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Mr James Callaghan: This Bill embodies some unusual and novel features. We are to have a Research Council which is to be a part-time executive body made up of non-civil servants. It is to be drawn from distinguished men in industry and science, we understand. It will have the duty of supervising civil servants. That, I say straight away, is a constitutional curiosity. It may not be any the worse for that, but it...
Mr Thomas Peart: The Parliamentary Secretary has delivered a clear explanation of the purposes of the Bill and I congratulate him upon his clarity. In principle, we on this side welcome the Bill. We have always argued that matters of this nature should be brought up to date. In discussing the nuclear energy industry we are discussing a new industry with new problems. We are discussing also the use of new...
Mr Thomas Peart: He is a Minister for Science and he should be a Minister of Science. But that is a pedantic point. I merely argue that the Minister should be in the House of Commons. He is very able—I myself like him personally—but, on the other hand, his work is frustrated by the administrative machine which is at his disposal. Secondly, we know that the Prime Minister himself was rather apathetic...
My Lords and Members of the House of Commons: My Ministers will bring forward further proposals for the modernisation of Britain, covering many of the economic and social aspects of our national life. Plans for comprehensive regional development will be lead before you for central Scotland and North-East England. Plans appropriate to other regions will follow. A Bill will be introduced to...
Mr Quintin Hogg: School education is lower only in the sense that the roots of a tree are lower than the topmost branches or that the base of a pyramid is lower than the top of a pyramid. Education is a wide spectrum and it is in the individual a continuous process. Each individual, from the handicapped child to the professor in the university, is in the eyes, at any rate, of most Members of this House and...
Mr R.A. Butler: The hon. Member has been in the House quite long enough to know that I am not making a savage attack. He has grossly distorted the position. Our attitude is clear. We shall not vote against the Second Reading, but we shall seek to make a great many Amendments in Committee, of which I give the Government notice. I have already given notice of the two main Amendments which we have in mind, but...
Mr Quintin Hogg: The Parliamentary Secretary said: This country has to earn a living …We will do that by every conceivable means which come to our hands; every conceivable idea which floats through our heads."—[OFFICIAL REPORT. House of Lords, 2nd December, 1964; Vol. 261. c. 1117–21.] So much for the prospectus of the Parliamentary Secretary in the House of Lords. Never since the South Sea Bubble has...
Mr Herbert Bowden: Yes, Sir. The business for next week will be as follows: MONDAY, 21ST DECEMBER—Second Reading of the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Bill. TUESDAY, 22ND DECEMBER—Second Reading of the Cereals Marketing Bill. As the House is aware, the Chairman of Ways and Means has set down opposed Private Business for consideration at seven o'clock. WEDNESDAY, 23RD DECEMBER—It is proposed that...
Mr John Boyd-Carpenter: I beg to move, to leave out from "That" to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof: this House takes note of the First, Second and Third Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts in the last Session of Parliament, and of the Treasury Minute on the Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 1964–65 (Command Paper No. 2845). I am sure the House will appreciate...
That a sum, not exceeding £2,127,020,800, be granted to Her Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the charges for the following Civil Departments and for Defence (Central) for the year ending on the 31st day of March 1967:— Civil Estimates CLASS I £ 1. House of Lords 127,000 2. House of Commons 1,085,000 3. Treasury and Subordinate Departments 1,750,000 4. Department of...
2. That a sum, not exceeding £2,127,020,800, be granted to Her Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the charges for the following Civil Departments and for Defence (Central) for the year ending on the 31st day of March 1967:— CIVIL ESTIMATES CLASS I £ 1. House of Lords 127,000 2. House of Commons 1,085,000 3. Treasury and Subordinate Departments 1,750,000 4. Department...
Sir Edward Boyle: There were parts of the Minister's speech which some of us may follow more easily when we read them in print than when we were listening to them, but I am sure that the House would wish to thank him for the information that he has given. I have only three points on which I should like to comment immediately. When the right hon. Gentleman spoke at the beginning of his speech about the "years...
Mr Edwin Brooks: ...bangs outlawed in outer space, with some thoughts about the bangs we seem doomed to hear before long within the earth's atmosphere. I say "doomed," which may sound fatalistic, because I am aware of the vast pressure of technology speaking in the name of progress. But if the needs of the machine in the process distort human values, we have only ourselves to blame. This afternoon I want to...
Mr Willie Hamilton: I wish to try to set an example. I want to relate my remarks almost exclusively to Motion No. 6, which proposes to set up another Select Committee to examine the reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner. That Committee will need to be staffed, even though it might be admitted that it will not be as hard pressed as the other Select Committees. Presumably it will meet much less frequently...
Mrs Margaret Thatcher: As is customary in the second day's consideration of the Gracious Speech, we have had an extremely wide debate, ranging from the development areas to the grey areas, to overseas, to underdeveloped areas and to Europe. Each of us is bound to select that aspect which appeals to us most and upon which we believe that we have a contribution to make. I especially enjoyed the speech of the hon....
Sir Edward Boyle: ...Government would be more concerned with trying to regain a few friends than in repelling them still further. I believe that the decision about the British Museum Library is as wrong as the manner of its announcement has been outrageous. As for the manner of its announcement, in opening the debate I have nothing to add to Lord Radcliffe's devastating letter which appeared in The Times last...
Mr Richard Crossman: ...cannot make the constitutional point here. The point was that there was some special constitutional reason for a Bill not going upstairs. I shall be asked whether this is not unique in other ways, and whether, for these reasons, and because of its financial importance, it should not be kept here, because the House traditionally deals with finance. This view has become increasingly out of...
Mr Tam Dalyell: I have a simple belief that regardless of party balance in speakers, those who have sat through a whole debate on defence should at least have an opportunity to speak. I will, therefore, be brief, even if this leads me to cut what I had intended to say. The gravamen of the charge seems to be that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence was abandoning a vital number of...
Mr Roger Cooke: The number of the Amendment has been altered—originally it was No. 128—because it had in it "the 20 representative peers". That has now been taken out and the number thereby changed. If the right hon. Gentleman will follow me, I am wanting to add to Clause 2, line 44, that there should be not only members possessing full voting rights and other members, but also representatives of these...
Sir Edward Boyle: If they are foolish projects, they should not be undertaken. But one must always exercise care in examining and probing such reports fully before accepting them on the basis of one Press report. On the whole, I think that the pressure of the U.G.C. has resulted in a good deal better value for money at the universities than in the past, although in a number of respects there is still a long...