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Commons Hansard for 18 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 d7e94422-f501-454b-a6bc-5747d157f7ca)

Oral Answers to Questions
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Ss. "Johann Heinrich Buchart." (item number 1) (id da74536b-20f2-462a-9870-c80fcebcfb37)
Edropean Countries (Populations) (item number 1) (id ac258710-7440-4abd-8457-28cf2d1896d3)

Russia
Moscow and Kieff (item number 1) (id ac7a7e4f-5b7b-4bdf-b96d-934c2cd9cf91)
Eastern Siberia (item number 1) (id b56b8a83-8218-4042-aaa8-237fb2a28809)

British Army
Staff Allowance (Indian Army) (item number 1) (id 775b3b34-b24d-43f4-b873-8d4a64ec2c72)
Officers (Promotion) (item number 1) (id adf5b654-b970-4164-b506-b27e1ba4cb2a)
Navy and Army Canteens Boards (item number 1) (id fbfc30fc-3148-47e7-9c3f-33d030560259)
British Graves (Germany) (item number 1) (id c8ec0ddc-4968-4e60-a013-c6c310d86b2d)
Discharge by Purchase (item number 1) (id 977e27a4-81ae-40f2-89cc-a5d7ed34fbcd)
Motor-Lorry Collision (Ramsgate) (item number 1) (id 9a5b2c3a-5195-422e-a40f-706d6c8caad8)
Poison Gas (Dispersing Fan) (item number 1) (id 4cb3e6f5-50e2-46d8-bce0-c5e1fb1472d4)
Retired Pay (Officers) (item number 1) (id d818e13b-096b-431b-a2ba-8b3d3621bc77)
Education (item number 1) (id 7d5c06b5-7860-4114-a124-6faaadeff178)
Demobilised Officers (item number 1) (id a0f96dcf-92b4-4fc3-a752-89c168cb3d6c)
Officers Employed at War Office (item number 1) (id d13d4b25-3d37-43ab-be01-1aa028dadc7b)
Demobilisation (item number 1) (id d2fc9358-debe-4151-905e-43ebfc098326)
Senior Officers (Retirement) (item number 1) (id 6693eea0-0cdc-41d4-b1f3-01e621a9b4e6)
Surplus Officers (item number 1) (id efdf73b5-2578-41aa-a08b-86feceefd660)

Ex-Service Men
War Office Clerks (item number 1) (id 50422063-aac7-4c39-bb60-84b74e16d292)
Ministry of Pensions (Regent's Park Hutments) (item number 1) (id 394deeb9-4161-4025-b2e1-3e05b6f3b269)
Small Holdings (Scotland) (item number 1) (id 827f80ca-a188-42c3-9481-9434dbcd5227)

Peace Treaties
Armenia (item number 1) (id d7ee0de8-966e-4190-809f-d7b8f3c9a40a)
Palestine (item number 1) (id f9472ded-4f44-4224-8933-e8954d1552f7)
Africa (Mandates) (item number 1) (id ee2daeb0-4533-4151-8ed5-07b6885e722f)
Royal Gunpowder Factory, Gretna (item number 1) (id 23228d59-b532-4b8c-a889-89d576db59cd)
Territorial Army (Adjdtants) (item number 1) (id 0da9570c-2e17-49a8-8907-43ba0f6adb25)

Housing
Georgetown, Renfrewsrire (item number 1) (id 41bb5b62-4982-45f2-aaec-e85f2bed8394)
Business Premises, Glasgow (item number 1) (id 8bf885fd-9ee6-43a7-8c37-45588d90889d)
Rent Restriction Bill (Scotland) (item number 1) (id fa4d3b76-7939-401a-b5f6-b3ff635b3eaa)
Summer Residences, Scotland (item number 1) (id 63619366-1b36-4c75-a1f6-f5c3f85aa1b3)
Sewers, Roehampton (item number 1) (id 04f5b6af-7e86-4096-a823-86d001ed5181)
Official Journal "Housing" (Cost) (item number 1) (id 77055093-0d58-40bf-9c7f-9c255ee88290)
General Mannerheim (item number 1) (id 58bc67b9-9a52-4228-843b-c44945b0b3f3)

