Results 241–260 of 735 for speaker:Mr Colin Shepherd

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Council House Sales (17 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to publicise the new discounts for council flats under the Housing and Planning Act.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Council House Sales (17 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: I welcome my hon. Friend's announcement, but can he give a little more detail about the publicity? Will it be sent to all council flat tenants personally, and will those who have already bought their homes be informed of the new discount claw-back periods?

Orders of the Day — Enterprise Agencies (15 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North-West (Mr. Bellingham) on introducing this important and interesting subject of enterprise agencies, and, furthermore, on the eloquence with which he did so and explained the beneficent effects on north-west Norfolk. I was disappointed but not surprised by the thoroughly curmudgeonly attitude of the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr....

Orders of the Day — Enterprise Agencies (15 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: If the right hon. Gentleman would like it, there is breakfast outside, and he can come back in a few minutes. The hon. Member for Huddersfield is a member of a party whose Government ended up, come 1979, presiding over the most highly institutionalised, rigid and unimaginative industry that this country has seen. I am from small industry; a small business. That is my background. That is the...

Orders of the Day — Enterprise Agencies (15 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: I feel that it was sneeringly dismissed. He says that it does not matter and that it is irrelevant. To Herefordshire, it is relevant, it matters. Many others have not got into trouble because their shaky business proposals have been examined and analysed. They have been told that a certain course of action will lead to disaster. Many people who may not be in business now have cause to be...

Orders of the Day — Enterprise Agencies (15 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: I thought that hon. Members might like to hear what auto-pilot was about. An enterprise agency should be a facilitating agency, the emphasis being on the word "agency". An agent is one who does something for another. I have some worries. I disagree with my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North-West on one point, as I palpably do with the hon. Member for Huddersfield. Enterprise agencies...

Orders of the Day — Enterprise Agencies (15 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: I take the point to some extent, but everything does not lie with secondees. We were fortunate enough to start with a secondee, but we found our own director whom we now fund and pay. That director is remarkably good and I have no doubt that when the time comes we shall be able to find another. So everything need not hang on secondees, although a super job has been done in promoting them....

European Council (London) ( 8 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: Did my right hon. Friend notice that, in the debate on the Loyal Address, the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Callaghan) made what seemed to many of us to be a constructive suggestion, in that he argued for the repatriation of the CAP? He did that as a Member who has supported membership of the Community. Is that not a suggestion which the Government should consider...

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Butter ( 4 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the New Zealanders and other importers have access to the United Kingdom market but do not have the right to sell? They must sell their butter on better performance and better price. Therefore, it is the English butter industry which is failing to sell its British butter production.

Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry ( 1 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry ( 1 Dec 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: With the cost running at £1 million a day, which is £365 million a year, has my right hon. Friend estimated what the cost of storage will be if he is successful in reducing production in the United Kingdom by 9·5 per cent.?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (27 Nov 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: asked the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 27 November.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (27 Nov 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: During her busy day, will the Prime Minister consider the £1 million war chest set up by Flexilink to seek to undermine investor confidence in the Channel tunnel? Does she agree that the £700 million worth of manufacturing equipment which will be needed for that project and which is capable of being supplied by areas of traditionally high employment—traditional heavy industry—is a far...

Animal Liberation Front ( 6 Nov 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 10 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the distribution of a booklet correlating Animal Liberation Front activities and containing instructions on how to make incendiary devices and fire bombs. Two days ago an animal rights campaigner in...

Cereals (Co-responsibility Levy) ( 5 Nov 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Copyright Reform ( 5 Nov 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: Is my hon. Friend aware that his comment that the industry will be reassured when he comes forward with proposals will reassure many British manufacturers? Does he recognise that a substantial amount of risk is involved in new investment in new products and that that risk must be rewarded by some form of protection? Does he also recognise that there is limited scope for relaxing his proposals...

Orders of the Day — Public Order Bill: Power to Direct Trespassers to Leave Land ( 4 Nov 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: As my hon. Friend represents the Police Federation, can he say whether it is within the powers of the police force as the law stands to enforce the Road Traffic Acts as regards the roadworthiness of vehicles? In that way the police could largely take pre-emptive action. Is it not the case that often these vehicles are plainly in contravention of those Acts as they are flagrantly unlicensed,...

Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]: School transport (21 Oct 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: I do not wish to rehearse the arguments in respect of school transport and the problems relating to distance. I wish to take the opportunity to thank the Minister for receiving my hon. Friends and myself when we made representations to him concerning these problems. It was with a certain amount of malice aforethought that my hon. Friends and I tabled these amendments in July, bearing in mind...

Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]: School transport (21 Oct 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: For the past four years my county council has been studying the question of bus deregulation and school transport. It has found that by co-ordinating school transport, the services it wishes to provide and the bus pass concept, it has not only improved school transport but made substantial cost reductions. I wonder whether my hon. Friend's local authority would like to get in touch with...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: "Black Widow" Catapults. (24 Jul 1986)

Mr Colin Shepherd: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representation he has received concerning the unrestricted sale of "Black Widow" catapults.


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