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Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence is a former MP for Edinburgh East.

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Former MP for Edinburgh East

Entered the House of Commons on 6 December 1923 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 15 June 1945 — General election

Also represented Leicester West

Previous MPs in this constituency

• James Hogge
• James Gibson
• George McCrae
• Robert Wallace
• George Goschen

Future MPs in this constituency

• Thomas Shiels
• David Mason
• George Thomson
• John Wheatley
• Eustace Willis
• Gavin Strang
• Sheila Gilmore
• Tommy Sheppard

Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Capital Issues Control (Limit) 12 Jun 1945

  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the raising of the limit from £10,000 to £50,000 of the amount free from control by the Capital Issues Committee, he will consult with the Industrial and Commercial Corporation with a view to ensuring that loans below £50,000 should only be provided by it when the objects of the firm or company seeking the accommodation accord with...

• Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Capital Issues Control (Limit) 12 Jun 1945

  Does not the Chancellor of the Exchequer recollect that when I asked that these financial corporations should exercise hot merely financial considerations but also national considerations he told me that I need not trouble about that because it would be attended to by the Capital Issues Committee? Now he has abrogated it by increasing the limit from £10,000 to £50,000. It makes a...

• Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Capital Issues Control (Limit) 12 Jun 1945

  Are they allowed to take a public-spirited view? Are they not constrained to take merely a financial view?

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