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Commons Hansard for 1 April 1931 (Volume 250)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 25 February 2026 at 10.04am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons (item number 1) (id 41cb146b-3514-4f24-ab1b-28ef59c67d78)
Tramways and Light Railways (item number 2) (id 7b9685bc-c91b-4fde-a476-c0f638086a1b)

Oral Answers to Questions
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Questions
China (Situation) (item number 1) (id 27766e2f-7d6a-4239-b9fe-55ef0d33ade1)
Slavery Convention (item number 1) (id 07befcd8-d843-4d7a-b28e-88a88ac6e669)

Russia
Diplomatic Immunity (item number 1) (id 3f1fb3e5-3807-45bf-b558-81691ea5cf33)
Wages (item number 1) (id 66d80e4a-e1d0-4836-948a-56217ab489ab)
British Subjects (item number 1) (id 289e9128-4883-4f4d-af61-df88cea5dfcf)

Trade and Commerce
Abyssinia (British Traders' Claims) (item number 1) (id ee4f57a9-fd8d-4f9b-aa5b-412886a8b0f1)
Cereals (Import Restrictions) (item number 1) (id b08ff99b-48f8-4ee2-925f-9cb5f77e05bf)
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (Tariff Agreement) (item number 1) (id 3846fda2-60dc-405f-a073-f0669b949c6b)
Egypt (Czechoslovakian Goods) (item number 1) (id 918a8ee1-80b5-4629-bbc2-92ec9bfc062a)
Russia (item number 1) (id 5fa3102f-eb44-4814-ac1a-0bf55060a0e9)

Questions

French Foreign Legion (British Subjects) (item number 1) (id 6da31c1e-16c8-443f-9182-22c7bdafe425)
Liberia (item number 1) (id f88f8ebe-c820-42d5-a5bc-cfb027ba55b8)

Royal Navy
Panama Canal (His Majesty's Ship "Nelson") (item number 1) (id 3e594d37-fad5-4593-8228-6f5179fb8924)
Devonport Dockyard (Discharges) (item number 1) (id 3e57b644-afc6-4c38-bce1-9cc29b5cf8f3)
Dockyards (Foreign Orders) (item number 1) (id b8debdc5-4933-465a-a596-9ecdb40613dd)
Battleship Design (item number 1) (id 12b98453-926a-4567-9c12-5cfefe37afac)
Medical Officers (item number 1) (id abdb1165-659f-4c07-95f9-f9d24b078dc9)
Discharge by Purchase (item number 1) (id a5c9d687-00f9-4cd9-b5e9-930b0df71ef4)

Kenya
Native Reserves (item number 1) (id ccfd4d32-0461-48e6-be77-a574124458d3)
Maize (Subsidy) (item number 1) (id 67483efa-5d5a-42ae-aa97-5a56241804af)

Questions

Tanganyika (Coffee Growing) (item number 1) (id 12f6724a-8d24-48c8-bcfd-8bb77ff5352c)
Palestine (Brigandage) (item number 1) (id 013626c4-ccfe-4700-9ce3-9d0b9462b7ae)
Iraq (Oil-Pipe Lines) (item number 1) (id 94c8e2b0-6429-406c-8230-7ad06463d8f6)
Liquor Traffic Convention (item number 1) (id 18073507-31dd-4c61-bd34-dcaa181bec39)

Royal Air Force
Training Exercises (Live Ammunition) (item number 1) (id 71a4a095-4c78-4e58-b677-9783abaac36a)
Airship R100 (item number 1) (id 860cf9be-51c1-454e-b9f7-fd84d3ae05fd)

Transport
London Traffic Advisory Committee (item number 1) (id 26e5b883-a027-42a6-918a-097f468aa7f3)
Rubber Roadways (Hospitals) (item number 1) (id 5e77f085-ebdf-4cb4-bb91-2f9ccc3c43a9)
Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel (item number 1) (id d01d1d61-9ac1-489d-8205-24c8a146974a)

