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Major Hon. Sir Edward Cadogan: I beg to move, That the Government should insist on the urgent necessity for local authorities to make adequate provision in town-planning schemes for the reservation of open spaces, and, if necessary, to provide some more effective power to enable local authorities to acquire land for recreation in all cases where it cannot be purchased on fair terms by negotiation. In rising to move this...
Mr Thomas Kennedy: I rise to make a few observations of a general character, in the first place, on the interesting document which the Minister of Pensions has read to the Committee. I regret exceedingly, as I am sure the Committee does, that the right hon. Member for West Bromwich(Mr. F. Roberts) is not present to speak on behalf of the Opposition in the matter of pensions' administration. I think it will be a...
Mr Ramsay Macdonald: I have risen in this Debate for the purpose of ascertaining what the Minister of Health has in his mind in introducing this Bill. Is it an instalment of Poor Law reform? Is it an instalment in the reform of municipal government? Is it an economy Measure? Is it a Measure to improve the moral standard of administration in certain areas? Is it a Measure to enable the Government to recognise more...
Mr. CROMPTON WOOD: I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time." I know that the House is always very sympathetic to maiden speakers, and in this case I want an extra amount of sympathy, because this Bill deals with a problem so vital to the happiness of that tragic part of the community, the mental deficients. I would remind the House that in the eyes of the law there are two...
Mr John Gilmour: In moving the Second Reading of this Bill, which is designed to reorganise the Scottish offices and in particular the Board system, I should like to say I hope,. and I think I have some justification in expressing that hope, that this Bill will be considered to be of an entirely non-party nature and will receive the careful consideration of hon. Members in all parts of the House, looking at...
Captain EDEN: I beg to move, That this House observes that over a period of widespread depression in trade? the proportion of our trade with the Empire has increased and continues to increase; and is of opinion that, in order to benefit the people of this country by developing our beet and most productive markets, and' in order to assist those Dominions winch so desire it further to increase...
Mr Hugh Dalton: May I preface my remarks by assuring the Noble Lord that I had previously heard nothing of the case of Mr. Towers, who has been referred to by the hon. Members for Spennymoor (Mr. Batey) and Wellingborough (Mr. Cove). But having heard what they have said, I appeal to him very carefully to consider whether it is not possible to mitigate the severity of the sentence which has been inflicted...
Mr William Whiteley: I beg to move That this House, being of opinion that in many cases the prices charged for articles of food and fuel are unreasonably high, thus inflicting hardship upon consumers, regrets the failure of His Majesty's Government to take adequate measures to prevent profiteering in the supply of these necessities. We have often heard expressions from Members of the Government to the effect that...
Viscountess ASTOR: The points. which I had hoped to make have already been made ably by the supporters of the Bill, and I just want to deal for a moment with the opponents of the Bill. The lion. Member on my right, the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Remer) is a notorious opponent on questions affecting women, and when he says to the House that he has been converted by me to universal...
Sir Archibald Sinclair: I beg to move to reduce the Vote by £100. I will not now deal with a number of subjects connected with the administration of the Board of Agriculture in which my constituency is greatly interested—such as the drainage grant—as I hope to have other opportunities and I will confine myself to an issue with which other speakers have already dealt, namely, land settlement. I approach it by...
Mr John Palin: I rise to support the Amendment. If this Bill becomes law it will bear very unfairly on a certain number of local authorities but will allow other authorities to do the very things of which complaint is now made. The Bill would penalise a councillor in Poplar but would not be able to interfere with a councillor doing the same thing in Birmingham, Bradford, Newcastle or any other county...
Viscount Turnour: In accordance with the arrangement entered into with hon. Gentlemen opposite, I rise to make my main annual statement on the course of Indian administration. Before doing so, I should like to make reference to one or two points in speeches made on the occasion of the last discussion of these Estimates with which I had not time to deal in my short reply on that occasion. First of all, the hon....
Lieut.-Colonel STANLEY: I will en-endeavour to obtain the figures, but I think the hon. and gallant Member is incorrect, because, first of all, they only paid £60,000,000 in pensions, and we pay out £61,000,000, and I think they had many more engaged in the War and many more casualties than we had. But I will find out the figures. I want to revert to the point I was making that our charge...
Mr Shapurji Saklatvala: I beg to move, to leave out from the word "House," in line 1 to the word "to," in line 4, and to insert instead thereof the words "resolves to invite the Pundit Motilal Nehru, of the Legislative Assembly of India, to the Bar of the House to explain Indian sentiments and to guide the House, as provided for in the Preamble of the Government of India Act, 1919, before concurring in the...
Mr John Scurr: I am sorry the hon. Member for Loughborough (Mr. Rye) is not in his place, because, whether wittingly or unwittingly, he certainly conveyed to this House an entirely wrong impression. He spoke of a considerable burden being thrown upon certain boroughs in London under the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, and he went on to speak of the illegal expenditure of the Poplar Board of Guardians and...
Mr Rhys Davies: I beg to move, That, in the opinion of this House, pensions adequate for the proper upbringing and maintenance of children should be paid to all widows with children or mothers whose family breadwinner has become incapacitated, such pensions to be provided by the State and administered by a committee of the municipal or county council wholly unconnected with the Poor Law. I have the greatest...
Mr Jack Lawson: The speech to which we have just listened has been very interesting and satisfactory, inasmuch as we have been told that there is a reduction of £500,000 in this year's Estimates, and, according to the statement made by the Secretary of State for War, there is really a reduction of £1,000,000 in the expenditure. To that extent, I think, the War Office and the right hon. Gentleman are...
Mr Duff Cooper: The majority of the speeches this afternoon have been extremely useful and suggestive, and the first speech, that of the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson) was no exception to the rule. I will now endeavour to reply to some of the many points raised and the questions asked. The hon. Member for Chester-le-Street, and the right hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley) referred to...
Lieut.-Colonel WARD: I was saying what an extraordinary fascination the word "policy" has. We have seen it so often in Debate after Debate on the subject of unemployment during the last two or three years. The indictment levelled at the Government has invariably been, not so much that there are still 1,000,000 men out of work, but that the Government have not formulated a definite and...
Brigadier-General Sir George Cockerill: I beg to move, to leave out from the word "That" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof the words this House declines to accord a Second Reading to a Bill which, while adding five million persons to the existing electorate and giving to women a permanent majority in the constituencies, does not deal with other vital questions connected with the franchise nor follow the...
