Results 1-20 of 36 for speaker:Mr Harold Steward

Traffic in Towns (Buchanan and Crowther Reports) (10 February 1964)

Mr Harold Steward: It sounds as though it is the human battery that needs recharging.

Oral Answers to Questions — Telephone Service: Stockport and Marple (18 December 1963)

Mr Harold Steward: asked the Postmaster-General whether he will now indicate an earlier completion date of the necessary work in the Stockport and Marple exchange telephone areas in order to connect the 205 applicants on the waiting list; what is the latest date on which a service will be provided for these people; and whether priority will be given to the 38 who have been waiting for more than two years.

Oral Answers to Questions — Telephone Service: Stockport and Marple (18 December 1963)

Mr Harold Steward: Is my hon. Friend aware that this new hope will be very welcome indeed in these two districts?

Housing and Urban Land Prices (8 July 1963)

Mr Harold Steward: The hon. Member for Ince (Mr. T. Brown), in resuming his speech, said something to the effect that, in the House of Commons, we require the wisdom of a Solomon. I think that some of us at this time would be inclined to add that we need also the patience of a Job. We sit here wondering whether it is possible to get in at all. I realise that other hon. Members wish to speak and that we have...

Orders of the Day — REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS (Re-committed) BILL: Clause 1. — (Power to Make Orders as to Remuneration.) (18 June 1963)

Mr Harold Steward: Can my hon. Friend go a little further than that? He will recall that, while many hon. Members have supported the Bill, they have been rather unhappy on the question of assimilation. I believe it to be right that the Amendment for immediate assimilation should be rejected, but it is almost equally wrong that we should have to wait until the maximum before any full assimilation can take place....

Orders of the Day — Weights and Measures Bill: Schedule 4. — (F000s.) (13 March 1963)

Mr Harold Steward: I intervene only to thank my hon. Friend for the half loaf that he has offered us. It is, at all events, part of what we asked for. It is perfectly true that this was within the context of a broader submission which was made. While I still feel that it would have been better, as has been said, to have a standard measure for the whole country, I nevertheless express my gratitude for this half loaf.

Orders of the Day — Shipping and Shipbuilding (15 February 1962)

Mr Harold Steward: The hon. Member gave certain figures for different countries, and I am trying to follow him as closely as I can. Will he explain those figures a little further, so that we may be quite sure to what they refer?

National Health Service, England (Superannuation) (7 July 1960)

Mr Harold Steward: Would it not be true to say that in any scheme of a contributory nature usually enjoyed by people in industry, as distinct from the Civil Service or the National Health Service, where a deficit is found, it has generally got to be met by contributions by participants in the scheme?

Oral Answers to Questions — Telephone Service: Instrument (New Design) (14 May 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: asked the Postmaster-General when he expects to introduce a new design of telephone; and what charge he proposes to make for it.

Oral Answers to Questions — Telephone Service: Instrument (New Design) (14 May 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: Is my hon. Friend aware that the statement he has just made will give general satisfaction, and that the improved technique both in manufacture and also in operating performance, is a tribute both to the industry and to the engineers at Dollis Hill? May I ask my hon. Friend how soon he anticipates that existing stocks will be liquidated, and also when the new telephone will be in general...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (13 May 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for The Hartlepools (Mr. D. Jones), although I do not propose to follow him in his last argument except to say that I understood clearly from the Minister that he was not using this Bill to enter into the controversy which has been going on for years regarding this matter, but was maintaining the status quo and allowing the argument to be...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (13 May 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: The hon. Member will surely agree that when I was making that specific point I was talking continually about the education service which, throughout the years, has continued to expand and is expanding today—and, as I see it, will continue to expand in the future.

Prayers: Air Transport Development (28 February 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: I beg to move, That this House takes note of the contribution being made by United Kingdom independent operators in the field of air transport, and is of opinion that the potential future growth of world air traffic gives scope for an accelerated expansion in association with or complementary to that of the national Corporations. It is unfortunate that this occasion, one of the first on which...

Prayers: Air Transport Development (28 February 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: Both of those points I accept without any qualification whatsoever. That is quite true. Nevertheless, it is the only way we have of measuring global traffic and global capacity. This is a question of capacity, and we will come to traffic in a moment. It is equally a matter for great concern that our proportion is not only small, but that it has, in recent years, actually fallen. Over that...

Prayers: Air Transport Development (28 February 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: I think I said, when I referred to 1950 and trooping, that I had it in mind to cover that ground later. I want to come back to that in the context of what should be done, long term and short term, in a summing-up of the final argument I put forward. As I say, it would be quite wrong to suppose that the present position could be regarded as satisfactory. The limitations imposed prevent...

Prayers: Air Transport Development (28 February 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: I am not making any threats. The whole tenor of what I have had to say so far has been as far removed from threats as anything could possibly be. I made my attitude clear from the outset. We have, in considering the future of world traffic, the advantage of the Report by the Air League, another useful body which carried out an investigation under the chairmanship of Sir Miles Thomas. The Air...

Prayers: Air Transport Development (28 February 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: We have to take things as they are. I am talking of the position as we see it and as far as we can project it into the future. Aircraft do not grow on trees and are not developed in five minutes. Therefore, one can see, at least for a considerable number of years ahead, what aircraft at present in development or even in design will take their place in commercial traffic. One would be safe in...

Prayers: Air Transport Development (28 February 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: I agree that there is a substantial argument in favour of that way of thinking, but, at the same time, anybody will accept the proposition that there is an optimum size for operation in any company of a given type.

Prayers: Air Transport Development (28 February 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: I accept that. I started speaking about the point at which the costs levelled themselves out. I admit that the point at which costs would level out in any two companies is not necessarily the same. But I say without doubt that it is common experience that in any one company there is a point at which costs level out. No matter how far one increases—and I am taking the hon. Gentleman's...

Prayers: Air Transport Development (28 February 1958)

Mr Harold Steward: The moral is this. The point at which one increases beyond that point will make no contribution whatever towards lowering the costs of operation. That is only the first argument in the question about the size of the company. I admit that one can go well beyond the point at which the costs level out and one can expand a company two, three or four times. But then one comes up against the...