Questions

London Passenger Transport Bill (item number 1) (id 76ab7175-d50c-42ed-9e27-c2fb25eae3ea)

Scotland
Electricity Supply, Ardrishaig (item number 1) (id 22d32bdd-d5a8-4e74-9139-cc7a6066b97b)
Fishing Industry (item number 1) (id bd88170c-c20d-481d-b096-591806f7b164)
Piers and Harbours (item number 1) (id cc97b767-62d2-4666-915c-8bf8ec7ab2d3)
Land Purchase, Perthshire (item number 1) (id 1327c221-82c8-495f-b1d9-2484dceb1184)
Munition Worker (Compensation Claim) (item number 1) (id 836bb0a6-1c49-4a6e-adab-6e8285198c48)

Questions

Ex-Enemy Debts Department (item number 1) (id dc86c037-dd61-4be9-a759-b4269de0f1a1)
Sudan Plantations Syndicate (item number 1) (id 0abd07a7-2696-46b8-86a0-b77a954eebbf)
Grand Opera (Government Grant) (item number 1) (id 403c1e6a-fa76-422a-9f92-de91ba197a03)

Post Office
Telephone Service (item number 1) (id b7762e38-caea-4031-85ba-497f1f5b23cf)
Birth Control Literature (item number 1) (id d5829408-8d65-4bb9-b027-3bb31313fa0a)

Housing
Defaulting Local Authorities (item number 1) (id d89faa0c-ef34-4499-a231-9a930eac8f57)
Ex-Service Men (item number 1) (id ff591df7-e6fc-4e5a-93dc-6045d67aacbd)

Questions

Town and Countey Planning Bill (item number 1) (id df51745e-d6c4-486d-9065-5471ed5c5f6d)
Poor Law Relief (Ex-Service Pensioners) (item number 1) (id 511181ed-6888-4d04-94d0-c9e2eea56819)
Trade Disputes and Trade Unions (Amendment) Bill (item number 1) (id dd5af038-3447-402e-b9b9-96d254d524ea)
Betting Laws (item number 1) (id 0e00830e-90e1-4e26-aff5-c75976e6dee7)

Agriculture
Land Drainage (item number 1) (id 32956522-a584-4ad7-8325-b7d64fdd062d)

Questions

Beet-Sugar Subsidy (item number 1) (id efe4d0af-c653-46e7-aa7d-bdec0b5c7357)
Irish Free State (Seal) (item number 1) (id c4e1dd43-a89b-4bff-8dea-c813b83a20d2)
House of Commons (Refreshment Department) (item number 1) (id 5a5355d4-33d3-4191-8610-d902351dc872)
Coal Dndustry (Supplies) (item number 1) (id b8cfc3dd-d7ab-439a-ba06-c3752626e140)

Police
Plain-Clothes Officers (item number 1) (id 2bc70f8b-7938-44ed-a81b-378adfd62b45)
College (item number 1) (id 64b07d27-6c45-4daf-85b5-cff4819554ba)

Questions

Local Government Elections (Fishermen) (item number 1) (id fc79276b-bad2-4d5e-aa07-4e990a2a5270)
Lotteries and Sweepstakes (item number 1) (id c6aacd45-33ff-41e7-a969-ab31f23b26e2)
Finance and Industry (item number 1) (id 4fcc22df-4ee4-486e-881e-7ab347a35ed2)
Suez Canal Company (item number 1) (id 78cc69da-f07c-400b-9798-ef92aabb242e)
Commissions and Committees (item number 1) (id 36df6642-74d6-4ded-8708-147023b33e08)

Unemployment
Coalheavers, Grimsby (item number 1) (id 528ea46b-a89b-4d86-a499-6d148cc79a95)
Benefit (Prosecutions) (item number 1) (id 0e6fdaf1-8ac4-4e3e-88f5-31ac646fcf6d)
Temporary Exchange Clerks (item number 1) (id 7bf2c2bd-b421-4d1b-9c98-97ad6155e573)

