Former MP for Clay Cross
asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware of the higher mortality rates prevailing among workers in the licensed trade than among those engaged in other occupations, and of the many protests against the long hours and difficult conditions which were received from these workers when a Bill to lengthen the hours of sale was recently before Parliament; and whether he will now consider the...
Does not the hon. and gallant Gentleman think the present position gives rise to certain misgivings and does not he think this arrangement takes the form of an indirect subsidy to a trade which can well afford to recognise reasonable hours of labour?
Can the Minister say whether the difficulties come from the men or from the employers?
asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that certain schools in the County of Derby are prevented from availing themselves of the milk provision owing to the refusal of head teachers to arrange for supplies; and what steps the local authority should take with his approval in such cases, with a view to realising the recommendations of Circular 1443?
asked the Minister of Health whether he can give the percentage figures of the rural district councils and urban district councils which have entered upon schemes of house building suitable for old people?
Before I came to this House I was informed that here many stout hearts have been broken and not a few lives wasted. Whatever degree of truth there may be in that statement, I am not unmindful of the fact that this House, as has so often been the case, can be sympathetic when hon. Members have addressed it for the first time. I feel that the same sympathy will be forthcoming to-day, as I...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that an inquiry into the housing provisions in the village of Shirebrook, Derbyshire, revealed many families residing in overcrowded conditions; and whether he will state how far the Blackwell Rural District Council have moved in the matter of providing additional houses since that inquiry was held?
asked the Minister of Health whether the announcement to the effect that no grant will be forthcoming from his Department after 25th April of this year to local authorities who have not taken advantage of the Rural Water Supplies Act, 1934, will disqualify any authority from being assisted with any future schemes which may have been delayed owing to other urgent commitments?
