Former MP for Stoke-on-Trent South
That is typical of the hon. Gentleman's attack on the miners.
On a point of order. To facilitate the business, will you be good enough, Sir Samuel, to consider the possibility of benefiting from past experience and having, within reason, a broad discussion on the Amendments on the understanding that the Committee undertakes that hon. Members shall not cut across one another in discussing them? Afterwards, if the Opposition wished to divide on any...
Thank you, Sir Samuel.
I desire to make some observations on behalf of people who are earning less than £20 a week. I desire to protest against the unfair taxation of those people. I desire to protest against the fact that reliefs are given to those who are better off than these people. I desire to protest, providing I understand it correctly, against the reliefs given in this Bill. These Amendments provide me...
asked the Prime Minister what arrangements have been made for the television and sound political broadcasts during the three weeks prior to the next General Election; and what steps will be taken to ensure as far as is possible that a balance is held between all sections of the community.
Has the Prime Minister seen the excellent articles dealing with this matter which appeared in The Guardian, and, if so, did he note the observations made by the late President Kennedy and by Mr. Edward Murrow with regard to the points raised in my Question? If he has studied those matters, will he give an undertaking that he will apply the lessons so that all sections of the community have a...
asked the Prime Minister if he will make arrangements for a closed-circuit television to take the place of the annunciators within the rooms of the House and for a television set in a large room so that people unable to be accommodated in the Visitors' Gallery may see and hear the proceedings.
Does the Prime Minister agree that there is a growing interest in the proceedings of this House, especially when big issues are being debated, and does he think that it is satisfactory, in the second half of the 20th century, that hundreds of people who desire to see the House at work should not have an opportunity? Will he reconsider his reply in order that the hundreds of people visiting...
