Cyn MP ar gyfer Wolverhampton North East
To my knowledge — which goes back to 1964—the question of overcrowding in our old prisons and the appalling conditions in which we keep prisoners has been raised again and again, and we have received exactly the same replies. That is scandalous. Is the Minister aware that the conditions in which we keep men in prison, three to a cell and with no sanitary provision except for a chamber...
Not excuses again?
Is the Secretary of State aware of the seriousness of selling off so many local authority houses when his Government are building only about 130,000 a year, which is about half the number that the Labour Government built before 1979? Does he not understand that the more houses that are sold off to sitting tenants, the longer those who want to rent their local authorities will have to wait?
I was delighted to hear the Foreign Secretary say that his recent visit with the Prime Minister to the USSR was certainly an important opportunity to bring our two countries and our peoples together". I was also delighted to learn that the Prime Minister said that she was struck by the spontaneous warmth and friendliness of my reception by the people of the Soviet Union".—[Official Report,...
The Government's response to the Select Committee's report on the prison medical service was published today. It is a matter about which there is massive concern and on which the Select Committee took a wide range of worrying evidence. Can the right hon. Gentleman undertake to provide an opportunity to debate the report at the earliest opportunity in view of the massive concern about it?
Is the Secretary of State aware that many people regard city technology colleges as a rather ridiculous gimmick, and certainly as an attack on the local education authorities, as my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Mr. Flannery) said? If the Secretary of State has the additional resources that he says he has, why has he not invested them in polytechnics and universities to...
I join hon. Members on both sides in congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Springburn (Mr. Martin) on giving us the opportunity to debate this important matter which affects ever-increasing numbers of women. Like the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mrs. Roe), I must declare an interest as a vice president of the Women's National Cancer Control Campaign since its inception. I am...
Is the Secretary of State aware that thus far the Select Committee on Social Services has identified certain sectors where much more help will be needed? Does he agree that there is an urgent need for many more clinical medical posts; an urgent need for many more counsellors to counsel patients; that there will shortly be an acute need for more hospice places and that there is an urgent need...
