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Commons Hansard for 24 October 1921 (Volume 147)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 24 February 2026 at 10.14am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons (item number 1) (id 954c6210-8573-49ce-9dec-257bffced20a)

Oral Answers to Questions
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Safeguarding of Industries Act
Arc-Lamp Carbons (item number 1) (id b0256417-e15a-4d5e-8e4c-f21f728ac162)
Magnetic Compasses (item number 1) (id b12b8ced-a36d-4f7a-a121-5d578020f506)
Glassware (item number 1) (id b03434e7-e194-4359-b1ff-fd44da383c6c)
Toy Magic Lanterns (item number 1) (id f47040fd-4633-435e-b3ec-7138a110f490)
Dutiable Articles (item number 1) (id b094a85f-96c2-4578-8a52-0bee27729581)
Electric Lamp Filaments (item number 1) (id 95bd8d4c-53b2-4931-a3d4-c5ea87123906)
Complaints (item number 1) (id 45c4472c-dfdc-4165-a263-cfbc1eb23f36)
Employment (item number 1) (id 8e2bcfd6-e65d-4d9a-9525-3325c4424467)
Sodium Salts (item number 1) (id 98da7d95-3b9f-4fa5-93d0-4233e4e103f1)

Peace Treaties
Hungarian Debts (item number 1) (id c27ebdba-1871-492f-a3f2-aa6a636e205f)
Upper Silesia (item number 1) (id 158810d2-f365-4ac3-8481-8bcecc0772d8)
Franco-German Agreement (item number 1) (id 65da6484-b181-4315-bdaa-5765234ed852)
Taxation and Currency, Germany (item number 1) (id 52441217-626e-4c61-aa62-a94cb4d66284)
Cilicia (item number 1) (id 6612e910-ac9b-4112-8ec6-dd26d7418549)
West Hungary (item number 1) (id 3df6c01b-f05b-45ae-b8bb-a8306edfdc09)

Government Staffs and Offices
Food Control Department (item number 1) (id 6ec60d29-04b1-40af-8b3e-9b3e8367ffe2)

Questions

Clinical Thermometers (item number 1) (id 422825ea-b5d6-4ece-b1f4-2ff2dff3e0f9)
Ministry of Transport (item number 1) (id 1a906604-81a0-4042-b33b-6b1f160fff86)
Woollen Clothing (item number 1) (id d67bd63e-fa6a-47af-9bf0-4d004064cbca)
Trade Agreement, Russia (item number 1) (id cb4ad32a-f865-448a-890e-6a3a22be8cd2)

Unemployment
Royal Dockyards (Ship-Breaking) (item number 1) (id 3d9d2000-86d2-40b5-9b20-a717f126f73c)
Relief Works (Government Grants) (item number 1) (id 5049d12c-9586-4de1-8241-4769b2f156d3)
Channel Tunnel (item number 1) (id 5ee2efe2-9794-4c43-b7bd-c5390d2e97c3)
Tin Miners, Cornwall (item number 1) (id e6a41c26-7b75-41d1-9e6e-233131732cc3)

Transport
London Suburban Railways (Electrification) (item number 1) (id 75a496aa-dac4-4320-9a10-407fccdc9cfb)
Crewe Railway Works (item number 1) (id 5bd99088-7f77-4051-a9d2-f332b6393c2a)
Road Vehicles (Lighting) (item number 1) (id cbe14000-f37b-4c91-957c-61f930b19b61)
Tooting Junction Railway (item number 1) (id 118c6135-b3e6-4f9e-a41d-fb01e7ac19f3)
Week-End Tickets (item number 1) (id 9073b165-d4d4-40eb-974b-957731767909)
Canals and Waterways (item number 1) (id 30e9156f-3bed-4d7c-a021-a35c8aa37b66)

Coal Industry
Vivian and Tillery Collieries (item number 1) (id 4b429c3a-b618-49f1-a4d7-005e370df802)
Output and Prices (item number 1) (id e3c2da6b-bd5c-4f5c-a3ff-7b17e9e2b0fa)
Subsidy (item number 1) (id 248496e4-0c57-4823-b5e6-95fb8fc2c532)

Questions

Naval Officers, Marriage Allowances (item number 1) (id 91ad5288-578c-44f9-969b-10e9236079da)

