Mr David Mellor: .... In February 1990. the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) said on Radio 4: We accept that there have got to be priorities and I can say now that as far as the Labour party is concerned, bridging the skills gap is going to be a priority. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East proceeded to Leeds yesterday and told the chamber of commerce: The Labour party believes...
Mr Andrew Hargreaves: Will my right hon. and learned Friend accept my warm congratulations on the measures that he has announced? Will he accept that Conservative Members warmly welcome the bridging and equalisation between the more vocational structure and the purely academic structure, with the raising of standards of careers qualifications? That is a great step forward for thousands of people who will be able...
Andrew Welsh: ...forced a replay of the debate for all the wrong reasons. The proposal will undermine the relationship between SNH and the landowners. We have heard from Mr. Magnus Magnusson how he wishes to build bridges between the SNH and the landowners, to create trust and to overcome some of the previous problems and ill feeling. Mr. Magnusson should be encouraged in that task, but the proposal would...
Mr Andrew Bennett: May I urge the Minister to use his offices to persuade British Rail to pick the Guide Bridge site on the edge of my constituency? It is an extremely large site and it would be very good for picking up freight in Greater Manchester and transferring it to rail to go across Europe. British Rail has examined the site, but has taken a long time to decide on it; and it is a matter of great regret...
Mr Andrew Bennett: Is the Secretary of State aware that, almost two years ago, Tameside local authority proposed a joint venture for a freight terminal at Guide Bridge on the edge of my constituency and we were originally promised a decision by January of this year? We still have not had that decision. Will he urge British Rail to make up its mind quickly about a freight terminal in the north-west and to accept...
Andrew MacKay: Further to the point of order raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin), Mr. Speaker. You suggested that the hon. Member for Tyne Bridge (Mr. Clelland) might be in breach of House of Commons regulations. I assume that that refers to the advisory pamphlet with which we have all been issued by the Serjeant at Arms, about the use of the emblem on House of Commons...
Mr Andrew Bennett: ...I understand that negotiations on two of the crossings are at an advanced stage. That leaves nine crossings. Can the Minister tell us whether any of those nine will be the subject of a tunnel or a bridge, particularly the one at South Mimms, which is on the London way and is probably the most controversial? Has British Rail now agreed to drop the east coast safety measures in view of the...
Andrew Smith: ...services having to make bids via a further education college. He said that community education centres in Humberside would be at risk. They will also be at risk in Essex, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Devon, and Surrey and all the other areas from which we have had so many representations. Community colleges, adult colleges and community education services are being placed in an...
..., Aberdeen, North.Joseph William Ashton, esquire, Bassetlaw.Right honourable Alfred Morris, Manchester, Wythenshawe.Edward Rowlands, esquire, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney.Thomas Pendry, esquire, Stalybridge and Hyde.Margaret Anne, Mrs Ewing, Moray.Right honourable James Henry Molyneaux, Lagan Valley.Reverend Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, North Antrim.Gavin Steel Strang, esquire, Edinburgh,...
Andrew MacKinlay: ...to him, and to county councillor Gerard Rice, too. Those two, together with councillor Barry Palmer, the sole representative of east Tilbury, have stood like Horatius and his colleagues on the bridge, resisting the rapacious appetites of the sand and gravel industry and of those who wish to tip waste in my part of Essex. The Secretary of State should consider taking legislative powers to...
Brian H Donohoe: ...my hon. Friend the Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook). At 12.30 pm on Sunday, 9 July, 1989, Mr. James McColm who was 69 years old and a war veteran, having been injured in the famous battle for the bridge at Nijmegen in 1944, was walking home from the local masonic club, having enjoyed a pint and a game of dominoes. Being a victim of emphysema, he was not able to walk fast. He was knocked...
Andrew MacKinlay: ...strategic planning authority for greater London. The Wandsworth Borough News recently stated that the hon. Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis) wants the Minister for Transport in London to co-ordinate bridge closures so that they caused the least possible disruption. Three Thames bridges were closed simultaneously, with enormous attendant problems for those crossing from south London to the...
Andrew Smith: ...programmes to achieve the objectives of article 2 as they pursue those criteria. At the heart of the amendments and new clauses, and those in earlier groups, are the provisions of article 2, the bridge between stages 2 and 3 and the way in which those stages can be tied to article 2—which, after all, sets the European Community's task. Article 2 asks for sustainable and non-inflationary...
Andrew MacKinlay: ...station which, incidentally, ceased production this week. It will emerge at ground level in the Oliver road trading estate area and then pass beneath the approach road to the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at the Thurrock-Dartford M25 crossing. This engineering exercise is breathtaking. The line will come out of the ground, pass over the approach road to the QE2 bridge, but also go through the...
Division No. 232] [at 8.40pm AYES Adley, Robert Boswell, Tim Ainsworth, Peter (East Surrey) Bottomley, Peter (Eltham) Aitken, Jonathan Bottomley, Rt Hon Virginia Alexander, Richard Bowden, Andrew Alison, Rt Hon Michael (Selby) Bowis, John Alton, David Brandreth, Gyles Amess, David Brazier, Julian Ancram, Michael Brooke, Rt Hon Peter Arnold, Jacques (Gravesham) Brown, M. (Brigg & Cl'...
Mr Andrew Faulds: ...skills and precision displayed in the Gulf war, a somewhat less justified intervention than would be intervention in Bosnia. The aims of those operations would be destruction from the air of the bridges between Serbian and Muslim territories—they are all in towns, so both communities would suffer—of Serbian routes of supply and communication, which can certainly be interdicted, of...
Mr Andrew Hunter: .... I also regret the President of the Republic's ill-advised recent visit to Belfast. It has reawakened old suspicions. It was a backward step which has undermined her position as a builder of bridges. Despite welcome improvements, the Irish Government can still demonstrate their good faith by delivering more in the fight against terrorism, and by further clearing the air on articles 2 and...
..., is facing problems similar to the brewers'. I know that my proposals will be warmly welcomed by the House, and will give right hon. and hon. Members from Scotland something to celebrate on St Andrew's day. For wine, sparkling wine and cider, I propose to raise the duty in line with inflation. This will add 2p to a bottle of wine. But it will not take effect until after Christmas....
Andrew MacKinlay: ...that affects my constituency and splits the town of Thurrock. Is he blind to the security implications of having a surface channel tunnel rail link route crossing the M25 at the Queen Elizabeth II bridge? That is absurd. Surely that example alone presents an overwhelming case for tunnelling. Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that thousands of people who live along the route in Kent...
Andrew MacKinlay: The Conservatives reorganise local government and the National Health Service as frequently as the Forth bridge is painted. They do not even finish before they start again. In the past 20 to 25 years there has been a tradition of Conservative Governments expensively reorganising public services with little to show for it at the end of the day.
