Former MP for Frome
14. asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons within the areas of the Frome, Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Keynsham, Chew Magna, and Peasdown Employment Exchanges at present in receipt of unemployment,benefit, and the number at present in receipt of transitional benefit who under the Government's proposals will be referred to the public assistance committee for calculation of their rate...
13. asked the Minister of Labour whether the limit of 26 weeks' unemployment benefit and the means test, as proposed by the Economy Bill, will be applied to disabled ex-service men who have not been able to compete on favourable terms in the labour market?
50. asked the Minister of Health whether it is the intention of the Government to carry out the housing programme of building 40,000 agricultural cottages during 1931–32, as provided for under the Rural Workers Act, 1931?
Will the Minister convey to the chairman of the Advisory Committee under the Act the necessity for carrying out the maximum scheme of 100,000 houses suggested by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Greenwood)?
I know that the Guillotine will fall at 7.30 and there is another subject which we desire to discuss. I would like to bring the Committee back to the points which were made clear by the Minister of Labour in the very courteous speech which he made, and for which we are all very much indebted to him. I think the country ought to know the various implications of these economy proposals, and...
50. asked the Minister of Health whether he has received the report of the public inquiry regarding the proposed sewage works at Timsbury, in Clutton rural district and when sanction may be expected to the scheme?
Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the difficulty about the site has been overcome?
It is not my purpose to follow the hon. Member for Faversham (Mr. Maitland) into the realm of high finance, but I shall read his speech when it is in print. It is a very abstruse argument that he has put up. But I would venture to point out to him that if I were to go down into Somerset and show that by this Bill we were meeting the needs of the poorest paid agricultural workers and at the...
