Wednesday, 16 July 1941
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair.]
For the County of York, West Riding (Pontefract Division), in the room of Adam Hills, Esq., deceased.—[Sir Charles Edwards.]
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to Senor Suner's pronouncement, on 2nd July, that the Falange were taking up arms, together with their...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when the Spanish Government took over the Cape Spartel lighthouse installation; under what control this has hitherto been; and what action His...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will publish the treaties of alliance existing between this country and Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg,...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that anti-Nazi Sudeten Germans are apprehensive that a policy of revenge will be carried out against all Germans in...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any statement to make with reference to the pronouncement, made by the Prime Minister of Iceland, that British troops are to leave...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why the Mechanised Transport Corps who, up to the present, have been providing both motor cars and drivers free for the use of the Polish,...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will say, so far as is not inconsistent with national interests, what is the reason for the frequent long delay between acceptance and call up for...
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will give the name of the senior officer appointed by him to the Ministry of Information to exercise responsibility for passing Air Ministry news...
asked the Minister of Information why the name of the gunner on a ship belonging to the local electricity authority of a South Coast town who brought down a German aircraft into the sea should be...
asked the Minister of Information whether compulsory powers under the Emergency Powers Act have been used to requisition buildings required for the accommodation of the foreign broadcasting...
asked the Minister of Information whether it is proposed immediately to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sir Maurice Peterson; from whom applications are being invited and what...
asked the Minister of Information whether he is aware that at Tangier the British and other inhabitants live in an atmosphere of Nazi propaganda; and what steps is he taking to counteract this...
asked the Minister of Information what action is being taken to see that Magyar opinion is mobilised against Horthy's Government?
asked the Minister of Information what percentage of the persons employed by the British Broadcasting Corporation at the station which has been referred to in correspondence with the Minister,...
asked the Minister of Information what recent instructions or guidance he has received from the Foreign Office as to the line to be adopted in propaganda broadcasts to enemy countries; and...
Major Lloyd: asked the Minister of Information whether he will make representations to the British Broadcasting Corporation with a view to the discontinuance of the playing of the Allied...
Major Vyvyan Adams: asked the Postmaster-General whether he is now able to issue a light-weight air letter-card for use in correspondence with British prisoners of war?
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the name of the senior officer appointed by him to the Ministry of Information to exercise responsibility for passing Admiralty news for publication, under...
Viscountess Davidson: (By Private Notice) asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in view of the recent change of status of the A.T.S. and W.A.A.F., it is the intention of the Admiralty...
asked the First Lord of the Admiralty on what date he expects to publish the figures of shipping losses for the month of June?
Dr. Morgan: asked the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies why the medical secretary of a British organisation has been invited to accept a position temporarily of medical superintendent of...
Dr. Morgan: asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that a visit of inspection paid to the venereal disease clinic in Kingston, Jamaica, has revealed that,...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (i) whether he is aware that, in May, 1940, the Governor of Jamaica interned all British subjects who were German born and...
asked the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies the total yield from the Malayan war tax on incomes and from the export tax on rubber; and the approximate number of Malayan residents earning...
asked the Under secretary of State for the Colonies whether industrial discontent in Sierra Leone among members of the Waterfront Workers Union and the Building Constructional Workers Union...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Under secretary of State for the Colonies whether a woman welfare officer has been appointed in Nigeria to look after the well-being of the families of colliery...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies what is the composition of the body set up in the Colonial Office under the chairmanship of Lord Hailey; what are its terms...
asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, in view of the attempts by isolated agitators to stir up disaffection in the British West Indies, whether he can give an assurance that the...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies whether he is able to make a statement on the work of the Cocoa Board, and the position in West Africa in respect of...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Trans port whether the terms of the railway agreement have now been settled and agreed; and whether he will cause such terms to be...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Trans port whether he has considered the London Passenger Transport Board's application to him for authority to withdraw, as from 1st...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport whether he is aware that some hundreds of gallons of water from Loch Katrine in Scotland is brought to London by rail each week...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport whether, in view of the shortage of petrol, as well as the necessity for speeding up delivery, distribution and transport of so...
