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• Orders of the Day — Finance Bill 25 Apr 1955

  My hon. Friend said that forms were being prepared and that taxpayers in certain categories who had overpaid could ask the tax collector for the forms so that they could make their claims. Would not it be possible to instruct the authorities to send the forms to those people who require them without application having to be made?

• Orders of the Day — Finance Bill 25 Apr 1955

  I think the hon. Member said that the deduction was made from the dependant's allowance. Would it not have been normal for the deduction to have been made from National Assistance?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce: Cotton Textile Industry (Deputation) 5 Apr 1955

  Is my right hon. Friend aware that a similar statement is much needed in respect of the glove industry?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Roads: Bridge, Barnstaple 16 Mar 1955

  asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he will now state the degree of priority to be given either to the plan for widening Barnstaple Long Bridge, or to the alternative plan of making a new road and bridge; and whether he has yet decided which of these projects is to be proceeded with.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Roads: Bridge, Barnstaple 16 Mar 1955

  Is my right hon. Friend aware that there are one or two quite important projects awaiting the result of his decision on this matter, and that the borough council concerned is hoping very much to get an answer before very long?

• Orders of the Day — Navy Estimates, 1955–56: Vote 1. Pay, etc., of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines 15 Mar 1955

  Is it not a fact that one of the reasons there is a shortage of volunteers in the Navy is that the volunteers, such as there are, prefer to go into the Army?

• Orders of the Day — Army Estimates, 1955–56: VOTE 1. PAY, &c., OF THE ARMY 15 Mar 1955

  I take it that the right hon. Member is suggesting that men serving overseas in Germany should serve a shorter period and that he is not suggesting that units, regiments or battalions, should serve a shorter time abroad. If he is suggesting that individuals should be transferred home to other units, I should be opposed to that.

• Orders of the Day — Army Estimates, 1955–56: VOTE 1. PAY, &c., OF THE ARMY 15 Mar 1955

  I shall not attempt to follow the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) very far, because we are skating on very thin ice on this subject, and I am not as clever as he is in doing it. The hon. Member is an extraordinary example of a man with a great deal of common sense but an almost vicious bias against the Brigade of Guards. That is a great pity. He raised a point about pay which interests me...

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