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Oral Answers to Questions — National Insurance: Increased Old Age Pensions ( 1 Aug 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: asked the Minister of National Insurance whether he will now make a statement about the arrangements for payment of increased old age pensions next October.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Insurance: Increased Old Age Pensions ( 1 Aug 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: May we take it that the leaflet will be written in simple language so that the old people will be able to understand it?

Oral Answers to Questions — Public Health: Family Allowances (Other Benefits) (25 Jul 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: asked the Minister of National Insurance whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that the substitution of family allowances for other forms of children's allowances, as from the date when family allowances start to be payable, will have the effect of reducing the amount at present being drawn by men with two or more children in receipt of children's allowances both under the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Public Health: Family Allowances (Other Benefits) (25 Jul 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: May I ask my right hon. Friend, in view of the importance of the reply, to give the widest publicity to it, in the hope that employers outside the Confederation may carry out its terms?

Orders of the Day — Coal Situation (24 Jul 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: There was no alternative industry. We used to have men coming from Ireland, coming straight to the pit-yard, asking for jobs down the pits without training; and they turned out to be good mineworkers. I started my life in the pits—I was just under 16 years of age—by pony driving for some of the Irishmen, who were some of the strongest men I ever met, and who did good work. But it was...

Members' Expenses (29 May 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: I am sure that Members of the Select Committee will agree with me when I say that we are extremely grateful for all the nice things that have been said about our work. Personally, to have been chairman of a Select Committee like this was a very happy experience. This Report represents a compromise. The hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) came before the Committee and put forward proposals...

Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill (20 May 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: ; The right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Pembroke (Major Lloyd George) was quite right when he said that for three years he and I worked very closely together. If there was one thing upon which we differed, it was on the ownership of this vital mining industry. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman knows that I never took up the ideological argument in favour of public ownership,...

Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill (14 May 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: Nobody regrets more than I do that the right hon. Member for Bromley (Mr. Macmillan) moved this new Clause in the manner in which he did, and I think he must accept some of the responsibility for what has occurred since. When I read the new Clause, knowing the record of the Conservative Party in its fight for individual freedom, the extension of the franchise and the right of every workman to...

Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill (14 May 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: Of course, it was. This new Clause could have been made the medium for defining pretty clearly what is to be the position of employees of the Board when the Bill becomes law. Hon. Members opposite, in some of their speeches recently, have suggested that when the mines become the property of the State the ordinary mine worker will not have the liberty to strike, or the same liberty for public...

Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill (13 May 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: On a point of Order. May I suggest, with all due respect, that this is hardly the Clause upon which to discuss this matter?

Oral Answers to Questions — British Army: Postal Services (Improvements) (12 Mar 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: Can my hon. Friend say whether improvement of the postal facilities in the House of Commons is contemplated?

Orders of the Day — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Bill (19 Feb 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: When the Act was not in operation.

Orders of the Day — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Bill (19 Feb 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: Those who can recall the discussions we had in 1922 when the subject of pneumoconiosis was before the House, will remember one or two difficulties that had to be met. For example, after the Medical Research Council had made its report, future cases which were certified received compensation in a different way and we were faced by the fact that there were many cases with no entitlement to...

Orders of the Day — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Bill (18 Feb 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: I am sure you will agree, Mr. Speaker, that this would not be the proper time to discuss what is likely to happen when the mines are nationalised, but as one who took a very strong attitude about the 45s. basic figure for total incapacity in this Bill, I want to say a word of thanks to the Minister for including this Clause. We recognise that even as mine-workers we' cannot make out, for a...

Orders of the Day — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Bill (18 Feb 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: The hon. and learned Member for Brighton (Mr. Marlowe) may know more than I do about the number of wives one can have, but this problem is one which must be faced. We faced it in Committee in a rather delicate manner. Nobody wants to weaken the marriage tie, and I think that observation applies to all parts of the House. Under the Workmen's Compensation Act employers were not concerned with...

Orders of the Day — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Bill (18 Feb 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: We had a full discussion in the Committee with regard to this question and we then asked the Minister to consider whether a person waiting to board a bus for the purpose of proceeding either to or from his work should be regarded as travelling and be entitled to injury benefit in case of accident. There have been many cases in court in which the question has arisen whether injuries received...

Orders of the Day — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Bill (18 Feb 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: I am satisfied that generally, if an accident occurs on the employer's premises while men are waiting for a bus, that will be covered, but the point I have in mind is when men are away from the employer's premises, assembled at a given point agreed to by the employer for the purpose of proceeding to work, and meet with injury. They should also be covered while waiting legitimately to go to...

Orders of the Day — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Bill (18 Feb 1946)

Mr Tom Smith: In all the discussions on the Committee stage, and here in the House, there has been a clear differentiation between the workman standing with ordinary members of the public waiting for public transport, and what Clause 9 provides, transport provided by the employer and not used by the general public.

Orders of the Day — National Insurance (Friendly Societies) (17 Dec 1945)

Mr Tom Smith: Further to that point of Order. As the decision was announced in answer to a Question a few weeks ago, would it be in Order for the Minister to justify why he gave that answer?

India (Parliamentary Delegation) (13 Dec 1945)

Mr Tom Smith: May I take it this change of policy in no way reflects on the policy of the Empire Parliamentary Association to promote unity within the British Commonwealth, both by personal contacts, and the exchange of important information?


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