Kenneth Gibson: I welcome the clarity in the cabinet secretary’s statement on why we are where we are and how we will move forward. When MV Glen Sannox and vessel 802 were ordered, my Arran constituents looked forward to a state-of-the-art vessel serving the island that would be much more resilient and reliable in bad weather. Can she confirm that, when the boat enters service, that will indeed be the case?
Nicholas Fletcher: ...that we ordered McDonald’s coffee in person. Then, one day we were met with a giant screen. Personally, knowing full well the implications of that over time, I deliberately went to the counter and ordered my coffee in person to protect people’s jobs. I did so until one day when the counter was not manned and a nice lady stood next to the giant iPad and said, “Come on. Use this.”...
Grant Shapps: .... The publication of this report will not, however, mark the end of the process, and I am determined to ensure all possible actions to make ALR motorways safer still are explored. I have therefore ordered my officials to continue to work with Highways England on developing possible future options, working closely with road safety groups and Parliamentarians, as well as the Transport Select...
Bob Stewart: ...of the wadi. Almost immediately, a young British RAF Regiment officer was killed, and so was an Arab soldier. Several others were wounded. The commanding officer, Wing Commander Rodney Marshall, ordered my father, a squadron leader, to evacuate the wounded. My father did that. He took them down in a truck, all the way down the wadi—about 2 miles—but then some retreating soldiers,...
Alex Sobel: Absolutely. I feel a lot of personal responsibility in this area. I recently visited I Am Döner, my local kebab shop in Headingley, where I ordered my normal falafel wrap. Its staff told me that they have gone completely plastic-free. They provide water in cans and all their packaging is non-plastic. That shop is an exemplar to us all. I thank Paul at I Am Döner for introducing those...
Bob Stewart: ...a blistering telegram demanding to know how I had the authority to make such a statement. It said I was meant to be neutral and I was not to get involved in the war. I was later told that I had ordered my men to open fire in defence of themselves, that I was way out of line and that I very much risked being sacked immediately. That was rather depressing for me. However, as a result of that...
George Osborne: Instead of giving an interview a month ago, the Minister should have said, "We are looking at how to take these family court cases forward. These are the options that we are considering, and we are going to consult on them." That was the approach taken by the Solicitor-General, and it would have inspired more confidence in the ultimate outcome in this case. As I said, however, that is the...
Dawn Primarolo: Yes, although—forgive me—I am trying not to lose my way. Having ordered my thoughts in a sequence to respond to hon. Members, I am in danger of not maintaining them.
Mr Michael Portillo: I am making a speech, and I have ordered my thoughts, as the hon. Gentleman should consider. I shall come to the point that my hon. Friend raised, but I say to him now that the UN foresaw a need for 36,000 troops, and put out the request to the international community for them. In the event, 7,500 were forthcoming. The deteriorating situation in Bosnia, especially after the taking of the...
Mr Steven Norris: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for reminding me that I should have better ordered my argument if I had started by reminding hon. Members that there are three classifications that must be considered in applying for a warrant to intercept—suspicion of serious crime, the security of the state and the economic well-being of the state. I apologise to the Committee for not making that point...
Mr Timothy Raison: During the course of his remarkable speech, my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Mr. Stanbrook) spoke about British overseas citizens and said that they had been described as the debris of empire. He argued that we should not have to be in the position where we have to face up to the problem of British overseas citizens and the need for such citizenship. He argued that the situation was...
Mr William Price: The hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Woodhouse) has made an interesting case and I wish to deal briefly with three points. I hope that he is wrong in his interpretation of the effect of the Bill on the sales of office equipment. This is a major field for abuse and is something we ought to stamp out. This is a matter we must look at in Committee. Reference was made to the fact that there have been...
Mr Goronwy Roberts: My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, Central (Mr. Palmer) has raised an extremely important matter and one would have wished that there was more time to deal with the many important points which he has raised. I am extremely grateful to the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) for intervening so briefly and concisely about an extremely important aspect of the question. It...
Sir Arthur Harvey: I understood him to say simply "Power". He said that not to do so would be too expensive. He said that we should discard the V-bombers each year as they wore out. I do not know how much the right hon. Gentleman knows about this, but the initial V-bombers were ordered in the days of the Labour Government, as I understand it. I do not think I am giving any secrets away in saying that the Mark...
Mr Geoffrey De Freitas: The Secretary of State has, I think, just broken a record by being the first hon. Member to have presented seven Air Estimates. I congratulate him upon it, but I must add that seven is a big number and, naturally, I hope that it will be his last. Parliamentary criticism has always been a great advantage to our Services. A German historian wrote of the First World War, "The German General...
Mr Geoffrey De Freitas: The question is: how many Air Force teams are trained? It is easy to crash an aircraft on the coast of East Anglia or Lincolnshire, many miles from any base that has a crew specially trained to deal with the nuclear problem. I was saying that local authorities will begin to abandon Civil Defence. Part of the trouble is the phrase "Civil Defence". It is not "defence". It is "assistance",...
Mr Jon Rankin: ...is interested I will hand the letter to him. It is from an old gentleman of over 74, who had a serious major operation last year. He bought a television set. He writes: The tube has gone, so I ordered my dealer from whom I bought to get a new tube and fix same. This has been done and the bill has come in and I have paid same. The bill showed that the charge for a 14-inch tube was £15...
Mr George Ward: I beg to move, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair." The Air Estimates for 1954–55 are for a net total of £491,640,000, which is £6,360,000 less than the net total approved for the current year. In 1954–55, provision has been made for mutual defence assistance by the United States of £45,360,000, as compared with £50 million in 1953–54. The decrease in the total provision...
Mr Basil Nield: It must be apparent to the hon. and learned Gentleman that there must be a first time, but I was dealing with the hardened criminal. There must be a first time when corporal punishment is ordered. My point is—and I do not think he can deny it—that there is a section of the criminal class which would be deterred from the more violent methods of crime by the prospect of this form of...
Mr Quintin Hogg: I submit that my right hon. Friend is wrong on the merits, and badly wrong. There are two factors to be considered. It is true that, in a country in which trade orders are determined by Government organisations of one sort or another, orders are placed by a different kind of functionary than in a country where free enterprise is the rule. I do not know if it has occurred to my right hon....
