Mr Anthony Coombs

Former MP for Wyre Forest

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🗣️ Speeches and Debates

  • Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation 28 Nov 1996

    How much would you pay?
  • Prayers: Improving Schools Programme 1 Nov 1996

    Quango?
  • Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government 29 Oct 1996

    That is a disgraceful remark.
  • Postal Services 22 Jul 1996

    I warmly welcome the Government's action to protect mail users and the ultimate viability of the Post Office. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is typical of the craven cowardice of the Labour party that it refuses to protect mail users by condemning the strike? Does he also agree that it is now time for the Government to consider lifting the monopoly on mail services so that they can...
  • Business of the House 18 Jul 1996

    May we have a debate on the planning system as it relates to the accelerated culling programme, and specifically the provision of incinerator plants, so that I can raise with the House the alarm, and despair in many cases, of thousands of my constituents at what are fortunately informal proposals at present to site such an incinerator plant in my constituency at Stourport? Last week, the...
  • Bill Presented: The Economy 17 Jul 1996

    I did not think that I would ever agree with the Labour party's latter-day John the Baptist, the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone), but I agree with his comments about the single currency and an independent central bank. I also agreed with him when he described the left as constantly talking Britain down, because that is what we have heard from Labour Members during the debate. I...
  • Bill Presented: The Economy 17 Jul 1996

    No, I have only 10 minutes. The transformation would be sorely tried, even destroyed, should a Labour Government ever be able to implement their policies. I found it appalling that the right hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown)—who purports to be the next Chancellor of the Exchequer if, heaven forfend, the Labour party were to win the election—could not advance any policies or...
  • Bill Presented: The Economy 17 Jul 1996

    Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

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