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Commons Hansard for 22 December 1919 (Volume 123)

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Commons Chamber

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

House Of Commons (item number 1) (id 37149085-2535-44a6-8cf8-d91e74a6efe8)
Private Business (item number 2) (id 2f67f818-2c71-4991-8433-a3262cd4ac16)

Oral Answers To Questions

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Ex-German Merchant Ships (Fires) (item number 1) (id 88f2ef6e-c5e5-4f23-83f7-e6d134adc260)
Profiteering Act (item number 1) (id 4ad9a066-057c-483c-a0a5-d277cc942e8b)
Dyes (item number 1) (id 21c44826-ca4b-49c9-9565-73bc7efe19a6)
Alsace-L0rraine (Payment Of Pre-War Debts) (item number 1) (id ea47f1e7-d920-4433-bd80-4f0aec46cde9)
Building Stone Prices (item number 1) (id bc0596f0-6891-4ac9-a32d-9dd2716fd579)
Ex-German Warships (item number 1) (id b837e822-1cb0-41e0-8405-c0e86ad4210c)
Old Age Pensions (item number 1) (id 16a6e16c-285b-4267-8d35-dc678932bda9)
Disabled Ex-Service Men (Employment) (item number 1) (id 6c2974bc-5ae5-4df9-8e1f-2b1a04598c63)
Land Purchase (item number 1) (id bc631a60-985a-44bf-908b-735e0d3a7d11)
Finance Act (1909-10) Inquiry (item number 1) (id c852bd84-02f1-4604-91ca-10c3bef2ca84)
National Relief Fund (item number 1) (id 08b113ce-ea36-47e8-9fcd-0b611ffb70e4)
Airships (Commercial Purposes) (item number 1) (id e5994a55-7906-4202-b0e3-e0f645c88266)
Naval Schoolmasters (Pay) (item number 1) (id 6aee1965-4515-4633-a802-fb7153ac50a6)
Douglas-Pennant Inquiry (item number 1) (id a7b50098-3c83-4048-ac72-4375da565383)
Inter-Allied Conference (item number 1) (id e569af75-1d43-4b30-a718-4ac4d978b3f3)
Hohenzollern Princes (Residence) (item number 1) (id 54e90b83-9fee-4b13-ba94-196c712fe1a2)
Voluntary Hospitals (item number 1) (id e85f2698-a8c4-43d6-921b-54f251f88354)
Agriculture (Wales) (item number 1) (id e7f6dfd1-86e7-4182-be41-52dea91dc6ad)
Leaseholds (Dilapidations) (item number 1) (id 6df9e93e-4119-4120-bd4c-3304ffc86854)
European Economic Situation (item number 1) (id a0706183-d409-4c1c-8a9c-f3df675080bf)
League Of Nations (item number 1) (id a33bc2e6-a3a4-4ebd-aa3b-30ccb182b633)
Imperial Conference (item number 1) (id d90548f6-fc98-48cc-9fdd-a8a59b2d6ec5)
Austria (Indemnity) (item number 1) (id b44c13aa-81c5-439d-b42d-17961d7f841b)
British Property In Germany (item number 1) (id decd3bde-befc-46f2-b266-08fe41e228a6)
Agrioultural Labourers (Hours Of Employment) (item number 1) (id 828b544b-492b-451f-b70c-cc2b0201f193)
Jugo-Slavia (British Consular Representatives) (item number 1) (id 9739ad00-4dc7-4004-a189-bd25efcf28f6)
Appointments Department Register (Naval Applicants) (item number 1) (id 7a7dbb1e-f55f-41d0-9422-d4264df00bd2)
Roumania (British Trade) (item number 1) (id f4a5ea3b-6b18-49d5-849e-dfed04f262de)
Women's War Services (Disablement) (item number 1) (id 62889a06-15a5-4454-927c-e45cff15eb57)
"European Press" (item number 1) (id 37c63c47-578b-45d5-acf6-24f51584881e)
Poplar Board Of Guardians Employes' Salaries (item number 1) (id 861a56a7-786c-462d-a091-0fda672257a5)
Business Of The House (item number 4) (id 2fd135cd-7a65-43dc-8dda-611e612925be)
Land Values (item number 5) (id 0a876fba-84bb-4f48-b51a-5489f5424387)
Publications And Debates Reports (item number 6) (id 3f27908f-18bc-4c68-9b26-508db7dff9f8)
National Expenditure (item number 7) (id 8a747236-005b-4dd8-85fd-ce635ece1a2b)
Ministry Of Agriculture And Fisheries Bill (item number 8) (id f77b4bb3-8cec-4517-9ba8-743e48318b18)
Land Settlement (Scotland) Bill (item number 9) (id 1772d0b4-ea38-44ea-b851-fdb0b6b64b51)
Bill Presented (item number 10) (id ec73cb07-31a0-42d7-8d93-61d8095d21eb)

