Results 1–20 of 599 for speaker:Mr George Bowyer

Class Ii.: Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. (22 Feb 1937)

Mr George Bowyer: I was just about to stop the hon. Member. While he is in order in just touching on that matter, he must not develop it.

Class Ii.: Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. (22 Feb 1937)

Mr George Bowyer: I am sure the hon. Baronet will confine himself to what he said he was going to do and will not go any further than that.

Class Ii.: Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. (22 Feb 1937)

Mr George Bowyer: This is quite clearly a Supplementary Estimate, and it is not in order to discuss what comes within the four corners of the original Estimate but only what is dealt with in the increased sum that is being asked for to-day.

Class Ii.: Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. (22 Feb 1937)

Mr George Bowyer: The hon. Baronet should be able, in a sentence or two, to make a point of that nature, but he should certainly not attempt to go into any details.

Class Ii.: Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. (22 Feb 1937)

Mr George Bowyer: The hon. Baronet should not go into the whole of the history of the matter.

Class Ii.: Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. (22 Feb 1937)

Mr George Bowyer: We are dealing now with the Supplementary Estimate and not the original Estimate, and it is only in so far as hon. Members want to refer to the extra money now required that they can raise this matter in the Debate to-day.

Class Ii.: Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. (22 Feb 1937)

Mr George Bowyer: Hon. Members will agree that nothing should be said which would interfere with, or might make more difficult, the work of the Coin-mission, and I am sure that all hon. Members will carry that out in any speeches they may make.

Class Ii.: Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. (22 Feb 1937)

Mr George Bowyer: I should have stopped the Noble Lord. I only wanted to hear the end of his sentence. I thought he was referring to it only in a sentence in passing.

Class Ii.: Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. (22 Feb 1937)

Mr George Bowyer: I was allowing the right hon. and gallant Gentleman only just enough time to answer the Noble Lord.

Orders of the Day — Ways and Means. (15 Dec 1936)

Mr George Bowyer: The hon. Gentleman promised when he started his speech that he would keep within the terms of the Motion which the Committee is discussing. I must remind him that this is not a discussion upon the Argentine Agreement and that he must keep within the Ruling of the Chair and the discussion of the terms of the Motion.

Orders of the Day — Ways and Means. (15 Dec 1936)

Mr George Bowyer: It would be just as well if I made it quite clear that the money to be raised goes into the Consolidated Fund.

Expenses of Members of Certain Local Authorities. ( 2 Dec 1936)

Mr George Bowyer: I rise for the main purpose of trying to make as clear as I can what I believe to be the position of the Urban District Councils Association, of which I have had the privilege of being President for the last 10 or 12 years. The Mover of the Motion referred to the Urban District Councils Association, and I think that he specifically drew the attention of the House to the difference between...

Expenses of Members of Certain Local Authorities. ( 2 Dec 1936)

Mr George Bowyer: The hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) shakes his head. Perhaps he will correct me.

Expenses of Members of Certain Local Authorities. ( 2 Dec 1936)

Mr George Bowyer: I am much obliged to the hon. Member, because I know what a vast experience he has had in local government. I do know, by the authority of the headquarters of the Urban District Councils Association, that anomalies exist in the counties and among local authorities. The plea that I have to make to the Parliamentary Secretary is that, whatever reply he may give to the Motion and the very...

Expenses of Members of Certain Local Authorities. ( 2 Dec 1936)

Mr George Bowyer: I do not want to correct or deny anything that the hon. Member opposite has said, but only to say, as I said before, that the request which is being put forward to-day, and which has been put forward for many weeks past, by the Urban District Councils Association, has been definitely limited to travelling expenses.

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture.: Statistics. (17 Jul 1935)

Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend hopes to publish the provisional statement of returns of agricultural employment, of crop acreages and of the numbers of livestock in England and Wales during the first week in August. As regards the second part of the question, he will consult with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and will communicate with my hon. Friend.

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture.: Statistics. (17 Jul 1935)

Mr George Bowyer: I will find out, as I am not certain.

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture.: Milk Marketing Boards (Newspaper Advertisements). (17 Jul 1935)

Mr George Bowyer: Under Section 11 of the Milk Act, 1934, half of the expenditure incurred by Milk Marketing Boards for a period of two years in carrying out approved arrangements for increasing the demand for milk, including the Milk-in-Schools Scheme, is met by grants from the Exchequer. Parliament provided £1 million for this purpose. My right hon. Friend has consulted with my right hon. Friend the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture.: Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act. (17 Jul 1935)

Mr George Bowyer: The amendment suggested would involve legislation which my right hon. Friend does not regard as practicable at the present time. I would remind my hon. Friend that while the Government decided, for reasons of economy, not to put the Act in question into operation, financial assistance to extend the cultivation of allotments is being provided through grants from the Commissioner for Special...

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture.: Don Drainage Scheme. (17 Jul 1935)

Mr George Bowyer: Work is proceeding in connection with the improvement of the Lower Don. My right hon. Friend understands that three excavators are now at work and that a fourth will be added during August. Difficult questions have, however, arisen as to the best method of dealing with the outfall of the Don into the Ouse having regard to navigation interests, and the Catchment Board are obtaining further...


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