Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 6. asked the Home Secretary whether he has any further statement to make with regard to his action relating to the death of Mr. Reginald Russell in Bedford prison on 23rd May?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 40 asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will arrange that, in connection with the office in Cockspur Street bearing the name of His Majesty's Eastern African Dependencies, some distinction should be drawn between territories belonging to the Crown and the territory of Tanganyika, which is held under mandate from the League of Nations?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: I also desire to support the proposed new Clause which seems to have every argument in common sense to commend it to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I put it to the Chancellor, now that he has seen the working of this absurd and ridiculous tax, and has seen the injury it does to British film, he should withdraw it. The protective argument has always been in favour of taxing the manufactured...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: In support of what the hon. Member who has just sat down has said, and the request to the Financial Secretary to postpone this Clause until he has an opportunity of consulting the Chancellor of the Exchequer, may I just add this further consideration? The object of taking different stages of the Finance Bill in this House is that all the alterations of taxes might be well considered. It is...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: I beg to move to leave out the Clause. This Clause seeks to reimpose, with modifications and for a period of 10 years, Part 1 of the Safeguarding of Industries Act. I hope the Chancellor of the Exchequer will continue to favour us with his presence, because on the Committee stage he left the whole defence to the President of the Board of Trade. I see that he flees from the wrath to come. On...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 14. asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the advisability of making it a condition of the employment of the agents of voluntary societies as probation officers that they should not be required to take part in the collection from private charity of that part of their emoluments which is received from the voluntary society?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 15. asked the Home Secretary what steps he proposes to take, whether by the appointment of inspectors or otherwise, to secure that grants from public funds shall not be paid to any probation authority which is not efficiently performing its duties under Part I of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: May I ask the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the "established usage" contained in Chapter 18 of Erskine May, in which it is pointed out that important changes in. the customary form of the Estimates should not be made without the previous approval of the Public Accounts Committee, and whether his answer proposes a departure from that customary usage?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: I had not intended taking any part in the discussion on this question until the straw-paper Amendment was reached, but when we come to that Amendment we shall probably take a silent vote, and therefore I rise now to put the case for the other side. The users of strawpaper, whom the hon. Member for East Dorset (Mr. Caine) appears to scoff at because they are not manufacturers, certainly are...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 66. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been directed to the congested state of the women's Employment Exchange at Albion Street, Leicester, involving frequent and considerable over time for the staff; whether he is aware that this condition has continued for several months; and whether, in the interests both of the applicants and of the health of the staff, he can see his...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: I beg to second the Amendment. This instrument, whose Third Reading we are discussing to-day, raises altogether approximately £825,000,000 of revenue, and it can be regarded from two points of view. It can be regarded from the point of view of the total amount which it is proposed to raise, or from the point of view of the incidence of that amount upon the taxpayers of the country. During...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: I do not rise to delay the Committee coming to a decision, but I do want to say on behalf of those who, like myself, intend to support this Amendment in the Division Lobby if it is pressed to a Division, that if the second Amendment on the Paper were in order, we should have let this Amendment go and voted for the second one. As the second Amendment is out of order I shall support the first...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 49. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury wrether he can explain the reason for the small proportion of promotion given to writing assistants and shorthand typists in the offices of inspectors of taxes, having regard to the number of the girls concerned who have already proved their fitness in the performance of tax clerk duties either prior to or since their establishment?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: Are we to understand that the Minister thinks the shortage of houses is really seriously overtaken now?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 39. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what number of women nurses are employed in His Majesty's prisons for women; what training and what certificates of efficiency such nurses hold; and what proportion they bear to the daily average of women prisoners?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 40. asked the Home Secretary what number of trained male nurses are employed in His Majesty's prisons; what training and what certificates of efficiency such male nurses hold; what is their proportion to the daily average number of prisoners; whether any trained women nurses are employed in His Majesty's prisons for ment; and, if so, how many women nurses are so employed and what is their...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: Does that mean that there are no permanent women nurses, and that they are only brought in case of emergency?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: May I ask the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make with regard to the question of boycotting in Canton?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: May put the question, then, whether the Prime Minister has any statement to make on the situation in China?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: I do not rise in order to pursue the debate on the question of China because we shall have other opportunities of dealing with that very important question in the near future. I rise to draw the attention of the House to another part of Asia, to one of our great Dominions which at the present moment is suffering from a very severe disability. I refer to the detention of large numbers of...