Mr Frederick Gough: In view of the unsatisfactory nature of my hon. Friend's reply, I shall try to raise this matter on the Adjournment as soon as possible.
Mr Frederick Gough: The hon. Member keeps referring to a grass airstrip, but those of us who are interested in private flying want to go further and have a grass landing area. We do not want the position to be misunderstood. I am sure that the hon. Member agrees with me in this matter.
Mr Frederick Gough: It is a very happy thing that today the Government have managed to get through their business in a commendably short space of time, and from the moment when the Question, "That this House do now adjourn," was put from the Chair, it became a private Members' day, which I as a back bencher very much welcome. I find myself immediately and completely in support of the hon. Member for Uxbridge...
Mr Frederick Gough: With great respect, I shall be equally surprised if my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary does, because none of us has been able to find any of the reasons put forward at different times. We have never got to the real reasons for the removal of Croydon beyond the fact that there was a statement in the White Paper of 1953 to the effect that when Gatwick was completed Croydon would be shut...
Mr Frederick Gough: Would my hon. Friend think it very unkind if I put down a Question asking for the same figures for Gatwick, including interest on capital?
Mr Frederick Gough: On a point of order. May I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker? I have risen each time, but at least two of the supplementary questions on this highly contentious matter have been put by Privy Councillors. I wish to ask a question.
Mr Frederick Gough: Would my hon. and learned Friend agree, in respect of both this and the previous Question, that an insurance premium against burglary is a perfectly satisfactory payment?
Mr Frederick Gough: Is my right hon. Friend aware that I can say, on behalf of quite a large number of users, that this "considerable extension" at Biggin Hill is not accept-able in the slightest? At the outside, it is only an extension to seven years. Is my my right hon. Friend aware that the whole interests of private flying are wrapped up in this decision? Will he give an assurance that nothing will be done...
Mr Frederick Gough: asked the Minister of Health whether he will authorise the issue of a suitable mechanically propelled vehicle for Mr. Paul Bates, of Silver Birches, Itchingfield, Horsham, who is totally paralysed, who therefore needs a vehicle which will carry his respiratory apparatus and who otherwise has no means of leaving his home and looking after his various interests.
Mr Frederick Gough: I thank my hon. Friend for his letter, which I received only a day OT so ago. Will he look into this matter again? As he knows, this is a very sad case. Is he aware that this young man has taken on a great deal of public work? To give one example, he carries out his correspondence on a typewriter which he works with his nose. As this is the only type of vehicle he could use, would the...
Mr Frederick Gough: rose—
Mr Frederick Gough: Can the hon. Member give one instance of one dictator whom we have set up?
Mr Frederick Gough: Will the hon. Member answer my question.
Mr Frederick Gough: In view of the information that this man was possessed not only of a skeleton key, but possibly also of some form of saw, can my right hon. and learned Friend tell us how often thorough searches are carried out both of the men themselves and of the rooms in which they live?
Mr Frederick Gough: I add my plea that my right hon. Friend should give serious consideration to the Amendment to deal with the matter, either in the present Bill or later. Each hon. Member who has spoken has represented a city or urban view. There is a new town in my constituency where the bicycle is essential for all workers. The average distance which has to be travelled by a man living in Crawley who has...
Mr Frederick Gough: Is my right hon. Friend aware that certain rather wild statements have been made about the symptoms of this disease, and that in one paper they were set out in such detail as to indicate that they will obviously apply to every hon. Member of this House if he does his job properly? Will my right hon. Friend give an assurance that perhaps some guidance could be given about whether or not...
Mr Frederick Gough: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Mr. Mawby) has been standing up for the last five minutes to ask a question, without being called. I do not think that you heard him try to ask a question just now.
Mr Frederick Gough: The right hon. and learned Gentleman says that my right hon. Friend may be creating a dangerous form of patronage, and in deploying his argument he divided the life peers on the one side into those who are paid and, on the other, into those who are unpaid, and I think that in the middle there was a group of those who were half paid. Would he say whether the patronage is more dangerous in...
Mr Frederick Gough: I would assure the right hon. and learned Gentleman that I am not in the least mystified. It is he who is mystified, and, so far as I can see, he has mystified the House.
Mr Frederick Gough: Last night I had the privilege of attending a dinner presided over by my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Sir R. Boothby), at which both he and the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan)contributed very brilliant speeches. However, as after-dinner speeches they did not hold a candle to the speeches which we have heard today from the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr....
