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Commons Hansard for 5 November 1918 (Volume 110)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 23 February 2026 at 11.30am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons (item number 1) (id f50430ec-cd04-4e20-9d28-112041c12507)
National Health Insurance (item number 2) (id da8ce849-514f-4e7d-8afe-5f0fd9f2782a)
Working Classes, Cost of Living Committee, 1918 (item number 3) (id 1c2b8aac-8f89-45c8-b2b0-31800f8e3405)
Savings Banks and Friendly Societies (item number 4) (id 652485e2-b12e-4547-962e-cef5897bea0a)
Shops Act, 1912 (item number 5) (id 41d7df52-58c8-4537-9610-08dd562abdde)
Penal Servitude Acts (Conditional Licence) (item number 6) (id 629de06f-6d2b-4aab-bd17-0e0a468875b3)

Oral Answers to Questions
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War
Territorial Force (item number 1) (id 6a3fbe26-f0c0-44f1-90aa-9b78a9bdb8d7)
Imperial Service Obligation (item number 1) (id 20179b2b-9f03-4bd4-ba54-1d7369bcc722)

Military Service
Surviving Sons (Home Service) (item number 1) (id 35d4d810-6673-44b0-bd23-48f690a0e7b8)
Conscientious Objectors (item number 1) (id abfd549a-1fb3-4ee0-a92c-feee3c7a5d01)
Evasion of Service (Arthur Kuhl) (item number 1) (id 2ae5f04a-5fd1-4e8c-9857-2c71da2d15f9)

Naval and Military Pensions and Grants
Discharge Bonus (item number 1) (id 24ae25df-84ad-45ac-b39c-92bf7e15da9e)
Ex-Service Men (Assistance) (item number 1) (id 6b390a5b-7753-492f-9e23-30678acd6796)
Pension Increases (item number 1) (id 1d3a1d6b-1f97-42de-9c3b-c99deb43262d)
Ministry of Pensions (Functions) (item number 1) (id ba776402-0dbb-48ef-8d44-217dbf08d1ac)
Pension Scales (Bonus) (item number 1) (id 8f2d7288-2953-4524-a81d-f88d8ef379c3)
Special Grants Committee (item number 1) (id 544b80e4-668d-4ba1-9668-7fb6943b6da5)
Alternative Pensions (item number 1) (id 14674fc7-b2d4-49b9-a8a1-f805f3f69ed3)
Appeals (item number 1) (id 33b73ac3-fdce-4ef3-8c4e-64b8e5419d2d)

Food Supplies
Army Rations (Destruction) (item number 1) (id ab20fafe-4040-480e-8f32-67d18126b81f)
Machinery and Stores (item number 1) (id dd121a6d-6e1c-40c8-ba87-73f0f3d869af)
Feeding-Stuffs (item number 1) (id 2ac33ac7-61d7-45d1-87f6-36fbdbb2cb71)
Lincolnshire Markets (item number 1) (id 4f5eb6a0-442a-416e-95d2-e1a0ae6b3e5e)

Questions
Prince of Wales's Hospital, Marylebone (item number 1) (id f5e2d8e2-2913-47b0-a7d4-ce714094c385)
Horse Guards Messengers (Pay) (item number 1) (id 5d2682c0-65e7-45c3-a738-4d1c6d0a1e20)
Army Rank (Officers) (item number 1) (id ca4f07cc-e602-4044-a956-4abc18e12f96)
Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force (Pay) (item number 1) (id f77c3b02-1034-4160-be34-0f677b7e5e0d)

Russia
Bolshevist Propaganda (Deportation of Henry Gogol) (item number 1) (id 1bf4393a-c8ee-4dbf-9703-d4481107d94d)
Mr. D. Chrysin (item number 1) (id 1272beaa-04bf-4322-88ea-a40b5925c6b4)

Prisoners of War
German Prisoners (item number 1) (id 4effcbda-2253-4abc-999b-c0ba6dab43d4)
Cruelty Cases (Evidence) (item number 1) (id 950a051b-49b0-480d-ab54-4b211e345bb3)
Camp Commandants (item number 1) (id 69a674d5-dd77-4a2e-8476-5db7fb549f85)
Philippopolis Camp (item number 1) (id 6ca18841-8e8f-464d-8579-7e51ea9373c8)

