Mr George Lansbury: ...authorities on the mortgage of the rates? Why is it necessary to have what seems to me rather cumbersome machinery for dealing with the matter? I should like further to ask about the length of time for repayment. It would seem that the shorter the period the less will be payable in interest on the loan, and fares will depend very largely on the sort of overhead charges that will be...
Mr John Wilmot: ...interest, but, because of this capitalisation, to the guaranteeing of interest on interest. Therefore, you get a compound interest varying in accordance with what the rate of interest may be at the time that the money is borrowed. The House will appreciate some more precise indication of exactly what the guarantee covers. There is one other point. I think that it can properly be raised on...
Mr Valentine McEntee: ...more than about 110,000 after the war. They immediately ask, "Where are we to go?"—a very natural question, and one which I cannot answer. I have to explain that Government inaction is due to war-time conditions, but I hope the Government will seriously consider the problem. The question arises as to the land outside the Green Belt. The Scott and Uthwatt Reports are available, and I am...
Mr Clement Attlee: ...but that is a point of interest to those who are keen on economy and the utilisation of our man-power in the best possible way. We are trying to avoid putting such burdens on people at the present time. There is an unanswerable case in connection with the Clyde Navigation Trust, in the fact that if you had the election now, you would disfranchise a large number of people who ought to have...
Mr George Strauss: We have been lucky in having had such a long time on the Adjournment to discuss the troubles of the railway users in the East of London. There is no doubt that there are widespread and justifiable complaints about the conditions under which these people have to travel. I think it is all to the good that these grievances should be expressed in the House by Members representing the areas...
Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd: ...on road improvements and construction. The severe economies in capital investment which this Government and their predecessors have been compelled to practise and impose, coming on top of war-time restrictions, have meant that for the past 14 years or so the highway system of this country has been largely starved of development. There has at the same time been a substantial increase in...
Mr. Grimston: The Minister is making this exception, and is to see a deputation from the council in a few days' time. I would say how much that gesture is appreciated, because it shows that the importance of bettering traffic congestion in the city is understood at the highest level. In his very first set of major road improvements, the Minister has agreed to construct two by-passes, one...
Mr Fenner Brockway: ..., even in London. Prior to 1907, the exclusive right to use stations was limited to certain privileged proprietors. Under, perhaps, the influence of the emergence of the Liberal Party at that time and a greater sense of equality, an Act was passed in 1907, by Section 2 of which the railways were forbidden to give preferential rights to one cab proprietor over another. While this...
Mr John Biggs-Davison: asked the Postmaster-General at what time it is necessary to post letters in Westminster and central London for them to be delivered by the first post in Chigwell, Loughton, Buckhurst Hill and Chipping Ongar, respectively.
Mr Edward Redhead: ...to find within such a document that the draftsmen have broken away from the customary legalistic and prosaic language of official publications. The document brings together, probably for the first time, a wealth of invaluable information and historical record in a manner which captures and retains the interest of the reader throughout and, for full measure, unusual if not unique,...
Mr John Biggs-Davison: ...he suggested that it would be better if the three Western Powers, the United States, the United Kingdom and France together had taken appropriate action and I notice that last Sunday in the Sunday Times the same point of view was taken by Lord Avon. I put it to Her Majesty's Government that British interests—and there are great British interests at stake—have been entrusted to the...
Mr John Biggs-Davison: The hon. Member for Walthamstow, West (Mr. Redhead) has given the House a very clear exposition of the purposes of the Bill. As time is limited, I shall speak for only a few minutes on Part II. Epping Forest means much to my constituents and to the constituents of my colleagues sitting round me. Verderers of the forest are among my constituents. We value the forest, its amenities and its...
Mr John Biggs-Davison: ...in connection with the machinery of sanctions. Hon. Members may have observed in today's Press reports of difficulties said to be experienced on his arrival in Ragland to attend a family funeral in Loughton, in my constituency, of Mr. Len Thompson, who is a Rhodesian diplomat and former private secretary to the Rhodesian Prime Minister. I met Mr. Thompson by chance in the House, and he has...
Mr Ivor Stanbrook: ..., who were then working farmers. The price paid was reported to be about £85,000. The purchaser, however, was not a farmer. It was a company named Vemera Limited, whose registered office is in Loughton, Essex. The company's business appears to be that of land development, for the company then began advertising the land for sale, not as a farm but in hundreds of small plots, mostly...
Mrs Millie Miller: ...which tell them of the wonders of Welling borough and the great opportunities in Washington New Town, or the advertisement in the London papers only yesterday which said: Come to the Roebuck Hotel, Loughton, to hear about the great benefits of taking your business out to Peterborough. At the same time, the London boroughs are completely precluded from advertising in Peterborough or in any...
Mr Frank Allaun: I did not interrupt the hon. Member for Eastbourne and I hope that his hon. Friends will have the courtesy not to interrupt me. In The Sunday Times on 12th February, under the headline "Land prices top £80,000 for an acre", there was a report which read: Land prices are reaching levels not seen since the days of the property boom, and look sure to soar to new heights.Gough Cooper recently...
Mr John Biggs-Davison: ...the strenuous and intelligent campaign waged over the years by that society. It speaks for a number of my constituents in Upshire itself, High Beech, Epping, They-don Bois, Chigwell, Chigwell Row, Loughton and Buckhurst Hill, and of course it speaks for others well outside the Epping Forest constituency and outside the county of Essex. The hon. Member for Barking said that she is not...
Mr David Alton: ...that another hon. Member wishes to speak. I wish to point out some of the inconsistencies between the debate today and a debate held in 1977. Although I was not a Member of Parliament at that time, I took the trouble to read the speeches made in that debate. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) is probably one of the few who can claim to be consistent, comparing his speech...
Mr Ronald Brown: ...houses—the sort that people living in inner London wanted to move to. The GLC has left thousands of houses standing empty in pursuance of its policy of selling. My constituents see GLC houses in Loughton, Ongar and Debden that are empty. They come to my surgeries, and I then approach the GLC district offices, but my constituents are unable to get those houses because they are being held...
Mr Ronald Brown: ...move was mistaken. Schedule 1 gives a figure for housing of £91 million for a full year and some £56·7 million for the next six months. That sounds a great deal of money until one recalls the time when we argued against the transfer of GLC properties. In those days, of course, the hon. Member for Ealing, Acton (Sir G. Young) was at the Department of Health and Social Security, but his...
