Tuesday, 6 June 1944
The House met, after the Adjournment, on 26th May, 1944, for the Whitsuntide Recess.
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
I regret to have to inform the House of the death of Edmund Ashworth Radford, Esq., Member for the Borough of Manchester (Rusholme Division), and I desire, on behalf of the House, to express our...
I have to inform the House that I have received a cablegram from the President and Secretary of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, which reads as follows:
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...
asked the Secretary of State for War what length of time is spent in this country before fresh overseas posting by British soldiers who have returned here after being prisoners of war; and if the...
asked the Secretary of State for War why Army chaplains are required to submit sermons for censorship if any civilians are to be present when the sermon is delivered.
asked the Secretary of State for War if he will issue the necessary instructions so that Army bandsmen can take private engagements in their spare time.
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary of State for War whether any alteration in the ration and domestic allowances to officers in the A.T.S. has yet been decided upon.
Miss Ward: asked the Secretary of State for War whether any increase in pay and allowances arising out of the White Paper have been made to Maltese, Cypriots and Palestinians serving in the Forces.
asked the Secretary of State for War, whether he is satisfied that adequate infantry training is being given to the officers who are presently being transferred from the R.A.S.C. to infantry units.
asked the Secretary of State for War how many veterinary surgeons are now serving in the Army in branches other than the R.A.V.C.; and whether, in view of the serious shortage of veterinary...
asked the Secretary of State for War, if he has inquired into the incident in an East Anglian prisoner of war camp when non-co-operative Italian prisoners of war went on strike in sympathy with...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can give an assurance that all ranks have been informed that unless A.F.B. 2626 is completed, they will not have a vote at the next General...
asked the Secretary of State for War if he can now make a statement about the consumption of petrol in the case where 49 military vehicles called three times at a petrol station in order to refuel.
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will give priority to wives of serving officers and men to rejoin their husbands in India and the Middle East as soon as shipping facilities are...
asked the Secretary of State for War what are the arrangements for the disposal of regimental institute funds when a unit is disbanded.
asked the Secretary of State for War whether free postage facilities can be given to troops serving in Burma owing to the difficulties many are experiencing in obtaining the necessary stamps to...
asked the Secretary of State for War (1) which of the principal members of A.M.G.O.T. were selected partly, or wholly, by reason of the fact that some public act of theirs demonstrated their...
asked the Secretary of State for War if the regulation regarding ambulance drivers employed by the British Red Cross Society, but operating for his Department, that no women shall be employed...
asked the Secretary of State for War if he is satisfied that troops serving in the Middle East and India are now supplied with a reasonable quantity and quality of cigarettes; and how the...
asked the Secretary of State for War what orders are issued to units serving on the Burmese front to polish their buttons and blanco their equipment during rest periods; and if instructions will...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the fact that prisoners of war in Germany are in a position to arrange for their accumulated pay to be invested on their behalf by their...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland, in view of the urgent need for Scottish light industries and new housing materials, whether he will set up an experimental research station in Scotland...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can state what action he is taking to carry out recommendation No. XV of the Hill Sheep Farming Committee's report, that the department of...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power what steps are being taken by his Department to secure the post-war development of by-product industries, based on coal, in particular the production of oil;...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been called to the condition of the British motor-car industry now almost entirely turned over to war production and which, on the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been drawn to the annual general meeting of Impregnators, Limited, and the concern expressed by the shareholders at the disclosures...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his experts have included the herring in the list of goods for post-war sale to Russia.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that his Department, when allocating supplies of leather among boot repairers in Scotland, do not divide the quotas of businesses...
asked the President of the Board of Trade the extent to which costs have risen during the war in respect of coffins, cremations, burials and funeral expenses; what is the nature of the present...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that compensation for articles lost by laundries is still being limited to 20 times the charge for laundering; that this limitation has...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will grant a licence to trade in second-hand furniture to Mr. C. E. Green, a disabled ex-Service man, in a district of which he has been...
asked the President of the Board of Trade to what extent reputable British firms are precluded from the issue of permits for export to Spain; and if, in the case submitted to him, in which a...
asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the complete restoration of the Abbey of Monte Cassino as a memorial to the heroes who fell in storming it, and at the expense of Germany, as a...
Wing-Commander James: asked the Prime Minister what steps have been taken, and are going to be taken, to bring home to Germans the meaning and consequences of the term unconditional surrender.
asked the Prime Minister the names of the persons who will comprise the Royal Commission on the subject of equal pay between men and women.
asked the Prime Minister if he is satisfied that conscientious objectors are suitably employed in work of national importance; and whether his reports show that they are performing the duties...
asked the Prime Minister whether his policy for a world order to be established after the war envisages any participating country surrendering its sovereignty to a super-sovereignty by virtue of...
asked the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on the functions at present attaching to the Department of Overseas Trade; in what respect the duties of the Department are detached from the...
asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the declared policy of His Majesty's Government to make the Board of Trade the channel for the expression of Government policy on the distribution of...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware that when a civil servant goes sick on a week-day he is entitled to have his Sunday rest day off in addition, but if he is required for duty...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if, in connection with post-war housing plans, he will consider the creation of a special fund from which the capital cost of house-building could be...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that indefinite leave of absence was granted to the actor, Mr. Barry Sinclair, from R.A.F. duties in part...
asked the Minister of Food how many ration books have been stolen during the present distribution; how many of the 14,000 ration books stolen from the Food Office at Ware, Herts., on 30th May...
At the end of Questions—
I must apologise to the House for having delayed them, but Questions were gone through rather more rapidly than usual. The House should, I think, take formal cognisance of the liberation of Rome...
That they have passed a Bill, intituled, "An Act to authorise the supply of water from the Shropshire Union Canal; and for other purposes." [London Midland and Scottish Railway Bill [Lords.]
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
[8TH ALLOTTED DAY]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a further sum, not exceeding £30, be granted to His Majesty, towards defraying the charges for the following services connected with Colonial...
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."— [Captain McEwen.]
I promised to report to the House later on in the Sitting. I lave been at the centres where the latest information is received, and I can state to the House that this operation is proceeding in...
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