Results 81–100 of 796 for speaker:Mr Tom Litterick

Orders of the Day — Mental Health (Amendment) Bill ( 2 Feb 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: I take great pleasure in welcoming this Bill, as other Members of this House have done. As with the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Hodgson), my principal reason for doing so is that the Bill gives the House yet another opportunity to communicate to the public the difficult, sensitive subject of mental health and mental ill health, in an attempt to come to grips with the numerous social...

Orders of the Day — Mental Health (Amendment) Bill ( 2 Feb 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: I agree wholly with the hon. Gentleman. I think, too, that the effectiveness of clause 1 of the Bill is almost entirely dependent on whether society provides facilities outside hospitals. If there is no significant change from present policies—I am talking about the policies followed by the State and those followed by the various local authorities—clause 1 will be virtually inoperable,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Industry (Government Assistance) ( 1 Feb 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Treasury has estimated that British Exchequer net expenditure in Northern Ireland now exceeds £1,000 million a year? The House knows in considerable detail the pattern of civil expenditure in Northern Ireland, but it knows nothing of the amount of military expenditure. Will he undertake to give the House the necessary information which will enable hon....

Oral Answers to Questions: Inner City Areas (Development) (31 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: What, in my right hon. Friend's opinion, is the effect of the sharp drop in the availability of building society funds for the financing of home improvements in inner urban areas, despite the fact that the level of public spending for that purpose has been maintained?

Oral Answers to Questions: Inner City Areas (Development) (31 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Not according to the Home Improvement Council.

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services: Birmingham (30 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Does my right hon. Friend agree that among the large urban areas of the country, the social services provided by the Conservative council of the city of Birmingham are among the most backward and inadequate? Will he confirm that the level of facilities for the care of the mentally handicapped and the mentally ill in Birmingham is worse than in any other urban area in Britain?

Essential Supplies and Services (26 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Does the Secretary of State appreciate the irony of this morning's parliamentary proceedings? He is obliged to come to the Dispatch Box to deplore the industrial and economic consequences of three years of wages policy—which, by the way, the Labour Party repudiated in 1974—while the Conservatives whine about the industrial and economic consequences of a short, sharp bout of free...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Official Secrets Act (25 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received on the White Paper on the reform of the Official Secrets Act.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Official Secrets Act (25 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: I am grateful for that answer. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the House last Friday demonstrated that there is a wide measure of agreement that the Official Secrets Act must be reformed radically and soon? Will he give the House some assurance that in Committee his Department will not play ducks and drakes with the Bill of the hon. Member for Isle of Ely (Mr. Freud) in defence of an...

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham (25 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Will the Secretary of State accept that the factual part of his statement will be appreciated by his hon. Friends, being in sharp contrast to the hysterical ignorance of Conservative Members? Will he also accept that this and other events point, evermore dramatically, to the fact that the House, the Treasury and the people can no longer expect a first-class Health Service for poverty wages?

Business of the House (25 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Has my right hon. Friend's attention been drawn to early-day motion 188, which draws the attention of the House to the proposed destruction of the Hillingdon law centre by the local council? [That this House deplores the decision of the Hillingdon local authority to terminateall financial support to the Hillingdon Community Law Centre from 1 April 1979; and calls upon Her Majesty's...

Picketing (25 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am aware that you are most anxious that all hon. Members should feel that they receive equal treatment at your hands and those of your deputies. However, will you give the House some assurance that, on all future occasions when a ministerial statement is made, you and your deputies will give preference to hon. Members who heard the statement?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Coaches (Safety Provisions) (24 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Has not the time come when we must have a system of official safety vetting and certification of all new motor vehicles, whether they be lorries, buses or private cars, along the same lines as we have for aircraft and pharmaceuticals, for example? Would not this be of great benefit to the public?

Food Supplies (22 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Will my right hon. Friend accept the compliments of Labour Members for the balanced restraint of his statement? Does he agree that one major reason why adequate supplies of foods are in the shops is that the vast majority of people have refused to be stampeded by the words and behaviour of the party led by the Finchley hoarder?

Orders of the Day — Industrial Situation (22 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that matter?

Industrial Disputes (19 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Has the Secretary of State heard the story of the Conservative MP who went on the radio in Southampton to announce to a no doubt startled population that there was no cattle feed to be had for miles around and that all supplies had been cut off by the damnable strikers? A short time later it transpired—

Industrial Disputes (19 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: I began by saying "Has the Secretary of State heard the story". May I now relate the story to the Secretary of State?

Industrial Disputes (19 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: It is a wee story. Immediately it transpired that there was no shortage because no constraint on the supply of cattle feed from the port of Southampton was being exerted by the strikers. The hon. Member had to withdraw his statement on the radio because the union members said that if he did not withdraw his filthy imputation they would stop supplies. Does not that illustrate the blind hatred...

Orders of the Day — Official Information Bill (19 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: Is not the argument of the hon. Member for Thanet, East (Mr. Aitken) that if one knows what the civil servants are doing and the quality of their work—as the Home Secretary must know—one can make a judgment? But if one does not know, one has nothing to go on. As a result, myths develop. We should not blame the public or the newspapers for erecting archetypes or caricatures of civil...

Orders of the Day — Official Information Bill (19 Jan 1979)

Mr Tom Litterick: I have great pleasure in supporting the Bill. It resembles in most respects a Bill which I brought forward almost two years ago. The hon. Member for Isle of Ely (Mr. Freud) will be interested, if not slightly embarrassed, to learn that it is the fourth Bill of its kind to be brought before the House. The preceding three were introduced by Members of the Tribune group. Before the man from The...


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