HC Deb 11 June 1958 vol 589 cc357-8

Amendments made: In page 33, line 8, at end insert: (4) Clogs and other wooden-soled footwear, other than articles mace wholly or partly of fur skin;

in page 33, line 30, leave out "Buttons (including shapes and moulds therefor)". [Mr. Arbuthnot.];

in page 41, line 30, at beginning insert:

  1. (1) Shopping baskets of cane or wicker, not being baskets fitted with lids or any other means of closing them.
  2. (2).—[Mr. Simon.]

Motion made, and Question proposed. That this Schedule, as amended, be the Second Schedule to the Bill.

Mr. H. Wilson

We ought not to let the Schedule pass without pointing out again, since the Chancellor was not here when I spoke on the First Schedule, that the whole Committee could start a very long and constructive debate. I hope that the Chancellor will recognise our full spirit of co-operation in the course of going through this not very exciting Bill in resisting the temptation to say all that would occur to us on a very wide range of subjects.

Mr. Amory

I appreciate the attention given by the Committee to all relevant points that have arisen in debate, and the fact that hon. and right hon. Members have shown restraint in not dealing with them at greater length than the circumstances warranted. On our part, we have tried to answer as many of the questions put to us as we could. I should like to thank the Committee for its co-operation so far.

Mr. Wilson

I am sure that at this point, after what the Chancellor has said so generously, it will come very heavily on the consciences of hon. and right hon. Members opposite to remember the position in 1951 when the then Labour Government was not without its difficulties and the way in which certain hon. Members opposite behaved. The right hon. Gentleman will recognise the temptation that faces us in seeing this Government in the seventh year of its existence physically and visibly disintegrating. We have resisted every temptation to hasten their decline, as we could have done so easily on this Bill.

Question put and agreed to.

Schedule, as amended, agreed to.