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Commons Hansard for 13 December 1917 (Volume 100)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 23 February 2026 at 10.55am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.

House of Commons (item number 1) (id c26718b2-336c-40f1-a1bf-bb85e5c3bdc0)

Oral Answers to Questions

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Paper Manufacture (item number 1) (id bbf1ff29-6262-4487-bcfc-a4a14005ac05)
Gas Lighting (Ludlow) (item number 1) (id 7b8f3b3e-4e79-471c-afdb-b233d661f8ae)
Trade Commissioner (item number 1) (id c74f8336-3fdf-455b-9340-77a1dceed5c9)
Shipbuilding (Dublin) (item number 1) (id 8333887b-26a5-44ad-8cbf-9cb0327d93e6)
Army (Transfer to Navy) (item number 1) (id 5a380b2a-b580-4c7e-a184-527ade654d9f)
Wool (item number 1) (id 1847052a-e5b4-4f6c-b7c3-9e988f16eced)
War Department Employes (Scraesdon) (item number 1) (id 1aa13011-1f0e-41a2-b0b1-83fb0b3f1b27)
Irish Government (item number 1) (id 906a7f83-b972-4cb5-a9e2-58de87f9ecec)
Public Assistance (Co-Ordination) (item number 1) (id 09a51377-9ee5-4cfc-b69a-f9009cb3caa3)
War Service (Decorations) (item number 1) (id 86d1ebc2-e42a-4d19-8081-3d6fe694d565)
Prisoners of War (item number 1) (id 62080976-20b3-4d75-b487-6d4dccdb6e32)
Christmas Bank Holidays (Officials) (item number 1) (id 3d162340-4ad8-4f18-aa42-3981464053cb)
Commerce and Industry (Committee's Report) (item number 1) (id 796575f6-c796-4772-8711-fad68080b7a0)
Education Bill (item number 1) (id 19509142-e337-464b-9c8c-f66fdc5a47a8)
Messrs. J. and P. Coats (item number 1) (id 9018db36-344d-4886-a17b-4eb41e0551b1)
Excise Officers (Remuneration) (item number 1) (id f96f1a67-cddd-41d3-911b-07af516da4e4)
Relief of Distress, East Coast (item number 1) (id 34b6ad44-9382-4181-baba-f88bcab3e922)
National Health Insurance (Invalided Service Men) (item number 1) (id c85a9bf1-cf6e-40db-8673-af4ec8a1a830)
Orders of the Day (item number 3) (id 32d79dd2-c5fd-4040-a7b5-68ecdc63561a)
Business of the House (item number 4) (id 3d209690-15c4-418c-a9c8-ffcc4dc533fc)
Supply.—[12th December.] (item number 5) (id 08aa2b46-c889-4360-82ff-51d8ab61875c)
Secret Session (item number 6) (id 104d0572-379a-48d7-8f31-7700ef475def)
Supply (item number 7) (id 1f18df80-2a69-415e-aa42-378f188c8abc)
Ways and Means (item number 8) (id 1987a8b1-f737-4c7c-9ed8-bd3f84e8378b)
Supply [10th December] (item number 9) (id 2327b7d6-ca31-4449-a530-0579fce6bdd3)
Navy Supplementary Estimate, 1917–18 (item number 10) (id ccd58b83-ecd9-4588-96de-5d267f116b59)
Navy and Army Expenditure, 1915–16 (item number 11) (id 0e833744-43ed-4a2c-b227-2b8e420da5dd)
National Insurance (Unemployment) [Money] (item number 12) (id 2cac9de7-ce40-411b-b0dd-186f98e59f32)

