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Commons Hansard for 17 May 1920 (Volume 129)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 24 February 2026 at 8.18am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 2d9595b0-08d3-49db-80f2-e0a7fee7cace)
Private Business (item number 2) (id 32275bd0-fe65-4317-883a-7740c7e6f036)
PILOTAGE PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 1) BILL, (item number 3) (id dd8fa3df-f73c-4914-a415-89cc76902ab1)
PILOTAGE PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No 2) BILL, (item number 4) (id 8993dbc4-2157-4dbb-9aee-df693fb072e7)

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Business of the House (item number 6) (id 7672c7f9-e936-4f91-8a26-ea3540b50bcc)
Bill Presented (item number 7) (id 6499bda2-03bd-40df-919d-7dae6032b0b2)
Message from the Lords (item number 8) (id 743f9424-d51c-45bc-a7b4-ffaaee3ac2c3)
Orders of the Day (item number 9) (id baaa2b58-63a9-4708-9788-469ba2095c43)
Supply [10th Allotted Day] (item number 10) (id 02336218-ef64-449b-8aec-0ab7e00e2e74)
Medical Establishments and Services (item number 11) (id 2cbf7c3c-d04c-48ee-ba10-cecc55dfd925)
Civilians Employed on Fleet Services (item number 12) (id 1efb6ce5-d1f6-46f8-929c-c025b95db0a4)
Educational Services (item number 13) (id 38a2294c-6d34-47bd-ab74-4f9578974b92)
Private Business (item number 14) (id 559c408c-5f18-4544-b5fa-f14efcd5f447)
Supply (item number 15) (id e25f80bc-f936-432a-b0db-13a23fe4f2cb)
Scientific Services (item number 16) (id 02252daa-d7fc-45f9-b067-8e41b7aca07b)
Royal Naval Reserves (item number 17) (id ba5c95f6-3114-4b03-ba5f-f737e6db5725)
Naval Armaments (item number 18) (id dc7ca55e-d010-44b1-954b-33654cd8e901)
Public Utility Companies (Capital Issues) Bill (item number 19) (id 31135f45-f693-412b-b2e1-a3ad4bb6f7ec)
German Oil Tankers, Leith (item number 20) (id e8f73f82-4ae6-4620-b5b4-cb5d5b662175)

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Burtons Court, Chelsea

Employment Exchanges (item number 1) (id d9c3f7b2-dbb1-4799-a2c7-9e09480b75b9)
Queen Anne's Chambers (item number 1) (id b7ea739e-a9cd-462f-b0a9-9a4593bf10ae)
Deyelopment Commission (item number 1) (id 49fc6dbd-a6dc-43bc-b2cb-5d6c09e241a1)
War Office (Women Clerks) (item number 1) (id 571b6845-40c7-48a1-ba52-286693952d12)
Women EmployéS (item number 1) (id 34e1113b-400f-420f-9f4a-3bbe821209bd)
Ministry of Food (item number 1) (id d599e687-d81e-44b6-9adb-52c000f10742)
Freightage, North Atlantic Lines (item number 1) (id 75902dab-4a0d-4739-9f7e-5bbb3e7a9ddc)
Jam (item number 1) (id 8b5eb2c2-52b7-43fb-98f0-415f93b9fd23)
Divisional Food Commissioner, South Midlands (item number 1) (id dc96eb3d-9de1-433c-85c8-f529d19a3787)
Relief in Europe (Grants) (item number 1) (id bfd571a6-5c71-4adb-b523-207589a6adc1)
Tyre Investment Trust (item number 1) (id 1fe539a3-9817-45f4-8897-eae1872765c4)
Germany (British Debts, Interest) (item number 1) (id adf50ce9-1eb0-41c1-aa05-10a703a248b1)
