Mr Charles White: Will the right hon. Gentleman reconsider the question as to whether the bonus should be stopped in these cases. This woman has a pension in respect of her son, and her only other income is 12s. a week unemployment benefit, and this will be discontinued in March next?
Mr Charles White: 19. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will reconsider the case of Private J. Corfield, No. 107,720, late Royal Air Force, now residing at Darleydale, near Matlock, who enlisted in 1914, was discharged in 1918, was married in 1916 and has three children; whether he is aware that in addition to his own pension he received a pension up to 15th November last in respect of his wife and...
Mr Charles White: 50. asked the Prime Minister whether, in the arrangements he is making with the railway companies to forward the construction and extension of railways, steps can be taken to push forward the construction of the Derwent Valley, Calver and Grindleford Railway, which was originally included in the North Western, Midland and Scottish Group in the Railway Bill of 1921; and whether he is aware...
Mr Charles White: Does not the hon. and gallant Gentleman think that this railway would provide work for the unemployed,, about whom the Government appear to be so anxious?
Mr Charles White: 24. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he can now make permanent the pension of ex-Private C. Elliott, late Derbyshire Yeomanry, regimental No. 1,507, who is suffering from tubercular disease of the groin caused by the kick of a horse whilst on military service; whether he is aware that this man has already undergone 10 operations for tills disability and has now been ordered to a...
Mr Charles White: Does not the right hon. Gentleman really think 10 operations are sufficient for this man to undergo before he gets his final award?
Mr Charles White: 69. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will reconsider the case of Mrs. F. Bradwell, of Bradwell, Derbyshire, widow of Private Charles R. Bradwell, No. 28,234, Manchester Regiment, whose death was due to disability incurred on military service; whether he is aware that this woman is left with three children, the eldest only five years old; whether he is aware that she has been refused...
Mr Charles White: In that appeal will she be opposed by the Ministry of Pensions, as is usually done?
Mr Charles White: How does the Minister expect this poor woman, living on parish relief, adequately to fight her case?
Mr Charles White: 22. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he intends to introduce this Session of Parliament the Rabbits Bill, which was printed and introduced during the last Session of the late Parliament?
Mr Charles White: 61. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will assure the House that pensions to widows, children, totally disabled men, and others granted under the Royal Warrant of 1919, and subsequent Royal Warrants, shall not be reduced during the three years commencing April, 1923?
Mr Charles White: Surely if a law is not working satisfactorily, it is one of the functions of this House to point out where it is not working satisfactorily, with a view to having it remedied. When the hon. Member who has just sat down says that we should bring in an amending Act, he knows there is no possible chance of our doing anything of the kind. My complaint is not so much against the law as against the...
Mr Charles White: At. 8.15 p.m. I was saying that on the whole, if one could get to the Minister of Pensions, one could always obtain personal sympathetic consideration from him. I greatly fear that the Minister is not acquainted with all that goes on and—I say it with all respect—that he is not master in his own house. He gives full power to heads of Departments and regional directors to place their own...
Mr Charles White: I did not say that.
Mr Charles White: Will this be available for Members of Parliament?
Mr Charles White: 21. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that, at the hearing by the referee of the case against the inclusion of R. sodium hyposulphite in the key list of articles scheduled under Part I of the Safeguarding of Industries Act, 1921, his Department, through their counsel, submitted, in support of their case, a sample of sodium hyposulphite, commercial quality, which...
Mr Charles White: 22. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can state whether he has received an application for the imposing of a duty on imported brushes and brushware; and, if so, will he give the date when that application was received and say if the same is to be referred to a Committer for investigation?
Mr Charles White: 101. asked the hon. Member for Cheltenham, as Chairman of the Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms Committee, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the electric fans as now placed in the Harcourt Room are very disturbing to the coiffures of ladies dining there; and if he can arrange to have them refixed at such an angle as will obviate this and yet secure adequate ventilation?
Mr Charles White: 1. asked the Minister of Pensions whether, under Article 21 (1) (a) and Article 21 (1) (c) of the Royal Warrant, it has always been possible where a parent has been in receipt of a pension in consequence of the death of a son to have the pension transferred in the case of death of either parent to the surviving parent; whether it has now been decided that such transfer cannot be made; whether...
Mr Charles White: Does it not say in the original Warrant that on the death of one parent payment may be transferred at once to the other. Is that altered, and have instructions been sent up to the pensions officers to this effect?
