Mr Herbert Williams: Mr. Speaker, I know that I have exhausted my right to speak, but perhaps with your leave and that of the House I might make one observation.
Mr Herbert Williams: If I may say so, I think this debate has served a valuable purpose. I think it was of a very high standard, and I am grateful to hon. Members on both ides of the House who have contributed to it. This is a problem of great complexity. None of us knows the real answer, and I think the ventilation which has been given to this matter ought to produce valuable public reaction. I feel, therefore,...
Mr Herbert Williams: Who were the strong?
Mr Herbert Williams: Who got the rest? Those percentages do not add up to 100.
Mr Herbert Williams: Rot.
Mr Herbert Williams: When I was an employee I wrote many dozens of letters without ever looking over my shoulder. Why should I have done?
Mr Herbert Williams: I thank the hon. Member.
Mr Herbert Williams: May I ask whether "Nigerianisation" is a word used in the elementary schools of this country?
Mr Herbert Williams: What about Khartoum?
Mr Herbert Williams: asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he is aware that virtually no traffic uses Terminus Place, S.W.I, travelling from East to West; that it is now mainly used for costermongers' barrows; and as traffic from West to East is prohibited and thus adds nearly one-quarter of a mile to vehicles travelling from Victoria Station to Victoria Street, if he will now consider making a...
Mr Herbert Williams: Would my hon. Friend ask the three eminent authorities to spend half an hour one day discussing the matter with local barrow boys and "coppers," who know much more about it than his expert advisers?
Mr Herbert Williams: Is my right hon. Friend aware that last year we imported from the Soviet Union £39,900,000 worth of goods and that they bought from us £3,300,000 worth? In those circumstances, should not the Question have been addressed to the Supreme Soviet?
Mr Herbert Williams: asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will arrange to publish in the Trade and Navigation Returns particulars with regard to horses imported into this country for the purpose of slaughter for food.
Mr Herbert Williams: Is my right hon. Friend aware that in a recent debate suggestions were made that there were substantial importations of horses for slaughter which were described in his returns as Slaughter importations of horses not for food"?
Mr Herbert Williams: How many of the other nine members are able to walk?
Mr Herbert Williams: We cannot eat newsprint.
Mr Herbert Williams: As one of those who has some doubts about the merits of the British Council, may I ask why we are to have the Drogheda Report in summary? Is it not more desirable that we should see all of it?
Mr Herbert Williams: Mr. Speaker, would it not save time if the Opposition could decide who is going to be the next Foreign Secretary, so that only one of them need ask questions?
Mr Herbert Williams: What is the date of the letter?
Mr Herbert Williams: The hon. Member must not overlook the fact that the duration of exposure to the danger of accidents is greater in factories than it is on the roads.
