Former MP for Harrogate
Now that the bulk of the proceedings on the Finance Bill are in Committee, might it not be cutting things rather fine to have only one day for Report and one day for Third Reading on the Floor of the House?
I am glad to be called following the speeches of the hon. Member for Jarrow (Mr. Fernyhough) and the hon. Member for Blaydon (Mr. Woof), who for as long as I have been in this House have both talked a great deal of sense on behalf of County Durham—long before it began to be called the Northern Region. I hope that Labour Members who sit for seats in the Northern Region will forgive me, as a...
Mr. James Ramsden (Harrogate) rose—
Very briefly, Mr. Speaker, I am against this Bill. I do not intend to divide the House but I am against it because although there is some truth in what the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. David Clark) says about the danger of bulls, if the problem is properly handled I do not think there is a case for legislation. I was a member of the Standing Committee on the Countryside Bill, which was...
I do not propose to take up the comments of the right hon. Member for Aberavon (Mr. John Morris). I have followed him in debates on previous occasions which will be in his recollection. I have promised to be brief, and I think that the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me for not commenting on his speech. I wish to adduce a brief argument and to make one point. In the last 12 years, since I...
Before the House agrees to this motion which I take it, is necessary in order that time may be found for a Private Member's Bill later in the day, I think that we are entitled to ask for one or two reassurances from my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House. While I appreciate the argument of my hon. Friend the Member for Gains-borough (Mr. Kimball), I have no wish to join him as a...
As the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) mentioned the question of Civil Service pay, I should like briefly to refer to the related point of the pensions of civil servants and others who may be affected by the freeze. My hon. Friend the Chief Secretary will be familiar with the point. The pay question has been discussed by the Prime Minister, and no doubt by others today. I am...
With reference to my right hon. Friend's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead (Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg)—I may, of course, have misunderstood it—is it not a fact that for the Government, in connection with a Private Member's Bill, to give time for a vote, as opposed to a further stage with proper debate, would be somewhat unusual, and might, to say the least, set a precedent?
