Thursday, 5 August 1943
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Minister of Labour whether it is his intention to instruct the Catering Wages Commission during the current year to carry out any investigation into the rehabilitation of seaside...
asked the Minister of Health, whether he is aware of the serious damage to house property due to statutory tenants letting rooms at abnormally high rents; and how soon may an amendment to the...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will amend Section 46 of the 1925 Housing Act, which was re-enacted in the Schedule to the Housing Act, 1930, and thereby remove the injustice imposed on...
asked the Minister of Health whether the Government post war building policy will provide for all houses, commercial buildings, works and factories being licensed for a period of years not...
asked the Minister of Health whether any estimate can be made of the probable shortage of houses at the end of the war; and the estimate of the additional number of houses which will require...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has records or information of the number of houses damaged by bombing or blast but that could be made habitable; and whether he is in touch with military...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the report which has been sent to him concerning the case of Miss Sarah Ann Watts, who summoned a doctor who was unable to attend until...
asked the Minister of Health how many tuberculosis X-ray apparatus are in operation in the county of Yorkshire; and in what places?
asked the Minister of Health how many of his inspectors visit and inspect hop-pickers' huts and camps; what material is used for them; what kind of washing and lavatory accommodation is provided;...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will introduce legislation under which the widow of a deceased Service man who, before his service, was a contributor under the Widows', Orphans' and Old...
asked the Minister of Health whether he was aware that the requisitioning of certain premises, of which he has been informed, was confirmed by the Welsh local authorities verbally, by telegram...
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning when he will be in a position to announce the Government's policy with regard to the proposals of the Uthwatt, Scott and Barlow Reports?
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will arrange for the cases of men invalided out of the Services without pension who have died recently to be considered by the new tribunals in view of...
asked the Secretary of State for India the present number detained; the number now awaiting trial or serving terms of imprisonment for offences associated with political action; the total number...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether he can make any further statement upon the introduction, scope and extent of rationing and price-control, respectively, of food and essential...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, as a result of the sentence of seven years' imprisonment on a national organiser of the Communist Party for espionage, he proposes to...
asked the Home Secretary whether, having regard to the urgent necessity for further economy in lighting and fuel, the utilisation of labour for National Service, the protection of the morals of...
asked the Home Secretary what measures are taken by his Department, in conjunction with the Board of Education, to see that the bye-laws relating to the employment of children on the land are...
asked the Minister of Agriculture the position with regard to the allocation of steel for the purpose of trap manufacture; and whether he is aware that great difficulty is being experienced in...
asked the Minister of Agriculture what recommendations have been made by the Agricultural Improvement Council during recent months to provide that the results of research shall be applied more...
50. Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will give the basis on which his Department arrived at their calculation that since the outbreak of the war there were 170...
asked the Minister of Agriculture why some Warwickshire farmers who had purchased combined harvesters, were refused permission to purchase driers also; and what drying facilities will be...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether when originally announcing that the Government would give the sum of £2 per acre as compensation to farmers for ploughing up new ground, it was the...
asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the advisability of assimilating the local government franchise to the Parliamentary franchise in legislative proposals to be brought forward on...
asked the Home Secretary how many stipendiary magistrates sit for the county boroughs with a population of over 250,000?
asked the President of the Board of Education whether he has had any formal consultations with local education authorities on the capacity of local rates to bear their proportionate burden of the...
asked the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the welcome given to the proposal to abolish the special place examination he will consider the advisability of introducing this...
asked the President of the Board of Education how many Part III authorities have completed their reorganisation under the Hadow Scheme and how many have not; and will he give the corresponding...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the words "all reasonable expenses," on page 3, line 16, of the pamphlet, W.F.L.,
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps are being taken to raise the sums required to compensate the owners of coal whose properties were vested in the Coal Commission on 1st July, 1942?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will consider excluding from Income Tax the pensions of widows of Service men who, by reason of their domestic circumstances, with children to...
asked the Prime Minister which of the normal functions of local authorities have been taken over by the central Government since the outbreak of war; which of these will be handed back to them...
asked the Minister without Portfolio when it is proposed to introduce legislation generally to implement the recommendations contained in the Report of His Majesty's Forestry Commissioners?
asked the President of the Board of Trade why he has decided to deduct four coupons from each member of the Home Guard in respect of his Home Guard uniform?
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give any information regarding the constitution and status of the Council of British Societies for Relief of Enemy-Occupied Territories?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food what considerations guided his Ministry in deciding to make the house charges in certain restaurants more than the permitted cost of a meal?
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food why bacon factories cannot accept pigs on a live-weight basis instead of the dead-weight basis as at present; and whether he is aware...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware that the International Biscuit Company of Manchester have to send their biscuits to Maryport, White-haven and...
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether any arrangements have been made in cases where rationalisation of milk deliveries is in operation to supply the public, who...
Mr. E. P. Smith: asked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he is aware that boys of 14 years of age are working in the Cornish tin mines under very unsatisfactory conditions, pushing trucks...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power how many new courses of training have been established for new entrants to the mining industry?
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Labour whether he will give an assurance that he will not take any steps to register women between the ages of 45–50 prior to further discussion in...
May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will state the Business of the House for our next series of Sittings, after the Recess?
The House will recall that last Tuesday the hon. Member for Mossley (Mr. Hopkinson) drew attention to a passage of a speech delivered by me on 30th July in this Chamber in which I was charged...
Geoffrey Lionel Berry, Esquire, commonly called the Honourable Geoffrey Lionel Berry, for the County of Buckingham (Buckingham Division).
That they have agreed to—
On 13th July I asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War the following Question: Why the cavalry regiments, which now form part of the Royal Armoured Corps, are not allowed to...
I informed my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War during the week-end that I proposed to raise certain matters arising out of Army Council Instruction 440 of 1943, which deals with...
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
Question again proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."
My hon. Friend asked me if I would deal with the gap that occurs in a number of cases between the cessation of the payment of family allowance and the securing by the wife either of an order made...
The problems I wish to discuss have no relation to any of the questions which have so far been raised. The first thing I have to do when I speak on the issues of war and peace is to make it clear...
I want the House to consider a domestic matter, the question of Ministers' salaries and their assessment to Income Tax. Perhaps I may be allowed just for the moment to remind the House that...
I propose to take up the time of the House for a brief period to refer to the difficulties and anomalies under the War Damage Act. It was on 26th March, 1941, that the Act was passed. The...
On 7th July an hon. and gallant Member asked the Minister of Information a Question about the French paper "La Marseillaise," published in this country. He drew attention to what he considered to...
I intervene at this moment, because the matter which I wish to raise is connected with the British Broadcasting Corporation, and as I understand that the Minister is going to reply to the hon....
I would like the Minister of Information to give me some answers to points which have worried me as well as my hon. Friend the Member for Maldon (Mr. Driberg) and others in this House. I, too,...
After the very eloquent address we have heard from the right hon. Gentleman I am very sorry to be the cause of forcing him to make another speech, but I have to draw the attention of the House to...
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