Former MP for Birmingham Duddeston
Those of us who administer the Unemployment Insurance Act were deeply concerned to know what the provisions of this Bill would be. We were concerned, first, because a great many of those who have been receiving benefit under the Act were finding their benefit lapsing and they, had nothing before them except starvation—starvation with the little assistance that the existing Act gave to them....
46. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that dissatisfaction exists among operative bakers at the delay on the part of the Government in proceeding with the Factories and Workshops (Bakehouses) Bill; and if he can give the date when it may be expected that the Second reading of that Bill will take; place?
105 and 106. asked the Minister of Labour (1) whether he is responsible for the Civil Liabilities Department, and, if so, since what date; what are its powers and duties; and what is the number and cost of the official staff, giving the central and each district total separately, for each year since the creation of the Department? (2) whether the Civil Liabilities Department, up to August...
In proposing what he admits to be an unpopular measure, I think my hon. Friend will agree that we are not acting on this side in a very popular manner this afternoon. When I signed the reservation to the Salisbury Committee's Report agreeing to a total increase of 30 per cent. in the rents, there followed a tornado of communications in my direction condemning me, so far as the owners were...
It would be very difficult, I submit, at this stage to say anything on this Bill, either pro or con, that has not already been very adequately and very excellently said, and I do not propose to attempt to cover the ground already covered, except so far as it is necessary to make it very clear that the hon. Member for the Ladywood Division of Birmingham (Mr. N. Chamberlain) is not the only...
Does not that remark apply to every solicitor in the City?
Or a collector.
We have them now.
