Results 81–100 of 143 for speaker:Viscountess Apsley

Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry: Statistics (14 Mar 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the Minister of Fuel and Power, taking the figures for 1939 and 1943, the increases or decreases in the wages costs per ton, selling price per ton, profit per ton and wages per man-shift in the Somersetshire coalfield.

Orders of the Day — Supply: Army Estimates, 1944 ( 2 Mar 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: I welcome this opportunity, first, to support very briefly my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton) in every word he says regarding the importance of maintaining the regimental spirit and the morale of our Army at the present time. I remember in the early days of the war the consternation that was caused in a certain West Country yeomanry regiment when 100 postings arrived...

Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office: Armed Forces (Air Letters) (16 Feb 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the Postmaster-General if he will consider reducing the cost of 6d. for an air mail letter and 3d. for an airgraph to 3d. and 2d., respectively, in view of the burden imposed on the wives and mothers of Service men whose incomes have been reduced as a result of the breadwinner leaving home and who find the cost of airborne communications a hardship.

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 8. — (Duty of local education authorities to secure provision of primary and secondary schools.) (15 Feb 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: I am pleased to have the opportunity of reinforcing what my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for North Portsmouth (Sir W. James) has said about the enormous importance of having adequate playgrounds and playing fields. I speak from the point of view of parents who believe that one of the chief aims of education is character building. In addition to the religious background and foundations,...

Clause 21. — (Application as respects place of employment, and nationality.) ( 4 Feb 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: I take this opportunity of adding a word of very deep appreciation and of congratulation to the Minister concerned in bringing forward this Bill at the present time, and I would like to associate myself with those hon. Members who have already spoken in saving that it is a most valuable plank in building the better future we all desire—a future which, I am quite convinced myself, will not...

Oral Answers to Questions — Town and Country Planning (Bridle Paths) ( 2 Feb 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning whether he is yet in a position to state what action he proposes to take to implement the proposals in the Scott Committee's Report, that provision should be made for including bridle paths in planning maps; that wherever possible such paths should be put on the field side of hedges rather than on the road side; and that the marking, supervision...

Oral Answers to Questions — Town and Country Planning (Bridle Paths) ( 2 Feb 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: Will the Minister bear in mind the large number of paths which have had to be closed because of operations?

Oral Answers to Questions — Evacuated Children (Welfare) (27 Jan 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the Minister of Health in how many cases the parents of evacuated children have either been killed or have disappeared; and what action is taken in the latter case to secure the welfare of the children concerned.

Oral Answers to Questions — Evacuated Children (Welfare) (27 Jan 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: Is my right hon. and learned Friend satisfied that in such cases the children are being looked after satisfactorily?

Oral Answers to Questions — Public Health: Institutions (Recreation) (27 Jan 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the Minister of Health whether such steps as are possible in war-time will be taken to ensure that inmates of mental homes and homes for incurables, maintained out of public funds, are supplied with simple forms of amusements such as playing cards and draughts, especially since most of this provision has become derelict in the course of the last few years.

Orders of the Day — Disabled Persons (Employment) Bill: Clause 2. — (Vocational training courses.) (18 Jan 1944)

Viscountess Apsley: I support the Amendment, speaking on behalf of the dependants of the war disabled, who have been very unselfish and very patient, but who are anxious as to the future. A great deal hangs on the fate of this Amendment, and we who have been closest in touch with the difficulties of the war disabled after the last war know full well the shortness of memory with which people in this country have...

Armed Forces (Demobilisation) ( 8 Dec 1943)

Viscountess Apsley: It is with a sense of great humility that I take part in this Debate, for I know so many hon. Members wish to speak, and those of us who have the privilege granted by you, Sir, do so with the responsibility of speaking what is in the mind of 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 of His Majesty's subjects in uniform who are to-day, by reason of the exigencies of service, denied themselves to say what they...

Oral Answers to Questions — British Army: Royal Armoured Corps (Steel Helmets) ( 7 Dec 1943)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the Secretary of State for War whether it is his intention to authorise the issue of crash helmets to the tank crews of the Royal Armoured Corps of the type used by the Red Army?

Oral Answers to Questions — Public Health: Nurses' Salaries Committee (Second Report) ( 2 Dec 1943)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the Minister of Health whether he is in a position to make any statement about the Second Report of the Nurses' Salaries Committee and the action he proposes to take thereon?

Clause 6. — (Business Premises Register.) ( 5 Nov 1943)

Viscountess Apsley: I beg to second the Amendment. I do so with the greatest, pleasure and sincerity, speaking on behalf of the small business people scattered throughout the country, particularly in the big towns and ports which have suffered so severely under war conditions. I feel that this Amendment would be greatly welcomed by them. It would assist them, for once in a while. I urge my right hon. Friend to...

Oral Answers to Questions — National War Effort: Ex-Service Men and Women ( 4 Nov 1943)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the Minister of Labour what steps are being taken, through employment exchanges or otherwise, to ensure that preference in employment shall be given to those who have served in the Forces?

Oral Answers to Questions — National War Effort: Ex-Service Men and Women ( 4 Nov 1943)

Viscountess Apsley: While thanking my right hon. Friend for that Reply, might I ask whether he appreciates the anxiety of men and women in the Forces with regard to their future?

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: School Canteens ( 4 Nov 1943)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the President of the Board of Education what steps he proposes to take to ensure that all county education authorities recognise the urgency of establishing school canteens or of providing some means by which dinners brought by children can be warmed up, especially during the winter?

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: School Canteens ( 4 Nov 1943)

Viscountess Apsley: Is it not a fact that a great deal of the difficulty is caused through lack of staff and cooking facilities, and can the right hon. Gentleman not look into these matters and arrange for facilities to be made available, particularly in the country districts?

Oral Answers to Questions — Woodlands (Depletion) ( 3 Nov 1943)

Viscountess Apsley: asked the Minister of Supply whether, bearing in mind the greater sacrifice made by the woodlands of this country than by those of any other in each of the world wars, he will consider curtailing immediately, as far as the war situation will allow, the wholesale slaughter of immature woodlands by clear felling?


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