Former MP for Dearne Valley
There are many beautiful areas that are never seen by overseas visitors. Will the Minister do more financially to encourage tourist boards to give more information to visitors to ensure that they go outside London and see our beautiful country? Will he take note that the Yorkshire tourist board is a very good board?
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to improve health services in the Trent regional health authority area.
Does the Minister realise that this is not a question of allocating money to the regions? Is he aware that the report of the Resource Allocations Working Party recommended that the policy should also carry through to the areas where services are provided? Will he bear in mind that Montagu hospital is still under duress? Will he ensure that anything allocated to the Trent region and to the...
In some quiet moment will the Prime Minister think back to what she said prior to the last general election? At some time will she relate to us all the promises that she made that she has not fulfilled? When she talks about inflation, will she also consider unemployment as one of the issues on which she has failed the nation? When will she do something about reducing the number of unemployed...
In this debate our concern must lie with those who are unfortunately disabled. Of course, there are many who can afford various charges, and the National Health Service does not matter very much to them. We now have 3·5 million unemployed officially, and there is hidden unemployment amounting to another one million. Some of the unemployed may happen to be just above supplementary benefit...
Then what are the Government playing at? They have sought by every avenue to take substance away from the poorer section of society and to find means of not giving those within it their fair share of the country's wealth. I am wondering what will happen to the Montague hospital in my constituency. Are the Government seeking to obtain more money by increasing dental and optical charges with a...
There has not, because a graph would show that there is a vast difference between the top 10 per cent. and the lowest 20 per cent. in this country, and that is the result of the Tory party's efforts. It is time that Conservative Members gave a little more thought to the unfortunate. The Government should be making every effort to create more wealth at all levels of industry, and should not...
If the Scottish people were to decide today on the Government whom they wanted, the Tories would not stand a chance. Some hon. Members may have gone home to canvass. They may have decided to see what stand our caring and wonderful Conservative Members take tonight, despite the fact that they profess to be so concerned about workingclass people. When people read about what has happened tonight...
