Mr Sidney Dye: asked the Minister of Education how many county educational authorities will have completed their school building programme so that secondary modern education is available to all their children for whom it is intended by 1960; and in how many counties their schemes will be incomplete by that date.
Mr Sidney Dye: asked the Minister of Education what effect the recent decision of the Government to retard the reorganisation of education in rural areas will have upon the programme of modern secondary school building in Norfolk.
Mr Sidney Dye: Does not the right hon. Gentleman recognise that deferment of the building of these schools prevents a number of children in that area from having the advantage of secondary education and that a further deferment will create a still worse disadvantage?
Mr Sidney Dye: asked the Minister of Education his estimate of the number of children who will be taught in unreorganised schools in Norfolk when the secondary modern schools, at present being built, are completed; and what proportion this is of the total school population.
Mr Sidney Dye: Does not the Minister recognise that deferment of the building of these schools at this particular time will cause in the future an undue burden to be laid on the local authorities when they have to find the money for these schools out of the block grant?
Mr Sidney Dye: in following the hon. Member for Norfolk, South (Mr. J. E. B. Hill) I am afraid I cannot agree with his plea that the country butchers should be allowed a lower standard of equipment, of hygiene or of anything else than any other butchers in the country. It is amazing that anyone should enter in 1957 a plea that we would be glad to have a lower standard in the country than in any other part...
Mr Sidney Dye: With great respect, the hon. Gentleman mentioned a running water supply and electricity in slaughterhouses. I could have understood his plea if he had said that he wanted running water and electricity in every country district. I want it at any rate, and I will not be satisfied until I get it. It seems to me to be out of date to enter a plea that country butchers should be allowed to carry on...
Mr Sidney Dye: —I thought that he was apologising for the Measure he was bringing in, probably being mindful of the words of Hardy that every shepherd proved a traitor to his croft as he led them to the market on the way to the butcher. The Minister was expected to bring in a Slaughterhouses Bill that would measure up to the needs of the country today. He has not done it, and in that respect he will let...
Mr Sidney Dye: I am anxious that the Minister should guide development along those lines rather than continue with the Present system where the advantage is weighed in favour of going through the auction market. I was somewhat confused by the description of my hon. Friend the Member for Salford. West of the Christian way of slaughtering a bullock, by holding it by a rope around its neck, and of the Jewish...
Mr Sidney Dye: The hon. Gentleman did at that time.
Mr Sidney Dye: Others did.
Mr Sidney Dye: The hon. Member for Winchester (Mr. Smithers)has given me the impression that he represents a somewhat unhappy community having very charming but rather incompetent councillors, men who have not given the time to know their job and carry it out. He has a perverted view of county councillors and the work they undertake. When he criticises the Minister for having, through his officials, gone...
Mr Sidney Dye: With respect, I do not say that the Minister has arrived at a solution yet. Having discussed the problems with representatives of all the associations, he puts his views into a White Paper, places them before Parliament and the public, and then he asks Parliament to discuss them. I agree with the aims and purpose of the Minister in wishing to see British local government improved and brought...
Mr Sidney Dye: If we take the hon. Gentleman's argument, as now stated, that he wants to see all-purpose authorities——
Mr Sidney Dye: —one-tier authorities, of which there would be five, six, seven or maybe eight in Hampshire alone, and that they could then have the qualified staff to be able to manage the highways of Hampshire sectionally in that way on an economic basis, then I think he had better think again or consult someone who knows something about it. I am sure that his hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Mr....
Mr Sidney Dye: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps are being taken to resolve the difficulties facing the trustees of village halls since the judgment in the House of Lords in the Baddeley case some two years ago; and when he expects to reach a solution of this matter.
Mr Sidney Dye: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that many trustees of village halls are frustrated in their efforts to provide accommodation for the village people because of the decision in this case?
Mr Sidney Dye: It is to be regretted that, after discussions with representatives of the employers and workers in agriculture and the manufacturers, there is failure to agree that these Regulations really meet the intention of the Act. The farmers are concerned that there is not an obligation on those who sell the machines to see that in all respects they conform to the Regulations. The workers are...
Mr Sidney Dye: Can the hon. Gentleman give attention to my suggestion that a simple form of the Regulations could be widely circulated, so that they are known on the farms?
Mr Sidney Dye: asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what recommendations he has received from the Norfolk County Council regarding the construction of a new bridge over the River Great Ouse at Downham Market to carry the road A.1122; and what recent reply he has sent to them.