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Hon. Robert Boscawen: ...men's families in receipt of means-tested beenfits at a time when the report of the Armed Services Pay Review Body is before the Prime Minister. The fact that about 8,000 families have to go cap in hand for rent rebates and other benefit entitlements is a national disgrace. But for the fact that many Service men's wives are earning, the figure would be much higher. It is the most...
Mr Andrew Bennett: I am pleased to have this opportunity to raise the question of school uniform grants, though I have two reservations. First, I am not a believer in school uniform. I find it odd that secondary schools try to encourage pupils to show self-expression in the use of English, in drama and in art, that they encourage pupils to make decisions and exercise choice, and yet deny them self-expression...
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...
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 Golding: ...six races and it takes a very strong-willed individual not to bet on each race. It takes a man of iron will and great judgment, faced with six races, to decide that he will have a bet on only one, two, three or four of them and leave the others alone. In my youth, the man who could leave a race alone was regarded as a man apart, a cut above the rest of those of us who, being at the races,...
Bernard Braine: ...of a disability on the same basis as blind persons who, under the Bill, receive a special scale of allowances as well as the 9s addition if they have been in receipt of an allowance for at least two years or are over pensionable age. None of us would wish to underestimate the terrible handicaps and difficulties stemming from the loss of sight, and all of us are glad that this Bill makes...
Miss Jennie Lee: ..., all of us on this side of the House would regard as one of the central themes to which attention should be called. He told us, for instance, that, although the average infant mortality rate is two per 100 for the country as a whole, in Openshaw it is three per 100. Later in the debate, my hon. Friend the Member for Lanark (Mrs. Hart) returned to the same point, the essence of it being...
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...
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...
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 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 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 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...
...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...
Sir Percy Harris: ...scientific and better use of our national human resources. It endeavours to relate education to industry and industry to education. Whatever other fault the Bill may have, it is a short Measure of two Clauses, except the Schedule and the definition Clause. It follows very much the orthodox line of previous Education Bills. Clause 1 makes the very modest proposal to advance the school age a...
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,...
Mr John Wheatley: ...Government now to estimate what the numbers of unemployed will be in December, 1927, and in January, 1928. I am quite sure that if they dare make an estimate of what the figures will be a month or two months from now these figures will be staring them in the 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...
