Tuesday, 9 September 1941
The House met—after the Adjournment on Thursday, 7th August, for the Summer Recess—Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
For the County of Salop (Wrekin Division), in the 100m of Colonel James Baldwin-Webb, presumed killed as the result of enemy action.
asked the Secretary of State for War whether the army of Rashid Ali, in Iraq, has been allowed to retain its arms?
STEAMSHIP "DUNERA" (INTERNEES, COMPENSATION).
asked the Secretary of State for War how many months in arrear are the subsistence allowance payments to the Walsall battalion of the Home Guard; what is the reason for the delay; and when will...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will, in conjunction with the other Service Departments, institute a further inquiry with a view to the raising of the allowances to the wives and...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether the armistice conditions regarding the return of prisoners taken by the Vichy forces in Syria have now been fulfilled; and whether any further...
asked the Secretary of State for War what is the rank and the position occupied by the honourable and gallant Member for Preston (Major Randolph Churchill) on the staff of the Minister of State...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can now state why the book entitled ''I was a Nazi Flyer," written by a German prisoner of war interned in Canada, was published in America without...
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary of State for War when he will be in a position to make an announcement with regard to an increase in officers' pay?
asked the Lord Advocate whether he will ensure in future that, with a view to avoiding unnecessary expense by the conveyance of accused persons, escorts and witnesses to London, he will arrange...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he has any statement to make on the coal situation?
asked the Secretary for Mines whether any further measures are being taken to prevent silicosis and anthracosis among coal-miners; what these measures are; and whether they are being made...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can make any statement on the coal situation, especially in regard to the stocking of this commodity for the coming winter, both by private individuals...
asked the Secretary for Mines the number of explosions that have. occurred at coalmines in the past 12 months, and the number of persons killed and injured by these occurrences; the ascertained...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that six weeks have elapsed since the Miners' Welfare Commission agreed to the Baths Fund being used to provide pithead can teens, but district...
asked the Secretary for Petroleum whether he will make immediate arrangements to increase the allowance of paraffin to those houses and districts which have not got supplies of gas and electricity?
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, under appropriate safeguards, he will now allow recognised comforts organisations providing articles of clothing for evacuees, hospitals or...
asked the President of the Board of Trade the Government's policy with regard to trading with Japan; and to what extent in the last three months shipments of materials which can be used for...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the appointment of Cameron and Company to receive all particulars of United States of America steel required for the Colonies by their merchant...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that toys salvaged from a New York shipment which was bombed after its arrival in this country were recently auctioned at...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the Customs and Excise Office refuse to deliver goods to private individuals if the gross weight of the parcel is more than five...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any licences for the export of biscuits to the Dominion of Canada or other countries have been issued to biscuit manufacturers during 1941; and...
asked the Minister of Economic Warfare whether he has any further statement to make on supplies to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
asked the Minister of Economic Warfare whether he will give the names of companies which have sup plied oil to North Africa during the last two months; and the amount supplied by each?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, in connection with the representations which have been made to him as to the use of straw for paper-making, whether he is aware that a...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in order to secure the most effective counsels for the consideration of Empire war policy and strategy in every theatre of war, and the closest collaboration...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the Joint Declaration made by himself and by the President of the United States of America, he is now in a position to make a clear statement...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will fix an early date for consideration of the Motion, standing on the Order Paper, for the appointment of a Select Committee to in quire into certain matters...
Mr. Graham White: asked the Minister without Portfolio whether he is now in a position to state what decisions have been taken in regard to the recommendations of the Uthwatt Committee; and...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the tenants of flats and houses, whose leases provide for responsibility in internal decoration, should apply to the War Damage Commission or the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that many companies are making munitions, or other war-time necessities, which are not authorised by their Memoranda of Association; and...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether individuals as well as companies are required to pay Excess Profits Tax on the selling or leasing of land?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that, owing to currency control, many British children evacuated to the United States of America are partly, or entirely, dependent on...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to the latest statement of Lord Kindersley discouraging the public against lending money to the Government by proxy,...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the increase of 60 per cent, in the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board's town dues and dock rates from 2nd July has increased the cost of Government...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that when interest is allowed by the Crown on deferred payments of compensation under the provisions of Section 10 of the Compensation...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will now consider introducing a system of Excess Income Tax and thereby avoid uncontrolled inflation, which appears inevitable if a larger...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can give an explanation for the decline in the total of war savings from small investors at a time when money wages were never higher?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the recent requisitioning by the Treasury of Canadian and Indian Government sterling securities, prior to the earliest contractual...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the progress of his negotiations with Messrs. Courtaulds, Limited, with regard to the price to be paid for their former holding of American Viscose...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to the fact shown by the Eighteenth Report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure, that on the average four...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to what extent the recommendations of the Kennet Committee have been carried out in the release of eligible men and women in the Departments for some...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, whether he has a statement to make relative to the control of a certain Royal Ordnance Factory being placed in the...
asked the Minister of Information whether he has now reviewed the work of the Social Survey Section of his Department; and whether he will see to it that the public shall in future be left to...
May I ask the Prime Minister whether he will state the forth coming Business?
Lieutenant George Charles Grey, for the County of Northumberland (Berwick-on-Tweed. Division).
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."£[Mr. James Stuart.]
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