Mr Archibald Manuel: ...areas and that not enough attention is paid to the need for houses when the allocation of houses to various local authority areas is considered. No one has ever been able to tell me, either at St. Andrew's House or anywhere else, what formula decides the number of houses local authorities are to have allocated to their particular areas. I feel that the only real factor we can use is the...
Mr Malcolm Macmillan: ...Pentland Firth—during August, guaranteed to be about the best month of the year in which the Secretary of State can go round the Highlands and Islands—and then he is put ashore again near St. Andrew's House, whereupon he is even more at sea than he was when he was afloat, because his impressions are nearly always merely physical impressions, and those of the most miserable. Then he...
Mr George Thomson: ...was the result of a very bad Act of Parliament at that time. We are all aware that the root of these discords lies in three things. First of all, there is the geographical difference between St. Andrews and Dundee. St. Andrews is one of our most beautiful and most ancient towns; Dundee is a typical example of modern industrialism in Scotland; and there is a very big gap in atmosphere...
Mr Walter Elliot: ...by the work of the whole community of Glasgow in digging out the river and making it fit to carry the great ships launched on it. But we have six-and-a-half miles of water frontage with only four bridges, and the congestion is becoming intolerable. There is no question as to the inefficiency of what is going on there. It takes as long to get from Newton Mearns to the Central Station, a...
Mr James Hoy: ...and cancelled because of the economy cuts. I propose this afternoon to deal with the problem of the Forth, which is an outstanding subject to Scotland, and will continue to remain so until a road bridge is built across the Forth. This is a necessity which I do not require to bring to the notice of the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, who represents Fife, East. There has been...
Mr Walter Elliot: ...we still have a fairly high production of coal. However, in 1951 it was 23,600,000 tons, but in 1953 it was not more than 22,823,000. That is the writing on the wall. Unless we can somehow or other bridge the gap in respect of the enormous energy consumption which is necessary in the years immediately ahead we shall not succeed in doing what we all want to do, raising the standard of...
Mr Arthur Woodburn: ...three changes in Ministerial responsibility. It recommends the transfer to the Secretary of State of responsibility for animal health, for the appointment of justices of the peace, for roads, bridges, piers and ferries. An interesting omission from these recommendations seems to be the Ministry of Works. In the body of the Report the Commission seems to conclude that this is a Ministry...
Mr John Taylor: ...points in the very disappointing reply by the Parliamentary Secretary which will be regarded with public dismay on Tayside. The first was when he said that the volume of traffic which might use the bridge would not be sufficient to justify the cost. It is not so very many months ago—perhaps two years ago—since the same statement was made from that Box by the previous Minister of...
Mr Geoffrey De Freitas: ...opinion is roused by the difficulties of traffic conditions today. There is evidence of that in the formation only last week of the Roads Campaign Council under the Chairmanship of Mr. Wilfred Andrews. That is an indication of the nation's feeling about this matter. Locally, in the city which I represent, the problem is well known to all its citizens, and in recent months has been the...
Mr David Pryde: ...Member boasting that he could do better himself. There are two Scots on the National Coal Board at Hobart House who could tie him up in figures and smother him in coal—Dr. William Reid and Sir Andrew Bryan—the Chairman, James Bowman, would only smile. I am certain my old friend James Barbour would read the hon. Member a homily on the nonsense talked in the British House of Commons...
Mr Arthur Woodburn: ...I should imagine that there might be 200 cars parked in Charlotte Square on a Saturday forenoon. There must be several hundred cars along George Street. There must be another 200 or 300 cars in St. Andrew's Square. Does it mean that wherever a car is parked there is going to be a parking meter? Edinburgh has fortunately got rid of the electric tram wires that disfigured it for so many...
Mr Michael Maitland Stewart: ...for each ward. That is so of twenty-four of the twenty-six wards. The remaining two, I understand, share one alderman between them, and the twenty-sixth alderman is elected for a ward called Bridge Without, which I believe has a notional rather than a geographical existence. I cannot think that so complex an arrangement as that makes it easy for citizens to understand and respect their...
Mr Julian Snow: ...various directors become anxious about whether the picture will be lost to the nation, or exported, and so on. There is a case in point at the moment. I understand that on 27th March Mr. and Mrs. Andrews will put up a Gains-borough for sale by Sotheby's. It would not be right to mention the price. I have heard that if the sale is completely uninhibited it will be sold for a considerable...
Miss Betty Harvie Anderson: ...hours in the National Gallery and they looked down on this House with absorbed interest. They did all this while retaining a vivid interest in the dead rats which they found washed up by Tower Bridge and while keeping an infallible eye open for old gentlemen who were most likely to provide them all with free ice cream. At the outbreak of war a few weeks later I took some fifty teen-agers,...
Mr Myer Galpern: ...are all herded together in public institutions, but there are 30,000 families who have never had a home. Therefore, in the true sense of the word they are homeless. My hon. Friend the Member for Bridgeton gave details of the conditions of the houses in which other families are compelled to live. These are the people who are fortunate enough to be the proud possessors or tenants of homes....
Mr Patrick Wall: ...when the three Services really co-operate. I am very glad that we are coming back to the true concept of maritime strategy, because this underlines the real rôle of the Royal Marines, to act as a bridge between the various Services. The Corps of Royal Marines is too small to exist on its own and it must have a parent, and that parent is and always has been the Royal Navy. I was a little...
Mr William Hannan: ...encouraging them to do so, and encouragement from their schoolmasters, find that they are disappointed at the last moment in failing to gain admittance to universities. The Chancellor of St. Andrew's University, Sir Malcolm Knox, a week ago made a speech which was not too helpful to the provision of more university places. Perhaps the best answer to him is Mr. Andrew Knox, who was chairman...
Mr Willie Hamilton: ...67 million, and on none of those roads is any toll to be levied. In Scotland, as the economic situation has steadily worsened over the last few years, the campaign against tolls on the Forth Road Bridge has steadily mounted, and many who formerly agreed with the charging of tolls are now against them. The only people who are still in favour of tolls are the Government, including the Prime...
Mr William Ross: ...are prepared to carry out their pledges. This means national planning. It means planning in Scotland. It does not mean a few part-time people planning in Scotland or a shuffling of desks in St. Andrew's House, with departmental secretaries meeting, perhaps, once a week to have a talk about what they will do next or what can be done next. This is not the approach to it. I know that the...
Mr Peter Doig: ...means, Dundee will be very much in need of new industry, and particularly growth industry. The Prime Minister went on to say something which is repeated in the White Paper. He said: The Tay Road Bridge, on which work has now started, will be of great importance to Dundee. It will provide a direct route to the South.… Surely the Prime Minister has not read about what his own Government...
