Former MP for Blackburn
It is unfortunate that the hon. Baronet, the Senior Member for the City (Sir G. Broadbridge) is unable to be here this afternoon, because I am certain he would have been amused to hear the disparaging remarks and the gibes about the City that have come so characteristically from the hon. and learned Member for North Hammersmith (Mr. Pritt). I feel, however, in spite of the satisfactory...
I am not interested in those figures. Even in the legal profession you have, from time to time, most distressing cases of fraudulent misconduct. I am not asking the hon. and learned Member for North Hammersmith to give me a list of the legal practitioners who have gone wrong.
My concern is that in the interest of this country this House should recognise the great position occupied by the City as the headquarters of the vast financial and commercial interests of the whole British Empire. It is wrong to disparage the services of the City in the interest of our nation and of the Empire. What satisfaction any Member can find in coming here to cheapen the City and to...
I am very sorry, Mr. Williams, for going astray, but I will put my point this way. Is not the City of London justified, in view of the enormous interests concerned, in asking for the special consideration implied by two representatives in this House? Business is just as deserving of a hearing as research, and we have never been ashamed of being described as a "nation of shopkeepers." If our...
asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider extending the powers of local authorities over milk found to be infected with certain specified diseases by making such powers applicable to all diseases communicable to man by milk.
In view of the misleading impression among a large section of the public about the provisions of the Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies) Bill, will my right hon. and learned Friend issue a public warning that clean milk is not necessarily safe milk?
asked the Minister of Health what happens to milk intended for human consumption which has been found to contain living tubercle bacilli during such time, perhaps several months, before a veterinary officer succeeds in finding the cow or cows responsible.
May I ask the Minister whether his Department has recommended local authorities to take frequent samples, and whether that serves any useful purpose at all, if the local authority has no power to stop the sale of milk when tubercle is found?
