Former MP for Great Yarmouth
Would the Chancellor consider whether he can provide means whereby a person who is the owner of a property and is injured through a raid or by enemy action can have his case considered? I think such a provision should be embodied in the Bill.
asked the Minister of Health whether, owing to the evacuation scheme in operation on the East Coast, and to the serious decline in work in consequence, he will consider giving preference to doctors thrown out of work thereby to enter the services, or for appointments to war-time posts?
I would like to ask the Parliamentary Secretary whether his Department places a veto on the public use of the shelters which are placed in school grounds. I understand that a veto operates against their use by the public during school hours, but I am anxious that during the other 16 hours of the day, when the schools are not being used by the children, they should be available for the...
I want in this matter to act in conjunction with the Department. I do not want to be an obstacle or make myself a nuisance about it, but I feel very strongly on the matter. There is an instance of what I have in mind near my house. I am not speaking for myself, for I have ample accommodation, but I am speaking for other people who may be in need of shelter. I never left Great Yarmouth during...
I can give the details, and I think the suggestion is one which is worthy of being acted upon.
I want to ask whether the Government will give consideration to this proposal. I am sorry that this work should have been taken away from the old age pensions committees. I am against this bureaucratic proposal to give to a London body the power to consider the claims of these aged people, whose lot is miserable and whose present pension is not sufficient. We had all hoped there might have...
I should like to draw the attention of the House to the serious effect of the war upon towns on the East Coast, and, in particular, the borough of Great Yarmouth which I have the honour to represent. In considering this question it is necessary to point out that Great Yarmouth is almost entirely dependent for its livelihood upon summer visitors and the herring fishery. There are very few...
By way of preface to the few remarks which I intend to offer, I may say at once that I am a strong believer in an immediate increase of the pension for old people of 70 and over. They have a hard life indeed in this period of rising prices and their hardships are increasing week by week, so that it behoves all of us to see that something is done to meet their case. I would be satisfied if we...
