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Commons Hansard for 26 November 1940 (Volume 367)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 25 February 2026 at 10.28am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons (item number 1) (id e1e93c13-5c4e-4d3b-8674-7546af597e23)
Private Bills and Private Business (item number 2) (id 57f7bed8-d68b-4f59-a6c0-5a0df64ab81e)
Public Bills (item number 3) (id 46662e35-9759-413a-883a-4cccc91dd9c2)
Public Petitions (item number 4) (id d914dd62-c421-4872-822e-af9fef8bf407)
Select Committees (item number 5) (id 2c4c1525-bad0-4667-9d36-6cc4e08d79be)

Oral Answers to Questions
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Questions
Steel Exports (item number 1) (id d02c9ede-ab8f-4dd4-9562-82a288b385c3)
Chinese Seamen (Danger Bonus) (item number 1) (id 291d9e5b-bcf2-482f-aed0-4a24fd782c13)

British Army
Mechanisation and Organisation (item number 1) (id d0a068d5-c104-4469-9e1f-0d9f9db41e55)
Building Operatives (Release) (item number 1) (id 2dfa9e29-0507-4be8-a304-25c349829a39)
Officers' Sunday Club (item number 1) (id cd925edb-dbd2-4d67-a056-55a20a7c5da2)
Inoculation (item number 1) (id c6f376c9-5c8f-47bc-9b18-4f2b42ca1c60)
Invalided Soldiers (item number 1) (id 70a4c826-3f62-4a6f-8c74-5602b346122c)
Pioneer Corps (item number 1) (id a4f1dca8-0053-4196-b855-260b01542086)
Embarkation Leave (item number 1) (id 6d7d3866-e729-4336-85ca-d15b2fda62b9)
Education (item number 1) (id 974f7873-01e2-406e-8fc1-04f1522185e3)
Iceland (Defence) (item number 1) (id 2101a9b1-59e1-483a-93bc-ff420c85b1b3)
Skilled Engineers (Release) (item number 1) (id 2ec2b601-58fc-40f8-baa3-23a79c095707)
British Prisoners of War (item number 1) (id 0825b3e2-31d3-4a8c-9e54-65a9a66f531e)
German and Italian Prisoners of War (item number 1) (id 537813bb-8bdc-4d38-a17c-9e8818ecba92)

Coal Industry
Distribution (item number 1) (id 72796a0e-b733-4fe9-ad8f-2176232b742c)
Mossfield Colliery Accident (Report) (item number 1) (id 49bdc777-1b50-44d8-aedb-14ab3effb36b)
Sidings (West London) (item number 1) (id f339802f-9060-4222-929b-8854770c6a51)

Questions

Alternative Motor Fuels (item number 1) (id 2e11d4e0-689d-4b8f-890d-08120eba1729)
Service Badges (item number 1) (id 98128d89-6a2f-4cb7-9ac5-c5b28a5f4888)
Armed Forces (Leave) (item number 1) (id b895f39d-47e7-43a3-bd28-e7b898b70dee)
Hostilities (Christmas) (item number 1) (id 9679a2c1-c5cc-45b4-a425-a69a0d00b833)
Poland and Czecho-Slovakia (item number 1) (id 5646b6f1-2209-4de1-8c6a-3d994024a0af)
Northern Ireland (Special Constabulary (item number 1) (id e6271035-47d6-4800-ba5e-dc0021d9d757)

Civil Defence
Air-Raid Precautions Work (Elderly Men) (item number 1) (id 2efd6920-8078-4fe7-a251-2c766ac96d1a)
"Raiders Passed" Signal (Night Time) (item number 1) (id cfa0962a-3928-4672-8294-479c04c1f395)
Homeless Citizens (Badges) (item number 1) (id 9c0fb7cd-3fc8-48d1-af28-a89cdc3c1bb4)
Army Field Ambulances (item number 1) (id bd309a1f-3a78-43dd-aff0-9204009c759f)
Internees (Release) (item number 1) (id d771f714-3f81-441c-b69d-f0be7bff6005)
Brick Shelters Adaptation (Demonstrations) (item number 1) (id 69654f1d-bf31-434f-bb7a-4d24c1131781)
Damaged Houses (Furniture Removal) (item number 1) (id d3c432b3-e123-49af-a893-782f19cbfda3)
Ministry of Works and Buildings (item number 1) (id d42f7ed7-9ef4-4532-90e6-9e8c1d74d551)