Orders Of The Day

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Electricity (Supply) Bill

Clause 3—(Power To Conduct Experiments) (item number 1) (id 8e257433-5ea2-4930-aa51-9f0beaaa7fac)
Clause 4—(Advisory Committee) (item number 1) (id 03116944-7eb7-4ed8-9271-d70499a312da)
Clause 5—(Reorganisation Of Supply Of Electricity) (item number 1) (id 4dad1b0e-dd2b-4fee-be70-a240149eef5a)
Clause A—(Joint Electricity Authorities) (item number 1) (id 99924c9b-a0a5-4e58-b136-6b7af837d918)
Clause B—(Confirmation Of Schemes) (item number 1) (id e16acadc-9551-4ae0-bb94-2b1dd28b2eda)
Clause 6—(General Powers And Duties Of District Electricity Boards And Joint Electricity Authorities) (item number 1) (id a7805bf1-08d6-4015-8021-093f950dbf7b)
Clause 7—(Acquisition Of Generating Stations) (item number 1) (id 43e4448f-c8fe-479c-ab6c-e8f0a7b834ea)
Clause 8—(Right To Use For Generating Stations Land Acquired For That Purpose) (item number 1) (id fd68c85f-b6b5-4600-87af-14c692ba1fff)
Clause 9—(Restrictions On The Establishment Of New Generating Stations) (item number 1) (id f46588fd-e43c-451e-805d-831bbeca97bb)
Clause 10—(Power To Use Main Transmission Lines Belonging To Other Persons) (item number 1) (id e0912d08-63db-44f0-a650-ee1a6e7d672e)
Clause 11—(Powers Of District Electricity Boards In Respect Of The Supply Of Electricity) (item number 1) (id b254bad7-7275-49d1-9c27-68d03621bfde)
Clause 12—(Transfer Of Undertakings To Boards) (item number 1) (id 0f730a09-f73e-49a3-afee-5988b952b9fe)
Clause 13—(Special Provisions As To Power Companies) (item number 1) (id 3b80d276-34db-4881-b8de-7909eef148b8)
Clause 14—(Power To Confer Powers On Boards When Authorised Undertakers Unable Or Unwilling To Gire Facilities) (item number 1) (id a93892d2-caca-4a7a-8dae-fc1a94efead0)
Clause 15—(Subsidiary Powers Of District Electricity Boards) (item number 1) (id 8d8e47bc-1149-413e-a73c-7752217e29f1)
Clause 16—(Mode Of Exercise Of Powers Of District Boards) (item number 1) (id 70440a02-f246-4bb4-9154-30da871b53bb)
Clause 17—(Compensation For Deprivation Of Employment) (item number 1) (id 033a177e-6d10-4c11-a0a7-cdfb290b2e7f)
Clause 18—(Submission Of Plans, Etc, With Respect To Capital Expenditure) (item number 1) (id 9ba3b9c3-7c9f-4cdf-8680-7bfa55c9e30a)
Clause 19—(Power Of Board Of Trade To Construct Interim Works) (item number 1) (id 61353205-0b16-4391-9805-0d0dfe3bfb7f)
Clause 20—(Power Of Authorised Undertakers To Render Mutual Assistance To One Another) (item number 1) (id c766d09f-8955-45c9-9d15-4a28b2f96903)
