Dr Jeremy Bray: I beg to move, That the Clause he read a Second time. I must ask the indulgence of the House for my maiden speech. I hope, too, that I shall have the understanding of the House for seeking what I imagine is the relative obscurity of this debate. My purpose in moving the new Clause is to draw attention to a type of economic regulator which would be of the greatest value in my constituency...
Dr Jeremy Bray: I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.
Dr Jeremy Bray: asked the Minister of Education what percentage of children in recent years in the Borough of Thornaby-on-Tees has been selected at the 11-plus and 13-plus selections for secondary schools in which it is possible to take the General Certificate of Education examination; and what are the comparable figures for the North Riding as a whole and for the neighbouring boroughs of Middlesbrough and...
Dr Jeremy Bray: Can the Minister explain why the 11-plus selections in Thornabyon-Tees are not only so low but also require a correction of one-third, as compared with one-eighth for the North Riding as a whole? Does he not agree that the large number of late developers in Thornaby indicates poor provision of bath primary and secondary education?
Dr Jeremy Bray: Is the Minister aware of the large proportion of supply teachers employed and the poor quality of the school buildings? Will he consider an investigation into this, and will he undertake the replacement of the two obsolete secondary modern schools by a comprehensive school at the earliest date?
Dr Jeremy Bray: Ls the hon. Gentleman suggesting that we should adopt the Russian system of direction?
Dr Jeremy Bray: Would the hon. Gentleman then go on to advocate that the "fuddy-duddies" first be directed off the boards of industries?
Dr Jeremy Bray: The hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. J. H. Osborn) has fulfilled a very useful purpose in trying to hand out and allocate bouquets among different aspects of research in industry. His interest in scientific matters in his own constituency is particularly commendable and an example which should be followed by other hon. Members, but I cannot entirely agree with this allocation of credit....
Dr Jeremy Bray: It would seem that the hon. Member for Morecambe and Lonsdale (Mr. de Ferranti) is not completely familiar with all the automatic linkages used in some of his own company's products. Considering, far example, the hon. Member's own field, can he say whether there is any industrialist today—one responsible for a turnover of £ 10 million or more, not a very large sum by the standards of big...
Dr Jeremy Bray: Will the hon. Gentleman consult the University Grants Committee as to whether it wishes its advice to be published?
Dr Jeremy Bray: It is a pleasure to follow the speech of the hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mrs. McLaughlin), who made the point over and over again that the troubles in the aircraft industry are recurrent. This is not something that is just a current crisis in Belfast. It is not only a temporary trouble in Derby or in Gloucester. Before the Minister or the Parliamentary Secretary lose sight of the wood...
Dr Jeremy Bray: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that he is talking about days before many hon. Members on this side of the House were born?
Dr Jeremy Bray: Will not the horn. Member agree that there is constantly a failure to admit how many jobs will be lost altogether? Unless we strike the net balance, to talk about the pipeline is useless.
Dr Jeremy Bray: Mr. Deputy-Speaker, it is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton-on-Tees (Mr. W. T. Rodgers), and I cannot help wondering what was in the back of your mind in keeping us in store for the smallest hours of the night. Perhaps it had a certain skeleton in the cupboard significance for hon. Members on the Government Front Bench. I want to press on as quickly as possible...
Dr Jeremy Bray: I am grateful to the hon. Member for saying that. I was concerned recently in a wage negotiation, or rather its outcome, where the increase was granted on condition that the unions co-operated in the improvement of productivity, just as vague as that. At a meeting held to discuss how the unions could co-operate in increasing productivity I ventured the suggestion that there might be some...
Dr Jeremy Bray: Before the hon. Member departs from the question of prices and profits in the steal industry, would he say Whether he would prefer prices to be fixed by the Iron and Steel Federation? Does he mot consider that the capital structure of the industry is such that one has only the choice between price-fixing arrangements by the industry itself and price-fixing toy a public board?
Dr Jeremy Bray: What about my question?
Dr Jeremy Bray: I am continually astonished in these debates in the House on details of the economy at the sparseness of attendance of hon. Members opposite. Where As the hon. Member for Cleveland (Mr. Proudfoot), who has in his constituency, which is next door to that of my right hon. Friend the Member for Midddlesbrough, East (Mr. Bottomley), some works which have put out 2,000 men from employment? Where...
Dr Jeremy Bray: The theory and use of many of these types of structure has been worked out in the aircraft industry, but there is no cross-fertilisation of ideas between the aircraft industry and the steel industry because the steel industry is not equipped to absorb the ideas. There are, I admit, one or two outstanding exceptions, and one of these is Richard Thomas and Baldwins. I was astonished during the...
Dr Jeremy Bray: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he now proposes to publish the Treasury's economic forecasts: and if he will first give them to the House.
