Results 141–160 of 2083 for speaker:Mr Maurice Macmillan

Orders of the Day — International Development Association Bill: New Clause. — (Annual Report and Accounts.) (11 Feb 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I very much regret that I do not think it possible to accept the proposed new Clause, for it would not work in practice. I see the point behind it; that there should be occasions for Parliament to debate and be given detailed information to debate this subject. However, my hon. Friend the Member for York (Mr. Longbottom) summed it up when he said that the new Clause would not be practicable....

Orders of the Day — International Development Association Bill: New Clause. — (Annual Report and Accounts.) (11 Feb 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I cannot agree to that course at the moment, but I undertake to see what can be done about it. The real point is that the House of Commons should have a debate on aid from time to time at suitable intervals. As I have suggested, there are opportunities when the various accounts are laid before Parliament, and there has been a White Paper. The remainder of the hon. Member's complaint was that...

Orders of the Day — International Development Association Bill: New Clause. — (Annual Report and Accounts.) (11 Feb 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I have little to add to the long debate on some aspects of aid policy which we have had in the course of this small Bill. The criticisms have been not of the I.D.A. but of the Government. Broadly speaking, right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite think that our aid has been too small and ought to be multiplied by about seven, whether other people do anything to contribute or not. The hon. Lady...

Orders of the Day — War Damage Bill (12 Feb 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill is, I hope, non-controversial although somewhat technical. Its only object is to wind up the scheme of compensation for war damage which was introduced during the Second World War. It also transfers most of the remaining administrative responsibilities for this scheme to the Inland Revenue Department in order to effect...

Orders of the Day — War Damage Bill: Clause 4. — (Land Held for Charitable Purposes.) (20 Feb 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I should say a few words about Clause 4, which applies the four-year limit to claims in respect of war damaged churches and other properties held for charitable purposes. I assure the Committee that there will be no difficulty in implementing the Clause. Certainly the Churches Main Committee, which in this matter represents virtually all the main religious bodies in the country, has not...

Orders of the Day — War Damage Bill: Clause 8. — (Winding Up of Unclaimed Balances Account.) (20 Feb 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I have nothing to add except to thank the House and the right hon. and learned Member for Newport (Sir. F. Soskice) for their help in the speedy passage of this useful Measure. I am glad to have been able to reassure the House that the rights of the individual have been safeguarded and that the administration will be smooth enough to...

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Cigars and Pipe Tobaccos (Duty) (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I will note this suggestion, but my right hon. Friend's predecessor explained in his Budget speech on 9th April, 1962, the practical difficulties in the way of adopting it.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Cigars and Pipe Tobaccos (Duty) (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I do not think that this is primarily a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer but rather for the Minister of Health on the general question of cigarette smoking. On the question of a differential, the experience of Denmark is that the higher tax on cigarettes has been imposed for the purposes of raising revenue and has been successful in doing this just because it has not resulted in...

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Cigars and Pipe Tobaccos (Duty) (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I am happy to think so. But I think, on the contrary, that it shows the success of Conservative economic policy that even rising taxation will not discourage people, who have enough money, from spending it on cigarettes.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Motor Vehicle Duty (Lorries) (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: There has been a 20 per cent. increase in motor vehicle duty since 1933 in each of the instances mentioned. In the same period the retail price index has risen about three and a half times. If the rates of duty had risen by the same proportion, the current rate would have been £57 10s. higher than at present for a 2-ton lorry; £161 higher for a 5-ton lorry, and £391 higher for a 10-ton...

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Motor Vehicle Duty (Lorries) (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: It is extremely difficult to deduce from these figures the precise effect on the congestion on the roads. The right hon. Gentleman is doubtless aware of the studies being made of this subject, and it is primarily a matter for my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport. The right hon. Gentleman will not expect me at this time of year to comment on rates of duty.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Motor Vehicle Duty (Lorries) (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I think it is fair to say that a t this time we are pondering on these figures and on other similar figures almost to the exclusion of everything else.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: "The Perfumed Garden" (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: For many years this book was liable to be seized by Customs officers as obscene on the instructions of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise. Four copies have been seized in the last two years. After the book was published in this country revised instructions were sent to Customs officers early in February. Before the instructions arrived one further copy of a British edition was detained...

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: "The Perfumed Garden" (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I deeply regret that it should have been the hon. and learned Gentleman who was inconvenienced in this way. [HON. MEMBERS: "Why?"] I said in my original reply that the further copy was seized by mistake. This situation arose from a slight difference in definition between the duty imposed upon the Customs under the Customs Consolidation Act and the Customs and Excise Act, 1952, and the...

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Undated Government Stocks (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I have considered this matter with sympathy and care. I have examined a number of different suggestions for special action to benefit people in various categories who have experienced a fall in the capital value of their holdings of these stocks. It is with great reluctance that I have had to conclude that the objections to all of them are overriding.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Undated Government Stocks (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: The difficulty in doing something about it is that it is almost impossible to do so without creating a worse anomaly than the one we are removing, or being unfair to other people who have attempted to resolve this problem themselves, or without stirring up for the future a worse evil than the one it is attempted to remove at present.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Undated Government Stocks (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: I said that I had examined different suggestions for special action to help people in various categories. Those I examined included one which I had supported in the past. It was examination with somewhat fuller information than I had as a back bencher that made it quite clear to me that, deeply as I regretted it, whatever one did the situation was likely to be made worse rather than better.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Public Works Loan Board (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: No, Sir; the rate was in fact increased to 6⅛ per cent. on 14th March.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Public Works Loan Board (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: On the first part of the supplementary question, I think that the effect o changes of this kind when taken in one isolated instance like that can be exaggerated. Most of the big local authorities consolidate their borrowing and the immediate effect is not as great as all that. Secondly, as the hon. Gentle man himself suggested, under the new arrangements local authorities may borrow up to...

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Public Works Loan Board (17 Mar 1964)

Mr Maurice Macmillan: The Alliance Building Society has not, as far as I am aware, increased its rate. Movement in the Public Works Loan Board rate is adjusted to the local authority market rate which, as the hon. Member suggested, is affected by interest rates generally. The local authorities, under the new arrangements, are enabled to borrow a proportion of their long-term requirements at the lower rate.


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