Former MP for Edinburgh West
It is not possible to re-open the arrangements already made by the Government, which involve an all-round reduction of about 7 per cent. in the acreage of sugar beet to be contracted for by the beet-sugar factories, and are in this respect designed to maintain as nearly as possible the existing position pending the determination of the long-term policy.
In regard to the first part of the question, the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1932, contains no provision authorising the committal of children to the care of public assistance committees. With reference to the second part, a child committed to the care of an education authority cannot be sent to an approved school without a further order by a court. Education authorities have...
I will convey the hon. Member's question to my light hon. Friend.
I am informed that in 1933 the corporation placed contracts for petrol as follow:
I have no information.
I gave the price of British petrol as 12.61d. and that of Russian petrol as 12.04d.
I beg to move, in page 2, line 31, to leave out from "Where," to "a," in line 35, and to insert: with a view to the re-organisation of any endowment the Commissioners, in pursuance of section eighteen of the Act of 1928, cause to be printed the draft of a scheme, or, in pursuance of section twenty or section twenty-two of the said Act, submit for the approval of the Department a scheme, or...
I beg to move, in page 3, line 5, to leave out "Section," and to insert "Sections eighteen and." I have considered the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Banff (Sir M. McKenzie Wood), but I do not think it is necessary to carry out his suggestion. The procedure under Section 22 of the Act of 1928 is the procedure under Section 20, and accordingly the Amendment would include the...