Former MP for Leicester East
On a point of Order. Is it right that an hon. Member should attribute motives of that kind to another hon. Member?
Have any representations been received from boards of guardians with regard to people who have been made homeless by the Act?
What guarantee have we that the Lords will accept the amended Amendment? We all regret that the Lords have put this obstacle in the way. The allottee and the local authorities have a right to be considered, and this senseless Amendment of the Lords ought to be strongly protested against by this House. We are helpless in the matter, because we dare not let the Bill drop, owing to the great...
Can the House be supplied with a correct report of the speech?
I beg to move, as an Amendment to the Lords Amendment, in the First Schedule, Part I, paragraph 4, to leave out the words "may, if they think fit" ["the Treasury may, if they think fit"], and to insert instead thereof the word "shall." The alteration of the word "shall" for "may" was originally agreed to by this House.
102. asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that boards of guardians are passing resolutions of protest against the manner in which the disability pensions of ex-service men, still unfit for work, are being discontinued, which has commenced and will continue to cause them to apply for relief on behalf of themselves and their families, thus placing upon local ratepayers an unfair...
103. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has received resolutions from boards of guardians protesting against the Regulations that deprive war widows and orphans of the pensions that the country intended to give to all dependants of men who died, from disabilities received in the Service; and, if so, can those. Regulations be rescinded?
I beg to second the Amendment. I very much regret the necessity of bringing forward a matter of this kind. It seems to me that the case put by my hon. Friend the Member for North Camberwell (Mr. Ammon) is unanswerable, and under the circumstances we shall be pleased to hear what the Chancellor of the Exchequer has to say in justification of the position which has been taken up. This is a most...
