Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I appreciate that the right hon. Gentleman is supplying the House with the thoughts of the Minister. I now understand that the point is that it would be better that what we desire should be achieved by an Amendment of Clause 8 rather than by a separate Clause. That may be so, but I think the answer to it is that the two Clauses are dealing entirely with different subject-matters. Clause 8, in...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I have listened with interest to the explanations of the Minister of Labour of the performances of the Government with regard to the promises which were put before the country by their party at the last Election. The schemes have not emerged from the hat, but, at all events, we have heard all there is to be said, I should imagine, at this stage, at all events, with regard to them. I notice...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: Promised too much.
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: No.
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I did not say that the Government ought to have abandoned anything which they had done. What I said was that they ought to have done something else, and in addition to anything that they had done.
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I rise for the purpose of saying a very few words on the subject of the inspection of industry under the administration of the Home Office, but, before doing so, I should like to refer to two points in the speech of the right hon. Gentleman who has just sat down. In the first place, with regard to the administration of the Aliens Act, I think it comes within the experience of all of us that...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: May I supply the correct figures?
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: 43. asked the Prime Minister whether he has now come to a decision as to the promised inquiry into the questions of lunacy law and administration raised by the case of Harnett v. Bond; and whether he can now give an undertaking that the inquiry will not be held up pending the determination of possible appeals in that case to the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords?
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: We are discussing to-night what is almost universally regarded outside the House, and I hope also within it, as the most important and most urgent of all subjects that we have to consider. I should like to try to take a comprehensive view of it rather than deal only with matters of detail. You may approach this question of unemployment from the point of view of mitigating its effects when it...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: 36. asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to introduce legislation to give effect to the recommendations as to betterment contained in Section 3 of the Second Report of the Acquisition and Valuation of Land Committee, so that the cost of public improvements may be reduced by securing to those who carry them out a sufficient proportion of the resulting increase in the value of land...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: 52. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the verdict of the jury and observations of Mr. Justice Lush in the recent case of Harnett v. Bond and Adam in the King's Bench Division; and whether a Royal Commission will be appointed forthwith to inquire into the best means of preventing the state of affairs which it appears prevail with regard to the law and...
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: May I ask that the setting up of a committee to inquire generally will not be delayed pending the decision of appeals? It may take some months before this particular case is finally disposed of.
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: 56. asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to adopt the resolution passed by numerous branches of the British Legion urging the immediate setting up of a national employment committee to investigate and to recommend to the Government employment schemes of public utility on a scale commensurate with the present problem of unemployment?
Mr Arthur Comyns Carr: I ask for that indulgence which the Committee always gives to a new Member while I endeavour to deal with some points which seem to me to have a great bearing on the subject of this Resolution, but which, so far as I have been able to find out, have not yet been touched upon. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Northern Lanarkshire (Mr. Sullivan) told us that he regretted that the Labour...
