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Commons Hansard for 31 May 1921 (Volume 142)
From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated
24 February 2026 at 9.28am.
Commons Chamber
Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons
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Oral Answers to Questions
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India
Auxiliary Force
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Cavalry (Reductions)
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Burma, Constitution
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Shwedagon Pagoda
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Officers' Pay (Rupee Exchange)
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Demobilised Officers
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Constantinople (British Requisitions)
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British Army
Mobilised Reserve Officers
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Retired Officers (Re-Employment)
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Staff College
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Home War Service (Medals)
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Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth
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War Office (Staff)
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Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey (Discharges)
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Gulf of St. Lawrence
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Mesopotamia
Railwaymen's Wages
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Expenditure
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Rubber Production (Subsidies)
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Grenada
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Letters (Police Seizure)
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Workmen's Compensation Act
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Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic)
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Aliens (Communist Movement)
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Ceylon (Franchise)
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Prince Christopher of Greece
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Scottish Universities
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League of Nations (British Expenditure)
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Peace Treaties
German Reparation
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"Workers' Dreadnought."
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Juvenile Offenders
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Boy Scalers
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Unemployment Benefit
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Conversion Loan
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Old Age Pensions
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Post Office
Postal Rates (Increase)
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Wages and Salaries
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Mental Hospitals
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Entertainments Duty
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Members of Parliament (Expenses)
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War Pensions (Training Bonus)
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Home-Grown Sugar Company
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Privilege ("Plain English Newspaper")
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Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic)
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Corn Sales Bill
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Tithe Annuities Apportionment Bill
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Cardiff Gas Bill
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Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act (1912) Amendment Bill
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Indian Affairs
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Message from the Lords
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Selection (Standing Committees)
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Orders of the Day
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Ways and Means [11th May]
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Safeguarding of Industries Bill,
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Business of the House
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Written Answers
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Questions
Business of the House (Post Office Estimates)
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Departmental Committees
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Anglo-Japanese Agreement
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Prison Officers
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Murders and Outrages
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Arrest (B. Nolan)
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Military Operations
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Disability Pensions (James Smith)
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Naval Shipwrights
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Dependant's Pensions
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Mental Cases (Treatment)
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Advances
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Oil Fuel (Regulations)
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Commissioned Writers and Paymaster Lieutenants
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Travelling Concessions
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Ordnance Depot, Didcot
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Lord Roberts' Memorial Workshops Fund
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Unemployment Benefit
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Rents, Walsingham
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Drainage and Water Supply, Buckingham and Brackley
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Building Materials
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National Health Insurance
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Recreation Ground, Broom, Durham
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Lunacy Acts
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Turkish Reparation (British Claims)
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æGean Sea (Bulgarian Outlet)
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Poland and Russia
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Motor Car Licences
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Transferred Secondary Schools (Teachers' Pensions)
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Scotland (Distribution of Grants)
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Government Departments (Franked Postal Packets)
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Cables, Bournmouth, Westbourne and Poole (Ducts)
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Wireless Services (Marconi Company)
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Sub-Offices (Hours and Wages)
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Seditious Utterances (Prosecutions)
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Military Accounts
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Mr. Gandhi
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Civil Service Bonus
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Tax Department, Inland Revenue (Wages)
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Calves (Slaughter)
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Brockworth Aerodrome and Barnborough Depot
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Meat Prices
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Ordnance Survey Pensioners
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Motor Cyclist Police Officers
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Aliens
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Enemy Property, Tanganyika (Sales)
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Employment Exchanges
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