Results 1–20 of 110 for speaker:Mr Herbert Spencer

Orders of the Day — King's Speech.: Safeguarding of Industries Act. ( 4 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: As a new Member, I should hardly have intervened in this Debate were it not that I have some little knowledge of the textile trade and because I wish in particular to take up the statement of the President of the Board of Trade as to the colour users being in favour of the Dyestuffs Act. The right hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Salford (Lieut.-Commander Astbury) said that the colour...

Orders of the Day — King's Speech.: Safeguarding of Industries Act. ( 4 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: It was resolved further on the same date That in view of the fact that it is now over two yean? since the victorious termination of the War, this association declares that it is time the dyeing trade withdrew its declaration that it can take no risk on goods which arise from looseness or fading of colour and that the trade should now undertake to give a standard of dye equal to pre-War. The...

Orders of the Day — King's Speech.: Safeguarding of Industries Act. ( 4 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: They may do. I do not want to talk soley about my own trade. I began to talk about the trade of my own town. I will talk now of my own business, if I may. Three years ago I sent away £2,000 worth of printed delaine. It is a ladies' fabric made of Australian wool, spun, woven, and printed in the Bradford district. It is a cloth in which we have always had the keenest competition with the...

Orders of the Day — King's Speech.: Safeguarding of Industries Act. ( 4 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: On a point of Order. In my speech I showed that that had happened.

Orders of the Day — King's Speech.: Safeguarding of Industries Act. ( 4 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: No, in Bradford.

Orders of the Day — King's Speech.: Trade Facilities and Loans Guarantee [Money.] ( 4 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: As a new Member may I ask whether we have to address you, Mr. Chairman, or other Members?

Safeguarding of Industries Act, 1921. ( 6 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: Do we understand that a factory employing 600 people lost £180,000 in one year's trading?

Safeguarding of Industries Act, 1921. ( 6 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: Can the hon. Baronet tell us how many people were employed by the group of factories which lost £180,000?

Safeguarding of Industries Act, 1921. ( 6 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: Then they lost about £200 per head.

Safeguarding of Industries Act, 1921. ( 6 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: I will give a homely parallel to the hon. Baronet the Member for Central Wandsworth (Sir J. Norton-Griffiths) who has been pleading the cause of some 4,000 girls who are employed making gas mantles. I have the honour to represent, I suppose, between 15,000 and 16,000 girls who make their living by weaving textiles for which work you want a good light. I could take the hon. Baronet to a...

Safeguarding of Industries Act, 1921. ( 6 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: I will not pursue that argument. I want to make this point, which I think shows the very worst side of this Order, and it is that the whole level of our industrial and commercial legislation is lowered, and it is lowered by each Member thinking that he must look after the trade of his own constituency. I do not want to set myself up as better than anybody else, but I do want to make this...

Safeguarding of Industries Act, 1921. ( 6 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: The hon. Gentleman must remember he is not dealing with gas mantles in the seclusion of his own study.

Orders of the Day — Civil Services Supplementary Estimates, 1922–23.: Army Supplementary Estimate, 1922–23. (12 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: Is not that an error of judgment, Mr. Speaker— [HON. MEMBERS: "Order, Order"]— Does not this paragraph deal with salaries also, and was not the hon. Gentleman dealing with salaries when he was E topped?

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill.: Mining Industry (Conditions and Wages). (13 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: Does the hon. Member suggest that the royalties should go to the trade or to the nation?

Reparations and Inter-Allied Debts.: Deut to United) States. (14 Dec 1922)

Mr Herbert Spencer: Because of the cost of her preparations for war.

Oral Answers to Questions — Ex-Service Men.: Land Settlement. ( 5 Mar 1923)

Mr Herbert Spencer: Can the right hon. Gentleman consider relieving these smallholders of rates on improvements?

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce.: Coast Erosions, Millom. (13 Mar 1923)

Mr Herbert Spencer: Has not very very serious damage been done, especially in Lincolnshire, since the Royal Commission sat, and is not that sufficient reason for reconsidering the matter?

Oral Answers to Questions — Housing.: State-Aided Houses (Average Age). (14 Mar 1923)

Mr Herbert Spencer: What is the estimated loss on each house?

Oral Answers to Questions — National Health Insurance.: Small-Pox. (14 Mar 1923)

Mr Herbert Spencer: Are we to understand that the report is not available for the council or councils interested in the cases?

Oral Answers to Questions — Russia.: British Trade. (19 Mar 1923)

Mr Herbert Spencer: In view of the fact that Socialism has completely broken down in Russia—


1 2 3 4 5 6 > >>

Create an alert

Advanced search

Find this exact word or phrase

You can also do this from the main search box by putting exact words in quotes: like "cycling" or "hutton report"

By default, we show words related to your search term, like “cycle” and “cycles” in a search for cycling. Putting the word in quotes, like "cycling", will stop this.

Excluding these words

You can also do this from the main search box by putting a minus sign before words you don’t want: like hunting -fox

We also support a bunch of boolean search modifiers, like AND and NEAR, for precise searching.

Date range

to

You can give a start date, an end date, or both to restrict results to a particular date range. A missing end date implies the current date, and a missing start date implies the oldest date we have in the system. Dates can be entered in any format you wish, e.g. 3rd March 2007 or 17/10/1989

Person

Enter a name here to restrict results to contributions only by that person.

Section

Restrict results to a particular parliament or assembly that we cover (e.g. the Scottish Parliament), or a particular type of data within an institution, such as Commons Written Answers.

Column

If you know the actual Hansard column number of the information you are interested in (perhaps you’re looking up a paper reference), you can restrict results to that; you can also use column:123 in the main search box.