Mr Charles White: 31. asked the Minister of Labour whether he can state the effect of an increase of 30 per cent. on house rents upon the index figure of the cost of living issued by the Ministry?
Mr Charles White: This matter may be considered upon various grounds, historical, sentimental, and practical, and perhaps the most vital and practical is the question of recruiting. We have had an official statement from the Front Bench that recruiting is going on satisfactorily, but, so far as an ordinary individual can hear, recruiting is not at all satisfactory, and our Army is very much under its proper...
Mr Charles White: The Household Troops include the Household Cavalry and the Foot Guards. I am in favour of the Household Troops having their full uniform. I should be glad to know from the Government what the exact position is with regard to the vote in the House to-day. There are some Members who like myself would be willing to support the Government and make the change for the Household Troops but who would...
Mr Charles White: asked the Lord Privy Seal whether the Government intends to bring forward proposals for the prevention of unemployment?
Mr Charles White: asked the Lord Privy Seal whether the Government has given a pledge to the trade unions to oppose the Amendment to the Unemployment Insurance Bill carried in Standing Committee C, by which the friendly societies are enabled to participate in the administration of benefits; and, if so, when, where, and under what circumstances the pledge was given?
Mr Charles White: Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that the Solicitor-General has made some intimation to this effect to a party in this House?
Mr Charles White: asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is proposed to impose an indemnity on Turkey; and, if so, if a sum of money equal to the price paid to Turkey for the exploitation of the oil of the Baghdad and Mosul vilayets will be paid out of this indemnity to the Arab State which is to be set up?
Mr Charles White: asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what amount of the oil of the Baghdad and Mosul vilayets was conceded before the War by Turkey to a British or part-British company?
Mr Charles White: Was a concession to exploit all the oil in the Baghdad and Mosul vilayets ceded before the War to a company?
Mr Charles White: I am not going to speak from the technical side of this question. I am not a rich financial expert like the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the City of London, but I want to appeal distinctly from the human side. Nothing can excuse the payment of these miserable pensions, about which we have heard so much tonight. I do not care whether it is the introduction of the Home Rule Bill or...
Mr Charles White: asked the Lord Privy Seal whether it has been suggested to His Majesty's Government that Lord Cave's Commission of Inquiry into the necessary and proper administrative deficits of the British South Africa Company should report without completing its examination of the accounts; whether he is aware that at the adjournment of the Inquiry in March Lord Cave had only reached the period of the...
Mr Charles White: I want to support the Government for the third time since I have been in this House. I take it that the meaning of this Clause is that the users of the roads by motor vehicles shall pay in some degree commensurately with the damage they do to the roads. To my mind this new tax is the only fair way in which that can be done. I have been a member of a county council or local authority ever...
Mr Charles White: asked the Lord Privy Seal whether the negotiations for the resumption of trade between Russia and this country will be broken off if the Soviet Government refuses to recognise foreign securities held in Russian enterprises incorporated under Russian law?
Mr Charles White: asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he can now say when the Milner Report may be expected?
Mr Charles White: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether the terms of the concession granted by the Turkish Government to the Turkish Petroleum Company provided for the purchase outright of the exploitation rights in the oil of Mosul and Baghdad or for the payment of a sum year by year by way of royalty?
Mr Charles White: That reply said nothing. Cannot the right hon. Gentleman give us something more—some facts?
Mr Charles White: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether any director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company is also a director of the Turkish Petroleum Company?
Mr Charles White: I do not think it is possible to introduce any further argu- ments into this Debate, nor do I think it will be very much use. I want to refer briefly to what has transpired since the inauguration of this campaign some years ago. I am not well acquainted with the procedure of this House. I do not know whether it would have been possible, at the beginning of this Debate, to have moved to report...
Mr Charles White: 32. asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the desirability of the establishment of separate places for the confinement of remand prisoners?
Mr Charles White: 33. asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the evidence contained in the recently-published report of the Penal Reform League showing that the influence of women's prisons on the character of young girls is of the worst possible kind; and whether the Government proposes to introduce any ameliorative legislation?
