Results 1-20 of 441 for speaker:Mr Bob Mitchell

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: New Clause 2 (3 May 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Like the hon. Member for Barry (Sir R. Gower), I am a strong supporter of the lay magistrate system. I declare an interest, in that my wife is a magistrate. I should be reluctant to place extra duties upon magistrates which might bring them into political or other controversy. I do not know what the normal procedure is throughout the country when a policeman applies to a magistrate for a...

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: New Clause 2 (3 May 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: If that is so, is not amendment (i), tabled by the hon. Member for Stockport, North (Mr. Bennett), meaningless, because it requires magistrates to make a subjective judgment, balancing the evidence and the public interest? Surely the police will quickly discover which magistrates will come down on one side rather than on the other and go to some magistrates and not others?

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: New Clause 2 (3 May 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Or re-selection.

Shipbuilding and Ship Repair (19 April 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Is it in a nuclear-free zone?

Merchant Shipping Bill [Lords] (30 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Clause 8 says: Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that any of the provisions of this Act and regulations under it shall extend to certain other groups. To which of those groups—the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, any colony, and so on—does the Minister propose to extend the regulations? In particular, has he any proposals to extend the provisions of the Act as it will...

Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill: Repeals (23 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. There are so many sub-committees going on around the Chamber, and so many people talking, that it is impossible to hear even an hon. Member who is standing just behind me.

Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill: Repeals (23 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Is the Minister aware that there has been a great deal of dissatisfaction with the section of the Bill dealing with building regulations and that many hon. Members have had large amounts of correspondence on this from professional organisations and NALGO, which argue that the Bill will weaken the whole system of building control? What are the Minister's comments on that?

Northern Ireland (Economic Initiative) (23 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Although one welcomes the proposals, will the Secretary of State explain why they were not introduced at least two years ago? How do the proposals compare with the equivalent incentives provided in the Republic?

Northern Ireland (Appropriation) (10 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: How many new jobs does the Minister expect to create and how many existing jobs does he expect to save with the extra money that is being provided for the industrial development board?

Northern Ireland (Appropriation) (10 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Is there any provision in the Supplementary Estimates for implementing the recommendations of the Thompson report?

Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1976 (7 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Is my hon. Friend aware that the evidence and information obtained from many people who are not eventually charged have given the police information about many would-be IRA activities?

Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (2 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Rubbish.

Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (2 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: One of the criticisms is of inconsistency in different parts of the country. In my area I accused the commission of playing the numbers game. In other parts of the country no doubt the accusation would be of playing the local authority boundary game. It is the inconsistency in different parts of the country that worries many people.

Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (2 March 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: My main objection to the Boundary Commission's report is that it plays the numbers game, and that that, and not communities, is its greatest priority. In my constituency the ward of Woolston is taken out of the city and placed in Eastleigh. The hon. Member for Eastleigh (Sir D. Price) and I put down an amendment, which we did not expect to be taken, to alter the order and to retain Woolston...

Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill: Formulation of Policies and Plans (23 February 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Bearing in mind the leaks that have recently occurred from Ministries, should the corporate plan be laid before the Minister?

Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill: Formulation of Policies and Plans (23 February 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: A Freudian slip.

Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill: Formulation of Policies and Plans (23 February 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Both the hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Mr. Hill) and the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Nelson) welcomed the new clause in principle, but ingeniously found reasons why they could not vote in favour of it. It is a good clause, and I shall invite my hon. Friends to vote for it. As I said on Second Reading, the Bill is basically an enabling measure. It gives a tremendous amount of power...

Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill: Formulation of Policies and Plans (23 February 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: Will the hon. Gentleman tell me where else in the legislation provision is made for the corporate plan to be laid before Parliament?

Education (15 February 1983)

Mr Bob Mitchell: The Education Act 1981 is one of the few good Acts enacted by the present Government. One reason for that, as was mentioned by the hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston (Mr. Thornton), is that it was taken under the new special procedure. More legislation should be taken under that procedure. It provides an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses. I chaired the Committee that considered the...

Immigration (15 December 1982)

Mr Bob Mitchell: I want to make two brief points. First, I want to follow the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner) on visitors. There is no doubt whatever that over the past year I have received more complaints than in any similar period previously about people who want to visit Britain being refused. Without exception, they are all people from the Indian subcontinent. I have not had one...