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Captain William Benn: I am speaking of the landing in 1842. I am glad to say that the hon. Member who has just interrupted is also a distinguished son of Leith, to whose support we confidently look forward. This glorious tradition of hospitality was, I am glad to say, suitably maintained during the War. Since the Armistice no less than 50,000 prisoners of war were received by the civic authorities at Leith. Day...
Sir Robert Horne: I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time." I do not suppose it will be necessary at all to emphasise the importance of the topic which I have to introduce to the House this afternoon. Coal is, after all, the key industry of this country. Upon an adequate supply of coal at reasonable prices depend not only the comfort of the great mass of our people, but the successful...
Mr Hamar Greenwood: ...the right hon. Gentleman has not put before the House one single case which justifies him and his friends in the resolution standing in their name, namely: That this House regrets the present state of lawlessness in Ireland, and the lack of discipline in the armed forces of the Crown, resulting in the death or injury of innocent citizens and the destruction of property. I want to point out...
Sir Alfred Mond: ...so that, although my hon. and gallant Friend's statement may be accurate as far as the rates are concerned, the Exchequer will have to pay a contribution. Really, the ratepayer and the taxpayer are often only themselves to blame if their rates and taxes go up, because proposals are continually being made and legislation is being passed which will have this result. It is no use asking that...
Sir Wilfred Sugden: One has listened with very great pleasure to what has been said on both sides of the House in respect of the need for economy in national expenditure, but there is one particular that has not been touched upon in this Debate which to my mind is vital and essential, and that is economy in respect of our Imperial protection. Much might be said from these benches in respect of its drastic...
Lieut-Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall: I speak with some diffidence, after the most interesting speech to which we have just listened from the hon. Member for Accrington, who speaks with a lifelong knowledge of these educational problems. I want to criticise at the outset a few of the figures of my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Education. He began by telling us, in justification of the greatly increased...
Mr. THOMSON: I see the Minister assents to that but, with all respect to him, we do not know that he will always be there. The reform of the health services of this country owes very much to his predecessor, who found a moribund body and vitalized it into a living force. If he had remained in that office we should have no hesitation in believing that this Bill would be carried out to its...
Mr Stephen Howard: I do not intend to go into all the ills from which agriculture suffers or all the shortcomings of the Minister or of his Department. I intend as far as possible to confine myself to the Estimates. When I opened the Estimates and found that there was a reduction of from £3,500,000 to £2,750,000, I thought at last we had a Minister who is; studying economy in the proper manner, but on going...
Mr Thomas Broad: I beg to move, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the Question to add the words, "upon this day six months." I agree with the hon and learned Member (Sir E. Wild) that it is time a word was said on the other side. I agree also with what the hon. and gallant Member for Burton said in his opening remarks, namely, that the licensing trade should not have the first consideration; but...
Sir William Pearce: I confess that the balance sheet of this Budget gives me a great deal of anxiety. Before I deal with it I wish to refer briefly to the remarks of the last speaker. I do not think it is quite realised how much education costs the country. It comes home to me because in my early days I happened to be associated with a non-provided school. In those days we used to charge a 6d. fee and we got a...
Mr Frederick Macquisten: Yes, there are a great many lawyers, no doubt. The system of education is wholly unsound, and the teachers themselves, as I have said, being civil servants, are largely disgruntled, and a great many of them have the most peculiar notions as to what the moral training of children should be. I saw that a Mr. Cole, at a gathering of teachers the other day, protested against children being taught...
Mr Godfrey Locker-Lampson: My hon. Friend who has just sat down made a very eloquent appeal, and I appreciate very much his eloquence on behalf of the Education Estimates. I can assure him I am not going to attack in any way the Education Estimates, for the time being. I think, as a matter of fact, far and away the most serious part of the Geddes Report is the part which deals with the fighting services. I am very...
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: The independent force was directly under the Air Ministry, subject to the supreme control of Marshal Foch. Air squadrons working with the Army were under the Army Command, and air squadrons working with the Navy were under the Naval Command. Now I return to the lessons which we derived and the inferences which we formed from this war experience. However elaborate the...
Sir J. D. REES: If my hon. Friend will so far minister to my weakness as to allow me to go on, I shall willingly submit to anything he may say as soon as I have finished. Then take the number of beneficiaries under these Acts. On 31st March, 1920, there were 28,000,000, and on 31st March, 1921, there were 30,000,000. These figures do not include the unemployed, and, of course, the numbers...
Mr Herbert Fisher: It is a limit. So far I have been speaking of the expenditure of local authorities. Now I come to that part of the total expenditure for which provision is made by way of grants. As the Committee will see on reference to the White Paper which has been circulated, the amount provided for grants in aid of elementary education this year is £35,068,343 and for higher education £5,693,000. I...
Dr Christopher Addison: I beg to move to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the Question to add the words "upon this day three months." It is my desire to go a little further than my right hon. Friend who has just sat down, and to move the rejection of the Bill. The Bill is reminiscent of one introduced in 1921. I remember that Bill was called the Ministry of Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. If I...
Mr Jack Lawson: I beg to move, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the Question to add the words "upon this day three months." I am sorry that after so extremely interesting a Debate on an all-important subject that I have to draw attention to another matter; but I want to bring before the House and the Minister concerned a not less interesting matter to the bulk of the people of this country and...
Mr Richard Winfrey: I beg to move, at the end of the Question, to add the words: But humbly represent to Your Majesty that, having regard to the insecure and gravely unsatisfactory position of the great industry of agriculture, to the constantly decreasing population in rural districts, to the high cost of living, the low returns from the labour and investment in land, to the existence of an economic wage...
The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Lieut.-Colonel Guinness): I beg to move, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair." In moving that you do leave the Chair, Sir, I must ask the indulgence of the House in that the task of justifying the Army Estimates has fallen to me and not to my Noble Friend the Secretary of State for War, who cannot be here in support of the policy for which he is...
Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke: Provision is made for completing one only of the four light cruisers in hand. In view of the loss of the "Raleigh" surely it is not too much to expect that two cruisers, at least, would be passed into commission, especially as the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull said they were laid down seven years ago. The hon. and gallant Member tried to draw the conclusion from this fact that the...
