Mr Arthur Champion: Will the right hon. Gentleman look very carefully into this matter, having regard to the fact that this disease can bring about undulant fever in human beings and therefore is extremely dangerous?
Mr Arthur Champion: I am delighted to learn that there are so many who wish to participate in the debate. Unfortunately, the intervention of the Prime Minister at half past three with questions until after four o'clock has inevitably shortened this debate—
Mr Arthur Champion: —on this most important industry. However, we are glad to have this debate because it has, if nothing else, enabled the Minister to make a statement, a statement which has been accepted by some of his hon. Friends as completely satisfactory. I would say that his actual words must be studied most carefully, because we have had so many statements recently and so many conflicting statements...
Mr Arthur Champion: Yes, I read all that, of course, before I prepared my speech, but I ask the right hon. Gentleman how he can bring these two into unity and into a whole. How can he give these promises and carry them out in the circumstances now developing? The Government seem to have no idea of what the effect of their actions will be. The Chancellor does not know, or so he said in the House on 9th July: One...
Mr Arthur Champion: I agree with much which was said by the hon. and gallant Member for Croydon, North-East (Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett), although I disagree with what he said about headlights. I think that it is wrong for drivers, when they enter what is supposed to be a lighted area, immediately to switch off their headlights and to drive through what are tiny pools of light, under bad lighting, with large...
Mr Arthur Champion: Can the Minister tell us what percentage of the doctors take the postgraduate courses he has mentioned?
Mr Arthur Champion: I shall always look askance at anybody who seeks to drive people from the railways on to the roads. I noted what the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. G. Wilson) said about the choice of transport. He said it was like the choice of a wife—a very individual one. I remember an Arab proverb which says that in choosing a wife or buying a horse one should shut one's eyes and commend oneself to God. I...
Mr Arthur Champion: We are grateful to the Parliamentary Secretary for explaining the Orders and telling us, I think rightly, that there has been some tightening up here. We certainly welcome that. No one could be satisfied with the system that operated before under which there was, I gather, considerable opportunity for fraud. There is a change from the system which operated under the 1955 Order. It is a...
Mr Arthur Champion: I do.
Mr Arthur Champion: Does that include the 50,000 acres for the unregistered producers? If it does, then our figure is near.
Mr Arthur Champion: And import prices are going down as well.
Mr Arthur Champion: Are we assisting provision of supplies of vaccine to areas where there is a shortage?
Mr Arthur Champion: He did it by his majorities in the Lobby.
Mr Arthur Champion: The Joint Parliamentary Secretary has forestalled me in discussing the recommendations of the Caine Committee. I had been assiduously doing my homework in the hope of catching out the hon. Gentleman on that matter, but perhaps that was expecting too much. It is a pity that the Government have not accepted some of the recommendations of the Caine Committee which was a very responsible body. I...
Mr Arthur Champion: I was referring to the ploughing grant section of the Com mittee's Report, and I am speaking in the context of the Scheme now before us. Despite the fact that two years ago we altered the date from 1939 to 1946, I think we might well have taken this opportunity to bring forward the date for the operation of Part II of the Scheme by two years. At least we should have brought the date to...
Mr Arthur Champion: Does the Paymaster-General consult the Minister of Agriculture before permitting land to be used in this way?
Mr Arthur Champion: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) what are the reasons for his refusal to reappoint Mr. J. Craig to the East Sussex County Agricultural Executive Committee; (2) what reply he has made to the resolution of the East Sussex County Agricultural Executive Committee deploring his failure to reappoint Mr. J. Craig, who have given seventeen years of service as a member of...
Mr Arthur Champion: While I understand the Joint Parliamentary Secretary's reluctance to give reasons, may I ask whether he does not appreciate that this is contrary to a promise given recently by the Minister that he would take these important committees into his consultation about matters of importance to the committees and to agriculture generally? Surely the membership of these committees is an important...
Mr Arthur Champion: At one roundabout, at least, there is a sign "Give way to traffic coming from the right". Is that experimental, or is it illegal for such notices to be displayed?
Mr Arthur Champion: In view of the evil of this pest, will not the hon. Gentleman try some other method besides those that he has used in the past, and try to ensure that farmers use the preventatives which are available to them?
