The hon. Gentleman might have favoured the Committee, at all events, with his views as to the state of things as they were now, and not as they were in the early part of the war, in the very Crisis of the Emergency.
Grave Emergency Crisis
The reason is, in the main, as I have said, the Emergency Crisis in which we are working and the danger of parting with some of our powers.
I do not think that it is really necessary for me to discuss any abstract principle of that kind, because, once you admit that there is a special claim on behalf of those who suffered in the Emergency Crisis of 1931, you need not discuss the merits of any other proposal at all until we have sufficient money in order to meet those claims in full and have something over to be distributed among other people.
Emergency Crisis
I hope we shall not find an Emergency Crisis arising in the next few months, in which it will be necessary for the Governor-General to use the powers given him by the Bill.
In the first place, the House ought to be aware that this Bill is renewing the original Bill of 1948 which was introduced by my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson), whereby he set up the Film Finance Corporation in order to cover an Emergency Crisis.
Great Emergency Crisis
But if they were not available in every Crisis of Emergency, we would be in a very vulnerable position.
Pending that - we press this on the right hon. Gentleman, as we have throughout all the stages of this policy - we must immediately have an Emergency Crisis tax on all profits and capital gains from land and property speculation.
He said in Cambridge that if Chancellor Anthony Barber was concerned about the effect on the revenue he should:Introduce an Emergency Crisis tax on land speculation …He said, 'Petrol and some oil products are heavily taxed.
It is crucial that we take account of all those issues and that we do not rely on Emergency Crisis talks after the event to ensure that degradation is put right.
Mr. Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on how NATO members are to be consulted on when and where the EU may act in an Emergency Crisis.
We need to ensure that we can deal with the Immediate Emergency Crisis that we have, certainly in Stoke-on-Trent.
This Bill gives the Government and the regulators the basis to deal with the Immediate Emergency Crisis - as I still call it - which it might take us two years to get out of.
The report suggests that if churches are to contribute to a long-term solution to food poverty, there is a need to rebalance church-based activity away from Emergency Crisis support and towards long-term work that tackles the underlying problem.
Alongside others set out in the report, those results suggest that if churches are to contribute to a long-term solution to food poverty, church-based activity needs to be rebalanced away from Emergency Crisis support and towards long-term work to tackle underlying problems.
Another demand is for the crisis response service to be more fit for purpose, with an effective and accountable Emergency Crisis response.