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Coal-Fields (Development) (item number 1) (id 910b6d28-985c-470c-bc7a-00df1a14ffeb)
Commissions and Committees (item number 1) (id 5ae96a24-255b-4aa5-9943-93b6aad1e00f)
Excess Profits Duty (Professional Incomes) (item number 1) (id 98c83c01-a3af-4cc2-80f5-67eeaeda1c12)
Bonded Spirits (item number 1) (id dfd6e909-201d-48d7-892a-0f7372a40d96)
Civil Service Pensioners (item number 1) (id 46523641-d893-4658-ab99-85248ca99c9e)
Milk (item number 1) (id 7dbcc3a0-5b0e-4ab1-9b38-93f12b7032cd)
Racehorses (Rations) (item number 1) (id eaab8101-7e55-409a-8797-c8b86595746a)
Live-Stock Census (item number 1) (id 12f30114-d6a9-45b2-94c1-e54a75f0a74f)
Sugar and Tea (item number 1) (id 5d47062f-e545-40ce-98ca-c272b409244b)
Barley (item number 1) (id 226fd31c-c338-4382-90c8-8f95813d5213)
Food Ships Sunk (item number 1) (id 14ed427b-9f54-49b1-bd7f-a6a339d71afb)
Pigs and Sows (item number 1) (id d059667b-e834-4cb4-9139-ba448b50ba54)
Steam Ploughing Tackle (item number 1) (id 13f48d48-1875-4f75-96e5-edc8d254474b)
Allotments (item number 1) (id cddedf7d-fd20-429a-a730-980fadd92689)
Beer Output (item number 1) (id c744d9d9-c79b-4b58-a055-1bcfec50cb9b)
Castlecomer Collieries (item number 1) (id f45806c3-bfff-42d5-8150-73ba273053ef)
Shipping Losses (item number 1) (id 027eec69-d8cb-4dc3-8105-2502fab3b4b5)
Shipbuilding (Private Yards) (item number 1) (id 0571651c-d231-4d51-bc66-bf75027726e9)
Shipbuilding Council (item number 1) (id 50b4bf6b-0d81-4a4b-a7bd-0d037f56ad23)
Soldiers Over Forty-One (item number 1) (id 45e9fbda-975a-458a-98c5-6be9c9c77162)
Medical Students (item number 1) (id 4f848846-cea8-445f-883a-4ab67d0d5cde)
Food Producers or Distributers (item number 1) (id 56e63659-e3d2-49e4-89e3-bcc47c96146d)
Retired Officers (Neurasthenia) (item number 1) (id bced06cd-eaaa-4ad4-80e1-30c2bd9d47e5)
Conditional Exemption (item number 1) (id 29ae63df-2624-4f52-8296-7f8485e15027)
French Subject (item number 1) (id 5a5ff4f9-8576-4fa8-9d82-17f17a6f8886)
Prees Heath Camp (Private Murphy) (item number 1) (id 52140909-84f5-41b2-9d98-2269a74fc0ad)
War Service (1914 Star) (item number 1) (id 6fa16c19-6c3a-405f-9a4c-1eafa6b9f801)
Knowsley Park Camp (item number 1) (id 1644c27e-5a8c-4631-82d5-af16b8dbbedb)
Soldiers' Leave (item number 1) (id c939413e-83d0-42f9-8bb8-c24ca93897f3)
Military Hospitals (Regulations) (item number 1) (id 95cc06c4-0f99-4d69-ab79-1858f7655a5e)
Officer Cadets (Inoculation) (item number 1) (id 9d441ced-4a9b-4205-8c15-ef6b8f002797)
Rugeley Camp (item number 1) (id a65bca55-b5fe-417c-8d54-740bb2f1fc34)
Retired Officers (Rank) (item number 1) (id b1b25893-3c7b-4321-a09b-9fc2654e465a)
Garrison Battalions, India (item number 1) (id 0e39b088-39f6-415a-9a74-0cd6e50f9448)
Army Medical Officers (France) (item number 1) (id 04f7f6de-f6b1-40fb-b4aa-da7fd42de64d)
Boots Destroyed (Egypt) (item number 1) (id a06e2d39-b987-4feb-8715-1553174b774c)
Air Forces (Wounded Officers) (item number 1) (id 06262fe5-040d-4169-bfc9-ccd8a0d1ff5a)
Royal Engineers, Bulford (item number 1) (id a00f383b-f2b9-440c-93b7-cfd9d3c23228)
Workmen's Compensation (item number 1) (id 8fa3d5ad-8c52-4249-8979-7106525647af)
