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Commons Hansard for 25 January 1940 (Volume 356)

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Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons (item number 1) (id c34825d7-587d-4b7b-9f5b-76955460b84b)
New Writs (item number 2) (id 9ff1d3cd-5f15-453a-8ac7-94101a29c515)

Oral Answers To Questions
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Unemployment
Cost Of Living (item number 1) (id 3c93111d-1368-472b-9f80-27a531ad3f2c)
Benefit (Royal Air Force Recruits) (item number 1) (id aefea6ab-eec5-4812-988b-f804d6368d2b)
Elderly Workers (item number 1) (id c34f25e9-8a17-4ef3-beb8-de25c9bd263d)
Alloa (item number 1) (id de914524-a013-4a1d-837e-e9dde2a27bd6)
Statistics (item number 1) (id bb154bc6-1848-4e85-adec-e362dad15ab8)
Air-Raid Precautions Personnel (item number 1) (id 14b45814-c768-4239-8af3-cd371d03f8a9)
Engineers, Sunderland And South Shields (item number 1) (id 6c9194a4-4359-4a3b-982e-aad93fe14cca)
Trade Boards (item number 1) (id a5b4c3d0-cf0f-44de-bbc1-71dd395b1299)
Government Works (Travel Facilities) (item number 1) (id 0beac032-be44-4f22-8783-9bf01c3417e6)
Town Planning, Dovedale (item number 1) (id c7498dff-65a0-42c1-8376-7bcfcf0341a0)
Medical Services (Armed Forces' Dependants) (item number 1) (id 0a2bbd23-1823-4a9f-b828-de4b9a573153)

Civil Defence
Evacuation (item number 1) (id 370216f4-2e5b-4b28-8d54-d8b962eab53a)
Garage Service Stations (item number 1) (id 2bf07701-5da1-44dd-8445-b0214458f84d)
Motor Cars (Registration) (item number 1) (id 794ad773-8494-46a0-b529-0373f57c1af6)
Air-Raid Shelters (item number 1) (id da134528-b393-4486-8455-5e60c59cf168)
Local Organisations (item number 1) (id c0d333ad-1c8f-417d-b33c-80bed84298fe)
Air-Raid Wardens' Posts (item number 1) (id 51f2d10a-4ccd-4823-a9dc-ee78698138ac)

Housing
Municipal Schemes (item number 1) (id 331c3855-50c6-4751-9fb9-8fe2e1a0011d)
Slum Clearance (item number 1) (id 21eab24a-b7c0-4bef-9583-fc248c3db268)
Government Policy (item number 1) (id 9fd538f9-fef0-4c3f-8f72-a9fd62c8b2f3)
Emergency Medical Service (item number 1) (id 8d2320f4-a500-4c6e-b334-12d29052dd9d)
Tuberculosis (Wales) (item number 1) (id 95c7ed0d-6c6d-4bcc-9d28-8eaaa1f97261)
Water Supply, Watlington (item number 1) (id b374d20d-6815-4b08-8a64-985cdef4b4af)
Camps (Building Cost) (item number 1) (id eb12b2b7-e34e-4af0-8585-0d67d281e0f9)
Rating (Revision Of Assessments) (item number 1) (id 2bd0e9f8-d003-4b45-834a-25dd0f1ce6f4)
Old Age Pensions (item number 1) (id b41538b1-b646-452f-aea7-ebbf227b57ea)
India (Congress Ministries, Minorities) (item number 1) (id a000d2cc-c9d8-4392-b0b3-3484ebe48e41)
Food Supplies (Stocks) (item number 1) (id 06a582c5-9ae3-448c-bbcf-31c806fb0589)

