishing a trained service, recruited locally in each region, to man information centres to which...
Miss Ward: asked the Home Secretary what response he has received from local authorities to the circular addressed to them on the subject of women police; and whether he is satisfied that they...
asked the Home Secretary whether it is proposed to prolong Summer Time throughout the winter?
asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider approaching the Governments of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and other neutral Powers, both with a...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that, apart from damage to house property, there is a number of bomb craters about the country in agricultural land and gardens; that the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the necessity for cleaning out farm and parish drains in the Louth drainage area and in the area above the Louth...
asked the Minister of Health whether, since the reports provided by investigating officers form the basis upon which so many decisions on the part of courts of referees are arrived at, he will...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether, in view of the fact that white bread is largely deficient in vitamins, and is often baked with alkaline bleaches, thereby...
Mr. Rostron Duckworth: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether his attention has been called to the high prices charged for vegetables despite the abnormal production...
asked the Minister of Information whether his attention has been drawn to a public speech in Oxford by Mr. A. J. P. Taylor, a member of the local Information Committee appointed by the Ministry...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that a number of firms in the textile trade, whose premises have been destroyed by enemy action, are being severely handicapped in...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that provident clothing associations and other similar organisations have circularised their clients that, after taking legal advice,...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the great difficulties which are being experienced in so many localities of finding billeting accommodation for war workers and evacuated...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that the officers and men aboard many of His Majesty's ships have had beef every day for the past three weeks; and will he at once make...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that for 48 hours after the sinking of His Majesty's ship "Glorious" a consider- able number of survivors remained afloat on rafts; and...
On a point of Order. May I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the fact that there is no copy of yesterday's OFFICIAL REPORT procurable at the Vote Office this morning? In view of the fact that...
May I ask the Lord Privy Seal to state the future Business of the House?
I will, with permission, now make the promised statement about the functions of the Ministry of Works and Buildings. The Ministry of Works and Buildings will be responsible for the erection of...
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Arising out of the statement of the Lord Privy Seal, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether there is any intention of appointing a Parliamentary Secretary to the new Ministry of Works and Buildings?
That they have agreed to—
Read the First time; to be read a Second time upon the next Sitting Day.
Considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed.
Resolved, That the draft Unemployment Assistance (Determination of Need and Assessment of Needs) (Amendment) Regulations, 1940, made by the Minister of Labour and National Service under the...
Notice taken, that strangers were present.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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