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Commons Hansard for 29 April 1924 (Volume 172)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 24 February 2026 at 11.13am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons (item number 1) (id 41ada74e-9284-4745-91ca-ec36e2fec799)
Private Business (item number 2) (id 9ba4015e-56ef-4846-8c30-214f8366c6e7)

Oral Answers to Questions
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Scotland
Uncompleted Housing Schemes (item number 1) (id 74c3b775-6c57-4025-92ad-efdac94af05a)
Secondary Education, Arran (item number 1) (id 6e71cc3b-7125-4c6d-b7ac-0eebad6e3cb3)
Fishermen (Provision of Gear) (item number 1) (id 6f61ab78-32f9-4112-925e-3a3873501dcc)
Rents Tribunal (item number 1) (id 0f068299-6063-49fe-a685-4aedef604d7b)
Public Schools (Size of Classes) (item number 1) (id 05f165e9-642e-4ae6-b181-4ade72f5b2a3)
Housing Subsidy (item number 1) (id 4e6417e8-bbe3-4159-af3d-708f183c066c)

Trade and Commerce
Dyestuffs (item number 1) (id 9cb1e2a1-213c-4d60-b860-d0cde11f7706)
Insurance (Irish Free State) (item number 1) (id 014506d3-07e2-4818-a182-f0a5af62e69e)

Germany
Leather and Paper (Exports to Great Britain) (item number 1) (id 2971228a-2256-4ac1-abfc-89aa290d4a89)
Bradford Goods (Payment) (item number 1) (id f61bd41d-ac18-45ea-a649-f7436a20012f)
Territorial Waters (Oil Pollution) (item number 1) (id 39863816-c988-4f5b-8362-a051c9584392)

British Army
Officers' Pay (item number 1) (id 442cce8d-e9b6-416d-9811-ee06a1ebdd2b)
Troops in Egypt and Sudan (item number 1) (id d74c3911-7589-49aa-afdb-ec6c57fb593f)
Coal (Retail Prices) (item number 1) (id 1d0a8e6a-39be-4e31-9b1b-cba2e4b6104f)

Post Office
Imperial Wireless Committee (item number 1) (id e227e37f-b93a-4ca8-91c3-04ffa8f0ea8f)
Accommodation, Rugby (item number 1) (id 29011349-0add-4c1c-89b1-33ba514110f8)
Inland Sample Post (item number 1) (id 2c48942c-125d-48f1-8525-4a00283e2708)
Broadcasting (item number 1) (id 9741aced-8b1e-4954-8a2c-6b1c5f3c7893)
Sunday Facilities, Dulwich (item number 1) (id 7b1e3c23-eba1-4301-9bf7-d093b0312d87)
Far-Eastern Mails (item number 1) (id 9baef38e-ea38-4a11-b33b-a25d1b997826)
Mr. F. C. Cates (item number 1) (id 3dad4886-494f-4292-aac7-8abcfcddba14)

Transport
Motor Vehicles (Taxation) (item number 1) (id 64c740ad-c9fc-4afe-86a4-f93b515643d0)
Roads and Bridges (Maintenance) (item number 1) (id 6e242aac-a63f-47e7-b331-99d17c87a3ce)
Locomotives on Highways (item number 1) (id e7d9e5d7-5b53-47b3-8f17-ef69db073549)

Naval and Military Pensions and Grants
Appeals (item number 1) (id 5933b075-fbe2-4dd9-a10e-79a00bec4bc0)
Final Awards (item number 1) (id 372ab415-546a-4038-b305-3c181d7ce469)

Agriculture
Unemployment Insurance (item number 1) (id d1827d4a-de62-4f24-864d-a5944e37710e)
Credits (Interest) (item number 1) (id 6dce9b1d-d832-4d29-9737-84f900bb2a00)
India (Sikh Gurdwaras and Shrines) (item number 1) (id ac17acb4-0088-46e7-bda5-1c1841fb271e)

Royal Air Force
Flying Accidents (item number 1) (id 3ee8ff8a-ea7b-409c-bdaa-61cd5c080196)
Aircraft Engines (Maintenance) (item number 1) (id 91e8cbce-1675-4ad7-a137-7219001ca9d0)
Welfare Superintendent, Farnborough (item number 1) (id fdf671bd-0dff-4cc2-be33-5375b119bafc)
Aeronautical Research (item number 1) (id 94b65804-68c6-47ca-9eb3-ce3ec880c730)
Ex-Service Men (Post Office) (item number 1) (id b573c627-a0ce-4d8f-a6ac-7f1454bdad78)

Cyprus
Financial Statement (item number 1) (id cee6a320-55de-4f3c-a8d9-4d8c0951fb39)
Political Status (item number 1) (id bc9bddcb-e157-4041-88eb-5614a40552da)

