Former MP for The Wrekin
I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock (Mr. Cormack) for his courtesy in allowing me to make two points. He knows, as does my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary, that I take a slightly different view about the motorway and its necessity. I believe that it is necessary to have a motorway link. Although I personally favoured a different route, the fact is that the over-riding necessity was...
May I make it clear to my hon. Friend that The Wrekin would also like to see him? When he visits my hon. Friend's constituency I hope that he will step over the border into Shropshire and look at the other end of the M54.
I hope that the hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Whitlock) will forgive me if I do not pursue the points he raised except over what he said about the necessity of the National Health Service being for the benefit of the patient. I hope that is something that every hon. Member will accept immediately. I should like to direct my remarks to the speech by the right hon. Member for Deptford...
I am sorry that I gave way. If the right hon. Gentleman had only waited he would have seen that I had by no means overlooked the point. If I used the term "boards" and not "authorities", that is not a Freudian slip. A Freudian slip can be made only in connection with my mother or other women. It could not have been made in connection with a board. On a board, perhaps. With a board—well,...
Human nature is somewhat frail. All the wonderful solutions that are continually propounded would probably be brought to nothing if the propounder were responsible for the consequences of what he suggests. Whatever party is in power, there is always a problem of sacrificing long-term for short-term objectives, or short-term for long-term objectives. The admixture is always extremely difficult...
What is the level of French inflation?
Is it not the position that under the present law as applied any prosecution forthcoming would have to be undertaken with the fiat of the Secretary of State—the Home Secretary—but it would have to be undertaken before a court of summary jurisdiction and not on indictment, but I believe the essence of the Clause to be that even it that fiat of the Secretary of State still remains, as it...
I must apologise for the length of the intervention. I hoped to help you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in establishing the purpose behind the introduction of the new clause. I understand that the purpose of the Bill, which I applaud, is to distinguish between necessary experiments—I emphasise" necessary "—on living animals and the true furtherance of research and the dubious activities of some...
