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Mr Archibald Macdonald is a former MP for Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire.

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Former MP for Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire

Entered the House of Commons on 23 February 1950 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 5 October 1951 — General election

Previous MPs in this constituency

• William Scott
• Dalkeith
• Thomas Henderson
• Robert Munro

Future MPs in this constituency

• Charles Donaldson

Recent appearances

• New Clause. — (Relief from Profits Tax Where All the Profits are Paid to Employees.) 19 Jun 1951

  In rising to support this Clause I promise to be very brief. I will try to confine my remarks to five minutes, for this is a subject on which I could speak at some length. I shall go further than the hon. Member for St. Marylebone (Sir W. Wakefield) and the hon. Member for Angus, North (Mr. Thornton-Kemsley), in that they were dealing with the John Lewis Partnership and schemes of a similar...

• New Clause. — (Relief from Profits Tax Where All the Profits are Paid to Employees.) 19 Jun 1951

  The hon. Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams), ought to visit a number of firms which have profit-sharing schemes and see the increased production and improved industrial relations which have been brought about. To speak in so scathing a way about such an important development is quite wrong. Profit-sharing schemes will be an integral part of future industrial relations.

• Clause 15. — (Alterations in Personal Reliefs, etc.): Clause 16. — (Suspension of Initial Allowances.) 7 Jun 1951

  I beg to move, in page 10, line 20, at the end, to insert: except that when machinery is required for new processes of manufacture or packaging in industry an initial allowance of one-fifth shall be retained. I believe that this Amendment is totally different from the two Amendments which have preceded it and I hope, therefore, that it will meet a happier fate. It deals with a matter which is...

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