Clause 23—(Wayleaves) (item number 1) (id dab0539e-ddb4-474d-9252-5a302e0ddf45)
Clause 24—(Supply Of Apparatus) (item number 1) (id 49fbe05f-7864-4dda-879e-2c9aab4e2b89)
Clause 25—(Limitation Of Prices And Pro Fits) (item number 1) (id 3771dec4-33c4-4c8b-9508-f6e562370828)
Clause 28—(Substitution Of Special Far Provisional Orders) (item number 1) (id 13054cac-f5cb-4a94-80cd-0651f6cd11de)
Clause 29—(Power To Require Account, Statistics, And Returns) (item number 1) (id 1220eed1-052f-4da5-8996-07aa4b157a89)
Clause 30—(Revenue And Expenditure Of District Electricity Boards) (item number 1) (id 83093c1f-f528-48bf-8832-a607d5e19254)
Clause 31—(Powers To Borrow) (item number 1) (id a51f4076-03d1-4e5b-a469-dbff765a93f8)
Clause 32—(Power To Authorise Issue Of Stocks) (item number 1) (id beebcf88-a3ca-4ed2-b179-02f1e6ca4791)
Clause 33—Powers Of Undertakers To Give Financial Assistance) (item number 1) (id 12f90cf8-183a-4437-a052-a3c46df0ce91)
Clause 34—(Power Of Electricity Commissioners To Lend Money To District Electricity Boards And Authorised Undertakers) (item number 1) (id 75356231-0012-4a2f-8155-8aafbccc81cb)
Clause 35—(Expenses Of Electricity Commissioners) (item number 1) (id 5d47c052-7214-444d-9b68-b9b5c915ac0d)
Clause 36—(Subscriptions To Associations) (item number 1) (id 0d5850b2-8317-4930-92ae-0c1c63c72304)
Clause 37—(Provision As To Stamp Duty) (item number 1) (id 191b554c-9546-483d-a5b8-cb5d7b565871)
Clause 38—(Application To Electricity Of 38 And 39 Vict C 86 S 4) (item number 1) (id 6d68fcea-6549-4d52-b35e-9dad5a60ab16)
Clause 39—(Provisions As To Agreements And Arrangements Under This Act) (item number 1) (id a676e537-661f-4d58-b98c-691fa97083f6)
Clause 40—Winding-Up Of Companies (item number 1) (id 854055ac-aa17-406d-8b59-c6d1ac23fd2e)
Clause 42—(Power To Make Rides) (item number 1) (id eb8eae0f-e487-4c00-a908-25857f7c95dc)
Clause 44—(Definitions) (item number 1) (id 77ec75dc-7f6d-4ae0-8374-c54ff4f70eb4)
Clause 45—(Provision As To Subsidiary Company Limited To Supply To Principal Companies) (item number 1) (id 0daaaa28-4063-4ee1-ada6-d9517c97bece)
Clause 46—(Application To Scotland) (item number 1) (id c578c126-4851-4167-b6ce-284003b0949a)
Clause 47—(Application To Ireland) (item number 1) (id 0d8e0859-fc68-43d4-a05a-021ed2a288e3)
Clause 48—(Transfer Of Powers Of Board Of Trade To Minister Of Transport) (item number 1) (id feecdd24-4d10-4e47-af97-d6a3967f6f89)

