Mr Charles White: When shall we have an answer?
Mr Charles White: 56. asked the President of the Board of Education whether any deductions have yet been made from the salaries of teachers in respect of the 5 per cent. levy for superannuation as recommended in the Geddes Report?
Mr Charles White: In rising to support this Bill I should like first to say that, although up to the present the Debate has been chiefly on the question of the Unionist party, and more especially the Unionist Labour party, it does not only affect Unionists, but it affects Liberals as well. I have no doubt that we shall hear very little to-day in support of this Bill from members of the Independent Liberal...
Mr Charles White: 3. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will reconsider the case of Mrs. Jane Machin, of Starkholmes, Matlock, whose son, Leading-seaman Ivor Machin, No. 182,420, H.M.S. "Defence," was killed at the Battle of Jutland, and in respect of whom she has been receiving a pension, including bonus, of 4s. 2d. a week, which is now discontinued; whether he is aware that Mrs. Machin is a widow 72...
Mr Charles White: 31. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the great demand for housing accommodation in the district of the North Darley Urban District Council, and that there are many houses in this district which are being kept empty by the owners with a, view to their being sold at an enhanced price; and whether, under these circumstances, he will introduce such legislation as is necessary...
Mr Charles White: Does not the right hon. Gentleman think it is time that this method of blackmail was stopped, in the interests of the community?
Mr Charles White: 74. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that there is a large number of persons, mainly ex-service men, who purchased houses three or four years ago intending to reside in them, but are debarred by the provisions of the Rent Restrictions Acts; and whether he is prepared to bring in an amending Bill to enable such persons who bona fide wish to occupy their houses to do so?
Mr Charles White: Has the hon. Gentleman noticed that the question does not say "to occupy part of their houses," but "to occupy their houses"?
Mr Charles White: 79. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he can explain why the collector of Customs at Globe Wharf has held up a consignment of egg-timers on the grounds that they are dutiable as scientific instruments; and if he is prepared to issue a definite list of articles that are liable to duties and tariffs, and thus remove the uncertainty which prevails as to the powers of the Custom...
Mr Charles White: 81. asked the hon. Member for Cheltenham, as Chairman of the Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms Committee, whether he is aware of the resentment felt by Members of the House of Commons in consequence of the increased charges for liquid refreshments at the bars, smoking rooms, and dining rooms of the House of Commons; that these charges are much higher than those outside the House; and whether he...
Mr Charles White: Now that the Tea Duty has been reduced by 4d., may we expect a reduction in the price of tea in the Tea Room, especially as Members on this side of the House are inveterate tea-drinkers?
Mr Charles White: 1. asked the Minister of Pensions if he will further consider the case of ex-Private Tarlton, No. 240600, of Ashbourne, late of the Notts and Derby Regiment, who after four and a half years' War service was discharged from the Army in April, 1919, without a pension, though suffering from neurasthenia at the time; whether he is aware that, after making every effort to continue light...
Mr Charles White: 2. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that, although it was decided by Parliament that no alteration should be made in War Pensions on account of the increase or decrease in the cost of living before April, 1923, pensioners are now receiving notification that the pension may be re-adjusted according to the increase or decrease in the cost of living in the year 1922; whether...
Mr Charles White: Has any pension been reduced in consequence of this circular being sent out to pensioners?
Mr Charles White: 5. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he will reconsider the case of ex-Private H. J. Wardle, No. 241,504, late Notts and Derby Regiment, of Youlgrave, who is suffering from the effects of three gunshot wounds in the thigh, and has had his pension reduced for himself, wife, and three children to 9s. 6d. a week, though his disability is still assessed at 30 per cent.; whether this pension...
Mr Charles White: Does the right hon. Gentleman consider it fair to assess a pension to the last two years, terminating at the end of that time, when the man's health may be broken down again?
Mr Charles White: I understood the right hon. Gentleman to say that the Sunday collection, even in rural districts, was going to be at 12 midnight. Would it not be possible, in rural districts, to make it an afternoon collection without much extra expense?
Mr Charles White: 56. asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the suffering and inconvenience caused to the members of the National Catholic and Thrift Society, at Ashbourne and many other districts, in consequence of the suspension of sick benefit payments, resulting from a decision in recent legal proceedings; and whether, under the exceptional circumstances, he can take any action which will...
Mr Charles White: 14. asked the President of the Board of Trade what quantity of wire nails were imported into this country during the six months ended 31st March; what proportion of the total amount came from Germany; and can he give the figures showing the quantity and value imported during the year 1913?
Mr Charles White: 22. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to a resolution passed by the National Farmers' Union to the effect that Part II of the Safeguarding of Industries Act should be amended so as to bring agricultural produce within its scope or, in the alternative, that the Act shall be repealed as a preliminary to the consideration, de novo, of the best means...