{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "EGYPT (TERRORIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Are His Majesty's Government making every effort to reopen discussions on the 1936 Treaty under Articles 8 and 16? Secondly, are His Majesty's Government aware that the diplomacy of the Prime Minister in the United States, by inviting Americans into the Canal Zone, was the diplomacy of a cave man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": " strength to deteriorate and decay, not only would our lives be impoverished, but the whole aspect of the problems confronting the free world as a whole would be irremediably worsened. We as an island cannot carry these great responsibilities without earning the means to pay for them, and it is the harsh truth that our economic position in the world has been deteriorating for about half a century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " in the latter half of 1952. It is now clear, however, that we need a further saving of about £150 million, making total savings of no less than £500 million in external expenditure per annum. It is not easy to find such essential savings without damage to some part of our economy. We shall in some cases have to use stocks acquired for the stockpile in order to reduce the current level of imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ves, and we must keep our production going full blast if we are to earn what we need. What I can say is, though, that as a result of this operation, taking commercial and strategic stocks as a whole, the reduction in 1952 will be within perfectly reasonable proportions. We fully recognise—and I am trying to set out the case to the House because we are all taking part in this housekeeping together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "e were needed to run the previous system at an administrative cost of well over £1 million, and even then it was subject to grave abuse. I have investigated this with my colleagues, very closely, and we have come to the conclusion that all this effort would bring in only £4 million in this year, 1952, and £8 million in a full year. We have therefore decided that the whole thing is not worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "reducing the basic rations on which the material for agriculture—namely, the 5,500,000 tons of coarse grain supplies for food—depend, but in many ways our daily lives will be progressively affected. In food we shall find that there will be considerable reduction—and I must warn the public of this—in a great many foodstuffs which hitherto supplemented our basic rations and gave variety to our diet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Red Meat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "y, the 5,500,000 tons of coarse grain supplies for food—depend, but in many ways our daily lives will be progressively affected. In food we shall find that there will be considerable reduction—and I must warn the public of this—in a great many foodstuffs which hitherto supplemented our basic rations and gave variety to our diet. [ Interruption. ] The most important of these are canned hams, meats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has now been kind enough to give way. It is an important point. I should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman how this inter-European trade is going to affect the E.P.U. payments. Is there any likelihood of losing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "legislation will be required, there will be ample opportunity, of which hon. Members will doubtless avail themselves, to discuss the undoubted merit of these proposals. Before leaving the social services, I will say this in general. All the steps I have announced are sincerely designed to preserve the scope and purpose of the various measures, while correcting or avoiding abuse or faulty emphasis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "rried out this year should be considerably greater than last year, and probably greater than in 1950. A tight control will have to be kept on all types of building using steel which are not of fundamental importance to the national economy. Shops and offices will be particularly affected, and the programmes for rebuilding the blitzed cities, I am very sorry to say, will have to be further delayed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ted it may be necessary to reduce output, so that resources can be transferred to other products which can be sold overseas. Third, an order will come into force this week to restrict hire purchase on such things as motor vehicles, bicycles, radio and television sets and electric appliances. Credit restriction will also limit hire purchase, which is essentially a form of living beyond one's means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major D. McCallum", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not spend it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major D. McCallum", "preceding_text": "Exchequer was speaking and my hon. Friend introduced this Bill. We listened for over an hour to a very grim story from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I, like the hon. Member for the Western Isles, cannot quite see how, immediately after the Chancellor's statement, the Government can introduce a Bill for extending the loans which the Board can obtain by another £100 million. Will it work out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Much more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ulty in getting connections made a mile or two outside the county town of Dornoch, just off the Great North Road, and even when the connections are made, although the parent Act stipulates that the communications will all be made free, the little crofters who earn an income of about £50 to £150 a year are called upon to pay a guarantee of £3 a year for a croft. I think that it is one pound a room.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.95.5", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ely correct. Hydro-electric schemes in Scotland have cost about £94 million, and for that sum a total of 282,900 kilowatts of electric power is being provided which, on the basis of 1,000 kilowatts to one megawatt, equals 283 megawatts of electric power to date. That means that the installed capital cost of one kilowatt of power from hydro-electric schemes of Scotland is no less than ₣332.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.95.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-29", "file": "debates1952-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b12f4de4ea144d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "hese hydro-electric schemes are capable of providing electric power for just a small part of the United Kingdom—which is undoubtedly so, but it is a very small part—in addition to the needs of the local residents, then there is, on grounds of coal economy alone a case for justifying a six times higher capital expenditure to get the electric power, instead of paying American dollars to import coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-29a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Well, we did not do very well last year for a variety of reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.186.5", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL CAR SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that reply, because the Prime Minister said categorically, in his answer recently, that official cars would be available for Ministers only for journeys within seven miles of Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.189.4", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When Lord Alexander becomes Minister of Defence on 1st March, the present arrangement will continue whereby the Chiefs of Staff advise the Minister of Defence, and, through him, the Government as a whole, on military matters. A Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence will be appointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.189.6", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not think that any difficulty will arise from that. There are lots of people who have been employed in political office who have had professional military experience. Even I myself was nearly five years a cadet and a lieutenant in the Army, and I have frequently interfered in civilian matters. I do not think any difficulties will arise. Lord Alexander is, of course, a civilian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.189.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There are great arguments whether there should be such personalities as hereditary Peers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—for one of the most—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:—\"The United Nations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ould make the United States Government feel that we meant to be their good comrades at the council board, as our Commonwealth Division and Naval and Air Forces have proved themselves to be in the field of action. The House is aware that for six months negotiations for a truce have been going on between the United States and the Chinese Communist Government. We do not know whether the negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The United States.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ant to be their good comrades at the council board, as our Commonwealth Division and Naval and Air Forces have proved themselves to be in the field of action. The House is aware that for six months negotiations for a truce have been going on between the United States and the Chinese Communist Government. We do not know whether the negotiations—[HON. MEMBERS:—\"The United Nations.\"]—what did I say?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "Air Forces have proved themselves to be in the field of action. The House is aware that for six months negotiations for a truce have been going on between the United States and the Chinese Communist Government. We do not know whether the negotiations—[HON. MEMBERS:—\"The United Nations.\"]—what did I say?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The United States.\"]—between the United States on behalf of the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.198.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ing the right hon. Gentleman to give away his taxation proposals. Had he said to us, \"Well, I am not dealing with the subject of Government expenditure today, because that is all part of the Budget,\" we should have understood it; but what he did was to pick out certain items of Government expenditure where there were to be cuts and to give the House the impression that there would be nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.227.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "All Tory.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend allow me? There are four counties altogether—Buckingham, Cornwall, Northumberland and Somerset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "t we must hold the position. We did not, therefore, in the circumstances feel able to go beyond a small increase for the Health Service of£7 million, which left it at the£400 million figure. I do not believe myself that that was unfair. I do not believe that the charges that we imposed—the part charges that we imposed—of course, I know some of my hon. and right hon. Friends do not agree with this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "e. I do not believe myself that that was unfair. I do not believe that the charges that we imposed—the part charges that we imposed—of course, I know some of my hon. and right hon. Friends do not agree with this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Yes, but I am entitled to express my views on this. I do not believe that hardship was caused. I do not believe that there has been any very serious reaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.230.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ent that exists in part of the textile industry. I am well aware of some of the causes, like the slowing up of demand, not only in this country but in many other parts of the world as well. One thing which has a very great bearing on it is the manner in which the textile industry has been tied up in the complexities of Purchase Tax and utility control until it can hardly move one way or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ecure that end. I am not here to lecture on what everybody ought to do. The vast majority of the people in this country are beginning to recognise what it is which confronts us. If I were an industrialist at this moment I would ask myself whether there was not any means at all whereby I could expand exports a little and find a new market. All of us probably have to work a little harder and longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And children's teeth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " at the present time and a very serious situation developing—at the very same moment when Japan is shipping freely to China because Japan is in the American sphere of influence. These are things to which the right hon. Gentleman should be giving his mind, because they have a more direct and important relevance to our economic situation than these charges on abdominal belts and deaf aids and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Sir Walter Monckton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Sir Walter Monckton)", "preceding_text": "e ascertained at once—to show that I intended no discourtesy to the House—why my assumption was not correct. To the best of my knowledge and information the Order was laid yesterday with the appropriate copies for another place and this House, the Library, the Vote Office and the Votes and Proceedings Office. There is, I understand, a great accumulation of Statutory Instruments, and if the result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "es. I have already dealt with restrictions on imports of furniture, clothing, and so on, which are bound to lead to an increase in inflationary pressure. It is quite right to limit civil expenditure, to cut out waste, and to postpone those things which can be postponed without doing irreparable damage. But now I come to a matter of which I cannot approve, the charging of the 1s. for prescriptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "the world, feeling its way in and out of the Albert Dock. That is where dull statistics come to life, and where the Chancellor's measures either succeed or fail. That great problem of restoring as quickly and as far as possible the flow of goods from this country is the only justification of the cuts and other unfortunate measures we have had to take ever since we took over this damnosa hereditas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "That statement is quite untrue and I do not propose to follow it. The cuts were admitted to be necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "worthy of the hon. Gentleman. Is a cut in dividends a fall in the standard of living as understood by the Socialists? Furthermore, let me put to hon. Members opposite a point which was made by the former President of the Board of Trade, the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson). He said that there would be no hope for us unless we can have a fairer share of raw materials with the Americans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am not asking about history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government have done that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am not asking about history. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I am asking hon. Members opposite what they would do tonight. Are they prepared to go back to their constituents and say, \"To have fair shares with the Indians, you must accept cuts of three-quarters in your rations\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "o it. The speech of the hon. Member who preceded me was typical of the danger that faces us in this debate: we are forgetting the background of the cuts in discussing the details of the proposals. I should like to remind hon. Members of one or two of the factors that have caused the present proposals to be brought forward. We all know that since 1939 this country has been living beyond its income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.5", "colnum": "294", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "en the economic herrenvolk. He has had a higher standard of life than anyone else and the privileges we have enjoyed as a race are going; they are going inevitably and going for ever. Hon. Members must realise that two-thirds of the world's population, even today, are living at one-seventh of our standard. Put in terms of rations, we eat as much in one day as two-thirds of the world eat in a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.5", "colnum": "294", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "em. The United Nations Association, a week or two ago, issued a pamphlet on world food production which showed that since 1936 world food production has increased by only 7 per cent., but in the meantime world population has increased by about 15 per cent. There is less food to go to a bigger number of people and the disinherited peoples of the world are demanding a fairer and better distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.294.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "lar products. I am bound to say that I should have thought that the Conservative Party, before they came into Government, were committed thoroughly against these measures and I cannot see how it is possible for them to come along now and say, \"These are the ideal weapons from our point of view.\" They fought bitterly, throughout an all-night Sitting, the proposal to do away with initial allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never buy at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": " true. Nor do I think that the repetition of all the nonsense talked by any of the parties when they were in opposition will make the slightest difference to the man in the workshop. I have one comment to make on the cut in the \"never-never.\" I must say I think it is a good thing. Surely it is better that people should afford what they buy than that they should risk buying what they cannot afford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That's a good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "annot really test their validity until we see the Chancellor's Budget. I think that he would admit that himself. If he can satisfy us on 4th March—I do not think he can well satisfy us before that date—that these proposals will achieve that purpose, I believe that the British people will not jib if many of the proposals are harsh and unpleasant and even if some of them are not wholly equalitarian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ho was then returning from America, were the dominating themes in our minds. They said, \"What will the Chancellor say on Tuesday? We will do our best to co-operate here.\" I rejoice that this is a Commonwealth effort to defend Commonwealth currency. That should give us heart and pride in meeting our difficulties. I will offer my congratulations to the Chancellor on his broadcast. I did not hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-30", "file": "debates1952-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "9a7411df55600867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "MANPOWER AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "ncluding the top levels. Profits come too easily. Controls have had a softening effect. One can detect it right through the whole of a plant. Do not forget that men know the reason why. They know more about one's business sometimes, than one could possibly imagine. We shall never get right in the country until we have that bracing and refreshing breeze of open competition back in British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-30a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that any alteration in this scheme that throws up high prices without any protection of standards—which means shoddy articles for high prices—will receive the utmost opposition from housewives? May I warn him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.341.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.359.7", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUPREME COMMANDER, ATLANTIC", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Robert Ryder", "preceding_text": "Is not it a fact that the Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Atlantic, will find himself in the unusual position of having no shore base under his own command? Is not that an unusual arrangement in the history of naval commands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.359.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.359.8", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUPREME COMMANDER, ATLANTIC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no obligation on a Minister to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.359.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "preceding_text": "0 years, and, of course, the main factor has been the effect of two world wars. But for the last six years, with a few honourable exceptions, there has been a steady attempt to say that all the difficulties were due to the Labour Government, and no one has done that more than the Prime Minister. Over and over again he has attributed all our difficulties to Socialist policy or Socialist ineptitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "preceding_text": " until we have a better position in regard to world reserves. One important factor is the immense amount of gold lying in America which ought to be backing currencies all over the world. I suggest, therefore, that we have to look at this crisis as one of the recurring crises, and a crisis that will recur with a Conservative Government, because it is not due fundamentally to domestic policies here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You knew.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "his financial position, which are brought in for unknown reasons by the Government and which all have a definite tendency of a class nature. Finally, in our Amendment, we challenge the Government because the actions they are taking today are contradictions of the statements they made when they went to the electorate. It is no good saying this kind of thing: \"We never knew that things were so bad.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock), that the grim bequest to which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell), referred yesterday was any responsibility of the Conservative Government. This is not our crisis. Our part in it is the responsibility for clearing it up. I am sorry, too, as one who does hold a very sincere admiration for the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Save that up for the next Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell), referred yesterday was any responsibility of the Conservative Government. This is not our crisis. Our part in it is the responsibility for clearing it up. I am sorry, too, as one who does hold a very sincere admiration for the right hon. Gentleman—[ Interruption. ]—I am sorry if hon. Gentlemen opposite do not share that admiration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "hat admiration—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Save that up for the next Election.\"]—that he should have tempered the support which he said he gave to the body of the proposals of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the suggestion that there was a class element in them. I shall certainly seek to deal with that statement in the course of the remarks that I hope to make. I am not at all clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not going to be allowed to elude the issue. Those are his words in column 226 of the OFFICIAL REPORT. He said he was holding civil expenditure at its present level. I am bound to say that that is not such a tremendous achievement, in the light of the promises of the sweeping cuts which were going to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ch which he himself made at Manchester, and I think that speech does throw some light upon the attitude which the Opposition are adopting to the present emergency. As reported in the \"Manchester Guardian\" of 21st January, the right hon. Gentleman said that when tackling the problem of overseas payments, the Labour Government did not whine like the Conservatives were doing, but got on with the job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "light upon the attitude which the Opposition are adopting to the present emergency. As reported in the \"Manchester Guardian\" of 21st January, the right hon. Gentleman said that when tackling the problem of overseas payments, the Labour Government did not whine like the Conservatives were doing, but got on with the job—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"]—I hope hon. Gentlemen will cheer the next sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "crisis. Indeed, it was the whole essence, tone and theme of his speech that this was a matter which had been grossly exaggerated. The right hon. Gentleman cannot come to that Box and say that he warned the people of this country of the gravity of the crisis. The right hon. Member for Leeds, South, takes credit for having warned, I think, the Lord Mayor of London and certain bankers on 3rd October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ty of the crisis. The right hon. Member for Leeds, South, takes credit for having warned, I think, the Lord Mayor of London and certain bankers on 3rd October. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is to his credit that he did so, but what is significant is that that is a clear indication that, during the days of the late Government, at least the right hon. Member for Leeds, South, knew what the situation was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged. The right hon. Gentleman's reaction to the situation, of which, at any rate, the right hon. Member for Leeds, South, knew, was to advise the dissolution of Parliament. It does not very well become an Opposition whose reaction to the gathering storm was to seek to be relieved of their responsibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Count the votes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "e situation, of which, at any rate, the right hon. Member for Leeds, South, knew, was to advise the dissolution of Parliament. It does not very well become an Opposition whose reaction to the gathering storm was to seek to be relieved of their responsibilities—[ Interruption. ] Well, I do not suppose that the most optimistic hon. Gentleman opposite thought they were going to win the last Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ome an Opposition whose reaction to the gathering storm was to seek to be relieved of their responsibilities—[ Interruption. ] Well, I do not suppose that the most optimistic hon. Gentleman opposite thought they were going to win the last Election. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Count the votes.\"] It surely does not lie in their mouths, when their reaction to this emergency was to abandon their responsibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " content to be judged, not by the immediate reaction to measures taken in the first few months, but by the sum total of the results of our efforts. And I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman really expects any British Government to be deterred from doing the things that they believe to be necessary because in the first few months of office they do not succeed in carrying out all the pledges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.388.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "announced is the reduction of the import of tobacco with direct relevance to the balance of payments position, as the right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well. And I gather that it is not contended that that, at any rate, is irrelevant, unnecessary or unfair. What about the cut in the tourist allowance, which saves £12,500,000 a year? Is it asserted that that is irrelevant, unnecessary or unfair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.389.5", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank the miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says so, but his right hon. Friends are silent about that. Is the cessation of the imports of coal regarded as irrelevant, unnecessary or unfair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.389.5", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "r for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) has told us that he was never sincere about it; that it was a manœuvre. Is it the contention that this was a manuœvre in which all right hon. Gentlemen opposite were involved; that they were simply making a fool of the House of Commons? Is it irrelevant, unnecessary and unfair to suggest to local education authorities cuts in their educational expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.389.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Specify them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Wells", "preceding_text": "Which we could afford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "thought was a most unworthy remark, said that we were right by accident and that our action was not taken for any very reputable reasons—a remark which was not only out of order at the time but which was a shameful remark for a right hon. Gentleman to make about another right hon. Gentleman who had seen fit, in the interest of the country, to put his resignation in the hands of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And by your own side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "edented impracticable exertion on a weak constitution. That is exactly what is happening in Europe at the present time. These physical facts reflect themselves quite naturally in the physical ill-balance between our own economy and that of the United States of America. When I said in my speech that we were influenced by the lurchings of the American economy, I was derided by hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " that is the difference. When the Leader of the Opposition complained today, as he so rightly did, about the Prime Minister's behaviour, he was quite justified. The party opposite inherits the balance of payments crisis; of course it does. It may say that it inherited it from us, but it inherited it from the British capitalist system. We were not in charge of the British economy; it was the F.B.I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many houses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "cial crisis, but if we had not taken the steps that we did we should today be facing not a financial crisis of £450 million or £500 million on our balance of payments but stark, physical ruin. In the course of the last six and a half years, how many power stations did we build? The British industry is now consuming more than twice the current it did before the war. How many factories did we build?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " Those are some of the physical facts to which right hon. Gentleman opposite must have regard, but there are some others, and that is why I am not in favour of leaving economic planning to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is preoccupied with annual arithmetic, and not only that, for he is also preoccupied with a recurrent crisis; and then he comes along, like other Chancellors of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "ar in an agricultural community, we must have an annual Budget, although in a modern industrial society the annual crops are an insignificant proportion of total production and no balance sheet today corresponds with the actual facts. That is the reason why my right hon. Friend—I do not blame him for this; he was the inheritor of the convention, although he followed it with conspicuous enthusiasm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " an extremely able man. We all know that he is, but the greatest possible ability cannot prevail against the myopia of the Treasury. That was why at the end of the last Cabinet my right hon. Friend, the then Prime Minister, appointed a Minister of Raw Materials. I thought then it was inadequate and entirely the wrong kind of appointment. I apologise for taking up the time of the House for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "e proper surveys made? We have borings made by the Minister of Fuel and Power, who is continually discovering more coal than he can produce. Almost every week a new coalfield is being discovered. No new miners have been discovered. I would have thought that the first thing to be done would be an exhaustive survey by modern methods of the raw material possibilities of Britain. It has not been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " and Power, who is continually discovering more coal than he can produce. Almost every week a new coalfield is being discovered. No new miners have been discovered. I would have thought that the first thing to be done would be an exhaustive survey by modern methods of the raw material possibilities of Britain. It has not been done. [ Interruption. ] I am not making a party political speech at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.393.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.402.5", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am already delaying the House too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.402.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.402.7", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That has been answered over and over again. Hon. Gentlemen should not abuse the right of interruption merely in order to carry on the debate. That is not the purpose of interruption. The purpose of interruption is to clarify a point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.402.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.402.7", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "answered over and over again. Hon. Gentlemen should not abuse the right of interruption merely in order to carry on the debate. That is not the purpose of interruption. The purpose of interruption is to clarify a point. [ Laughter. ] I must say that whatever complaint may be found in me, I thought I was being clear. I say to the Prime Minister: He says in the war he called me a \"squalid nuisance.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.402.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.403.5", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.403.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.403.6", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that he is not running down stocks dangerously. That is no use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.403.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.403.6", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "of children are treated in the general service. Indeed, it was always the intention that the general health service should absorb the school dental service, because the general health service is more competent and brings a wider experience to bear on the matter than the narrow confined experiences of the school dental services. I was going to say one or two more things, but I have talked too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.403.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That is an unworthy remark. All I can say to the hon. Member is that the ex-Service men in my constituency have more confidence in me than they have in him. I certainly look after their interests better than he and his colleagues. I should like to know from the Chancellor whether he is going to make ex-Service men pay the prescription charge and the other charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e poor. We found that the exemptions that ought to be made reduced the figure to de minimis proportions, and therefore it was not worth having all the expensive administrative machinery in order to do it. We kept the Health Service, therefore, intact. I beg and pray the Government to reconsider what they are doing. They are producing in the country a wave of hostility. They have no mandate for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " financial crisis or a devaluation or a cut. It is only a coincidence that these medical abuses were discovered about the same time that we had one of the crises of the capitalist system. I do not think anyone will believe the right hon. Gentleman on this point.