Former MP for Manchester, Gorton
Does the Prime Minister intend to trot out once again her nine-year-old promise to substitute another tax for rates? If she does, who will pay more than at present—businesses or families?
Does the 1951 agreement cover facilities as well as bases?
Will the Minister agree not to take the line that has been suggested? I know that the Government like to punish the worst off families, but that would hit them very hard. Will the hon. Gentleman take into consideration not only hard core truancy but the fact that much juvenile delinquency occurs when children occasionally play truant, perhaps because they do not like a teacher or because...
Is it the Government's view that, compared with industry, domestic ratepayers do not pay a high enough proportion of local government expenditure?
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress has been made in privatisation within local authorities.
Is it the Government's intention to put pressure on local authorities to sell off or put out to private enterprise such things as sports centres, allotments, playing fields, swimming pools and even cemeteries?
Is the Minister satisfied that, where PSA functions have already been handed over to private enterprise, the private firms are carrying out the same training of apprentices and professional people as the PSA did? Will he monitor this matter?
The amendment proposes that the Secretary of State as well as the local authorities should take cognisance of the three items in the Bill and the three in the amendment. I have tried to discover from Ministers in Committee what is meant by "guidance". Will the Secretary of State simply give a figure to the authority when it submits a plan, or will there be a statement? On the occasions when...
