Results 1-20 of 337 for speaker:Mr David Quibell
- Orders of the Day — Housing (22 March 1945)
Mr David Quibell: Does the Minister mean that there will be a standardisation in the size of baths? Will there be the same sized bath for every person?
- Orders of the Day — Housing (22 March 1945)
Mr David Quibell: We have had from the Minister, as usual, a most interesting speech. It is one of many that have been delivered from the Front Bench over the last 18 months, but it does seem to me that we are almost in the same position to-day as we were when the first promises were made from that bench. I remember that, when it was first proposed that we should have the temporary houses, I had the privilege...
- Orders of the Day — Housing (22 March 1945)
Mr David Quibell: Yes, an overriding commission. There was another statement made by the Minister to-day that I think was received with general approval by the House. I am never against being the odd man out, and, if that is my position on this occasion, I know my hon. Friends will forgive me, but the point is about this £10 limit. If that is the maximum, the Minister is making the biggest mistake he...
- Orders of the Day — Housing (22 March 1945)
Mr David Quibell: In other words, it is not a £I0 limit at all. It has been said that the greatest problem is labour. I am of the opinion that a very large amount of the building trade labour in this country is neither properly used nor properly mobilised at present. I know of some highly skilled men who are doing labouring work at a place where the employers do not know what to do with the men on the...
- Orders of the Day — Housing (22 March 1945)
Mr David Quibell: You can put on timber or make use of some of the other materials that are manufactured. You can put on additional concrete and asphalt, and the only thing you would lose would be the asphalt. You would lose nothing but the cost of removing the appliances of the bathroom temporarily provided on the ground floor. It is a practicable proposal and would save an enormous amount of money. Such a...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Double Summer Time (Govern Ment Decision) (1 March 1945)
Mr David Quibell: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is now in a position to state what decision he has arrived at respecting double summer time for the season of 1945.
- Orders of the Day — Water Bill (21 February 1945)
Mr David Quibell: Particularly in North Wales.
- Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Post-War Industry (Finance Corporations) (30 January 1945)
Mr David Quibell: The hon. Member looks none the worse for it.
- Orders of the Day — King's Speech: Housing (7 December 1944)
Mr David Quibell: I think this problem resolves itself into the consideration of two items, namely, men and material. The hon. Member for Gravesend (Sir I. Albery) has put his finger on one of the weakest spots, as far as the provision of men is concerned. What he has said is perfectly true to my knowledge. There are people whose ordinary businesses were brought to a standstill at the outbreak of the war, and...
- Orders of the Day — King's Speech: Housing (7 December 1944)
Mr David Quibell: No, I have not, and I doubt very much if there is any Member of the House who could. If you want to put in concrete floors, whether up or down, you will meet with determined opposition from those who will have to inhabit the houses. For that reason the traditional type of floor and the traditional roof should be used. I do not think there would be the slightest difficulty in regard to timber....
- Orders of the Day — King's Speech: Housing (7 December 1944)
Mr David Quibell: I do not mind in the least. We want houses, and both local authorities and private enterprise ought to be given the chance to provide them. It is the provision of houses that matters. My own council lent as much as £90,000 under the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act to help soldiers purchase their own houses. I cannot see any evil in a man owning his own house. It is desirable that he...
- Debate on the Address (29 November 1944)
Mr David Quibell: If he catches Mr. Speaker's eye.
- Orders of the Day — Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Bill (26 September 1944)
Mr David Quibell: I do not think there is any one subject that this House can consider that is more important than housing, for if there is anything calculated to cause serious unrest it is lack of housing accommodation for our men when they come back from the fighting fronts. They have fought for freedom and civilisation and when they come back they will expect this House and local authorities to fulfil the...
- Orders of the Day — Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Bill (26 September 1944)
Mr David Quibell: It is stated that 100,000 can be supplied in a year. I do not like the general construction, but it would last long enough as a temporary house and, moreover, is cheaper than a Portal house. Mr. Tarran told me himself that one is to be erected in London of the same size as a Portal house.
- Orders of the Day — Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Bill (26 September 1944)
Mr David Quibell: I am talking about floor space. Mr. Tarran is restricted to the same superficial area as the Portal house and he told me that one is to be erected near the Tate Gallery, this week. I think the Government should encourage all the best brains and brawn of the country to make the maximum contribution to temporary housing. I saw one house in course of construction in which no bricklayer is...
- Orders of the Day — Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Bill (26 September 1944)
Mr David Quibell: Not quite double. Surely it is possible to build a pair of semidetached houses between two others and pull the latter down and rebuild without disturbing those already there.
- Orders of the Day — Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Bill (26 September 1944)
Mr David Quibell: I think that anomalies in rating differ between town and country. You have, in some cases, a high rateable value and a low rate; you have in others, a low rateable value and a high rate. It is the burden per week per house that matters, and in our view it will mean about 3s.
- Housing (Temporary Accommo Dation) Bill (1 August 1944)
Mr David Quibell: What are the normal tenant's fixtures which are not in the ordinary house?
- Kinmel Bay, Denbighshire (Housing Estate) (18 July 1944)
Mr David Quibell: With my personal knowledge of this area, I can support what the hon. Gentleman has said. My view is that the estate should never have been approved as a development scheme until provision was made for an improved sewerage scheme. People were advised by extravagant propaganda to go to this new village, which was to be on Peace-haven lines. One can understand what they feel after 14 or 15...
- Kinmel Bay, Denbighshire (Housing Estate) (18 July 1944)
Mr David Quibell: They are very anxious to have an increase in the rateable value. They said this new village that they were going to build would be a great thing. It might have been a beautiful, healthy place and, with proper development and planning, could have been wonderful. The fundamental thing was to get an adequate sewage disposal scheme. In every one of these hundreds of houses the only drainage is a...