Results 141–160 of 448 for speaker:Dr Edmund Marshall

Clause 1: Power to Provide Constitution for Zimbabwe (12 Nov 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: The present redistribution in England has been proceeding since 1976. There are provisional recommendations for only 12 out of 40 counties in England. The matter is dealt with extremely carefully. To attempt to develop in Rhodesia a system of constituencies when the number of electors is not known is trying to achieve the impossible. It means that it is not possible to get to the position of...

Clause 1: Power to Provide Constitution for Zimbabwe (12 Nov 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: That cannot be explained only on the ground of bussing. A number of other factors could be involved, which Mr. Drinkwater mentions in his report. Before the election was held an attempt was made by the population department of the Salisbury Administration to estimate how many adult voters were in each of the districts. The reference to 108 per cent. is to the total number of votes cast in the...

Clause 1: Power to Provide Constitution for Zimbabwe (12 Nov 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: Does not the very fragility of the present position require that there should be a period of healing? If there were such a period, there would be an opportunity for consolidation and for the country to return to normal rather than become more fragile.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Elections (Candidates' Tellers) (26 Jul 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance he has given to returning officers at parliamentary and local government elections about the desirability of permitting candidates' tellers to be accommodated within schools and similar buildings where there are polling stations.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Elections (Candidates' Tellers) (26 Jul 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: Does the hon. and learned Gentleman believe that it is right that some candidates' tellers should be forced to stand outside in the driving rain and snow, as happened at some polling stations in my constituency on 3 May, when there is adequate room in corridors where they could play their part without interfering in the electoral process?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Development Land (25 Jul 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: What discussions did the Secretary of State have with the local authority associations before his peremptory announcement on 13 June that the redundant lands procedure was to be ended? Why did he make the announcement on so important an item of public policy by means of a written answer rather than an oral statement in the House?

Oral Answers to Questions — Industry: Post Office Act (23 Jul 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: asked the Secretary of State for Industry whether he will seek to repeal section 1 of the Post Office Act 1969.

Oral Answers to Questions — Industry: Post Office Act (23 Jul 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: I wonder whether that reply conveys the information that the hon. Gentleman wished to convey. Does he really mean that he wants to bring back the Postmaster-General?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Parliamentary Boundary Commissions (28 Jun 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: Now that the present review is well under way, will the Minister give an assurance that the Government will exert absolutely no pressure on the Boundary Commissions either with regard to the statutory criteria which they have to observe or, equally important, in the timing of their reports to the Home Secretary?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: European Election (Essex South West) (28 Jun 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: Would it not be better if the regulations governing the free post of election addresses—which, under the 1949 Act, were originally to be made by the Postmaster-General, a Minister answerable to this House, and are now made by the Post Office—were again to be made by a Minister?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Rating Revaluation (27 Jun 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: Irrespective of the Government's plans for the rating system, will they give urgent consideration to an early extention, during the next year or so, of the rate rebate scheme, to include water charges? Is the Minister aware that they are calculated on the rateable value basis in the same way as general rates and are causing financial hardship to many people, especially now that water...

BRITISH RAILWAYS (No. 2) BILL (By Order) (26 Jun 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: The hon. Member for New Forest (Mr. McNair-Wilson) described the Bill as a general purposes measure, which gave hon. Members an opportunity to raise general railway problems affecting their constituencies. I have one such problem affecting the Snaith part of my constituency. Snaith is a township about seven miles from Goole and has a railway station on the line between Goole and Leeds. The...

BRITISH RAILWAYS (No. 2) BILL (By Order) (26 Jun 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: The hon. Gentleman is making for me the point that I shall make soon. It is the number of trains going over the level crossings that threatens to cause traffic congestion through the town of Knottingley. I am grateful for the promoters' undertaking, repeated tonight by the hon. Gentleman, that if the Bill reaches Committee an application will be made there that clause 7(1)(d) be deleted. It...

BRITISH RAILWAYS (No. 2) BILL (By Order) (26 Jun 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: Yes, but so long as the only power stations to be east of Knottingley are Eggborough and Drax A, the amount of coal going to those stations will be fairly constant, from whatever source it may come. There is also the point that if an alternative route can be opened up into Drax, it will be possible for trains going from the Gascoigne Wood drift mine for the Selby coalfield to Eggborough to...

BRITISH RAILWAYS (No. 2) BILL (By Order) (26 Jun 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: Before a bridge can be considered the highway authority must show willingness to go ahead with the bridge. So far the West Yorkshire county council has set its face against such a bridge.

Oral Answers to Questions — Industry: Employment (South Yorkshire) (25 Jun 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: Will the Minister do something practical and refer to the NEB for active consideration the availability of good sites in the Doncaster area of South Yorkshire for the establishment of the microchip development proposed by Inmos Limited?

Oral Answers to Questions — Energy: Gas Supplies (11 Jun 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: In view of the high cost of providing gas mains compared with the cost of connecting other fuels, would it not make for fair competition between different fuels if there was a policy of grants and subsidies to provide connection to gas supplies?

Oral Answers to Questions — Employment: Birmingham and West Midlands (27 Mar 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: I thank my hon. Friend for this stay of execution for the unemployment benefit office at Knottingley, where 535 members of the public called in the last week for which figures were available. Will he meet me soon so that we may have a full discussion on the future of this office before any further decisions are reached?

Orders of the Day — Clause 5: Knottingley (General Medical Service) (20 Mar 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: I regret the necessity of having to raise yet again on the Floor of the House the subject of general medical service on the Warwick estate at Knottingley. I have referred to this problem on two previous occasions, first in an Adjournment debate on 24 November 1972, and, secondly, in a general debate on the Health Service on 20 April 1978. I do not wish to repeat in detail what I said on...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (13 Mar 1979)

Dr Edmund Marshall: asked the Prime Minister whether he has any plans to propose amendments to section 2 of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975.


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