Thursday, 20 April 1944
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Minister of Labour the number of employers and workers, separately, up to the last available date who have been prosecuted and imprisoned, respectively, for offences against the...
asked the Minister of Labour if he will examine, with the Service Departments, the desirability for security reasons of withdrawing labour wasted in the manufacture and public sale of Service...
asked the Minister of Labour what is the financial responsibility of a firm towards its employees under the Essential Work Order, in cases where the motive power of such a firm is derived from...
asked the Minister of Labour when he proposes to make the Wages Board Order establishing a Wages Board for workers in industrial and staff canteens; how many persons male and female will come...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has noted the recent Report of the Industrial Health Research Board of the Medical Research Council, which indicates that there is an increase in...
asked the Minister of Labour if he will make a statement on the dispute at Hallside Steel Works, Lanarkshire; and whether the men have offered to resume on the understanding that there is no...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he has any evidence that unemployment is on the increase; and will he make a statement on the matter.
Mr. J. J. Davidson: asked the Minister of Labour whether he intends making any financial provision for workers in Scotland who are now, under his directions, being transferred from reasonably...
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will secure a more equitable distribution of domestic help than now exists.
asked the Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the early meeting of the next U.N.R.R.A. conference, His Majesty's Government will permit the economic needs of India to be considered;...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India will publish a Report or comments on the Tata Plan of Economic Development; and to what extent proposals in that plan are...
asked the Secretary of State for India the terms of the specification imposed by the Indian Government authorities on the Indian manufacturers for the production of the V cigarettes which had to...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether he has any statement to make respecting the protest of certain British newspaper correspondents in India against the suppression of their reports;...
asked the Secretary of State for India whether Mrs. Sarojini Naidu will be permitted to receive and to accept the invitation from Members of this House to visit Britain.
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary of State for India what steps are being taken to plan the future developments of India in respect of health, agriculture and industry.
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary of State for India what steps are being taken in India to increase the number of doctors and to raise the standard of medical education.
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary of State for India what arrangements have recently been made for an extension of the work of the Board of Scientific and Industrial Research in India.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has considered the evidence, based upon the reports of 1,000 officers stationed throughout the country and submitted to him by the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will consider introducing legislation to give those who have suffered loss by burglary or house-breaking the right to claim...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will explain how, in view of the passing of the Local Elections and Register of Electors (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1939, and the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the large and increasing extent of pilfering and looting at the ports; and will he issue a circular...
Mr. Davidson: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is now able to define certain areas in this country as areas relatively immune from enemy bombing; and whether he...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can give any information in connection with the police raids made on the Bridgvic Club in Dean Street, when the manager was charged with...
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is making a consolidated lighting Order, in view of the many amendments which have been made to the original Order.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the property of an adopted child who dies under the age of 21 years, and therefore intestate, goes to the natural and...
asked the Minister of Health what arrangements have been made to deal with the large number of expectant mothers who had arranged to go to the Birches Nursing Home, Redditch, which has now been...
asked the Minister of Health the number of insured persons in 1942 and 1943, respectively, entitled to medical benefit; the number of insured persons making their own arrangements for medical...
asked the Minister of Health what is being done by his Department in the development of the cure known as the gold treatment for arthritis; and whether he can make any statement thereon.
asked the Minister of Health to what extent there has been an increase in sickness ratio and mortality amongst women during the past year; and how much of this is related to domestic housewives.
asked the Minister of Health whether, in connection with the issue of official birth certificates, he has now given further consideration to the possibility of issuing a simple certificate merely...
Dr. Russell Thomas: asked the Minister of Health whether the broadcast by a doctor at 7.45 p.m. on Saturday, 8th April, in regard to the White Paper on the proposed National Health Service under...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will arrange for adequate supplies of labour to be released to well-sinkers in order to cope with the serious water situation now existing, especially in...
asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning if he will consider appointing a committee to inquire into the question of wild life protection, the formation of reservations as developed in the...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the financial result of treating civil servants' pensions as deferred pay in fixing the amount of salaries.
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that Mr. John Rodgers, who has been found to be redundant in three Departments, namely, the Ministry of Information, the...
asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department how many officers of the principal assistant secretary grade, assistant secretary grade or equivalent grades are employed in his Department;...
Mr. E. P. Smith: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the need for cultural reconstruction after the war, he will appoint a committee to consider the establishment of a...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the period which has elapsed since pence were minted and of the shortages of that denomination which have been experienced, he will now...
asked the Prime Minister whether the rule preventing Ministers of Cabinet rank from taking part in journalism still applies to the present Government.
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the information which has been published as to the supplies of material and munitions of war from the U.S.A. to Russia, he will now publish detailed...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of his request to the farmers throughout the country for a greater measure of efficiency, he can now make some statement...
Wing-Commander James: asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will take steps to reduce the immediate waste and the more permanent damage to land that will otherwise ensue from the shortage of...
asked the Minister of Agriculture the annual cost of the county war agricultural executive committees, including the area of East Suffolk, for the latest available period.
asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of bulls which have been rejected for licensing in England and Wales during the last 12 months; and how many of these rejected bulls have been granted...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will consider summoning a conference of the breed societies, the Royal Agricultural Society, the Milk Marketing Board and the war agricultural...
Mr. De la Bère: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in connection with farms which become available and to let, he will introduce some method whereby the war agricultural executive...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the serious conditions which have faced farmers in certain parts of East and South-East England during recent months as a result of dry...
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is satisfied that a sufficient number of veterinary surgeons will be produced under the existing machinery in order to provide sufficient qualified...
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will increase the percentage of glass allowed to nurserymen for the growing of winter flowers, as the present Regulation cutting the percentage down to 10...
asked the Minister of Food if he has considered the resolution recently sent him by the Maldon Town Council urging that medical practitioners be empowered to issue certificates for extra milk...
asked the Minister of Food why a summons was taken out against a person at Brighton and no one from the Ministry was present when the case came before the police court; who will pay the fine of...
asked the Minister of Aircraft Production if he can give any information in connection with the charges made against two directors of an aircraft components company and other charges made against...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in order to save transport and to avoid possible loss by pilfering, he will consider introducing a scheme whereby persons in this country may send...
May I ask the Prime Minister if he will state the Business of the House for next week?
Reported, without Amendment, from the Committee on Unopposed Bills (with Report on the Bill).
Ordered: That this day, notwithstanding anything in Standing Order No. 14, Business other than the Business of Supply may be taken before the hour appointed for the interruption of...
[4TH ALLOTTED DAY]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £334,821, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment...
I beg to move, That the United Kingdom should do its utmost by close co-operation and regard for the different points of view of the nations of the Commonwealth to preserve in time of peace the...
Resolved: That the Order made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, extending Section r of the Sunday Entertainments Act, r932, to the Urban District of Coalville, a copy of which...
Resolved: "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain McEwen.]
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