Tuesday, 3 August 1943
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
For the County of Wilts (Chippenham Division), in the room of Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet, M.C., killed on active service.—[Mr. James Stuart.]
As amended, considered.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can give any information about the effect upon the nutritional and health standards of persons who make oats and other characteristic Scottish...
Mr. McNeil: asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many miniature radiography units are now operating in Scotland; in any convenient period, how many patients have been examined by this...
Mr. McNeil: asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many acute tuber- cular patients were waiting for hospital accommodation on 1st July, 1943; and how many additional beds had been made...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power what instructions have been given to the regional petroleum commissioners about the treatment of applications for petrol allowances from invalids; whether a...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power what is the number of persons employed in the coalmining industry, giving separate figures for those engaged underground and on the surface; and the number...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he can give any information in connection with four Italian prisoners of war who, for more than four weeks, rode by chauffeur-driven motor-car to work...
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in which Dominions the electoral truce is in operation and those in which a coalition government exists?
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether His Majesty's Government in Great Britain was consulted when Mr. de Valera recognised the King of Italy as Emperor of Abyssinia on 30th...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any statement to make regarding the clothing ration for the next period, beginning Ist September?
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can reduce the number of coupons to be surrendered for uniforms by members of the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Girls Training Corps and boy and...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what progress has been made in the formation of the Anglo-Soviet Co-operative Trading Association?
asked the President of the Board of Trade what is the meaning of the words "ceiling price" in the Explanatory Note to the Goods and Services (Price Control) Utility Bedding Order (S.R. & O....
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether plans are being prepared for the conversion of State factories built for the production of munitions to production for other purposes at the end...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is considering the recommendations made by the Royal Commission on the Geographic Distribution of Industries in regard to the control and...
Mr. Thorneycroft: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will give favourable consideration to the question of continuing in the post-war period the Location of Retail Business...
asked the President of the Board of Trade under what conditions it is now possible to set up in the business of publishing books?
asked the Secretary of State for War why, on Sunday, 25th July, in connection with operations in Sicily, special mention was made of the exploits of the Seaforth Highlanders alone and not of...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can give any information in connection with Driver Rogers, who escaped from his escort at Waterloo Station; whether Driver Rogers has yet been...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the Elliott Report on the future status and service conditions of the Voluntary Aid Detachments and...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will give directions that special campaign pensions be paid irrespective of means?
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is in a position to make a statement as to the progress of his reconsideration of the rules governing the attributability of soldiers' disabilities...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether troops returning from overseas after one or more year's service may be given a longer period of leave than 14 days?
asked the Secretary of State for War how many chiropodists are now attached to the Middle East Forces?
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will procure by air-mail from the Middle East, and place in the Library of the House, a copy of the "Soldier's Guide to Sicily," issued to the troops?
asked the Secretary of State for War how many bands exist in the Army Cadet Force and how they are employed, both for the benefit of the Force itself and the civil community?
asked the Secretary of State for War (I) whether he is aware that highly skilled tradesmen of the R.E.M.E workshop company at a place, of which he has been informed, are asked to spend a large...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that a serious casualty occurred to an officer, of whose name and number he has been informed, between 13th and 16th May, 1943, at Sfax,...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the fact that Allied and Dominion nurses and physiotherapists are given officer's status, while British physiotherapists are given a...
Mr. Astor: asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can now make a statement regarding the restrictions on direct communication to relatives regarding men killed or wounded?
Mr. Astor: asked the Secretary of State for War which branch of the Army is now responsible for the distribution of papers to the troops in operational areas; and whether he will make inquiries...
asked the Secretary of State for War the number of civil servants connected with his Department who have now returned to London from the provinces; and whether he will consider extending this...
asked the Prime Minister when he will be in a position to state to the House the post-war agricultural policy of the Government?
Miss Ward: asked the Prime Minister who is responsible for the selection of the personnel for A.M.G.O.T.; and which Government Department is the directing authority?
asked the Prime Minister whether he will give an assurance that it is not the intention of the Government to bring in an Act of Indemnity after the war with reference to action taken under...
asked the Prime Minister whether he can now give an assurance that in the event of the Italian people forming a Government consisting of Socialists and other elements of left opinion and...
Major Lloyd: asked the Minister without Portfolio whether a scheme of Dominion and Colonial emigration is contemplated as part of the Government's post-war plans; and whether preliminary...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that old age pensioners, who have returned to employment to help in the war effort, feel that their pension, to which they have a...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has any statement to make regarding the payment by small employers of the Income Tax deducted from the wages of their employees to the Exchequer...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the relative price and wages levels which were taken into account when the lira exchange rate was provisionally fixed; and to what extent the price levels...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that by a recent decision of the courts the £2 subsidy for land ploughed up by order of the Ministry of Agriculture is in future to...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much has been received from property owners under the War Damage Acts to date; and the approximate sum already disbursed by the War Damage Commission up...
asked the Chanceller of the Exchequer whether he is prepared to consider making some allowance to property owners in respect of the cost of the administration of their property, so far as...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether premiums, paid by a company to insure the life of a director or employee in the company's interest, are admitted by the Inland Revenue as a trading...
(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether he can make a statement on the offer by the American Government to transfer merchant ships to the British flag?
I have some statement to make to the House, on a subject which I regard as agreeable but about which there will be many differences of opinion. As has already been announced, His Majesty has...
As I am making statements to the House at this moment, I ought not perhaps to sit down without mentioning the fact that our general offensive in Sicily began to develop on Sunday afternoon, and...
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I propose to occupy the time of the House for one moment to make an explanation with regard to the Debate which took place on Friday. I have given notice to the...
That they have agreed to—
Considered in Committee, and reported, without Amendment.
I feel that this Debate which is being held to-day on problems which concern women will serve a very useful function, because, in a House which contains 601 male Members and 14 women, it is fair...
I would have preferred to have discussed this next subject on a more appropriate occasion. Last week my right hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood) made an application on behalf of...
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