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Commons Hansard for 26 October 1939 (Volume 352)
From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated
13 May 2018 at 3.28am.
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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Unemployment
Benefit
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Refugees
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Team Valley Trading Estate
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Women Teachers
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Ordnance Factories
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Professional Workers
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Special Areas
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Junior Instruction Centres
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Military Training
Conscientious Objectors
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Two Members Of Family
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Agricultural Workers
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Trade Board Act
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Education
Leeds High School, Headingley
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Training Colleges
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Returned Evacuees
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Adult Classes, London
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Requisitioned Schools
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Pakefield Holiday Camp, Lowestoft
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Royal College Of Art
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Local Authorities (Contracts)
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Union Of Medical Practitioners
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Civil Defence
Camps
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Evacuation
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First-Aid Posts (Doctors' Equipment)
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Emergency Medical Service
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Bread Baking (Night Workers)
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Air-Raid Precautions Workers
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Lighting Regulations (Fine, Clerkenwell)
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Street-Lighting
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Expenditure (Rates)
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Local Authorities' Staffs (Unpaid Service)
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Air-Raid Shelters
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Air-Raid Precautions Equipment
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Entertainments (Closing Hour)
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Gas Masks (Children, Maternity Hospitals)
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Inflammable Identity Discs
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Public Service Vehicles (Lighting)
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Shops (Hours Of Closing)
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National Health Insurance
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British Spas
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Housing (Wednesfield)
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Children's Allowances
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Location Of Industry (Commission's Report)
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Questions To Ministers
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Minister's Broadcast Speech
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Press Bureau
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Bottle Parties
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Metropolitan Police (Special Branch)
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Aliens Tribunals (Austrians)
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Royal College Of Physicians Of Edinburgh (Foreign Licentiates)
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German Chef, Edinburgh
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Message From The Lords
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Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) (Postponement) Billlords
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Written Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers
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Royal Navy
Armistice Day Collections
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Requisitioned Trawlers (Fish Supplies)
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Family Allowances
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Life-Saving Appliance
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House Of Commons (Lighting Restrictions)
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Civil Service
Evacuation
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Married Women
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Committee Of Public Accounts (Report)
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Government Printing Contract
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Civil Defence
Evacuation
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Doctors
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Air-Raid Precautions (Expenditure)
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Shops (Hours Of Closing)
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Local Authorities' Expenditure
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Traffic Obstructions, London
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Air-Raid Warning, Markinch
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Sunday Entertainment Facilities
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Air-Raid Shelters (Omnibuses)
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Special Constables
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Requisitioned Motor Vehicles (Payments)
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Air-Raid Precautions Workers, Rutland
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Arrests
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National Register (Enumerators)
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Free Loans To State
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Aliens (Statistics)
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Refugees
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Agriculture
Pig-Raising
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Sheep And Cattle (Prices)
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Seeds And Fertilisers
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Rents
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Allotments
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Rats And Mice (Destruction) Act
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Parklands
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Rabbits
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Tabulated Returns
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Farm Workers' Wages
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British Army
Marriage Allowance (Private S A J Wilson)
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Armistice Day Collections
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Expeditionary Force (Letters)
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Leave
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Billeting
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Foreign Newspapers (Censorship)
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Jugo-Slavia (British Newspapers)
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Letters To Foreign Countries (Censorship)
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Ministry Of Supply
Unemployment (Black Country)
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Timber Control
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Wool
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Tin (Prices)
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Armed Forces (Clothing)
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Royal Air Force (Armistice Day Collections)
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Food Supplies
Pooling System
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Controls
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Food Wastage
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Milk Producer-Retailers, South Wales
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Fife County Council (Evictions)
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Economic Warfare (Balkan States)
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Education (Evacuees, Suffolk)
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