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th December, 1949, Vol. 470, c. 2268–9.] That was the testimony to his credibility by a supporter at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not a supporter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "ime that we had one of the crises of the capitalist system. I do not think anyone will believe the right hon. Gentleman on this point.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th December, 1949, Vol. 470, c. 2268–9.] That was the testimony to his credibility by a supporter at the time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was it?\"] He was a former hon. and learned Member, Mr. D. N. Pritt, who was a close associate in many ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Blyton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Blyton", "preceding_text": "thers and daughters of miners, from executive committees and from the National Union, protesting at this insulting and nonsensical statement of the hon. Member for Garston (Mr. Raikes). It was not only an insulting statement; it was a disgraceful statement. He stated, according to the Press, that the miners will not take Italians in the villages because they are afraid of the Italians' sex appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Raikes", "preceding_text": "y persons within the mining area, I should be—as indeed I am—the first to regret it; but I want to have justice. When making that speech—which was a long and rather serious speech, from which one phrase was taken—I did feel that, in view of the difficulties which we had seen during the war in every area where there was a concentration of young fellows, there was a danger that such a concentration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I certainly do not agree with the implications of that remark. If we do not solve this problem, if the ship goes down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Cripps, speaking at the dinner of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said that we must export more cars and there must be fewer on the home market. There were objections and criticisms. Fortunately, the leaders of that great industry, very responsible people, co-operated with the Government, and they did a magnificent job in exporting cars. Some other industries have not done so well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Hobson", "preceding_text": "of our own people. I am very doubtful as to the intentions of hon. Gentlemen opposite regarding education. If they cut down on the technical school development they will strike a blow at the efficiency and skill of our work-people. During the General Election, whatever they may or may not say now, hon. Gentlemen opposite certainly did promise the people an easy time if they were returned to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Hobson", "preceding_text": " the people an easy time if they were returned to power—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Oh yes, we had statements over the radio about more red meat and reductions in taxation, and that the shortage of food was due entirely to the stupidity of the late Government. One thing has been proved by this debate and by the announcement of the cuts, and that is that one cannot fool all the people all the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "not convinced of that the Chancellor may win his first battle by September and lose it afterwards. I draw upon my memory—and I make no apology for drawing upon my memory and upon my experience—of a crisis in which wrong, stupid, panicky methods were used that did untold damage to this country, and from which we are still suffering. I refer to my memory of 1931. In 1931, in a mood of panic, we cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They still are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "in which wrong, stupid, panicky methods were used that did untold damage to this country, and from which we are still suffering. I refer to my memory of 1931. In 1931, in a mood of panic, we cut—[ Interruption .] It is no good hon. Members laughing at this. This is true. I speak of a period now when I was privileged—and it was a privilege—to be a leader of men who were among the salt of the earth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "f 1931. In 1931, in a mood of panic, we cut—[ Interruption .] It is no good hon. Members laughing at this. This is true. I speak of a period now when I was privileged—and it was a privilege—to be a leader of men who were among the salt of the earth—[An HON. MEMBER: \"They still are.\"]—who believed, and who still believe, that the 1931 crisis was used to attack them and lower their standard of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.470.5", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. It was a Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "It is of interest that the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Crookshank), who is to reply to the debate, was one who at the time had to bear some of the Ministerial burden for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Yes, there was a Conservative Government when the right hon. Gentleman was Minister for Mines, and when the mining industry of this country and the coal miners of this country—not alone—were suffering from the consequences of 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " modifications which were to be made in the Health Service was that the late Government proposed them reluctantly, whereas the present Government were making them enthusiastically. I was one of those who agreed with the modifications in the Health Service very reluctantly. I confess that I agreed most reluctantly to the first modification which we considered, which was the 1s. prescription charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " Vol. 256, c. 297.] Those words were used from this Box 21 years ago, and they are equally true now. Nobody wants to exact sacrifices or to place burdens, but the country was warned that this might be necessary. This morning I re-read the broadcast speech which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made in opening the recent election campaign. \"We make no promises\" said the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That is not correct. I accepted the estimate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "as having said, at the Blackpool Labour Party Conference in 1949: The language of priorities is the religion of Socialism. Here, Sir, \"I am holier than thou.\" The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition said he could not quite understand how there would be any savings on this issue if, as a result, it diverted more of the children back to the school dental service. The answer to that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I think the Leader of the House is wrongly informed. I have here information to the effect that Buckinghamshire have decided to cut down by £5,000 and Somerset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I imagine that this is a case of early estimating because the dentists are not available at the moment, but the fact still remains, and I will say a word on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I imagine that this is a case of early estimating because the dentists are not available at the moment, but the fact still remains, and I will say a word on that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I have a lot to say, but I am prepared to postpone all of it. I pass now to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.482.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.482.7", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I have no reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.482.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By the doctors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "tion are incorrect. In any case, I was not referring to the County of Kent, because that was not mentioned last night; I was dealing with what was mentioned last night. Now just one word about prescriptions. The fact remains that the consumption of medicine has risen enormously. Even the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition said this afternoon that there were undoubted cases of abuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "o be only a fraction of what it was in 1950 and at the end of this year the position will probably still be better than it was in 1950. Yesterday it was suggested that perhaps the measures we were taking were inadequate to stem the drain on our gold and dollar reserves. We must recognise that it is a very grave situation and it is still potentially dangerous. All is not over after today's debate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-01-31", "file": "debates1952-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f92d7610a4997ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I am responsible, there is to be a Bill and there will be further discussions when all the details can be thrashed out. But on the grave issue with which we are faced today there is just this to say. It is, indeed, unprecedentedly serious. The Opposition in their Amendment accuse us of attacking the social services, a point with which I have dealt. They say they have no confidence in a Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-01-31a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-01", "file": "debates1952-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "23a328d1d70ac7ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-01a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFAMATION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " to the law of England, and ultimately damages which I considered punitive were awarded against me. My argument is that Scottish papers, both national and local, are entitled to to be tried according to the laws of Scotland, which are infinitely more reasonable and more just on this question than are the laws of England. Therefore, I suggest that I have produced what I consider a prima facie case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-01a.555.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-04", "file": "debates1952-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1fb80c4ee310917a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-04a.629.5", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If, in the opinion of the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, the answer is a good one, will he now say whether this is an objective which he hopes to realise at an early date or whether it is to be put off until a remote date?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-04a.629.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-04", "file": "debates1952-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1fb80c4ee310917a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-04a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "GRAIN PRODUCTION (NEW PLOUGHING GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let us have the statement.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Christopher Peto", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister say from what date this subsidy will start and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-04a.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-04", "file": "debates1952-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1fb80c4ee310917a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-04a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "o draw the attention of the right hon. and learned Gentleman today is that about which I have so often had to speak in the House, and I sincerely hope now that more attention will be paid to it. I have the satisfaction, however, of knowing that it is one of the problems that the Council for Wales has dealt with. I dealt with it also and made a pretty full inquiry throughout Wales in 1938 and 1939.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-04a.669.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I always thought that when a Prime Minister visited another country and had discussions with the leading statesmen of that country, that came under the heading of \"foreign affairs.\" I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman is aware that the general expectation was that he would amplify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must be perfectly well aware that he made that statement at our request in order to clear up certain points, if possible, and that it was generally understood that he would make a full statement later. The whole purpose of this debate is that the right hon. Gentleman should make a full statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ink it is a good idea in general that, as the world scene is so troubled, the Foreign Secretary should open the two-day debate on foreign affairs. When I have been in opposition there have been occasions when I have wished that it should be so and that we should not have to wait until the last phase of the discussion to have a glimmering of an idea of what the Government's foreign policy might be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ccasions when I have wished that it should be so and that we should not have to wait until the last phase of the discussion to have a glimmering of an idea of what the Government's foreign policy might be. [ Interruption. ] I am not reproaching the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South, but he really must not be so sensitive so early in our proceedings. There is a long way to go yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " followed the negotiations on the Schuman Plan knows how true that is and how important the Saar is to the general balance of production in that part of Europe. There is, of course, a political problem too, but I am sure it is not beyond the ability of statecraft to solve it. A number of suggestions have already been canvassed but I think I am wiser not to mention them to the House at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I think the position is really clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "r basis of discussion as the first approach. That is why in all this business, as the House will have seen if it has watched what I have tried to do, I have left the position open so that we can get Four-Power discussions opened if that be the best means of making some further progress ourselves towards further international agreement. Before I leave that topic, there is a much more difficult one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I have not the details of the statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.831.4", "colnum": "831", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I accept what the hon. Member says. All I can say is that in my experience, and I have checked this as best I can with our authorities in the United States, I did not and my right hon. Friend did not hear any statements of that kind made to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.831.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.831.4", "colnum": "831", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ecked this as best I can with our authorities in the United States, I did not and my right hon. Friend did not hear any statements of that kind made to us. [ Laughter. ] I do not know why hon. Members should laugh at that. I am trying to give the House a fair impression of what my right hon. Friend and I heard. In some quarters there is such anti-American prejudice that they will hardly listen to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.831.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"SO do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "If I became slightly exasperated, that was not my intention, but I do feel very deeply on this topic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "ly as I could, and earlier it seemed to me that there was much greater dubiety in what he said to the effect that if the third alternative occurs—the breakdown of the talks—we do not propose to let our enemy in Korea know what we intend to do. Now he has just told us that if that third contingency arises, his view is the same as that of the Opposition. Can we take it that he does support our view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "No. But the mere fact that that was dragged into the speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I did not think that it was the official view of the Conservatives that we should have stayed in Abadan by force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Over there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " some of my colleagues will deal with them, if it is thought to be necessary, and because this debate was specifically brought forward so that we might clear up this matter of what really happened on the Prime Minister's visit to the United States. Let me say that there is nothing I dislike more than the kind of stupid anti-Americanism which one can find in people of various kinds in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "Members must agree that in our present Foreign Secretary, in regard to both experience and stature, we are brilliantly served. Should there be a Division tomorrow night, it will very much please the Communists everywhere, and any person or party who plays into the hands of the Communists or plays their game will be watched with the greatest interest in America. In fact, they are being watched now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " right hon. and hon. Members opposite. There is not too fanciful a parallel to be drawn with the circumstances of our domestic policies of the last few weeks, when hon. Members opposite have also raised great public concern by the interpretations which they chose to put upon the education policy in regard to the continuance of the school age. Ultimately, their fears have been found to be baseless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "It would hardly be the fault of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.880.5", "colnum": "880", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Certainly I will answer the hon. Member. In international affairs, as in human affairs generally, it is seldom that, viewed in the light of history and wisdom and experience, total blame, or total credit, attaches to any one party. There are very few transactions in history in which, if it were possible, we would not make some alteration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.880.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Hitler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "f a general war—a fear so deeply, widely and naturally held by all peoples, especially the democratic peoples of the world—I do not think that general war normally starts because any nation or any Government desires it. Not even a totalitarian and expansionist Government consciously desires a general war. A general war normally comes by miscalculation. It was so in the case of Louis XIV, Napoleon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ntial election. It would be weakening to American action and administration if we were to sacrifice bipartisan foreign policy in this country at this time, because it would tempt the Americans in their weakest hour. I think it is right to say that the extreme Right in the United States and the extreme Left in this country \"boxed the compass\" of political myopia. In effect, they are in an alliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If that is what it means, we shall always have it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Yes, a bi-partisan policy means encouraging what is good and seeking to point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "er to modern ideas in the whole of China is the pneumatic tyre. The Chinese used to have to pull his hand-cart on solid wooden wheels, literally by the sweat of his brow. Now, in nearly every village, we find that almost every cart has pneumatic tyres. The lot of the Chinese is enormously alleviated thereby. That was the greatest factor in awakening in his mind a desire for better material things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.901.3", "colnum": "901", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " for I agreed to differ when I was in America—with the American point of view on many of these things, but there is a change taking place in American sentiment. Naturally, I do not move in the same circles as the Prime Minister and those who went with him, but I have gone regularly every year to America, and I have contacts there at every level, including men amongst the labour leaders in America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take his pants off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "That is just the kind of cheap, \"smart-alec\" remark we would expect from the hon. Member. A moment ago I treated his intervention with courtesy. I gave way because I thought he was making a serious point. If he wants to play that game I can assure him that I can give as good as I get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-05", "file": "debates1952-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "10c387b0e9b1f997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Irvine", "preceding_text": "s elements in American life. It is wrong to assume that because the Prime Minister's foreign policy has been proved to have been very nearly correct between the two world wars—which, in the light of events, I would concede—he is right now. At least, it does not follow; it may be an indication which one should take into account, but it does not follow that because he was right then he is right now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-05a.919.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-07", "file": "debates1952-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba559611b07305f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-07a.946.17", "colnum": "946", "heading": "DEATH OF KING GEORGE VI", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the House will think it right for me to send suitable replies to those messages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-07a.946.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-08", "file": "debates1952-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e0ac46a876147de3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-08a.951.18", "colnum": "951", "heading": "DEATH OF KING GEORGE VI", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the House will think it right for me to send suitable replies to these messages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-08a.951.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman sure that when Colonel Keevil called this conference he was calling it in his capacity as a Home Guard commander and not in his capacity as President of the East Surrey Conservative Association?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.9.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.12.5", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "Compassionate postings were abolished in January, 1947.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.12.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.12.7", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's allegations are quite unworthy of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.12.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I see the former Minister of Defence nodding his head. With all these men overseas, if they ask for a compassionate posting, where are we to post them? There is no unit in England to which they can be posted. Therefore, a different system, equally sympathetic to hard cases, has been introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "With regard to the latter part of that Question, General Erskine issued a statement on 21st January in which Sister Anthony's death was attributed to terrorists. I am convinced that the findings of the court support General Erskine's statement, but, as I have said, to produce concrete proof of this matter would be a question of publishing the contents of a court of inquiry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.14.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "l Erskine issued a statement on 21st January in which Sister Anthony's death was attributed to terrorists. I am convinced that the findings of the court support General Erskine's statement, but, as I have said, to produce concrete proof of this matter would be a question of publishing the contents of a court of inquiry —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"]— which is against all past precedent and procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.14.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "As it is clear that very often junior N.C.Os. in training units tend to exceed their authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Am I entitled to answer the Minister's question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES, &C.) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "The very small amount asked for is for two judges to get an extra £500 each. At present the ordinary judges are only getting£3,000", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "d one to which we ought to be able to give some serious attention. The Bill was printed in March, 1951. I missed it at the time because it was printed with one of the most charming notes I have ever seen appended to an Act of Parliament. There was a specific invitation by my right hon. Friend for us to write and make any suggestions as to what to do with the Income Tax Acts, and I am bound to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you write?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "ought to be able to give some serious attention. The Bill was printed in March, 1951. I missed it at the time because it was printed with one of the most charming notes I have ever seen appended to an Act of Parliament. There was a specific invitation by my right hon. Friend for us to write and make any suggestions as to what to do with the Income Tax Acts, and I am bound to say—[ Laughter .] Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "hat had my attention been called to that I would have made suggestions as to the disposal of the matter, which, no doubt, would be out of order if delineated with any regularity on the Second Reading of the Bill. Unfortunately, another thing has happened—and here I want to make a serious point. I am sorry that my hon. Friend the Member for Ayrshire, South (Mr. Emrys Hughes) is not here to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "ny other promise—to allow the reputed quart and the reputed pint, the easiest way of making cheap money in the brewing industry, to remain. Why else has there been this change in policy. Why, when one Government have undertaken to remove from legislation the reputed quart and the reputed pint, should the present Government now go back and put it into the first Consolidation Measure they introduce?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Price", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. and learned Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing) is not here, as I want to make two comments on what he said at the end of his rather ingenious and ingenuous speech. He suggested that there was a loophole in the law by means of which the brewers were able to evade the payment of £12 million per year in duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINERS' WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "preceding_text": " commission to provide, where reasonably possible, for taking baths and drying clothes—in the almost historic words of that Act. When I was looking up this matter I could not help being somewhat amused, as the House may be, to find in HANSARD the following extract from the speech of Colonel Lane Fox: Part III deals with the question of pithead baths, and provides for the setting up of those baths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.145.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE AND AUXILIARY FORCES (TRAINING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Although I have not the actual figures with me, it has been repeated over and over again in this House that at the time when the figures were highest, Regular recruiting was lowest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE AND AUXILIARY FORCES (TRAINING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am opposed to this Statutory Instrument. One of the reasons is that I want to know exactly what the operations contemplated in it cost last year. When we have been asked to economise in all spheres of national expenditure we should certainly have a statement of exactly what this elaborate operation costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE AND AUXILIARY FORCES (TRAINING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "nk, apart from the question of principle, whether we are getting real value from military training by calling up men for 15 days. I do not believe that the military Members on the other side of the House really believe that there is any substantial increase in the efficiency of the Armed Forces by this 15 days a year business. I am not of course an expert, but I am guided by hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE AND AUXILIARY FORCES (TRAINING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-19", "file": "debates1952-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce902cd41a5d72e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE AND AUXILIARY FORCES (TRAINING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Head", "preceding_text": "That is twisting debating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-19a.186.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.203.10", "colnum": "203", "heading": "DEATH OF KING GEORGE VI", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No doubt the House would desire me to send a suitable reply to this message.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.203.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.204.14", "colnum": "204", "heading": "DEATH OF KING GEORGE VI", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "s today. A number of Members objected to the Glamorgan County Council Bill, of whom I was one. Several Members around me objected, but you proceeded to put the Question that it be read a Second time. There was a good deal of noise and I turned to the hon. Member sitting next to me and said, \"Is he putting the Question on the Glamorgan County Council Bill?\" He said, \"No,\" and, because of the noise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.204.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.205.2", "colnum": "205", "heading": "DEATH OF KING GEORGE VI", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. It is not competent to vote at that time because it is the time of non-contentious Business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.205.2", "colnum": "205", "heading": "DEATH OF KING GEORGE VI", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. It is not competent to vote at that time because it is the time of non-contentious Business. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is Business which cannot be voted against. The difficulty was that there was so much noise from that end of the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.205.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "sation with the Franco Government is a matter for consideration by all the 12 Powers in that Organisation? Will he not, therefore, make efforts to see that this matter is put on the agenda as soon as possible and press it even more urgently in view of the atrocities which have been taking place in Spain during the last few days where innocent men have been sent to their death for political crimes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.224.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "d certainly be very unpopular with other of my hon. Friends who wish to speak. The profits were £120 million more than the total wages paid to 640,000 full-time agricultural workers working a 47-hour week. Is my right hon. Friend suggesting that there is a good deal more labour in this industry other than the 640,000? The farmer is in precisely the same position as I am on the question of profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.263.9", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I would like to go on at some length, but I dare not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.263.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Turnover.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "That the efficient farmer is in just as good a position as the quarry owner to make a six-figure profit a year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"About £8.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "t only do they make no allowance for the management services or for interest upon capital, but all those matters ought really to be taken out of account before we get the figure which is labelled as profit. In addition, what happens to the man who this year has bought a calf, which he will keep to sell three years hence for fat meat? That calf cost him more money. I do not know the current price —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.309.5", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PASTURE ACREAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Speaker, but I was drawn into an argument by the hon. Gentleman. I merely ask that the Opposition should come clean on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "ortage of staff, and in case anybody on the other side of the House should hasten to make capital out of a Conservative argument for more civil servants, may I say that that is precisely what I am doing, because this is a commercial Department and not an ordinary Government Department. It is quite unlike all other Government Departments. This particular Department operates as a commercial concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Post Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "vate trader. The Socialist Party are equally proud of it. It is, after all, a public enterprise, and, perhaps what is still more remarkable about it, a successful public enterprise. It is remarkable in the sense that the Minister responsible has been accused of making it too profitable, and I know of no other Minister responsible for public enterprise who ever had that accusation made against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " for Huyton. The right hon. Gentleman went on to ask me whether I would forecast the future of exports in this country during the coming year. Well, I will not say that I would learn everything from my predecessors, but there is one thing, at any rate, which I could learn and that is the danger of making forecasts or of setting targets. These forecasts are, in practice, liable not to be fulfilled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "speech in advance in any newspaper, particularly that one. I assure the right hon. Gentleman that I have not seen that newspaper today, and that until he read that extract I did not know it was in the newspaper. I had no intention of intervening in the debate tonight because, if the right hon. Gentleman will read the public Press, I was billed to speak at a public meeting in Great Windmill Street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-20", "file": "debates1952-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "521ad867b824bb8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "n. Friends have been described by the President of the Board of Trade as going wide of the subject when they dealt with the purposes for which this Measure was intended. But were they really? Is the right hon. Gentleman not going to give us any indication of how we need to cover some areas? Are we to have a global figure of the extension of our trade? Are we not to have any expansion, any figure?