Hon. Anthony Berry: asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to publish the orders for widening the North Circular Road between the junction with the Great Cambridge Road and the junction with Bounds Green Road; and if he will make a statement.
Hon. Anthony Berry: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I was told earlier in the year that a decision would be made by the late spring? Is he also aware that this further reappraisal, important though it may be, will cause great concern in my constituency particularly among the 500 to 600 householders whose homes are under threat? Will he assure the House that he will make a further statement in the near...
Hon. Anthony Berry: In view of the nature of the Minister's answer, I beg to give notice that I shall seek to raise the matter on the Adjournment.
Hon. Anthony Berry: Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us more about the difference between outer and inner London? I do not begrudge the £400 for inner London. The right hon. Gentleman said that one of the criteria was travel to work. He must be aware that it is not half the fare to travel from outer London. Since people in outer London travel long distances, may I ask him to have another look at the matter...
Hon. Anthony Berry: In Enfield the GLC is not only forcing up prices by buying above the market price, but preventing people from buying their own homes, forcing the ratepayers to subsidise them.
Hon. Anthony Berry: asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects the advanced passenger train to be introduced into service; and if he will make a statement.
Hon. Anthony Berry: Is the Minister aware that I hope he will take into account the environmental results of the trains? We welcome their earliest possible use, but the effect on those living nearby will be serious, and must be considered. Will the right hon. Gentleman say something about the attitude of the unions, particularly ASLEF, following the report in the Daily Mail earlier this week about the high-speed...
Hon. Anthony Berry: asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will publish the latest figures for trade with China; and if he will make a statement.
Hon. Anthony Berry: Is the Minister aware that as I was present when my right hon. Friend opened the exhibition in Peking last year, I naturally welcomed that improvement Will he bear in mind the conversations between my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and the Chinese leaders recently, when the Chinese made it clear that our membership of the Community was an important factor in our relations with...
Hon. Anthony Berry: This has been an extremely interesting debate. We have lost a number of hon. Members who took part in debates on the Channel Tunnel in the last Parliament, but their absence has been more than offset by the presence of some new Members who have intervened today. I want first to refer to my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Mr. Clark) and to congratulate him on a most interesting...
Hon. Anthony Berry: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that explanation. I look forward to reminding him of those words when the positions are again reversed in a few months. [Interruption.] I am prepared to be reminded of mine, too. The Secretary of State has shifted his position. Earlier when discussing the tunnel he told us that he believed in a rail-only link. Now he believes in what is known as...
Hon. Anthony Berry: I am particularly pleased to follow the speech of the hon. Member for Erith and Cray-ford (Mr. Wellbeloved). I remember a previous occasion in a debate on a GLC Bill which has been referred to this evening. I rose to move, "That the Question be now put" a few seconds before 10 p.m., when the hon. Gentleman was speaking. About a week later I received a cutting from his local newspaper in which...
Hon. Anthony Berry: The hon. Member is not being accurate. It is a very different position. What happened in 1967 was that councillors who had already been elected were given an extra year by Act of Parliament. That is something very different from what happened on this occasion, when the electors were told several months ahead that they would be electing councillors for a four-year period. I think that the hon....
Hon. Anthony Berry: When does the right hon. Gentleman intend to visit these countries, and in which order?
Hon. Anthony Berry: When my right hon. Friend has such a meeting, will he impress upon the Leader of the GLC his extreme disappointment that the Chairman of the Inner London Education Authority has cancelled this year's Christmas carol service for children in London? Will he tell him that watching a television programme, however trendy, is no substitute for boys and girls taking part in singing Christmas carols?
Hon. Anthony Berry: I congratulate the hon. Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Mackie) on having chosen this subject for debate. My constituents are very much affected by the absence of this road. Lorry traffic is getting heavier and not lighter. Lorries are coming from the A1 and the Ml, and heading down towards the docks through residential areas in Southgate, Hadley Wood and Cockfosters. They go through Chase...
Hon. Anthony Berry: I am very pleased to be able to speak in support of the Bill, especially because it gives me the opportunity, after two years of enforced silence on the subject, to take part in a transport debate once again. Times have changed. In earlier debates I do not remember seeing quite so many nods of approval from right hon. and hon. Members opposite as there have been today. It is good to see that...
Hon. Anthony Berry: He is the Director-General.
Hon. Anthony Berry: asked the Minister of Transport what plans he has for the reorganisation of the ports.
Hon. Anthony Berry: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the decision not to go ahead with nationalisation of the ports will be welcomed by the public at large, particularly as it was to cost £70 million? Is he aware that among the smaller ports this will remove an element of uncertainty and that they will be particularly pleased about that?
