Thursday, 22 May 1941
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.]
I have to-day received a letter from the Chairman of the Press Gallery, enclosing a copy of a message to this House from members of the Press Gallery that I should like to read to the House: The...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will give the names of officers in his Department in receipt of salaries exceeding £9 per week, that have been appointed since 1st April, 1940; and...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that married women temporarily employed in the Civil Service have to resign when pregnant, without guarantee of re-employment;...
asked the Minister of Labour what opportunity for appeal against calling up will be afforded to a man previously called up and medically examined but subsequently found to be in a reserved...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of a danger that the dental health of the civil population may suffer through the age of reservation for skilled dental mechanics being raised...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the Ministry of Health, in its recent circular A.S. 330, informs all health insurance approved societies that, as from 1st October, 1941,...
asked the Minister of Labour what restrictions are imposed by his Department which prevent friendly aliens from accepting employment that is offered to them?
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether he can state for a date in each three months since March, 1939, the number of those serving sentences as conscientious objectors;...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the further hour of summer time, he will consider the possibility of extending the curfew for friendly aliens to 11.30 p.m.?
asked the Home Secretary in view of the fact that houses in London were recently gutted by fire because the owners had gone away and had had the water cut off, and therefore when the available...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the shortage of torch bateries in the case of wardens of an area of which he has been informed, and that the wardens complain of the danger...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the Gloucester County Civil Defence authorities have reduced the supper allowance for first-aid and rescue parties and ambulance drivers, all...
asked the Home Secretary for what reason it has been found necessary to prohibit marriages between aliens in internment; and whether he will reconsider his decision in cases where both parties...
Major Lloyd: asked the Home Secretary whether he is satisfied that the decontamination arrangements made by air-raid precautions authorities will, in the event of the use of poison gas by the...
asked the Home Secretary on what date the instructions with regard to detentions under Regulation 18B [Cmd. 6162, 1940] were communicated to the governor of Brixton Prison?
asked the Home Secretary who was responsible for specifying the use of lime mortar for use in the construction of brick surface-shelters; and why lime cement mortar was not specified?
asked the Home Secretary whether he can give any information in connection with the walls of a burned-out building in the city, which collapsed, trapping two demolition workers, of whom one was...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is yet in a position to make a statement about the supply of uniforms of a more substantial type; the institution of pay for rank; and other improvements in...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider issuing an order designating certain areas, of which he has been informed, and which are areas likely to be subjected in a special degree to...
asked the Minister of Health what steps are being taken to prevent the recurrence of cases similar to the one of which he has been informed whereby workers in a verminous condition were...
asked the Minister of Health what is the responsibility of senior regional officers in rehousing persons from bombed areas?
Colonel Arthur Evans: asked the Home Secretary whether he has concluded his examination of the papers which were submitted to him by the honourable Member for Cardiff, South, relating to the...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the increase in juvenile delinquency, he will take steps to provide all possible educational instruction to juveniles under detention?
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that, at the last Easter annual delegate meeting of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, representing over 100,000 members employed...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will have inquiries made into the attendance at dog-race meetings; whether such attendances are interfering with ordinary transport; and whether the use of...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the approaching holiday season and the desire expressed on all sides for definite information, he will make it clear that Northern Ireland people...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the extreme urgency of the need to increase the benefits payable under the National Health Insurance, in particular, sickness, maternity and...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will take action to promote a concentrated effort to secure immunisation of all children against diphtheria, in order to save the loss of some 2,500...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will introduce legislation to enable local authorities to create reserve funds to make some provision for the consequences of decreased expenditure on...
asked the Minister of Health what is the position of an old age pensioner who goes to reside in the Isle of Man, both in respect of his pension and supplementary pension, if he happens to be...
asked the Prime Minister whether he has considered the resolution from the Northern Ireland branch of the British Medical Association to the effect that conscription should be applied at once to...
asked the Prime Minister whether he has any information as to the extent of the assistance which is being given, on the authority of the Vichy Government, to the German armed forces in Syria; and...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that his predecessor's instructions to Parliamentary counsel to mitigate the inconveniences of legislation by reference, whenever possible, by using...
Major Vyvyan Adams: asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government hold themselves free to refrain from treating as prisoners of war any enemy troops captured in the guise of British,...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the demonstrated practicability of rearing oysters under artificial conditions up to the stage suitable for planting out, he will take steps...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, with a view to getting a million acres drained and into cultivation forthwith, he will confer with the Secretary of State for...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether a non-agriculturist, who has entered on, or purchased, a farm since the outbreak of war, is to be excused military service, while efficient men actually...
asked the Postmaster-General whether he will reconsider his decision not to allow the slogan "Lend to the Limit" to be used as a postal-date stamp?
asked the Postmaster- General whether he can give any information about a man named Mr. English, who was working at a London sorting office along with three others, when a bomb hit the office,...
asked the Minister of Information whether any representations were sought from, or made by, either the Swiss Government or any person in Switzerland with reference to the British broadcasts to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any statement to make with reference to restrictions on the sending of parcels from overseas to persons in this country, having regard to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the inconvenience and loss to merchants and traders who have been urged to increase their exports who are subsequently informed,...
asked the Secretary for Mines what is the import of the Draft Order, entitled the Central (Coal Mines) Scheme (Amendment) Order, which he has laid before the House?
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he will explain the policy of his Department with regard to the imminent dismantling of the Tamworth Colliery, which supplies important factories in...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware of the unrest among food controllers and shopkeepers in this country; and whether he will consider regulations for...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware of the lack of feeding accommodation for transport workers on the Great North Road; and whether he can now make...
asked the Attorney-General whether the attention of the Government has been drawn to repeated pronouncements by His Majesty's Judges, when hearing claims for damages in the case of fatal...
Major Lloyd: asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he has any statement to make as to the position of Wing-Commander the Duke of Hamilton in relation to the arrival in this country of...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any statement to make about our relations with the Vichy Government in the light of recent developments?
May I ask the Lord Privy Seal whether he will make a statement on the forthcoming Business of the House?
Special Report from the Select Committee, brought up, and read; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 91.]
That they have agreed to—
Read the First time; to be read a Second time upon the next Sitting Day.
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.]
Order for Second Reading read.
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Question again proposed, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
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 Mildenhall, a copy of which was...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn"—[Major Dugdale.]
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