Former MP for Peterborough
asked the Minister of Supply what were our imports of collets from Switzerland before the war; and what steps are being taken by the Machine Tool Controller to increase home production, now that this source of supply is cut off?
I do not propose this evening to follow the hon. Member who has just spoken into the realms of what is happening so far as social services are concerned, nor do I propose to go into a long discussion of the other points which have been raised in this connection. I feel that now is the time when, rather than making party capital, we should try and see to what extent we can find agreement among...
It is only fair to say that I am interested in an insurance company. Insurance companies do not deny the importance of making their fair contribution as far as Defence is concerned. The point at issue is whether they are doing more than their fair share as compared with other companies. The right hon. Gentleman has drawn a difference between insurance companies and ordinary businesses, and...
If the hon. Member knew individually the members of the athletic teams which I was privileged to go abroad with, he would have found that the great majority of them were the very people to whom he is referring and that they were actually placed in the Olympic games. It is really marvellous how they find time, working as hard as they do, to produce such physical fitness.
I had not intended to intervene in this Debate. Rather had I come to listen to the suggestions which would be put forward, but there are one or two points that I would like to make after listening to the speeches so far. I do not propose to touch on the subject of nutrition, because, although it is obviously of the utmost importance, I think it comes rather outside the scope of the work of...
I think that in their constituencies almost all hon. Members at some time have had their speeches made for them by various interruptions, and I would like to ask one rather contentious but simple question to which I would like to have a reply from some of the hon. Members opposite in their speeches—exactly how will a system of nationalisation enable us to sell more cotton piece goods in...
Is ordinary indebtedness going to be turned into the account as well as the ordinary day-to-day commercial indebtedness 7 There is £15,000,000 of loans to Rumania at present, and on most of that they are to a considerable extent in default. I should like to know whether such ordinary debts are to be taken into account. The Committee will be aware that Rumania is not a poor country as...
I must say I agree with the remark of the hon. Member for Wednesbury (Mr. Banfield) that, important as is the matter of benefit, the problem of getting people back into work is even more important, and I would like this afternoon to make a few observations rather more on that side of the problem than on the matter of benefit. The unemployment figures, when they are dissected, can more or less...
