Former MP for Maldon
Will my right hon. Friend explain how this can be done without nominee holdings being completely open?
I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this matter, which is of vital importance to some of my constituents and of wider importance nationally. I refer to the damage caused to commercial tomato crops by the pollution of the public water supply. Not only has it caused a number of my constituents and prospective constituents to face possible ruin—and this is no exaggeration, as I shall...
Did the Minister make any reference to the number of houses which will be demolished to build the corridor and so on?
Can my hon. Friend say, then, what is the point of the Bill?
It would be churlish if one did not welcome any concessions from a Government who have taken back some orders which the House has rejected. I must welcome the concessions that have been made, particularly the apparent increase in flexibility in the application of some of the regulations to Commonwealth people. I think we would be very foolish if we did not realise how much damage has been...
I hope that my right hon. Friend will not pay any attention to the suggestion that he should withdraw this order. I have had the strongest representations from the clerk of the council of Witham and from the two Maldon councils that the order should be accepted as it is printed. There have been strenuous negotiations and discussions with the Ministry, and I hope that my right hon. Friend will...
This morning The Times got the point of this debate in persective when, in its leading article, it said that this was The price we pay for hypocrisy and referred to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act. 1962, which is the beginning of all the trouble which we have been debating. In that Act no differentiation was made between the old and the new Commonwealth, despite many representations which...
I am most grateful for that intervention, but I hope that the period for which these people will be allowed to stay will be on the two- or three-year basis of about 18 months ago, and that they will not have their passports endorsed for a six-months' stay as they are at present.
