Tuesday, 9 December 1941
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.]
Colonel Arthur Evans: asked the President of the Board of Trade what action he has taken in the case of the South Wales conscientious objector who was employed as a schoolmaster at £350 per...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been drawn to the considerable number of debts due to traders and others in this country from buyers in Syria and the Lebanon,...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, before the recent application of a policy of concentration was applied to Scottish peltmongers, the Scottish Skinners' Association was...
Mr. David Adams: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been drawn to the high prices charged in sale-rooms for secondhand furniture and household utensils, in areas...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, arising out of the new Limitation of Supplies (Toilet Preparations) Order, 1941, he is aware of the hardship which will...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps he is taking to give effect to the recommendation in the interim Report of the Retail Trade Committee that persons who...
Mr. McNeil: asked the Secretary of State for War whether, since in certain battalions of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders the kilt has now been prescribed as the only alternative dress to...
Mr. McNeil: asked the Secretary of State for War whether any disciplinary action has been taken against the personnel responsible for the defence of an ordnance establishment, of which he has...
asked the Secretary of State for War under what circumstances a motor car, which contained a brief case with important confidential specifications for the War Office, was stolen at Notting Hill;...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is in a position to make a statement with regard to the preliminary training scheme for boys wishing to join the Army on the lines of the Air...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the optimistic statements made by the military spokesman in Cairo in the first days of the Libyan campaign regarding the destruction...
asked the Secretary of State for War how many soldiers serving in. units at home stations are now posted as deserters?
asked the Secretary of State for War why the Government contribution to the special dependants' allowance held in credit for an officer or soldier whose family are resident outside the sterling...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can give an assurance that there is now a close liaison between his Department and the Ministry of Labour as regards the...
asked the Secretary of State for War why the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava was released from the Army in order that he might be appointed in an acting capacity to the post of Director of the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether women, who, by authority of a Territorial Army Association perform clerical duties with a Home Guard Battalion, will be permitted to wear uniform?
asked the Secretary of State for War what compensation and apology have been offered for the illegal detention of a private of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps from 10th August to 19th August, 1941?
asked the Secretary of State for War why officers and other ranks stationed in Northern Ireland, who are granted leave, may be permitted to spend the whole of such leave period in England, but...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can give an estimate of the average age of the German army, army corps and divisional commanders respectively?
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will ascertain through the Protecting Power, whether the British prisoners of war selected for repatriation from Germany have now been returned to...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has issued instructions that where meat products in cans or other containers are labelled as complying with the statutory requirements of the...
Mr. McNeil: asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether adequate additional food supplies are being made available to Scottish local authorities for the feeding of school children?
Dr. Russell Thomas: asked the Secretary for Mines what is the average number of men and boys employed in a colliery for each coal-face worker; and whether he is satisfied with the number of...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he has considered the report sent to him on the use of biochemic salt as a means of reducing fatigue in the case of men doing heavy work; and whether he has...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether his attention has been drawn to the amount of idle time prevailing in the Fife coalfield; and whether any steps are being taken to ensure the working of...
Mr. Creech Jones: asked the Undersecretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he is aware that the Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister has arranged a conference with members of the Legislative...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many names were taken by the police at the Havana Club, Denman Street, on Saturday, 29th November, and on Friday, 28th November, at the...
asked the Home Secretary why the Regional Commissioner for Scotland has decided that the issue of travel vouchers must now be stopped; whether he is aware that, in a number of cases, this will...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Home Secretary what standards are laid down in various classes of areas as to the proportion of the population for whom dormitory shelter accommodation should be...
Mr. David Adams: asked the Minister of Health what standards are laid down, in various classes of areas, as to the proportion of the population for whom accommodation in rest and feeding centres...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is satisfied that the high standard rapidly being attained by the Home Guard and the general preparedness in the country, now justifies the restoration of...
asked the Home Secretary whether prison officers receive overtime pay when they are called on duty on Saturday and Sunday rest days?
asked the Prime Minister (1) how often the Advisory Committee on Camouflage, announced to the House on 2nd August, 1939, has been replaced or reconstituted; and whether he will, if in the public...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether arrangements have now been made to secure the saving of paper by means of smaller cheques under an agreed limitation of size and the reduction of...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether a member of a ship's crew who receives part of the Admiralty Prize Court salvage money is paid the full amount free of Income Tax?
Dr. Russell Thomas: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in view of the fact that he has agreed to the continued payment by an insurance company of an annuity of £600 to Marshal...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware of the considerable purchases of jewellery and precious stones which are being made; and what steps he is taking to prevent this wealth...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1), how much money from the Lord Mayor's Fund for Finland was exported to Finland before Germany's attack on Russia, during the period between Germany's...
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, how many men and women up to and including 40 years of age, in the various Government departments, have been released for war service since the...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply the reason for a Walker-Turner vertical drill being four or five months in a factory, the situation of which has been made known to...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food why the unanimous recommendation of the Glasgow Food Control Committee that the licences to trade as butchers held by two Glasgow...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food why the sugar allowance to ice-cream vendors has been increased from 40 per cent. to 50 per cent. of basic usage at a time when little...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware that chain stores, cut-price traders and multiple firms have introduced a cut-price war and are selling lease and...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will take steps to utilise the numerous bodies of men and women who have held public office on local authorities to interview at Employment Exchanges...
Colonel Arthur Evans: (forasked the Home Secretary what is the respective salary of the chairman and each person employed by the Welsh Church Commission?
Norman Adolph Henry Bower, Esquire, for the County of Middlesex (Harrow Division).
Ordered, That the Proceedings on Government Business be exempted at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[Mr. Attlee.]
Order for Second Reading read.
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee, under Standing Order No. 69.
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