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Commons Hansard for 21 March 1916 (Volume 81)
From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated
23 February 2026 at 9.12am.
Commons Chamber
Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons
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Oral Answers to Questions
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Royal Naval Reserve
Prisoners at Groeningen
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Neutral Trading With Germany
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Contraband Committee
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British Subjects (Internment in Jerusalem)
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Nerve-Shaken Soldiers
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Military Service
Local, Tribunals
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Canteen Employes (Exemption)
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Students of Religious Denominations
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Men Called Up Pending Appeal
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Married Men Voluntarily Attested
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Non-Combatant Corps
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Calling Up of Miners (Congleton)
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Certified Essential Trades
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Choice of Regiment
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Widowers With Young Children
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Reserved Trade Claims
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Temporary Exemption
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Atherstone Hunt
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Venereal Diseases (Egypt and Salonika)
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Soldiers' Pay (Hospital Stoppages)
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Public Schools Battalion
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Naval and Military Air Service
Royal Flying Corps
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Naval Wing
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Major-General S. S. Long (Retirement)
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Soldier Marriages During War
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Wounded Soldiers
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Army Pensions (Commutation)
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Royal Field Artillery (Sergeant Samways)
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St. Martin's Plain and Dibgate Camps (Huts)
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Volunteer Training Corps
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Mesopotamia Campaign
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French Officers and Men (Distinguished Service)
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Economic Conference of Allies
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Earl Kitchener's Salary
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Peace Terms
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Easter Recess
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Bonus Bonds
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Mr. Masterman's Salary
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Courts-Martial (Sentences)
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Court of Inquiry (2nd Lieutenant Plummer)
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Nerve Shock
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Naval and Military Services
Pensions and Grants
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War Office Conteact (Messrs. Ceossley and Co., Halifax)
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Excess Profits (Mine Owners)
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Sugar Imports
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Old Age Pensions
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Premium Bonds
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Small Holdings (Scotland)
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Rates (Scotland)
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Land Settlement (Soldiers and Sailors)
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Increased Assessment (North Bierley Union)
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Caherciveen and Waterville (Road Improvement)
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Finance Act, 1915 (Films)
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Royal Dockyards
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Board of Admiralty
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Munitions
Prosecution of Workman (Sheffield)
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Distilleries Adapted for National Purposes
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Employment of Women
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Release from Colours
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Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic)
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Questions
Obstruction to Military Service Act
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Public Retrenchment (Factory Inspectors)
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Alien Enemies
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Rum Importation
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Railway Hotels
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Beef and Mutton Purchases
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Coal Prices (London)
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Questions
Restriction of Imports
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Egypt (High Commissioner's Salary)
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Increment Value Duty (Lumsden Judgment)
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Procurator-Fiscal, Kirkcudbright
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Rural District Councils
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Commission of the Peace (Kerry)
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Dope Poisoning
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New Member Sworn
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Orders of the Day
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Supply [16th March].—Report
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Written Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers to Questions
Questions
Financing War
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Purchases and Sales
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Pneumatic Motor Tyres Imported from America
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Special War Taxation
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Rates of Exchange
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Anti-Aircraft Service
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Immediate Enlistment to Units
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Rejected Recruits Attested
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Local Tribunals
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Medically Unfit
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Home Defence Units
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Special Constables
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"Starred" Occupations
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Vaccination
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Official Paper Sizes (Economy)
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Army Horses (Mortality)
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Wounded Soldiers
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British Prisoners of War in Germany
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Transfer from Non-Combatant Corps
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New Armies (Physical Measurement of Recruits)
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Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis
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Dominion Contingents
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Enemy Aircraft Raids (London Defences)
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Gun Wharf, Portsmouth (Tent Repairers)
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Volunteer Training Corps
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Time-Expired Men Re-Engaging (Bounty)
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National Register (Skilled Occupations)
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Woolwich Arsenal Workers
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Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic)
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Baluchistan Frontier
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Metropolitan Water Board
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Food-Stuffs (Tea Transports)
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Prohibited Imports (Woods)
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Cotton and Cotton Yarn Imports
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Labour Exchanges (Clerical Staffs)
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Compton Chamberlayne Post Office
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Troops in Egypt (Delivery of Lettees)
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Labour Shortage (Pleasuee Grounds)
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Food Production (Ireland)
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Wakely Estate, County Galway
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Eyre Estate, County Galway
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Clanricarde Estate, County Galway
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