Thursday, 15 October 1942
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.]
Read the Third time, and passed;
asked the Minister of Labour whether there is any substantial number of unfilled vacancies for the part-time employment of women in South-East London?
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of disquiet in the war industries regarding Government policy on the wages claim of women employed in the engineering and other trades for equal...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider the advisability of extending the panels set up to advise the Ministry of Labour in the calling-up of Czechoslovak, Belgian and other Allied...
asked the Minister of Labour the number of miners prosecuted in the courts for absenteeism and loss of output under the Mining Industry Essential Work Order; the number fined; and the number sent...
asked the Minister of Labour whether the programme for employing women in the shipbuilding and allied industries is now in operation; and whether he will now instruct employment exchanges to give...
Commander Bower: asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the large numbers of small employers and one-man businesses in the catering industry who are now in the Fighting Services or...
Mr. J. Henderson: asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been directed to a resolution adopted by the Manchester City Council protesting against the calling-up for the Armed...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the Northfield Nursing Home, Rugby, is in danger of having to close down through lack of staff; that this is the only private nursing home in...
asked the Minister of Health whether he can give any information about the mass radiology in the cure of tuberculosis and diseases of the chest; what is the cost of the apparatus; are local...
asked the Minister of Health the percentage incidence of tuberculosis attributable to animal disease in London, where most of the milk is pasteurised, as compared with areas in which there is...
asked the Minister of Health the number of cases of diphtheria notified during this year; whether this shows an increase; whether the proportion of cases proving fatal shows an increase; and what...
Mr. Bernard Taylor: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of miners in Nottinghamshire certified by the certifying surgeons as suffering with dermatitis during the past...
asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the rise in reportable accidents in factories for the year 1941, fatal accidents having increased by 20 per cent. and non-fatal by 17 per cent.,...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will publish monthly in the "Ministry of Labour Gazette" the receipts and expenditure of the Unemployment Fund and the expenditure of the Assistance Board...
asked the Minister of Health (1) whether he is aware that no American military personnel on duty in any foreign country may marry without written permission issued under the authority of the...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the, part-time clerk to the Elland Urban District Council has received compensation for loss of office upon relinquishing his position as...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the grave shortage of houses in rural areas; that this position has been accentuated during the war by the extended area of production; and...
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is now in a position to appoint pensions appeal tribunals, in view of the fact that medical men of suitable training and experience are now available?
asked the Secretary of State for India the pay per month of a lieutenant of the Royal Engineers while serving in India; the allowance he receives for his wife and two children in England; and the...
asked (1) the Secretary of State for India how many seamen have joined the British Mercantile Marine; and what has been the increase of the Indian Army since 1939; (2) the Secretary of State for...
asked the Secretary of State for India approximately, the number of Indians now detained for political reasons; and how many of these are Hindu, Moslem, Christian, Sikh and Parsee?
asked the Secretary of State for India whether it is proposed to complete the Indianisation of the Viceroy's Executive by the appointment of Indians to the three portfolios still held by Englishmen?
asked the Secretary of State for India the circumstances that have led to the displacement of the Moslem Premier of Sind, Khan Bahadur Allah Baksh; whether he was consulted on this matter; and...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the advisability of altering the present system of the entry of nationality in certificates of registration, so that those Austrians who left...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that some air raid precautions casualty services in rural districts in Gloucestershire are still with-out steel helmets, respirators or uniforms, and...
asked the Home Secretary what modifications he has decided to make in regard to the obligations which he has placed upon women for fire-watching on business premises?
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the assurance given that, in carrying out the plan for the release of whole-time Civil Defence workers to productive industry, care would be...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will issue a circular to local councils intimating that where they permit the opening of cinemas on Sundays it should be subject to the condition that the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that it is a common practice in the cinema industry to reduce the number of the lower-priced seats and increase the number of higher-priced seats,...
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the sentence of one month's imprisonment passed on Reginald Brown, of Melksham, for not attending Home Guard parades; and...
asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the statement of Mr. Hemmerde at the Liverpool Quarter Sessions recently that he was confident that beating up of arrested men in...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that an official proclamation to the effect that henceforth Malta should be known and addressed as Malta G.C. would meet with general approval; and...
asked the Prime Minister whether he has yet come to a final decision as to the advisability of having a War Cabinet composed of Ministers without other Departmental responsibilities?
asked the Prime Minister what progress has been made in establishing a unified command or control of the Fighting Services in each theatre of war?
asked the Prime Minister whether it is intended to take any action to prevent any further deportation of Channel Islanders and other British subjects therein resident, to Germany and other...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in order to mark our gratitude for the continuing resistance of Greek guerilla forces, he will consider the transfer of the Elgin Marbles to the Greek Government...
asked the Paymaster-General whether he is now in a position to say when the Beveridge Report on Social Insurance will be made available to the House?
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will reconsider the proposal to place disabled ex-Service men poultry keepers in the same category as the blind respecting supplementary rations for...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is satisfied with the general conduct and volume of work performed by the Italian prisoners now engaged in agricultural production?
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been drawn to the recommendation in paragraph 541, page 90, of the Scott Report, that the Government should lay down a definite...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the various interests concerned have now made arrangements for the admission of members of the Women's Land Army to all canteens open to women in the...
asked the President of the Board of Education how often preparatory and private schools, religious or otherwise, for young people are visited in the course of a school session for the purpose of...
asked the President of the Board of Education whether he will take powers to compel all boys' schools with a school uniform to replace existing clothing as it wears out by a simple wartime...
asked the President of the Board of Education whether he will now issue as a White Paper the results of the recent national registration of young people whose ages lay between 16 and 18?
asked the President of the Board of Education whether it is permissible for his Department to contribute to boarding allowances in respect of scholars at independent or grant-aided schools?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the number of new students at the universities of the United Kingdom for the, last year for which figures are available; what proportion this bears to the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the official statement made in the Chamber of Deputies in Dublin by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister...
Sir Leonard Lylte: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in connection with his plans for the Budget of 1943, he will carefully examine existing legislation in America and the Dominions...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will take steps to dispense with the mainly superfluous costing establishments in the Production Ministries by substituting a requirement that...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power on whose advice and/or authority a search was made for coal at Staveley, adjoining the Worksop main road; what cost was incurred; at whose expense; what...
As the House is aware, Field Marshal Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa and a member of the United Kingdom War Cabinet in the last war, has arrived in London. We were sure that...
May I ask about the Business for the next series of Sitting Days?
Notice taken, that Strangers were present.
Resolution reported, That for the purposes of any Act of the present Session making provision, among other things, for enabling rules to be made for the payment of interpreters in courts of...
Considered in Committee, reported without Amendment, read the Third time, and passed.
I beg to move, That the Fish Sales (Charges) (No. 2) Order, 1942, dated 30th September, 1942, made by the Treasury under Section 2 of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939, a copy of which was...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. A. Young.]
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