National Finance
Bankers' Deposits (item number 1) (id 4be37646-62bb-471d-bc10-704a573ec32b)
Monetary Policy (item number 1) (id 624e3969-1872-4d40-83a1-c2d39ef6cd0c)
Purchase Tax (item number 1) (id 680148d8-1248-420b-a654-ce964dfb5c38)
Select Committee on National Expenditure (item number 1) (id 475583cf-42b1-4f4f-8f53-1ae50adae233)

Food Supplies
Sugar (item number 1) (id 1aa80999-e5f5-4276-af71-a9fc1c56ed12)
Leeks (Price) (item number 1) (id 3ae18ff5-831d-4473-88f7-fe4d9f88cbfe)
Canadian Milk Products (item number 1) (id 15256f73-3cfa-44c5-a763-31eb8d12dfc5)

Questions

Ministry of Supply (item number 1) (id 012b7961-5e6b-41f7-89c0-39a59f83856e)
Sub-Post Office, South Kensington (item number 1) (id 0187a5f7-6f25-4d8b-8701-63510f3f9cbb)
Agriculture (Government Proposals) (item number 1) (id a3094ca4-0cc0-4f37-bbf2-f9af02d6cd45)
Conduct of a Member (item number 7) (id b628db3a-719a-4083-8952-a964e7558a06)
National Expenditure (item number 8) (id 94117c84-a3c6-4616-afbd-6fefeaecd44b)
Personal Explanation (item number 9) (id c79a8e9c-5c74-4b43-90a7-16dbaf3a5dcf)
Business of the House (item number 10) (id a2e4d035-eaa3-4035-89a3-641048ef64ae)
Orders of the Day (item number 11) (id e5573277-7a73-4689-9c2f-3860138f48f6)
King's Speech (item number 12) (id 99fb8280-c225-4424-a54f-3269b3e5cc2f)
Adjournment (item number 13) (id e2e88418-e1f7-4deb-afa6-3a5343858a4d)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Questions
Income Tax (item number 1) (id 71a4bfc8-d6c1-4201-8114-d3329e1e5b17)
Purchase Tax (item number 1) (id 4540ea21-b4ee-4e79-95da-7dd12023630a)
Requisitioned Buildings (item number 1) (id 6aa0f6f7-fd07-4a9e-b7da-84ca0a11e282)
Ministry of Economic Warfare (item number 1) (id 641e6fbe-0d6c-4036-8507-cd5057f40057)
Board of Education (item number 1) (id 4c563bda-8731-401c-abaf-b84c39cbc862)
Ministry of Supply (Land Requisition) (item number 1) (id 89b85d44-e9ac-4fe2-a333-ee97391c8e3a)
Royal Navy (Comforts, Eire) (item number 1) (id c2fc4b82-6f1a-4aae-b543-cb7ec85eafb6)
Factories (Glass Protection) (item number 1) (id d8f1d80d-26bc-4498-8e52-8e0ab6112570)
Civilian Casualties (Publication) (item number 1) (id 39530b4e-966a-430f-bdc5-292c955f312a)
Clearance and Repair Work (item number 1) (id 5c64ab24-d591-42d5-b16d-d62a889f394b)
Shelters (item number 1) (id 8b4b9f38-a1ca-4156-abe1-5727b7750853)
Special Constables (Boots) (item number 1) (id 1ecaa87c-9b41-435c-8893-5bdd51c2109f)
Coventry (Emergency Powers) (item number 1) (id 8861b81f-d9a1-4228-b873-20f62288408f)
Evacuation (item number 1) (id a7e5cf73-12b5-440b-ae50-fdb27883abf8)
Burns (Treatment) (item number 1) (id 2f00a3e1-66e8-4917-98a6-3b2354e23049)