Foodstuffs (item number 1) (id 53b1215e-15cc-4f7f-921a-9e479815d72f)
Personal and Household Goods (item number 1) (id e0d5d6f0-8bf6-4296-8fcd-bda70a10ab41)
Wages (Regular Adjustment) (item number 1) (id 1e5466a5-215a-4e84-a7f6-a386ecb576d3)
Household Coal (item number 1) (id 1676a761-dbcc-4a16-bc87-846938e7bc5f)
Comparatiye Figures (item number 1) (id 1e984fd2-606d-4c76-a1b4-7247cfbc6283)
Loss of S.S. "Flush" (Crew's Dependants) (item number 1) (id 31aad5c9-989a-4e50-96d1-6a6a373712a7)
Glasgow Appeals (item number 1) (id 89f4af68-b9b4-49c8-9ab9-657011ac6606)
Claims Pending Settlement (Advances) (item number 1) (id b8291ea4-0f18-40f4-920e-0adbb533f994)
Wages (Minimum Rates) (item number 1) (id eb03b44d-869e-40bf-94eb-0fa6201d9c93)
British Wheat (Monthly Ayerage Prices) (item number 1) (id c8eab008-66e4-4740-a411-2d903e219ee7)
Farm Training Scheme for Girls, Aberdeen (item number 1) (id beb4eed6-15b9-445f-b0bc-c62aa897f2da)
Provision of Meals (item number 1) (id 034539a1-52a8-46a3-8145-c12682cc8f25)
County Education Committees (Members' Expenses) (item number 1) (id b5120f35-ee5f-4fc9-a28d-205be0db5f44)
H.M. Dockyards (Wages Awards) (item number 1) (id 5129fbfb-d61a-4480-8bf6-67c7c2f5d6a6)
Admiralty EmployæS (Pay) (item number 1) (id 9a81b631-1d0b-46c0-bbc6-97867857ca64)
Dover Harsour (Electric Current Supply) (item number 1) (id 42ade1c9-f680-4b91-8705-957a0f349911)
Munitions (Nayal) (item number 1) (id d5a5a3fe-93c9-4544-8236-8fa87bd540d6)
Boundaries (Extension) (item number 1) (id b7c5b3d9-96a2-4096-8337-f8f4edcf3765)
Local Government Employes (Superannuation) (item number 1) (id 5f14bab9-f767-4101-a2e6-095198ab0701)
Income Tax (Widowers) (item number 1) (id 7054dc70-6d61-487c-bd40-f449604f8671)
Hospital Detention (Leave or Duty) (item number 1) (id b4e4b9d8-5068-4364-a604-cbb8f973b53a)
Bakonba Camp (item number 1) (id ecd9503c-1582-4d77-a355-678acbe8a84c)
Wigan Officer's Family (Maintenance) (item number 1) (id 7143817f-d9c1-4716-92d1-35844a376158)
Board of Inquiry (7th Hussars) (item number 1) (id 663ead50-0f43-4f90-a76b-f1a6581195d6)
Wimsledon Common Camp (item number 1) (id 98a9fa1f-ba8a-4773-bb93-39604216465d)
Military Mission, Vladivostock (item number 1) (id e28355e4-a10d-40f2-8770-007c7b3fc748)
Staffordshire Territorial Force Association (item number 1) (id dea81365-9237-4fa2-aea0-dfd09a5db989)
Royal Air Force (Late Flight-Cadet Bridge) (item number 1) (id 755f7972-b5b2-43ae-abb0-763e82642140)
Business Premises, Manchester (item number 1) (id 4fb2fa2a-5a7a-4fa4-96e5-3a94c233ac6e)
Official Journal ("Housing") (item number 1) (id 0e6c8db0-da3d-4b00-bcf2-0dab699f2902)
Vaccination (Small-Pox) (item number 1) (id 72ed1a06-90e8-424a-8b60-bdcbbc5c6333)
Elections (Candidates' Expenses) (item number 1) (id e7b850d7-2c49-4b97-9829-fe8fe766add1)
Royal Irish Constabulary (Widows' Pensions) (item number 1) (id 61453f5c-93dd-40a2-850f-f6a371e6267e)
