Mr Fraser Agnew: ...new team more than a new dressing room. Therefore some clubs are progressing and are looking at the idea of involving children from the surrounding areas. When I was young and played football I was lucky if I got a warm bath. Sometimes, running water was a luxury. I had to wash in the river on many occasions. Sometimes that applied to those of us who were playing at a reasonable level. I...
Mr John McWilliam: ...something that is worse than capitulation. I urge the House not to accept the blandishments of the Leader of the House, especially about the amendment of the right hon. Member for Stafford (Sir H. Fraser). I ask right hon. and hon. Members to accept that amendment. If we fail to do so, we shall end up with linkage, but we shall certainly not be linked with the grade of assistant...
Mr James Callaghan: I am glad to follow the spirited speech of the right hon. Member for Stafford and Stone (Sir H. Fraser). There are not many of the 1945 vintage left. I think, however, that there is still some good wine left in the bottles, and I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will continue to dispose of it, as he always does. I shall regret the departure of the Secretary of State from the House. The...
Laurence Robertson: ...valid—to the way in which the Nazis seized power in Germany: they fed off chaos. We should be aware of that happening in Northern Ireland. My hon. Friend the Member for South-West Norfolk (Mr. Fraser) gave worrying figures about the level of crime and the difficulty that exists in persuading people to report it. I wish to talk about the impact of organised crime on business and,...
Mr John Fraser: ...of the schools but I prefer not to do so—except in the case of the Thomas Calton School, which is a well-know example—because it can sometimes add to their problems. My constituency is very lucky. Practically every secondary school in my constituency is new. The one exception is the Strand grammar school, and it would be interesting to have an indication of the Secretary of State's...
Miss Betty Harvie Anderson: ...in Scotland— you may find as many as 1,000 registered unemployed living within daily travelling distance from a factory. Half of these will be labourers and of the 500 who are not, you will be lucky to find 50 skilled and semiskilled men suitable for your particular job. What a tragedy it is if, when we are on the fringe of a great development pattern, certainly in central Scotland, we...
Mr Raymond Powell: ...for that is Business Monitor SDA 25 Retailing 1990. That is broadly comparable in size to the total—all merchandise—of national sales for that year of John Lewis department stores, House of Fraser including Harrods, Debenhams, Dixons UK, Storehouse including British Home Stores, Habitat and Mothercare, and Argos. In short, large DIY shops, and to a lesser extent garden centres, have...
Mr John Fraser: ...£250,000. That sum, as a capital investment, would produce an income of about £25,000 a year. It would be difficult by the redistribution of wealth to give everyone £250,000, but if someone is lucky enough or good enough to pass A-level examinations and to go to university, he or she will have no great difficulty in London in earning £25,000 a year at the age of 23 or 24 in some of the...
Mr John Fraser: ...of legal traps. Under clause 6, if a tenant does not, within one month, serve a counter-notice disputing the revised rent put forward by the landlord, that rent is binding upon him. If a tenant is lucky enough to benefit by renewed prosperity, and goes away for a month, he can come back to an unpleasant surprise and find that his rent has been raised in his absence without the possibility...
Chris Grayling: ...his constituency and the importance to town dwellers of maintaining the fabric of our countryside. I was delighted to hear the contribution by my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Norfolk (Mr. Fraser). I was not in Parliament when he was here previously but I know of him and I know that he will be welcomed back to the Conservative Benches. That said, we are disappointed, and I am sure...
Michael Martin: ...Hirst, who represented Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Alex Fletcher from Edinburgh, Central, Barry Henderson. Gerald Malone, John MacKay, Albert McQuarrie, Alexander Pollock, John Corrie, and Peter Fraser. All those former Members welcomed the tax. They said that it was the greatest thing since sliced bread and that the people of Scotland would queue up to vote for the Government. Two reasons...
Mr Ellis Smith: ...the effects of heat, water and exhaustion. It may take years before a man has to leave his employment, but can he then secure compensation? Ask any Member who knows the mining districts. He is lucky if he gets his national health insurance and then, owing to the position of his approved society, he draws the minimum State benefit. The number of compensation cases per 100 employed in the...
Mr Graham Page: ...he would have been paying had he believed what was said by the right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. George Brown), or what he was reported to have said. That 10s. a week applies if the borrower is lucky and is on a 7⅝per cent. mortgage. He is more likely to be paying about £1 a week more than he would have been paying in 1964. This is the measure of the increase of the rates of interest...
Sir Ian Fraser: ...which are part of the life of this country, such as the Miners' Union itself. That is an intolerable state of affairs. I am sure the House and the country will say, "Good luck to the miners. Lucky for them that there is a Section of an Act passed by the Labour Government under which they can so wisely improve their position." But may I point out that since the coalmines are losing money,...
Mr Arthur Skeffington: ...of Harrods petition their own employees' council because they are concerned about their future, that fact gives weight to the point I am making. Thirdly, if one looks at the careers of Mr. Fraser and Mr. Clore, it is obvious that such operations tend to create monopoly conditions. Generally speaking, these do not function in the interests of the public and often not even of the workers...
