Results 1-11 of 11 for speaker:Mr John Binns

Orders of the Day — Employed Persons (Health and Safety) Bill (2 March 1970)

Mr John Binns: I congratulate my right hon. Friend the First Secretary on her initiative in bringing the Bill before the House. As she said, many of us on this side of the House believe it to be long overdue. Her Department is the Department of Employment and Productivity and I believe that, if we are to get the best out of our industrial production, it is essential that the health and safety and...

Orders of the Day — Road Transport Lighting Bill (31 May 1967)

Mr John Binns: I do not want to take up too much time. It is no use my going again into the arguments in favour of reflectorisation. They have been put exceptionally well by my hon. Friend the Member for Hudders-field, West (Mr. Lomas) and by the hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Mawby). It is sufficient for me to say that I, too, have seen reflectorised number plates in use and, like everyone else who saw them...

Orders of the Day — Simonstown Agreement (8 February 1967)

Mr John Binns: Is the hon. Member trying to argue that our Agreement with South Africa is sacrosanct and yet our agreements with the rest of the world, through the United Nations, are cant and hypocrisy?

Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Commissioner (7 February 1967)

Mr John Binns: On a point of order. In reply to the point of order put to you by the Leader of the Opposition, I suggest to you, Mr. Speaker, that although you have seen no criticism of the Chair in what has been said, from this side of the House it looks as though this has been made the opportunity for an organised criticism of the Chair. Surely the Leader of the Opposition—

Business of the House (14 July 1966)

Mr John Binns: Is my right hon. Friend aware that, to hon. Members on this side of the House, a guillotine is just as distasteful as it is to many hon. Members opposite? Is he aware that we are quite prepared to consider starting the sittings of the House at 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. to try to give more Parliamentary time not only to business that hon. Members opposite want to discuss, but to business that many of...

Orders of the Day — Defence (8 March 1966)

Mr John Binns: Would the right hon. Member tell us what 50 TSR2 aircraft would have cost?

Orders of the Day — Defence (8 March 1966)

Mr John Binns: I wish to speak about the Defence Review in rather more general terms than we have had so far. We have had a tremendous amount of criticism from hon. Members opposite, but that criticism has been confined to fairly narrow channels. We have heard much about strategy and very little about economics. It is about time that this House and the country began to realise that the defence problems...

Oral Answers to Questions — Vietnam (2 August 1965)

Mr John Binns: In view of the criticism by hon. Members opposite of this initiative, have they yet accepted the challenge of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to tell us how they would have made approaches to Vietnam without diplomatic relationships?

Orders of the Day — Race Relations Bill (3 May 1965)

Mr John Binns: I always thought that I would welcome any effort to legislate against racial discrimination, but I must admit that I read this Bill for the first time with very mixed feelings indeed. Some of my fears were allayed by my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary when he suggested that he would be prepared to look at the introduction of conciliation machinery. As I read the Bill, so...

Bill Presented: Youth Employment Service (5 February 1965)

Mr John Binns: May I, first, express my thanks for having been given this opportunity to make my maiden speech today. May I also make the customary appeal for the indulgence of the House in case my contribution to the full debate fails to maintain the tremendously high standard set by the previous two speakers. I have been sent to the House to represent the constituency of Keighley, which is an industrial...

Oral Answers to Questions — Economic Affairs: Regional Planning Boards (3 December 1964)

Mr John Binns: Is my right hon. Friend aware that many hon. Members representing Yorkshire constituencies consider the question asked by the hon. Member for the Hallam Division of Sheffield (Mr. J. H. Osborn) to be a piece of downright impertinence?