Sir Albert Parkinson: This Debate has taken a very interesting turn, and some very good practical suggestions have been made. Those of us on this side of the Committee who represent the miners feel that the men are suffering intense poverty through no fault of their own. At the present time the miners are working under an agreement which the Prime Minister described as the greatest profit-sharing scheme the world...
Sir Albert Parkinson: 70. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can now report the result of the interview between the chairman of the Manchester and District Local Employment Committee and Councillor Lawrence Flood on the subject of the resignation of Councillor Flood, which was accompanied by a protest against the Establishment Branch of the Department giving posts in employment exchanges to persons who have...
Sir Albert Parkinson: 37. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total amount of Land Values Duties repaid during the financial year ending 31st March, 1922, under Section 57 (3) of the Finance Act, 1920?
Sir Albert Parkinson: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that that is practically the same answer as that which I got in December last?
Sir Albert Parkinson: 4. asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the white settlers in Kenya are refusing to pay Income Tax because they were not consenting parties to the tax; whether the Income Tax law was passed in 1919 and never yet enforced; how much direct taxation is levied upon settlers, Indians, and natives, respectively, in Kenya; and whether he will consider the advisability of widening...
Sir Albert Parkinson: Yes.
Sir Albert Parkinson: 83. asked the Secretary for Mines at how many collieries in Great Britain the pit ponies have not been brought to the surface during the present stoppage, and the number of ponies still underground; and whether he will take steps to compel all colliery owners to bring all ponies to the surface until a settlement is arrived at?
Sir Albert Parkinson: 84. further asked the Secretary for Mines if he is aware that 17 ponies are still in the mines at Ladyshore Colliery, near Bolton, Lancashire; that they are being attended to only once in every 24 hours, i.e., between 5 and 7 a.m. each day; and that on 3rd April, when the general manager asked the miners' agent if he could help to get the ponies withdrawn, immediate permission was given for...
Sir Albert Parkinson: It cannot come out of the local authorities, as all they can charge is a penny rate, and it is impossible to get anything back for the Appropriations-in-Aid from the penny rate.
Sir Albert Parkinson: I wish to draw attention to the fact that the amount of the appropriations-in-aid for 1921–22 is £150,000, whereas in 1920–21 the amount was £17,000, thus representing a decrease in the Estimate of this year of £133,000. Are we to take it that an Estimate or a Supplementary Estimate was made for £150,000 and that only £17,000 was spent, and that the remainder is being carried...
Sir Albert Parkinson: I think you will find that what I say is correct. What I wish to point out is, that if the building trade had provided all the men which the Cabinet asked for to give us the greater production necessary, then it might have been all right for the Office of Works to take up this scheme, but when all the people who are carrying out building are trying to do their best with an insufficient number...
Sir Albert Parkinson: Then why should the Office of Works want to put on a bigger staff when there are so few men? I find in these estimates a sum of £75,000 set down in respect of draughtsmen, and I find the total of salaries, wages and allowances is £694,000, and then I further find a sum of £210,000 set down for bonus, or nearly one-third of the wages. I would like to know exactly what is going to be the...
Sir Albert Parkinson: 67. asked the Minister of Labour if he will reconsider the attitude taken up by his Department, in connection with applications for grants from the Unemployment Grants Committee, in refusing to issue a certificate as to serious unemployment in any district unless the number of unemployed reaches the standard fixed by the Department, as the basis of its recommendation to the committee, and...
Sir Albert Parkinson: Where do these subsidies come from? Do they come from the taxation of the country, or from the pool created by the mining industry itself?
Sir Albert Parkinson: Can the right hon. Gentleman give us the number of his staff on the housing question compared with the number of workmen employed on the same houses?
Sir Albert Parkinson: 14. asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether an answer has yet been despatched to the note sent by Commissary Tchitcherin on 4th February with regard to the Russian trade agreement; and, if not, what is the cause of the delay?
Sir Albert Parkinson: 20. asked the Chief Secretary whether, in spite of the fact that the prisoners in Ballykinlar camp had received express permission from the English officer in charge of the camp to hold conversation with prisoners in an adjoining camp provided they did not approach to within a certain distance of the wire which separated them, and that this condition was observed, the action of a sentry who...
Sir Albert Parkinson: I beg to second the motion.
Sir Albert Parkinson: I beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time." I do so with a view to instituting a serious house-to-house inspection every year. The Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909, definitely states, in Section 17, that local authorities may cause to be made from time to time inspections in their district. One of the objects of this new Clause is to fix a definite time within which inspections...
Sir Albert Parkinson: Will any opportunity be provided for evidence to be given by the trade union women employed by the Ministry of Pensions?
