Former MP for Blackburn
8. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can make any statement as to the progress of negotiations for recognition of the Nationalist government of China by this country and as to the question of the interim tariff?
66. asked the Postmaster-General if he will give the attitude of his Department towards the new regional broadcasting scheme; and whether there is any hostility to this development of alternative programmes on the part of either Government Depart-merits or commercial wireless services?
7. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can state for the information of merchants exporting cotton textiles to China how many of the provinces have introduced the 2½ per cent. surtax; whether the British Government is advising British importers to submit to it; and what is the policy of the British Government at the present time on the subject of the proposed interim...
22. asked the Minister of Labour the amount of subsidy paid to each of the sugar beet factories in respect of sugar and molasses, respectively, in each financial year since the subsidy was introduced; the factories expected to operate this season, but not having operated before; and the aggregate capitalisation to date of all the subsidised sugar beet companies and the individual guarantees...
29. asked the Minister of Transport if he can make any statement as to the date of the introduction of his promised Bill dealing with motor and other transport?
63. asked the Under-Secretary of State for India, if he can make any statement on the recent proposal put forward by the Bombay millowners to increase the Indian cotton duties; and whether he has received any representations from Lancashire on the subject?
31 and 32. asked the Minister of Transport (1) the numbers of accidents to motor cyclists, both fatal and otherwise, in each of the last 12 weeks, and what percentage these accidents form of the entire number of accidents caused by motor traffic; (2) whether his attention has been drawn to the number of accidents incurred by motor-cyclists carrying an excessive number of people, both when...
15. asked the Secretary for Mines if he will state the average amount which colliery companies throughout the country have added to the price of coal to cover the extra cost incurred by lifting the fuel by hand from the ground stock, indicating the minimum and maximum charges added?