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-20a.361.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.406.9", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Sir. The Minister has just attempted to lay down a principle about making statements of policy in reply to supplementary questions. In reply to Question No. 25—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.406.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Could the Prime Minister say how far this decision about the Cunard Company is to be regarded as a precedent? Will it now be in order for the Scotch Whisky Association to provide free treatment for sea sickness when he goes on another visit to America?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.424.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "When may we expect to have the Second Reading of the National Health Service Bill, if at all; and by whom may we expect it to be introduced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.429.20"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.431.9", "colnum": "431", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.431.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.432.8", "colnum": "432", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "In view of the inability of the Leader of the House to make any announcement about urgent and vital Bills which were expected, how does it come about that he is today able to announce the introduction of a Bill dealing with licensing, the only undertaking regarding which was given in private to the liquor trade? Is it only the liquor trade which counts in Tory decisions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.432.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "CLASS V VOTE 9", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "nouncements made by the present Government, these men will now be compelled to pay for the treatment of these diseases themselves. It is for the Parliamentary Secretary to make provision for those payments; otherwise, the 40s. which he gave them yesterday will dwindle away in medical expenses. I am not surprised that the miners of this country should threaten to withdraw their labour on Saturdays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.522.5", "colnum": "522", "heading": "CLASS IX. VOTE 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The weevils?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "d. Apart from my own experience with the Ministry, I served on the Estimates Committee and I think I speak for all members of that Committee in saying that we were very impressed by the way in which the Department safeguarded our food stocks. But there are hon. Members who were very disturbed about the depredations of the weevil in our food stocks. I believe some of them are present again tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.522.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "CLASS IX. VOTE 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Willey", "preceding_text": "to give him the opportunity, if necessary, of qualifying the impression he created when he made his interjection. The Chancellor said: We shall in some cases have to use stocks acquired for the stockpile in order to reduce the current level of imports. Later on he said: We fully recognise—and I am trying to set out the case to the House because we are all taking part in this housekeeping together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "CLASS IX. VOTE 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": " were told that bulk purchase was a wonderful thing and that there had been an agreement on bulk purchase, a method of purchase which this side of the Committee criticised when in opposition. We were told that by the right hon. Gentleman, but in the latter part of his speech he said what a dreadful thing it was for the American economy that the United States Government made a bulk purchase of tin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.548.10", "colnum": "548", "heading": "CLASS IX. VOTE 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "Very well. Therefore, his bulk purchase argument failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.548.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "CLASS IX. VOTE 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "preceding_text": "It is fair enough, for if people come to Transport House they got a logical answer, and I thought that if I went to the Conservative political centre I should get a logical answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "CLASS IX. VOTE 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "preceding_text": "ets disappear because they retrospectively have got to be rewritten to add up to the current policy being adumbrated. I had a wonderful vision of the research workers of the Conservative Party re-writing—I see you are about to stop me, Sir Charles. I am sorry if I have overstepped the bounds of order. It is very hard for a new Member. I may he allowed just one or two slight verges over the border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-21", "file": "debates1952-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "a037cebd710689ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "CLASS IX. VOTE 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "preceding_text": " in this quotation said: The method of large scale State buying of food and raw materials which, in so many instances, has led to grievous issue, must be closely reviewed, searchingly scrutinised, and due recourse must be had once again to the flexible channels of normal trade processes, upon which our crowded population had reached before the war a higher standard than existed anywhere in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-21a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-22", "file": "debates1952-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c132803c8ffc361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-22a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "STERLING AREA (CLOSER CO-OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Unilever?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "scribed the Gambia egg fiasco as an imaginative beginning. It was the most frightful flop and everyone knows it was. Today, I think we should be prepared to learn from experience. Quite apart from any other consideration, I believe these massive State corporations are too big. Experience shows, particularly in relation to the Overseas Food Corporation, that they are too big, impersonal and remote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-22a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-22", "file": "debates1952-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c132803c8ffc361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-22a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "STERLING AREA (CLOSER CO-OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "the raw material supplies and sources controlled by them, the supplementation of the Colombo Plan is going to be extremely difficult, if not actually impossible. That was said before re-armament really began to interfere with the supply of capital goods. I do not want to enter too much into this arid discussion about public enterprise versus private enterprise. We recognise that both are required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-22a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Throw it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister assure us that, in the next rationed allocation, eggs of such small size as the one I have here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.690.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.700.7", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not facts at my disposal to enable me to estimate with any exactitude the improvement in morale which would follow from a visit to Korea by the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.700.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister undertake to see that before anyone is allowed to take a solemn oath of this kind he will be found to be in a fit state to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.706.8", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not about this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "A White Paper was published in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.706.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "permission and that of the House, I should like to answer Question No. 114. I have today signed an Order raising the controlled maximum prices of iron and steel. This has been made necessary by the increased costs and increased volume of the steel, pig-iron, iron ore and scrap which are being imported from abroad and by the higher costs at home of wages, transport, fuel, scrap and other materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "nd. First of all, may I remind him that when he increased prices last August he increased them by £5 a ton? I would also inform the House that if we had applied the same formula in fixing the margin of profit as was applied by the right hon. Gentleman in calculating the new prices which he adopted last August, we should have had to raise prices by at least £1 a ton more than we have actually done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "May I put one further question at the moment? No doubt we shall have an opportunity of discussing this matter later. Will the right hon. Gentleman agree that I authorised an increase in August at the rate of £65 million a year? That was in anticipation of the increases in costs which we knew were coming on to the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.719.2", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (BUDGET DATE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "ble date, namely, 4th March. For various reasons this has since been found to be impracticable. My right hon. Friend will now open his Budget a week later, on 11th March. I thought it right to give this early intimation to the House. We also feel that it would be more convenient both to the House and to the Government if the Defence debate were postponed from Thursday until Wednesday of next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Legh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Legh", "preceding_text": "dustries in the expanded towns will attract labour away from agriculture and horticulture. That would be a very serious matter, and I suggest it is one to which the Minister of Agriculture will have to give serious consideration. I do not imagine that any county council or county district council will want to see the London County Council or a county borough council building within its boundaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " I must say that I am rather surprised that the right hon. Gentleman has taken so pessimistic a view of the future of the Conservative administration. A large number of the problems with which the Bill deals arise out of the existing structure of local government. Very many of these problems would fall to the ground at once if there were a radical re-organisation of the local government structure,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "hey look back over the records they will find that I probably introduced more major Bills in one Parliament than have been introduced by any one Minister in any one Parliament over the last 50 years; and I could hardly strain the patience of the House by introducing still another. But hon. Gentlemen and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have told us that they propose to stay in office for three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Communism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": ", the Gorbals, the Poplars and the Stepneys. They are also the inheritance of Great Britain, and the problem we are faced with is that of dispersing the population much more widely over the country so as to reduce the slums and bring a breath of fresh air into the centres of our cities. The solution of that problem has over and over again been prevented by the assertion of private property rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.774.5", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " the divergence of view between us is unfortunately such that there is little prospect of reaching that basis of constructive and harmonious working which I had hoped we might attain. I shall not read the whole letter. I am sure that the correspondence has been read by everybody who is present in this debate, and there is a limited time for the debate. I am not anxious to take up unnecessary time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.774.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.774.5", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "de such inquiries as we could. So far as I am able to trace, there is no copy of any such Order in the Library of the House of Commons, and therefore we are in the position that we have it only on the statement of the Minister that an Order is to be made. Thus the ambit of the debate may be limited by the suggestion that an Order may come forward which no one has yet had an opportunity of reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.774.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Call in the Communist Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "est semi-Fascist forces in the United States of America. It is not my desire tonight to add any fuel to the fire of controversy. I am trying to present a case without calling in the evidence of people of no great importance or of people with no great sense of responsibility. I prefer to refer the House to what the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister said on this matter in the course of debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "rfectly simple one, Mr. Speaker, and may I put it to you respectfully? I am saying that there is evidence on which this House can assume that Mr. Hardie has been deliberately forced to resign, to remove himself from the Corporation. I am producing quotations to show that it is clear that the Conservative Party Conference was told that that course would be taken and that the present Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "nference was told that that course would be taken and that the present Prime Minister—[ Interruption .] If I may refer to the speech of the Prime Minister in the course of the debate, headed \"Iron and Steel Industry,\" but which was essentially at that time a debate on whether or not the Corporation should have been appointed, I find some remarks that I quote with very real reluctance when I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "es think is wrong is the mixed marriage. He thinks it is wrong for the classes to intermingle, because they might breed. Then he went on to say: Here is a type, very rare, but when it appears very potent. We have a type of mentality in the Socialist millionaire which reconciles the most violent denunciation of the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat with the fullest enjoyment of its fruits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "t about Mr. Hardie in particular. It was being said by the person who is now Prime Minister, and I ask hon. Members opposite to applaud when I have finished the next two sentences. There are a few in every country. Herr Krupp, who was, and may be again, a millionaire, and was certainly a Nazi Socialist, is a case which springs to the mind.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th February, 1951; Vol. 483, c. 1758.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Citrine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "little beyond that. I know that the attack made on my right hon. Friends above the Gangway in the constituencies is all too often that they appointed far too many people of the other party to posts instead of appointing people from their own. I believe this is the only case in which it is said that the chairman of a great nationalised industry happened to be by chance a member of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nepotism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ly has held office for some six weeks and I have not been able to trace him as having taken part in the steel debates in the past to any great extent. Nor indeed, so I believe, was he supposed to know anything much about supply. So the attacks made upon the Steel Corporation, which suggest detailed experience of the job, comes a little ill from an appointment such as his under these circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "In reply to that observation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "ould regard it as being in order for me to reply to the hon. Gentleman, but in so far as you permit me to reply to that observation, I will only say that I regard it as a patriotic duty, and indeed a duty to those who have worked for my family business ever since I was connected with it, to continue to serve that company in the belief that there is still time to right the wrong that is being done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forcing his resignation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "ght the wrong that is being done—[ Interruption .] The way in which my remarks have been received only go to confirm that the real complaint of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite is that they are no longer the Government of the day. I hope the House will permit me to bring them back to the real gravamen of this charge, the impropriety of the Minister in accepting the resignation of Mr. Hardie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of procedure. Does not the Minister of Supply think it would be for the convenience of the House if he now made a statement on this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.792.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, a \"point of procedure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand that the right hon. Gentleman is rising to a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.797.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.799.4", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ce of steel. Indeed, I shall refer to it only in so far as it is directly concerned with the resignation of Mr. Hardie and is referred to specifically in the letters which form the basis of the subject matter of our discussion. As I understand the Ruling of Mr. Speaker—and I was here at the time he gave it—we are in order when referring merely to the fact that a rise in prices had been considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.801.5", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have. One thing is quite clear—that Mr. Hardie is in violent conflict not only with the action which was taken by the Minister of Supply this afternoon but, indeed, also with the remaining members of the Iron and Steel Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.801.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marcus Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let the Minister speak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marcus Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Minister—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Let the Minister speak.\"] I am quite willing to give way to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.803.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I should like to say that in the opinion of all of us on this side of the House it is a gross, unmannerly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.805.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Robson Brown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "I thank the late Minister for taking his share of responsibility—it is honourable of him to do so —but it does not for a moment alter the facts of my argument and indictment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been kicked out\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Erroll", "preceding_text": "uck to the facts and tried to support the Motion which they have brought before the House at very short notice. We have heard very little in the way of solid fact in support of the Motion, but a great deal in the way of clairvoyance and supposition. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Hardie was a friend of the Labour Party, and they are extremely upset that he should have tendered his resignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Underground contact.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, who is normally so very fair in raising points of order, is imputing to me words which I did not use. What I said was that Mr. Hardie was in contact with Members of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh,\" and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "tleman, who is normally so very fair in raising points of order, is imputing to me words which I did not use. What I said was that Mr. Hardie was in contact with Members of the Labour Party—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Underground contact.\"]—certainly, \"underground communication\" was the phrase—with Members of the Labour Party, so that he could be advised of the right moment at which to tender his resignation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then withdraw it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "The invitation to repeat a statement outside the House is an old trick, an old trap, and the right hon. Gentleman should not expect me to fall into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.815.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I am now going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.815.12", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite are at present preventing me from stating my case inside the House and, before they have heard that case, they are challenging me to state it outside. I was interested to learn that Mr. Hardie should have passed on this information and been in communication with the hon. Member who represents a Scottish division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.815.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.817.6", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "to betray industrial secrets to their political party. That is the only significance that one can attach to what the hon. Member has just said about the conduct of Mr. Hardie. He has, without the slightest piece of evidence, dared to suggest to the House that a great public servant, occupying a position of immense responsibility, has entered into a squalid conspiracy so as to time his resignation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.817.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.817.6", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "r has just said about the conduct of Mr. Hardie. He has, without the slightest piece of evidence, dared to suggest to the House that a great public servant, occupying a position of immense responsibility, has entered into a squalid conspiracy so as to time his resignation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"That is true.\"]—from his office in order to get the utmost political capital for the party to which he belongs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.817.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.817.6", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Minister, young in his position, should have sought the earliest possibility of putting before the House all the evidence he has to enable us to reach a conclusion without having this unnecessary discussion for three hours. The reason I rose to my feet is that the Minister said that he had heard nothing in the course of the discussion which would lead him to suppose that he had any case to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.817.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I was present during the debate and I did not form the impression that the agreement generally commended itself to the right hon. Gentleman. I should say that the Prime Minister's recent negotiations in Washington secured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I must have in writing from Mr. Hardie more details of the scheme, and be told in particular on what principles it was to be based. I wrote to Mr. Hardie asking him to let me have fuller details in writing and a more precise explanation of the scheme. Mr. Hardie replied that he was not prepared to commit himself to any particular grouping scheme until he had consulted the publicly-owned companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.827.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "contemplated'? to which I replied: The direction does not say that at all. It says that the Government must be consulted before further changes are made so that we shall have the opportunity of judging whether the changes contemplated are likely to frustrate the intention of the Government and of the majority of the Members of this House.\" —[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th November, 1951; Vol. 493, c. 673.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.832.5", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "The Minister has treated the House with contempt. For some time he has been reading from letters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.832.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.832.5", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN'S RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "e who replies from being heard. The Minister said, \"How can it be said that I frustrated Mr. Hardie when I only refused two of his requests which he submitted to me?\" Did the Minister seriously think that Mr. Hardie or the Corporation were going to waste time putting before the Minister proposals which they knew he would not accept, quite apart from the fact that he made this gratuitous direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.832.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "small majority, it may be that the present Government will leave over the matter to be dealt with next time when we have a larger majority. But we should like to be told what is happening. I see that time is slipping by and the Parliamentary Secretary is anxious to reply. One or two of my hon. Friends are also anxious to speak, and the hon. Member for Bilston (Mr. Nally) has been here a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Obviously not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "preceding_text": "e would speak for a few minutes. There was a subdued opening, which was followed by 23 minutes—longer than the three succeeding speeches put together. That Celtic fervour, which we associate with him, led him, instead of referring to it as a good Bill, to speak of it contemptuously and call it a niggling Bill and window dressing. I do not wish to introduce party politics into this happy gathering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-25", "file": "debates1952-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6f237d5cda6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "INCOME TAX BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Malice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "learned Gentleman, I feel that at this hour we should finish this part of the business. This is an important Bill and, as it is a consolidation Measure, it contains many questions of importance. It is, however, exceedingly complex and would be difficult to discuss now, which was why I ventured to suggest to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Horn-church, who, I know is actuated entirely by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-25a.889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that these soldiers were told at Newton Abbot that they should have been discharged at Southampton and that they spent the night arguing, and the following morning they were given £2 10s. and a railway pass? That was for Christmas leave, and many of these men were family men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.914.3", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman have an inquiry into this matter, as broad-based as the Prime Minister's political affiliations, and may I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.914.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "ROYAL COMMISSION ON TAXATION (CHAIRMANSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is patriotic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "icial functions? Does he further realise that Sir Stafford Cripps had precisely those considerations in mind when he invited Lord Cohen to be Chairman of the Royal Commission? Does he also realise that Lord Waverley, of whose distinguished career we are all aware, has shown by his political speeches and by his bearing in the 1945–50 House of Commons, that he holds strong political opinions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.939.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "CORONATION STONE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where is that?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I should like, with permission, to make a statement about the Coronation Stone. For over 650 years the Stone has been in Westminster Abbey and, from its use at successive Coronations, it has a historic significance for all countries in the Commonwealth. With the approval of Her Majesty's Government, the Stone has been restored to its traditional place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "CORONATION STONE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector McNeil", "preceding_text": "Am I right in assuming that, since the Prime Minister is aware of the great importance that various sections of opinion in Scotland attach to this subject, he considered all these varying viewpoints and that, before making this recommendation, he consulted representative opinion in Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.941.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "CORONATION STONE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are reading it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the statement just made will give widespread pleasure in Scotland, and that whatever differences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "CORONATION STONE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I have been accused of many things but never of not being able to speak impromptu in the House. I am asking whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.942.8", "colnum": "942", "heading": "CORONATION STONE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Porter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Porter", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker, if your Ruling is that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman is entitled to use notes, then are we entitled to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.942.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "CORONATION STONE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I would ask further whether my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "CORONATION STONE", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The united party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend whether he is aware that among a very considerable body of Her Majesty's most loyal Scottish subjects, there will be profound disappointment at this decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ne,\" of 5th February. Mr. Newman writes: Members of Parliament and the British public in general, listening to Prime Minister Winston Churchill's denial that he had made any 'definite or formal commitments' to President Truman for action against Communist China if it breaks a truce in Korea, felt something like Alice when she picked up her looking glass book and read the poem Jabberwocky.'…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman ought to know it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "eneral, listening to Prime Minister Winston Churchill's denial that he had made any 'definite or formal commitments' to President Truman for action against Communist China if it breaks a truce in Korea, felt something like Alice when she picked up her looking glass book and read the poem Jabberwocky.'… [An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it out.\"] No, I am not going to. I am conscious of my limitations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "and it is liable to lead to complications in any case, because the parties are in some controversy and are adapting their decisions in readiness for the Presidential fight. Our war-time experience bears out the fact that there are difficulties. I am inclined to think that it was a doubtful mission, undertaken by the wrong man at the wrong time. He came back with very small results for our country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "war, but, as I shall show, there are some United States views in favour of open, large-scale war against the Chinese Government which is recognised by the Government of the United Kingdom. The Foreign Secretary was wrong in denying this in the House of Commons on 5th February. He really was wrong in disputing that there were real elements of American opinion which were in favour of these policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.947.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ongress—on page 5 of the White Paper which has been circulated—that: We welcome your patience in the armistice negotiations and our two countries are agreed that, if the truce we seek is reached only to be broken our response will be prompt, resolute and effective. What I have learned over here convinces me that British and United States policy in the Far East will be marked by increasing harmony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " make it harder for the truce to be reached, and if the Prime Minister says to the Chinese, which, in effect, he did, \"We have grave doubts as to whether you will honour the truce; you may make a truce and then break it,\" it is a provocative statement in itself and is quite likely to make the Chinese think we have some intention of breaking a truce and that we are preparing our defence in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " otherwise aided, instead of making counter-claims which would at least have reduced the bill to reasonable proportions. Why does he want to go out of his way to stir this up? He could not even carry the war Government with him on this doctrine. There was no agreement about it, and I say it was needless of him to go into that field and it was quite foolish to say what he did. There is another one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abadan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "d then. He said, as recorded on page 6: Britain's power to influence the fortunes of the Middle East and guard it from aggression is far less today now that we have laid aside our imperial responsibility for India and its armies. In the same old-style vein, he said, earlier: In the Middle East enormous changes have also taken place since I was last in power in my own country. That is what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "the shedding of blood, of wishing to be involved needlessly in a world war. This was on the eve of the Election, at the beginning of the Election campaign. I said: I do not say that, and I advise you not to say that, because it would not be fair and it would not be true. But it is their temperament, it is the background of their mental outlook, the old imperialist outlook. It is the semihysteria\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor of the Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s remarkable episode is a good prelude to the argument I shall now deploy in reply to the new move in the Socialist warmongering accusation, of which the right hon. Gentleman's Motion is the latest expression. I am complimented by the fact that the official Opposition's Vote of Censure should concentrate its gravamen on me. It is not the first time I have incurred the wrath of the Socialist Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " is in no way impaired. Hundreds of thousands of men may fall mangled and torn by bomb, bayonet, bullet or grenade; whole areas of Korea may be devastated in the advances and retreats of the opposing armies; 35,000 dead may be picked up in front of a single American division; our own men may have killed many times their number in deadly fighting; but, whatever happens, it must not be called \"war.