Questions

Earthquake, Managua (item number 1) (id 777988e3-4235-42d6-9e1c-c226d3eb39bb)
Sittings of the House (item number 4) (id 370d5ab8-7689-4945-89e2-0fd9ac7d5673)
Rights of Railway Passengers (item number 5) (id 28def118-8549-4a34-81aa-eaaa24e8597b)
Rights of Railway Passengers Bill, (item number 6) (id 2dcac36b-0bb5-4980-b805-0e0972a6dc25)
Bills Reported (item number 7) (id 831a92c0-4e89-4e5d-a4a7-650d13c499e4)
Orders of the Day (item number 8) (id 451f6116-b994-4ff4-af1d-3f9d70d04ac6)
Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill (item number 9) (id 91ab0197-e753-4cbf-9295-d18be1735793)
Public Offices (Sites) Amendment Bill (item number 10) (id c4e45fe4-3bcd-4b15-8c5d-3af5199abafe)
Public Offices (Sites) Amendment [Money] (item number 11) (id 044865fa-bd64-4ff7-a87a-14cdee460a6c)
Housing (Rural Workers) Amendment [Money] (item number 12) (id e433c428-ad16-4c78-b75f-c2f10fd774a3)
Supply (item number 13) (id 15ae9e9c-20f1-4e68-83ff-126a0662e36b)
Adjournment (item number 14) (id 404681a8-b17e-46a2-8f45-fefc1e009811)

Written Answers

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Written Answers to Questions

Questions
Telephone Service, Isle of Wight (item number 1) (id d86f4e9f-7e13-4382-888b-7b9f8d43308a)
Germany and Austria (Proposed Customs Union) (item number 1) (id 60967237-8bd2-44e5-9f18-022ca93c1758)
Poland (Ukrainian Minority) (item number 1) (id 63f6b789-66df-4fab-aa01-4645c57d8271)
Mechanical Engineering Department, Royal Arsenal (item number 1) (id f2e74ed2-d33e-43f8-abe0-bca766d2070e)
Agrigultural Security Company (item number 1) (id e3f2d0ee-6c48-4f02-b23f-cf268e58e832)
Marriage Law (item number 1) (id 989b6db3-0473-4987-9852-930cd81d0f78)
Housing (Grants) (item number 1) (id 7d4370ec-be88-43b0-9c15-45d982b5dc86)
Cinematograph Films (Censorship) (item number 1) (id 111c396d-3fcb-4fd0-b9a0-668b19271603)
Russia (Commercial Intelligence) (item number 1) (id 89659de1-a9bf-4539-869f-871ef4db8253)
Hedley Committee (Report) (item number 1) (id 5b285284-0d56-48a3-b956-3ddd9d37053f)
India (Meerut Trial) (item number 1) (id ac291044-7a67-4c64-a787-c0ad450de352)
Courts of Referees, Bristol District (item number 1) (id 0c1ce059-2aca-448a-a5ad-e3630400cdf1)
Work Schemes (item number 1) (id 333bc2c1-c4d3-4431-bb75-70d2bbc4f69d)
Bread (Price) (item number 1) (id 68ce9ebc-5ff1-44e3-b0bf-d4ffb63c6e86)
Naval Establishments (Foreign Raw Materials) (item number 1) (id a3dc99f9-fee8-446d-97a0-c07a72ed8465)
Sheep Diseases (Research) (item number 1) (id 15a81667-4efa-4be5-af0a-8bf2ea7cf31c)
Barley (item number 1) (id a134e3a1-ab12-4138-bcc2-390ae2c79fee)
Poultry Breeding Stations (item number 1) (id 25f4753d-2e12-46fd-a56d-7a69c09dba1e)
River Ouse Drainage (item number 1) (id ff8444d3-cf58-4abc-808f-d7b90090082d)
Facilities, North-West London (item number 1) (id 0052d6a9-be61-46f3-ac90-8ff9f86ffb61)
City and South London Railway Service (item number 1) (id 08c21903-2660-4a5b-81a4-eaa5f5f017ca)

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