Mr Patrick Wall: If there is any great victory on this series of amendments, anyone who reads the report of the Second Reading debate will see that it is shared impartially by both sides of the House. I am wholly in favour of the new clauses. I want to ask the Minister one or two questions about administration. How will the clauses be administered when they become law? The Minister knows that the distant...
Mr Patrick Wall: The hon. Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Duffy) is pro-NATO, as we all know. He sang the praises of the Polaris squadron, quite rightly, but he came down against Trident, for two basic reasons. One of them relates to its accuracy. That is an argument that I cannot follow, because surely it is better if a missile can take out the Kremlin without wiping out the whole of Moscow. The real...
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Mr Patrick Wall: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the present state of the fishing industry.
Mr Patrick Wall: I congratulate my hon. Friend on the immediate action that he has taken in consultation with the industry. Can he say whether equal immediate action will be taken to provide temporary financial help? What is being done in the EEC and in Britain to prevent the dumping of cheap fish on our market?
Mr Patrick Wall: Is it not a fact that there have been continuous raids from Angola into Ovamboland, and from Mozambique to Kwa Zulu, including the murder of many prominent men in Ovamboland and people like Chief Kapuuo? Will he ask the hon. Lady if she will consult her friends in Havana and Moscow and ask them to desist from these threats to peace?
Mr Patrick Wall: Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the French already have medium-range ballistic missiles on the Plateau D'Albion submarine-launched ballistic missiles, the Pluton tactical nuclear weapon and the force de frappe, and therefore have more nuclear weapons than we have?
Mr Patrick Wall: I congratulate my right hon. Friend particularly on his stand on the 12-mile limit. It appears that there will be no settlement in that regard until after the French presidential election. I put two questions to my right hon. Friend. The first concerns imports. I know how difficult it is to make decisions about dumping, but if the heat is to be taken out of the situation, can something be...
Mr Patrick Wall: I know that citizens band radio is normally associated with the motor car. It is, in fact, a hand-held telephone with no wires. It has many uses other than installation in motor vehicles. I first raised the question of the legalisation of this system in the House during the time of the previous Government, but they were clearly unwilling even to consider the matter. After the 1979 general...
Mr Patrick Wall: —and have sought, if it is legalised, to emasculate it as far as possible. This view is illustrated by a discussion document that was made available last year. Incidentally, it was not obtainable from the the Stationery Office, which seems rather strange. The document was studiously vague, except in advocating a frequency of 928 MHz. The view is further illustrated by a meeting with Home...
Mr Patrick Wall: I am glad that the hon. Gentleman intervened, because it was he that I had in mind. Of course he is right in saying that officials have to uphold the law. What I am saying is that the way in which they do it is not always in conformity with the normal practice. There are two sides to every question. I shall leave it at that. My hon. Friend the Minister will, quite rightly, defend his...
Mr Patrick Wall: The hon. Gentleman is right, of course, but would not he agree that when we have a common fisheries policy these third party deals will be negotiated by the EEC with a great deal more backing than could be supplied by one country such as ourselves?
Mr Patrick Wall: I am delighted to join the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) in supporting the Bill, even though he entered some qualifications, which I hope will soon be met. I also wish to stress the importance of fish farming, which is a new and growing industry. I hope that it will soon be treated in the same way as agriculture in the benefits that it receives. The right hon....
Mr Patrick Wall: I congratulate the Ministers on turning a minority of one to eight into a majority of eight to one. There has been some pretty wild talk about free-for-alls. What regulations are in force and will remain in force until a final agreement is reached?
Mr Patrick Wall: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on developments in a common fisheries policy in the European Economic Community.
Mr Patrick Wall: May I congratulate my hon. Friend an already obtaining an increase in the British quota? Will he continue to make it clear that, as the majority of EEC fish are in British waters and as, unlike the Danes, we do not go in for industrial fishing, we shall require an even greater quota than that which is at present suggested?
Mr Patrick Wall: Can my hon. Friend give any reson why we should pull Prime Minister Trudeau's coals out of the fire for him? Is he aware that there is a supposition in Canada that what is really behind this issue is a desire on the part of the Prime Minister to declare a republic?
Mr Patrick Wall: asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he is satisfied that British undertakings to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are being fully implemented.
Mr Patrick Wall: Is my right hon. Friend aware that the failure to reach a 3 per cent. increase in defence expenditure will come as a shock to our NATO allies? Will he give an undertaking that in the calculation of future expenditure the base will be the promised 3 per cent., not the 2½ per cent. of this year?
Mr Patrick Wall: I am surprised that a Member of the stature of the right hon. Member for Barnsley (Mr. Mason) should try to pretend that the problems of the fishing industry started in the past 18 months. He knows as well as any hon. Member that the problems date back to the cod war. Expressions such as "shady compromise" and "sell-out" just before the Minister goes into what may be the final battle for a...
