Pensions, and Compensation for Loss of Employment etc.

Part of Transport Holding Company Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 25 January 1972.

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Photo of Mr John Peyton Mr John Peyton , Yeovil 12:00, 25 January 1972

I was trying to draw a veil of decency over that foolish act of policy which the Labour Government insisted on perpetrating. The fact remains that Thomas Cook and Son really passed into public ownership during and as a result of the war. We are putting that right. If the hon. Gentleman says that we are also affecting the 1947 Act, I accept that without feeling that it is necessarily a very penetrating rebuke.

I hope that the House will now agree to give this very modest Measure a Third Reading.