Former MP for Kirkcaldy District of Burghs
It has been the subject of comment in this country since the War that the bureaucratic powers given to the Departments of State are being increasingly bestowed by Parliament without sufficient safeguards. Will the right hon. Gentleman say in what way it is in the public interest, that a Department when it gives a decision following upon an inquiry by an indedendent arbiter, should do so...
I beg to second the Amendment. After the sympathetic remarks of the Secretary of State as to, the importance and expediency of having trained women to carry out the duties which housing management commissions will be empowered to carry out under the Bill, I do not think it is necessary for me to say any more in seconding my hon. Friend's Amendment.
I regret that the Lord Advocate or some representative of the Government has not seen fit to make even a formal acknowledgment of the point raised by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for West Fife (Mr. Milne). It is perhaps ill becoming a lawyer to tell the Government of a method of avoiding litigation but none the less my hon. and learned Friend has had the courage to do so. Obviously...
30. asked the Minister of Transport the numbers of motor vehicles, commercial and non-commercial, which have made use of the improved Forth ferry service at Queensferry, in each month between September, 1934, and May, 1935?
14. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has considered the communication addressed to him by the Fife Small Burghs Association in relation to the inadequacy of the representation of the small burghs of Fife on the Fife County Council; and whether he is prepared to take the necessary steps to enlarge the representation of those small burghs on the Fife County Council so as to...
I am sure we all agree as to the pleasure that we have felt in hearing, and the enlightenment which we hope our countrymen in Scotland will gain when they read, the speech of the Under-Secretary in moving the Second Reading of this Bill. Expressed with his usual clearness and lucidity, I think it will do much to concentrate and focus the attention of the people who are interested in the...
At the end of two years.
Would the right hon. Gentleman say that it would not deter a benefactor from leaving his money to the benefit of destitute children if he know that the Commission were entitled to divert that money to the benefit, say, of deaf children? Is that not a factor which would deter one who was about to make a benefaction?