Agriculture
Feeding-Stuffs (item number 1) (id 4ffadbad-0ab0-4d27-af55-d3c0ba616c3e)
Grassland Ploughing (item number 1) (id ef8f2796-5e0a-492c-9a7d-016d09c7d9aa)
Wages (item number 1) (id 20704ec4-4ba5-4274-aabe-ae365ad2b77f)
Agricultural Land (Price) (item number 1) (id 7fb641d2-3785-484b-9c8a-ab0f755f46fb)
Damage By Rats (item number 1) (id 367fe5cc-c8db-4e18-aacd-94b286690383)
Rooks (item number 1) (id 3b747436-0a06-45e0-be7f-06dd5a652ae4)
Factory Act (Administration) (item number 1) (id d90daeaf-882f-40d6-b6a6-6dff75a01b3b)
Factories (Hours Of Work) (item number 1) (id aa268de3-f6dc-4f37-add8-b32fb282ce48)
Internee (Application For Discharge) (item number 1) (id 3f9e226f-1dba-4ea6-979a-3f3045df3731)
Employment Of Young Persons (item number 1) (id 4565312a-2982-4ebf-a382-72b669f69380)
Flying Boat "Connemara" (Loss) (item number 1) (id 18c2767c-0a8f-4296-bc72-45030adcdc1d)
Workmen' S Compensation (item number 1) (id 9ba5f65c-4355-4363-9161-9028ea2d297d)
Surbiton Borough Council (item number 1) (id f039ce57-4aad-48b5-9732-47400500bf71)
Summer Time (item number 1) (id 085f24c6-5421-4a3f-a3bc-c2fa85e39387)
Business Of The House (item number 4) (id 06936e68-a594-4a0b-908f-56333398e81a)

Ballot For Notices Of Motions
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Army Allowances (item number 1) (id 880d050a-d062-4dd9-8c12-6e3b227eae41)
Prices And Cost Of Living (item number 1) (id 65f02b3a-75be-4496-8c38-eeca2242d9ff)
Conduct Of The War (item number 1) (id 9c980518-99ab-40e8-8351-6ec9c435508d)
Air Personnel (Health And Comfort) (item number 1) (id 70ef6d5d-4bab-4674-8316-758568f5c6fc)
Promotions From Lower Deck (item number 1) (id 2046f4ed-ea0a-4bba-9659-81ade403c141)
Welfare Of Soldiers (item number 1) (id f5e650c2-31b4-4b72-8512-e7d2af49f087)
Royal Air Force Allowances (item number 1) (id 3377290f-6a7b-477a-97bd-04afaf69bccd)
Conditions Of Soldiers (item number 1) (id 69418be2-84d1-421f-b549-ffa50c75552f)
Prices And Cost Of Living (item number 1) (id 437d187c-2a71-45ba-88a7-b0ebedf4d6f8)

Bill Presented
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Trade Boards And Road Haulage Wages (Emergency Provisions) Bill (item number 1) (id a59e94fd-6d8c-4c18-9c47-5c908541c519)
National Expenditure (item number 1) (id 0ac7df4a-18e0-4775-9337-fdad81ffd7a5)
Civil Estimates (Supplementary Estimates, 1939) (item number 1) (id fbe2d9d5-809c-49d7-9eae-cb5ccc001527)
Agriculture And Food Production (item number 7) (id cefe291d-c620-478f-8b43-789835f2963e)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers (item number 1) (id c121d6b7-2d14-411d-bf8e-4b6fff6fdd6a)

Ministry Of Supply
Area Organisation (item number 1) (id 1db7435b-9be1-433a-9148-044bace44d1d)
Birmingham (item number 1) (id b9d5700f-cb9d-4d6a-8d3a-eb62f34eeb32)
Newcastle (item number 1) (id 3d7f2bd5-de36-4981-8f90-2905e9ea90f6)
Leeds (item number 1) (id 6fa46513-efa0-4b43-8893-8556f229cc35)
Lincoln (item number 1) (id 3d88b09a-ecc8-47c0-8e62-a9921e35beec)
Nottingham (item number 1) (id d55eb1e6-9ac7-49e3-b3c6-9a4b204e7153)
Leicester (item number 1) (id 78e184ba-1cd3-4fcb-946b-cd4dc2a9ad34)
Bristol (item number 1) (id 80f4c1e5-633a-4636-9e31-3c39541d31c8)
Manchester (item number 1) (id 0b8491bc-fc80-4157-be40-4544f11bdfc8)
Glasgow (item number 1) (id 326d664e-047b-4f35-86f3-db9fbf17f739)
Timber Trade (Interest On Credit Accounts) (item number 1) (id 3aecec77-71d8-4088-b9a5-627e84cd1c0d)
Waltham Abbey Explosion (item number 1) (id 4187c8e6-0a5b-4d27-974d-b10efdd0d001)