Ireland
Correspondence (Publication) (item number 1) (id 2d51ed50-67f2-405a-ba13-c48b86284c61)
Sinn Fein Colours (item number 1) (id 68130bf0-743d-414c-8461-596c0822e830)
Mr. De Valera (Telegram to Vatican) (item number 1) (id 530f744d-4520-4994-b8ba-992dbeb9883d)
Sinn Fein Courts (item number 1) (id 9b22a22a-e05a-4c94-a1ca-68dd3a89c1e2)

Ex-Service Men
Government Departments (item number 1) (id f3072d33-24af-4c63-be94-c8ccdf9001d9)

Questions

British Internees, Germany (Claims) (item number 1) (id bd6d2261-c38c-4a17-a616-5b77df217a53)
Brazil (Military Service) (item number 1) (id cce6d11e-4ef2-4c20-be43-81b41a9de301)
Greece and Turkey (item number 1) (id 8ab76826-860f-4c2e-830a-d730ffe4b931)
League of Nations (Mandates) (item number 1) (id 114f82e4-4528-4f0a-b781-a4c12883b25b)
Egypt (item number 1) (id b648cdc6-3e7e-435f-8e38-34c1e061d285)
Foreign Refugees (British Expenditure) (item number 1) (id 11eb4c02-ff0d-4dc1-8db5-51529018dc59)
Corn Production Acts (Subsidy Claims) (item number 1) (id 82a9e0f5-cc0f-4abf-ae63-f983a4b63e17)
Land Drainage (item number 1) (id a656bcca-73ca-4c23-beb7-1bdabdc27aaf)
Land Settlement (item number 1) (id bb5e9e31-5b66-4f2f-88fe-780c9204cef6)
Fertilisers (item number 1) (id 4daa87d3-ef6f-4f82-ab25-cc4f0ce08208)
Potato Diseases (item number 1) (id 02d7cff1-0817-46f4-962e-76783cc30a7b)
Housing (Office of Works Schemes) (item number 1) (id 97e1a1ec-7b1f-4494-8612-8153b8ee4404)
National Health Insurance Acts (item number 1) (id e0e5430d-c69a-4ce7-b024-04ecd4e60f60)
Rating (Incidence) (item number 1) (id b67e2af7-d908-427f-84c8-dd136c6e8714)
Friendly Societies (Rules) (item number 1) (id fbec4303-6b8c-4770-a5ef-0eb714fb6c59)

Hungary
Ex-Emperor Karl (item number 1) (id 9e58a3e0-2ceb-45d5-8127-ee22049f2e35)
Forestry Bill (item number 3) (id af166e8c-ea34-4e9e-8ab1-0d649faa0e28)
Orders of the Day (item number 4) (id fdd78730-2919-45f9-a084-3a9e221e7229)
Unemployed Workers' Dependants (Temporary Provision) Bill (item number 5) (id 8784bd25-06a1-4add-a9af-0b27bb10972e)
Unemployed Workers' Dependants (Temporary Provision) [Money] (item number 6) (id 72e720ee-a318-4ea3-b0b2-3e5448f13aec)

Written Answers

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Written Answers to Questions

