Mr George Isaacs: In view of the locality in which the Borough Employment Exchange is situated, and in view of the results obtained, would not the Minister consider that the staff there are entitled to better accommodation? Secondly, is he able to say how many of these workers have been recruited in the Borough of Westminster?
Mr George Isaacs: I wonder whether in all this process of selection and sorting out, in a scheme which I think will be quite operative, any steps will be taken to change the relation of the Services to the conscientious objector? Is it still intended to go through the process of making him go to the courts? The attitude towards the conscientious objectors has always been sympathetic, but will a little more...
Mr George Isaacs: Mr. Speaker, with your permission and that of the House, I also desire to present a Petition in precisely the same terms as that presented by my hon. Friend the Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish), and for the same reasons that he has expressed.
Mr George Isaacs: Has the Minister contemplated how he can arrange for the institution among employees of a secret ballot on a lockout?
Mr George Isaacs: Can the Minister inform the House whether the hourly earning rates to which he refers are for the standard week and number of hours, or do the figures quoted relate to the number of hours of work and extra hours with overtime?
Mr George Isaacs: Do the figures include overtime payment?
Mr George Isaacs: asked the Minister of Works when he estimates that the new Borough employment exchange will be built; and whether the more centralised location originally chosen for this purpose is to be used.
Mr George Isaacs: I appreciate the information which the right hon. Gentleman has given to me, but I hope that something can be done fairly soon. The old exchange is very inconvenient and is a long way from the real centre of the borough. If the right hon. Gentleman could manage to get it built so that I could lay the foundation stone before I leave this House, I should be glad.
Mr George Isaacs: The right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Kensington, South (Sir P. Spens) has the privilege and pleasure of representing that part of London. I have the same privilege and pleasure of representing Southwark, but they are two completely different Londons, and his experience of his London is very much different from my experience of mine. Nevertheless, there are several points on...
Mr George Isaacs: Many of the new towns are providing work, and many of our young people have applied to the local authorities there, and through the Ministry of Labour offices here. They are anxious to go to the new towns, but there is not enough opportunity for them all. They are willing to go. The right hon. and learned Gentleman was perfectly right when he said that these people will go anywhere to get...
Mr George Isaacs: May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to adhere to his decision, for Londoners—and he knows that I am a Londoner—like this little bit of colour? What is more, this little bit of colour in our streets is of as much value to the forces as the retention of military titles by some people.
Mr George Isaacs: asked the Minister of Health what arrangements he has made for displaying the Fearnley Cup for 1956, awarded to the Stoke Mandeville Hospital by the International Olympic Committee in recognition of its work in promoting amateur sports among the seriously disabled.
Mr George Isaacs: Is not the right hon. Gentleman of the opinion that this is a tribute to the work of the British Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance in pioneering this service over many years, and to Stoke Mandeville and Dr. Guttmann, who have made this possible? Surely such an award, made for the first time to an English-speaking nation and for the first time to disabled persons, is worth more...
Mr George Isaacs: One suggestion which I could make is that the Minister might be good enough to have this trophy placed in the Library so that we can all see it.
Mr George Isaacs: Is the sheriff in such a position that it is impossible by Statute or by decision of this House to give him instructions by means of regulations? Is this matter completely outside the control of Parliament altogether?
Mr George Isaacs: asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation why the work due to begin this autumn on the Elephant and Castle road improvement scheme has been delayed; how long it will be before the programme of operations will begin; and how long it is expected to take to bring the road work to completion.
Mr George Isaacs: I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that Answer, though I cannot agree that there has been no delay. I wish to ask whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware that the delay which has taken place has caused considerable consternation among small shopkeepers in the area, who are frightened that they will be pushed into the back streets and that the multiple shops will take their place? As these...
Mr George Isaacs: asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, in view of the hardship suffered by aged people on pension and others in receipt of National Assistance, and of the recent increases in the price of milk and bread and the higher charges for medical prescriptions, what action he proposes to take to give such people relief.
Mr George Isaacs: While I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that full reply, I would ask him whether he or any of his own personal staff has visited these old people in their homes and heard from them of the misery they are suffering as a result of the inadequacy of their budgets. Is it not possible to do something to help them? Statistics can prove one thing and averages another, but all these people are...
Mr George Isaacs: On a point of order. The Colonial Secretary was looking straight at me when a moment ago he used the word "humbug." Was he suggesting that I said that?