Royal Air Force
Soldiers' Wives, Accommodation, Egypt (item number 1) (id 5905c950-c182-48d7-b523-96a538476681)
Handley-Page Aeroplane (item number 1) (id afa91e2a-a470-452d-a9eb-2d6a6ffe65b7)
Motor Cars (Speed Limit) (item number 1) (id 6d168b56-8962-4607-8895-08f440962b43)

Ireland
Prisoners' Treatment, Wormwood Scrubs (item number 1) (id 6eace571-f1d0-43ef-a3a0-7dda99fcc400)
Irish Republican Brotherhood (item number 1) (id 65848ea6-b581-4b18-86d9-c620fe3d05bf)
Denunciation of Murders (item number 1) (id c4fad5cb-3cbf-4d7b-a32f-878b739d8032)
Prison Service (item number 1) (id 8c989107-c755-411b-90f2-2b67bf0216b5)
Deported Germans (item number 1) (id e4a6fb52-f3c2-4b58-86d6-d8a9e8157a2a)

Germany
War Criminals (Trial) (item number 1) (id b45c0947-49c4-40b5-9dda-83bcd07ddb73)

Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic)
Carlisle (item number 1) (id e2e502a3-94c2-4051-a23e-060ce0396b3b)
Restrictions (item number 1) (id a3fd6fcf-96b9-4163-92ea-4cdc5c6a8f7c)

Poland
Ukraine Convention (item number 1) (id b70e34b0-7c47-4dd2-8ee4-47c561734e31)
Border States (item number 1) (id 33b76fe6-0ed6-4c01-a175-ffa93c09ed7c)
Surplus Stores (item number 1) (id 1f4da7eb-1446-43dd-89ce-3ca5d8735bf1)

Finance Bill
Income Tax (item number 1) (id e2a1998a-2d10-4019-bac2-01a96d5deceb)
Beer and Champagne (item number 1) (id 37447403-4e49-4699-91ac-7e0d337bb592)
Indemnity Bill (item number 1) (id ad216621-49b6-43f0-9e28-1b771f48e6ed)
Currency Issues (item number 1) (id 86fff9c6-e0a5-4726-8d00-079d990f63bf)
National Insurance Act (Unemployment Fund) (item number 1) (id 67581137-8f2a-4c41-91c9-5e49613de57f)

Government Offices (Staffs and Accommodations)
Ministry of Pensions (item number 1) (id 8c861c98-985e-452d-be2b-0acffe197bb2)
Burton Court, Chelsea (item number 1) (id 1b735e8f-95c1-46fa-ba56-760fb0b458f6)
St. James's Park (Buildings) (item number 1) (id 1946c91e-3055-4d8c-811f-156d0b1f399a)

Naval and Military Pensions and Grants
Naval and Military Medical Men (item number 1) (id 7b5b794b-3297-46ee-a7c1-68b6d8ba733d)
Payment Dockets, Dublin (item number 1) (id bca18480-7e0b-472f-a18a-521c2658572e)
5th King's Own Scottish Borderers (T. Terrell) (item number 1) (id 67b03282-75fd-459b-830f-97024f33b0fd)
Ports and Harbours (Regulations) (item number 1) (id 75d91250-c69b-421f-90e6-a540b45ed2a5)

Scotland
Farm Domestic Training (Craibstone Farm, Aberdeen) (item number 1) (id 9f326ea5-1ec0-467e-ae31-1d14bc776667)
Teachers (Additional Pensions) (item number 1) (id 8235b887-1874-429c-b0f7-9ec709641218)
Church of Scotland (item number 1) (id 045a289f-c431-4da7-aac4-2ec5cbd2754b)

