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Notices of Questions and Motions: 13th April 1983 5785

FRIDAY 15th APRIL

DEPENDENCIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Mr Ivor Stanbrook

To call attention to the problems of the dependencies of the United Kingdom, and to move, That this House affirms its concern for the well-being and security of all Her Majesty's subjects resident in British dependent territories; assures them of its support for their economic and constitutional development; asserts the paramountcy of their interests in all matters affecting their future; expresses its determination to defend their territrial integrity by force if necessary; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to con- sider proposals for a closer permanent association with the United Kingdom for all such territories as do not desire or are precluded from seeking independence on their own

account.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEMOCRACY

Dr Edmund Marshall

To call attention to the case for strengthening local government democracy, and to move That this House deplores the policies of Her Majesty's Government which:

(a) have reduced the discretionary powers of democratically elected local authorities, for example with regard to providing and maintaining public transport and housing, and in the allocation of financial resources,

(b) have used local authorities increasingly as administrative extensions of the White-

ball machine, for example in operating the unified housing benefit scheme, and (c) have used local authorities as whipping boys for the Government's own unpopular objectives of cutting education and welfare services, reducing home helps and school meals and closing over 550 schools;

and calls upon the Government to reverse these trends and, mindful of the Conservative election pledge of October 1974 to abolish the rating system, to provide a new, buoyant system of financing modern local government.

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Mr Wallace, WIAD

Mr Rogan, WIAD

Mr Culver, SED

Mr Hunt, EAD

Mr Thompson, SPD

Dr. Heap, SAMD

Mr Hickson, FID

Mr Ward, UND

Mr Hoare, HKGD

Mr, Morris, HKGD

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Miss Eniffer, HKGD

Mr Brown, NTD

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Mr Bickford, Legal Advisers

Mr Burrows, Legal Advisers

Mr Stevens, MCAD

Mr Macgregor, Planning Staff

Mr Cambridge, MVD

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