Results 1–20 of 592 for speaker:Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: International Commodity Agreements ( 7 Feb 1974)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to what extent the Government are trying to stimulate interest in international commodity agreements, especially in food commodities.

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: International Commodity Agreements ( 7 Feb 1974)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Will she bear in mind that stability in international commodities is of continuing importance to us, and that the sugar agreement is an excellent example of what can be achieved?

Orders of the Day — The Divided Nation (21 Jan 1974)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) argued for State capitalism or public ownership as opposed to traditional capitalism and private ownership. It was significant that he gave as an example of where he had seen public ownership working the kibbutzim in Israel and not a State that applied this philosophy literally. I accept that he finds it difficult to do so. I suggest to him...

Orders of the Day — Sea Fisheries (21 Jan 1974)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Minister of State on these Statutory Instruments. I was interested in the figures he gave about the mortorium. Will my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs and Agriculture, Scottish Office confirm, in replying, that these discussions have started and that there will be an indication fairly soon of the time when the mortorium will...

CLYDE PORT AUTHORITY (HUNTERSTON ORE TERMINAL) ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL (By Order) (11 Dec 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: The hon. Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) made an important contribution to this debate, particularly when he dealt with the effect of this proposed measure on the steel industry as it now is, and to Members such as myself from the north-east of the country that is a matter of great concern. But, undeniably, it is a traumatic experience for people in a small area of the country to be in the...

Industrial Relations ( 4 Dec 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: After listening to the speech of the hon. Member for Manchester, Blackley (Mr. Rose), which could have been made with better effect some years ago—

Industrial Relations ( 4 Dec 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: That was my diagnosis—I find that it confirms my main disagreement with the motion that the villain of the piece today is still the Industrial Relations Act. That possibly was a sustainable case from the point of view of the Opposition when the Act was originally introduced, but once the Government adopted their new position of being ready to negotiate on every part of the Act, it could no...

Longside (Medical Services) (19 Nov 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to raise on the Floor of the House a matter of the greatest moment to the people of Longside in my constituency. The people of Longside have enjoyed the facility of a surgery in Longside and regular consultations with their local general practitioners since 1900. Now the oldest Longside doctor has just retired and that surgery...

Longside (Medical Services) (19 Nov 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: Is it not a fact that that decision was taken by a majority of five, eight against and three in favour—a total number of 11 out of 25 members of that committee? Does that represent a quorum qualified to take a decision of that kind?

Icelandic Fisheries (13 Nov 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the settlement and the British trawling industry on its acceptance of it. Does my right hon. Friend note that the reaction of the Scottish Trawlers Federation on the Faroese settlement has been nothing like so favourable? Will he undertake, in view of the recent developments, a very careful review of what is now going on in our waters within 50 miles of...

Price and Pay Code ( 7 Nov 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: The only conclusion to be drawn from the speech by the hon. Member for Pontypridd (Mr. John) is that, as always in politics, one can never be right. There is massive unemployment and the Government succeed in abolishing it and produce some sort of a boom and are then accused of weakening the industrial structure. Many years of listening to this sort of debate have convinced me that people...

Price and Pay Code ( 7 Nov 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: Exactly, and the hon. Member for Pontypridd accuses us of weakening the industrial structure. The fishermen in my part of the country can earn anything from £100 to £400 a week. The oil industry does not pay anything like the same rates but it is new to the area and it is massive in structure. Its technology is so expensive that labour is not, by comparison, so dear. Meanwhile the...

Oil Developments (Scotland) ( 5 Nov 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: What happens, though, if during those 10 years these applicants have unfortunately failed financially?

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Area Health Boards (24 Oct 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: Will my hon. Friend understand that there is considerable feeling on this matter among nurses in all parts of the country? I hope that he can do a great deal more to meet the point made by the hon. Member for Bothwell (Mr. James Hamilton) about appointing more nurses to health boards.

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Council Housing (24 Oct 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: To complete the picture, will my hon. Friend consider giving the figures for private house building?

Oral Answers to Questions — Employment: Scotland (23 Oct 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: Do not those facts confirm that there are regional variations in Scotland, as there are in all parts of the United Kingdom, and that these variations should be taken into account in the pay and prices policy?

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Lanarkshire Health Board (18 Jul 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: Is my hon. Friend aware that participation is one of the great new cries at present, and does he not agree that there is much to commend the suggestion put forward by my hon. Friend the Member for Galloway (Mr. Brewis)?

Scotland (16 Jul 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: Seldom have I thought that I should hear a more depressed speech than those we have become accustomed to hear from the right hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross), but I think that we have heard from the hon. Member for Paisley (Mr. John Robertson) just about the most depressed and depressing speech ever addressed to the House, full of a great sense of frustration. I greatly regret it, and I...

Scotland (16 Jul 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: Then it must be reported wrongly in the HANSARD that I have here. Now the trend is going sharply the other way. As recently as last February, when we had our last debate on this important subject, the figure was still 123,000. Since then it has dropped by nearly 30,000 and there are an additional 24,000 vacancies. I welcome the Government's success in reversing that trend in rising...

Scotland (16 Jul 1973)

Mr Patrick Wolrige-Gordon: Perhaps no decision has been made. But I have noticed an increasing desire to turn to nationalisation. I think that the ideas of the Opposition were best summed up by that splendid cartoon in one of the newspapers after the Russians had been compelled to buy an enormous quantity of wheat from America. There was a picture of one Russian commissar talking to another. Opposition Members are...


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