Food Supplies
Yeast (item number 1) (id f1217ee7-c4a4-480f-8ec7-dea66362b9ef)
Sugar (item number 1) (id e193c73d-63f2-4dbc-80ab-ef0eaa54e525)
"National Food Journal." (item number 1) (id 5f3c458f-9dc3-43db-9d5f-51058423c5aa)
Pedigree Cattle (Exhibitions) (item number 1) (id 3cdd1da0-4f0b-4d38-99ff-ff3f79b99c77)
Crown Colonies (Land Ownership) (item number 1) (id 2bd63052-e6cf-4007-873e-95f5eeafe6e9)
Admiralty Garage, Albany Street (item number 1) (id acce69f8-3c25-4ca8-a06c-14be8591952a)
All-Nigrt Sitting (Cost) (item number 1) (id 77feac04-cd72-4555-bc9b-5e278e14ac2d)
Roadsmen, Cdmberland (Wages) (item number 1) (id 99aadec2-5d71-4bee-a53c-910d0dc72bd7)
Electrical Power (item number 1) (id 2b2fa89b-ad59-46f5-a5a7-f7a45f79b713)

Transport
Railway Companies (Government Guarantee) (item number 1) (id 7cdea8bc-1ecc-440a-9858-7809220c1502)

Munitions
Fuze Rodding (Manufacture) (item number 1) (id c52fe934-99c9-4e8d-9d2f-f902df9dc94a)
S.S. "Jolly George." (item number 1) (id c8fc4c4b-7b10-4f58-a6f5-fb7764585e77)

Post Office
Ettrick and Yarrow, Selkirk (item number 1) (id e7a3c10a-04c5-4a14-a0c2-4e0fa2d2fbef)
Messenger Boys (item number 1) (id 4c3071a0-8f08-4431-9ff7-c24995a4e630)
Registered Letter, Lost (item number 1) (id 873f9c9e-eb03-4d35-b0f1-34be295777d8)
Bill Presented (item number 3) (id 078866d2-9179-40bd-a5c1-c012800df927)
Selection (Standing Committees) (item number 4) (id 12a01d6d-99b4-44e0-bfe8-3188cb87e49b)
Message from the Lords, (item number 5) (id 65ca0995-6d57-4a96-ac9b-8f8f9c93ad78)
Orders of the Day (item number 6) (id 49137010-80b8-4f45-8e47-53c2ce0fbfd8)
Government of Ireland Bill (item number 7) (id 3871e92a-8e85-45fc-8fcd-53cc87e05c5e)
Tramways (Temporary Increase of Charges) Bill (item number 8) (id dfd42fed-359a-46d7-b58d-68327bc87a45)
CLAUSE 3.—(Supplemental Provisions.) (item number 9) (id 1519f6d1-3dd4-4ef5-9261-92547b49aa52)

Written Answers

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Written Answers to Questions

