Andrew Welsh: ...affected would particularly benefit. I invite the hon. Member to visit my constituency so that I can show her exactly what I mean. I can give another example of the failure to invest. The Frairton bridge in Perth has no lighting and the fencing around it is so inadequate that the first lorry to hit it will end up in the River Tay. It has no pedestrian walkway. One can only assume that it...
Mr Roderick MacFarquhar: ...why, as I followed it, the hon. Member who led from the Opposition Front Bench, the hon. Member for Mid-Oxon (Mr. Hurd), felt we should somehow not discuss Bingham, that it was water under the bridge. It seems to me that the Bingham report raises several constitutional issues. It raises the question of the honour of this House, the honour of individual Ministers of the Crown, and also the...
Mr Barry Henderson: ...—the people of Scotland are not satisfied with the method and control of government in Scotland. That was my view then, and it is still my view, despite all the water that has gone under the bridge in the past five years, and despite the fact that the Scottish Office is now run by a very much better bunch of people than it was a short time ago. Despite any rumours to the contrary, I was...
Mr Barry Henderson: ...so far has cost no public money. I believe that that effort needs especial encouragement of the type provided by these selective measures. The next area on a selective basis comes within the St. Andrews employment office area which will lose its development area status. The town of Guard Bridge is on the periphery of that employment office area, one mile from the border of the special...
Mr Barry Henderson: ...chairman of the Potato Marketing Board lives in my constituency. I was referring to microelectronic chips and microcircuits. As I have said, we have a centre of real excellence and expertise at St. Andrews. Across the bridge at Dundee there are considerable resources at the University, which would be helpful to the development of microelectronics in Scotland. Glenrothes, St. Andrews and...
Mr Martin Stevens: .... Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Mr. Mikardo) seemed sceptical when I begged the Labour Party to be less negative. He said that the Labour Party was not negative, but what is one to say to Mr. Andrew Mackintosh who on 11 March this year, as planning spokesman, said the first thing we will do in May 1981 "— if his party should be returned to power at County Hall— is to kill it ", "...
Mr Andrew Bennett: When people have built harbours, they have had to make provision for people to get across at that point, by putting in lock gates with a bridge across or something similar. Why should that not happen in this case?
Mr Barry Henderson: ...to the problem came only a few months after I was elected the hon. Member for Fife, East, when one of the Civil Service trade unions drew attention to the possibility of the closure of the St. Andrew's DHSS office. When one inquired further into these matters, a much wider and more unsatisfactory situation was revealed. The St. Andrew's office is a relic of the pre-1966 days, when there...
Mr Andrew Bennett: ...a statement now guaranteeing that all those who want to draw child benefit weekly will be able to do so? If he cannot, will he give advice to those on supplementary benefit about how they could bridge the four-week gap that will exist if the benefit is to be paid four weekly in arrears?
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Dr Rhodes Boyson: ...county technical school, a type of school that has disappeared. Such schools tried to create people for the technical age that we are moving into. My hon. Friend then went to the univeristy of St. Andrew's, which commends itself to me, as I am the president of the Conservatives there. It may be that my hon. Friend laid the foundations for its strong Conservative association. When I go...
Mr Andrew Bennett: ...to supplementary benefit and I hope that the Minister will give us more information on it. An assumption that is made by many people, both in the House and outside, is that they can fairly readily bridge shortages of money from one week to another, one month to another or even one year to another because they have a bank account or they can use plastic money—the credit card. That means...
Mr Andrew Bennett: ...costs and led to delay. All the provisions to which I have referred appear early in the Bills and are, I believe, wholly inappropriate. Part XI of the Hampshire Bill deals with the Itchen bridge and part XII deals with the ferry from Gosport to Portsmouth. There are also provisions dealing with Southampton, Portsmouth, Gosport and Fareham—all wholly appropriate measures for a private...
Mr Andrew Bennett: ...as it might have been. A group of people in Woodsmoor—not, as the hon. Member for New Forest said, my constituents, but within the Stockport area—have been aggrieved for a long time about the bridge over the railway line. Without any consultation, British Rail suddenly closed the level crossing and stuck a footbridge across which was clearly a monstrosity. That resulted in many people...
Mr Andrew Bennett: .... County Bills can be justified only when they include purely local matters. Many local matters are dealt with in the Bill, and there is justification for a county Bill that deals with cemeteries, bridges, and other specific matters. I see no logic in dealing on a piecemeal basis with public order, massage parlours, touting in the street, taking photographs or other such issues. The...
Mr Willie Hamilton: ...Scotland. There is a yawning gulf of understanding between the local authorities at the sharp end of the problem and the Government in their ivory towers, whether they are in Whitehall or in St. Andrew's house. It is a staggering gulf that has to be bridged. It could be, but the Government obviously have no intention of bridging it. Their philosophy is a simple one that has been expressed...
Mr Andrew Bennett: Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. You will recall that, at Question Time today, the Prime Minister referred to the Bridge report. Is it not a convention of the House that once a Minister refers to a document, that document shall be laid on the Table so that all hon. Members can consult it? As the Prime Minister said that she had a copy of it, and used it in reference to her answer,...
Mr Andrew Bennett: ...themselves literate in science and technology. In the Green Paper the Secretary of State firmly talked about discouraging the longer degree courses. Although their attraction is that they try to bridge the gap between the arts and the sciences, he attacks them most. Will the Secretary of State comment briefly on his views about pay? Several hon. Members raised that question, and its...
Mr Andrew Bennett: .... While it is true that the roads coming from the Wirral and the north are quite good, the routes coming from around the Manchester area, including the M61—we must not overlook the Barton bridge problem—create a major bottleneck, and business people using that airport are constantly complaining that the two lanes over Barton bridge become a traffic congestion area every morning and...
Mr Andrew Bennett: ...as anyone else would have to do, not by promoting a private Bill but by serving notice on the local authority and asking for a diversion or closure. Notices would then be put up on the footpath or bridge and local people would have the right to object. If there were objections, the objectors would have the right to a local inquiry. The inquiry inspector would make a recommendation in...
