Mr Keith Bradley: To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 18 July 1989.
Mr Keith Bradley: In the light of the comments by the Junior Health Minister, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, that the current financial crisis in the National Health Service shows that the figures are meaningless and misleading, may I ask the Prime Minister urgently to review the agenda for South Manchester health authority's meeting this coming Thursday, which proposes £1·2 million worth of...
Mr Keith Bradley: As we move into the last half hour of our seven months of deliberations on the Water Bill, it is extraordinary that the hon. Member for Gainsborough and Horncastle (Mr. Leigh) should still be trying to convince himself that there is some political merit in the Bill. I, too, wish that members of the public had been able to hear the months of deliberation in Committee. If the hon. Gentleman's...
Mr Keith Bradley: I see that the hon. Member for Bury, North (Mr. Burt) is leaping to the Government's support. However, having looked at his majority I do not think that, if I were he, I should be standing up quite so confidently because I believed that the public in Bury like the Bill. This last-minute amendment is the last obnoxious amendment to an obnoxious Bill which the public do not support. The...
Mr Keith Bradley: Following the speech of the hon. Member for Bury, North (Mr. Burt), in which I am sure he convinced himself of his arguments, the slogan at the next election will be, "We come to bury Burt, not to praise him." On the second day of the Report stage, the farce has continued of Conservative Back Benchers trying to digest the propaganda being put out by No. 10 Downing street. They tried to...
Mr Keith Bradley: Throughout the deliberations in Committee, the Government advanced no credible argument to show that prices will not have to rise massively. They will have to rise massively to meet the investment required by the industry and to meet the potential investors' wish for a quick buck. They will need to make a quick buck if they are seriously to consider investing. When they see other...
Mr Keith Bradley: Will my right hon. Friend agree that the loss of that grant throughout Manchester—and, as I believe he is about to say, the spread of poverty—now means that we have pockets of abject poverty even in the most affluent parts of Manchester, traditionally seen in my area of Withington? Many people in that area are now suffering in the way that poverty was previously seen only as an inner-city...
Mr Keith Bradley: To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 17 Janury.
Mr Keith Bradley: Has the Prime Minister read the report in today's Daily Express that her Agriculture Minister has met farmers 37 times and consumer representatives only twice? Will she now sack him and replace him with someone who represents consumer interests seriously?
Mr Keith Bradley: To ask the Minister for the Arts what plans he has to increase investment in English national museums and galleries in response to the March report of the National Audit Office.
Mr Keith Bradley: The Minister seems complacent about this matter. Has he not read the two reports of the National Audit Office, which outline the appalling problems facing our national museums, the root cause being the cut of at least 9 per cent. in the budget of the Victoria and Albert museum and the 5 per cent. cut in the budget of the British museum between 1979 and 1987? Will he support today the...
Mr Keith Bradley: To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 6 December.
Mr Keith Bradley: In the light of the evidence published today by Barnardo's that children leaving local authority care face abject poverty because of the cuts in their benefits, what advice would the Prime Minister give to a 16-year-old living in my constituency who is trying to survive independently on less than £20 a week? In this season of good will, will the Prime Minister support the introduction of a...
Mr Keith Bradley: Will the hon. Member, to be accurate, tell the House how many of those properties are empty because they are due for demolition as they are unfit for human habitation?
Mr Keith Bradley: If the hon. Gentleman had the up-to-date figures rather than last year's HIP allocation, or if he had taken the trouble to contact Manchester city council to discover how many properties are currently awaiting demolition and then taken those away from the figures to which he has already referred, he would find that the 4,000 he referred to is nearly 1,800. That is the figure the hon....
Mr Keith Bradley: Further to the brief statement made by the Leader of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Hon. Members who served on the Housing Bill Committee are wondering how we will deal with the 240 Lords amendments that remain to be dealt with tomorrow. I press the Leader of the House to make a firmer statement to the House on what the timetable will be, or to make it available immediately.
Mr Keith Bradley: As a Member representing a north-west constituency, the Minister should understand the position in Manchester. I shall give a practical example of how people accept shorthold tenancies. The Minister should understand the position well because I explained it in Committee. If he had read Hansard, he would have recognised what happens. People desperate for accommodation race to get the...
Mr Keith Bradley: The House is being treated with contempt by the Government. During the last few months there have been ministerial changes, procrastination and concessions that were then removed. Tonight a new Under-Secretary of State is not prepared to tell the House what is to happen to thousands of homeless people. It is not good enough for him to say that the Government are discussing with the new...
Mr Keith Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he last met the chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority; and what was discussed.
Mr Keith Bradley: (by private notice): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the errors found in the cervical screening tests performed at the laboratories at Christie hospital in Withington, Manchester.