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Mr William Hamling is a former MP for Greenwich Woolwich West.

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Former MP for Greenwich Woolwich West

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

Left the House of Commons on 20 March 1975 — Died

Also represented Woolwich West

Future MPs in this constituency

• Peter Bottomley

Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — Dogs Bill 14 Feb 1975

  I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Doig) on the Bill, and offer my general support. I have lived in cities all my life and have always felt that dogs in cities were out of their element. They should not be there—and not only for the many reasons that my hon. Friend adduced. It is not only that they foul the pavements. A week or so ago, I saw a man with a dog in...

• Orders of the Day — Dogs Bill 14 Feb 1975

  That is going through my mind. One of our aims must be to reduce the population of dogs in cities and make it more difficult for people to keep dogs idly. Many people who have dogs do not understand that they cause offence to many other people as well as being a nuisance, not only in the legal but in the aesthetic, and practical senses. I am one of those with a physical allergy to dogs. I...

• Orders of the Day — Dogs Bill 14 Feb 1975

  It seems to me that in certain parts the dogs are even more numerous than that. One is entitled to ask whether the country can sustain such a population of dogs, bearing in mind not only the mess they cause, the nuisance they are, the fear they inspire in children and among infirm people, but the uncontrolled way in which many of their owners allow them to behave, the noise they create at...

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