HC Deb 04 November 1975 vol 899 c205
5. Mr. Adley

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will detail her official engagements for 4th November.

Mrs. Castle

This morning I met the Lord President of the Council and held various internal departmental discussions. I shall spend the remainder of the afternoon in a Cabinet Committee and other official meetings.

Mr. Adley

Has it occurred to the Secretary of State that first as Minister of Transport, then as Minister of Labour, and now in her present job, she has soured and disrupted, first, the transport industry—

Mr. Speaker

Order. This is a Question about the right hon. Lady's engagements for today. All this business about the transport industry has nothing to do with that.

Mr. Adley

Is the right hon. Lady aware that her present activities—

Mr. Tomlinson

What a nasty little man.

Mr. Adley

—have soured and disrupted the medical services of this country? To use her own words, does she really think that the country still needs her.

Mrs. Castle

The answer to the first part of the question is "No."