Thursday, 16 October 1941
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.]
asked the Minister of Labour what are the duties of the Ministry of Labour Publicity Officer now forming one of the British delegation attending the International Labour Office Conference in New York?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will make it clear that men who have to move their homes to return to work in coalmines under his orders will have the expenses of removing to the...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now able to state the progress that has been made in the setting up of joint consultative machinery in industry; the number of committees in being; and...
Miss Cazalet: asked the Minister of Labour how many women have registered with their age groups; how many have already received personal interviews; how many of those interviewed were already in...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will take steps to ensure that the provisions made by law for the reinstatement in their pre-war employment, or compensation in lieu thereof, where...
asked the Minister of Labour whether any form of reservation is granted solely because a person's name is on the Central Register; whether this fact in itself operates as a deferment; and whether...
asked the Minister of Labour the total number of places for trainees in Government training centres; and the number of these places at present vacant?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will publish a consolidated summary of the Unemployment Insurance Acts and Regulations for the guidance of the large number of persons concerned in the...
asked the Minister of Labour on what conditions are winter allowances granted to applicants for unemployment assistance; and for what period are such allowances applicable?
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the commandant of the Fascist internment camp in the Isle of Man has been changed; whether the free unlimited entry of food and drink...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has any further statement to make respecting proposals for improvement of pay, hours of duty and conditions of service put forward by the Fire Brigades Union...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the existing curfew imposing difficulties, in particular, affecting their employment and their desire to do fire-watching, he will con- sider...
asked the Home Secretary having regard to his decision that the British Communist Party are not loyal to this country, how many members of this party are now detained under Regulation 18B?
asked the Home Secretary in view of the public concern caused by the Fourteenth Report from the Select Committee on National Expenditure and the importance of securing to the country the highest...
asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that misapprehension still exists in Australia as to the quality of the aliens sent there for internment, the Australian public apparently...
asked the Home Secretary whether he has had tests made, and can give any information, as to the iron-bolted arch air-raid shelter made by the Stanton Iron Works Company, Nottingham; what is the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is able to make any statement in regard to possible modification of the air-raid warning system?
asked the Minister of Health whether a letter, addressed by the clerk of the Great Sankey Parish Council to the public assistance officer,. Preston, and by him to the senior regional officer of...
asked the Minister of Health whether he can give the number of evacuees billeted in the Windlesham and Sunningdale, Surrey, area; whether he is aware that there is much complaint that, while...
asked the Minister of Pensions how many persons in Nottingham and the surrounding district have written to him demanding equal compensation for men and women civilians injured owing to enemy action?
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Home Secretary whether the fullest investigation will be made into the causes of an explosion in a Yorkshire factory resulting in the death of four women?
asked the Home Secretary whether he can make any statement as to the rules for the hours of closing of places of public entertainment during the coming winter?
asked the President of the Board of Education whether there is now a routine medical examination of all evacuated school children; and what arrangements are made for the medical treatment of any...
asked the President of the Board of Education whether he proposes to make it compulsory for local authorities to provide nursery schools for the children of women anxious to help the war effort?
asked the Minister of Health what has been the percentage increase in pulmonary tuberculosis during the war; in what age-groups the increase is most marked; and whether it is proposed to take...
asked the Minister of Agriculture why, in the new schedule of rations for horses, supplies of fodder are to be made available for the breeding of thoroughbreds but not of other light horses; and...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will place in the Library copies of any instructions issued by him to war agricultural executive committees?
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will institute a national drive for the destruction of rats on the lines already pursued by those counties which are doing most for their destruction?
asked the Minister of Health whether the elected representatives of the people will serve on the management committees of voluntary hospitals now that public money is being used to subsidise...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will publish a consolidated summary of the Acts and Regulations relating to old age and widows' pensions, respectively, for the assistance of the many...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport whether there is any compulsion on pedestrians to obey the traffic lights; and, if not, whether he is, in the interests of...
Miss Lloyd George: asked the Minister of Health whether he can make a statement as to the appointment of a committee on the salaries of nurses?
Miss Ward: asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has any decision to report arising out of his conversations with the Minister of Labour?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the unfairness of deducting Income Tax from the pay of civil servants six months in advance of the general public;...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much money has been spent on advertisements urging the public to invest in War Loan and interest-free loans, respectively?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the Uckfield Rural District Council has recently had to arrange for an overdraft of £11,000, with the consequent burden of...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether special care is taken by the War Damage Commission to ensure that serving soldiers unable personally to attend to their war damages homes are...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has now been able to reconsider the composition of the Agricultural Improvement Council for Scotland and the fact that despite the importance...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has yet received a report from his Retail Trade Advisory Committee on the problems of the small trader; and whether he...
asked the Minister of Information the circumstances under which his Department has altered the Parliamentary reports of the British Broadcasting Corporation; how many times has this been done...
asked the Minister of Information the number of persons who have proceeded, at his request or that of his predecessor, to the United States of America or Canada on a mission to present the point...
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Information what steps can be and are being taken by the British Broadcasting Corporation to deal with enemy interference with British broadcasts?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he can give any information in connection with foodstuffs salvaged after air raids, stored in the Ministry's depots, and then...
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make in regard to the Memorandum reported to the House on 2nd October as having been submitted to him by the...
May I ask the Prime Minister whether he will state the forthcoming Business of the House?
That they have agreed to—
Ordered, "That a Message be sent to the Lords to request that their Lordships will be pleasd to give leave to the Lord Beaverbrook to attend to be examined as a witness before the Select...
Notice taken, that Strangers were present.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [Mr. James Stuart.]
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And sometimes to shout at each other.