Unemployment
Government Proposals (item number 1) (id 5daf1e0f-08c3-4063-8d5b-bd0b549f2c7a)
Necessitous Areas (item number 1) (id 0ad78732-fb2f-4d7b-ad00-4546bb265781)
Anglo-Russian Conference (item number 1) (id 03e3f30f-d104-4344-9305-b9c10b9801d9)
Burney Airship Scheme (item number 1) (id fbae8124-df2b-48ed-bd64-c6da8385b7fa)
Ministers' Newspaper Articles (item number 1) (id 0e5c5425-2a8b-40ad-a585-19b1822d19c2)
Reparation Commission (Experts' Report) (item number 1) (id bdec26bb-e963-4be0-8ee0-84fb1ed3c8f9)
Inter-Allied Debts (item number 1) (id 4687fa14-ca9e-4333-bbf8-51df647bac2b)

Budget
Land Tax (item number 1) (id 19ca85df-cb52-414f-869c-8496ac2712ff)
Mckenna Duties (item number 1) (id 04eb7321-9ee6-4e00-b677-a1ff23076f8c)
Entertainments Duty (item number 1) (id 05d1400f-f245-422d-ab59-9eba864a8d56)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id 209cb2e2-7c0f-45fd-8da2-42f521980729)
Bulgaria (Reparation Payments) (item number 1) (id 8d0bf356-45f7-452b-aa72-6ac63c51af8b)
Enemy Action Claims (item number 1) (id e0de238a-9d06-42f6-b133-c22b54b841a7)
Old Age Pensions (Income Tax) (item number 1) (id 773ec1c2-9d45-4b7e-8a39-633003cbc132)
Slades Green Explosion (item number 1) (id 83758356-8d5d-4277-9465-d9ba1b198d77)
Government Surplus War Stores (Disposal) (item number 1) (id 415d5a7f-0133-40fa-b407-cc4dbd4a1b9d)
Irish Boundary Conference (item number 1) (id 92fd9b60-e155-4e28-8829-3e544a1d3539)

Notices of Motion
Export Trade (item number 1) (id 28446ab3-1306-4226-b761-fc916f24dee7)
Health Services (item number 1) (id 5abf0e2c-7319-4d5a-9837-c1a2a5d32bb2)
Liberal Party (item number 1) (id a46ece46-7cc1-4d39-ad9d-2327445c108e)
Business of the House (item number 4) (id 79a8a706-2c39-4890-8727-5bfc1f2f7574)
Orders of the Day (item number 5) (id 4c4495ef-5608-4a04-a345-44e55c0a0b70)
Ways and Means (item number 6) (id 38cb3ebc-8f71-4f31-8f06-4db63bc6c1e8)
Imperial Preference (item number 7) (id 625b4eaf-9d39-4ab4-ab74-83c7d7ed6901)
Motor Vehicle Duties (item number 8) (id a3a1e85a-6b99-4011-9a61-dec49ca56703)
Inland Revenue Legislation (item number 9) (id 71b54b61-769c-4089-b4ad-b8ebe3dc1e9c)
Post Office (item number 10) (id 8d764d97-0962-4a5a-b7ec-223ac03e588c)
Sugar Duty (item number 11) (id 60c15b85-9275-425a-b1a7-542b79e9140a)
Tea, Cocoa and Coffee Duties (item number 12) (id 370dccd4-82c5-4675-adf8-63391c1bfa05)
Dried Fruits (item number 13) (id 70d3cd30-1586-4b4c-8783-346dc815f68d)
Sweetened Table Waters (item number 14) (id c8b6220c-6e21-47f0-a3b8-e10cedc32828)
New Import Duties (item number 15) (id 7e269aa9-426b-4d4f-b545-5fce7df9340e)
Entertainments Duty (item number 16) (id 6dac7211-1a1a-4e16-be78-a86904a8acc2)
Methylated Spirits (item number 17) (id 5a8546a5-4e90-45aa-831c-967ccb195827)
Inland Revenue Duties (item number 18) (id ded62753-c35e-4731-82f1-05ff8f0344bd)
Inhabited House Duty (item number 19) (id 7b2f4f72-fb5c-4f4f-9dad-71ddc0f59acb)
Corporations Profits Tax (item number 20) (id 2b3314bb-7752-45ac-ada0-6e874f6651b5)
Budget Surplus (item number 21) (id 507c2c7c-32d7-42d9-8efa-8efae4119a44)
Land Valuation and Taxation (item number 22) (id 48b01b3f-2b64-4aa4-80e3-0b5f03012f46)
Customs and Excise (item number 23) (id 3082a685-f303-4d14-81d8-ca0a59e5f741)
Tea (item number 24) (id cb721388-4e4b-434a-acee-9e359dd951b5)
Cocoa (item number 25) (id 2b9718fd-8444-494b-aef7-de63143060b6)
Coffee, Chicory and Coffee Substitutes (item number 26) (id 4e3ece65-bcb8-4496-9185-475b3c428b4b)
Sugar (item number 27) (id 0e1207fd-942c-4b6e-b906-dca247dc087e)
Entertainments Duty (item number 28) (id a772aa97-ccaf-4c57-887c-d17f09d9d535)