asked the Prime Minister whether a decision has yet been reached as to the respective responsibilities of the War Office and Air Ministry for the protection of aerodromes; and whether he is...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply whether he will indicate the result of salvage work for each Metropolitan borough and for the large cities outside London,...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply whether in respect to tanks now being supplied to the Army, he has furnished the War Office with such data as will enable them to work...
asked the Prime Minister whether there is any member of the War Cabinet charged with the responsibility of deciding between the conflicting priorities issued by the supply and service...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food into what form of food the minimum daily requirements of the most important vitamins and minerals are being introduced; whether he is...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether special consideration can be given to small roadside caterers supplying food to long-distance lorry drivers, as the present...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether lie is aware that the Lindsey public assistance committee recently purchased two tons of corned beef and that the Wholesale...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food whether his Department has considered the case of remote villages where no shop has the necessary 25 customers for rationed commodities;...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he can make a statement on the case presented to the Minister in May and June by the deputation representing miners'...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he can make a statement on the prospect of improved rations; and has he recently given consideration to the need for a...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he will consider remodelling the fish-price control scheme in the direction of differentiating between large and small fish, and...
Mrs. Rathbone: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether, in view of the deficiency in calcium intake throughout the country, he will give speedy consideration to the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware of the great hardship caused to many soldiers who are granted leave in paying their railway fares home as they have been already granted...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider so amending the law as to make it possible for soldiers on service to be married by proxy, in cases where special conditions make...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will give the name of the senior officer appointed by him to the Ministry of Information to exercise responsibility for passing War Office news for...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether the clerks employed at collieries have been granted the attendance bonus in any part of the country, or have they received increases in wages equivalent;...
asked the Minister of Pensions when there is a dispute in the initial stage of a claim for compensation for war injuries or war service injuries between the civil defence organisation, the...
Lieutenant-Commander George Ian Clark Hutchison, R.N., for the Burgh of Edinburgh (West Division).
"to extend the provisions of the War Damage Act, 1941, relating to payments in respect of war damage under Part I of that Act to damage occurring after the thirty-first day of August, nineteen...
Ordered, That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted at this day's Sitting from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sitting of the House)." [Mr. James Stuart.]
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 69.
Resolution reported. That for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to authorise the Secretary of State to agree to make good any deficiencies in funds established by colonies and...
Considered in Committee, and reported, without Amendment.
Considered in Committee [Progress, 15th July].
I beg to move, in page 7, line 4, after "medicine," to insert: or supply any such article as a sample for the purpose of inducing persons to buy by retail the substance of which it consists or...
I beg to move, in page 8, line 6, after "Act," to insert: not being premises required to be registered by paragraph (g) of sub-section (1) of Section one of this Act. This Amendment is necessary...
Amendment made: In page 9, line 15, after "selling" insert "or supplying."—[Mr. E Brown.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
Amendment made: In page 11, line 32, at the end, add: (3) In this section references to the sale of an article include references to the supply of an article as a sample for the purpose of...
A food and drugs authority within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act, 19.58, shall have power to enforce the provisions of sections three, four and six of this Act and, subject to the...
No person shall sell or advertise under a fancy proprietary name any preparation having essentially the same composition as preparations listed in the current editions of the British...
No person other than a person authorised under Sub-section (1) of Section seven shall sell any article comprising a substance recommended as a medicine under a proprietary designation unless it...
"Resolutions reported: I Whereas it appears by the Navy Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1940, that, as shown in the Schedule hereunto appended, the total surpluses...
I beg to move, That the Clearing Office (Spain) Amendment Order, 1941, dated 30th June. 1941, made by the Treasury under Sections 1 and 3 of the Debts Clearing Offices and Import Restrictions...
Resolved, That the Order made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under the Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932, for extend- ing section one of that Act to the Urban District of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn "— [Major Dugdale].
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