Lady Muriel Gammans: asked the Minister of Agricuture, Fisheries and Food if, in view of the danger to animals and birds, he will introduce legislation to make it an offence to discard nylon fishing line in waters in the United Kingdom.
Lady Muriel Gammans: I thank the Parliamentary Secretary for that reply, but would he bear in mind the tremendous increase and interest in this sport, that evening classes for angling are held even in such urban constituencies as Muswell Hill, and would he watch the situation very carefully?
Lady Muriel Gammans: Now that we have reached the Third Reading of the Bill I wish to say again, speaking for myself and for the Borough of Hornsey, that we welcome the Measure as a whole. We consider that the reform of London Government was long overdue, but I think that the Minister is aware that the majority of the Hornsey Borough Council, and many residents in Hornsey, were very disappointed with the proposal...
Lady Muriel Gammans: That is so, Mr. MacPherson. In moving this Amendment I am only asking that the grouping of Borough No. 31 shall be on the radial north, south pattern and along the natural lines of communication recommended by the Royal Commission and accepted by the Government in 1961. The logic of following the lines of communication was also pointed out by the Minister in the terms of reference to the...
Lady Muriel Gammans: The hon. Member is talking about his part of Enfield and not about my end of the area. Certainly between Hornsey and Tottenham the lines of communication are north and south and definitely not east and west. There are only two roads east and west and both are very narrow and very congested.
Lady Muriel Gammans: It still remains true that the best communications are from south to north, because they run parallel to the railway and the whole point is getting across the railway. There are only two very narrow roads by which this can be done.
Lady Muriel Gammans: My idea of community interest is not so much the sharing of a medical officer of health but community of interest among people living the same kind of lives. As I tried to point out, the two boroughs are really very different in that respect.
Lady Muriel Gammans: I beg to present a Petition from the inhabitants of Highgate and the surrounding area in which they state that the proposal of the Minister of Transport for a one-way lorry route up Highgate Hill would gravely disrupt and disorganise ways of life in the district, and would, in fact, defeat the avowed intention and object of my right hon. Friend, which is to speed the progress of lorries from...
Lady Muriel Gammans: I am glad of the opportunity to take part in a debate on this important Measure which affects so many people and will have such far-reaching effects on all sections of the community. As a member of the Home Safety Committee, I have made a special study of the problems connected with personal safety and there are one or two points in Clause 1 concerning chiefly safety measures which I should...
Lady Muriel Gammans: I am glad to have the opportunity to support the Bill, especially as it affects the welfare and safety of young people. I shall confine the few words I say to Clause 1. I think that most of us are disturbed about the amount of violence in these days, especially when weapons of all sorts are used. Many people have attributed that violence to the bad influence of films and television, but I...
Lady Muriel Gammans: I, too, am very glad to have this opportunity of saying a few words in support of this Motion. This is a subject which is above party politics. It is something which all of us, on both sides of the House, have very much at heart. As my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden (Mr. Matthews) has said, most of us will one day be old, and most of us have either elderly relatives or friends, and we all...
Lady Muriel Gammans: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will now include sufferers from multiple sclerosis in the categories of those eligible for post-war credits, in view of the short span of life left to many of them.
Lady Muriel Gammans: I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for that reply. Will he continue to bear in mind that it is now, and not at some time in the future, that these unfortunate people need their post-war credits?
Lady Muriel Gammans: May I ask whether there is a possibility of having a debate in the near future on the Report of the Royal Commission on Population? It was published in 1949, and I think that there has been no debate on it since then.
Lady Muriel Gammans: I am glad to have the opportunity of speaking briefly in the debate. I, too, am convinced, as are most other hon. Members, that excessive noise has a tremendous impact on human beings. There is much new noise nowadays which we have not yet fully measured. We do not yet fully know about its effect on human beings and the human nervous system. When, as we so often do, we consider the great...
Lady Muriel Gammans: asked the Postmaster-General if he will supply cheaper telephones to old-age pensioners living alone, to whom the use of a telephone is essential on medical grounds.
Lady Muriel Gammans: While thanking my right hon. Friend for that reply, may I ask whether he is not aware that many old people regard the telephone as their only means of calling the doctor when they are living alone? Will he look more sympathetically on this vital matter to old people?
Lady Muriel Gammans: asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will consider introducing further legislation to abate the nuisance caused by excessive noise from motor cars, motor cycles, and motor scooters.
Lady Muriel Gammans: While thanking the Parliamentary Secretary for that reply, may I ask whether he is aware that incessant noise has a very bad effect on people suffering from nervous disorders and mental disabilities and whether he will do all in his power as quickly as possible to abate as much noise as possible?
Lady Muriel Gammans: asked the Chancel for of the Duchy of Lancaster, having in mind the amount of literature poured into India and other Asiatic countries by Communist countries, so cheaply that it qualifies as propaganda, what is being done in a comparable way by this country.
