Mr Herbert Williams: Does my right hon. Friend know that no boredom in the Army is greater than that which I feel when I listen to the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Swingler) and the hon. and gallant Member for Brixton (Lieut.-Colonel Lipton)?
Mr Herbert Williams: Where is the Fund kept?
Mr Herbert Williams: asked the hon. Member for Woolwich, West, as chairman of the Kitchen Committee, if he will take steps to increase the variety of Empire wines available in the Dining Rooms.
Mr Herbert Williams: Why is it, then, that Scottish Members are so much more vocal in their complaints about fishing off the Scottish coast?
Mr Herbert Williams: Not in the production scale.
Mr Herbert Williams: Hear, hear.
Mr Herbert Williams: It was the only part of the hon. Member's speech that I have understood.
Mr Herbert Williams: And there were not two Parliamentary Secretaries to the Home Office. One was Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Office and the other—Miss Wilkinson—was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Home Security. The Minister then held two quite separate offices.
Mr Herbert Williams: Why monopolistic?
Mr Herbert Williams: Who are?
Mr Herbert Williams: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. How often can an hon. and learned Member say something before the rule relating to tedious repetition arises? We have heard this six times at least.
Mr Herbert Williams: I do not take part in the debate as a representative of a fishing port. I have listened to all the debate, which would have been a most appropriate one on a Private Member's Motion, but it seems to have very little relation to the Bill before us. I think that there are too many Ministers in this country. There are already two Parliamentary Secretaries at the Ministry of Agriculture. I do not...
Mr Herbert Williams: I am talking about those going to sea. There are some fishmongers in my constituency. I am talking about the production side, a figure of 30,000 for which has been given in the debate. I did not furnish it.
Mr Herbert Williams: All the talk today has been about getting fish, the ships, etc.—
Mr Herbert Williams: There has been very little about that. When one talks about an industry, one is dealing with the productive side. The distributive side includes many other industries. A figure of 30,000 is about correct. I was once engaged in the machine tool industry. The value of its production is greater than the value of the fishing industry, but no one has suggested that there should be an...
Mr Herbert Williams: Then in this case the Parliamentary Secretary is to be the staff officer. I thought he was the man who did all the planning and the other was the one who had the glory. One Member said that we needed to have this Parliamentary Secretary so that we could have better design of ships. We have already got the Marine Department of the Ministry of Transport, which is responsible for all...
Mr Herbert Williams: He is in Washington at the moment.
Mr Herbert Williams: No, he is the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. There is far too much running about the world by Ministers. They are much better employed sitting at their desks doing their regular job. The fashion of peripatetic Ministers was started by Lloyd George in 1919, instead of Ministers staying in their Departments and thus making sure that no decisions are held up because they are away. I am...
Mr Herbert Williams: As I am going to the Grand Theatre, Croydon, this evening to see a play written by somebody in the Channel Islands who is at present unknown, this discussion has been most educative to me, but I should like to draw the attention of the promoter to the fact that the Bill starts off with the wrong description—
Mr Herbert Williams: asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why, in the instructions on Income Tax forms, it is stated that a person in receipt of United Kingdom income but not resident in the United Kingdom is not liable to Income Tax if he is resident in the Republic of Ireland, but is liable to Income Tax if he is resident in any other part of the world.
