Former MP for Middlesbrough East
85. asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of insurance companies that have gone into liquidation since the draft Insurance Undertakings Bill was submitted to the House in 1927; and the total losses to shareholders and policy-holders in such liquidated insurance companies including those at present in course of liquidation?
12. asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it will be necessary to submit a Supplementary Estimate in connection with the expenditure foreshadowed by the recent circular to local authorities in connection with possible gas attack from the air?
I want to raise a question of outstanding importance to a large number of people. The question concerns the legality or otherwise of gaming machines which are called fruit machines, or more colloquially, "diddlers." These machines contain three revolving drums which are operated by the insertion of a coin, and if, when the revolutions stop, certain fruits or other figures approximate to each...
I am against the principle of the levy because it means higher prices—
The Resolution says: to provide for extending … the period during which cattle or carcases of cattle must have been sold in order that payments in respect thereof may be made out of the Cattle Fund. Is it misusing the term to call it a "levy"?
May I ask why?
I assumed that this was a continuation of the Debate that took place previously. The hon. Member for Horncastle (Mr. Haslam) has been arguing in favour of the good effects of this particular levy.
In those circumstances, I will not continue.