Written Answers

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Written Answers to Questions

Questions
Chief Sick-Berth Petty Officers (item number 1) (id d1b67628-ed29-4454-a7b9-913f0a4b3100)
Officers (Pay and Marriage Allowances) (item number 1) (id ddac81ec-f78c-41df-b3a3-62a324ed463c)
Sea Drafts (Higher Ratings) (item number 1) (id b12bc800-533f-4267-bd3e-ce218cf56ff8)
Leading Ratings (item number 1) (id 12070dcb-4397-4b68-bf7a-337f76945812)
Accountant Officers, Home Ports (item number 1) (id ef046a98-b71f-43bd-9bca-3086953ad467)
Discipline Act (item number 1) (id 96af0129-fbdd-4370-83f1-7daa85accb15)
Recruiting, London (item number 1) (id 30554f19-218f-4968-857d-5ca0fa81a65f)
Royal Army Medical Corps, Woolwich (Leave) (item number 1) (id 08eb9d5b-659d-4b2b-b5de-fab42065854b)
Industrial Training (item number 1) (id 8efddafa-8e45-4648-97ec-cb753822cc3f)
Civil Liabilities Grants (item number 1) (id c92a9f58-2244-40bb-b5c8-0ef1b5d9a5f7)
Mental Cases, Naval Hospital, Great Yarmouth (item number 1) (id cab5de3e-e3d7-4b54-91c6-396b13a69f63)
Farming Industry (Economic Position) (item number 1) (id 116f9a64-1e18-4b01-b249-4dca02f83880)
Tuberculosis Order, 1914 (item number 1) (id ce3a91d6-a4e4-4889-ad00-2a83303f9ffd)
Foot-And-Mouth Disease (item number 1) (id 4d0e4cd1-0f66-4378-93e4-c7a8b5c6fd0a)
Bankruptcies (item number 1) (id 3c445ac5-9e3c-43aa-903b-1cd1fdb16750)
Number of Houses Authorised (item number 1) (id b82c4819-85c6-425d-beee-65f1ce0f9f15)
Mental Hospitals (Nurses) (item number 1) (id 76dc6877-1768-47bb-9742-c8ee9fa8bc02)
Belfast Telephone Exchange (item number 1) (id 7a44a20e-3369-4adf-a7c4-c032aeaa9002)
Penny Post (item number 1) (id 1b8aedbf-cd8e-4dc0-85ae-a068dd201d06)
Munitions (Disposal) (item number 1) (id 22e3cc9a-a293-4b8c-9009-404f281ff17a)
Safeguarding of Industries Act (item number 1) (id 01608ad9-7457-424b-872d-94aa5f4d09b6)
Taxation (International Comparison) (item number 1) (id 4583bc75-d728-4ccb-b1ea-91c311390c87)
Anglo-Persian Oil Company (item number 1) (id a62f5581-4974-4e98-bfe8-edeb87d302af)
National War Savings Certificates (item number 1) (id 038d08dc-5c99-4602-81fa-1d54eccd11f3)
Metal Industry, Germany (Working Hours) (item number 1) (id 2762b983-96dd-46e9-bd5e-d76757424ee2)
German Reparation (Recovery) Act (item number 1) (id 6fe9ce07-563a-4088-b248-0ad4fd5e218a)
War Risks Compensation Scheme (item number 1) (id 97f8aec1-8540-4a7f-9ad2-d8908afe5d32)
Wages (item number 1) (id cd484dea-50c8-4588-b091-edeb8f1ddb4c)
Spirits Exported (item number 1) (id 0e527712-cbd9-4191-a138-d08d219547f5)
Hellenic Republic (Recognition) (item number 1) (id e2a4dddf-fbfd-4ed7-9652-2dd85f0fa8b8)
Turkey (British Claims) (item number 1) (id d41c9644-49a0-404c-ab72-2c9c4cd95458)
Bessarabia (item number 1) (id 53e4c2bc-9ba1-486d-a5fb-06067802c16a)
Prisons Service (item number 1) (id 0d2ce4df-27f3-47aa-a835-4078c223a92d)
Dangerous Road, Huntingdon (Reconstruction) (item number 1) (id 6414098d-0631-4a7a-a4d4-155b84561a6d)
Corridor Trains (Accidents) (item number 1) (id 5543ca96-0612-48dc-9bbf-f3a49345111e)
Soda Concession, Kenya (item number 1) (id 4bfd46bf-7846-479a-a660-65f20c256191)
Air Ministry (item number 1) (id 27425696-22aa-4c71-81e8-a1ebb2ffe6d3)
Unemployment Insurance (Employers) (item number 1) (id 7a158f2c-d580-4e76-9d3d-b51cdc153faf)
Coal Mining (Retreating System) (item number 1) (id 6e3073c1-efad-471a-8e5c-84d336742797)
Naval Pensions (Widows) (item number 1) (id cb27ebdc-2e54-47e6-811d-5ed1fe212400)

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