That this House congratulates the vast majority of mainly Conservative honourable Members and the promoters of the Midland Metro Act passed during this Parliament, despite the many technical objections by Opposition honourable Members, and their small numbers, in support of this measure and of the Midland Metro Bill and Midland Metro (No. 2) Bill, thus allowing in future travel on clean, silent, pollution-free, comfortable, fast and environment-friendly light electric trains between Birmingham, Wednesbury, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Dudley and the International Convention Centre, the University, the Queen Elizabeth Centre, the city centre including the General Hospital, Birmingham Heartlands, the Waterlinks development along the A38 and the routing across the M6 via Aston, Erdington and Chelmesley Wood and hopes that the route through to the NEC and Birmingham International Station and International Airport will shortly proceed; and notes the main sponsor further looks forward to the future when the people of Yardley, Sheldon, Acocks Green, Tyseley and Hay Mills may similarly examine, decide and vote upon whether or not they wish to enjoy a similar exciting public transport system and whether, if affirmative, a preferred environmentally satisfactory route or underground route should be chosen.

That this House congratulates the vast majority of mainly Conservative honourable Members and the promoters of the Midland Metro Act passed during this Parliament, despite the many technical objections by Opposition honourable Members, and their small numbers, in support of this measure and of the Midland Metro Bill and Midland...

That this House welcomes the Chancellor's budget, with regard to the tax relief and benefits for the low paid, and particularly with regard to the immediate reduction of 50 per cent. of the special car tax, which has had immediate effect in helping the new and used car market; hopes that the government will shortly remove the other 50 per cent. for European or European-manufactured cars and make a similar concessions available for long-term car leasing by extending the value of vehicle allowance for taxation from ??8,000 to ??20,000; and welcomes the public's immediate well-disposed reaction in the increased purchase of vehicles in Birmingham, Yardley, and Britain.

That this House welcomes the Chancellor's budget, with regard to the tax relief and benefits for the low paid, and particularly with regard to the immediate reduction of 50 per cent. of the special car tax, which has had immediate effect in helping the new and used car market; hopes...

That this House welcomes the introduction and establishment in Birmingham, Yardley, of the numerous and well-supported watch movements in support of the following popular activities, street watches - the police, law and order and civil objectives (non-intervention), fire watches - teaching use of fire appliances in non-operational roles and for refurbishing canals, health watches - to teach first aid to schools, community watches - to provide mobile advice bureaux and meeting places, animal and wild life watches - to preserve and protect certain domestic and wild animal species and to observe wild life in parks, fields, forests, the sea-side, rivers, canals and other places and to ensure the public is protected from certain fierce breeds and that dogs are trained well and only bred under ideal conditions, canal watch - to encourage their proper use, both on and off water, and that of the Grand Union, the longest and one of the widest-locked in Britain, and in particular refurbish them with tourist walks and generally clean-up; notes the vehicular support availability of community buses, ambulances, fire engines, hoists, four-wheel drive vehicles and boats; and wishes them well and hopes that these voluntary unpaid people's movements will further expand in Birmingham, Yardley and Britain.

That this House welcomes the introduction and establishment in Birmingham, Yardley, of the numerous and well-supported watch movements in support of the following popular activities, street watches - the police, law and order and civil objectives (non-intervention), fire watches - teaching use of fire appliances in non-operational roles and for...

That this House reinforces the principle of free travel for West Midlands citizens in both the mornings and afternoons as introduced by the Conservative-controlled West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority and West Midlands Councils and continued by the district councils, until the revocation of the free afternoon travel periods, the imposition of a charge for the first time ever, by the current Labour-controlled Passenger Transport Authority; supports the actions of the honourable Member for Birmingham, Yardley, for the original free travel concept he brought in as a member of the City of Birmingham Transport Committee and subsequently as Chairman of other bodies; congratulates him on the introduction of free rail travel for senior citizens throughout the West Midlands, thought uniquely to be the only scheme of its kind in the world, pledges its support to this scheme remaining extant in its entirety; furthermore urges all citizens of Yardley, Birmingham and the West Midlands to oppose the Labour cuts to free transport and the Liberal vacillations in voting differently on the last three votes; and pledges support to his campaign for the reintroduction of full free travel for pensioners and others at the earliest moment.

That this House reinforces the principle of free travel for West Midlands citizens in both the mornings and afternoons as introduced by the Conservative-controlled West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority and West Midlands Councils and continued by the district councils, until the revocation of the free afternoon travel periods, the imposition...

That this House notes the rapidly declining popularity for Sunday opening of stores, supermarkets and mega-centres and their closure resulting from economic non-viability; realises that their future demand will be limited and short-seasonal; notes that the trading laws will have to be amended and rationalised in response to citizen, church and trade unionist alike; but welcomes the fact that this may be done in such a way as to allow Sunday still to be special, and people to be free to enjoy worshipping within their churches and places of worship as before and for the quiet enjoyment of their relaxation, hobbies and sports, without the massive intrusion of a universal provision of unrestricted shopping to erode traditional and Christian Sunday life.

That this House notes the rapidly declining popularity for Sunday opening of stores, supermarkets and mega-centres and their closure resulting from economic non-viability; realises that their future demand will be limited and short-seasonal; notes that the trading laws will have to be amended and rationalised in response to citizen, church...

That this House welcomes the fact that at long last the mock-up of the proposed new electric rail stock, type 323, has been unveiled by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority; regrets that its introduction will not be before November, after the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley, extracted and obtained a promise from the Chairman of British Rail that it would be fully tested prior to introduction into service; and notes the end of a continuous and critical campaign by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley, on the Transport Committee of this House to obtain the new electrified stock in replacement of the original refurbished 20-year-old stock in 1976, and after the implementation of his plan for the Cross City Line, which was planned in the 1973 report, A Transportation Plan for the West Midlands.

That this House welcomes the fact that at long last the mock-up of the proposed new electric rail stock, type 323, has been unveiled by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority; regrets that its introduction will not be before November, after the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley, extracted and obtained...

That this House congratulates all those members who have striven to keep the Birmingham General Hospital open as a full in and outpatient hospital; looks forward to its permanent retention as such, even beyond the successfully negotiated date of 1999; records its criticism of any who have not fully supported, or who have opposed, this situation by encouraging its reduction into a mini-clinic; congratulates all those who agree with both the further and full development of in-hospital facilities at both East Birmingham Hospital and the General Hospital, which is the main relief hospital and easily accessible to the former, whether by public transport or car, whereas the Queen Elizabeth Site chosen by the West Midlands Regional Hospital Board as a mega-site medical centre is geographically distant and almost impossible of access from East Birmingham in normal or emergency circumstances and whose establishment would deny further expansion at East Birmingham and disallow a main city centre hospital almost uniquely to any main city in Britain; pledges opposition to this plan, proposes its amendment and supports the General and East Birmingham Hospitals until this is achieved permanently within the National Health Service, thus allowing the people of Yardley, Acocks Green, Sheldon, Hay Mills and Tyseley equal hospital opportunity to that enjoyed by other Birmingham citizens.

That this House congratulates all those members who have striven to keep the Birmingham General Hospital open as a full in and outpatient hospital; looks forward to its permanent retention as such, even beyond the successfully negotiated date of 1999; records its criticism of any who have not fully supported,...