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Orders of the Day — Rates (20 Mar 1973)

Mr Denis Howell: ...authorities to find £72 million. Another point of importance which I mention in passing is that the Government are not providing their 60 per cent. of this £180 million now. They do not pay a penny until 12 months from now. The local governments have to raise the money at 11 per cent. or 12 per cent. interest to fund this additional burden. It is interest on top of interest —a most...

Public Servants (Local Authority Membership) (16 Mar 1973)

Mr Jeffrey Archer: ...on the Greater London Council from 1966 to 1969. I was only 25 years of age. I thought at that time that the most wonderful thing in the world was to serve one's local community and not be paid a penny for doing so. I was in the privileged position of being financially well off and therefore did not give the matter a second thought. However, my little eyes were opened during the three...

Industrial Disputes (16 Mar 1973)

Mr Willie Hamilton: ...by manipulating the Finance Acts. The Claimants' Union is doing no more than what is done every day by the wealthy in the City, who arrange their affairs to avoid paying their dues and to get every penny they can to which they are legally entitled. Workers are behaving no worse and no better than the wealthy in the City and in the rest of the country—

Defence (15 Mar 1973)

Mr Simon Digby: ...should be looked at seriously. The impression one gains from Annex C of the White Paper, with regard to both the Navy and our other Services, is that we have too many people spread about in penny packets. Although there is a reference in paragraph 15 to the Indian Ocean and our vigilance there, it is difficult to detect anything very much in that part of the world, where the Russian ...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (12 Mar 1973)

Mr Joel Barnett: ...the speculative gains, then at least the right hon. Gentleman might have taken the opportunity of stopping the roll-over relief which allows a farmer to make massive profits and then avoid every penny of capital gains tax. He might also have stopped the 45 per cent. agricultural relief of estate duty. He knows that there are stocks of woodland available at a moment's notice so that wealthy...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation ( 8 Mar 1973)

Mr Joseph Harper: ...the number of accidents and absenteeism through injury and so on. I understand that these appliances are, however, to be subject to VAT. If the Government impose VAT on these things, they will be penny wise and pound foolish. More safety means more production and fewer days lost, and everyone is happier—at least, I hope so. The Chancellor had a glorious opportunity to do something for...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation ( 7 Mar 1973)

Mr Denis Healey: ...away £300 million, in the main to people living on investment income or on over £5,000 taxable earned income a year. The benefit to others from this £300 million relief is to be measured only in pennies.

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services: Disabled Persons' Vehicles ( 6 Mar 1973)

Mr Harry Ewing: Does not the Minister agree that the provision of three-wheeler vehicles is an example of miserable penny-pinching? Is not the answer to stop the manufacture of three-wheeled vehicles and to supply four-wheeled vehices to provide for the travelling companionship which disabled people so vitally need?

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services: Industrial Relations ( 6 Mar 1973)

Mr Edward Heath: ...to, is working against their own interests because a lower pound is bound to push up the price of food. It is therefore defeating the objective of those using it. It is true that no one will gain a penny from the present industrial unrest. Many will suffer, some very grievously. A solution to these problems has been put forward already. As for the National Health Service ancillary workers,...

GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order) ( 6 Mar 1973)

Mr Reginald Freeson: ...out the formula upon which they may operate and the ceiling to which they will be empowered to establish such a fund. In any one year it may receive a contribution of four times the product of a penny rate. My own borough is not untypical, though obviously the figures will vary from borough to borough. It means that if the borough of Brent decides to use the power it will be able to make...

Price and Pay Code ( 5 Mar 1973)

Hon. Adam Butler: ...industry to bring about a certain minimum productivity, calculated at 3 per cent. or 4 per cent.—and "forcing" is the key word, because beyond that point there is no incentive to cut costs one penny further. It is no good telling the CBI or other representatives of industry that they should try to achieve this in the national interest, since for 15 months they have restrained their...

Counter-Inflation Proposals (Pay) ( 5 Mar 1973)

Mr Laurie Pavitt: ...to ask for them. They are not bargained for. Annual increments and fringe benefits come along, according to the job. In the trade union movement, on the other hand, and in retail distribution every penny of increase has to be fought for and negotiated. For the past 50 or 60 years a system has been developed and organised so that, instead of there being industrial disputes, agreements are...

Orders of the Day — Protection of Wrecks Bill ( 2 Mar 1973)

Mr Andrew Faulds: ...the popularity of antiques and the money that seems to be available to invest in them, prices are usually well beyond the reach of museums since in this country we appear to treat our museums in a penny-pinching sort of way. Since the contents of a wreck form a related group they should ideally be kept as a group. This is what would happen in the best of all possible worlds, except that...

Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS PENSIONS BILL [Lords] ( 1 Mar 1973)

Mr Ivor Richard: .... Another complaint that Mr. Parpia makes, which I think is also utterly legitimate, is that while he was in India the rupee was devalued by ½per cent. but his pension was not increased by one penny or one rupee, as the case might be. Secondly, he finds himself in a situation in which for some months last year the Indian Government did not pay him the devalued rupee equivalent pension...

Orders of the Day — Counter-Inflation Bill: Power to Obtain Information About Rates from Rating and Other Authorities (28 Feb 1973)

Mr Gordon Oakes: ...as well as water reorganisation and the many other functions they must undertake? 9.45 p.m. Under the clause the authorities must find the ratepayer who has paid the rate and repay him so many pennies because, according to the clause, or the Government's arm-twisting, they had overestimated the rate. As the Minister more than anyone else in the House knows, the difficulty is accentuated...

New Clause 1: Restrictions on Insurance Premiums (27 Feb 1973)

Mr Arthur Lewis: ...told that there will be a special Department to monitor premiums imposed by insurance companies, to look into solvency matters and all the rest of it, when we cannot even be told in the case of a penny or twopence on a single item, first, who should deal with the matter, secondly which Department is responsible and, thirdly, and more important, what procedure is to be adopted. It is...

New Clause 5: Display of Prices (27 Feb 1973)

Mrs Barbara Castle: ..., but by the time the complaints come to us it may be too late. The housewife may not have the invoice; she may have forgotten the exact day she made the purchase; she may have forgotten the exact pennies and halfpennies that were added to the previous price. But if she can act quickly and register a complaint, then something is on the record that everybody anxious to fight these...

Television Licences (Pensioners) (21 Feb 1973)

Mr Leslie Huckfield: ...had bought her licence in advance. She need not have done it. She, too, could have been a television licence dodger. However, under the regulations which the Minister promulgates, she cannot get a penny of her £7 licence fee back. In the face of borderline cases like that the right hon. Gentleman ought not to stick to his regulations. He cannot defend them, and I urge him to look at the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Counter-Inflation Policy (Prime Minister's Speech) (20 Feb 1973)

Mr Jock Bruce-Gardyne: ...the calamitous decline in the real rate of return on investment over the past decade or more. Is it not a fact that the shareholders of ICI, for example, would have been far better served if every penny spent by the managers of ICI on plant and machinery in the early 1960s had been invested in land instead? Is a restriction of profit margins related to five fairly calamitous years a...

Education (19 Feb 1973)

Mr Roy Hattersley: ...the beginning of the message, the birth of the White Paper's message, which the Secretary of State has repeated so assiduously over the last two months, that the Government are committed to every penny of education expenditure that it is reasonable to expect. Of course, a corollary to that argument is that any critics of the Government who call for expansion in one area must balance their...


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