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another quotation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n their energies, I have no doubt with a measure of relief, from being war wagers to calling other people warmongers. I made it plain a month ago, in my first speech on my return from America, that I was opposed to action that would involve us or our Allies of the United Nations in a war in China. I drew the attention of the House to General Omar Bradley's statement which I will now quote exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another quotation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nterrupt the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison), who has just sat down, and I really must ask for an opportunity of unfolding my case. I must remind the House that I have never changed my opinion about the danger of our getting involved in China. When the Chinese first came into Korea, after the Russian-instigated attack by the North Koreans, I said in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.968.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.971.4", "colnum": "971", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I can only deal with one point of order at a time. I was listening very carefully to what was said. I understood—and I was reinforced by the Prime Minister after the point of order was first raised—that he was paraphrasing and not quoting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.972.3", "colnum": "972", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rder, because whether the right hon. Gentleman was summarising, paraphrasing or referring to, it was to a State paper that he was making reference. Indeed, he identified it, as my hon. Friend has pointed out, by a date. In those circumstances, unless the right hon. Gentleman shelters behind the question of public interest—and if he did he ought not to have been so cowardly as to have mentioned it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.972.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.972.5", "colnum": "972", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "That Motion is not admissible in the middle of a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.972.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"China.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e long discussions with the United States about this and there is no analogy between what he is now discussing and what we were discussing earlier on. The whole point of the discussions to which he is now referring was what should be done in the case of our troops being attacked from the air from certain airfields. That is all. Obviously, from certain airfields—and it never went beyond that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Easing-ton (Mr. Shinwell) will not wave to me to sit down when I stand up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.974.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame! Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "How do you know it is a summary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.976.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.6", "colnum": "983", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.7", "colnum": "983", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And other things.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nemy may further bowdlerize it in a debate in this House. I should have taken the right hon. Gentleman on one side and asked him whether he has not done British constitutional practice a great injury by this piece of irresponsible foolery this afternoon. I say this with due humility, that in the course of the last 20 years I have given considerable attention to the study of Parliamentary practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.7", "colnum": "983", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e which can be done to the British Constitution. 'Therefore, I earnestly hope we shall not have a repetition of what has been done this afternoon. Even now the right hon. Gentleman ought to respond to the invitation of the Front Bench and publish the paper, because to take hold of a State paper, which he says it is not in the public interest to publish, and then to indicate a part of its contents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.7", "colnum": "983", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "interest to publish, and then to indicate a part of its contents—[ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman, according to Erskine May and the strict constitutional procedure, has nothing to shelter behind except that it is not in the public interest to disclose a document. If, therefore, be does not publish the document at this moment, but contents himself with giving what may be a lying summary.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.7", "colnum": "983", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ict constitutional procedure, has nothing to shelter behind except that it is not in the public interest to disclose a document. If, therefore, be does not publish the document at this moment, but contents himself with giving what may be a lying summary.—[ Interruption .] How do we know it is otherwise, because there is nothing in the right hon. Gentleman's career that would guard us against that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " now an unusual doctrine to suggest that for the Opposition to move a Vote of Censure upon him is imperilling Anglo-American relations. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman might complain, as the Foreign Secretary himself complained, of what might be described as anti-American feeling in this country and as anti-American feeling on this side of the House. I have never had any anti-American feeling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "en and written contributions are adornments of the English language. If there is anyone who has the gift of making himself clear, it is the right hon. Gentleman. It is a gift not shared by the Foreign Secretary, who is able to shelter a very opaque foreign policy behind ambiguity of language. The right hon. Gentleman is above all men, clear. How did it come about that he was so much misunderstood?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "quoting politicians who are trying to get votes— Mr. Dulles, during a broadcast discussion last night, said that the United States must let all the Far East know that it would not stand idly by while any part of the world remained under the rule of either Communist or Fascist dictatorship. Does the right hon. Gentleman approve of that? Are our arms to be engaged in a war against Communism as such?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He would be forced to be one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "elves in Chinese shoes for a change. Let us ask ourselves what we would do. Everybody here knows—at least every miner, railwayman and agricultural worker knows very well that if he were in China he would be a Communist peasant. He would not be a Chiang Kai-shek, he would be a Communist. Of course he would be. Anyone who had lived under the régime of Chiang Kai-shek would become a Communist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman now suffers from certain physical disabilities and he ought not to reinforce them by inattention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did you do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "hat we repudiate the Foster Dulles document. However, the right hon. Gentleman had a sinister passage in his speech today in which he found it difficult to distinguish between what he called types of wars. In fact, he described what is happening in Korea as war. I asked, what was happening in Spain when Italian and German forces were there. Was it war? What did hon. Gentlemen opposite do about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.991.2", "colnum": "991", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t is true that the Soviet Union seeks to take local advantage of social disturbances. However it is also true to say that that irredentism is entirely indigenous. No one can suggest otherwise. If, in fact, the Soviet Union is so powerful and is so omniscient as to be able to stir up and manage and direct all these social forces all over the world, we ought to send a postcard to Stalin and give in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.991.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ar. As a result of pouring out our treasure on a myth, on an assumption that all this is Russian military aggrandisement, Europe has been ruined. That is why I plead for more vigorous British leadership, because nothing that has happened in the last six months can give us any confidence in American diplomatic leadership at the present time. France is being ruined. We are facing a financial crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They sent him here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ake more effective war against the Chinese. What they want to know is what steps we are taking to make a peace, not how big a gulf we are digging between ourselves and the Soviet Union; and what far reaching plans we are making to pacify the world. It is because they do not believe that the Prime Minister is capable of seeing things in that light that they have no confidence in him in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "peace, not how big a gulf we are digging between ourselves and the Soviet Union; and what far reaching plans we are making to pacify the world. It is because they do not believe that the Prime Minister is capable of seeing things in that light that they have no confidence in him in this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They sent him here.\"] If he went to the country tomorrow, he would be handsomely beaten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "f the points with which I intend to deal in my speech, which I hope will bring us back to the Motion which we are discussing, and which has been discussed on this side of the House but hardly touched upon on the other side. The speech of the hon. Member for Woolwich, East, was in glaring contrast with the sensible and thoughtful speech made by the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "All right. It seems to me to be very important that we should find out, what, if anything, there is behind the attack which has been made during the debate, and that is the reason for my questions. My third question is: Is it agreed that the future of Formosa should be settled by the United Nations and not by force of arms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": " that hon. Members opposite, who may not be in complete agreement with this policy, are rather overlooking the views of the Formosans themselves. Article 73 lays it down clearly that territories detached from enemy States come under the trusteeship section where: …the principle is laid down that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories are paramount. We can all agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why say anything?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "uite clear, he can do so, but I want to get on with my speech. In these circumstances, we on this side of the House are entitled to ask what all the fuss is about. My right hon. Friend was criticised for saying that prompt, resolute and effective action would be taken in the event of an armistice being signed and the terms of it being broken by the Communists. That was the least that he could say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "ng Soviet aircraft were used in very large numbers and supposing United Nations troops had to pull back, might that not create a new situation, which would require prompt, resolute, and effective action? Supposing again that the Chinese Communists intervene on a large scale with their so-called volunteers against Indo-China, which is so strategically important. I see in today's \"Daily Telegraph\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1030.7", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I am fortified in what I am saying by the attitude of the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1030.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "otiate\"— that is, in the impending negotiations with us— over the principle of evacuation, but on the means of implementing it and achieving the unity of the Nile Valley. That was the Egyptian Prime Minister speaking. If it is true, it means that we are now negotiating, or are about to do so, with Egypt, among other questions, on the question of our recognising Egyptian sovereignty over the Sudan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is exactly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "e soil upon our troops. I dare say that that policy is unpalatable to many people, but I have always taken the view that no Government could take any other attitude towards their own troops but one of saying that if they were heavily attacked from such airfields the military must be ready to take such action. But that is not at all—not in the least—what the right hon. Gentleman said in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ng a public warning. And what he said by way of warning was …if the truce we seek is reached only to be broken our response will be prompt, resolute and effective. I quote that from the White Paper. There is no mention there at all of the condition that this should be done only as a retaliation for military action taken from non-Korean bases. This was not a tactical military measure at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "m the policy pursued by the last Government, but he made a great change, and a much needed change, in the mood and in the warmth of our relations. He did much to re-create the old spirit of partnership that we had during the war. He did much to undo the harm done by the follies of hon. Members opposite. We hope to restore the prestige and authority of the British people. Meanwhile, I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1052.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1057.6", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is afraid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1057.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "I wish to raise a point of order concerning the conduct of the hon. and gallant Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Brigadier Mackeson), who acts as one of the Government Whips. I am raising this point because I think it would be difficult for my right hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) to raise it himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "It was obvious to a number of my hon. Friends that the hon. and gallant Gentleman, not content with the quite natural jubilation which we should not grudge him when he declared the result of the Division, proceeded to add to that by what one might call, I suppose, a technical assault on my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "What did he do?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "n a point of order. May I inform hon. Members opposite that I propose to remain on my feet until I have said what I have to say? I want to submit to you, Sir, that the gravity of this matter is not the act itself, which is trivial, but the attitude which it represented of, as I say, vulgarity, disrespect to the House and ignorance of the normal politenesses which are required of a Government Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, for two years in this House I fulfilled the duties of junior Government Whip. It will be within the experience of all who have filled that office that they often had to contain themselves in patience and to sit in silence listening to the very great provocations of their political opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": " the retail prices of milk. Any consideration of the question of a price in- crease of this character must depend upon the policy of the Minister and the Government about food subsidies, and I am in this difficulty—I quite frankly anticipate what the Parliamentary Secretary may be going to say—that the House can no longer place any reliance whatever on anything the Parliamentary Secretary may say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1072.8", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point with which I can deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1072.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "o dwell for long on this point, but I think it is in order to say that the action being proposed, the present price increase, is contrary to the undertakings and pledges that the party opposite gave to the people at the recent General Election. The Conservative Party, in asking the electorate to vote Conservative, said the people were hard up through high prices and fed up with small food rations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What quarters?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "As I have repeatedly told the hon. Gentleman, I have a habit of making my speech in my own way. I am telling the House that the suggestion came from certain responsible quarters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1082.5", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "d £6 million to the Treasury? In those circumstances, I submit that it is well within the Rules of debate that we should venture to suggest that one of the matters which Her Majesty may have to consider if our Prayer is successful is where that money is going and whether it ought to go to that precise destination. In the Parliamentary Secretary's answer there was reference to an increase last May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1082.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "It was always the policy of the last Government for the price to be kept down on the principle that milk should be a subsidised item. But the result of the operation of this Order is a tax of 3¼d. to help to pay for re-armament, or whatever one cares to suggest, and that is the most shocking thing that I think I have heard in this House for some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He cannot answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " Who decided it? Was it decided by the Minister of Food? Was it decided by the noble Lord the Minister for the Co-ordination of Food and Agriculture, or by the Cabinet? Or did it come from above? Or was it a suggestion by the Treasury, who said that they were hard up? We are entitled to know. I would willingly give way to the hon. Gentleman if he wishes to answer. We are entitled to an answer now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, Sir, all these points were made, with the leniency of your predecessor in the Chair —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "k drinkers of the nation, not my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale). He has confessed tonight that he had forgotten the taste of milk. There is not one person in this House, probably, whose health would deteriorate because he is deprived of milk during the next month or so. He already has a balanced diet. But the Parliamentary Secretary will have it on his conscience if he allows —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-26", "file": "debates1952-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c960af52a456b3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "n. Member had raised the question, but I shall be glad to explain. Hon. Members will see in the Order in 2 ( b ) the product groups S.130, S.14, 5.140, and so on. In S.130 there are some 19 different kinds of sugar confectionery of the marzipan kind. In S.14, that is the 5/4 limit group, there is one item, a form of nougat; I think that is the expression. In S.140 there is as yet nothing. In S.15—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-26a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healy", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Minister of Home Affairs in Northern Ireland, in replying to a Question in the Northern Ireland House of Commons, said: \"I am not prepared\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is now taking refuge in declaring that it might not be in the public interest to interfere. Can he give reasons why the public interest is affected by this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is now taking refuge in declaring that it might not be in the public interest to interfere. Can he give reasons why the public interest is affected by this? [ Interruption .] Mr. Speaker, might I ask my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the suggestion that this is a splitting of hairs. This is a question of giving the New Zealand producers a guarantee that we will take all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1144.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1144.7", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I should think that if we had not had bulk purchase immediately after the war the ration would be much greater than it is today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1144.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": " to the hon. Member, is that all the conditions—accommodation, space for drinking, ventilation and other amenities—laid down by the Southborough Report on disinterested management 25 years ago have become common form for the reason that licensing justices all over England have said, \"It is our duty to see that no house except one of that kind shall be given a licence.\" I agree there are exceptions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And on the hon. Member's side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Bowles", "preceding_text": "Might I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman one question, and perhaps you also, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. Certain hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House are known to have shares in breweries and distilleries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the difference?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "He takes the responsibility after the event, but not before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is implying that Lord Woolton is the sort of person who sells his policy for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1189.5", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "that a respectable body of that sort should be kept out. But the right hon. and learned Gentleman is bringing in again the very people who tried to squeeze these clubs out before by refusing to serve them. They had powers to threaten them continually, and never in any case would they disclose to the pubs the strength of the beer which they sold to them. I have detained the House a little too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1189.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carlisle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "But does it not occur to the hon. and learned Member that houses requisitioned by the State might show a loss rather than a profit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1197.3", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sales of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "that. The only remaining argument for State management can be dealt with by this question: Is it the object of the person managing and running a public house to increase the amount of beer sold or to decrease it? Let us have no humbug on this question. Should a manager or a licensee running a public house try to increase or decrease his sales? We should be clear in our minds what he should decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1199.0", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course he does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. and learned Member means by \"pushing.\" I have done a certain number of things to alcoholic liquor, including pushing it down, or whatever the phrase is. Does he think that the average publican tries to persuade the person coming into his public house to have another one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1199.2", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " and other hon. Members opposite get most out of touch with reality. One cannot interpret freedom of choice in these matters in terms of having every variety of beer, or even large numbers of different kinds of beer, available in every public house. The freedom of choice which is available to the public is the freedom to go to another public house if one does not like the beer in the existing one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " have taken too much time. It is a famous quotation; I do not know how many hon. Members have heard it. He said that the problem that faced them was the problem of a brewer's dray blocking the road of progress. That was very well put. I should think it was a brewer's dray which went full tilt into the middle of the Tory Central Office, blocking \"The Right Road for Britain.\" I must come to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have never had it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": "he electorate at that time there, voted. It worked out at 110 in favour and over 2,000 against. We heard a lot of noise in the House today when the Minister of Food was answering Questions about State buying. I can assure hon. Members that, whatever they may feel about State buying, my constituents feel just as strongly—much more strongly—about State beer. They dislike the very idea of State beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": " the real reason—the doctrinaire desire of the Labour Party to create another State monopoly. That is a principle that we reject and always have rejected. It is one of the reasons we opposed the 1949 Measure and support the present Bill. We believe in freedom of choice for the consumer to select for himself the beer he prefers to drink, and the sort of public house in which he prefers to drink it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady seems to disagree with me, but surely she will remember the promise of the late Mr. Ernest Bevin for four million or five million houses in very quick time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1238.6", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, yes, there was.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "I think we are getting wide of the Bill but I would tell the hon. Lady that there was no promise that this would be immediately restored—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Hargreaves", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Hargreaves", "preceding_text": ". No doubt the Home Secretary will remember that, prior to his advent in the constituency of West Derby in 1935, the managing director of Bent's Brewery was the leader of the Conservative Party, Sir Archibald Salvidge. There was a Tory majority in the city as well as among the licensing justices. When Sir Archibald Salvidge died, the next leader of the Conservative Party took over, as was natural.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hargreaves", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hargreaves", "preceding_text": "The number in Carlisle is 53. The licences that are not under State management—obviously if the hon. Member wishes to take into account clubs. I cannot make those figures available to him—are the Crown and Mitre Hotel, the County Hotel, the County Hotel bar, the Silver Grill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1246.3", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": " Bill expressed no desire to upset the policy then adopted I confess I am at a loss to understand. I want to deal, very shortly, with one other aspect of this matter which was referred to by the right hon. Member for South Shields. He made an attack on the Tory Party in this matter and said, in effect, that the natural deduction must be that the Tory Party were virtually in the pay of the brewers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1255.3", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "ad for the Garden City movement at the time. It added to the idea that those associated with Garden Cities were long haired men and short haired women who chewed nuts and wore sandals. The decision to deprive the town of a licence caused difficulties for the Garden City movement. As soon as the local option was decided —no pubs in Letchworth—the brewers had a ring of five of them on the outskirts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1255.3", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "o deprive the town of a licence caused difficulties for the Garden City movement. As soon as the local option was decided —no pubs in Letchworth—the brewers had a ring of five of them on the outskirts. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Private enterprise.\"] Of course; private enterprise. The only people who broke the rules were the Tory Party, and the only wet place in Letchworth is the Tory club. It has a licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1255.3", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "ed we wanted a larger public house, and the Garden City Company at that time—it was a private enterprise concern to which I pay high tribute for their work in developing the Garden City movement—were short of capital, and so, to build a public house, they had to go outside. They could not, of course, get help from a Public Works Loan Board. So they had to go to the trade to get their public house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How long ago?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Gentleman's point about railway tied houses. I fought the railways very hard on it for a long while, but at least they did not turn people out on the streets within a week or two. In my constituency farm workers with six or seven children have gone out into the street and their furniture was put into a barn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not the State.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": ". [An HON. MEMBER: \"How long ago?\"] Recently, about a couple of months ago, and this is still being done on the basis of a certificate. We ought to have these questions settled. The Home Secretary said that we had accused the Tory Party of making a gift to the brewers. So they are. We are spending millions of pounds of the nation's money in developing new towns. What gives value to a public house?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "n was able to say, rather lamely, I think, was that the practical working of the Bill means that every house will be a tied house. I do not think the right hon. Gentleman is being altogether candid with the House in this respect because, after all, in the original legislation which this Bill seeks to repeal a house will be a tied house in the sense in which it has been used throughout this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "r of greater freedom. The hon. Member for Wellingborough argued very strongly that what he wanted to see was greater variety of beer available to those who dwell in these new towns. The suggestion of the right hon. Gentleman sitting beside him, when taken with the other suggestions, was to the effect that we were taking away from those who dwell in the new towns the right to choose their own beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " is a case for nitrogenous fertilisers.\" Do the Treasury have to approve that? If they do, that is a complete surrender of the functions of the Minister of Agriculture. Surely it cannot be argued that the question of a decision about what fertilisers have to be subsidised is a matter for the Treasury. There is a much more serious point. Now that the Budget has, like Easter, become a movable feast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "of the Treasury, in accordance with the scheme or schemes made by the appropriate Minister. The point at which the approval of the Treasury occurs—the Subsection is italicised because it is part of the Money Resolution—means that it is the particular scheme or schemes, which ought to fall entirely within the control of the Department of Agriculture, and which some junior official will first of all", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "tcher) and the appeal made to me by the right hon. Member for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams). I am perfectly prepared on a matter of this sort to reconsider it if I think that we should get any progress or advance by that reconsideration but, on advice, I am assured that if we transfer these words to the second line—that is, to after \"may\"—the only result will be to strengthen the Treasury's powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "he purpose of adorning the Government Front Bench but also of guiding the Committee. I should like to ask him whether he considers that the power conferred on the Treasury—he cannot answer me if he does not listen—by this Subsection (1) does not, as a consequence of Clause 4, enable the Treasury to tell the Minister of Agriculture what kind of fertiliser he should subsidise. I should like to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " is not a caricature of what happens. It happens on every Estimate, not only on Bills. The Minister comes to the House of Commons to obtain from Parliament a sanction to spend certain money for a certain purpose. He is limited by that amount. But that does not prevent the carrion crows of the Treasury picking at this bone and that. It is the most wasteful form of administration I have ever known.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1296.2", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "reasury do not consider, and have not the right if they are so minded to prevent, any scheme or schemes which his Ministry approves and thinks desirable from being put into operation? If he can assure us that the Treasury only look at the contribution and do not examine the scheme, then it might well be that my hon. Friends on this side of the Committee might be willing to withdraw this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the Chief Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "y appeal? The right hon. and gallant Gentleman is making a rod for his own back. What he is saying is, \"Let us see how we get on and then we can see if it is necessary to have another day for the Report stage.\" That means we have to keep him as long as possible in order to convince him another day is necessary. That is not good Parliamentary tactics. It seems to me he is digging a pit for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": " explained in detail the question of offshore trade. He believed that he had made it clear, but when the subject came around again he felt he had to explain it again on the theory that none of us had understood him. He has made, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) would say, a \"valuable contribution,\" and I cannot add anything to what he has said on that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I upset the hon. Gentleman opposite. That was not my intention. What I was trying to do was to tell him that we appreciate as well as he does the grave importance of this matter, but equally that this is not a convenient occasion on which to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1387.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1399.2", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Vote, vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I do not press for an answer because the experience one has had in this matter teaches one that one will have to be a super-optimist to get any answer from the Government on any question relevant to this matter. But I do want to press the Committee to reject this Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "HON.—MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "d for 15 hours without saying a word, even as an interjection, may I ask whether you would be good enough to define exactly what we are entitled to discuss? I think we are entitled to have guidance from your experience, Sir Charles? I want to be quite candid and to say that up to now it has not yet been defined. All we are told, after repeated conversations between one of the Clerks and the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1407.8", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " in the altered situation of today, that we need more money for special cases and not so much for Section 1, as I understand it no amount of discussion in Committee will permit us to amend the Resolution and make it possible for money allocated to one case to be applied to the other. That seems to be a matter on which the Committee would wish the President of the Board of Trade to say a few words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1407.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-27", "file": "debates1952-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bd0edabc50a7c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did not succeed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "iscuss whether or not there should be a far greater allocation under Section 2. After all, the greater the risk, the less opportunity there is for commercial insurance, and the greater need there is for the exceptional type of risk taken by agreement with the Treasury. It is a depressing work making this appeal from this side of the Committee. I have tried not to say anything forcefully or rudely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-27a.1413.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-02-28", "file": "debates1952-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b19411faac8fbfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give some indication to the House when the National Health Service Bill is likely to be introduced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-28", "file": "debates1952-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b19411faac8fbfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL (LISBON MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-28", "file": "debates1952-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b19411faac8fbfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL (LISBON MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " with Germany and the European defence community's arrangement are both finally signed. As I indicated in my statement, it is impossible to estimate the time for that, but the main difficulties in this situation have now been overcome. Of course, the documents have to be put into form and signed, and so on. As to the part which Germany will play, it may be that what the Prime Minister has in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-28", "file": "debates1952-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b19411faac8fbfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL (LISBON MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Do I understand from what the right hon. Gentleman has said, that—using his own words—\"we shall be in line\" in the building up of the European defence organisation, apart from N.A.T.O., that we shall contribute contingents to that European defence organisation? Are we to be merged?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-28", "file": "debates1952-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b19411faac8fbfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL (LISBON MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not merged.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Do I understand from what the right hon. Gentleman has said, that—using his own words—\"we shall be in line\" in the building up of the European defence organisation, apart from N.A.T.O., that we shall contribute contingents to that European defence organisation? Are we to be merged? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The right hon. Gentleman used the term \"merged.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-28", "file": "debates1952-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b19411faac8fbfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1556.3", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES (COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "was unacquainted with the facts and who listened to his speech would think that the result of this Government's programme was that education was being almost abolished in this country. What is the fact? The fact, of course, is that this Government is proposing to spend more money on education than was ever spent by the Socialist Government or by any other Government in the history of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-28", "file": "debates1952-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "b19411faac8fbfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1556.3", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES (COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "were in power, the responsible Ministers, especially at such a time as this, could not be expected to say precisely what they would do and what they would not do before they had even had time to look at the books; and before the opportunity had come to the Goverment to decide upon their policy, friends of hon. Members opposite went about spreading the rumour that the school age was to be cut down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-28a.1556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-29", "file": "debates1952-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb1242206e5f3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-29a.1650.2", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "If the firm paid out 4,000 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-29a.1650.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-29", "file": "debates1952-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb1242206e5f3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-29a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "The original Select Committee was appointed in 1889.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-29a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-29", "file": "debates1952-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb1242206e5f3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-29a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "The reason why the hon. and gallant Member has difficulty in following my argument is that I am not being allowed to proceed with it. If he would be good enough to hear what I have to say I will show the relevance of the figures. What have we established so far?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-29a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-02-29", "file": "debates1952-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb1242206e5f3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-29a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": "ticular advantage in the case of the private companies. As the hon. Member knows, their accounts are not published and no one knows what are the profits they make, except for the small number of highly progressive concerns who take the precaution of explaining the figures to their own workers and getting their agreement. For instance, there are the Glacier Metal Company and companies of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-02-29a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "MANPOWER AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "e. Indeed, the figures show it. From pre-war until we left office, Industrial production rose by 50 per cent., output per man rose by 26 per cent., and exports rose by 80 per cent. That was a very creditable performance. It reflects great credit upon workers and managements in industry, and still greater credit upon the Government that created the right kind of climate in which that could happen.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "MANPOWER AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": " experience. It was timed to start about the time that redundancies were expected because of steel allocations which might affect employment, in order that there might be a better chance of discouraging workers who became redundant from passing into less important work. The right hon. Gentleman, in his speech, said he agreed with the Order and, therefore, I need not spend much time in debating it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "MANPOWER AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "is its administration about which we need to be concerned. I shall produce concrete evidence later on to show that the skilled engineers have had a raw deal in this country during the past 37 years. Whenever the nation has been in difficulties and whenever anyone has been asked to work harder and faster, it has always, apart from the miners, been the skilled engineers who have been asked to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "MANPOWER AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dockers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ng that may happen in the future—it may be a war in five years' time, though we hope that one will never happen—we must imagine what is to be done with people in the meantime. People talk glibly about housing and re-housing. My right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) was always being pressed to put police constables on a priority list. Others would have firemen on a priority list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "MANPOWER AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "th Shields (Mr. Ede) was always being pressed to put police constables on a priority list. Others would have firemen on a priority list—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Dockers.\"]—and, as my hon. Friend says, dockers. As one who has been a member of the housing committee of a local authority, I say that if all these pleas are acceded to, people such as engineers, who do all the work, will get no priority at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "MANPOWER AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Red meat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "steel that we can purchase from overseas. Even more valuable would be increased output of steel from our own steel industry. The right hon. Member for Blyth said that what we needed was hard work, increased productivity and increased exports. I certainly agree with him that what we need is hard and harder work. But to get hard and harder work from us ordinary human beings, we need more incentives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "MANPOWER AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "the Ministry of Labour figures rather reflect the results of the policies of those Departments. I have here a quotation from a speech, made by the right hon. Gentleman who is now the Minister of State for Economic Affairs, which I have never forgotten and which causes me the greatest apprehension. He said, \"There must, as a first step, be the compulsion of unemployment in the existing industries.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "MANPOWER AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "The man will be able to do that only if he gets a permit—a permit from the vacancy officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not as bad as that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "em, this Victorian survival permits a service which is still Slow, unpunctual and erratic, and sometimes entails travelling in dirty and ill-lit coaches. Museums are all very well to visit from time to time, but Enfield citizens' idea of fun is not to travel daily in one. In fact, compared to this travelling museum, the Emmet Railway in Battersea Pleasure Gardens is the last word in modern travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "freight for short distances would be at such a high level that it would seriously inconvenience industrial production in this country. In my view there is a limit to the savings British Railways can make through increased efficiency. They have improved their efficiency very much during the last three years, and all our prophecies regarding nationalisation in this respect have been fully justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": " giving way. When I interrupted a moment ago he was good enough to refer to a Question I asked in the House today, but that was not the question about which I am asking now. He is talking of the undue burden the Railway Executive have to bear. Does he not realise that probably the greatest burden they have to bear is the maintenance of the permanent way which, in fact, should be a national charge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "l on main line trains, because I drive a great deal and I walk a great deal, but I would say that there is a very changed attitude on the part of the railwaymen. I remember going to Euston on the very day on which the railways were nationalised, and the man who punched my ticket was full of joy and told me how marvellous things were going to be and what they were going to do. That spirit has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-03", "file": "debates1952-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "99ce9f9dedb268dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "was during pre-war conditions, and we do not need a great range of capital expenditure in order to have the coaches kept a little cleaner. I do not travel a great deal, but when I do I am not unobservant. Those who deny that railway coaches today are much dirtier than they were in pre-war days are denying the obvious. We can see them any day, dirty inside and dirty outside, and everybody knows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-03a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.178.6", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSFER OF QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.186.4", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What allegations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I have seen some reference to this trouble, but I have answered the Question. I do not think that even if these allegations were correct or were absolutely true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.186.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman makes this imputation against me. I gave no misleading answer. Why should I? I have been a long time in this House and I have never been accused previously of giving a misleading answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "While I acquit the Minister of any desire to mislead the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.193.4", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "No local authority has ever asked for this. I have met them all. Nobody has ever raised this or doubted what they have always known, that a quarter lay upon the rates. I still think that hon. Gentlemen opposite are annoyed at being deprived of their grievance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.195.10", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "As you have quite rightly said, Mr. Speaker, I was not in the House when my Question was answered with Question No. 2. May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.195.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.203.8", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CHAMBER (TEMPERATURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "It I can be assured that it is the wish of the majority of hon. Members, I will arrange for the temperature to be lowered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.203.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose speech was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e and until I could express my views to the House. I wish our example had been followed. Personal references do not matter anyhow, but what do matter, because they affect our whole relationship, are the unfortunate references to the Africans who attended the Conference, and I must reply to them. There was a reference to \"swollen heads.\" What a stupid thing to say! What an unfortunate thing to say!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does it mean to the whites?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ate. When we use words we ought to realise what their use may mean to other people. There was a reference to the fact that, as there had been a change of Government in this country, a \"more realistic attitude\" would be taken towards this question. What does this mean? What do hon. Members think it means to an African? What do hon. Members think it means to the people whom we met in the Conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "This debate differs from many in which we are engaged at other times because we are not this afternoon discussing matters of principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "g ago by a friend of mine that he was one of the ablest men in the art of politics that he knew, because, he said, he could make the French Revolution sound commonplace. No critics of the right hon. Gentleman, if there are any, would ever say that he had this power of making great events sound commonplace. He has the power of making quite small events sound as if they were major matters of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "absolutely clear. I do not think in any way that the right hon. Gentleman has met my point. The communiqué says in absolutely unequivocal terms—and that was recognised and signed by the right hon. Gentleman—that exchanges of views between the four Governments would be necessary. What were the conversations in January and February other than an exchange of views between the four Governments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "her frightening picture of action committees being formed or industrial threats being made in the Copper Belt, and so forth. I hope very much that these fears will prove exaggerated. Of course, they could not be entertained merely by looking at the documents concerned, because the communiqué foreshadowed a conference about the middle of next year, and April is about the middle of next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I beg pardon. That goes without saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. and learned Gentleman was not the only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " ago, he said that the urgency is caused by what is happening in South Africa. I am glad that he has been so forthcoming in regard to that. If the House will pardon a personal reference, the first speech I ever made in public was when I was a boy, and it was in defence of people whose freedom was, I thought, then being threatened. Because I made that speech I was called, in those days, a pro-Boer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " population on such African services as health, education, irrigation and soil conservation… Well, quite right; but I would much prefer to take part in seeing how that money was being spent than in getting it for somebody else who was spending it effectively, especially if that somebody else were getting it from me and my kind. The 29,000 in Southern Rhodesia are the only ones who can vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "preceding_text": "mpletely distorted view of the kind of people who are engaged in discussing federation. My colleagues on the delegation will readily agree that, whether it was in Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland or Southern Rhodesia, we met the conception that a Fabian is a kind of vile, long-haired villain who is constantly resorting to carping criticism and obstructing the general social development of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Suppose they disagree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Government, it is clear, are not imposing this on the Africans, because they have got a deputation coming over; they are soliciting African opinion; and they are inviting Africans to a conference, and giving them the opportunity to make modifications and amendments. This is not railroading African opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Government, it is clear, are not imposing this on the Africans, because they have got a deputation coming over; they are soliciting African opinion; and they are inviting Africans to a conference, and giving them the opportunity to make modifications and amendments. This is not railroading African opinion. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Suppose they disagree.\"] It depends who disagrees, and how many.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL (DISTRIBUTION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the truth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "I admire the way this Motion has been moved. I thought that the mover put the case, from the Sheffield point of view, very fairly and very properly. I feel sure that he did not exaggerate his point, as the seconder seemed to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL (DISTRIBUTION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "I admire the way this Motion has been moved. I thought that the mover put the case, from the Sheffield point of view, very fairly and very properly. I feel sure that he did not exaggerate his point, as the seconder seemed to do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the truth.\"] Nevertheless, he tried to convey to the House that the Minister was responsible for a good deal of bungling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL (DISTRIBUTION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Birmingham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "ed and disposed of by the Minister—we appreciate the great variety of industries which will be affected by what ever action is taken. In the Second Schedule we have a list of the various Departments that are to authorise the allocation of these materials. I feel it is right and proper for me to raise my voice and tell the Minister that in the City of Sheffield we have a multiplicity of industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL (DISTRIBUTION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "in that the Minister appreciates his responsibility, and that those in the Departments are not anxious to create under-employment or unemployment. I am one of those people who believe that no one but a fool wants to see unemployment. I have said so from that side of the House on many occasions. It is a false charge to suggest that anyone on this side wants to create any bottleneck of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-04", "file": "debates1952-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "5a67efc3b52fe027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL (DISTRIBUTION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. F. Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. F. Deedes", "preceding_text": "tial in the priority system of transport. The wagon situation is by far the most serious. We have 150,000 wagons on the railways today more than 40 years old, a high proportion of which have been breaking down during the last two or three years. Last year—hon. Gentlemen opposite will not confuse this with any responsibility of the present Minister—90,000 hot boxes were experienced by the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-04a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.437.5", "colnum": "437", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are very glad to see the right hon. Gentleman on his feet again. Much of the difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.437.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.437.7", "colnum": "437", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Much of the difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.437.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.437.8", "colnum": "437", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Much of the difficulty—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have only a little time. Much of the difficulty we are suffering from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.437.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n altercation with the hon. and learned Gentleman because it may not be generally known that his grandfather was the author of a very famous book to which I have always paid the most careful attention and in which he clears one of my forebears of a lot of disagreeable charges. Everyone knows the kind of campaign which was run, suggesting that we intended to increase the length of National Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e generally known that his grandfather was the author of a very famous book to which I have always paid the most careful attention and in which he clears one of my forebears of a lot of disagreeable charges. Everyone knows the kind of campaign which was run, suggesting that we intended to increase the length of National Service. [ Interruption. ] I am so glad to be able to excite a sense of shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell the truth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ttention and in which he clears one of my forebears of a lot of disagreeable charges. Everyone knows the kind of campaign which was run, suggesting that we intended to increase the length of National Service. [ Interruption. ] I am so glad to be able to excite a sense of shame. [ Interruption. ] We really must get back to the laborious administrative details to which I had hoped to confine myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have no desire to state anything but what is the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "long service and have beneficial pay. This is a most helpful development in our Army organisation, and really, one might say, worth its weight in gold when one thinks of the cost of moving men to and fro from here to Hong Kong. That is all I am going to say about the Army this afternoon. When the Navy Estimates are introduced tomorrow, the First Lord will give a full account of the naval position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o meet, each of which, if successful, would affect our survival in this island. I will state them in their order of gravity as they affect us—the mine; the U-boat—for that is what I call potentially hostile submarines, distinguishing between a wicked weapon used for wrong purposes and the honourable use of the submarine in the ordinary course of naval business; it is a good thing to separate them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ho may well be as valuable to the Royal Navy and to the life of the island as are sailors afloat. The House, I feel, may be assured that when the new frigates and minesweepers come into service they will be a proof of the perennial British ability to produce novel designs of high performance. From all that I have been able to learn and understand as a member of the Institution of Naval Architects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "by the Canadian Minister of National Defence that, as part of the North Atlantic system of mutual help, we are to receive in due course from Canada a number of high-class fighter aircraft. F.86 is the label given to them. The frames will be made in Canada, the engines in America and the Royal Air Force will fly them. These aircraft will be a welcome addition to our strength at home and in Europe.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "n has reached the stage when his primary concern is to seek to cause a cleavage in the ranks of the Labour Party. He need not concern himself unduly about matters of that sort. We can handle any differences. Let the right hon. Gentleman concern himself with certain elements in his own party. For a long time he has disliked many of his colleagues, and for a long time they have equally disliked him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What will you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Labour Party stand in this matter, though I have not prepared a speech. Indeed, after the speech to which we have just listened no preparation was necessary. I am bound to say that I have frequently heard the right hon. Gentleman speak, and it seems to me that he is deteriorating rapidly. When he is left with nothing to say about the substance of the matter, he seeks to attack the late Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "dly. When he is left with nothing to say about the substance of the matter, he seeks to attack the late Government. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What will you do?\"] Hon. Members will see what I shall do before I have finished. Let me add that their jeering and laughter will not affect me in the least. I shall say what I want to say in spite of them all. I shall state briefly the position of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "d to say about Service Ministers and myself, it is really going a bit too far. After all, this is not a tea party with the dear vicar in the chair, as the ex-Father of the House said on one occasion. We can afford to say things about each other without regarding them as being unduly offensive. However, if hon. Members opposite are very sensitive, we will do our best to cater to their requirements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "of defence must not be used as an excuse to weaken our social services. That is our position. I do not pretend for a moment that it would be possible to build up adequate defence to meet all our defence requirements without imposing some burdens on the community, but we ought to exercise great caution in this regard. Having made the position of, at any rate, the majority of the Labour Party clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ost part, to fly them in. At any rate, we experienced no great difficulty in this matter. That was an achievement, and in so far as we require defence I claim that the position was far more satisfactory than ever before in peace-time, and certainly much more satisfactory than hon. Members opposite pretend. Yet complaint after complaint—and, indeed, abuse—was levelled against the Service Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e devices and provision of corvettes and the like and we have to have our land formations, but there must be priority in the air. We sought to undertake that task all along while we were in the Government. What is the difficulty there? The right hon. Gentleman mentioned provision by the Canadians of the F.86's. More than 12 months ago we had negotiations with the American Government and Canadians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.468.2", "colnum": "468", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Group Captain Wilcock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Group Captain Wilcock", "preceding_text": "their troops in Normandy because they had not got sufficient transport aircraft in which to bring in reinforcements, and they could not use the roads, which were denied to them. I think this matter should be given very high priority amongst the many problems with which the Ministers concerned have to deal. Finally, on my last point—and I apologise for speaking so long, but I have been interrupted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " similar programme into the 1938 economy it could have been absorbed very easily indeed, for in 1938 there were two million unemployed and there were raw materials piled up waiting to be used. There was, then, almost no limit to the recuperative effect of re-armament upon our economy. Unfortunately—if I may say so—we have had six years of a successful Labour Government maintaining full employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "g to this country committing economic suicide.\" He said something even more significant than that. He said, \"Any hon. Members who support the Amendment will be committing political suicide\"—and he meant in so far as their chances were concerned of ever becoming Front Bench politicians under the new leader of the party. Hon. Members opposite know very well that that has been the crux of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": " which are now responsible for shooting down our own and American pilots over Korea today? That is the record of the Socialist Government. I presume that the Leader of the Opposition is about to move an Amendment, which, I believe, seeks to say that, while agreeing with the re-armament programme, hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have no confidence in Her Majesty's Government to carry it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not tell us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "preceding_text": " because they are going to carry out that same plan this year. The right hon. Gentleman always went about saying, \"You have done nothing about the atom bomb.\" He could have informed himself fully on that had he liked, but it is much easier not to know and just to talk. Then, when it turns out that we are to have the testing of an atom bomb, the right hon. Gentleman says, \"Why did you not tell us?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.541.3", "colnum": "541", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence (Mr. Nigel Birch)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence (Mr. Nigel Birch)", "preceding_text": " unbalance must be set right. That is what we are now trying to do. The right hon. Member for Easington criticised the Prime Minister for not talking about N.A.T.O.—for not realising that he had any Allies—and went on to make what I thought were not very charitable remarks about some of our Allies, particularly our oldest Ally, Portugal, who I am informed, are playing extremely well at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "They have made promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Be British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that he is not a Czech, a Pole or a Frenchman. I should like the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "If I may take my good will rather further and wish him something not generally done by a Government, I very much wish that when the Prime Minister leads or follows his party into the Lobby he will be followed by a very great many of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.552.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (NOTIFICATION OF VACANCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "preceding_text": "generally held. He said: It raised the question of the right of the State, in time of peace, to control the places and employments in which its subjects work. That is a matter of major importance, and it is surely quite deplorable that wartime emergency powers should have been abused for this purpose. This is a matter which, if it were done at all, should have been done by the procedure of a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.585.11", "colnum": "585", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (NOTIFICATION OF VACANCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "pelling. He said an employer could not force a person to accept a post; neither was the employee obliged to accept it. It does not seem to me, if there is no compulsion about this matter, that there is any need for the Order to be brought in. We are told that now we have at least 500,000 people who are unemployed, very largely due to the policy which has been carried out by the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.585.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.592.3", "colnum": "592", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (NOTIFICATION OF VACANCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many Socialists are here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": " Order was not available to hon. Members. What has happened since? A Prayer has been put down: the Prayer has been taken off: the Prayer has been put down again; and tonight, for the first time since 1940, when we are discussing a matter affecting the employment of all the people in this country, the Minister of Labour is absent from this Chamber. That is the first time it has happened since 1940.