Former MP for Bristol North West
We now turn to the problem raised in the consultative document issued by the Department of Employment dealing with sheltered employment for disabled people. I have an interest to declare, altough not a financial one, as the deputy chairman of one of the voluntary societies providing employment for the blind, the General Welfare of the Blind. We have workshops in London and Luton. We employ...
I am reassured by what the Minister said. Nevertheless, will he admit that the document has an inbuilt bias in favour of the Remploy system?
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I should like briefly to support the principle of the amendment even though the drafting may not be perfect. Elderly people should not be liable to pay as much tax as younger people and should have rather more help than is proposed in the Bill. There are clubs which have a benevolent rule that when a member has paid 50 annual subscriptions he is entitled to free membership for the rest of his...
On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Before you put the Question, I should like to declare to the House, as I did to the Standing Committee, a possible interest as a director and member of a mineral working company.
It is perhaps inevitable that in a debate of rather limited scope we go over the same ground and make the same points in our different ways. We are concerned here with a beautiful bridge built over 100 years ago to commemorate Brunel. The bridge is very much part of the Bristol and, indeed, the national heritage. It is one of the momuments of Victorian engineering. The view of it from...
When one drafts a Private Bill one puts in a lot of possibilities, though the likelihood of any of them happening is not great. The main possibility is the liability for maintenance and repair of the bridge. When one reads the correspondence which has passed between the parties, one finds that the trustees of the bridge have leaned over backwards to discuss the matter with local authorities...
It does not follow that the tolls will be raised. The trustees are merely seeking power to raise them if they find, against their will, that they have to.