Air-Raid Damage (item number 1) (id d6a95a1b-8fde-4942-9c44-ffdac4109efc)
First-Aid Posts (Leaders) (item number 1) (id 48688a5d-86dd-43ea-a9b2-934f3541ddcb)
Blast-Proof Houses (item number 1) (id 204251e2-37e5-42d0-89e5-df091b778416)
Oatmeal (item number 1) (id 65211312-bc7c-48bf-a25a-3bc914f99270)
Bananas (item number 1) (id 9870bb1f-4f3a-4156-963f-aefe266acbce)
Wheat Surplus, Canada (item number 1) (id fd2c9866-a725-4bc7-a0a6-d4acc08740d8)
Military Service (Entertainment Occupations) (item number 1) (id 557b7c28-760a-47ec-a2c6-1f20617d3a82)
Propaganda Films (item number 1) (id 07a806fe-c6b5-47aa-97f7-96385efb05a9)
Gaelic Broadcasts (Servicemen) (item number 1) (id b40cae38-d437-48b6-989a-d6bcb51110ad)
Coal Stocks, Yorkshire (item number 1) (id 6cd1253f-e490-44aa-a3e6-e4ce90cc86ea)
Evacuees (Visitors, Travel Facilities) (item number 1) (id 1b320a4f-6e47-4b33-8528-b8984c51ee36)
Bulgaria (item number 1) (id 7dafd492-4800-4c82-bfa3-2fe8a3b0a3cc)
Abyssinia (item number 1) (id 6639f282-ba68-4217-9774-2b297fbf92a9)
Technical and Scientific Personnel (item number 1) (id 0f0e1581-2359-43c5-a33c-7f2d860a5f89)
Auxiliary Fire Service (Releases) (item number 1) (id e34011e2-da54-4ca2-997a-4e209d741aad)
Officers' Kit (Prices) (item number 1) (id 10b8873a-f146-4ff7-998b-789aeddc57f3)
Dependants' Allowances (item number 1) (id 7e4ed2ce-0c87-4e7b-ba51-c1de9dae67c2)
Complaint (item number 1) (id 03f3a306-d865-4bf1-946d-185c57e6e5fb)
Home Guard (item number 1) (id 0815233a-3b00-4077-8fdc-225d75922bdc)
Officers (Family Allowances) (item number 1) (id ef817204-ca08-4dfa-9075-5236b1dc7ef9)
Royal Army Medical Corps (Commissions) (item number 1) (id 3fc8e33e-4ccc-4a59-a6a0-21c6028c0905)
Food Economy (item number 1) (id 82a628c9-dab4-4dfb-80bd-8ab029184b24)
Pioneer Corps (Title) (item number 1) (id b4f1f9ca-10a6-42e5-b74b-15f6fcb35be7)
British Prisoners of War (item number 1) (id c7a0e377-3b6a-4ab3-832c-7dfe3273d38a)
Transport (Canals) (item number 1) (id b606564e-77a3-4d06-b81d-2c5021aec8f6)
Limitation of Supplies Order (item number 1) (id b68db900-6e3e-4f85-95ad-b36877799517)
Sewerage Scheme, Gravesend (item number 1) (id 76d04fa6-15e2-4a4f-a73f-ee48add6ef8e)
Royal Air Force (Redress of Grievances) (item number 1) (id 43c04bad-8780-4c2c-98f5-ddc5d004a7c9)
Priority Telephone Facilities (item number 1) (id 1e14785e-7bf0-4ffb-a73c-d302b913d112)
Christmas Mails (item number 1) (id 9a7375d3-b285-4e7d-85e4-e5b39b828c94)
Rumania.(German Military Forces) (item number 1) (id 18c6ca37-500c-4b69-8eda-9854fc2ebbb1)

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