Military Service
Reserved Occupations (item number 1) (id d00720a9-4e68-4688-aebf-72f99b6ce651)
Central Register (Volunteers) (item number 1) (id da0e540d-3c75-4c62-bf53-eccfab05204b)

Government Departments
Clerical Staffs (item number 1) (id 609b240c-eded-437d-9cbc-f6725d0db6d0)
Junior Staff (Recruitment) (item number 1) (id ff159bfb-ea06-4c61-a51a-ee41c9cd60c7)
Evacuation, London (item number 1) (id 05463b55-01f1-4518-8ae0-da6aca9bccc8)
Board Of Education (item number 1) (id 27db067b-9194-48bd-a33c-fac49eda2294)
Building Contracts (item number 1) (id ffc9c529-28e9-4d69-9a85-cde49a49e6ee)
Requisitioned Buildings) Inner London (item number 1) (id a1cf84e7-fe0a-4db3-82af-556138269ef0)
Unemployment (Benefit And Allowances) (item number 1) (id e184ef24-8a1c-4e66-b1b8-438a8b449049)
Contract Labour (Colonial Empire) (item number 1) (id e234a587-a990-404d-b956-d81dd253cacb)
Naval And Military Pensions And Grants (item number 1) (id f7d9a186-45dd-4ca4-a758-37c63f40e6d7)
Lighting (Restrictions) Order (Prosecutions, Swindon) (item number 1) (id dfbd2c64-9e88-496e-9ef4-3174efd529af)

Civil Defence
Air-Raid Precautions (item number 1) (id 642f8ae8-d69d-45fe-bb27-4ad32fe906ab)
Air-Raid Shelters (Acquisition Of Land) (item number 1) (id 77d958fe-0efd-41d6-8287-0200499a9655)
Royal Ordnance Factory, Euxton (item number 1) (id 4208c5f0-1c2d-4744-8c99-bd2d70b11290)
Evacuation (item number 1) (id a71d6d5e-fc93-4d46-b0a0-ba00b39e044f)
First-Aid Posts (item number 1) (id ff825847-8f2a-4958-bbf9-743997c685ad)
Motor Headlamps (item number 1) (id d785d394-d5ea-4696-8299-9ab5e92c27ca)
Special Constables (item number 1) (id 7c775e87-d347-49e2-a375-d551287206b6)
Football Pools (item number 1) (id 145d88ce-7545-4cdc-a1d7-7c8f879d3a68)
Miss Unity Mitford (item number 1) (id 332d3df4-b0af-4361-8fef-3781469a1f6f)
Factories (Ventilation) (item number 1) (id 3d70ab24-b4ab-4680-b3f6-cdd706751c09)
Enemy Aliens (item number 1) (id ae7e9896-1aa2-4217-9728-3c84ac81e572)
Czecho-Slovak Refugees Trust (item number 1) (id 967122d9-6e44-401f-8f03-371b76139a04)
Income Tax (Government Employes) (item number 1) (id 91e19126-bbc7-47ed-9a4b-3e7f8e02ad69)

British Army
Billeting Rates (item number 1) (id 71161055-563b-4388-be21-6a5719f12045)
Recruits (Clothing And Equipment) (item number 1) (id f14f6cd2-2632-4392-b689-6516c6c6b1a8)
Newry, County Down (item number 1) (id f625099d-7146-415e-af6b-99755cef702a)

National Economy
Non-Essentials (item number 1) (id 99972e76-c738-467c-bb94-e8656ce5d7b8)
Statistics (Publication) (item number 1) (id b48173a3-a654-4514-ab1d-8ac11dc39374)
Non-Contributory Pensions (Means Test) (item number 1) (id d9ea770c-a80e-41fb-b642-ff189811fa51)
4½ Per Cent Conversion Loan (item number 1) (id 59108242-b09b-4a6b-8a77-8939a3e592f2)
Post Office (Newspapers, Etc, Postage Rates) (item number 1) (id bdd023fc-cf3a-4d5f-af9b-08b98ed00965)

Education
New Council School, Addington (item number 1) (id 30c5bde5-2e91-402d-a01c-b187b5547193)
Juvenile Employment (item number 1) (id 5cacfad8-b122-4be6-b0d5-d5ab5b37545e)
National Fitness Council (item number 1) (id 57e9bfb8-7065-4373-8de2-1649c7918151)

