Mr Robert Maxwell: Physician, heal thyself.
Mr Robert Maxwell: Mr. Maxwell rose—
Mr Robert Maxwell: May I ask the hon. Gentleman a very brief question?
Mr Robert Maxwell: Mr. Maxwell rose—
Mr Robert Maxwell: Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Mr Robert Maxwell: And do know better.
Mr Robert Maxwell: While congratulating my hon. Friend on the support which his Department gives to desalination research and technology, can he say what steps are being taken to bring about market research to discover which countries could use the equipment? In particular, can he say what assistance is proposed to be given to British industry in order to ensure that the countries needing it have the...
Mr Robert Maxwell: Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am a publisher of works on fusion on an international scale, that research in the subject is also being produced in the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as in France, and that scientists generally believe that Great Britain cannot support a programme of the size which we have been carrying in the past.
Mr Robert Maxwell: Can my right hon. Friend say what new devices and techniques are being used by veterinary surgeons to contain this present explosion? Can he further say whether he has any special advice for the rest of the farming community in those areas which are not affected, as to what additional steps they should take to protect their herds?
Mr Robert Maxwell: I take the opportunity of thanking my right hon. Friend, on behalf of hundreds of tenant farmers at Milton Keyes, and on behalf of tenant farmers generally, for righting this injustice. As he has rightly said, tenant farmers find great difficulty in finding new farms. While they will be grateful to the Government for giving them this kind of compensation, could my right hon. Friend give...
Mr Robert Maxwell: Will my right hon. Friend agree that the purchasing practices of local authorities, which spend about £3,000 million of taxpayers' money, leave much to be desired? Will he consider appointing a commission of inquiry or a committee to advise him on how the purchasing power of local authorities could be co-ordinated better to help to improve industrial efficiency and to save perhaps £150...
Mr Robert Maxwell: Could my right hon. Friend tell the House, under the disturbed conditions now prevailing in Aden, with whom are the Egyptians negotiating for the refining of crude in the B.P. refinery at Aden, and what advice the Government have to give to British Petroleum in this matter?
Mr Robert Maxwell: Before my right hon. Friend leaves the subject of the British Museum, may I put these points to him? Is he aware that that trustees of the museum might be quite satisfied now that we know for certain that my right hon. Friend is willing to site this library in Central London, and that all this rumpus will be done with? Secondly, will he consider the committee of inquiry inviting other...
Mr Robert Maxwell: Could my right hon. Friend tell us when the Government intend to introduce the Bill for compensation for tenant farmers, as my constituents are concerned about new town development and are most anxious about the consequences of that Bill?
Mr Robert Maxwell: What about the right hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Sandys)?
Mr Robert Maxwell: Will the right hon. Gentleman give way? I am very much obliged to him. [Interruption.]
Mr Robert Maxwell: I sense that we on this side are grateful for the way in which the right hon. Gentleman has tackled this debate so far. However, I must ask him in what conceivable circumstances he can justify the mess made by the right hon. Member for Streatham with which my right hon. Friend has been landed. My right hon. Friend is now having to clear it up. How can the right hon. Gentleman blame my right...
Mr Robert Maxwell: Would my hon. Friend agree that all this trouble in Aden would never have arisen had it not been for the idiotic Federation scheme of the right hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Sandys)? Would he further agree that in the circumstances the best thing for us to do is to get out as soon as possible?
Mr Robert Maxwell: The right hon. Gentleman cannot wash his hands of it.
Mr Robert Maxwell: Would my right hon. Friend bear in mind, when agreeing or not agreeing with the request for a price increase, that the brick industry at present is working at over-capacity and certainly when it last submitted these figures it probably did not take that into account and it is running at very high profits already?
