Mr Stanley Crowther: I hope that my right hon. Friend will accept from me that that announcement will be very welcome in my constituency. Does he agree that this type of operation, with the NEB directly involving itself as a public enterprise in manufacturing industry, as distinct from merely propping up derelict private enterprise firms, will not only greatly assist in solving the unemployment problem in areas...
Mr Stanley Crowther: Does my right hon. Friend agree that much of the increased local government expenditure since April 1974 has been due to the incredibly wasteful system imposed on local authorities by the last Conservative Government?
Mr Stanley Crowther: Will my hon. Friend accept that there are many parts in the English regions which are desperately in need of this kind of employment and which were completely ignored in the Hardman Report? Will he assure me that next time dispersal is considered it will be carried out on a more realistic and less prejudiced basis so that the smaller centres as distinct from big cities may have a share?
Mr Stanley Crowther: I am sure that nobody will be surprised when I say that at this moment I am torn by wildly conflicting emotions. I am very pleased and proud to have become a Member of this House, yet I am conscious of the fact that I am here only as a result of one of the greatest tragedies to have hit political life in this country for many years. Brian O'Malley was not only an outstanding Member of...
