Sir Rolf Williams: Can the right hon. Gentleman assure the House that before any action is taken by the Government concerning the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company we shall have an opportunity in the House to discuss any proposals?
Sir Rolf Williams: The hon. and learned Member will realise that the most serious punishment for an estate agent would be that he could be struck off the register. If he offends against the ordinary criminal law he can be prosecuted.
Sir Rolf Williams: This is the only opportunity I have had of putting this point. I wonder if for the sake of the record the hon. Member would consider the possibility not of amending a later Clause but of amending Clause 18(2,b) to read "body incorporated under the Companies Acts" because the phrase "body corporate" is a loose and ambiguous term legally? This would release not only co-operative societies but...
Sir Rolf Williams: I only wanted to get it on the record.
Sir Rolf Williams: I support the plea made by the hon. Member for Barons Court (Mr. Richard). I realise that he was speaking on behalf of the hon. Member for Luton (Mr. Howie), although I should point out that it would have been possible for the hon. Member for Luton to speak had he decided to take a certain course as far as his present appointment with the Government is concerned. This matter has raised the...
Sir Rolf Williams: I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not rush it too fast. This is a serious matter which is causing great concern among numbers of police forces. Before the Under-Secretary leaves the question of my speech, I wonder whether he would be kind enough to say why, when an inquiry is held which recommends that police forces should not be amalgamated, the Home Secretary has decided to go against the...
Sir Rolf Williams: On a point of order. Are we not to hear from the right hon. Gentleman the Attorney-General in reply to the points raised so ably by my hon. Friend the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward)?
Sir Rolf Williams: We will have the White Paper tomorrow.
Sir Rolf Williams: Before I open my remarks on the Order I wish to associate myself with the comments of the hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe) in respect of my hon. Friend the Member for Tavistock (Sir H. Studholme). I have had many kindnesses from him since I have been a Member of Parliament, and I am sure that we all very much regret that he will shortly be leaving the House of Commons. I hope that he...
Sir Rolf Williams: I understand the strong feelings that are held about this by hon. Members for county constituencies in Devon, but the county council rate has been fixed for the next year, and the financial arrangements for Exeter are almost concluded and in the first week or two of next month—March—the rate will be fixed, and if these three parishes are taken out of Exeter the whole of the financial...