Housing (Additional Powers) Bill

Clause 1—(Provision For Payment Of Money To Persons Constructing Houses) (item number 1) (id 23a82fb7-8e4c-4bef-b205-8442a217e20e)
Clause 2—(Aggregate Amount Of Grants) (item number 1) (id 5306f1a1-2326-4f94-ab3e-6226041dcdce)
Clause 4—(Amendment Of S 7 And S 19 Of 9 And 10 Geo 5, C 35, With Respect To Amount Of Annual Payments) (item number 1) (id 43109d6d-a2c2-4797-99b5-26f14a962cee)
Clause 5—(Prohibition Of Building Operations Which Interfere With Provision Of Dwelling Houses) (item number 1) (id 5839da2d-36a7-4849-952d-0c6fb5517c41)
Clause 6—(Prohibition On Demolition Of Dwelling Houses) (item number 1) (id 80a3a162-c66e-437f-90e0-f59f71ff9fca)
Clause 7—(Powers Of Borrowing For Purpose Of Housing Acts) (item number 1) (id 1ffad9b5-5363-4b98-8113-c6b845f1a76f)
Clause 9;—(Power Of Trustees To Invest In Certain Securities Issued By Local Authorities) (item number 1) (id a0b9825a-62e4-4415-883c-e209acb7a42c)
Clause 10—(Acquisition Of Land For Purpose Of Garden Cities Or Town-Planning Schemes) (item number 1) (id d8653bec-83d9-4ebc-9b04-3903b25127ae)
Clause 11— (Meaning Of Local Authority53 And 54 Viet C 70) (item number 1) (id 73f04f3b-54d5-459f-9753-4981ae5e3e28)
Clause A—(Execution Of Act In County Of London) (item number 1) (id d93597ec-42b2-469a-b9ce-c078ff2bb277)
Clause 13—(Application To Ireland) (item number 1) (id c5098bdc-b5ee-49a8-aed4-e1d396fe5e66)
Joint Stock Banks (Amalga Mated Control) Bill (item number 1) (id a0b2689d-c831-4904-bb37-f5d15bfc4fa3)
Private Legislation Procedure (Ireland) Bill (item number 1) (id fcabcf63-12db-46b9-8fb4-1f3107a2fe68)
Overseas Trade (Insurance Against Abnormal Risks) Bill (item number 1) (id 2f35ef09-56b8-482a-8b76-7d194eb1b8ce)
Supreme Court Of Judicature (Ireland) Bill (item number 1) (id 82b8beda-3082-4f4e-8eec-64585fd8fc7d)
Local Elections (Proportional Representation) Bill Lords (item number 1) (id 15915ef7-26aa-4351-9854-5e00704e5393)
Hours Of Employment (No 2) Bill (item number 1) (id d5810c9c-7ec2-448c-b884-5284533267e8)
Minimum Rates Of Wages Commission Bill (item number 1) (id b0c7adc2-7b31-4d34-8e8c-687d79270d2e)
Imports And Exports Regulation Bill (item number 1) (id 290712b4-67b2-4fa7-81cb-5f1296ae141f)
Education (Ireland) Bill (item number 1) (id 315488dd-b022-4288-96fd-6989830fe688)
Coal Industry (Emergency) Bill (item number 1) (id cb4ce2f3-b584-46db-954d-65cbb73d9dbf)
Education (Scotland) (item number 1) (id 78feb591-6c83-4980-b4f6-bd289ca45c67)
Message From The Lords (item number 1) (id e3d61153-2842-4923-8ee4-045492a68a47)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers (item number 1) (id d819ba26-9b53-41ae-b9e9-491baf6bf2bc)
Assyria (Christian Population) (item number 2) (id f6551834-c3ab-40ef-a4c7-148101e6c5e3)
Rex V Beard (Counsel) (item number 3) (id 57deed33-c6cc-49ee-9888-ef9970bbbf21)
Old Age Pensions (item number 4) (id d6454cd2-05d2-465d-ab87-aa8a6891e747)
National Shipyards (item number 5) (id 52fff720-1e91-4bdf-b711-3618dd454d01)
Victory Loan (item number 6) (id cfd6b936-8fc1-4cd2-899c-ac58c80ab4b6)

