Former MP for Maidstone
asked the Minister of Health whether he has any statement to make regarding the accident which occurred on Friday, 29th November, at Oakwood Hospital, Maidstone.
While thanking my right hon. and learned Friend, and totally agreeing with him in the last part of his statement, may I most earnestly ask him to look into the cause of this accident in an effort to prevent anything like it occurring in any other place? Nobody apparently knows why it occurred.
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I beg leave to present a Petition on behalf of 98 British residents in Oporto, Portugal, referring to the great decline in the consumption of port wine in Great Britain as against the pre-war period and pointing out that this is most discouraging to the British port-wine producing firms in Portugal with an invested capital of over £12 million and is most...
asked the Minister of Works if he will give consideration to eliminating as far as possible from Government building contracts items for which a prime cost sum is included and for which, in consequence, there is no competition.
Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that where these sums are included there is no competition at all, and that in some cases as much as 70 per cent. of a contract is given out in this way? Will he look into this situation to see that we get the best prices we can?
As this Clause is almost entirely administrative, will my hon. Friend agree to look at it again and consider whether he can take out the procedure and provisions which are purely administrative and are not, in general, related to the spirit of the Bill, and put them into a Schedule, by means of an Amendment on the Report stage?
I shall not detain the House for more than a very few minutes, but as I was once chairman of foreign exhibitions in the United States and used to invite foreign exhibitions to come to that country in the early 1920s, I have a little practical experience which I want to put on record. The previous speaker emphasised the need for air conditioning. I assure the House that there is nothing more...
We have heard an interesting medical review of the air-conditioning arrangements here from the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Dr. Stross), and it is interesting to realise that the same complaints arise in all the great debating chambers of the world. Apparently no one has yet solved this problem. I have examined the plant here, because during my life I have had a little to do with...
