Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions: Water Authority Chairmen 27 Apr 1983

  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the salaries and conditions of water authority chairmen in England.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions: Water Authority Chairmen 27 Apr 1983

  I thank the hon. Gentleman for that answer. Does he recall that in his reply of 15 April he stated that the notional full-time pay of the chairman of the Yorkshire water authority was more than £29,000 pensionable income, plus perks? Is he aware that that is comparable with the salary offered to the new chief constable of west Yorkshire, whose duties are far more onerous? How does he...

• Unemployment (Yorkshire and Humberside) 22 Feb 1983

  A British Prime Minister once said that in order to produce a solution one should understand the problem. The Minister has not demonstrated to the people of Yorkshire that he understands the problem. As is natural, I intend to speak about the area that I represent, but I wish to make it plain that I do so in a regional context, and that I and my Bradford colleagues are ready to help any of...

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Profile

Former MP for Bradford North

Entered the House of Commons on 15 October 1964 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 13 May 1983 — General election

Previous MPs in this constituency

• William Taylor
• Muriel Nichol
• Eugene Ramsden
• Ralph Angell
• Eugene Ramsden
• Walter Rea
• Archibald Boyd-Carpenter

Future MPs in this constituency

• Geoffrey Lawler
• Pat Wall
• Terry Rooney