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.593.5", "colnum": "593", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (NOTIFICATION OF VACANCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "cal authority, goodness knows what hon. Members opposite will do with the Steel House or Shell-Mex in the next few months, or a year or two. This is a breach of pledge. In the introduction of this Order, there is a piece of bad faith with the electorate. Hon. Members opposite made certain promises, and one was that there should be no control; that labour should be free, and they went even farther.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.593.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.593.5", "colnum": "593", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (NOTIFICATION OF VACANCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "re from our British standards could be made in time of peace, not only Parliament, but the people must be consulted. Was not this the very kind of thing we fought against in the war, and thought we had beaten down for ever with our strong right of arm? Here is the present Prime Minister saying that before there can be a Control of Engagement Order in peace-time, the electorate should be consulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.593.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-05", "file": "debates1952-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "8bd338f7965a2c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (NOTIFICATION OF VACANCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "ey are honourably seeking work, and, in turn, be notified of every job available in that area or any other. There is nothing wrong in that. The question of the permit has been raised. I cannot follow the logic of this permit business. Bill Smith goes to the local employment exchange. He is looking for a job. The manager notifies him of all the vacancies in that area. None of them suits Bill Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-05a.603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why not answer the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "I think it is known that the Kent authority had got on very well with their building. At the end of 1951 they had provided about 40,000 new places, and nearly another 15,000 were under construction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "As that is one of the most shocking answers I have ever heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Lady be so kind as to explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Navy Estimates, 1952–53, and Navy Supplementary Estimate, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is not one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I must apologise to the hon. and gallant Member for confusing him with the hon. Member for Portsmouth, North.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Navy Estimates, 1952–53, and Navy Supplementary Estimate, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not want to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "I should like to get that matter clear. The First Lord is here himself. Was the First Lord present at the Cabinet meeting at which these decisions with regard to strategic reserves were taken, or not? Surely he could give an answer to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Navy Estimates, 1952–53, and Navy Supplementary Estimate, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "Naval Aviation. I strongly support him in suggesting that the term \"Naval Aviation\" should disappear and that in future the Fleet Air Arm should again be called the Fleet Air Arm. At the same time. although the Fleet Air Arm—I will continue to call it that—is at last beginning to get some aircraft of which it can be proud, I am horrified to hear that the \"Barracuda\" is still in first-line service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "aval organisation composed of 11 nations, and I believe that there are eight different languages spoken in those 11 nations, but the over-ruling language is to be English. In signalling, it may be possible, and probably will be, that people of different nationalities will have to signal messages in English. To take an extreme case, we may have a Greek signalling to a Dutchman a message in English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to interrupt? Why does he not set an example by dropping an \"I\" and a \"c,\" and, possibly, a \"k\" from his own name?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "There is a man who comes from the Navy ! I am using this opportunity as a means towards my spelling reform. It might be called the thin end of the wedge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "o their proper spelling. There is no reason why \"plough\" should not be written \"plow\"; \"cough\" as \"coll.\" As a matter of fact, the Shakespearean use of \"cough\" was \"coll.\" This form of \"ough\" is only in the language because of Dr. Johnson's dictionary. These are all simplifications that could take place very easily. Take the word \"biscuit.\" There is no reason why it should not be written \"biskit.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "ured by the degree of shock which an Englishman receives on reading any passage in simplified spelling. When he sees \"woz\" for \"was\" it brings it home to him with a bump. The foreigner sees \"has\" and then \"was,\" and says \"waz.\" In speech read from letters and in radiotelephony, the thing simply goes wrong and the war is lost \"for the lack of a nail,\" The English language is a really fine language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "m letters and in radiotelephony, the thing simply goes wrong and the war is lost \"for the lack of a nail,\" The English language is a really fine language. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We have fine allies, all of whom want to learn English and to use it. Bismarck is said to have remarked at one time that the significant fact of the 19th Century was that America and Britain spoke the same language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.790.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Hay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Professor Sir Douglas Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Sir Douglas Savory", "preceding_text": "r Service, because I speak from personal experience. In the Navy during the First World War, I very often had to use the word \"buttress.\" Now the word \"buttress\" in our barbarous spelling, which we have slavishly adopted from Dr. Johnson's dictionary of 1755, we spell with two t's and two s's. If only we had studied the real etymology of the language, of which Dr. Johnson was, completely ignorant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.799.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " money than in 1914 and about twice that of 1939. And this at a time when we also spent far more on the Army and the Air Force than in 1914 or 1939. So how does it lie in the mouths of hon. Members on the other side of the House, and particularly the Prime Minister, to criticise the Labour Government in an argument that we had provided only inadequate naval defence? It was a lie from beginning to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " The Prime Minister even told a totally different story this year from that told in previous years about the Russian submarines, and that again is where I support the argument of my hon. and learned Friend and take up the hon. Member for Gosport and Fareham, who dealt with the Russian submarines. Previously the Prime Minister talked of the threat of 400, or it might have been 500, Russian U-boats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-06", "file": "debates1952-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5dd4e8a977169b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH SPELLING", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "bad principle good. Therefore, there can be no argument if the Admiralty attempt to come forward with a suggestion for reviving the 13 age entry, arguing that cost is a factor. If cost is a factor, then the buildings are wrong and the answer is to move the boys away from those buildings altogether. They were built in the sumptuous years at the beginning of the century when cost was not considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-06a.824.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-07", "file": "debates1952-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9199f4b5db4bf29d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-07a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "COAL (EFFICIENT UTILISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "But a very great proportion of stokers are untrained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-07a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-07", "file": "debates1952-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9199f4b5db4bf29d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-07a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "COAL (EFFICIENT UTILISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": "nd that experiment has brought comfort and joy to the homes of those miners. In addition, what is of paramount importance in relation to this debate is that there has been a remarkable saving in the quantity of coal consumed. I ask the Parliamentary Secretary to pay due regard to the type of range he introduces. The best I know—I am not advertising the goods—is the \"Sofono\" or the \"Rayburn\" range.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-07a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-07", "file": "debates1952-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9199f4b5db4bf29d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-07a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "COAL (EFFICIENT UTILISATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Conservative Party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "r low thermal efficiency, but when they are calm hon. Members give out about 400 British thermal units an hour; but when they are excited that output can rise considerably. For example, on Wednesday night, when the party opposite found themselves so dramatically divided in the face of the House and the country, I believe that their energy output was the equivalent of about 70 or 80 electric fires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-07a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1010.5", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICES (CUTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will not expect me to add anything to the answer given by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1010.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1020.5", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LONDON TRANSPORT (INCREASED FARES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member sat through the whole of the proceedings on the Act when it was passed by the previous Government. Therefore, he knows what is in the Act and I am assuming that he is asking me to change the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1020.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1023.6", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Army Estimates, 1952–53, and Army Supplementary Estimate, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "preceding_text": ", it continued too long, but comparatively recently the size of the Army was rapidly increased by a number of urgent measures. The first was the call-up of Regular Reservists. The second was to retain Regulars in the Army beyond their contractual time. The third was a substantial increase in pay, for which the late Government deserve full credit—but it is a tragedy that they did not do it earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1023.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1023.6", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Army Estimates, 1952–53, and Army Supplementary Estimate, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "preceding_text": "he Army was rapidly increased by a number of urgent measures. The first was the call-up of Regular Reservists. The second was to retain Regulars in the Army beyond their contractual time. The third was a substantial increase in pay, for which the late Government deserve full credit—but it is a tragedy that they did not do it earlier. [ Interruption. ] I say that in all honesty, not as a criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1023.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Army Estimates, 1952–53, and Army Supplementary Estimate, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "out what in the Memorandum we term \"Regular Women,\" in other words, the women of the Women's Royal Army Corps. These women have done great service with the Army. They are now serving in almost all the theatres in which the Army is stationed, and we want more of them. At the moment we have a committee of officers sitting in the War Office thinking how we can make ourselves more attractive to women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Army Estimates, 1952–53, and Army Supplementary Estimate, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "tleman attack them and demolish them if he can. At any rate, they are pushed into his territory and he will have to deal with them if he wants to convince us that he is a Secretary of State for War whom we can all applaud in spite of various party differences. I have long said that this matter should be above parties and in that respect, although, obviously, I cannot speak for my party as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Army Estimates, 1952–53, and Army Supplementary Estimate, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do like it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ntroduced into our Reserve system something which has lasted for nearly 50 years. In view of the situation that we have to face in the next 10, 15 or 20 years, and particularly as we have now lost vast areas which previously provided us with large numbers of troops, we ought to apply fresh minds to the problem of defence if we are to remain an imperial nation, or, if hon. Members do not like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Army Estimates, 1952–53, and Army Supplementary Estimate, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": "rade at Sandhurst and the Royal Military Tournament. At present practically no boys ever go to any of those functions. I also suggest that someone like the present Minister of Defence, Lord Alexander, or Field Marshal Montgomery might, by means of B.B.C. broadcasts perhaps once a year give a resume or an up-to-date talk, mainly for boys, with a view to making them think about the Army as a career.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "What it has to do with Korea is that the British Army has been demonstrated there as the finest Army in the world, and this Army was produced under a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "onstrated there as the finest Army in the world, and this Army was produced under a Labour Government. [ Laughter. ] Oh, yes. Whilst the right hon. Gentleman was saying that the Labour Government were ruining our defences and our Army, they managed to produce the finest Army in the world. In fact, we left him with a far better Army than has ever been left by a Conservative Government in peacetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "programme can be virtually abandoned, then the whole of that basis would disappear, as I will seek to show in a minute. I believe that the Government have been neglecting their duty for electioneering purposes over the last few months, because they have refused to give us any reasons at all why we must retain these large armaments. They have been so busy playing politics with our national defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "he agricultural community are one whit behind anybody else in their desire to serve their country—far from it; but this is a matter of hard common sense. Is it worth while to call up people for jobs which, we know, they will not have in war-time? Would it not be more sensible—I say this with great respect—to call up the young men of the agricultural committee—I am sorry the agricultural community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1148.3", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "preceding_text": " of the House. I think it is a great tribute to my right hon. Friend that he has already been so successful in office. This military debate has, so far, been particularly non-militant, apart from the speech of the hon. Member for Aston (Mr. Wyatt). I am sorry that he has left his place, because I had one or two remarks to address to him; but I think I will leave them unsaid in view of his absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman ought not to introduce that kind of argument to the problems we are trying to solve.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen should not really be so thin-skinned.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1165.3", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ussing a system of training which, on the one hand, turns out first-class warrant officers, N.C.O.s and soldiers—the best in the world. On the other hand, when I have looked at junior officers, and seen the interior economy of the Brigade of Guards, I have been shocked. If hon. Gentlemen did not know about this, it is time they did. This point of view is shared throughout the country and the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "call-up of agricultural workers, which is going to hinder the task of food production, which is so badly needed. I know the answer will be given that there is only a comparatively small number of these people; only 10,000 in the whole of agricultural Britain. But these 10,000 might be key men. They might, for example, be a village blacksmith, whose task it is to repair the tractor. If the tractor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: That was always so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "e inevitable result will be that we shall have a huge increase in the arms programme which will be inflationary and will lead, as the right hon. Gentleman said, to the industrial conditions which will encourage Communism in this country. I also want to say a few words about manpower. We see displayed all over the country today the recruiting poster which says, \"You Are Somebody in the Army Today.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": "nd many of these cuts have not been restored. I had a letter the other day from the officer who was my second in command when I was a second lieutenant. He retired as major on a pension of £400 a year in 1925 or 1926, and he has received that sum ever since. At that time it was a reasonable pension, perhaps, and he could do quite well on it, but it is not much in 1952 after six years of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-10", "file": "debates1952-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "87923414ca9df03a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "TRAINING METHODS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At home or overseas?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "ranch. But he did make a very interesting speech, and so he should with his experience. He asked me particularly about building married quarters. The figures are these: since the scheme was introduced we have built 1,430 for the Regular Army, 712 for the permanent staff of the Territorial Army, and there have been hirings for 3,343. These are the figures of the achievement in that building so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-10a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-11", "file": "debates1952-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d0b4361e421f372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1235.4", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only on new building.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there was supposed to be a standstill order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1235.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-11", "file": "debates1952-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d0b4361e421f372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": "May I draw the attention of the Secretary of State to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-11", "file": "debates1952-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d0b4361e421f372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "GENERAL BUDGETARY CONCLUSION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e, asking that the nation should throw off some of its crippling load of expenses and taxes, and should go into action with its loins girt, inspired by the sense that if we work harder we can earn more, or that if we are in need or reach old age we shall be cared for. We must also be satisfied that the rewards of effort are fair, and that undue profits are not made out of the nation's necessities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-11", "file": "debates1952-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d0b4361e421f372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1290.4", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "EXCESS PROFITS TAX", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Far too low.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "To meet cases of hardship, I propose that a ceiling should be placed on the Excess Profits Levy chargeable. This ceiling will be 18 per cent, of the total profits; in other words, the Excess Profits Levy payable will be 30 per cent. of the excess profits, or 18 per cent. of the total profits, whichever is the less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1290.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-11", "file": "debates1952-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d0b4361e421f372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1298.2", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How much?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "eat will be increased by an average of 4d. a lb. at an early date. The reduction of 1d. a quart in the price of milk which was due to be made seasonally at the end of March will not now be made and there will be a seasonal increase of 1d. a quart later in the year. The price of tea will be put up to a level which will eliminate subsidy altogether but this will not come into force until the summer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-11", "file": "debates1952-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d0b4361e421f372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1354.4", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "EDUCATION, WALES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "I must push on. I know the necessity for more text-books in Welsh. I am not in the least opposed to this. Perhaps it was a pity that at the end of the debate, closing on rather a lighter note, I should have disturbed hon. Members. I was about to say that I hope the people of Wales might also be allowed to learn the English language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-11a.1354.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1356.3", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "May I ask you, Mr. Speaker, what you think is the explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1356.7", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, unfortunately, during the economy period, I had the duty of curtailing the development of aircraft at this airport, and is he further aware that it is quite impossible for a full-scale aircraft development establishment to be built near Prestwick without destroying it completely as an international airport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1356.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1389.8", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "luence on them by putting up the rate of interest they have to pay for their short-term borrowing by 1 or 1½per cent. The gains to be obtained from not holding sterling and from holding on to dollars will far exceed any extra cost in the rise in interest rates. I still think—and I repeat it—that the Chancellor should have taken some advice I gave him, first in November and again in January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1389.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1389.8", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rom improvements in the terms of trade and higher invisible exports he hoped to get£250 million, and he was good enough to let me know—following his speech yesterday—that the increase in invisibles would be£100 million. Presumably the increased improvement in the terms of trade would be£150 million, which was, in fact, exactly what I estimated in January. At least we seem to be in agreement there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1389.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "on is accounted for by changes in stocks, leaving a figure of another£125 million for reduction in available resources. To that is added another£50 million for exports, and so the Chancellor gets from somewhere a figure of£200 million as the amount of reduction in resources for use at home. I think it is actually£175 million, but obviously there is no need to worry about a narrow margin like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Net? A little more than half—and quite enough, too; the hon. Gentleman is always preaching the virtues of economy to us, and perhaps he will now think about it. That is not the only rate of interest with which we are concerned. We are very much concerned about the rate of interest to be charged to local authorities. Is that to go up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " us, and perhaps he will now think about it. That is not the only rate of interest with which we are concerned. We are very much concerned about the rate of interest to be charged to local authorities. Is that to go up? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If so—and I think the right hon. Gentleman might answer this one—can we have an assurance that the housing subsidy will once again be reviewed and raised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1399.3", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I beg the right hon. Gentleman's pardon; I meant the Minister of Housing and Local Government. I am sure that the Leader of the House would never make such a mistake. Associated with this is, of course, the rate to be charged under the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1404.3", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did not the right hon. Gentleman do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "iscuss this in greater detail later. I do regret that the review of the Entertainments Duty which we undertook to make last year has not been carried out with more imagination than the Government seem to have displayed. After all, it is a very simple thing just to put up the tax on football and cricket and to bring it down on speedways. Surely we could have had something more scientific than that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1404.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1406.1", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "the postage, and the final give-away of£24 million. The fact is that the Government could have financed the whole of the increased social service benefits out of the increase in the Petrol Duty and the give-away of£24 million, or even less than that. I must say straight away that we support the increases in the social services, regarding them in present circumstances as in some respect inadequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about family allowances? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ble the Committee with a great many examples, because hon. Members can work them out for themselves; they are provided very conveniently in the White Paper on the Financial. Statement. If we take a married couple with two children, they still lose at£10 a week, and with three children at£12 2s. a week. I will give the exact figures. The£12 per week gain is£15 10s. and the loss£18 15s. on the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "per on the Financial. Statement. If we take a married couple with two children, they still lose at£10 a week, and with three children at£12 2s. a week. I will give the exact figures. The£12 per week gain is£15 10s. and the loss£18 15s. on the year. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about family allowances? \"] Family allowances could have been provided easily through the petrol tax without the food subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Talk about sleight of hand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "2 2s. a week. I will give the exact figures. The£12 per week gain is£15 10s. and the loss£18 15s. on the year. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about family allowances? \"] Family allowances could have been provided easily through the petrol tax without the food subsidies. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members had better consider, if they do not like that, exactly what was the purpose of raising the petrol tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "erested in these figures—the benefits obtained by this redistribution. A single person earning£1,000 a year is 12s. a week better off. Even the man with£1,000 a year of wholly unearned income is 7s. 10½d. a week better off. To go to the other extreme, a married couple with three children, at£1,000 a year, are 18s. 7d. a week better off—that is 17s. 11d. better off if the income is unearned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must not be unfair. I have expressed already my admiration for the fact that he is a trained economist. I am relating this to a particular operation. I am not personally responsible for the conduct of food operations in this country, and it would be quite unfair for me to give any other guarantee than I have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ment, which is the apparent alternative, will do infinitely more harm to production than anything which could possibly have been achieved by this redistribution. This is, in essence, a clever Budget. As one of my hon. Friends said to me, it is just a little too clever. It was cleverly presented. If I may say so to the right hon. Gentleman—I do not mean it in an offensive spirit, but as a criticism", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "o much a common form that I imagine hon. Members opposite are hardened to it. But, stripped of all disguises, it is a lamentable move to take from poor people and to give to wealthier. It cannot but encourage inflation, and its final effects will, in my opinion, endanger production seriously. Above all, at a critical moment in our history, when we needed a call to rally us to meet a common danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "g even as a result of the Bank rate going up, they will be very pleased indeed. What else has gone up as well as the Bank rate? Pensions and allowances have gone up. That did not raise much enthusiasm on the other side of the Committee yesterday. I was sorry, because our constituents all over the country are very pleased about this. At the last Election we were very modest in the promises we made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Benson", "preceding_text": "Lyttelton), suggested, on this point of civil servants, that we could easily lop off an expenditure of£50 million a year. On 29th January, when the Chancellor made his statement on the economic situation, he said that he had cut out waste. That was a proud boast. He claimed that he had already reduced civil expenditure by an amount which represented 1½per cent. of our gross national income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": " Profits Levy falls upon excess profits, whether they are to be put to reserve or not. What this reduction in the Profits Tax means is that, out of the profits made on the basic level, there is a remission of 7½per cent. on those profits which are declared as dividends; in other words, it enables dividends to be increased by 7½per cent. at the cost of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the other side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "s. We have to face the fact that in this country we have hundreds of thousands of houses which are rapidly becoming dilapidated for financial reasons. I believe it is a bad policy for either the present or the previous Government to imagine that we can go on indefinitely seeing a slow process of dry rot setting into these vast numbers of houses without doing something to tackle the actual problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1458.0", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "With great respect, the sort of people I am talking about spend almost nothing, if anything, on those sorts of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1465.1", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": " affecting our economy. If I had a magic wand and could conjure up 2 million tons of steel and 30 million tons of coal, we could be free of most of our economic difficulties at this moment. But unfortunately I have not a magic wand, and wishful thinking will not get coal or steel. Regarding steel, and we agree this is vital to the economy of our country, I have one criticism of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "If there is any muddle at all, I thing I could bring it much nearer to the hon. Member than I could to the late Government. In point of fact, the business negotiations for steel in America did not start until after the present Government had assumed office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "preceding_text": "It is a contingent and conditional question. It is, as I said, too early to estimate the rate at which long-term lending will eventually reach its level. It is even more premature to make estimates as to what we should do in different possible contingencies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1498.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS (PRAYERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS (PRAYERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " only the Opposition that is concerned. My hon. Friends, and particularly my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams), have always been very scrupulous in examining these Orders and Regulations and they may very well get into some difficulty, though I do not know that as a fact. But I submit, it is not a matter we can discuss now across the Floor of the House or across the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-12", "file": "debates1952-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "877fc4b2125e6af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS (PRAYERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ough the usual channels the Government will see in this particular case—it is only a particular case owing to miscalculation of the days, and never mind how it happened—whether anything should be done to try and meet the general convenience of the House, which is all I am concerned about. As I said earlier, some of these subjects might very well come up in a time at the disposal of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-12a.1522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1538.0", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "With respect, does the hon. and learned Gentleman think that that is a reply to the Question? Surely it is known whether the proposals made at the Colombo Conference are being carried out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1539.3", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. and learned Gentleman realise that his noble Friend is, of course, responsible for the broad direction of this project, and will he bear in mind that the tendency of people engaged in this sort of thing is to start off on too big a scale", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1556.7", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that in view of the unsatisfactory nature of the reply, I shall raise the matter on the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1556.