Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Will my hon. Friend confirm that that document has been widely welcomed in Wales and that, as a result of consultations, he expects a considerable improvement in the standard of service to patients to take place in the Principality?
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: My hon. Friend will be aware that there are many large slate tips in the area of Blaenau Ffestiniog. Can he reassure the people who live in that area that those slate tips are safe after the considerable floods that have occurred?
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Can my right hon. Friend say whether any complaints procedure exists whereby the police can make known their justified complaints against the continual harassment of the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher)?
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Has my right hon. and learned Friend had any evidence from the clearing banks of their intention to respond to the call made by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in her recent speech ins. the City that they should exercise social responsibility with their profits? What sort of social responsibility would my right hon. and learned Friend like to see exercised? Can he confirm that, if it...
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Give way.
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Does my hon. Friend agree that many of the prison officers who are taking part in this action are unhappy about it?
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Mr. Tristan Garel-Jones(Watford) rose—
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. As a lamb, I move with some trepidation towards the tigers of the Opposition. The right hon. Gentleman said that at present this country's net contribution to the EEC was the second largest. What was Labour's position during the five years of the previous Government?
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Will my hon. Friend give way?
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: I shall try to follow the example of the hon. Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) and be as brief as I can. The only part of the speech of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Sir R. Bell) with which I agreed is that in the short time available it is difficult to make a serious speech on such an important matter. If the remarks of the hon. Member for West Lothian were...
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: I shall not give way. I hope that my hon. Friend will understand, but another hon. Member wishes to take part in the debate and he has been in the Chamber all day. My hon. Friend is revealed when he plaintively asks "Why cannot we withhold this? The answer is that we depend on other countries. "That is what he does not really like. One of the things that my hon. Friend must learn is that in...
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the proposal is that money should be found in the short term and that the eventual aim is for the body to be self-financing?
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: I want to deal briefly with two aspects of the Bill, particularly as one of my hon. Friends is anxious to take part in the debate and we have very little time available to us. I want to deal with the part of the Bill that makes possible financial provision for British Leyland and also with clause 6, which deals with the Government's response to the Finniston report. My hon. Friend the Member...
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: The hon. Gentleman refers to the fact that if we were to have legislation there would be a debate on the matter on the Floor of the House. I suggest that we have had a debate today and that he and I and other hon. Members have had the opportunity to raise these matters. The hon. Gentleman's criticism is perhaps a little harsh. One criticism that he voiced was that my right hon. Friend had...
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: The Government have been in office for only 18 months.
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Does the right hon. Gentleman approve?
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: Of course, we on this side of the House appreciate how difficult it must be for the right hon. Gentleman, belonging as he does to a party that believes that there is some sort of tablet of stone on which the true faith is written, to see a party operating pragmatically.
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: I do not wish to comment on the speech of the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell) other than to say that I wholeheartedly accept that the non-uniform treatment given to Northern Ireland must give grave offence and cause worry to the people of Northern Ireland. I am delighted that that anomaly is to be removed. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will disagree with me, but, of...
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: No, I shall not quote them because I do not wish to stir up unnecessary controversy. I gathered from the right hon. Gentleman's speech that he does rot believe that the Government are acting improperly.
Mr Tristan Garel-Jones: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention Of course, he is right. In 1969, the main defender on the Floor of the House of the action being taken by the then Horne Secretary was the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale. I accept that the right hon. Gentleman may be naive. Perhaps he did not talk to the doorkeepers, the tea ladies and everyone else who knew what was happening. Perhaps...