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Topical Debate: Defence Procurement (19 Jun 2008) has video

Bruce George: ...considers proposals put before it, it will try to gauge whether the equipment is affordable and desirable given the time frame involved. The report considers the endless range of issues, including climate change and globalisation, that could become security and military problems in the next 15 to 30 years. However, it hedges its bets. Let us consider how dangerous the environment could be...

Unemployment (Walsall) (23 Dec 1982)

Mr Bruce George: ...me a few minutes in which to endorse his forceful speech. While Ministers are enjoying their Christmas lunches, smoking their Havana cigars, and knocking hack their port—probably in warmer climates than those of the West Midlands or the United Kingdom—perhaps they should think about the responsibility that they share for helping to create a disaster area in the Midlands and...

Unemployment (West Midlands) (18 Jun 1981)

Mr Bruce George: ...consider some stark and terrifying statistics. Of persons registered as wholly unemployed in Walsall, there are nearly 12,000 males and 4,320 females, an appalling total of over 16,300 people. The change over the years is 8,953. In the Walsall travel-to-work area, the unemployment figure is 14·6 per cent. In the West Midlands it is 12·7 per cent, way above the national average of...

West Midlands (Industry) (6 Apr 1976)

Mr Bruce George: .... In 1907, Lloyd George told the Walsall Chamber of Commerce that, on the whole, it had a greater variety of trades than almost any other town in England. The character of the industry has not changed all that much since. It is characterised by a preponderance of metal-manufacturing and metal-using firms and a small proportion of service industries. Historically, the town has developed...