Former MP for Manchester Rusholme
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will now extend to men discharged before the outbreak of the present war the concessions under which non-attributable amputation cases discharged during the present war are provided with initial and duplicate artificial limbs, with repairs and renewals, all at public cost?
asked the Home Secretary whether he will introduce the necessary legislation to provide protection for dumb animals which have been subjected to gross ill-treatment by their owners?
While I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his reply, does not he realise that such cases of cruelty may occur from time to time and may not all be dealt with in the way as this case has been dealt with?
asked the President of the Board of Trade, in view of the wide dissatisfaction with the austerity clothes regulations, whether he will consider the advisability of conferring with practical representatives of the bespoke "tailoring trade, as distinct from the manufacturing interests, with a view to amending the regulations, thereby making them more practical and thus removing the serious...
May I thank my right hon. Friend for being prepared to receive representatives of the bespoke tailoring trade and ask him whether the austerity regulations were originally intended to apply only to utility clothing and not to non-utility? Is it not a fact that trousers with turn-ups wear longer than non-turn-ups?
On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask whether your attention has been called to the terms of Question No. 69 on the Order Paper in the name of the hon. Member for Harrow (Mr. Norman Bower): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether, in order to pave the way for the closest possible economic collaboration between Great Britain and Russia after the war, he intends to initiate in the...
Arising out of the point of Order I raised, have you, Mr. Speaker had an opportunity of giving it consideration?
The Question referred to debts owing by the Soviet Union to us. What are our debts to them for all they have done this past month?