Tuesday, 25 May 1943
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That in the case of the following Bill originating in the Lords, and referred on the First Reading...
Bill to be read a Second time.
Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That in the case of the following Bills, referred on the First Reading thereof, no Standing Orders...
Read a Second time, and committed.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that while ample stocks of adults' shoes are available in shops there is a shortage, particularly in London, of children's shoes;...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the new price control order for toys, Statutory Rule and Order, 1943, No. 615, will result in the same article being offered in...
asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of businesses that have been concentrated up to date, stating what are those businesses, the number of firms closed down by this process and...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the difficulty experienced by persons engaged in mining and other heavy industries in obtaining suitable clothes with the coupons now...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that utility perambulators are made without extensions and without brakes; and, as without extensions these are generally useless for...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the dissatisfaction which exists among bespoke tailors concerning certain aspects of the operation of clothing control in its...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that there is a steady drain to the United States of America of the richest treasures of this country in furniture, pictures, plate...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare whether he has any information as to the extent to which factories in Denmark are being utilised by the Germans for the...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the number of public relations and Press officers at the War Office, which was given in the official record in May, 1942, as 356 at a cost...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can now give consideration to the question of the defence of contributory negligence against infants under the age of 16 who are injured in...
asked the Secretary of State for War for what reason bicycles recently issued to Home Guard mobile platoons are being withdrawn?
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will reintroduce substantive promotion in the Territorial Army that has been embodied?
asked the Secretary of State for War the number of soldiers passed A.I and fit far military service who are now employed at prisoner of war camps; if they are eligible for service overseas; and...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will make a further effort, through the Protecting Power, to obtain a full list of British prisoners in Japanese hands as a result of the fighting...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he is aware that the supplies of bitumen are now so restricted that various manufacturing processes are being seriously handicapped; and whether any...
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on what grounds "Inkululeko," official organ of the Communist Party of South Africa, is prohibited from entering the Protectorates of Basutoland,...
asked the right hon. and gallant Member for Rye, as representing the Trustees, whether he is aware that the income of the House of Commons Members' Fund, derived from the statutory contributions...
Major Lloyd: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the date on which it is expected that the new Order respecting the liability of women for fire-watching duties will be issued?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that £1,500,000,000 new money has been created by the banks since the commencement of the war until the late autumn of 1942; and...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the fact that we pay 3 per cent. on £90,819,000 borrowed from the United States of America for war purposes, he proposes to invite...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the theoretical aggregate of the quotas as defined in the Clearing Union plan, on the assumption that all the United Nations came into the scheme?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is his intention to bring the computation of income derived from capital in the case of persons claiming a non-contributory old age pension into...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether officer prisoners of war imprisoned in Italy are allowed a deduction from their income tax liability in respect of sums deducted from their pay for...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the price of the United States silver to be made available to industry will be fixed by the Government or by the bullion market; and whether the...
May I ask you, Mr. Speaker, whether you have any statement to make in regard to the publication of notices concerning Private Business?
May I ask you, Mr. Speaker, whether your attention has been drawn to instances of the use of the term "Parliamentary Committee" to designate bodies which have not been appointed by either House...
May I ask your guidance, Mr. Speaker? I endeavoured to put down a Private-Notice Question to-day, but I was informed that such a Question was already going to be asked; but it has not been so...
Ordered, That the First and Second Reports of the Select Committee on the Disposal and Custody of Documents in the last Session of Parliament be referred to the Select Committee on the Disposal...
Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords to request that their Lordships will be pleased to give leave to the Earl of Drogheda, C.M.G., to attend to be examined as a witness before the...
I beg to move, That the proceedings on Government Business be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House). There are a number of Amendments...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £1,000,000,000, be granted to His Majesty. towards defraying the expenses which may be incurred during the year...
[Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS in the Chair.]
Considered in Committee.
I beg to move, in page 2, line 8, at the end, to insert: Provided that where an application is for permission to erect a new building on the site of a building destroyed by war damage or in...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
The Minister may, for securing the protection of existing amenities, make general or special interim development orders with respect to the preservation of single trees and groups of trees, and,...
An interim development authority during the period of interim development may, as respects any particular building or part of a building, or any group of buildings within their district, or as...
[Lords]
I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time." The House will recollect that during his Budget statement the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the time had now arrived when a...
Resolved, That the draft of a Special Order proposed to be made by the Minister of Fuel and Power under the Gas Undertakings Acts, 1920 to 1934, on the application of the Uxbridge, Maidenhead,...
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