Miss Alice Bacon: ...to local education authorities to take decisions of this sort. They know their areas and are able to authorise installations of this type. If a local authority wished to incorporate such a burglar alarm system in a school—provided that the cost of the building was not exceeded—we would agree. This is a matter which must be left to local authorities.
Mr Michael Noble: ...up of the Kilbrandon Committee there were about 23,000 reported cases of juvenile crime. That was a rise of 3,000 on the figures two years before. Since 1961, we have all been aware—and aware with alarm and horror—of the steady increasing rise in crime of all kinds, particularly violent crime and, what is more disturbing perhaps to most of us, the very large percentage of that violent...
Mr George Lawson: ...such as the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Patrick Jenkin), although I can be as objective in matters of this kind as most others. I represent a constituency where a very large number of alarm clocks are made. They are not made solely in my constituency, but in practically only two areas of the country. It is interesting that this industry, together with the watchmaking...
Mr Ian Gilmour: Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the increase in alarm calls, not of 30 per cent. but of 300 per cent., is greatly excessive and should be reduced?
Mr James MacColl: ...not be left by the debate—that London is trembling on the brink of disaster. The probabilities are very much against that happening. We watch carefully to keep up-to-date the methods of giving alarm and so on. I was asked whether the Underground authorities could employ an evacuation scheme. I do not know that that would be wise. We have enough troubles with rush-hours without suddenly...
(c) Telephone Call Facilities Facility Present Proposed Alarm Call Subscriber (STD) … … 6d. 2s. Subscriber (without STD) … 5d. Residence 1s. 8d. Residence 6d. Business 2s. Business Coinbox (STD) … … 1s. 2s. Coinbox (without STD) … 8d. 2s. Credit card Call … … No extra charge 6d. fee on each call Card—first card … … 5s. quarter No change extra card with same...
Mr Arthur Skeffington: ...from the other side, particularly in Committee, as doctrinal, but there are other categories, one of which is the "grandmother" Amendment, of which this is one. I am very surprised that there is any alarm about the purposes of this Clause. It is true that there are a number of things which the Commission could undertake by way of experiment, but it is governed strictly by subsection (1) of...
Mr Reginald Paget: If talks by "The Doves" with the Spanish authorities cause this sort of alarm in Gibraltar, how much more alarm would be caused by talks by Her Majesty's Government? Is it not reasonably clear that talks with Spain on this subject are neither practical nor desirable, and that we should get on with our own talks with our own people?
Mr Anthony Greenwood: Forecasts of that kind are not always substantiated in practice. I think it much better at this stage not to cause unnecessary alarm and perhaps defeatism in the building industry by indulging in an attempt to forecast something which nobody at the moment can forecast.
Mr Joseph Mallalieu: ...was dependent on their having a heliport somewhere around this part of London. I think that the whole House of Commons, and certainly the Board of Trade, looked on this prospect with a good deal of alarm, as did the G.L.C. also, and so far nothing more has been heard of that proposal. On general aviation, there was a question as to whether it would be possible to take the light aircraft...
Mr Edward Leadbitter: Not only are the questions which have been asked relevant, but it is imperative that an answer should be given to them. It is a matter of alarm that this kind of grant for helping the shipping industry puzzles 3,000 workers on Tees-side in the Furness shipyard. The yard is reputed to be the most modern in the country. It is reputed to have had more new equipment put into it in the past three...
Mr Dick Taverne: The Metropolitan Police answer all burglar alarm calls from instruments connected to the information room at New Scotland Yard except calls generated by instruments that have persistently given false alarms and have not, despite full warning, been put right. Last January and February, the Metropolitan Police answered 10,487 burglar alarm calls which were found to be false; but genuine calls...
Mr David Ennals: ...must be accepted that there has been a loss, but I want to put it in its perspective, particularly since there has been a great deal of quite unjustified exaggeration which can only lead to growing alarm and despondency. We shall now be less ready to face a nuclear attack at short notice than we were before. For years planning has been on the basis that it might be necessary to put the...
Mr Christopher Mayhew: ...of industry of many London boroughs, Harlow New Town, towns and boroughs in the Home Counties and also Hartlepools, Coventry, Manchester and Rugby. The Petition says that the signatories view with alarm the present employment situation in the South-East London area and especially in the London Borough of Greenwich which is also faced with the possible influx of some thousands of workers...
Donald Dewar: ...get into a great deal of ferment and excitement, and if we whip up public interest on this small, localised matter, our actions are counter-productive and we produce a kind of self-generating public alarm which is far from helpful in its effect. I wish to congratulate the Scottish Office not on its withholding of support in this matter—because I hope that it is still under active...
Mr Eldon Griffiths: ...that many of us consider that General Sir John Hackett performed a useful public service in drawing attention to the dangers of running down N.A.T.O.? What answer has the Minister to make to the alarm and anxieties which the general so clearly expressed?
Mr Terence Higgins: ...seems a dreadfully long time ago. He said: First, public expenditure, notably public investment, will still rise rapidly this year. In our present circumstances I do not regard that as a cause for alarm. It is quite justifiable that during a period when private investment is declining public investment should be allowed allowed to advance quite rapidly,… He added: This means that public...
Mrs Barbara Castle: ...but the hon. Member for Worcester likes to knock off early. Also, whenever the Government make a proposition which completely counters the attacks of the Opposition, they are thrown into positive alarm. They say, "We have had a concession: we must have time to consider it and think up new snags." The Amendments to come are very straightforward and clearly show the Government's intention to...
Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...by the British Clock and Watch Manufacturers Association and by my hon. Friends, the Members for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) and Dunbartonshire, West (Mr. Steele). They related to low-priced imports of alarm clocks from eastern area countries. We are in correspondence with the Association about the effect of these imports—which are limited by quotas—upon the home industry.
Mr Michael Noble: ...to the whole problem of foot-and-mouth disease. In those circumstances, it would not have been wise for anybody to make wild and irresponsible statements which might have caused a great deal more alarm and despondency than was justified. However, there is absolutely no doubt that this outbreak of virus O1 presented the whole veterinary service with a problem on a scale with which it had...