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Ministerial Statements (Notice) ( 7 Jul 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: I welcome the announcement you have made, Mr. Speaker, and would like to add one plea. I hope that your statement and this development will not lead to a multiplicity of Private Notice Questions, thereby transgressing on the normal time of the House.

Oral Answers to Questions — South-East Asia (30 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: However much hon. Members opposite may wish to jar the elbow of the Leader of the Opposition, will my right hon. Friend undertake that he will not have his elbow jarred in this matter and will continue to support friends?

Oral Answers to Questions — Developing Countries (Commonwealth Preference) (25 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Would my right hon. Friend agree that one of the greatest services which we could perform on behalf of the developing countries would be to come to an agreement within the Commonwealth as a basis for the stabilisation of commodity prices?

Private Business: London County Council (Money) Bill (16 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: On a point of order. I cannot find any reference to these Bills on the Order Paper, Mr. Speaker. Is this an error of omission or just a plain mistake?

Private Business: London County Council (Money) Bill (16 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: In that case, Mr. Speaker, is the matter in order if the Bills have not appeared on the Order Paper?

Oral Answers to Questions — Libya (Military Establishments) (15 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Does the existence of these bases make any cash contribution to the Libyan economy?

Oral Answers to Questions — Congo (Army Transport) (15 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Are the contributions in dollars or £s sterling? Do we have to pay across the exchange?

Oral Answers to Questions — Europe (United Kingdom Forces) (15 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Will my right hon. Friend give an undertaking that, whatever this commitment may be, it will not be our prime call if we find that we need troops for the Far East and places such as Malaysia?

Oral Answers to Questions — Israel (15 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: In this field of implacable attacks on various countries, is my hon. Friend aware that, whatever words might be used about Israel, the fact is that Egypt is attacking and invading the Yemen? What action is being taken to implement the United Nations resolution on this matter?

Oral Answers to Questions — Industry, Trade and Regional Development: Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Meeting (11 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that some of us would have been quite happy to have seen a package deal done and to see that both Northern and Southern Rhodesia were invited, but since it was not possible, may I ask whether that will not make it impossible to make different approaches to Northern Rhodesia and the other colonial countries waiting in the queue to become independent?

Oral Answers to Questions — Industry, Trade and Regional Development: Strategic Embargo List (11 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: With reference to the whole field of expanding exports, can my right hon. and learned Friend give an undertaking that nothing will be done to curb British exports to Spain?

Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Defence: Conventional Ground Forces (10 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Can my right hon. Friend say whether there has been any shift of thinking in the policy of the Defence Department in relation to the recruitment of Gurkha troops. I suspect that many hon. Members on both sides of the House would like to see this increased. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that should there be an abandonment of the independent nuclear deterrent by anyone who thought that...

British Army (Recruiting) (10 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Can my right hon. Friend say whether these figures include Gurkha recruitment? Whether they do or not, can he give an undertaking that there will be no unnecessary or artificial limit to Gurkha recruitment, but that this will be pressed on with as quickly as possible?

British Victims of Nazi Persecution (Compensation) ( 9 Jun 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: I welcome this Agreement, but would my right hon. Friend accept that the figure of £1 million appears to be slightly suspect and rather small? Can he tell the House how the figure was arrived at? Will he make it quite clear that, should the House wish to reopen the matter, it will be able to do so and have the figure enlarged?

Oral Answers to Questions — Yemen (14 May 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the first objective of British policy in this matter must be to try to get Egyptian troops out of the Yemen and to enable that country to enjoy the freedom that we enjoy here, and that to enable us to do that we need to support our friends in the Middle East, and this may mean giving further support, for instance, to Saudi Arabia?

Adjournment (Whitsuntide) (14 May 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: On a point of order. There are many of us, I suspect, on both sides of the House who, given a suitable occasion, could debate Suez again and the responsibility or otherwise in different parts of the House, and what is happening in Aden as well. In view of the way in which the debate is beginning to develop, are we to understand that we shall be able to go into these issues through the hours...

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Civil Service and Private Industry (12 May 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how many occasions members of the Civil Service have been attached to private industry for a limited period to gain wider experience of industrial and scientific matters; and how many members of private industry have been temporarily attached to the Civil Service.

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Civil Service and Private Industry (12 May 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: While welcoming these figures, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether he is aware that they still appear to be rather low? We as a nation really need to break away from the attitude which so often seems to inhibit the Civil Service that it will not touch anything tainted with trade, and, similarly, in free enterprise there are a lot of people who seem to think it is dangerous to be polluted...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade with Cuba (12 May 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Is not this simply a straightforward commercial decision by British shipping lines? Will my right hon. Friend make clear that this is exactly what the situation is but that, if British shipping lines run into difficulties, he will do his best to help them?

South Arabian Federation (Military Operations) (11 May 1964)

Mr Paul Williams: Will my right hon. Friend find a way of expressing to the relatives of those who have been killed in the fighting the sympathy of this House, more particularly because of the way these matters have been reported in the Press from time to time? Will my right hon. Friend also give a clear and precise undertaking to the House that anything that is carried out in the South Arabian Federation...


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