Tents (item number 1) (id c191ceae-eb58-4dda-b0eb-cbf531b86d02)
Royal Navy (Transfers to Army) (item number 1) (id 69ae6224-c464-4e84-befd-e6b50fb2da5a)
Used Tea Leaves (Caffeine) (item number 1) (id 45357cf2-0e9c-43fb-ac4c-95ff0f9b428a)
Naval and Military Pensions and Grants (item number 1) (id ee9e4810-977b-41e3-806d-5cde847f4a01)
Wembley Remount Department (War Bonus) (item number 1) (id 8e3a8878-f2ac-4f4c-8626-58edfbe4c460)
Transport Workers' Battalions (item number 1) (id 9624bab9-094f-4767-a372-5706fbe3d102)
Prisoners' Camps, Germany (item number 1) (id d51ac424-4b60-4ad6-9d8e-fc52bd468a72)
Great Yarmouth Firm (Wages) (item number 1) (id 4f619f76-16e2-4f7d-814f-9c16ed9292b0)
Controlled Establishments (Clerical Staffs) (item number 1) (id 0f902d10-7d8e-42a7-90b0-8f4a68db13e0)
Women Workers (item number 1) (id 2b3ee11e-8764-4e46-86b5-b51ad64546c8)
Cannel Coal (item number 1) (id 8546416d-8348-4d07-a0c6-f704b8e38bb9)
Public Assistance (Co-Ordination) (item number 1) (id a1832833-0ccc-4116-bf30-e0a1a31c0aa2)
School Teachers' Dismissal, Chester (item number 1) (id 04c2efa2-a696-4207-a452-cc753d9fdf86)
Child Life (Statistics) (item number 1) (id d19c0cef-e902-4a0c-9440-d77c375ca765)
British Museum Library (item number 1) (id 3b0de1b5-aa18-411e-bf12-2a7d86e74e0f)
Publications Seized (item number 1) (id eb1ddc28-ed49-4364-bea2-52c5ee5fb627)
Police Raids (item number 1) (id 6de31394-304c-4aab-ac89-32ba95ff468b)
Internment Cases (item number 1) (id 40e975c8-a95f-4d62-a2e6-1d959f5b694c)
Hospital Patients (Railway Fares) (item number 1) (id 65280cc0-9f03-4404-8cc5-fed050403077)
Industrial Advisory Councils (Memorandum) (item number 1) (id d8466582-da0f-41a1-a7c0-a43ef87a1aeb)
Taxi-Cab Dispute (item number 1) (id 34655c63-8d27-4695-b6e1-0c775b3bcdc4)
Paraffin (item number 1) (id 182b019e-ae11-4701-9232-8501ef637a66)
Mineral Waters (Export) (item number 1) (id 5f8f734f-937b-4176-ac6c-3699c9a42ca3)
Steamship "La Blanca" (item number 1) (id 52d96b53-a33e-4b0a-b29f-e77a421c941e)
Wages Boards, Ireland (item number 1) (id 247d1a8b-506a-490e-b8e9-947542e151cb)
Government Contractors (Boys' Wages) (item number 1) (id 179f63d2-7b5e-4dc5-b81b-6d263e68f770)
Timber (Damage to Roads) (item number 1) (id 793ac774-f80b-4a02-9bb6-e3b6aaf56c4a)
Customs and Excise, Ireland (Women Clerks) (item number 1) (id fd319e9a-a1a4-49a2-b348-d4a6bba9ddd5)
State-Aided Schools (Inspectors' Reports) (item number 1) (id bb8d1072-2fe8-453b-8cc6-6bc0bc13d58f)
Orphans of School Age (item number 1) (id 353c8d8d-f3b3-4949-8a6e-e7724c3f195e)
Secondary Schools (Accommodation) (item number 1) (id 5539f91c-7798-413d-a8da-02e1f0a719fe)
Elementary Education (Grant) (item number 1) (id 167ebed9-c2e4-4add-9cbc-c689050881d9)
Tuckenhay Paper Factory, Totnes (item number 1) (id 17b9b502-396f-434b-8bbf-3f08e1e104e3)
Hawarden Sessions (Sentence) (item number 1) (id 7d6a749b-fe73-4341-964e-f25989fddb1d)
School Teachers' Salaries (Scotland) (item number 1) (id 0c1f1b7d-e3f8-44ac-a5fe-d70efc51e5e4)
Housing (Scotland) (item number 1) (id b4a65427-adde-4d9d-86fd-765eb3bcf512)

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