Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Education the sums submitted to him by the Kent Education Committee for the building of primary and secondary schools, respectively, in the next two years; and the amounts he has approved.
Mr Sydney Irving: Do not these figures make nonsense of the statement last week by the Parliamentary Secretary that the White Paper proposals were fundamentally sound? Here is a county which states its minimum requirements—it is a county not given to rashness, but its requirements have been cut by almost half—and a county which does not believe that the White Paper proposals will allow it to achieve its...
Mr Sydney Irving: This is not the only school of this kind in my constituency and it is certainly not the worst.
Mr Sydney Irving: Would the hon. Gentleman say what has been approved in total for the country?
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will arrange for the balance of the Public Works Loan Board's outstanding debt to be used as the nucleus of the capital from which the Board could continuously re-lend while at the same time allowing the Board greater freedom in its lending policy.
Mr Sydney Irving: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it is increasingly urgent to help efficient local authorities who should have greater access to funds at rates of interest more in keeping with the needs of the services they have to undertake? Will he find means to provide greater stability for local government finance, so that they can get away from the tremendous amount of short-term debt being built...
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what workshop equipment is provided for the use of engineers employed by the Customs and Excise Department on the maintenance of their launches at Gravesend; what was the cost to the Customs and Excise Department of repairs, overhauls and other work carried out by contractors on these launches for the year ended 31st March, 1959; and whether, in the...
Mr Sydney Irving: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that that view is not shared by many of the people who know this unit? Is it not totally uneconomic to have men who are qualified and capable of doing the job if they had the tools and at the same time involve the Exchequer in large sums by way of contracts?
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what reply has been given to the request made to him by the National Council of the British Association of Pig Producers for a review of agricultural policy.
Mr Sydney Irving: Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that the December figures show the pig population to be down by 3 per cent., and by 10 per cent. on the figures for a year ago, and that the deep concern that has led the National Council of the British Association of Pig Producers to move a motion of no confidence in the Government means that unless the Government do something very quickly there...
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance why the retirement pension of Mrs. Lilian Purcell was immediately reduced to 10s. per week on her transfer from Holywell Home to the Gravesend Hospital in December, 1958.
Mr Sydney Irving: 1s the right hon. Lady aware that Mr. Purcell, a retired man of limited means, paid the whole of the cost of maintenance, £6 3s. 8d. per week, while his wife was at Holywell Home? Does the right hon. Lady think that it is in this spirit or in these circumstances that the regulation was intended to be applied? Will she not agree that there is a case of hardship here and undertake to look at...
Mr Sydney Irving: Will the Minister bring into his consultations the Smaller Library Group of the Library Association, which represents practically the whole of the smaller authorities likely to be affected by this legislation?
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the site at the junction of Old Street and City Road has yet been acquired for use by the proposed Covent Garden Market Authority.
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Minister for Science, what reports he has had made to him recently on progress in the understanding of chromosome behaviour in relation to human abnormalities; and if he will make a statement.
Mr Sydney Irving: Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the House will be very glad to hear of the success of this tremendously important research, particularly with its bearing on the great human tragedy which we call Mongolism? Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman believe that this is the first step on a road which will, we hope, some day lead to the prevention of Mongol births? Is he...
Mr Sydney Irving: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance is given to the Metropolitan Police about publicity in the early stages of murder cases before the apprehension of a murderer.
Mr Sydney Irving: Would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that, as in a number of recent: cases there has been a great deal of publicity, with photographs of people likely to be chief witnesses, this might constitute danger to those witnesses and not be in the public interest because it might deter other witnesses coming forward, as in the Birmingham case? This is particularly undesirable where children are...
Mr Sydney Irving: This is the first occasion when it has fallen to my lot to follow a maiden speaker, and I can say with great sincerity that it is no mere formality on this occasion to be able to compliment the hon. Lady the Member for Renfrew, East (Miss Harvie Anderson) on what I believe was one of the most fluent and most convincing maiden speeches made in the House for a very long time. She brought to the...
Mr Sydney Irving: What interests are being consulted in the consideration of the level of tolls, what user interests and what local authorities?