British Army

Number Of Troops (Stations) (item number 1) (id bba4fe05-2bb1-43a5-a544-2c89989e5299)
Retired Officers (Retention Of Rank) (item number 1) (id fb3fd8c4-8a77-4ac7-b70e-a70e5618df9c)
Paymasters (Commissions) (item number 1) (id 4b4c77ef-9016-44d7-a6ba-d1d37a814eb8)
Royal Army Veterinary Corps (item number 1) (id 08ab808a-a8db-4cf2-bb0d-5ba3e4d0ef5b)
Gallipoli (item number 1) (id 8d9fdebf-b297-426b-9c94-2f0caa815565)
Court-Martial (Private John Henderson, Raoc) (item number 1) (id a7323a37-3ba1-4e75-8a7e-3c1f84a5fba8)
Military Cross (item number 1) (id e1060583-acdb-40be-aa13-cf9f92049f25)
Cavalry Regiments (Foreign Service) (item number 1) (id 84440b2f-4f9f-4e8c-a0bb-0b0adeb1082b)
Requisitioned Premises (Government Occupation) (item number 1) (id 4a698fda-f6c1-44f9-b5f5-e4af12d2dfe8)
Enemy Prisoners Of War (item number 1) (id 10fcde08-41e8-4669-a6b9-88dc5d7939a0)
Royal Army Ordnance Depot, Devonport (Wages) (item number 1) (id 3407e852-3070-44c2-af51-1c783eff8e87)
Telegraph Office, General Headquarters, Great Britain (item number 1) (id 2e0924ef-db82-4fca-9943-04ef7271b657)
Territorial Force (Divisional Commanders) (item number 1) (id a7097a45-c7e1-4aba-b942-7bd1f2ba0ac7)
War Medal (Home Service) (item number 1) (id 53f92560-67ce-41af-b84f-906a80bfc289)
Signal Office, Kirkuk (Sapper Lee) (item number 1) (id ba2a2e2f-71d6-47b1-97db-51296895a8f7)
Officers' Allowances (Egypt And Palestine) (item number 1) (id edd9072c-a3f4-4989-bd6b-a1ca4ba19d28)
Army Pay Offices (Male Clerks) (item number 1) (id ca87f0f2-4a2e-4dba-8d1e-e8f7967ba9ec)
Officers In Uniform (Railway Fares) (item number 1) (id 5aab052e-b1d3-4569-92be-665ddc78a0ec)
Royal Engineers (Works Branch) (item number 1) (id 257d45a9-2a9a-44c1-a489-1bad38db3e21)
Almeric Paget Massage Corps (item number 1) (id 1d99f701-c876-4f73-b863-9f19fb0f6aaf)
Royal Hibernian Military School (Joseph Lush) (item number 1) (id ce79b972-16d7-43e6-b0af-878af6898eb0)

India

Miners' Wages (item number 1) (id 543a8855-5547-4749-aefc-02256e1acea9)
British Troops (Charge On Indian Revenue) (item number 1) (id 398eaa75-5149-4336-8d64-69828c529cc1)
Indian Army, Mesopotamia (British Officers) (item number 1) (id 64338a3f-c584-4f8f-92cc-f07044d25cc0)
Burma (Mahng Tun Shein) (item number 1) (id 54dbdcd6-877b-438e-ab1b-85498c9413fe)
Rice Crop, Burma (item number 1) (id b77e4481-8413-4b9d-8104-41c227cffabd)
Miners' Hours And Wages, Bengal (item number 1) (id 1c385168-bdeb-4945-b12e-522b0b5071e8)
Famine And Epidemic Diseases (Mortality) (item number 1) (id 2b26679f-15fa-4921-9d0c-b4c05383892f)
Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Burma (item number 1) (id e474628a-1bcd-4a59-8501-639e6d587cb5)
Burma Press (item number 1) (id 47d542db-0ada-462e-b095-79eea7fef1ca)
East Africa Protectorate (Economic Commission Report) (item number 1) (id 2ad53072-5555-492c-9fe4-10d85c69ac27)
School Teachers (Super Annuation) (item number 1) (id f9962c23-757d-4b2b-8d69-8bc9186ed2a4)
Works Schools (item number 1) (id c09f76d4-829d-4b16-87d4-199f30222eac)
Golden Ballot (item number 1) (id f466dd9b-d3e4-499d-999c-4298f7209403)
Asylums Visiting Committees (Women) (item number 1) (id 107ec6c2-8713-4587-a9f8-3a42d8340683)
Admiralty Arch (Traffic) (item number 1) (id 6738a675-46e8-4613-b4bc-5c30fb8e97c6)
King's Proctor (item number 1) (id 2c8b305a-7ef5-42b8-bbc5-d660580ce1d8)
Poor Persons Rules (Divorce) (item number 1) (id 24a52824-fc87-4390-ae8c-a0216bf2afb5)
Dispensers (Registration) (item number 1) (id ca61a4b8-738b-455c-9d9f-551428f9a449)

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