asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that by the revised conditions of service in East Africa civil servants have been promised since April, 1920, salaries on the basis of 10 rupees to the £, plus 50 per cent., and that, owing to the value of-the rupee in Zanzibar being determined by the Indian exchange, civil servants there are only able to remit to England at an exchange materially wors…

asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the case of Whitnall v. Edwards, heard in the Manchester City Police Court on 24th June; whether he is aware that the complainant was an ex-lieutenant who is unable to recover possession of his own house from a tenant, who was a conscientious objector, upon the sole ground that the latter holds under an agreement which entitles him to possession un…

This question was addressed to the Prime Minister, and I sent full details of the case referred to, and I should like to know when a question of great legal importance is addressed to the Prime Minister by an hon. Member whether there is any Regulation which prevents him getting a reply from the Prime Minister?

The Minister of Health, who has just purported to answer the question, has stated that his Department has nothing to do with this matter. The question relates to the definition the Government has placed upon the phrase "duration of the War." It is a question of great public importance, and I submit having addressed that to the Prime Minister it ought not to have been altered at the Table and addressed to a Minister w…

The Mover of the Amendment used military metaphors and compared the Minister of Health with Big Bertha. Following that line, he himself, and others on his side, have been putting up a smoke screen, because they have done all they possibly could to obscure the real issues raised by this Amendment. Speech after speech has been made to meet the specific case of steel billets, apparently under the impression that the Bil…