Questions
Picture Postcard Trade (Postage) (item number 1) (id cb9510f9-29b5-4061-89c7-46be1af13868)
Special Insurance Schemes (item number 1) (id 0217377b-a4af-4d63-ba76-7055d0542993)
Insured Trades (item number 1) (id 7b0d0757-cf7b-479e-8a10-852039cf45e2)
Benefit (item number 1) (id a8b5466b-fb7b-4c81-9118-9059fd569994)
Building Trades (item number 1) (id 040dec2c-76ed-46b1-8098-81e947ce11c4)
Communist Activities (item number 1) (id 1a89dff1-6587-4203-8e16-3830d828c138)
National Health Insurance (item number 1) (id f9b8ec2f-4717-4c05-8b8a-7ca9e5ed65c6)
Assistant Inspector of Wireless Telegraphy (item number 1) (id bb1e887d-dc74-4105-9d1a-f695fc62ce66)
Circulars (item number 1) (id e98dff88-a1de-4424-8a96-dc407d90aaeb)
Savings Bank Temporary Clerks (Promotion) (item number 1) (id 974d53a8-24b3-4bde-84cc-7b7d38801b88)
Post Office (Medical Officers) (item number 1) (id 1c4dfaf9-5972-43db-b2a7-159dd840c131)
Civil Liabilities Scheme (item number 1) (id fdfaea34-ca40-41ac-a695-7663e5ad8a3d)
Industrial Training (item number 1) (id 6ff4a84f-a295-4082-a163-2b66b21f6871)
United States (Indebtedness) (item number 1) (id 25485d6d-71e7-42ba-aaf7-32653ac056a2)
Mexico (External Debt) (item number 1) (id 4f9147a3-0775-42c5-a0b7-afdd204399d2)
Manchester, Salford, and District Grocers' Association (item number 1) (id 59116977-e8b8-4fed-9d1a-b23fac2dc5ae)
Public Assistance (item number 1) (id 87f38d52-ce1d-4954-833e-65b8bd518af4)
Currency and Exchanges (item number 1) (id 442775f4-29dd-4259-bed6-13bb0dcfc0db)
Ministry of Labour (Women's Work, Kew) (item number 1) (id a6448d73-53a2-4f38-a8f6-4a63017c70c1)
Temporary Buildings, Thames Embankment and St. James's Park (item number 1) (id 6a89d9f4-4235-4fdc-8151-9d5caaee4d1d)
Ministry of Pensions (item number 1) (id ae3996d5-419f-41b1-b55b-8073648bba04)
Ex-Service Men (item number 1) (id 497e74d9-c104-4a95-a467-9bae0edb7eb0)
H.M.S. "Tiger" (W. Winstanley) (item number 1) (id 3429a735-83e7-47f7-a7f6-76e5c855bc12)
Territorial Army (Married Allowance) (item number 1) (id a6225536-d106-4076-8cb6-789b1f4214a1)
Officers' Clothing (item number 1) (id aeeb46d1-950c-49b8-b45f-e12caa56a0cd)
Field Service Batta (item number 1) (id aad3d127-857d-4411-bc26-17c4cad497bf)
Civil Service Candidates (item number 1) (id e3986dc4-9800-43e5-a909-3025f28a3e67)
Shotwick Aerodrome Employes (Medical Examination) (item number 1) (id faa486f2-2680-4d1e-b84b-5b53c3211680)
Arabs (British Undertakings) (item number 1) (id f696e146-2131-405b-a5f1-efd2fbb00199)
Criminal Injuries Act (Intimidation) (item number 1) (id 194d2019-0f8c-4e49-b7b8-b2613bab5c83)
Police Pensions (item number 1) (id 88d49370-bca4-48db-9a5b-c78307c1f5fa)
Boycotting (item number 1) (id 3b2c8d4f-32d2-4965-a034-37efb73b9ba9)
Illegal Arrests (item number 1) (id 989f1b02-9ff4-4eaf-8a96-22f56c3391f9)
Ulster Volunteer Force (item number 1) (id 5679780c-5de6-46f6-bac5-ae3cbfa7766d)
Clinical Thermometers (item number 1) (id 4a6119da-4cb0-4dea-8112-3fc042b154bd)
Cost of Living (Index Figures) (item number 1) (id 841503f0-78ad-4a3d-ab4f-89a78f431cc3)
Coal Prices (item number 1) (id 69e1e40e-2d24-4b5e-84c1-a30cc3a38231)
Transport (item number 1) (id 778cbf2f-2685-405f-a636-e136cc3a36f3)
Appointment of Teachers, Scotland (item number 1) (id 96a0000f-a8f0-4514-a319-90c45cec0e54)
Hong Kong (item number 1) (id 3305bf6c-9421-48e9-aae8-6bcddaff7d75)
Kenya Colony (Coinage) (item number 1) (id 97c9e7f6-1c02-4d9c-8116-4b2d26da0aca)
Colonies (Federation) (item number 1) (id aaeb677e-a9d6-40d6-8e69-89a3028e8a38)
River Lea (item number 1) (id 18e0a5ec-990d-49ed-8e99-5f385245ab97)
Smoke from Factories (Committee of Inquiry) (item number 1) (id f90976af-47f9-4b60-ad65-4e44ded614a4)

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