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Written Answers — Home Department: Prison Service (8 May 2002)

Mr John Maples: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his department has contributed to the gays and lesbians in the prison service support group.

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill: Control of Liabilities Affecting Successor Authorities (27 Mar 1985)

Mr John Maples: ...simply do not appreciate what we are dealing with. I should like to refer to just a few of the organisations which have received money from the GLC. I do not intend to tell horror stories about gay amusement centres and the like. I am referring to activities with constitutional implications. A great many of the GLC's activities are overtly party political, and public money is overtly used...

Local Government (23 Jan 1984)

Mr John Maples: ...with a council that cannot make any savings. But by comparison with the GLC, Lewisham is only a beginner. The figures and the projects for the GLC are truly staggering. The GLC has recently made grants to the gay arts sub-group, the Karl Marx Centenary—it spent £35,000 of our money celebrating that —the women's art alliance, the black women's radio group, the London...

Local Government (23 Jan 1984)

Mr John Maples: I defy anyone to tell me why my constituents should pay taxes to subsidise those groups. Perhaps the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) could explain why my constituents should subsidise the gay arts sub-group.

London (1 Jul 1983)

Mr John Maples: ...an orchestrated effort at political posturing by other local authorities. Why should London's ratepayers finance that junior people's republic on the other side of Westminster bridge? Why should they have to pay for gay art alliances, celebrating Karl Marx, undermining the police, and for giving so-called free food and accommodation to political demonstrators? Fortunately for Britain, it...