Mr Arthur Tiley: I used the word "inflation" because it shortened the form of the sentences which the hon. Member used to explain the value of the pension coming down. I thought that I could save a bit of time for the Committee by so doing. The hon. Member said that the Government's scheme was a swindle and a fraud. I will deal with that later. But if it is, the whole of the proceeds are going to our present...
Mr Arthur Tiley: They are still opposed to it, largely because they fear a further encroachment on their activities. We, too, should fear that.
Mr Arthur Tiley: Not from Yorkshire.
Mr Arthur Tiley: The whole basis of the argument being used is that wages will be stationary for the next twenty years. They will not be stationary.
Mr Arthur Tiley: Mr. Tiley: Would it not be possible to deal with Thursday's business in half a day and then discuss exports for the rest of the day?
Mr Arthur Tiley: They have met their Waterloo.
Mr Arthur Tiley: He is not a budding anything. He is a grammar school boy of full fruition.
Mr Arthur Tiley: Very clear.
Mr Arthur Tiley: asked the Minister of Health when work will begin on the new hospital in Bradford which is to replace the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital, in view of the long period which has elapsed since it was announced that the money was available for this project.
Mr Arthur Tiley: Is not my right hon. Friend consumed with anxiety at the lengthy delay of nearly two-and-a-half years which has taken place since this hospital, which is so urgently needed in the City of Bradford, was first planned? What can there be left to discuss after such a long period? Is there not something wrong with the system of building new hospitals? Is my right hon. Friend not aware that...
Mr Arthur Tiley: In view of the fact that the sketch plans were received last December, that means a delay of two years prior to the announcement of the plan and the reception of the sketch plan. Cannot something be done to speed that process? In view of my right hon. Friend's interest in timetables, can he set a timetable for the commencement of this hospital? Otherwise we shall go on talking and planning...
Mr Arthur Tiley: I think that the town clerk of Bradford was very early in the field in seeing that some action by my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General was necessary either on the lines of the new Clause, or by some other method, to deal with this difficulty, and some time ago I sent my right hon. Friend representations made from Bradford. We are anxious in Bradford that we should keep our costs ...
Mr Arthur Tiley: rose—
Mr Arthur Tiley: On a point of order—
Mr Arthur Tiley: On a point of order. With great respect, Mr. Speaker, I do not wish to question your Ruling—I would not dream of doing that—but there are hon. Members on this side of the House who are rising while these matters are being discussed. Many speeches are being made on the opposite benches. I only wish to draw your attention to the fact that some of us on this side wish to put...
Mr Arthur Tiley: I wish to address a question to my right hon. Friend through you, Sir—
Mr Arthur Tiley: I wish now merely to ask my right hon. Friend—
Mr Arthur Tiley: About a year ago the hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton) was reported in the Yorkshire Post as making a speech in Sowerby—and I will send a cutting to him after the debate—in which he recommended that in the forthcoming Finance Bill, last year, the Surtax level should be immediately increased to £ 3,000. What does he think about that now, in view of what he has just said about Surtax...
Mr Arthur Tiley: The hon. Gentleman ought to send for George Washington. We could all then go home.
Mr Arthur Tiley: Would the hon. Member please tell us which local authority that was and what the duties were, because it is a rather frightful story that he has told the Committee?
