Thursday, 27 March 1941
The House being met, the Clerk at the Table informed the House of the unavoidable absence, through indisposition, of Mr. SPEAKER from this Day's Sitting. Whereupon Sir DENNIS HERBERT, the...
asked the Minister of Labour (1) whether he is satisfied that the area and local machinery that exists for production purposes is functioning with efficiency and obtaining the maximum production...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, and how, the workpeople's views are considered with regard to production, and how their services might be utilised to the best advantage; what steps are...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that there are skilled and qualified engineers in the Polish and other Allied Forces at present stationed in this country; and whether he will...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in the arrangements made, and to be made, under the National Service (Armed Forces) Act, the Registration for Employment Order, and the National Service...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that, owing to the large percentage of their male employés already serving in the Forces, distributive trade employers have recently trained...
asked the Minister of Labour the cost of the Assistance Board's administration for each of the years 1935 to 1940?
asked the Minister of Health whether he will take steps to ensure that arrangements are made for access to all underground pure water in case of damage by air raids to existing supplies?
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that in various localities where there have been increases in the population as the result of transfer of civil servants and others, there is a...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Wembley Borough Council have been forbidden to continue their manufacture of air-raid shelter bunks; and whether, in view of the fact...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether the application of Mrs. N. G. Johnson, of Cwmbran, Monmouthshire, for a pension in respect of her late husband, who was fatally injured while returning from...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the likelihood of the use of poison gas by the enemy and of the undoubted neglect of large numbers of our people to carry their gas masks and 61 their...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has considered the letter concerning Mrs. Ansbacher; and whether he will see that these wives of friendly aliens, whose husbands were sent to Australia with...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that, since the suppression of the "Daily Worker," pamphlets of a similar nature are being issued and distributed; how many cases of this kind have...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that many voluntary street party fire watchers are declining to sign the official form issued by the local authority, not because they are not...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Minister of Health what is the general position of tuberculosis after-care work in this country at the present moment; and the resulting position with regard to the...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that a person who applies for an old age pension and who receives retrospective payment is refused a supplementary pension for the same period;...
asked the Minister of Health when the Annual Report of his Department for 1939–40 will be issued?
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the increasing serious shortage of male and female nurses in mental hospitals owing to their voluntary or compulsory transference to military...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will consider taking steps for some form of compensation to be made to men invalided out of the Army after fighting in France and who had not been...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether he will secure facilities for other Indians, whose views may not altogether coincide with those of the Indians who have proceeded to the United...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that shops today are almost entirely staffed by women owing to the call-up of men assistants to military service; and whether he will decline to...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in the problems of reconstruction now being considered by the Government, attention is being devoted to the necessity for the re-education of the German people,...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that what purport to be the terms under which the bases in British possessions have been leased to the United States have been published in...
Captain Shaw: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the restriction put upon the importation of Irish store cattle, he has considered the advisability of stopping the slaughter...
asked the Minister of Agriculture how many owners of domestic poultry returned application forms before the issuing of ration cards; how many birds did they own; and how much food did they...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will consider the setting-up of alternative impartial bodies to the county war agricultural committees to enable farmers to appeal against...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that coroners' inquests are not now being held in the case of casualties apparently due to air raids; that administration of the new procedure is in...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he proposes to take any steps to control the disposal of the sum, estimated to be about £20,000,000, received by Messrs. Courtaulds by the sale...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will give consideration to the granting of an allowance of 5s. per week for children in excess of two, to parents whose income is below the Income...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food how many county boroughs, counties and county districts, respectively, have now established schemes of communal feeding...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether, in view of the large part which jam plays in the food of working-class children, he will grant to children a larger ration than...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether, in view of the great shortage of sugar and animal feeding-stuffs, he will consider the further curtailment of the raw materials...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Air- craft Production whether he has any statement to make with reference to the contribution made by German Jewish and other refugee...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that Mrs. Bridgman, whose former home address was 95, Logan Street, Glasgow, was evacuated with her five children, on 2nd September,...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has considered the application of Burntisland fishermen for the removal of restrictions now operating on the use of the harbour area; and with...
(by Private Notice) asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can now make a statement regarding the composition of the War Damage Commission?
May I ask the Lord Privy Seal to state the Business for the forthcoming days? I would ask at the same time whether he has any statement to make with regard to the procedure to-day.
Eleventh Report from the Select Committee brought up, and read; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed [No. 75].
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn." — [Mr. James Stuart.]
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