Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he is satisfied with the results of his personal conferences with manufacturers in the provinces in connection with the rehabilitation of the export trade; and if not, will he take further steps to speed matters up?
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the overwhelming work in connection with passport applications renders it a physical impossibility for British passport control officers to deal with approved applications within a reasonable time; and will he, therefore, now again augment the British staffs in the principal cities of Germany and Austria by appointing at least 250 more...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that an exchange rate of 16 pesos, provided the amounts transferable do not exceed last year's transfers, is an inadequate concession by the Argentine Government to the Anglo-Argentine railways shareholders, and that last year's remittances were small owing to failure of crops compared with heavy crops this year; and will he, on behalf of British...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will request his economic advisers to ascertain whether the diversity of styles, types and sizes of motor-vehicles for private use creates an avoidable factor of national economic waste; and to report whether the amalgamation of motor manufacturing firms and the elimination of unnecessary variations of pattern, followed by expansion of the...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether, in order that the information provided on pages 45 to 89 of the April, 1938, report of His Majesty's Commercial Counsellor in Buenos Aires may be acted upon by British exporters, he will arrange for members of his staff to confer separately with the representatives of every trade referred to in the report, to show firms interested...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Minister of Agriculture what steps he is taking to reduce the imported cheese consumption in Great Britain which continues at a high percentage notwithstanding the efforts of the manufacturing branch of the milk trade, and the cheese weeks organised by the publicity council, in addition to the instruction in the making of cheese given through his Department; and can he say what is...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will consider giving in the 1939–40 and future issues of the Treasury's financial statement laid on Budget days the graduated poundage scales of the Surtax in such a form as to show the rates of Surtax plus the Super-surtax of 10 per cent. by which the graduated Surtax rates are augmented, in order that the total of each step of the Surtax...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Minister of Transport whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that although the volume of railway goods traffic is unsatisfactory the volume of railway traffic in returned empties has greatly increased; and what steps he proposes to take to adjust the anomaly by which the present railway freight rates for goods enable road transport concerns to select remunerative goods...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Minister of Health whether, in order to reduce maternal mortality, his Department is taking steps to require that a higher standard of gynaecological tuition be given to medical students so that inexpert midwifery need no longer be permitted by the licensing authorities; and will he state what those steps are?
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, as part of the policy to develop the fishing industry and in order to prevent the public being discouraged from buying fish by being offered stale fish, he will prohibit the sale as food of ice-preserved fish landed later than 12 days from date of catch?
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Minister of Transport whether, in order to reduce the dangerous congestion in Central London caused by the storage of motor vehicles on the public highways, he will take steps to ensure that neighbouring firms should arrange among themselves to provide joint parking-yards for vehicles of customers visiting their respective establishments?
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has had any estimate formed of the approximate amount of money turned over on horse-race betting, greyhound betting, and football pools during the last available 12 months; and, if the Government do not possess the information, will he take steps to have such an estimate prepared?
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether there are any national or local by-laws to prevent retailers from selling, without disclosure to buyers, as prime home-grown meat, cow beef of inferior quality as differentiated from steer beef of prime quality?
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Home Secretary whether he proposes to introduce during the current Session a Coroners Amendment Bill to give effect to the recommendations made nearly four years ago by Lord Wright's Committee?
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in order to induce the Brazilian authorities to honour their obligations to British subjects, he will discontinue the protests and consultations with the Council of Foreign Bondholders which have proved themselves to be sterile, and put into operation prohibition of entry of imports from Brazil, as being the only method which will convince Brazil...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether, in relation to the "Come-to-Britain" movement, any steps are being taken to organise a British musical centre at Bath or any other suitable English city, or Glyndebourne, so as to meet the requirements of distinguished international musicians, British music lovers, and overseas tourists who prefer not to attend Salzburg and other...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Minister of Health the means by which local authorities under their by-laws or by statute make certain that returned empty small glass receptacles and returned empty metal containers used in the retail and wholesale distribution of milk are rendered physically and bacteriologically clean before re-use as milk containers?
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will take steps to secure that building societies shall lodge more explanatory data to show the position of mortgaged properties in possession or in arrears of payment of interest and amortization, and to publish in the official accounts a suitable analysis of such figures?
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Attorney-General whether he is aware that the policy of extending compulsory registration on the sale of land under the Land Registration Act, 1925, is now so operated as to he neglectful of the public interest; and will he authorise and organise compulsory registration in an additional number of populous areas occupied by wage-earning residents outside the home counties without...
Sir Joseph Leech: asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the results of the experiments, carried out under the auspices of his Department, of feeding calves on pasteurised milk, as compared with raw milk, show which of the two types of milk can be regarded as being without doubt the more desirable for human consumption?
