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Mr Joseph Sullivan: ...complaining that we have 300,000 miners who cannot get work. So far as I can make out, the Government have no reply, and the Committee itself seems to take no interest whatever in that condition of things. I do not want to argue economics to any great extent, but only to point this moral. If we have 300,000 men fewer employed to-day as compared with 1924, is it not the duty of the...
Mr John Hayes: I can assure you, Mr. Herbert, that I shall not take advantage of the Debate to get in other matter that would be out of order. I merely want to point out that there must be an effect upon the provincial areas, because the Home Secretary must give his approval to or withhold it from the actual appointment which the Buckinghamshire Standing Joint Committee made last Tuesday. I do not know...
Mr Alfred Jephcott: ...me that is not accorded to many men, especially men in my own social position, and I feel a pleasure in it, because if there is anything democratic in this country, it is illustrated in the action of this House. I am a humble follower of the ideal of progress in this country, and it is a pleasure to know that men of all social positions and conditions shall be accorded the privilege of...
Mr Neville Chamberlain: ...not so, that this is a minimum. It is not a fixed amount, and what we are guaranteeing is that the general Exchequer contribution shall never be less than is produced by maintaining its ratio: and, of course, it will be quite possible for any succeeding Parliament to increase the general Exchequer contribution by anything they like, therefore increasing still further the proportion between...
Mr James Stewart: It is on the calculation of the formula that the de-rating proposals are to be put into operation. That is just an illustration of the fact that I do not understand the formula, in common with something like 90 per cent. of my colleagues in this House. Having made that confession, I will not refer to the formula further, for fear that I may betray my ignorance in a still deeper and greater...
Lord Eustace Percy: ...usual Memorandum on the Estimates which they have had rather earlier this year, and they have before them also the Board's Report for the year 1928. Little need be said about the detailed problems of administration which ordinarily occupy attention when we are discussing the Estimates. I would rather ask the Committee to consider how profound has been the change in our whole conception of...
Mr Dugald Cowan: I take it that it is a fortunate circumstance that to-day we have had a discussion which includes education in England and Wales and education in Scotland, and it is another happy circumstance that the reply for the Board of Education for England and Wales has been given by a Scottish Member and one who has had a large experience of education in Scotland. It is true too, as has been already...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I am more cheerful than I was about this afternoon's Debate. It seems to me that the party to which I have the honour to belong not only knows something about the government of our Colonial Empire, but also has the right views on it. I am the more cheered because we began with the most depressing speech to which I have ever listened from the Secretary of State for the Colonies. I wish he were...
Mr George Tryon: I am glad to have another opportunity of presenting the Estimates for my Department, because it enables me to give the House what is most important in regard to War pensions, a comprehensive view of the system under which we work. The Vote of the Ministry is still nearly the largest single Vote of all the Civil Estimates. The Ministry's work affects the weekly budget of nearly 1,000,000...
Sir Basil Peto: On Thursday last, I asked a question with regard to the continuation of the Rent Restrictions Acts and, in particular, with regard to the operation of a provision which involves great hardship to the owners of single houses of which they have been waiting for years to obtain possession. That question was, when replied to, coupled up with three other questions bearing on different aspects of...
Major Archibald Church: For some considerable time I have been trying to return to this House and to present a few views that I have collected in our East African dependencies and in other parts of the Empire on the subject that is before us this afternoon. I was particularly fascinated by the remarks of the Noble Lord the late President of the Board of Education, when he pleaded that we in this House should take a...
Mr James Marley: I beg to move, That, in the opinion of this House, the Native population of our dependencies should not be exploited as a source of low-grade labour; no governmental pressure should be used to provide wage-labour for employers; due care should be taken of Native social well-being; the Native demand for land should be adequately and satisfactorily met and their rights therein properly...
Mr Frederick Montague: I beg to move, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair." The revised total of last year's estimate, allowing for the Supplementary Estimate of £760,000, was £16,960,000, so that Members will see that this year there is an increase in Air Estimates of £890,000 within a total of £17,850,000. This increase is due in the main to the provision of the up-to-date equipment, which is essential...
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: But the right hon. Gentleman did not provide in the taxation of this country for the expenditure to which he was committing us. I pointed that out repeatedly, and I never got an answer. I asked him to point to a single Chancellor of the Exchequer who had ever done what he did before. It was a deficit that he was arranging for 1931. What was his answer? "I thought there...
Mr John Gilmour: The occasion when Scottish Members have an opportunity of discussing the conduct of agricultural affairs in Scotland is always of peculiar interest to us. On this occasion we approach the subject with a feeling of insecurity as to the future because, obviously, agriculture in Scotland, as in other parts, is passing through a time of great difficulty. The Minister has the responsibility of...
Captain William Benn: It is not the language of hyperbole to describe the issues, on the consideration of which the Committee is engaged, as momentous and even vital to the future of the British Commonwealth. Despite some criticism which has at times been made, it has been the desire of the India Office to give to the House and to the public at every stage the fullest possible information on all matters concerning...
Mr John McGovern: I have listened with deep interest to the statement which was made by the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Scotland, and I have also listened to the discussion which has followed. But, while I am totally in agreement with the statements which have been made regarding hospital accommodation, the necessity for telephone communication between doctors and their patients, and many...
Mr Henry Muggeridge: The speech to which we have just listened is in itself an acknowledgment, at any rate, of the effect which was made by the statesmanlike speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Smethwick (Sir O. Mosley). There you had an attempt to raise the whole issue of the Debate now taking place on to a level commensurate with the difficulties with which we are surrounded and the attitude of the various...
Mr William Graham: I think the House will have listened with a good deal of surprise, if not of amazement, to the attack which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain) has made in his speech this afternoon. I expected a very powerful and searching indictment of the Government's policy, but it is probably not unfair to say that the right hon. Gentleman was violent only in those...
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery: ...to the House, and, I think, I can also congratulate him upon the vigour and the ability with which he has defended proceedings for which he himself was not in the least responsible and which many of us in this House of all parties feel to have been unnecessary. Naturally, we welcome the assurances which are given that there is no intention of going back upon the full policy of the Mandate...
