Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: May I ask the Prime Minister whether, in regard to the dates which have been taken carefully into consideration, he is aware that the Autumn Register does not come into force, and is not ordinarily printed and available for use until the 15th October; and, having regard to that fact, can any steps be taken by the Government to expedite the publication of the Registers, so that they may be...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: If it be true, as the hon. Member has alleged, that this Amendment destroys the principle of the Bill, it can only be on the ground of its unintelligibility, because I defy anybody to extract from the words of the Bill or from the explanations which the Minister has given us this afternoon any other tangible meaning of any kind, and it seems to me that if these words are, as the hon. Member...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: Like the Noble Lord the Member for South Battersea (Viscount Curzon), I was astonished at the speech made by the hon. Member for South Hackney (Mr. H. Morrison). The hon. Member told us that if these Regulations were discussed in this House the vast majority of hon. Members would only vote as the Whips told them at the door. Whether coming events cast their shadows before, and that the course...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I should like to put one other point. I have very great sympathy with these cases, hut I feel that the difficulty could be met in some other way. With regard to city companies moving their works out into the country, they have to be able to provide in the neighbourhood of the new site of their works housing accommodation for the persons who are going to be employed there, and unless and until...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time." With regard to the first point, Section 5 of the Act of 1923 provides for advances being made: by local authorities to persons who are willing to build houses. This has been considered by some of the principal local authorities, certainly by the London County Council, and it has been thought that it does not apply to flats. I do not...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I beg to move, That leave he given to bring in a Bill to amend the Law governing the relations between landlords and tenants. It will be impossible for me to describe fully, in the time at my disposal, this Bill, but I can state the general principle and the grievances which it is desired to meet. It is intended to meet grievances arising out of the present system of leaseholds particularly...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I beg to move, in page 1, line 7, to leave out the words "Sections one and three off." The purpose of this Amendment is to extend the whole of the Act of 1923 for the period mentioned in Clause 1 and not merely Sections 1 and 3 which are mentioned find great difficulty in understanding what is the object of the restriction to Sections 1 and 3, leaving Sections 2 and 5—which are most...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment. I overlooked certain words in the Schedule, and I think probably Clause 2 is covered by the extension of Section 1 of the Act.
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I beg to move in page 2, line 31, to leave out the words "and (c)." Paragraph (c) of Sub-section (3) of Section 2 of the Act provides, as one of the methods b3 which a local authority may assist the promotion of houses in its area, that they may: undertake to provide, during such period as may be specified in the proposals, any part of the periodical sums payable to a building society...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman.
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I beg to move, in page 2, line 41, at the end, to insert the words (iii) In Sub-section (4) of Section two, the words from 'and no addition thereto' to the end of the Sub-section shall cease to have effect. Sub-section (4) of Section 2 of the Act of 1923 is as follows: Assistance given by a local authority under this Section in respect of a house may be made subject to such conditions as the...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time." The object is to restore in part the extent of the relief in favour of earned incomes as against unearned income which was originally granted by the Budget of 1907. The original relief was granted by way of reduction in the rate of tax, instead of by reduction in the amount of assessable income, and the extent of the relief was 25 per...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: The County Council of Essex and other counties apparently from one document read by the Minister are under the impression that they are going to make some money out of the Bill. They ought to have the pill as well as the jam, and they should be prepared to submit themselves to the jurisdiction of the Minister. It would be entirely unjust to my constituents in Islington, where, I believe,...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: The Amendment which is being moved by the Minister is a direct attempt to reverse the decision at Which this House arrived when it was invited to decide and did decide between the respective merits of two Amendments on the Paper. One Amendment, which was accepted by the House after debate, is in the terms now appearing on the Paper in respect of which the Bill has been recommitted. The...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I am personally prepared to support this Amendment, but in paragraph three of the Amendment the only penalty for not giving the information is the matter of a fine. In my view the most effective penalty is the other one which is referred to in the original Clause, namely, the cancellation of the licence and I would ask the Minister whether he would not retain the power in Clause three, the...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I regret the reply of the right hon. Gentleman. It appears to me to be playing with the question. You are not bound to cancel all the licences of some particular combine or any licence merely beause in one particular instance a technical offence has been committed. But the power should be retained to cancel a licence in the case of anybody who really shows a determination to resist supplying...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: 39. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can state for plasterers, carpenters and joiners, slaters, and bricklayers, respectively, in the city of New York, what is the trade union rate of wages; whether such men are commonly employed on time or piece rates alone, or with any system of bonus what are the terms applicable in each case; what is the usual output per hour; what are the usual...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: 76. asked the Minister of Health whether he has taken any and what steps to ascertain what measures have been taken, at what cost, and with what degree of success, in the several British Dominions and in various foreign countries, particularly in the American States and especially in New York and Pennsylvania, to promote the building of dwellings since the Armistice; if so, whether he is...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I should like to try and answer the questions of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the New Forest and Christchurch (Colonel Ashley) as to what is to be done by the Minister with the information which it is proposed that he should receive from the applicant for a licence. The answer to that is contained in Sub-section (2, b) of Clause 7 of the Bill, which gives the Minister the power of...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: Certainly not; but what the Clause does propose is that, when the Minister is exercising the duty which Sub-section (2, b) of Clause 7 imposes upon him of determining who are the proprietors who are to have the licences, and of seeing that the right is not limited to one particular proprietor, he should know at that stage with whom he is really dealing, and whether, having allocated to the...