Questions
German Ratification of Treaty (item number 1) (id 1163aed6-3717-4529-b834-be056adf4146)
Turkey (item number 1) (id 2c6bd50a-c178-4f18-9c88-1b3ac8d64282)
Discharged Soldiers (Training) (item number 1) (id aeba5a32-c4f6-4c70-9ed5-066344eb4068)

Mercantile Marine
Submarine Warfare (item number 1) (id 68201807-e152-4f4e-8ea1-c42fdbfc6c03)
Ships for Sale (item number 1) (id 46605316-8df1-43f2-903f-baa3b4cc1227)
West African Trade (item number 1) (id 31c09cea-1285-403f-a9ae-2f5f00629411)
Manning (item number 1) (id 688aa427-2343-4641-bd9d-7a8bca399eea)
Shipbuilding (Shanghai) (item number 1) (id 750c99df-8302-4dbd-a7a4-ec25bfb54dc8)

Questions
Small Holdings (item number 1) (id dabf2e74-6dc5-4c8d-9613-6c1e445fc5a2)
Secretary of State for the Colonies (item number 1) (id 5cb4d579-608d-4b5a-b6fa-5fd8c29130dd)
Women's Wages (item number 1) (id 909c4f99-82ef-462e-bb1b-250e87338a81)
Street Names (German) (item number 1) (id 67f2c04c-1ece-42d7-a4c9-82630b36b2e5)
Land Sales (item number 1) (id 6450df15-fd65-48de-b8bc-98ad88272a65)
Land Settlement (Ex-Service Men) (item number 1) (id 95f82780-22d2-43d5-9f41-8be70f280296)
Aviation (International Law) (item number 1) (id 45194b0b-0478-4bb4-8110-2bb6ea9ec8fa)
Armistice With Turkey (Return of Troops) (item number 1) (id 478bda59-3f1c-4d3c-968f-5b3474719e69)

Demobilisation
Minister of Labour (item number 1) (id e69cd7c3-7e07-48ab-95c5-6f5d00977dc2)
Government Stores (item number 1) (id 307e8314-0d47-48a1-81b8-7ea3b7977ea6)
Sailors (item number 1) (id 4db4585a-ad30-4894-9eba-db8fa2feb213)
Ministry of Reconstruction (Powers) (item number 1) (id 6d4fb68b-67e5-4df2-964c-620ef567d230)
Currency Problems (item number 1) (id ee4d3818-467d-467d-959d-eb2a524b0c84)

Commercial Undertakings
Messrs. Ludwig Krumm (item number 1) (id 75de5ec1-7ec4-45eb-8d4c-aa290b40a7cf)

General Election
Petrol Allowances (item number 1) (id d7068580-7a0b-4b8f-8f69-208550229088)

Questions
Coal Supplies (item number 1) (id 114459c5-0b7c-48e0-93df-765aa4e4d8ec)
Housing (Local Authorities' Schemes) (item number 1) (id 54f1381b-f8ae-4e3f-a19a-9862e355a676)
Civilian Trade Instructors (Royal Navy) (item number 1) (id 3b00cb8f-553c-402b-8204-8793ab15ac03)
Admiralty Telegraphic Department (item number 1) (id 766ffa0b-e4b3-464c-bcb8-20b76031a270)
Edinburgh Post Office (item number 1) (id c308fbca-e55b-46c2-a4ee-609214ddc965)
Museums (Attendants' Salaries) (item number 1) (id 7f12276a-3012-4a0b-9f6f-6af76478385a)

Munitions
Waltham Abbey Powder Mills (item number 1) (id 3cc62416-75e6-4b25-8bde-f1cc21b368ec)
Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) (item number 1) (id 4a1f7605-1e98-432a-8246-e31e085f9325)
War Aims Committee (item number 1) (id beef6568-7e29-4462-b2bb-0f69f9ff83cb)
War Savings Committee (Expenses) (item number 1) (id 6da9f009-0274-4ac9-a1c4-cf978de31a8a)

