Mr Walter Ayles: Has the property qualification for candidates been abolished, and, if so, is the salary now paid adequate?
Mr Walter Ayles: 5. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will give instruction that, when medical boards are held, all answers to questions which are entered upon the proceedings shall be read over to the officer or man concerned, and their correctness admitted before the proceedings are signed?
Mr Walter Ayles: 6. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will consider the desirability of amending the law relating to the right of appeal against final awards in such a way as to allow such appeal to be brought at any time by a man who can produce medical evidence to show that the disability on account of which he had been given a final award had not ceased or had recurred?
Mr Walter Ayles: 7. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will give instructions that all medical officers of the Ministry who are on the list for visiting men who have made application for treatment shall have power to call upon men for whom they may have ordered treatment to visit them again at subsequent dates, without fresh application on the part of the patient, in order that the effect of the...
Mr Walter Ayles: 2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what has been the average monthly delivery of coal and coke from the Ruhr on account of reparations since the cessation of passive resistance; what were the average monthly deliveries prior to January, 1923; and the average monthly deliveries during the passive resistance period?
Mr Walter Ayles: 11. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the conditions of 20th November, 1919, on which the Supreme Council recognised Hungary, were not broken by an Act of Parliament elected according to those conditions, but by decree and without its consent; that that violation was published as Ministerial Order No. 2200, 1922, in the official Gazette of 3rd March,...
Mr Walter Ayles: 55. asked the Prime Minister whether the increase in the Mediterranean Fleet indicates a change of policy on the part of the Government; and, if so, whether he is in a position to state what that policy is?
Mr Walter Ayles: 23. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, seeing that officers and men of the mercantile marine claiming pensions under the War Insurance Act have no right of appeal if their claims are disallowed on medical grounds, he will do what is necessary to make an appeal possible in the same circumstances as those in which appeals are now allowed to officers and men who served in the...
Mr Walter Ayles: 25. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can give the figures as to the strength of the Navy in the North Sea, and the strength in the Mediterranean in 1913 and at the present time?
Mr Walter Ayles: 56. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the present Hungarian regime, which was formally recognised in the name of the Supreme Council on 20th November, 1919, was recognised on certain conditions, one of which was that the Hungarian Government shall secure to the Hungarian citizen full civil rights, including freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, the free expression of...
Mr Walter Ayles: Do the Government really attach any vital importance to the conditions that are laid down in agreements such as those mentioned in the question, and will they see that in any future arrangements that are made with Hungary these stipulations are really carried out?
Mr Walter Ayles: Will the Court of Inquiry not only inquire into the matters which are in dispute between the two parties, but also into the provocative action of the employers at the beginning of the negotiations?
Mr Walter Ayles: Might I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he does not realise that the men who are in receipt of relief from the guardians have to pay their rates to the guardians out of their relief?
Mr Walter Ayles: May I suggest to the hon. Member for Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) that., although we cannot always have the Christian love in our hearts which we would like to have, yet the next best thing to having it there and not acting upon it is for us even, if it is not there, to act as if it were? I sometimes think that if you can act as if you do love people, because you feel that that is the wiser...
Mr Walter Ayles: The hon. Member says "hear, hear!" Then why, instead of attending to the well-being of the rich who can look after themselves, not go and eliminate the slums and cease to talk about—[HON. MEMBERS: "Withdraw!"]
Mr Walter Ayles: If hon. Members opposite will allow me to proceed, perhaps they will understand what I wish to say. I was dealing, as they will be able to read in the OFFICIAL REPORT to-morrow, not with the hon. Member- for Plymouth as an individual, but with her party. I repeatedly spoke of those who were associated with her. I was dealing with her as typical of a system that at present was having certain...
Mr Walter Ayles: That seems to be one of the little intellectual differences which might be cleared up by debate and discussion. After all, the municipalities are only one factor in this question of the building of houses. The State is a very important factor, and the importance of the factor is not only in the fact that it helps the municipalities to provide funds for the building of houses, but that it can...