Sir Peter Emery: But I do not wish to follow the example set on that side of the House.
Sir Peter Emery: One goes to a depot, to get one's car. There is much good humour, a great joke made of it, and if one takes a taxi to the depot the whole business can be accomplished in ten minutes. There is nothing by way of punishment to deter somebody from parking where he probably knows—as I did when it happened to me—that he ought not to be parking. I put this to the Minister as something Which I...
Sir Peter Emery: asked the President of the Board of Trade the amount of foreign currency earned by British films during 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959.
Sir Peter Emery: I thank my hon. Friend for the Answer which I have not yet seen. Would he use all his influence to see that every possible aid is given by our embassies and consulates for the furtherance of the sale of British films abroad?
Sir Peter Emery: asked the Minister of Health what schemes he has approved for the expansion and development of hospitals under the control of the Reading and District Hospital Management Committee; and how many new hospital beds will be made available by such schemes.
Sir Peter Emery: I thank my hon. Friend for her reply, but does she realise that over 700 new beds are needed and envisaged in order to deal with the increase of 25 per cent. of the population that these hospitals serve, and would she be willing, in relation to the reply which the Minister made to the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) on the matter of the over- and under-spending of capital allocations, to...
Sir Peter Emery: asked the Minister of Health whether, due to the lack of public confidence in the escape warning siren at the Broadmoor Institution, he will authorise further or additional escape warning devices to be used for the benefit of the outskirts of the surrounding area.
Sir Peter Emery: Will the Minister consider reamplification by some electrical means on the outskirts of the two-mile area to carry the sound further? This is what is demanded and desired by many inhabitants on the outskirts of the Institution.
Sir Peter Emery: Does my right hon. and learned Friend realise that there is concern not only in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. van Straubenzee) but in the whole of Berkshire that an assurance is always given that security will be tightened up after there has been an escape and yet these escapes continue.
Sir Peter Emery: While welcoming the Regulations, which raise the level of the earnings rule, I would like to refer to the matter of the 12-hour rule, to which my right hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary referred in opening the debate. My right hon. Friend said that this rule applied only when somebody was retired. In logic, of course, that is true, but it must be realised that before people start to...
Sir Peter Emery: Before my hon. Friend leaves the point of education, would he not agree that, as he so concisely says, so far as holidays are concerned this is not the responsibility of the Minister of Education and that any evidence that could be brought before a committee by local education authorities would be of great assistance to the Government in dealing with the whole problem?
Sir Peter Emery: It is with great diffidence that I make my maiden speech in a debate of such seriousness, and one that has so suddenly arisen. I do so, Mr. Speaker, because I feel so immensely concerned that we should be able to obtain the right solution in Cyprus. I shall, to the best of my ability, seek to be impartial and uncontroversial, but if I should stray from that path I do not expect the House to...