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1574.2", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the White Paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I cannot say, because it is contingent upon the production of the White Paper asked for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1596.3", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is asking me specifically about a subject which is entirely within the responsibility and the power of the Australian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1596.5", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I should like to turn, if I may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1596.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1596.6", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I should like to turn, if I may—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think I have answered the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1623.0", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "wood, on which there was a Question today to the Secretary for Overseas Trade. I understand that it is the intention of the Government to run down timber stocks this year by about 250,000 standards. Perhaps, if I could have the Chancellor's attention for a moment, he would tell me if that is correct. He should know, because his Budget centres on that. I presume that that figure is roughly correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1634.1", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the difficulty, but I did not like the inference that in some way Canada was the black sheep of the family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1635.4", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "RT, 11th March, 1952; Vol. 497, c. 1325.] The majority of hon. Members of this Committee and of the people in the country will agree with me that the good things arise from the clear mind of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and from the fact that he was following a Conservative policy, and the bad things were necessitated by mistakes in the long period during which the party opposite were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1635.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1637.3", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "I should be called to order if I embarked on a discussion on that Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1637.3", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "d family allowances and allowances in many directions. He has made it unnecessary for the bulk of the people to get these subsidies. That is only one leg of my argument. The other leg is that the statement of Lord Woolton was made in the context of the facts at the time. Was there anybody in this House who knew last autumn that we were losing dollar currencies at the rate of £1,200 million a year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1658.1", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "what is to be the future of the Central Price Regulation Committee. That Committee is a body of people who have laboured so unselfishly without any pay, not only in London but also on local committees in the Provinces. They have done yeoman service throughout the country in looking after the interests of the consumer. May I ask the President of the Board of Trade also what is to happen to himself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1660.2", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": " terms of trade in the whole world have altered against us, and are continuing to alter. We have the re-armament programme, which must have a very considerable effect. If, on top of that, we are to have the sort of unilateral action which has been taken by the Government of Australia, we must realise the seriousness of the position. We must realise that such an action will do a great deal of harm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": " will not be more incomes chasing those same real resources and that we shall not, therefore, still have some inflation, which is what we are trying to stop. If there is any error, it is not on the severe side and it is, therefore, to show oneself completely out of touch with the realities for hon. Members opposite to start saying that 10s. for war pensioners is not enough and things of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": " I will take the point further—and I make no complaint about the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, for I am quite certain that his figures were made in good faith and on the best available advice. The point is, not that I complain about these errors but that the whole system of trying to add up at the beginning of a year in the Budget and leaving everything else to rip is completely impracticable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ught it by yet further increasing their sterling balances. In effect, we borrowed it \"on sight.\" What did we do with it? We used the whole of it to keep ourselves going in the United States; in addition nearly £500 million came from our reserves in American aid. We were literally paying the dividends of the Welfare State out of new deposits. It was one gigantic Farrow's Bank. Now the bank is bust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Henry Strauss)", "preceding_text": "If I might intervene for a moment—I do so only for the convenience of the House—I think that on a point of construction the hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East (Mr. Blenkinsop) is quite correct. I will point out the reasons in a moment, but the hon. Gentleman opposite is right in thinking that motorcycles are under the Order classed with other bicycles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1708.0", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " opposite, in so far as they may feel there is some point in the argument they are putting forward, to remember that this is one of at least three provisions which the Government are presenting in pursuance of their policy of restricting credit. I think we are all agreed that some kind of restriction of credit must take place now. We all realise there has been too much money chasing too few goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1708.0", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When did he say it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "g in pursuance of their policy of restricting credit. I think we are all agreed that some kind of restriction of credit must take place now. We all realise there has been too much money chasing too few goods. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I am glad to hear hon. Gentlemen opposite deserting their right hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton)—whom I was quoting when I used that phrase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1713.0", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I think that perhaps, I had better develop my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1713.2", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " for Buckingham, South (Mr. R. Bell). Let me explain why I cannot think it is ambiguous. The first category is set out on page 3: Mechanically propelled road vehicles and chassis (excluding ambulances, invalid carriages, bicycles, tricycles,…) Nothing comes in that at all which is not a mechanically propelled vehicle, and if it excludes bicycles it must mean mechanically propelled bicycles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1713.2", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "HIRE-PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "her things, for the exclusion altogether of pedal cycles and motorcycles from the Order. I cannot hold out hope of their exclusion, but I can hold out some hope, for the reasons I have stated, of the alteration of the classification of motorcycles. I agree cordially with the words of common sense which came, as they so often do, from my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South (Sir W. Darling).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1737.4", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ar that from the Minister tonight. I am sure he will not tell us there has not been opportunity for an inquiry. I am sure he will not tell us the matter was so urgent he had to impose the charges without an inquiry. I am sure that will not be his reply because, although he is a National Liberal he is consistent, and I am sure he would not wish to stab the Home Secretary in the back in his absence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " Now they are in office they may have to abandon that proposal. Perhaps that is one of the matters the Minister may refer to when he gets up to try to convince us that if this demand is accepted then we will not be faced with similar demands in the near future. The hon. Member for Huntingdon suggested that any increase in coal charges leading to an increase in freight charges was due to this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I hope I said the debate so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1757.3", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "These proposals were made at a time when the party opposite had been in power. They had started this Act. They nationalised the railways, the docks, and road haulage, and they ought to have known what they were doing. They had had time to have an inquiry. We found an immediate crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1757.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1759.3", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1759.7", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " discuss three important Regulations contemporaneously, but, after the recent disgraceful behaviour of hon. Members opposite, on matters of importance in future my right hon. Friends will consider whether we can ever again accord to the Government the courtesy of saying that we will discuss three important matters contemporaneously and so assist the Government in economising the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1759.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1759.7", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ment. It was in his opening sentence that the right hon. and learned Gentleman made all those remarks. On that occasion the three Regulations were taken collectively and were in precisely the same words as those we are now discussing. The only difference was that the figures then presented to the House were lower than those now presented, and those figures were substantially increased to overcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1759.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "re surely entitled to ask the Minister whether it was taken into account when these Regulations were made, or whether he is going to come down to the House again and ask for a further amendment and whether we are going to hear the argument used last April by the present Home Secretary, that this is a continuous spiral which will go on for ever. No one can accuse me of partisanship in this matter.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1764.2", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "is very much to be regretted. I did venture to suggest that it is quite essential in dealing with these matters to look at the general basis of these increases. It has been said that this is a continuous process. When coal prices go up transport charges go up, and when coal prices go up again so do transport charges. This is, after all, only a rather sudden realisation by hon. Members opposite of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1772.1", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "e men who have been criticised in this House in the past, and who, no doubt, will be criticised again by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite. They have had a difficult history. Now that a Tory Government have come into power they fear unemployment once again. The river front on which my constituency is situated is literally a bloody field of battle against the Tory Party and all they represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-13", "file": "debates1952-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f1e953f46e1ead8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "EQUAL PAY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "That interruption is unnecessary because I had not dealt with my party. The Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer failed to implement the specific pledges which had been given. The difficulty in the Conservative Party has been to get the party to make pledges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-13a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-14", "file": "debates1952-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ed866481143d8c56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-14a.1854.0", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEATING APPLIANCES (FIREGUARDS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "Yes, certainly. I had been interrupted and I had partly given the answer, which is that the fact that they are dangerous is sufficient reason for them to be done away with. Does the hon. and gallant Gentleman think that even elementary ingenuity is incapable of dealing with a problem of this kind? Take an electric fire, for instance. It is quite easy if one has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-14a.1854.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The position is that, where a husband claims unemployment benefit and his wife is keeping a shop, it is necessary for the authorities to be satisfied that the man is not gainfully occupied when he is in receipt of unemployment benefit, and, for that reason, inquiries are made as to whether the husband is being employed there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1905.0", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I do not know where the scandal arises, for even if they are broken up they are used for food. A second quality egg is not a good quality egg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1917.1", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Would not this difficulty be overcome if the Transport Act of 1947 were amended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1917.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1930.1", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOTOR INDUSTRY (HOME MARKET)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What are \"c.k.d. vehicles\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Will this cut in imports affect all vehicles or will it not affect vehicles exported c.k.d.? Some of our firms in Coventry have assembly lines over there which could cope with c.k.d. vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1937.1", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " large increase of imports of manufactured goods was more than we could afford, and so, it seems to me, was the real cause of this specific United Kingdom trouble in 1951. Therefore, the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman), in the defence debate, blaming it all on re-armament, seemed to me to derive much of its plausibility from an eloquent disregard of the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1937.1", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "or seems to me to have now gone disastrously wrong. What are the Government really doing in their economic policy in 1952? I think that the public is, not surprisingly, a little puzzled how it is that, after all the panicky warning that have been given, we now find that re-armament can be financed and the overseas deficit reversed, and, at the same time, large tax reliefs given mainly to the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1937.1", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "is is what the Chancellor has really done over the last few months. He has slowed down re-armament, cut down home investment, run down strategic and industrial stocks, taken full credit for better terms of trade expected this year, and, incidentally, the higher revenue accruing from the tax increases we made last year, to maintain consumption and to give tax reliefs mainly to the wealthier people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " of the 20 million incomes assessed for Income Tax were under £10 a week. Since almost all the families below the Income Tax level are worse off, as I have shown, it is clear that, even if we allow for the rise in earnings since 1949–50—I agree that we have to do that—the majority of the population, and probably about 75 per cent. of wage earners will be worse off as a result of the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1944.3", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ervice can do that precisely, because by any other method you have to define administratively the different classes of needy person—oldage pensioners, war pensioners, the industrially injured, and so forth—and no amount of administrative ingenuity can do that all over the field. That is exactly what the Chancellor now finds. He has left out sickness and unemployment altogether, as I understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1944.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "s a sentence which the Chancellor did not read out. It is on page 20, under the heading \"Subsidies.\" After some remarks about subsidies, the paragraph goes on: In present circumstances, when we are facing severe financial and economic difficulties, and while we are engaged in a full-scale attack on the cost of living, it would clearly not only be unwise but impossible to make any radical change. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "r some remarks about subsidies, the paragraph goes on: In present circumstances, when we are facing severe financial and economic difficulties, and while we are engaged in a full-scale attack on the cost of living, it would clearly not only be unwise but impossible to make any radical change. —[HON. MEMBERS: Read on.]—The next sentence is the very one that the Chancellor read in his Budget speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out again.\"] I fully agree that one can always pick contradictory sentences out of this document. Indeed, Tory Election manifestos are rather like the witches in Macbeth who … keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. Does the Chancellor agree with the words in that document, that we are still \"facing severe economic and financial difficulties\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1948.3", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "plain how the discrepancy probably arose. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Battersea, North, both conveniently omitted the 3s. increase in the family allowances, and estimated the reduction of subsidy at 1s. 6d. instead of 1s. 2d. Finally, they deducted the 7½d. increase for the National Insurance contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1948.3", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " both conveniently omitted the 3s. increase in the family allowances, and estimated the reduction of subsidy at 1s. 6d. instead of 1s. 2d. Finally, they deducted the 7½d. increase for the National Insurance contributions. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Battersea, North, omitted the 3s. family allowances on the ground that it could have been financed out of petrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1949.1", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "sary raw materials to nourish our factories and our furnaces. Hunger and unemployment are what national bankruptcy means, and let hon. Gentlemen opposite understand that once and for all. All the things which we now have to do must be judged against the background of impending national bankruptcy with which we were faced and not against the background of what we did when we had large external aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1949.1", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " Hon. Members opposite do not answer, but I tell them it is a very drastic measure and I have already spoken in the House on the subject. I have given it as my view that we should never get our economy into a healthy state unless some of the traditional methods of controlling the volume of credit were put into force. The use of the monetary spigot, for instance, does not require a mass of control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1949.1", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The City.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "the traditional methods of controlling the volume of credit were put into force. The use of the monetary spigot, for instance, does not require a mass of control. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) ought to know what a spigot is, from his antecedents. It does not involve a vast appara- tus of control, but can be applied by a handful of men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1953.3", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "There are, of course, certain things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1956.3", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must allow me to proceed. I am talking about industrial workers, and the criticism has mainly been that they get no advantages out of the tax remissions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1958.3", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only some smoke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ing paid in taxes on beer and tobacco. Apart from any other argument, here is another striking example how in this sad life we do not get anything for nothing. It should also bring the argument about food prices into some kind of perspective. For example, if a man were to smoke two cigarettes fewer every day and three fewer every other day he would more than offset the reduction in food subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1959.1", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He smokes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ic questions. If the man cut his drinking by half a pint of beer a day he would achieve the same result. I quite agree that the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Mr. J. Hudson), who appears to have left the Chamber, would not benefit. He is an exception, because he is a tax evader on a big scale—he is engaged in the most laudable form of tax evasion, because I do not think he either smokes or drinks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.1959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2007.2", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": " way to me, and I told him I thought he was quite right. I hope he will think that I am quite right in not giving way to him. Sir Stafford Cripps said in 1949: That just cannot go on. We must call a halt.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th April, 1949; Vol. 463, c. 2085.] He cut the food subsidies from the rate then reached by almost the identical figure by which my right hon. Friend now proposes to cut them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2007.2", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "ust cannot go on. We must call a halt.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th April, 1949; Vol. 463, c. 2085.] He cut the food subsidies from the rate then reached by almost the identical figure by which my right hon. Friend now proposes to cut them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If from £568 million down to £410 million is not almost the same as from £410 million to £250 million, I do not know what simple arithmetic is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "e suggestion regarding it. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor wishes above all to increase exports, so he ought to relieve the export trades of the Excess Profits Levy. This could easily be done without any difficulty if turnover were taken as the criterion. It is the turnover of our export trade which is of value in this community. If I might have the attention for one moment of our Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2015.3", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "—and we are likely to have some contact with them in the future. The contact will be very good for us, because, curiously enough, although the Opposition have made the very best of a bad case, the Budget is popular in the country. It is going down very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2015.3", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very rough\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "think the skilled workers of this country deserve it, and I agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom (Mr. McCorquodale) and wish that it had been extended to some of the managerial classes as well. More benefits should be earned by hard work. On the whole, reliefs have been given to those who need them most. We cannot have absolutely meticulous justice, but rough justice has been done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2015.3", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "d N.D.C. The present Minister of State for Economic Affairs was partially responsible for getting that chucked out on the Committee stage of the Finance Bill, with some aid from the right hon. and learned Gentleman the leader of the Liberal Party, the Prime Minister, Viscount Bracken and myself. It was that quintet of hon. Members in those days who led the campaign for the rejection of the N.D.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2034.3", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are going down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": " past, much neglected areas. I minimised the moneylenders' tribute on the taxpayer, the ratepayer and the producer. And I believe that I did right. The matter has been personalised to the extent that a certain public security is called affectionately by my name. All those Chancellors of the Exchequer whose names are associated with some particular security—we shall all go down to history together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2034.3", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": "will myself put the point that he is putting much better in my own way. Thus, Goschen's old Consols, Neville Chamberlain's 3½ per cent. War Loan, and the stock affectionately called after me, all go up and down together. That is in the nature of the Stock Exchange. They have all gone down under this Government, and I hope they will all go up under another Government. They all move together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "taining a quotation from a speech made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself, at North Berwick on 12th October. This is what the right hon. Gentleman said, and this is what was relayed all round the country to help Conservative candidates: In present circumstances, while we fight and strive to reduce the cost of living, we shall maintain the food subsidies. The right hon. Gentleman said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2043.1", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I am seeking to answer the point raised by the hon. Gentleman. There is no record of any such policy at any time during the life of the Labour Government, under any of the three Chancellors who held office. There have, of course, been discussions as to how high the subsidy total should rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2043.3", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way twice to the hon. Gentleman, and if he does not leave the Chamber—but apparently he has decided to do so. I hope that for the rest of the Committee it is not difficult to draw a distinction between a reduction of £160 million in one year and slight increases of the order of £10 or £12 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2043.5", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "home yet to roost, but every working woman who has to buy four loaves—many have to buy more for larger families—will have had to pay an additional 6d. today. The food subsidies have been a stabilising factor so far as prices are concerned, and an equalising factor so far as standards of life are concerned. It was a stabilising factor, even if we did not succeed in holding prices absolutely steady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2043.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2043.5", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "and the poor poorer. To use a word sometimes used by the protagonists of orthodox financial policies, an emotive word, designed to create an unfavourable impression, this is one more \"distortion\" of the economic system and of the distribution of wealth, so that the rich receive more and the poor less even than that which they had before. Of the other proposed tax changes I shall not speak tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2043.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2046.1", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": " the war. The right hon. Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell), said that the high interest rates might easily lead us into a serious deflationary spiral. The Secretary of the Labour Party, speaking at Nottingham on Saturday, said that the Budget was a deliberately deflationary act as we had between the wars to stimulate unemployment. It is in the midst of these contradictions and exaggerations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2058.0", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ing approaching £100 million in the food subsidies. What the right hon. Gentleman is doing, no doubt by mistake, is to take a higher figure of over £500 million, which the food subsidies never achieved, and is then giving the figure for the subsequent year, which was much less. There was never a cut—I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman would not want to mislead the House. There was never a cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2058.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.3", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wait for it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I cannot see where the point of order is leading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.5", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I want to put a point of order. As the right hon. Gentleman has directly falsified the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.7", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I cannot allow that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.8", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "May I say quite calmly to the Committee that the sole point that I am making is to refer hon. and right hon. Members opposite to the published HANSARD? There they can see exactly the cuts which were made. Sir Stafford Cripps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-17", "file": "debates1952-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a9e5aeabfc7f4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.16", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With-draw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to make that clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-17a.2059.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-18", "file": "debates1952-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "174fc3a7e85defeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2076.3", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Full employment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that, as in 1931, the inevitable result of a period of Socialist misgovernment is that unemployment is certain to increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2076.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-18", "file": "debates1952-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "174fc3a7e85defeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2083.6", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "Is it not really a pity to have cut down an establishment which may be able to train women until the committee has published its findings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2083.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-18", "file": "debates1952-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "174fc3a7e85defeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2083.8", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I was not following what my hon. Friend was referring to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2083.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-18", "file": "debates1952-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "174fc3a7e85defeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2098.4", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2098.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-18", "file": "debates1952-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "174fc3a7e85defeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2177.0", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "COASTAL COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": " have to fly hours on end in cloud to get to their destination, that many of them fly hours on end over the desert and that many of their jobs are very monotonous indeed? It is unfair to describe as \"glamorous\" the jobs in Transport Command which take them over oceans on their way out to the Far East. My hon. Friend must give the Air Force credit for being versatile and undertaking all these jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-18", "file": "debates1952-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "174fc3a7e85defeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2181.1", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "COASTAL COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain Robert Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Robert Ryder", "preceding_text": "kle this matter from the strictly narrow point of view of any one Department. That is why I am confining my interest in this matter to the impartial review which has been suggested. There are one or two minor points. There is the question of the photographic reconnaissance units which carried out such very valuable work during the war, and which, for convenience, were placed under Coastal Command.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-18", "file": "debates1952-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "174fc3a7e85defeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2196.1", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "COASTAL COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In dark blue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "orce is preponderant in numbers and in some cases in quality. In these circumstances I should have thought that, as Coastal Command is doing its job well, this would have been the last time at which to turn that Command upside down by this kind of inquiry. Personally, I should like to see all three Services wearing the same uniform—in complete integration. I hope that one day that will come about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-18", "file": "debates1952-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "174fc3a7e85defeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2229.6", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "COASTAL COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has nothing to do with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "According to the Estimates there is a definite estimate for Korea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2229.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-18", "file": "debates1952-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "174fc3a7e85defeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2254.4", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "COASTAL COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to continue intervening, as time is getting on, but I am stating a fact. The hon. and gallant Gentleman seemed to suggest that I had misled him and his hon. Friends. I say that is not true. All I said was that I had personally visited a photographic reconnaissance squadron which was equipped with Canberras.