Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 13. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the present conditions relating to the export of horses for slaughter; and whether he proposes to take any steps in the matter?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 20. asked the President of the Board of Education whether he will lay a White Paper showing, for the last four years, the proportion which pupils attending grant-earning secondary schools bear to the population in England and Wales as a whole, and also in the area of each local education authority separately?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 61. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to the judgment of Mr. Justice Rowlatt in the matter of the Income Tax of the Brighton College, in which the learned Judge held that the incidental profits of this educational body, although partaking of the nature of trading profits, were not taxable; and whether, in view of the importance of this decision to...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 60. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Sixty-sixth Report of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue will be published; and, seeing that the Sixty-fifth Report was published more than 18 months ago, what is the reason for the unusual delay?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: Can we hope to have the Report before the House rises for the Summer Recess?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 19. asked the Home Secretary how many prisoners there are now serving sentences in English convict prisons who were convicted by civil Courts or courts-martial in Ireland; how many are serving life sentences; what authority is paying for their maintenance; and whether he has satisfied himself by a review of the circumstances of their trial and conviction that their punishment should be continued?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: In view of that answer, can the right hon. Gentleman say under what authority these prisoners were brought from Ireland to this country?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 20. asked the Home Secretary whether he will give particulars of the cases of the three prisoners, Rogers, O'Boyle and Conlin, who were convicted in Ireland, and are at present imprisoned in England?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: Will the Government of India take into account the possibility of extending the scope of this Commission to deal with some of the questions which are causing unrest at the present time?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: That is the law at the present time.
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: I rise to oppose the Bill. I am only going to make two or three very short observations in opposition to it. My reason for opposing it is not any tender, solicitude towards moneylenders as a class, but because, as I understand the Bill, it proposes to use the Post Office in order to deal partially with certain correspondence. I feel most strongly that the Post Office, as a national...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether he can arrange for an inspection to take place of the animals by duly qualified inspectors after the performances?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 12. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that Frederick Walter Baugh, a boy of 15, a first offender, who bore a good character, was recently sentenced to 21 days' hard labour at Deal Quarter Sessions for breaking into premises and stealing a quantity of tobacco and cigarettes; and on what grounds a first offender under 10 years of age was, contrary to the usual practice, committed to...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: Has the right hon. Gentleman followed the reports of the case, from which it will he seen that the boy was given an exceptionally good character, and that it was suggested by the evidence that it was merely as an escapade by a child that he was taking this step?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 33. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Mr. J. D'Arcy Hartley, of Billesden Coplow, Leicestershire, who, owing to his omission to make a special claim to the Income Tax Commissioners for a refund on account of interest on bank overdraft, paid in Income Tax during the 10 years 1913 to 1922, approximately, £1,414 in excess of his legal...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: Do I understand from that that the right hon. Gentleman is unable to make any concession?
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: As no one has, I think, risen on these benches to support the appeal made by the other benches for an enlargement of the right of trial by jury, I should just like to add my voice to those which have already been given. I know the strength of the feeling amongst hon. Members on these benches in the direction, and I feel particularly entitled to emphasise this, because the city of which I have...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: I can well understand the position of the hon. Member for Motherwell (Mr. Ferguson), just as I could understand the position of the hon. Member for Coventry (Mr. Purcell), who spoke earlier. They are thinking of industries in their own locality, and arguing for them. Exactly in the same way we have dockyard Members arguing for their own particular dockyard. One can understand them doing that,...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: I am dealing with the arguments of hon. Members who say that, as a result of lower wages and depreciated currency on the Continent, we cannot compete. How docs the argument apply in regard to America, where there are higher wages paid, and the exchange is in the other direction? The hon. Member for Hythe (Sir P. Sassoon) told us that the motor industry was an infant industry. He asked us to...
Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: 85. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the details, under the various heads, of the receipts from Customs and Excise duties for the year ended 31st March, 1924; and if he can give similar details of the estimated receipts from these duties for the year ending 31st March, 1925, both on the basis of the rates of duty in force before the Budget and on that of the rates...