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Passenger Transport Vehicles (Construction Order) (21 Dec 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: Can the Minister tell the House how it is that some Army vehicles can negotiate these corners? The "Queen Mary" tank carrier is 60 feet long. How does he reconcile his objection to 30 ft. buses?

Housing (Scotland) (21 Dec 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: Mr. Speaker, this is the season of good will. Can we extend to you, and to all those connected with the House, our good wishes for Christmas? May the New Year bring lasting peace and happiness.

Shipping and Shipbuilding ( 1 Nov 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: May I point out that only half of the river belongs to my hon. Friend? The other belongs to me.

Orders of the Day — New Clause. — (Land used for fairs, circuses, etc.) ( 9 Oct 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: I do not think more can be said in favour of this new Clause. It might however be difficult, with the Clause in its present form, to incorporate it in the Bill, and so I suggest to the Minister that he might give every facility in his power, either in this Bill or in some future instruction, to protect these people and safeguard the interests of showmen. The showman, as we know him to-day, is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Workers' Omnibus Service, London (18 Jul 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he is considering the case submitted to him three years ago and repeated several times since of a large double-decker omnibus and two single omnibuses used daily to take workers from the station to their office, bring them down to their lunch, take them back and take them down again at tea-time; and, as the distance is so small that on most days the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Workers' Omnibus Service, London (18 Jul 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: Is my hon. Friend aware that school children aged from seven to nine walk this distance every day, and walk back for their meals, and that the residents do it also, and that three buses are doing this distance every day, carrying half a dozen people?

Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning Bill (11 Jul 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: What does the right hon. Gentleman mean by "overspill?"

Orders of the Day — Location of Industry ( 7 Jun 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: What was the percentage of unemployed in Liverpool?

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 95. — (Maintenance contributions payable by the Minister in respect of aided schools and special agreement schools.) ( 4 Apr 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: On a point of Order. Are we to be threatened with the political punishment of a Vote of Censure if we fail to record our vote against our conscience? If so, there is no democracy in this Committee.

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 35. — (School attendance orders.) (21 Mar 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: I beg to move, in page 28, line 16, after "directs", to insert: regard being had to the religious beliefs of the parents. So much has been said about the rights of parents in connection with the Bill that one finds it difficult to add anything, because the right hon. Gentleman on more than one occasion has said he is going to look after their rights. In this case a child might not be properly...

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 35. — (School attendance orders.) (21 Mar 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: Having heard what my hon. Friend has said, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 23. — (Appointment and dismissal of teachers in county schools and in auxiliary schools.) (10 Mar 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: On a point of Order, Mr. Williams. How narrowly do you propose to confine the Debate, and will it not be impossible for hon. Members to discuss these Amendments unless they are given full latitude?

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 24. — (General provisions as to religious education in county and in auxiliary schools.) (10 Mar 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: On a point of Order. Is not the hon. Gentlemen misleading the Committee? He has distinctly said on more than one occasion that they have freedom of conscience, to go wherever they choose.

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 24. — (General provisions as to religious education in county and in auxiliary schools.) (10 Mar 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: Christianity is not practised in this country.

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 14. — (Classification of auxiliary schools as controlled schools, aided schools, or special agreement schools.) (25 Feb 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: We have an agreed syllabus in this House with which we open our proceedings every day: I wonder how many Members of this House can remember two lines of that agreed syllabus.

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 14. — (Classification of auxiliary schools as controlled schools, aided schools, or special agreement schools.) (25 Feb 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: On a point of Order. Your predecessor, Mr. Williams, said there would be wide scope for discussion and that we could take into consideration a large number of Amendments, which could all be discussed on the Amendment which has been moved. The majority of us thought that the matters which have been discussed by my hon. and gallant Friend, the Member for Ormskirk (Commander King-Hall) and the...

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 13. — (Restrictions on discontinuance of auxiliary schools by managers and governors.) (24 Feb 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: Is the Minister perfectly satisfied that, if a school be unable to pay its way through no fault of its own, there will, under this Clause, be no pressure of an intimidating nature to get the school into a position in which it cannot be run? It might be that the school would be forced into that position but it would not seek to close of its own volition. Is there any machinery by which that...

Orders of the Day — Education Bill: Clause 14. — (Classification of auxiliary schools as controlled schools, aided schools, or special agreement schools.) (24 Feb 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: Really if the hon. Member knows the mind of any Church he is marvellous.

Oral Answers to Questions — British Army: Sunday Entertainments (22 Feb 1944)

Mr Alfred Denville: Is the Minister aware that all places of entertainment can give any performance, and any variety, they like, so long as there are no charges for admission?

Juvenile Delinquents (Treatment) (17 Dec 1943)

Mr Alfred Denville: It is usual at this time of year, Mr. Speaker, to wish you and your staff and deputies and all concerned a Merry Christmas and, I hope, a peaceful New Year, and may I be permitted to do so?

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