Former MP for Nuneaton
In connection with the admitted shortage of coal in Warwickshire, has my hon. Friend had under consideration the fact that the Tam-worth Colliery may shortly be closed down, with a loss of 200,000 tons per annum, and will he take steps to prevent it?
Is it not the case that the week chosen, that in Question No. 2, is an unfortunate one, from which no accurate general conclusions can be drawn? Should not a distinction be drawn between voluntary and involuntary absenteeism, and is it not a fact that otherwise no accurate conclusions can be drawn?
Has any evidence whatsoever come to the Government bearing out the statement that damage has been done?
asked the Prime Minister why it was decided to censor an article written by the late Secretary of State for War upon the issue of giving help to Finland; and whether the decision to censor was taken upon matters of fact or expressions of opinion contained in the article?
Does it not appear from that answer that the writer of the article was asked to delete his own views, although they were unobjectionable, and to substitute for them the views of His Majesty's Government; and is it not a very strange form of censorship under which the Government say to a writer that they cannot allow his own views to appear but that they will be very glad to avail themselves...
asked the Minister of Shipping whether merchant ships built under the Government scheme and transferred to the control of his Ministry will be managed by him as regards conditions of service of officers and men employed in the ships?
May I ask the hon. Gentleman whether it does not follow from that reply that the Ministry of Shipping may not only be in control of such ships, but that it will have no power to alter unsatisfactory conditions of officers and men serving in these ships.
In view of the importance of this Question, I beg to give notice that I shall raise it on the Adjournment.
