Former MP for Preston
I beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time." I am confident that Members on all sides of the Committee will welcome and approve of this long overdue and long overlooked concession. The new Clause is clear and self-explanatory. I commend it to the attention of the Financial Secretary and the Committee.
I beg to move, in page 34, line 6, at the end, to insert: 10 and 11 Geo. V., c. 18 The Finance Act, 1920 As from the first, day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, paragraph 2 of the Second Schedule
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is now in a position to make any further statement regarding Sir F. Leith-Ross's mission to China.
asked the President of the Board of Trade the percentage increases of exports from this country to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Argentine, respectively, for the year 1935 over the year 1932?
I just wish to offer a few comments on some of the fallacies which have been put forward to-night with regard to the Tea Duty. My hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Miss Wilkinson), for instance, talked about the differential rates of the duty affecting the varying price of teas. I would point out that even the co-operatives probably pay 3s., 4s., 5s. or 6s. a 1b. for some of the tea they...
Are not many of these questions relating to Argentina untimely—[HON. MEMBERS: "Why?"]—and not well informed, and is it not more likely to do us harm if we have these questions put before us?
I join with those who have spoken in the praise given to Sir Laurie Hammond and his colleagues, and I tender it specially for the drawing up of this draft of scheduled classes. As all the House knows, these classes are for the most part animistic, totemic, exogamic, nomadic. Many of those on the schedule are of Eponymous origin, many of them occupational and many of them regional. In...
asked the Minister of Transport the amount of annual tax levied on a petrol or other power driven bath-chair, as used by cripples or invalids, including ex-service disabled men; what is the total annual income derived from taxes levied on such bath-chairs; and whether he will see his way to exempt all such bath-chairs, or similar vehicles, from all taxation?
