Former MP for Leeds South East
As a member of the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills, I can assure my hon. Friend the Member for Rochdale (Mr. Kelly) that this Clause does no more than repeat a Section of the Act of 1928, and, therefore, if the necessity for consultation arose, it arose when that Act was being passed.
The hon. and gallant Member is perfectly right in commending this Measure to the House. It is a tragedy that some such Measure was not law years ago. The wanton and idle destruction of ecclesiastical registers and records in the past has made the work of compiling history a matter of great difficulty. We must be grateful to think that in the future these registers will be kept in a proper...
I beg to second the Motion.
I presume the proximity of the General Election has led the right hon. Gentleman to make a speech which may or may not be calculated to bring in the suffrages of certain doctors.
I have no desire whatever to impute motives, but the right hon. and learned Gentleman accused us of speaking on behalf of the poor, when no-one had said a word against the doctors on this side, and I am entitled to draw attention to the fact that we are in close proximity to a General Election and that the irrelevant matter could only have been introduced for political purposes. There is no...
Some Clause; not this particular Clause.
While we, of course, offer no objection to this grant, I think before we pass from this Estimate we must necessarily reflect on the extraordinary history which has produced it. I do not pretend to understand the matter very fully or very completely, but, as I understand it, the Privy Council, in this matter, appears to have advised on a different basis on two different occasions, although...
I want to intervene in this Debate, as in the last, rather from the legal than from the administrative point of view. I was one of those who heard the Debate at the time when the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the right hon. Gentleman gave such weighty reasons why this grant should not be admitted. One of the reasons which was then used was that the committee which was sitting in...