Teachers' Training Colleges (item number 1) (id 17a48915-692f-4276-bd3b-80c8cc31ed36)
Outrage, Downpatrick (Rey. T. G. Wilkinson) (item number 1) (id be9ac9c7-dca8-4680-b554-4a627b8cc7eb)
Police Pensions (item number 1) (id 9c22296e-7592-4b2c-8d01-9c3e29735206)
Leith Docks (German Oil Tankers) (item number 1) (id cdd001f2-4656-487b-a43d-8dd4081369c4)
Seaman's Pay and Discharge (Mp,. W. Day) (item number 1) (id 1e6e5fcf-2dbb-40aa-b22d-e21e3ec898d3)
Timser Felling, East Sutherland (item number 1) (id bc938346-7127-46bd-baef-df5a14566058)
Furniture Department, Lamseth Palace Road (Discharges) (item number 1) (id 84ea43fb-0ff4-4495-83dc-a992fba62295)
Ministry of Pensions (Employment) (item number 1) (id 557b1771-8e9c-427c-93ff-38214867df48)
Aeronautical Engineering (item number 1) (id 19631dd8-675d-4343-8fe7-5ac11c83a480)
Prisons (Temporary Night Patrols) (item number 1) (id 9ca0a6cd-081d-46f2-94a4-fb96fac29321)
National Federation Demands (item number 1) (id 2a1c4fb4-8bf9-4335-9f09-28ffa1dd9e4f)
Murder of Mr. De La Hey (Madras Goyernment Report) (item number 1) (id 5eb65bce-5e1b-4ac0-b947-37cc8f292629)
Sunnis and Shiahs (item number 1) (id 44c83c95-1dbf-4f4f-8ca8-446635c75aa0)
Buenos Ayres Casles (Delay) (item number 1) (id 4136dfb4-677b-4b39-95f1-f9a4919530de)
Hull Telephone Service (item number 1) (id 401b49f0-da25-41df-bff5-463dd328750e)
Sus-Postmasters and Sus-Postmistresses (item number 1) (id ac632b50-6841-405f-8431-e3e5c1b5a961)
National Factories (item number 1) (id 91d4deb1-0ea2-440e-a28c-ab3788e40084)
Occupied Lands, Ellesmere Port (Rent) (item number 1) (id 805e2bbd-281b-420c-afb4-eb23832e10ee)
Automatic Couplers (item number 1) (id f8331390-2f8e-4c0c-8756-01e30ee8f048)
Railway Wagons in France (item number 1) (id 47c89a15-bd08-4461-bccd-e5ede5e722d4)
Foremen Engineers (Wages) (item number 1) (id 8ce1e98e-618b-4c30-993a-cd86116e713c)
Railway Expenditure (Administratiye Departments) (item number 1) (id 4d60b140-276a-43e5-b736-e74aa61e9be9)
Motor Omnisus Traffic, Gloucester-Shire (item number 1) (id af11d817-7e39-4ee5-bcf3-29fe4857bf47)
Out-Of-Work Donation (item number 1) (id fb7b14ef-7ea7-4271-987f-ecb2b1a14fcc)
Training Schemes for Women (item number 1) (id 9b2e6072-b29b-4865-a5e3-326c9f2eece4)
Trade Boards Act (Toy Trade) (item number 1) (id 8f7c09d7-10f8-4391-8654-7c2b56689676)
"Dominion "and" Colony" (Definition) (item number 1) (id 8b1ffbab-7017-4037-a515-efad0b14e952)
Whaling, South Georgia (Conditions of Labour) (item number 1) (id 7525a09b-f358-45ea-a43d-726bd5f8001b)
Aliens Restriction Act (Goetz Mertens) (item number 1) (id c4eec4c1-6b0e-40ae-bd99-7e9aad5fe289)
Asia Minor (Distress) (item number 1) (id 8eed6769-d7d1-4004-927c-65ee70fe129b)
Russo-Japanese Treaty (Siberia) (item number 1) (id 4ada7186-b7ad-4923-ba83-1a45b276121b)
Afforestation (item number 1) (id d8778a2d-aa27-4f37-8e3c-e1da322a58e6)

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