Results 1–20 of 533 for speaker:Mr Richard Fort

Oral Answers to Questions — Space Research (12 May 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: asked the Prime Minister if he is yet in a position to make a statement about space research.

Oral Answers to Questions — Space Research (12 May 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: Now that the project for a satellite is being taken over by the Government, and in view of the lead which the Royal Society has given in this idea in the past, can my right hon. Friend undertake that the Royal Society will be considered on all scientific developments in this field in the future and also that it will be consulted with a view to initiating purely scientific as well as defence work?

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce: Factory Extension, Simonstone ( 7 May 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: asked the President of the Board of Trade what financial arrangements the Board of Trade is making in connection with the large extension to the Mullard factory at Simonstone.

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce: Factory Extension, Simonstone ( 7 May 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: Is it expected that Messrs. Mullard will install the same high standard of equipment and conditions necessary for the new processes as are established for the television tube processes in the existing factory?

Mental Health Bill ( 6 May 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: I had much sympathy with what the hon. Mem- ber for Batley and Morley (Dr. Broughton) had to say about the powers provided in Clauses 25 and 26 to keep people in institutions only on the certificate of two doctors, and without a magistrate, representing the general public, having any part in the decision. I know from my professional friends who have to deal with mental health what a severe...

Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Health: Nuclear and Allied Radiations ( 4 May 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: Has my right hon. and learned Friend noted that in the United Nations Report there was agreement not only in the views of the British representatives of the Medical Research Council but also among the scientific representatives of eleven other nations, including the U.S.S.R.?

Orders of the Day — Retirement Pensions (20 Apr 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: The hon. Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Holt) said that he would discuss the economics of the present old-age pensions. I feel scarcely competent to discuss economics. but if he was as faulty in his economic analysis as he was about the basic pension, I cannot be satisfied with his economics. The problem the Government have faced and which, apart from the hon. Gentleman, has been of major...

Orders of the Day — Retirement Pensions (20 Apr 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: I apologise to the hon. Gentleman. He said 1s. 10d. and my arithmetic had become unstuck at that point. He suggested that there should be a combined contribution of £1 from employer and worker. What he did not say was that every employed man in this country is paying all but a penny of 10s. a week, which is a lot of money out of anybody's pay packet to provide for the future. At the same...

Orders of the Day — Retirement Pensions (20 Apr 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: The hon. Member for Coventry, East was at least nervous that a demand would be put in for wage increases to meet the heavy increases in contributions about which he was talking. Let us consider for a moment the people whom we do not often talk about in the House from the contribution side—the employers. All of us concerned with the textile industry in Lancashire, or at least with the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce: Cigarettes (17 Feb 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: Would my hon. Friend consult the Minister of Health about collecting figures with regard to filter-tipped cigarettes in view of their possible importance in the incidence of lung cancer?

Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS (LICENSING AND INSURANCE) BILL [Lords] ( 9 Feb 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: Can the hon. Member give the reference, because I cannot find it?

Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS (LICENSING AND INSURANCE) BILL [Lords] ( 9 Feb 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: In following the hon. Member for Barnsley (Mr. Mason) I find myself, as I presume he expects, in little agreement with him, apart from his comment that chemists, engineers, technologists and doctors have to learn much more about many of the effects of radiation and of the particles which they have to handle. In my experience, they show less certainty than does the hon. Member for Barnsley in...

Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS (LICENSING AND INSURANCE) BILL [Lords] ( 9 Feb 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: What I said about Lloyds' technical advisers to the insurance companies was that they knew enough to be able to decide what are reasonable rates of insurance and premium under present circumstances. In this, as in other spheres of insurance, change will obviously be necessary as more experience is gained. In that connection, I should like to touch on a point which my hon. Friend the Member...

Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS (LICENSING AND INSURANCE) BILL [Lords] ( 9 Feb 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: I should like to read to the right hon. Gentleman a quotation from a United Nations Report by a body of which one of the British representatives is on the Medical Research Council. This concerns the point that was made by the right hon. Gentleman. These facts render it very difficult to accumulate reliable evidence about the correlation between small doses and their effects either in...

Mental Health Bill (26 Jan 1959)

Mr Richard Fort: I find myself very much in agreement with what the hon. Lady the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock) said, particularly her reference to the disadvantages of the remoteness of many mental hospitals from the nearest general hospital. I am sure, however, that she appreciates that one of the difficulties about getting a closer approach between the two is the length of time which most...

Science (Government Aid) (18 Dec 1958)

Mr Richard Fort: I am glad to follow the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey), because I should like to echo his praise of the present occupant of the office of Lord President of the Council. He is a worthy successor to those remarkable Lords President we have had since the end of the war, whom, I think, have had added to the prestige and drive which has undoubtedly developed in this country in...

Science (Government Aid) (18 Dec 1958)

Mr Richard Fort: How much of the money for the D.S.I.R. is for its disbursements in grants and how much for other expenditure?

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce: Distribution of Industry (Industrial Finance) ( 2 Dec 1958)

Mr Richard Fort: Will my hon. Friend remember north-east Lancashire and not allow that name to be expunged from his memory as a result of this terrible attack by the North-East?

Orders of the Day — Queen's Speech: Debate on the Address ( 3 Nov 1958)

Mr Richard Fort: The hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) started his speech, if I got his words aright, by criticising my hon. Friend the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke) for not being held in higher repute in his own party. After listening to the fluency of the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne and the extraordinary irrelevancy of so many of his arguments, I and all on...

Orders of the Day — Queen's Speech: Debate on the Address ( 3 Nov 1958)

Mr Richard Fort: It is clear that the Government formed by the hon. Gentleman's party were unable to control prices by centralised control in what we will agree were difficult conditions. He referred, too, to the wish that the Prime Minister would go to the Lancashire textile industry. Well, he did go to the Lancashire textile trade and talked to what is often referred to as the "cotton Parliament", the...


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