Results 1-20 of 344 for speaker:Mr Geoffrey Rhodes
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science: Medical Research Council (Grant) (11 December 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the current size of the grant she makes to the Medical Research Council.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science: Medical Research Council (Grant) (11 December 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: Just what control has the Department over this large sum of money once it has been disbursed? For example, in view of the shambles left behind by the MRC subsequent to the sacking of the director of the multiple sclerosis research unit at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, does the Minister not feel that it is high time she intervened more directly and ascertained whether this £25 million is being...
- Regional Policy (26 June 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
- Regional Policy (26 June 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: A year or so ago, Members of both parties, divided between themselves as they were, waded into a debate on regional policies within the European Economic Community—some with enthusiasm rather than information—and wondered what would be the consequences to the regions of our country of entering the EEC. A mass of statistics —and as a former statistician I am aware that...
- Orders of the Day — Supply: Northern Region (11 June 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: Will the Minister give way? He is referring to a matter concerning my constituency.
- Orders of the Day — Supply: Northern Region (11 June 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: I am not one of those who have asked to speak in the debate. I merely ask the Minister to give way because he is talking about a large Civil Service complex in my constituency. Is the Minister aware that staff at the Civil Service centre who are not qualified have been laid off because of the surge of young people leaving school who are qualified, and coming forward for jobs? Jobs must be...
- Orders of the Day — Supply: Northern Region (11 June 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: This question is not designed to embarrass the hon. Gentleman. Is he aware that in priority terms it has been announced in both Strasbourg and Brussels that the three criteria for priority aid are the movement of labour out of an area, the per capita income, and the unemployment in the area? On those criteria, we in the North compare very well with the South of Italy, the South-West of...
- Orders of the Day — Supply: Northern Region (11 June 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: I hope the hon. Gentleman is right.
- Orders of the Day — Driving Licences (Eyesight Standards) (2 April 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: I wish to raise, at this rather late hour, the question of minimum eyesight requirements and the issue of driving licences. For the United Kingdom the regulations currently in force are to be found in SI. 1970/170, which lays down that a person may not be granted a licence unless he or she is able, with or without glasses, to read a registration mark fixed to a motor vehicle at a distance of...
- Counter-Inflation Proposals (Pay) (5 March 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: I am one of those sponsored Members. The difference between myself and the hon. Member for Brighouse and Spenborough (Mr. Proud-foot) is that I represent part of a movement of 13 million working-class people who want to pay this money anyway.
- Orders of the Day — Counter-Inflation Bill: Power to Obtain Information About Rates from Rating and Other Authorities (28 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: I certainly agree with the major point raised by the hon. Member for Harwich (Mr. Ridsdale). For a brief time I worked in a humble capacity in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, as it then was, and I constantly urged upon the Minister the need for a radical transformation of the way in which we financed local government. I had spent the previous 10 years lecturing on the subject...
- Orders of the Day — Counter-Inflation Bill: Power to Obtain Information About Rates from Rating and Other Authorities (28 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that under the Transport Act 1968 he has power to instruct a local authority to reduce the precept upon the local authority if he considers it to be excessive, or to delay the precept if he considers it to be bad in that year. That may not come under this clause, but it would be honest if he were to explain to the local authorities whether his...
- Education (19 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: To take up a point made by the hon. Member for Gillingham (Mr. Burden), I agree entirely that the vast majority of young people in my constituency receive no education whatever beyond the compulsory school leaving age. If the hon. Member takes care to read the White Paper carefully, he will find that they will not get a penny piece of the money which is now to be spent. It must be said that...
- Education (19 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: The right hon. Lady may call what I say nonsense, but I have had consultations with the National Union of Teachers and it calculates the figure to be £4,000 million and it is calculated exactly on the basis of the estimates in the White Paper. The Secretary of State is now saying that the NUT is led by people whose heads are full of nonsense. You may attack them how you like, but there...
- Education (19 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: It was the right hon. Lady who started using the word "nonsense". I did not use the word. I have always had the deepest respect for the right hon. Lady, but if she wants to bandy words with me on that kind of basis I will bandy words with her any time she likes. I deplore the Government's intention to reduce the rate of growth in higher education and to cut the anticipated increase in the...
- Education (19 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: Other hon. Members want to speak, and my Whips have told me to keep it short.
- Education (19 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: The last time I gave way to the hon. Lady she made some very rude remarks, and I do not intend to give way now. I have known the right hon. Lady for many years, from the days when I was a PPS at housing and she was a leading figure in housing matters on the Tory Opposition benches. I appreciate her charm, I appreciate her grace and I appreciate her intellect—there is no doubt about...
- Education (19 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: I would remind the hon Gentleman that we in Transport House take the trouble to check Press coverage. I explained in the debate that the White Paper had had a good reception until some people began to do their arithmetic, but I assure him that in terms of volume of comment—[An HON. MEMBER: "Question!"] I ask him whether he knows that in terms of volume of comment the Green Paper has...
- Education (19 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: That is not so.
- Education (19 February 1973)
Mr Geoffrey Rhodes: And they are all wrong.