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Mr Alfred Bigland is a former MP for Birkenhead East.

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Former MP for Birkenhead East

Entered the House of Commons on 3 December 1910 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 26 October 1922 — General election

Also represented Birkenhead

Future MPs in this constituency

• Henry White
• William Stott
• Henry White
• Frank Soskice

Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — Finance Bill.: NEW CLAUSE. (Increase of Imperial Preference on Sugar.) 28 Jun 1922

  I beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time. The idea in our minds in proposing it is not that we should get the Chancellor of the Exchequer to-night to accept this proposal, but that we wish to bring before him the great need there will be in the years to come to take further action with regard to the preferential rate that is now allowed upon all goods grown within the Empire. We...

• Orders of the Day — Finance Bill.: NEW CLAUSE. (Increase of Imperial Preference on Sugar.) 28 Jun 1922

  No.

• Orders of the Day — Finance Bill.: New Clause. — (Excise duties on homegrown tobacco to cease.) 28 Jun 1922

  I just want to correct the Chancellor of the Exchequer on one point, and that is when he said that this industry has not been a success in this country. He has not been in the House as long as I have, and I remember when the late Mr. William Redmond made a most powerful appeal some years ago with regard to tobacco-growing in Ireland. At that date the industry had nothing like the rate of...

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