Mr Robert Hudson: Has the Minister received any assurance that coal prices in London will not be put up next week?
Mr Robert Hudson: It is with considerable diffidence and trepidation that I rise to address the Committee after such an accomplished orator as the hon. Gentleman who has just sat down, and who is so great an expert on the subject on which he is addressing us. As one of the Members on this side representing a mining constituency, the Debate is one that interests me particularly, and I would like to clear up if...
Mr Robert Hudson: That is not what the right hon. Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw) said. He said he was going to oppose every word and every line.
Mr Robert Hudson: Has my hon. and gallant Friend had occasion lately to pass down the Fulham Road and to see its condition?
Mr Robert Hudson: I think the House has been very much interested to hear how far the Leader of the Opposition and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) have gone in defence of the proposals now under consideration. Surely the demand of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs in the concluding sentences of his speech is met by the provisions of this...
Mr Robert Hudson: I apologise very sincerely if I misrepresented or misunderstood what the right hon. Gentleman said. However, it does not alter the fact—omitting his name as being sponsor for that argument—that my point is still a good one, that we must, in these matters, take our own responsibility on our own shoulders—
Mr Robert Hudson: —and trust to our policy being a just one. There is one other point I wish to make, and that is in connection with the statement of the Leader of the Opposition when he said that we were, in effect, binding ourselves to guarantee two different aspects of the French problem, namely, the French geographical entity and the results that might follow from a divergence from its present lines of...
Mr Robert Hudson: We should not be compelled to prevent the Germans attacking the French. It is a difficult point, but I think it is a good one, and I think perhaps the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon), if he ware here, would support me in it, but I think it does prove that the point made by the right hon. Member the Leader of the Opposition was not a good one, when he said that we...
Mr Robert Hudson: I beg to move, at the end of the Clause, to add the following new Sub-section: (8) Nothing in this Section shall apply to the sale, storage or keeping for future sale of any food so packed or bottled as to eliminate risk of contamination. While welcoming the principle of the Clause as it stands, I think it is so widely drawn that in certain cases it may conceivably inflict undeserved hardship...
Mr Robert Hudson: In view of what has been said, I ask leave to withdraw my Amendment.
Mr Robert Hudson: I claim the indulgence of the Committee for a maiden effort. I am emboldened to make it by a feeling that the subject matter before us is one of vital importance to the nation, is and must be the main pre-occupation of those among us who endeavour to follow the Prime Minister's precept of keeping in close touch with our constituencies. I think the action of the Minister of Labour in issuing...
Mr Robert Hudson: 61. asked the Secretary of State for Air whether any allowances are granted to officers of the Royal Air Force for proficiency in foreign languages; if so, what is the average amount granted to an officer; and how many officers have qualified for receipt thereof?
Mr Robert Hudson: 49. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that a claim for unemployment benefit by Mr. F. Barker, of the "Golden Fleece" Inn, Calderbridge (Cleator Moor 3181). was disallowed by the umpire, in spite of the fact that the local court of referees went most fully into his case and decided that the man's alternative income did not reach the statutory limit; and whether, in these...
Mr Robert Hudson: In view of the undoubted hardship caused in many cases by the existing limit on alternative income, will the right hon. Gentleman consider taking steps to increase that limit somewhat?
