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Mr John Wheatley: ...face as an evidence of the little knowledge they have of the subject with which they are attempting to deal. We are told that only 13.5 of the people who are struck off from unemployment insurance benefit actually go to the guardians within two or three weeks of being struck off. One naturally asks, where do they go? They do not go to work. Are we asked to assume that the working-classes,...
Mr James Marley: ...further, ask them to consider making representations in regard to the removal of the Poll tax from the women. At the moment, the only women excluded from the Poll tax are widows who are beyond the child-bearing age, and in certain cases it is also levied upon children of 13 years of age. When the Poll tax becomes heavy, it arises almost of necessity that one of the family, whether it be...
Sir Kingsley Wood: ...before us, what is going to be the position in connection with this scheme, if history repeats itself, as it has so constantly done in connection with housing matters? Who is going to get the benefit of this increased subsidy? The House is, in this Bill, reversing the policy of my right hon. Friend and reverting to what I call the Wheatley policy, and it is indeed a very vital question,...
Sir Percy Harris: ...to advance the school age a term at a time, three months a year, so that at the end of three years we should reach the maximum age of 15. With regard to the actual date I have, with perhaps childish confidence and with the desire to pay a compliment to the Board of Education, left this date to the discretion and the wisdom of the Board. My view is that the 1st April would be the best date....
...impressed with the complacency of the President of the Board of Trade. He complacently told the House that the agricultural marketing schemes were resulting in extended markets, and that this would benefit the largest section of the community. I think hon. Members in all quarters of the House will agree that during the past two years there have been more questions and more squabbles with...
Mr Malcolm Macmillan: ...were forced by economic conditions, and by the ruling class of those days in the Highlands, to leave their native land, never to return. To this day we find the progeny of those people, their children's children, scattered in their hamlets and crofts along the coasts of Sutherland and Caithness, in places like the Eribol and Cape Wrath coasts, around the Ross-shire shores, down the...
Mr David Logan: ...not as we would like it to be. We are told in regard to our national system of education that what is practically a State service will come into operation. I do not believe in the State managing my child. There are many homes where the people do not believe that either. I do believe, however, that it is the duty of the State to see that its children are properly educated and made fit...
Mr Ellis Smith: ...are suffering through no fault of their own ought to share in that increase. In 1953, the percentage increase over the 1946 figure for Poor Law relief for a married couple was only 68·6. For a child of five it was only 46·7. The average for the whole of the applicants shows that the increase over the terribly low standard of 1946 was only 68·7 per cent. I have details of the internal...
Mr Hilary Marquand: ...and not be carried about by someone else. He was able to go where he wished and pursue what activities appealed to him, instead of always being taken by his parents as if he were still a baby. To cap the story, after getting an invalid tricycle he was able to take a job and go to work. I tell that story to illustrate the point I wish to emphasise, that the mere provision of adequate sums...
Mr Wilfred Fienburgh: ...pinioned behind him while being led forward to the Deputy Governor, who was adjudicating that morning. I understand this is the normal practice, and I suppose it is the prison equivalent of the "caps off" order which we had in the Army when marching in a man on a charge, a means of seeing that no violence was done to the officer who might be handing out justice. But his hands were seized,...
Mr Richard Glyn: ...forward this very useful Bill. For some years I have been very concerned at the number of injuries caused to people—some old, some young—by what I might describe as indiscriminate shooting by children. We all know that children now mature much earlier. They mature much earlier in many ways, but not always in judgment and apparently not in the specialised judgment of when it is safe or...
Mrs Harriet Slater: ...thinks that, for there are some very good Socialists at our universities. The Explanatory Memorandum on the Bill says that the Minister will still retain the right to fix the financial scales of benefit for those going to university. My own local authority was one of those which stood out against the Minister for a long time when he laid down a national scale for university grants. We...
Miss Jennie Lee: ...far; that the gap between rich and poor had been narrowed too much. Again and again we have heard the plea in those earlier books that a means test should be applied, that no one should receive any benefit from the Health Service unless he was not able from private resources to look after himself. I do not think that hon. Members opposite would contradict that this was the philosophy put...
Bernard Braine: ...historic reasons for the preference given to the blind. Unlike a good many forms of disability, blindness is immediately obvious, and that is why it has always excited compassion. I remember as a child being deeply impressed, almost terrified, by the words of Milton. I do not think that anyone afflicted by a physical disability has ever described it in such a despairing and moving fashion:...
Mr John Golding: ...tax reduced for either the tote or the bookies. I certainly do not want to see it reduced because it will put more money into the sport because it will save the sport, and because it is for the benefit of livestock and owners. The responsibility rests very firmly on racing and on racecourse proprietors themselves to make the sport more popular. What racing is suffering from at present is...
Mr Alfred Evans: It is an understandable mistake. I did not know until I came into the debate. It is something that can happen all too easily in this House. We are saying that where a child is a member of a family in which any child is in receipt of free school meals, then all the children should be given free milk. Secondly, we say that where the child is a member of a family receiving supplementary benefit,...
Mr William Hughes: ...lamb is being paid by New Zealand producers. It is not raising the price for British lamb producers; it is lowering the price for New Zealand producers. To my mind, that kind of activity carries no benefit to this country. The minimum import price scheme, as it is currently constituted with its variable levies and so forth, is totally powerless to prevent a depression in grain prices when...
Mr Peter Shore: ...at the subscription to Europe but at all the associated arrangements involved in it which are bound to have a worrying and damaging effect upon the prospects and prosperity of every man, woman and child in the country. In addition to the economic objection to which I have just referred, there is a further objection which I must put on the record. Britain is a member of many international...
Mr John MacGregor: ...Committee on this topic, but it was one without a conclusion. The various amendments being discussed in this debate give us an opportunity to reach a constructive and useful conclusion which will benefit many people. The main point which I wish to bring out was touched upon in Committee, but it was not fully emphasised. The Financial Secretary will remember talking about building billiard...
Mrs Barbara Castle: ...within the limit of the resources we have, to build a systematic framework of social provision within which we can begin to roll back the grip of means testing. We have introduced non-contributory benefits as of right for the disabled. We have put on the statute book our new pensions scheme, which in the long term will almost entirely eliminate means testing in old age and, incidentally,...
