Results 81–100 of 767 for speaker:Mr John Heddle

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Rates ( 4 Nov 1987)

Mr John Heddle: Will my hon. and learned Friend confirm that of the 18 million ratepayers who should pay rates one third do not pay them in full or in part? Will he further confirm that that does nothing for local democracy and that it is necessary, in order to strengthen local democracy, to introduce a fairer, more broadly based system as soon as possible and to build in all possible safeguards to ensure...

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Tenant Farmers (22 Oct 1987)

Mr John Heddle: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the tenant farmers whose land is blighted by coal mining subsidence suffer considerable consequential losses? What does he propose to do, and will he take steps to persuade his ministerial colleagues to implement the recommendations of the Waddilove report?

Rate Support Grant (England) (23 Jul 1987)

Mr John Heddle: Does my right hon. Friend accept that the majority of ratepayers in local authorities which play the game will see today's announcement as a sensible settlement? Does he agree that it is the duty of local councils to manage their affairs as efficiently as possible? If so, what does he propose to do to bring to their senses those local authorities that are allowing rent arrears to rip to over...

Oral Answers to Questions — Employment: Inner Cities (21 Jul 1987)

Mr John Heddle: Does my hon. Friend agree that a large measure of the blame for joblessness in the inner cities rests with profligate Labour-controlled local authorities, whose high-spending policies have forced up rates, which in turn have forced out businesses and jobs?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Low-cost Rented Housing (15 Jul 1987)

Mr John Heddle: I applaud the manifesto commitment to encourage responsible private sector capital to build new houses for rent, but does my hon. Friend not agree that hundreds of thousands of houses that are in the ownership and management of local authorities are empty at the moment and that they should be brought into beneficial use forthwith?

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill ( 6 Jul 1987)

Mr John Heddle: I am delighted to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Field), who spoke eloquently. He referred, rightly and generously, to the record of service of his predecessor, Mr. Stephen Ross. We shall miss him. In his stead, we will gain. My hon. Friend's modesty forbade his mentioning that he has considerable local government experience. We await with pleasure his contribution to...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill ( 6 Jul 1987)

Mr John Heddle: I shall finish my point and then give way. The responsibility for the enforcement of the law on equal opportunities has been devolved by the House to the Equal Opportunities Commission. It is not a matter to be interfered with or usurped by local authorities for purely partisan and party political purposes.

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill ( 6 Jul 1987)

Mr John Heddle: I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention, but it adds nothing to the quality of the debate. It did not answer my point about which I thought he was intervening — that the House has devolved powers to the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality to ensure that the will of the House and the people is carried out.

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill ( 6 Jul 1987)

Mr John Heddle: As I have said, local authorities have a duty to carry out the wishes of the ratepayers and their electors. They do not have a duty to interpret under their own terms the will and power of the House. Contract compliance places an unacceptable administrative burden on employers. When it existed, the Greater London council's form for contractors contained 10 pages of questions on equal...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill ( 6 Jul 1987)

Mr John Heddle: I am aware of that, but that adds nothing to the quality of the debate. We are talking about United Kingdom legislation devolving certain responsibilities and powers to local authorities to provide services for ratepayers. As a former chairman of the GLC, the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) knows that the relationship between the state, senate and local administration in the...

Business of the House ( 2 Jul 1987)

Mr John Heddle: Does my right hon. Friend accept that, following representations from right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House, there is great concern about the unfairnesses suffered by dairy farmers and others because of the iniquities in the compensation for coal mining subsidence? Is he aware that the Waddilove committee was set up some four years ago, and that that committee's...

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Public Employment (14 May 1987)

Mr John Heddle: Does my hon. Friend agree that the way to combat high unemployment in the Province is to reduce terrorism, because the only way to reduce high unemployment is through private sector investment? Does he agree that the private sector will not invest until the threat of terrorism has been eliminated?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Land Use ( 6 May 1987)

Mr John Heddle: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the pressure for building on the green belt and on agricultural land is partly due to the fact that we have not yet done enough to recycle urban and fringe land? Will he confirm that perhaps 47 per cent. of all new house building last year was on recycled land, but that much more can still be done to build on land in the inner cities, on land held by...

Petition: A34, Stone ( 8 Apr 1987)

Mr John Heddle: I am extremely grateful for this opportunity, even at this late hour, to raise this issue. In the words of the letter that I wrote to Mr. Speaker on 20 March : I would be grateful to have the opportunity to raise on the Adjournment the need for a bypass of Stone, Staffordshire, in my constituency. I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend the Minister for sharing this late hour with you, Mr....

Petition: A34, Stone ( 8 Apr 1987)

Mr John Heddle: I am sure that Mr. Deputy Speaker would have been on the bypass, had it been constructed. As it has not been, that has not been possible. I hope that you will use the bypass in due course, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I hope also that my hon. Friend the Minister will be able to promise me that it will be constructed in the not-too-distant future. I shall describe the historic town of Stone. It is...

Local Government (Supply of Goods and Services) ( 7 Apr 1987)

Mr John Heddle: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prevent local councils discriminating against private companies who supply goods and contracting services, and for related matters. I shall detain the House for only a short time. My Bill is designed to require local councils to allow private contractors the unfettered right to tender for the supply of goods and services, to stop them...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Crime Prevention ( 2 Apr 1987)

Mr John Heddle: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what place crime prevention has in his overall strategy to reduce crime.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Crime Prevention ( 2 Apr 1987)

Mr John Heddle: I thank my right hon. Friend for increasing the number of policemen on the beat in Staffordshire by 25 in the past few weeks. Does he agree that 95 out of 100 crimes are committed against property rather than against the person? Does he further agree that it is the duty of every individual citizen to endeavour to protect his or her property in the best way that he or she can? What further...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Private Sector Tenants ( 1 Apr 1987)

Mr John Heddle: Does my hon. Friend accept that the appalling housing crisis to which the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) has just referred is entirely due to the dogmatic and static attitude of the Opposition parties? The way to give the right to rent to millions of young families is to encourage building societies, institutions and other responsible bodies to provide that rented...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Rates ( 1 Apr 1987)

Mr John Heddle: asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of the average rate increase in the current year (a) for councils under Conservative control, (b) for non-rate capped councils under Labour control, (c) for councils under alliance control and (d) councils under joint alliance/Labour control.


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