Former MP for Newcastle upon Tyne West
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the failure of the engineering unions, after prolonged discussion, to reach an agreement about dilution by women workers and about terms of their employment and training, has retarded the war effort; and will he now appoint an all-party committee of this House to confer with the leaders of the unions so that aeroplane and munitions production...
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will, when rearranging the working of the Income Tax law, include a Clause in the Finance Bill to abolish the right to claim refund of personal allowances in cases where emoluments have been received by directors, managing directors, or servants of a limited liability company tax free or free of tax?
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the fact that some municipal borrowers are now unable to repay earlier debt or to convert it at lower rates of interest owing to their having used their sinking funds for meeting further capital expenditure, instead of for gradual repayment of earlier debt, he will make it a condition of future borrowing by local authorities that...
asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) whether he will, by amending the law, or by other existing power, require that limited liability companies shall, where disclosure is already necessary in their published accounts, gross up the amounts of all directors' or managing directors' and officials' fees or emoluments now disclosed as tax free or free of tax;
asked the Prime Minister whether he will move to appoint a Joint Committee of the two Houses, or a committee of large-scale organisers of great trading firms, to make a critical examination of the powers, duties and responsibilities of the Ministries of Supply and Labour, and the Board of Trade, to ascertain whether the inter-relationship of their war effort is efficient, so that if found...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the absence of Departmental imaginative fore-thought has clogged war preparations and commercial effort; and will he set up a non-political panel of persons trained in the prudent expenditure of money for the development of commerce to advise what action should be taken in anticipation of events arising from the war?
asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) what efforts the Export Council has made to establish permanent local selling representatives in foreign countries with personal knowledge of the goods offered for sale, other than by agents who may also represent non-British manufacturers; (2) what steps the Export Council is taking to cater on the spot for the several million inhabitants of...
asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to include in a statement of war aims an offer of federal union to the German people; and whether he is prepared to make the constructive plan the basis of the Government's propaganda, especially in the United States of America and all other neutral countries?
