Mr Denzil Freeth: As my hon. Friend a few minutes ago agreed that if this Measure were to be refused consent by this House, the people who at present wear vestments would go on wearing them, will he not agree that the whole of his last passage, including the interpolation of words, is really a suggestion that the law should be enforced and that those who wear vestments should stop wearing them, rather than a...
Mr Denzil Freeth: rose—
Mr Denzil Freeth: Before my right hon. Friend does consider appointing a Royal Commission—[HON. MEMBERS: "He is not going to."]—before he changes his mind in the coming years as Prime Minister, will he ensure that a Royal Commission is desired by members of the Church of England living in the established provinces of Canterbury and York and not just by people living in the unestablished provinces of Wales,...
Mr Denzil Freeth: Will my right hon. Friend inform the aggrieved person of the decision to grant an ex gratia payment, should that decision be reached, so that the aggrieved person can submit a claim for damages and costs suffered, through my right hon. Friend to the Official Referee, in addition to any information he might submit to the Official Referee?
Mr Denzil Freeth: Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would not the whole question be solved much earlier if there were a little co-operation and coordination between the Front Bench and the back benches opposite?
Mr Denzil Freeth: Is it or is it not a fact that Dr. Rapaport's statistical evidence and conclusions are not accepted by any reputable authority, and that to the best knowledge and belief of my right hon. Friend no harm has come to anybody by drinking water containing up to one part per million of fluoride, whether artificially or naturally present?
Mr Denzil Freeth: I want tonight to raise a question of principle—a question of principle which came to my notice from a particular case. While, on the question of principle, I understand that I am to be answered by my hon. Friend the Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Deparment, I rejoice that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Army is here, because the particular...
Mr Denzil Freeth: Will not my hon. Friend agree that there is a difference between the case where the amount of compensation is going to be decided by the Minister himself and where protracted negotiations, as very often happens, go on, as with the Claims Department of the old War Office, and the case where the matter goes to somebody outside the Department to make a once and for all judgment? One of my...
Mr Denzil Freeth: Will my hon. Friend also undertake to put to the Home Secretary that the whole procedure should be laid out completely and clearly, so that at any stage the aggrieved person or his solicitor knows what is likely to happen and what his rights are?
Mr Denzil Freeth: Would my right hon. Friend agree that the duty upon the hardware in the computer is a relatively small part of the cost to a customer of running a computer, and that the important thing is the standard of programming and servicing?
Mr Denzil Freeth: Is it not a fact that, until 1955, virtually none of the corned beef consumed in this country was cooled in chlorinated water, and virtually no outbreaks of typhoid on a serious scale occurred?
Mr Denzil Freeth: I wish to thank my right hon. Friend for so fully—indeed, more than fully—fulfilling the promise made by the Under-Secretary in our discussions in Committee. I must confess to him and to the House that in the list of Amendments I received a few days ago new Clause 1 was missing. For that reason I put down to the Government Amendment No. 24, to Clause 6, page 5, line 1, an Amendment to...
Mr Denzil Freeth: I think that this is the best part of a loaf I have been able to vote for. Therefore, I am thankful that I have now received it.
Mr Denzil Freeth: I wish once again to support my right hon. Friend on this new Clause although in Standing Committee I did not actually ask him to introduce such a Clause. I take very great issue with the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey) when he suggests that the same principle as regards free entry should be upheld in the case of museums—as it is upheld in the Bill generally—as in the case...
Mr Denzil Freeth: I should like to leave the point raised by the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Sir B. Stress) and return to some of the points made by the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Boyden) in moving the Amendment. The more I think about the Amendment the less I feel in favour of its inclusion. We are now discussing the subjects upon which the two National Advisory Councils are to advise...
Mr Denzil Freeth: I did not mean to interrupt the hon. Gentleman in mid-sentence, but since I have done so may I say this. My point was not that it was wrong or undesirable for students to use the public library, but that it was undesirable that we should put on the public library the primary responsibility of providing facilities for them.
Mr Denzil Freeth: I echo the words of the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Sir B. Stross).
Mr Denzil Freeth: No, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I rise to intervene in the debate. I thank my right hon. Friend for fully fulfilling the promises he made in Standing Committee. I am grateful to him for insisting on consultation, for stating that the Secretary of State must take account of any likely changes in the population or area and I agree that this is a concise form of phraseology. I like the phrase "relevant...
Mr Denzil Freeth: Any matter which the Secretary of State would consider relevant.
Mr Denzil Freeth: Even more important, it will mean that urban district councils and borough councils will be able to submit to scrutiny every point they have in mind which is related to the provision of library facilities.
