Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Supply if he will make a statement on the progress made with the jet-powered research aircraft SC-1 designed for vertical take-off and landing; and whether he will estimate when the results of such research are likely to be incorporated in production models for general use.
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Postmaster-General how many applicants for telephones linked to the Dartford Exchange have yet to be provided with a service; and how long he anticipates it will be before this list can be cleared.
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Postmaster-General at the time at which the sheet of imperforate 2d. stamps recently sold at Dartford escaped perforation, how many other similar sheets also escaped perforation.
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Postmaster-General what steps he has taken to see that the events leading recently to the sale of imperforate stamps from the Dartford Post Office do not recur.
Mr Sydney Irving: Would the Postmaster-General agree that it is not in the public interest that individuals should make huge gains in this way? [HON. MEMBERS: "Why not?" I Would he examine the law to see whether the title of the gentleman concerned is a good one? Would the right hon. Gentleman agree that the action of his Department contributed in some way to the intolerable burden of Press pressure on this...
Mr Sydney Irving: I beg to move, in page 3, line 30. at the end to add: (6) The Board shall on the thirty-first day of December in each year make to the President of the Board a report on the effect of every order made under this section which has been in force during the year to which the report relates and the President shall lay a copy of every such report before each House of Parliament. From this side of...
Mr Sydney Irving: I am much obliged to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for accepting the substance of my Amendment, and I shall be happy to withdraw it on those terms. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.
Mr Sydney Irving: I beg to move, in page 4, line 7, to leave out "three" and to insert "six". As time is running a little short, I will say what I have to say in a couple of sentences. In moving a previous Amendment I conceded that some of the information coming to the Board of Trade must come from the importers claiming relief under Clause 3. To us, three months seems very inflexible, and we therefore...
Mr Sydney Irving: I am very much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman.
Mr Sydney Irving: As the Amendment is the substance of one which I moved in Committee, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for implementing the undertaking which was given. I am sure that this will mean that the whole question of Orders can be kept under review in the Board of Trade, and that hon. Members will have an opportunity to examine them, if they wish, as they arise each year. The provision is very...
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if the gas discovered at Akata in Eastern Nigeria will now be used for generating electricity to supply Aba and Port Harcourt; and to what extent the Government of Nigeria will participate in the exploitation and distribution of the gas.
Mr Sydney Irving: Would not the hon. Gentleman admit that this development would be highly advantageous for the future of this Colony but that it is equally important that in any developments which take place the people and the Government should be associated in the exploitation of these resources? Will he do all that is in his power to see that that takes place?
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if trade unions are now permitted to hold public meetings in Lagos, Nigeria, without licence.
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what concession has been made in the Southern Cameroons to the Estate and Agency Company Limited which is establishing a 4,000-acre tea estate at Ndu, north of Bamenda.
Mr Sydney Irving: Is it not highly unfortunate that in a development of this kind the co-operative movement has been overlooked, because it is the type of development which will give benefits to the people and help to develop them towards independence? Can the right hon. Gentleman not look further into this matter when future concessions are given?
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Health (1) how much additional residential accommodation it is hoped to provide for adult spastic persons in the next two years; (2) how many homes there are for adult spastic persons; and how many there are in residence.
Mr Sydney Irving: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that that was a very disappointing reply indeed? As I know of the very good work that his right hon. Friend did at the Ministry of Education for the handicapped, may I ask him to look at the Question again? May I draw his attention to the case of a constituent of mine, a man named John Pudney, who has spent 46 years of his life in a hospital? Although crippled, he...
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what steps he has taken to ensure that the undertaking given by certain firms not to offer for sale in retail shops tins of Wheatsheaf and other full cream milks, purchased by them from his Department as surplus because of their doubtful age, has been carried out; if he is aware that such tins have been on sale recently in private traders'...
Mr Sydney Irving: Is the Minister aware that one of the firms involved is Messrs. Mence Smith? I understand that there are other firms. Will he consider listing in HANSARD the firms involved in order to protect the public from this abuse?
Mr Sydney Irving: Quite recently an otherwise distinguished headmaster of one of our better-known public schools said, More nonsense is being talked about education than ever before. Do not believe a word said about education unless it is said by those who are practising it, especially not from Members of Parliament. I am sure that we would not claim that we have a monopoly of sense or of nonsense, but I...
