4076 1991-92 550 Alan Williams 1992-01-23 That this House notes that Treasury Ministers are so embarrassed by the Government's manufacturing investment record that they are trying to hide behind the local fish and chip shop; notes that, at first, they tried to create a smoke-screen by talking about business investment which includes new office blocks even if they are standing empty, but now are skulking behind the figures for investment in plant and machinery, core investment, as if it is synonymous with manufacturing investment; points out that much of the expansion in plant and machinery has been in the service sector and reflects the change in information technology during the 1980s and includes the replacement of office typewriters by word processors as well as the computerisation of office accounts, of supermarket checkouts and even of betting shops; notes that it could include the cooking-range in a fish and chip shop and the equipment in the ubiquitous take-aways as well as agricultural tractors, oil rigs, mobile cranes and warehouse forklift trucks; notes that even office telephones, fax machines, telephone lines, electrical equipment and electrical cables can be included; calls upon Ministers to stop using statistics in a way which at best displays their own ignorance and at worst reveals the distortions they will use to disguise their and their government's failures. Alan Williams 1992-01-23 Proposed Swansea West Alan Wynne Williams 1992-01-23 Signed Carmarthen Bruce Grocott 1992-01-23 Signed Wrekin, The Graham Allen 1992-01-23 Signed Nottingham North Michael Foot 1992-01-23 Signed Blaenau Gwent Derek Fatchett 1992-01-23 Signed Leeds Central Derek Enright 1992-01-23 Signed Hemsworth Denzil Davies 1992-01-23 Signed Llanelli Rhodri Morgan 1992-01-23 Signed Cardiff West Calum MacDonald 1992-01-23 Signed Na h-Eileanan an Iar Terry Lewis 1992-01-23 Signed Worsley David Lambie 1992-01-23 Signed Cunninghame South Robert Hughes 1992-01-23 Signed Aberdeen North John Home Robertson 1992-01-23 Signed East Lothian John Smith 1992-01-23 Signed Vale of Glamorgan Dennis Skinner 1992-01-23 Signed Bolsover Norman Godman 1992-01-24 Signed Greenock and Port Glasgow Ron Davies 1992-01-24 Signed Caerphilly John Cummings 1992-01-24 Signed Easington Tom Cox 1992-01-24 Signed Tooting Ken Livingstone 1992-01-24 Signed Brent East Harry Barnes 1992-01-27 Signed North East Derbyshire Jimmy Dunnachie 1992-01-27 Signed Glasgow, Pollok Frank Cook 1992-01-27 Signed Stockton North Alan Meale 1992-01-27 Signed Mansfield William McKelvey 1992-01-27 Signed Kilmarnock & Loudoun John McAllion 1992-01-27 Signed Dundee East Peter Hardy 1992-01-27 Signed Wentworth Ernie Ross 1992-01-27 Signed Dundee West Martin Redmond 1992-01-27 Signed Don Valley John Evans 1992-01-28 Signed St Helens North Terry Davis 1992-01-28 Signed Birmingham, Hodge Hill Ronnie Campbell 1992-01-28 Signed Blyth Valley Alun Michael 1992-01-28 Signed Cardiff South & Penarth Ian McCartney 1992-01-28 Signed Makerfield Terry Patchett 1992-01-28 Signed Barnsley East John Battle 1992-01-29 Signed Leeds West Keith Bradley 1992-01-29 Signed Manchester, Withington Gordon Oakes 1992-01-29 Signed Halton Eric Illsley 1992-01-29 Signed Barnsley Central Dennis Turner 1992-01-30 Signed Wolverhampton South East Win Griffiths 1992-01-30 Signed Bridgend Tommy Graham 1992-01-30 Signed Renfrew West and Inverclyde Andrew Faulds 1992-01-30 Signed Warley East Chris Smith 1992-02-04 Signed Islington South & Finsbury Bill Michie 1992-02-04 Signed Sheffield, Heeley Edward O'Hara 1992-02-05 Signed Knowsley South Jack Thompson 1992-02-10 Signed Wansbeck Audrey Wise 1992-02-25 Signed Preston