Mr Neville Sandelson: Certainly. Over the last three years I have been in constant touch with the liaison committee—the London Airport Joint Shop Stewards Consultative Committee—in regard to these matters concerning policing at Heathrow. It is because that committee, on innumerable occasions, has criticised the existing policing arrangements at Heathrow that, very much at the committee's behest as well as a...
Mr Neville Sandelson: I cannot speak from personal knowledge of the views of that council, so it would be wrong of me to attempt to do so. But in this short debate—I hope that it will be short—I can only express the feelings and views of those with whom I have been in close touch in recent years, namely, the London Airport Joint Shop Stewards Consultative Committee. As the hon. Member for Chingford (Mr....
Mr Neville Sandelson: That is right.
Mr Neville Sandelson: Yes it is.
Mr Neville Sandelson: That would be churlish.
Mr Neville Sandelson: The hon. Member is entitled to a more serious reply than I have so far given him. I remind him of one incident, although I do not want to dwell on history in any detail. I could relate a number of incidents and a number of people, but I do not think that the House is particularly interested in spending overlong on this aspect of the matter. There was a demonstration at Heathrow on 1st...
Mr Neville Sandelson: It is true, none the less.
Mr Neville Sandelson: Mr. Sandelson rose—
Mr Neville Sandelson: I am sure my hon. Friend will be aware that on the occasion of the dog-handling incident it was not only the trade unions who were able to have access to the top management of the BAA. A number of others, outside the trade union structure, because of the seriousness of the incident, made immediate representations to the Chairman of the BAA. In the event of a similar incident occurring those...
Mr Neville Sandelson: Mr. Sandelson rose—
Mr Neville Sandelson: I have listened to the hon. Gentleman's speech with great interest. As he referred earlier to some remarks that I made during my speech, I should like to comment on the matter if he will allow me.
Mr Neville Sandelson: I take your point, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I wish simply to correct one point which the hon. Gentleman made. He suggested that I said that Heathrow was essentially a no-go area for the police, save with the permission of the Joint Shop Stewards' Consultative Committee. I made no such suggestion. What I was saying—
Mr Neville Sandelson: That is the last thing I would wish, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall perhaps have further opportunities to raise these points in Committee.
Mr Neville Sandelson: To the general public one of the more mystifying features of Governmental financial management is the apparent ease with which astronomical capital sums are found for schemes of doubtful national value. We have had a spate of those in recent years, schemes as grandiose as they are ill-founded. Yet when there is a minor constructional scheme of tangible and unchallengeable value to the...
Mr Neville Sandelson: Can my hon. Friend give me any idea of the length of the period of gestation on the part of the Government in regard to the Ringway 3 plans? May we expect a decision by the Government on the construction of a ringway road before the end of the year?
Mr Neville Sandelson: Has my right hon. Friend had an opportunity of considering the views expressed in the foreign affairs debate last Tuesday by my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Mr. Hooley), some of which caused offence to certain people? Will he now comment on what my hon. Friend said? I told my hon. Friend the Member for Heeley that I would raise this question.
Mr Neville Sandelson: The right hon. Gentleman criticised the indiscriminate nature of food subsidies, but then went on to talk in terms of his own preference for a family allowance for the first child. Would that not be a much greater and more widespread feature of indiscriminately giving away a public subsidy?
Mr Neville Sandelson: Will the right hon. Gentleman be more specific about what the Eight are prepared to do for Holland if that country should be denied oil directly by the Arab States?
Mr Neville Sandelson: rose—
Mr Neville Sandelson: The hon. Gentleman is talking about the achievement of a social mixture at direct grant schools. Has he examined the facts about the intake into such schools?