Questions
Yugo-Slavia (Fatherless Children) (item number 1) (id e413bfb2-30da-4e43-933d-d0433bcf0a27)
Hungarian Bank, Budapest (item number 1) (id ed3a684e-fe38-461e-b992-9d82db268bf0)
Burton Court (item number 1) (id b56d249f-076f-4b98-9218-8ba84a81721a)
Buildings, London Area (item number 1) (id 00fc2423-0d01-4074-9744-661adbce49be)
British Prisoners (Repatriation) (item number 1) (id 3f7275ba-635e-4633-81ec-d708940a46d0)
Odessa (item number 1) (id cb572a3e-1be3-477c-904a-8847ea659913)
Monarchist Recruiting Bureau (item number 1) (id add27572-8260-46e0-8706-fe5d9c8e035d)
Ukraine (General Petlura) (item number 1) (id ac14f1b2-88ec-4608-9094-f3ea93e210cd)
Polish Offensive (item number 1) (id 55c148a3-15eb-4535-9fed-70c6430d6307)
Navy and Army Canteens Board (item number 1) (id f2bea66d-933a-4d27-9d21-ba2c1c6b7067)
His Majesty's Transport "Czaritza" (Hospital Cases) (item number 1) (id 28aea6d4-3d15-40a4-bb94-06ca94dbc9ff)
Dardanelles (item number 1) (id ee4f166c-b2b1-4ad1-a9d9-e26083dacffa)
Pilotage (Aliens) (item number 1) (id b013e96c-1f43-4f0e-8a6a-a7b22913f3a0)
Disability Pension Claim (Mr. a. Rees, Glasgow) (item number 1) (id c3736f2b-29c8-4601-a08f-6868a5a3f4ad)
Post Office Employes (Service Pensions) (item number 1) (id fb3a08fb-d301-451b-841f-d6dbd4040065)
Post-War Soldiers (Disability Pensions) (item number 1) (id 1c12be82-92b3-4522-934b-48448e0458eb)
Blinded Soldier (War Charity) (item number 1) (id c157342b-05b4-4720-b983-550daed62f64)
Police Pay, Pensions and Allowances (item number 1) (id d4383eb8-8388-4924-92fa-58219c6a031f)
London and Liverpool (item number 1) (id 34fe62f2-5759-420a-93b2-fe8c4157b2e5)
Hull (item number 1) (id b645552d-ac2f-41f9-9728-179e5f987513)
Desborough Committee (Recommendations) (item number 1) (id b43dc243-cdf5-4cdd-8a9b-d2b20b4d49a8)
Aliens Restriction Act (Advisory Committee) (item number 1) (id d2c85d18-fe42-4ff8-b63d-1d80d98e45e2)
Motor Vehicles (Mudguards) (item number 1) (id 45dda974-c274-4775-b331-a3a5b271138b)
Hewers' Wages and Allowances (item number 1) (id d396edb6-348c-4520-a016-81fc1898212c)
Morphia (item number 1) (id bd9bc4d4-0015-4c81-84b6-40b2418f3ec4)
Profiteering Act (Prosecutions) (item number 1) (id 2e4f984d-a32f-4ba7-8aa3-dfce9a59c3c7)
Joiners' Dispute (item number 1) (id 1612e1eb-4de2-4ae1-b72c-36357ae8f0e9)
British Military Mission (item number 1) (id 628e0aa0-67fc-4512-8c1c-0bb61d646774)
Munitions (item number 1) (id 757fbf15-3fe9-4dcf-8c4d-72c0cbd7d123)
British Prisoners of War (item number 1) (id 3eface88-5d87-4c74-a950-22038d90db8f)
European Engineers (Hunter Committee) (item number 1) (id c6ac558d-d143-46d7-badd-ed1f051eeb3f)
Government of India Act (Legislative Business) (item number 1) (id ab31def6-66e4-4351-bb8d-2f8360680a4c)
Health Services Bill (item number 1) (id f7470651-b0e3-42da-b5c6-a5825addcf1f)
Vaccination (Small-Pox) (item number 1) (id 778d297b-7174-49a8-afec-cbaec43ff98a)
Imported Currants (Damage) (item number 1) (id 67cfb29c-cc1d-4544-8fdc-62b70b0ea3a6)
Control Committees (item number 1) (id 0930c9ed-4ef1-488b-bc36-c2b470e149ed)
Bread Prices, Aldershot (item number 1) (id 822f51ab-a973-4614-87a6-87e91868b4aa)
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew (item number 1) (id dddb6145-0318-49cc-9f65-36233b5020b4)
British East Africa (Rail-Ways) (item number 1) (id c4be2f5d-0f22-4659-aefc-68d16b85bc75)
Women Workers (Training Schemes) (item number 1) (id 5e7f1755-89b7-44b7-9eac-0a7cfa5fc03c)

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