Royal Air Force
Officers (Income Tax Deductions) (item number 1) (id 3bc80bf0-c9c2-4245-8eb6-f0651a1b65a5)
Officers' Allowances (item number 1) (id 8b1db87b-075b-4d6a-9e8e-fab53359988d)

Food Supplies
Meat And Livestock Control (Cost) (item number 1) (id 1c01f20a-3e11-463d-9203-a22b9fb8baa7)
Butter (item number 1) (id a69afef3-daea-4ea7-a1be-358e248d7138)
Milling Offals (item number 1) (id 590a00b0-0217-47fc-87bc-e1d515e7217c)
Margarine (item number 1) (id c2ba04ae-4255-46cd-ac64-4bac94b46fed)
Feeding-Stuffs (item number 1) (id a0d3f01e-dc7c-4b54-9774-71e1c413bb2d)
Cold Storage (item number 1) (id ff9462a9-f60f-4405-ac3d-3a38fd9b3ea2)
Invalids (Special Diets) (item number 1) (id e8a23581-8514-466b-9850-77766d3eeea4)
Clerical Staffs (Government Departments) (item number 1) (id e7464fed-ff83-4899-acee-98dbcb157485)
Eire (Censorship Of Letter) (item number 1) (id 59839a0e-040f-4f02-b00e-edfe9874be37)
German Tanker (Cruelty To British Seamen) (item number 1) (id fa8184d6-a993-4a09-bebd-7d1bfb3e0110)

Royal Navy
Flotanets (item number 1) (id 5acbbcb5-f5ff-4cc1-bdaa-059641e0303d)
Fishing Fleets (Protection) (item number 1) (id af7d6800-1302-4b26-a5e7-1444ea1adf4e)
Admiralty Allowance And Lodging Allowance (item number 1) (id 9886c8a5-6673-4ff8-b753-add68b8692c7)
Light Craft Construction (Contracts) (item number 1) (id 2998eabc-e5a4-4590-ab4b-3872559b6adb)

Agriculture
Compensation For Losses (item number 1) (id 323e6a63-6004-46ab-9610-8080e3c966e6)
Poultry Industry (Feeding-Stuffs) (item number 1) (id c99c1b3f-3785-4ba0-94a0-92e49fefac32)
Statistics (Publication) (item number 1) (id 86658c4c-f403-4552-b694-7b8c43d1ddc8)
Credit Facilities (item number 1) (id f7770d00-0b51-441c-81ee-5caebe37d601)
Civil Liabilities (War-Time Legislation) (item number 1) (id dcd2b6d0-f2d8-4b82-ab31-f8d1d4121bc4)
Emergency Medical Service (item number 1) (id bdeb12e6-7e8d-4aff-9372-7061fbfcdf88)
Old Age Pensioners (item number 1) (id c4c2b59b-2d30-4b61-a1e5-15227ca7c5c3)
War Material (Cost) (item number 1) (id 98aed158-cb14-4576-a8fe-5c6cfe2357b8)
Poland (Execution Of Children) (item number 1) (id 5dcf099e-6106-4bae-a95c-e46fb60bd194)
"New Times And Ethiopia News" (item number 1) (id 15b84a02-51b6-4a29-8209-94444fb39e1b)
Holiday Arrangements (Permit Regulations) (item number 1) (id a91a4063-ba08-46c2-86cf-498c94f36743)
Finland (British Assistance) (item number 1) (id 7be7c4ec-8f7f-4823-ad79-50f97c854f00)
Eire Citizens (Entry Into Great Britain) (item number 1) (id bc3f6dbb-6dc7-4639-9ee8-128b4ac27c58)
Economic Warfare (Reprisals Order) (item number 1) (id e190eba1-a94c-4a4e-9a40-330d03d9d91d)
Palestine (Situation) (item number 1) (id ad5b7d66-8763-4c3f-b820-72777e79c7d7)
Cereals (Export Restrictions) (item number 1) (id 2cfc3e3a-3d21-4258-86cd-cf8ec42648d3)
Producer-Gas (item number 1) (id 577f8897-2644-4193-a61c-25b2db7059ba)

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