Results 1–20 of 2693 for speaker:Mr Sydney Irving

Backward Children (Education) (20 Jul 1955)

Mr Sydney Irving: In making this, my first speech in the House, I ought to explain the perhaps unusual course I have adopted in applying for the Adjournment debate. It is because the best counsel I could secure could not assure me that there would be a debate on education before the House rises for the Summer Recess. As this subject of backward children is, I believe, a highly important and urgent one, I felt...

Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government: Derating (25 Oct 1955)

Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will now repeal Section 68 of the Local Government Act, 1929, in so far as it relates to derating.

Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government: Reform (25 Oct 1955)

Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will make a statement on his discussions with the local authorities associations on the reform of local government.

Orders of the Day — Clean Air Bill ( 3 Nov 1955)

Mr Sydney Irving: I would first apologise to the House for taking up its time by further considering the matter already raised by the hon. Member for Gravesend (Mr. Kirk), but it is a measure of the intensity of the public feeling on the matter that I do so. The Parliamentary Secretary mentioned the public conscience. The public conscience in north-west Kent has been so stirred that there is such an intensity...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Maladjusted Children (Committee's Report) ( 1 Mar 1956)

Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Education (1) if he will give an estimate of the cost of the implementation, in their entirety, of the recommendations of the Departmental Committee's Report on maladjusted children; (2) what steps he proposes to take to secure the implementation of the recommendations of the Departmental Committee's Report on maladjusted children.

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Maladjusted Children (Committee's Report) ( 1 Mar 1956)

Mr Sydney Irving: While thanking the hon. Member for that Answer, may I ask him, in view of the fact that a number of the recommendations are already being implemented by progressive authorities, whether he will urge on less progressive authorities the adoption of these recommendations?

Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government: Councillors (Voting Rights) (19 Mar 1956)

Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he is aware of the concern which has arisen as a consequence of his ruling that the members of the Dartford Rural District Council who are tenants of council houses were debarred from voting in connection with local council house rents when he gave approval to other members of the same council who are owner-occupiers to vote on the charges...

Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government: Councillors (Voting Rights) (19 Mar 1956)

Mr Sydney Irving: Whilst thanking the hon. Gentleman for that reply, may I ask if he is aware that the degrees of difference in these cases are too subtle for ordinary people to determine, and that all that happens, it appears, is a capricious exercise of the discretion of the Minister, which can only cast doubt on his impartiality in this matter? Will the hon. Gentleman review the whole situation?

Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL: Clause 1. — (Tobacco.) ( 5 Jun 1956)

Mr Sydney Irving: The speech made by the hon. Member who has just spoken will aggravate the already existing fears of the Kent fruit growers that this is just a first step and that this duty may be extended in the future, although I do not think there is any chance of the hon. Member himself arriving at the Treasury to do so in the next twelve months, but neither the statement by the Minister nor the comments...

Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL: Clause 8. — (Relief from Income Tax on Certain Savings Bank Interest.) ( 7 Jun 1956)

Mr Sydney Irving: I should like to say from this side of the Committee that we are very happy that our Birmingham friends have been able to secure some accommodation from the Chancellor. We certainly do not begrudge them that. Notwithstanding that concession which has been made, we must say at the outset that the limit which has been set upon the Chancellor's concession throughout is an arbitrary one, and one...

Public Authorities (Public Relations) ( 8 Jun 1956)

Mr Sydney Irving: The debate has been very interesting. The Motion has been drawn in very wide terms and most hon. Members have taken the fullest advantage of it, as I also hope to do. I ask the forgiveness of hon. Members if I pursue a slightly different course. The problem is to join the sympathies of authority on the one hand and individuals on the other. In our society today, the growth of public...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: School Uniforms (28 Jun 1956)

Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Education what representations have been made to his Department in recent years in regard to the need for a new policy in respect to the supply of school uniforms in schools under his control.

Education (25 Jul 1956)

Mr Sydney Irving: I wish to deal with a section of our children who have for too long been neglected—the 10 per cent. who are classified in this country as handicapped. First, I want to welcome the very considerable emphasis given in the Report this year to the special services and the special educational treatment which have been developed for our handicapped children. There has been a minor revolution in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government: Kent Development Plan (22 Jan 1957)

Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government when he hopes to be able to announce his decision on the Kent Development Plan, Part B.

Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government: Kent Development Plan (22 Jan 1957)

Mr Sydney Irving: Will the Minister bear in mind that this delay is causing great difficulty to planning authorities who want to look ahead in their consideration of submissions for the next review, and will he do his best to speed the matter up?

Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government: Betsham Road, Swanscombe (22 Jan 1957)

Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will now give permission to the Swanscombe Urban District Council to make up Betsham Road, Swanscombe, under the Private Street Works Act, 1875.

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Grammar School Places (24 Jan 1957)

Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education if, in view of the wide disparity in the provision of grammar school places, he will call a conference of local education authorities to secure agreement on a policy for the pooling of places, where necessary, so as to mitigate the worst effects of this lack of uniformity in the provision of grammar school places.

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Grammar School Places (24 Jan 1957)

Mr Sydney Irving: Is the hon. Member aware that his answer will be totally unsatisfactory to many parents throughout the country who believe that a system which provides for grammar school places for one out of every two children in some parts of the country and only one place for every eight or ten children in other parts is not providing equality of opportunity for the children? Will he review the whole of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Intelligence Tests (24 Jan 1957)

Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education if, in view of the increasing divergence of opinion among eminent educational psychologists on the application and validity of intelligence tests, he will ask his Advisory Council to report on the whole question of procedure in the selection for secondary education so that he may then be in a position to offer guidance to local...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Intelligence Tests (24 Jan 1957)

Mr Sydney Irving: Perhaps I am unreasonable in expecting the hon. Gentleman to know anything about intelligence in view of the fact that his previous Ministerial service has been at the Treasury. Is he aware that the report of the Foundation of Educational Research upsets many of our previous ideas on intelligence; that almost every authority at the moment, as part of its selection procedure, uses...


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