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Commons Hansard for 15 August 1917 (Volume 97)
From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated
23 February 2026 at 10.23am.
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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War
India
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Constitutional Reforms (Internments)
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Indian Medical Service (Colonel Carter)
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Public Services Commission (Report)
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Banks (Facilities for Traders)
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Mesopotamia
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Payment of Tribute, Rent and Taxes
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Criminal Judges and Magistrates
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Questions
Timber Rafts (Offer from Sweden and Norway)
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Brixham Fishermen
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Plymouth Garrison (Tolls and Ferries)
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Royal Dockyards (Payment for Skilled Labourers)
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Naval Surgeons (Deductions from Pay)
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Rhodesia
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Military Service
Classes B 3 and C 3
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Invaliding Boards
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Man-Power
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Somerset Appeal Tribunal
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Conscientious Objector
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Engineering Apprentices
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Civil Liabilities Committee
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Badges for Service Abroad
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Station Incident (York)
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Volunteer Training Corps (Uniform)
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Royal Flying Corps Camp, Coventry
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Notices to Quit (Board of Agriculture)
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Food Supplies
Hop Crops
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Fishing Regulations (Scotland)
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Shipping Freights
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Barley and Maize
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Mitchelson and Company
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Purchasing Foodstuffs
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Light Beer (Price)
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Sugar Distribution
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Wheat
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Fruit (Controlled Prices)
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Beer Supply Certificates
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Mutton
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Questions
Irish Migratory Labourers (Ayrshire)
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Solicitors (Examination) Bill
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Hereditary Honours
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First Lord of the Admiralty (Salary)
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Health Ministry
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Shipping Companies (Profits)
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Property Return
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Naval and Military Pensions and Grants
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Road Stone Control Committee
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River Bother (Pollution)
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Housing Working-Classes
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Railway Station Cabs
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Mental Cases (Army)
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Representation of the People Bill
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Land Commission (Ireland)
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Trade in Ireland (Government Restrictions)
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Necessitous School Children (Dublin)
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Brigadier-General Colomb
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Aden Field Force
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Education Bill
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Railway Servants' Demands
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Merchant Officers and Seamen
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Metropolitan Water Board
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Coleraine House, Dublin (Electric Lighting)
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House of Commons (Ladies' Grille)
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Martin's Divorce Bill [Lords]
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Message from the Lords
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New Ministries Bill
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Orders of the Day
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Petroleum (Production)
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Supply
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Representation of the People Bill
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Glasgow Boundaries Act (1912) Amendment Order Confirmation Bill [By Order]
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Representation of the People Bill
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Business of the House
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Munitions of War (Re-Committed) Bill
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Solicitors (Examination) Bill [Lords.]
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Business of the House
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Written Answers
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Soldiers' Pay
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Excess Profits Duty
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Housing (Great Britain)
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Licensed Properties Value (Scotland)
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Enemy Prize Ships (British Claims)
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Saccharin
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Motor Tractors
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Army Stores Depot (Dublin)
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General Sir John Steevens
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Fodder (War Department Purchases)
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War Department Labourers (Dublin)
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Transfers
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Army Canteens
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Army Posters and Advertisements
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Naval and Military Pensions and Grants
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Artificial Limbs (Manufacture)
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Incapacitated Official
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Sale of Spirits (Argyllshire)
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Central Control Board (Expenditure)
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Madras Government (Mrs. Besant)
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Military Station Hospitals (India)
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Russian Subjects (Belgian Domicile)
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Peace Propaganda
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Prudential Assurance Company (Agency Staff)
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Insurance Agents (Wages)
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Engineering and Foundry Trades (Wages Award)
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Crop Restriction Order, 1917
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River Rother (Pollution)
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Turkey (Serbian Girls)
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Greeks in Macedonia and Thrace
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Gaming Houses
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Typhoid Outbreak (Carmarthenshire)
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Infant Mortality
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