Ireland
Coal Boring (item number 1) (id 74af5a59-f8e2-46ed-956b-fed01fa95e41)
Tillage Orders (item number 1) (id 7e567288-49dd-4e69-b5ce-de0efe0d017a)
Military Areas (item number 1) (id d5c6e893-5ccb-4cba-8cd4-46dbd437bc1b)
Law of Settlement (item number 1) (id 9ceebd4e-7f9a-4473-a818-2d4e11e10989)
Plot-Holders (Security of Tenure) (item number 1) (id e224be0c-3562-4774-994a-8d4e2485f960)
Drainage Works (County Sligo) (item number 1) (id 23530639-5597-4b61-a5f3-1ad7310e2b7f)
Coalfields (Railways) (item number 1) (id ea422fcc-ecf9-4b4e-bc43-11a9722ee26f)
Royal Irish Constabulary (item number 1) (id d8db1879-8c25-461a-b0ca-69611a19f42f)
Congested Districts Board (item number 1) (id 47cf2f70-8cba-44a5-acd0-cd0eb671de9e)
Discharged Officers (Employment) (item number 1) (id f1055412-1432-4a91-9df3-1ff1d669fd53)

Royal Air Force
Decorations and Chevrons (item number 1) (id 52fb92bf-6c36-495c-a04f-40b759f09848)
Civilian Aerial Transport (item number 1) (id 75ce0d13-7c52-44ed-b43a-42ec91ff47a1)
Civil Service Pensioners (item number 1) (id 95cd5f3b-fff4-4093-a06d-c283644c41f3)
Old Age Pensions (item number 1) (id 6db9ac99-f1bc-42c3-9ec5-7f9a9f8a41c8)

Influenza Epidemic
Research Work (item number 1) (id d0736051-a52d-496e-8ed6-d0a3ba68a234)
New Member Sworn (item number 8) (id 8f089654-9531-41e0-8375-e9d8ac3178d6)
Orders of the Day (item number 9) (id acf1e55d-eb05-4e4e-a967-6c39638a0279)
Business of the House (item number 10) (id e644dac7-6942-46c4-b7c1-e74cab4b9386)
Austria (Surrender) (item number 11) (id 3bc86d74-3c94-4433-96a7-81b375beac27)
Government of Ireland (item number 12) (id 466ed0a9-8fb6-46bb-ad18-0bb825b3f21d)
Navy and Army Expenditure, 1916–17 (item number 13) (id c6a4eaa3-8b9d-42a4-9b08-7065803e99d7)
Plot-Holders, Ireland (Security of Tenure) (item number 14) (id 49ffb4cb-45b9-4855-b79a-c0d1e7e949cd)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Food Supplies
Canned Fish (item number 1) (id 9c562b90-39d0-4849-8d94-8f7c3188b912)

Questions
Unestablished Civil Servants (Killed in Action) (item number 1) (id 90408989-e90e-455b-b3aa-d33f9c189a26)
Land Purchase, Connemara (item number 1) (id 66b13e9f-918e-40f8-90f9-a1c5d6782427)
Naval and Military Pensions and Grants (item number 1) (id 177a28ef-4d42-4727-9577-f0c3ac6a85c1)
Gallipoli Medal (item number 1) (id 8d3f1cdf-e4e0-4581-91c6-9d68daa8edbe)
Re-Engaged Territorials (War Bounty) (item number 1) (id 311cd270-2e59-4f8b-a575-e5ef5a0389ff)

Military Service
Men With Large Families (item number 1) (id d29bedea-1b50-4fdd-ac58-0660e151ae52)
Conscientious Objectors (item number 1) (id dc3d32da-fe6a-4cbc-8b5b-27e5a15cb7e2)
Ministry of National Service (Officers) (item number 1) (id 73eaa790-5632-4e6c-a72d-71c1fd2f3065)
Petrol Supplies (Discharged Service Men) (item number 1) (id f96d63a3-fc36-401d-8ade-d4a75510dcd9)
Season Tickets (Renewal Refused) (item number 1) (id ff6e5d59-9224-422a-bbbf-8b0194b1204c)
Post Office Employes (Right to Resign) (item number 1) (id 6c866731-701d-4bc7-930d-10d61cb7e54f)
Old Age Pensions (item number 1) (id 52f1b251-53ef-4f26-a7be-c8262c860e65)
Royal Irish Constabulary (item number 1) (id 09c28629-b333-40a5-ae6b-2117d06715e5)
School Teachers (Superannuation) Bill (item number 1) (id 095fbd42-3706-43a4-a45d-8e8b749958e7)
Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 (Administration) (item number 1) (id 5bbc74b4-e72f-4d01-9669-95f15d3458d5)

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