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-18a.2254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2293.2", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cahir Healy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cahir Healy", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman what arrangements he has made for the protection of the peaceful inhabitants of a place for which we have some responsibility, and who were attacked by the local police at a meeting on St. Patrick's Day in Derry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2313.4", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman two Questions? First, are their Lordships now introducing, by a side-wind, an entirely new principle, that because of his political opinions, however repugnant, and in a situation in which there are no considerations of security, a man may be disadvantaged purely on political grounds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2314.1", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Young.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "As it is quite clear that Commander Young is being accused of misconduct, under what Section of Queen's Regulations is the First Lord acting, and what opportunity has been given to Commander Young—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2314.1", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "As it is quite clear that Commander Young is being accused of misconduct, under what Section of Queen's Regulations is the First Lord acting, and what opportunity has been given to Commander Young—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Young.\"]—to the commander—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2314.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2320.8", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not hear that said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2320.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2320.12", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the hon. Member what he said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "For my part, I did not hear the word \"offensive\" used. I thought some reference was made to defence, but I could not hear it properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2320.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2337.1", "colnum": "2337", "heading": "TIN SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "No. What I am saying is that the Americans should make up their minds. I know that there are certain elements in America who are fighting two wars—one against Communism and the other against the sterling area. Which they regard as the more important is not quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2341.3", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "TIN SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "That is not the point. Irrespective of whether this is a wise transaction or not, whether the deal is a good one or not—and we shall get the facts later—we have heard the usual type of argument that comes from the opposite side of the Committee. Whenever American affairs are discussed there is a spirit of enmity and hatred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2380.1", "colnum": "2380", "heading": "GALE DAMAGE, NORTH SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. R. Spence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. R. Spence", "preceding_text": "The Committee are being a little less than fair to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland in censuring his action in connection with the disaster in Orkney and Shetland. He acted with great promptness in going up there and he made an immediate grant of £20,000. When he was there he made it clear that other assistance would be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2380.3", "colnum": "2380", "heading": "GALE DAMAGE, NORTH SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "f. He said that later he might examine the position once again. Those were his words. Surely on the facts that he has already told us—and they were very grudgingly and ungraciously accepted by the hon. and gallant Member for Angus, South (Captain Duncan)—the damage amounted to at least £750,000. He neglected local authority damage, building damage at the post office, and everything else like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2381.1", "colnum": "2381", "heading": "GALE DAMAGE, NORTH SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Because I select my pupils. One thing on which there is no doubt at all is that the actual amount which is being raised in various ways, including the £20,000 by the Government, to offset the damage will total just over £60,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2399.5", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " do not wish to be unfair about this, and I commend the good work that has already been done in developing industries in other parts of the country which badly needed new industries, and I am making my protest tonight, I hope temperately and fairly, because my own district has had the label of Development Area put upon it but has not had any of the goods delivered which we were entitled to expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2399.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2399.5", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "my own district has had the label of Development Area put upon it but has not had any of the goods delivered which we were entitled to expect. [ Interruption. ] I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman wishes to help me with that argument, but if he wishes to intervene I will give way to him. The cotton industry is now established in my district on a small scale, and I think this will be in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2399.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer Baldwin", "preceding_text": " why it is necessary to have a Vote for the management and farming of land. I would have thought that, in view of all that the hon. Member for Wednesbury (Mr. S. N. Evans) has said about the profits from farming, that no further grants would be needed as they could be met out of those profits. I am rather surprised to see that he is not here to attack what he must consider unnecessary expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2444.6", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "tal and run by Scotsmen in Scotland. It is not true so far as the capital is concerned. The money put up by the stocks is subject to the control of this House. The public control of finance is a primary duty of the House of Commons. I sometimes think that since that Sunday in 1939, when so many Bills and Regulations were passed on the nod, we have got out of the way of caring for the public purse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2444.6", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "already been subscribed. A Bill was brought forward for another £100 million. I am old enough to regard £100 million of public money as a vast sum. Because of this Bill, the House—I say this with becoming modesty—is indebted to the hon. Member for Kidderminster and to myself for providing a vehicle for discussion. The House has been very remiss. The principal blame attaches to the late Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2447.5", "colnum": "2447", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "Very well, Sir, I am much obliged to you and I will leave that point. I hope, however, that it has sunk in on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2447.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2453.1", "colnum": "2453", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will allow me to continue my argument I will, in time, pass to responding to his point. The second point of major relevance is the fact that a hydro-electric scheme is often considered to last in perpetuity, or for all time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2455.2", "colnum": "2455", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "But how many tons of coal would be required to make the 4,750,000 grates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2455.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2455.3", "colnum": "2455", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite should wait a minute; they have got it coming to them. My hon. Friend inquires how much cast iron will be required for the grates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2455.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2466.0", "colnum": "2466", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": " is exceeded at the present annual rate of expenditure. I suggest that we ought to have some detailed explanation from the Joint Under-Secretary as to why the full amount of £200 million is actually required before we give this authority. It may be said, and I know that it is argued in some quarters, that my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) is interfering in Scottish affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2470.2", "colnum": "2470", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ged at 2d.… And so it goes on. I think the hon. Gentleman was a little unfair in his figures. He should have given the average figure offered to the consumers in the Highlands, which in fact does not differ substantially from that charged to consumers in other parts of the country. I do not think there is a great deal in that point. 11.0 p.m. Now I turn to the hon. Member for Kidderminster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2474.0", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ent rate at which coal power stations are reaching obsolescence, the position in five years' time will be that, unless we get the maximum output from the Scottish hydro-electric scheme, Scotland's position will be in danger. It is going to be a very tight thing to balance supply with needs, and unless hydro power is given the opportunity to make its fullest contribution we are all going to suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2476.3", "colnum": "2476", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The whole basis of the increase in the borrowing powers is that it is desirable indefinitely to extend hydro-electric generation in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-19", "file": "debates1952-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32ca7c71cccb67b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2486.4", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF LIMIT OF BORROWING POWERS OF NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but the hon. Member has imputed to me motives which are incorrect. He has said that I am not representing the people. The fight that I have waged on the Bill has been almost exclusively for the people I represent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-19a.2486.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-20", "file": "debates1952-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b0ca8f5953b6651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2551.3", "colnum": "2551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "How can a producer continue to produce food for which he does not get as much as he has to pay by way of transport charges? Surely my right hon. and gallant Friend will energetically set about trying to help these people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-20", "file": "debates1952-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b0ca8f5953b6651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2555.2", "colnum": "2555", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "If it be that there have been some changes in Government intentions as to the actual provisions in the National Health Service Bill, which the Press has said is the case, would it not be right that Parliament should have a White Paper or an advance Ministerial statement showing what those modifications are? Otherwise, the whole House will be at a disadvantage in debating the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2555.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-20", "file": "debates1952-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b0ca8f5953b6651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2555.5", "colnum": "2555", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "er of Health. He knows whether these statements are untrue rumours or not and I do say that he either ought to tell the House they are untrue rumours, or give us some advance information as to what these modifications are to be. I ask him in both capacities—as Leader of the House of Commons, where he has a duty to the House as a whole, and as Minister of Health as well—to give us that information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2555.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-20", "file": "debates1952-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b0ca8f5953b6651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2604.0", "colnum": "2604", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RAISING OF LIMITS ON GUARANTEES UNDER EXPORT GUARAN TEES ACT, 1949.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "n the Colonial Territories. It would be out of order if I dealt with the question of the Congo, and it may be more in order to do so on the debate which will take place on Wednesday. What is vital in this connection is that we should consider the events which have happened in Australia recently and which are such a classic example of what may happen elsewhere and what, apparently, is foreshadowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-20", "file": "debates1952-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b0ca8f5953b6651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2675.1", "colnum": "2675", "heading": "WEST HARTLEPOOL EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Blyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dead as a doornail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Blyton", "preceding_text": "statement on behalf of the promoters of West Hartlepool Extension Bill says: For the protection of the Corporation Municipal Aerodrome, and to provide for the needs of industrial development. I know something about Greatham aerodrome. I was for some years in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, and I know that there is absolutely no hope of Greatham becoming an international airport for the North-East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-20", "file": "debates1952-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b0ca8f5953b6651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2678.1", "colnum": "2678", "heading": "WEST HARTLEPOOL EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "preceding_text": "tee where the arguments and the facts and figures can be thoroughly examined. I sympathise with the hon. Member who spoke first in support of the Second Reading of this Bill, because I had to do the same thing last year for Sheffield. Not only do I hope that this Bill will get its Second Reading tonight, but I hope that it will fare better than the Sheffield Extension Bill did in the last Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-20", "file": "debates1952-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b0ca8f5953b6651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2704.0", "colnum": "2704", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER OF NATIONAL FILM FINANCE CORPORATION TO BORROW OTHERWISE THAN FROM BOARD OF TRADE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twelve thousand\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. O'Brien", "preceding_text": " been accustomed for years. Most of them have been able to find employment in other occupations, and some are taking part in the re-armament programme. Others, of course, sat down and bemoaned their lot, but we cannot help it. Production has reached rock bottom and we must do our best to improve it. Today, out of 12 million employed in film production four years ago there are now fewer than 4,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-20", "file": "debates1952-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3b0ca8f5953b6651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2725.1", "colnum": "2725", "heading": "MINERS WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "e agreement was signed on 24th January last year. The signatures on it were: \"Hyndley, Geoffrey Vickers, Will Lawther, Arthur Horner.\" The signature was almost the last act performed by Lord Hyndley as Chairman of the National Coal Board, and I want—I am sure on behalf of all parties in the House—to pay a heartfelt tribute to the magnificent work which he did for the Coal Board and for the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-20a.2725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-21", "file": "debates1952-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "324b0d4c3a6999e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-21a.2826.1", "colnum": "2826", "heading": "TRANSPORT (FREIGHT CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Corn-wall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "The trouble is that so many hon. Gentlemen from so many different areas are anxious to have the first reply. We often hear advocated a uniform national price for domestic coal, but the objections to this are similar to those in relation to industry, because, no doubt, consumers in the more distant areas—and now I come to these questions from the north and south—of the north and south—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-21a.2826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-21", "file": "debates1952-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "324b0d4c3a6999e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-21a.2833.1", "colnum": "2833", "heading": "TRANSPORT (FREIGHT CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "ted by a Royal Commission or introduce legislation to deal with it. There are the two horns of a dilemma for the Minister, and I hope he will be impaled on one or the other—[An HON MEMBER: \"Or both.\")—or both. I have not time to answer all the questions raised in the course of this useful debate, but I should like to say a word about the Cameron Committee, upon which the Minister lays such stress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-21a.2833.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.11.5", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and gallant Friend will announce the increases of price at the appropriate time, in accordance with the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.11.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "ng the Dissolution period. On the second point, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the impending Order in his Budget speech on the Tuesday, drafting began on the Tuesday night, the Orders were ready for signature late on the Friday and they were to be placed on the Table of the House on the Saturday, but my right hon. Friend and I were not in London on the Friday night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "er announced the impending Order in his Budget speech on the Tuesday, drafting began on the Tuesday night, the Orders were ready for signature late on the Friday and they were to be placed on the Table of the House on the Saturday, but my right hon. Friend and I were not in London on the Friday night. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"] I was in my constituency, and my right hon. and gallant Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.14.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.15.7", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are Manx.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "But what about home output? Can my hon. Friend explain why in my constituency and in London we just cannot get an oxtail or a cowtail?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.15.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "That seems to be an entirely different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN OFFICE (AGRICULTURAL ADVISER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he does not think it most undesirable that the Order Paper of the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.25.6", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN OFFICE (AGRICULTURAL ADVISER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the supplementary question of the hon. and gallant Member was open to that interpretation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.25.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "TRIESTE (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "tances, I should prefer not to say anything further at this stage beyond urging upon all concerned the need for restraint and a due sense of responsibility. I am sure that the House will be as anxious as I am myself to see these disturbances brought to a speedy end in the interests of the future of the Territory itself and of that friendship between Britain and Italy by which we set so much store.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.30.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "cially now that we have the money available? We have it this year; goodness knows what will happen next year or the year after or the year after that. If there is a reduced Vote next year, presumably we shall be hearing that there is no money with which to do the job; but this year, we have the money. The Minister of Local Government and Housing is going on with a remarkable new housing programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " reduced Vote next year, presumably we shall be hearing that there is no money with which to do the job; but this year, we have the money. The Minister of Local Government and Housing is going on with a remarkable new housing programme—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am delighted to hear it; but housing Service men—and let us have some more cheers here—is just as important as housing anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.51.4", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY LIST (OFFICER'S REMOVAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "aid that we know more about Mr. Young than hon. Gentlemen opposite. Indeed, Mr. Young was at one time a member of the Labour Party, and he was expelled from the party; and we have every reason for thinking that we were right in so doing. But that is not the point. The point is that the Government in this case are taking action designed as far possible to limit the free speech of a British subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.51.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY LIST (OFFICER'S REMOVAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "h ex-Commander Young I usually disagreed with his point of view, especially during the war, although, being a little more tolerant than the present Government, I allowed him to express his opinions in his own way. We have here a very remarkable anomaly. An ex-commander, who becomes a Communist, may be removed from the Navy List; but if a Communist is in the Navy he cannot be removed from the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.84.4", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1952–53, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And to the public.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "r Worcestershire. I make no complaint about him having his training postponed because he is a professional cricketer. I do not mind if there are a dozen professional cricketers or footballers given this concession. I go further and say, of course, he ought to be given this concession; it is his livelihood and in the summer months he is busy. It would be a severe financial loss to him and his club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.84.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1952–53, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "individual I am mentioning, and if he finds that it is justified that he will do something to relieve this young man from his Regular Army engagement. Perhaps he will go so far as to consider the Amendment I shall put down when the Army Act comes before the House, to ensure that the consent of the parents is required before a young man, under the age of 21, can undertake a Regular Army engagement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1952–53, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "the war, and had talked the matter over with his parents, or was joining of his own volition. Today a young man arrives at the place where he is to be medically examined, because he is required to do so by this House, and it is obvious that this House has lost control of what is said to him when he gets there. In my time I have done a bit of recruiting and I have often been a successful recruiter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1952–53, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did we do with them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "r of the House. I make no excuse for supporting some of the statements made by the right hon. Gentleman the former Secretary of State for War, although I do not think he put the matter quite rightly. I should like to put it in the perspective in which I see it, and I am not making a party point about this. The late Government got rid of an enormous number of .303 rifles. I am not criticising them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1952–53, AND AIR SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "and abroad; the total number of front line aircraft at home and abroad; the number of aircraft in each command—Fighter, Bomber. Coastal and Transport; the total number of aircraft which have been ordered since September, 1950; the total number of American planes, fighter and bomber, now stationed in the United Kingdom; and the number to be stationed in the United Kingdom in the event of emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-24", "file": "debates1952-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea7ec6a08a75bebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1952–53, AND AIR SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1951–52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Per head.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Beswick", "preceding_text": "n the defence arrangements with either our European allies or with our Atlantic colleagues. The fact is that Britain—our country—which gave 70 per cent. of its whole national resources from 1939 to 1945 has, since 1945, done more than any other country in the world to contribute to Western defence. I do not think it should go out from this House that we have done anything less than our full share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-24a.142.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell us now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, it does not. I could tell the hon. Member with pleasure, afterwards, what are the precise schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.190.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.207.5", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What did he say?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman read again his Budget speech in the OFFICIAL REPORT for 11th March, column 1299?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "authorities and the country at large to draw from this circular? The recruitment of our best pupils to places in universities, technological colleges and similar places for higher education is a matter of the most supreme importance. Because the figures vary so widely, I will deal with England only, since it seems to me that he is a lucky person in Wales who escapes getting a university education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Miss Florence Horsbrugh)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Miss Florence Horsbrugh)", "preceding_text": "so glad that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede), when moving his Motion, referred to co-operation in the 1944 Act. I thought that was a good omen, because I am hoping that we shall have co-operation in working out our educational system both now and in the future. I hope that at the end of this debate we shall be able to agree unanimously on the terms of the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "Including the Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "No, I have a good deal to say. The only other thing I can suggest is that it might have been political propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.229.5", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": " cent. but practically an increase of 5 per cent. These figures can be found in the Estimates. The increased grant from the Ministry of Education to the local authorities will be over £10¼ million. There- fore, the local authorities will be getting from the Exchequer over £10¼ million because they are spending £14 million more than last year and more than they have ever spent before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.229.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.229.5", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A little more quickly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "ucation to the local authorities will be over £10¼ million. There- fore, the local authorities will be getting from the Exchequer over £10¼ million because they are spending £14 million more than last year and more than they have ever spent before. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If hon. Gentlemen will be quiet, I can get on more quickly and I think I shall meet their points. The net increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.229.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Building.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "We might have a slight increase, but I am hoping that it will be only slight. Those are the facts. Here, at any rate, I can say that there is no cut. We are paying more for training and doing everything we can and will do all we can to get the right standard and give them the training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We stopped it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "riod and possibly see a decline in standards or shorten the 10-year period and maintain the standards. I think that one of those two alternatives is preferable. That does not make a criminal of me; I have a perfect right to say that. The hon. Member and his friends have been going round at a time when they were hoping that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was going to cut the compulsory school age—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.264.5", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": " told by hon. Members opposite that we did nothing in the field of education, and they try to compare the circulars issued by my right hon. Friend the Member for Farnworth (Mr. Tomlinson) with the circulars which have been issued by the present Minister of Education. October, 1951, saw the return of a Conservative Government, and they pursued a policy of economising at the expense of the children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.264.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilbert Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilbert Longden", "preceding_text": "e libel upon the whole party. It was a very foolish libel, too, because it was patently untrue. I am sorry to have to say this about a responsible journal for which I normally have the highest regard, but I am afraid I must do so, because for once it slipped up. The fact is that on these benches there are as many people who both know and care about the schools as there are on the benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Lady. That was what I was referring to—it is quite untrue—and also to the statement: … the policy of economising at the expense of the childen which was to be expected from the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "n authorities. Can anyone who knows our present economic state, and realises that our internal expenditure closely affects that state, seriously cavil at this request for economy? Paragraph 3 of Circular 210—the Labour Government's circular—states that: The maintenance of that Government's policy towards education depends on the strictest economy being exercised in the administration of education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": "iew to securing the alleviation of these difficulties. It is only fair to say that the Minister showed himself by no means unsympathetic to these representations, but the fact remains that nothing very concrete emerged until just before the last Election. Then, by a strange coincidence, the Government, after six years in office, suddenly awoke to the need for doing something to right these wrongs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.278.6", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "If it is un-Parliamentary, I withdraw it, but I should like to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.288.6", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "echnological education amounting to £50,000. The Minister has made no statement about that, and I wondered whether I might ask whether that means that we are very shortly to expect to have a statement from her on this subject. That is all I have to say, except to repeat that I do not like the idea of a three-line Whip for an educational debate, and I do not think it is a good service to education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.288.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "preceding_text": "I quite agree that harm can be done by unskilled people, but the point I am making is that it is not merely academic training that is required. I remember my first day at school very well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not depend on that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "hool building programme for 1952–53 has been virtually suspended. What is the main reason which is given for this? It is the shortage of steel. Mark that—shortage of steel—and yet a mere 30,000 tons of steel would suffice. I say \"a mere 30,000 tons,\" because our total steel output is 15 million tons and we are expecting to have, in addition, a million tons from the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sidney Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sidney Marshall", "preceding_text": " altered advantageously so that the central authority can exercise much more control over the divisions. We must still have divisional administration because education cannot be run without it. There are many matters like that into which I wish the Minister would look. On the whole, however, I think the circular has been received with satisfaction by educational authorities throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Class war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " be done to education by this policy we are talking of education of the bulk of the children in this country, yet there is a section of children in this country—some 5 to 10 per cent.—whose chances are completely undamaged by anything the right hon. Lady chooses to do. So, inevitably, her policy is one which drives a greater cleavage between the masses of people in this country and the privileged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "dential colleges and particularly Ruskin College; and the specific answer is that grants are not being cut. I was asked about deferring military service and National Service for attendance at agricultural colleges, and I think the most I can say is that that will be looked into. About technological education also I am bound to say that there is nothing very immediate and definite that can be said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "nough numerically of the not quite best tech- nologists —the not quite most refined and distinguished and elevated type of technologists. What can be said immediately is that the Minister of Education is increasing the use of technical colleges to produce technologists, and has every intention of doing everything she can to help in that way. I am sorry, but I have come back to Wentworth Woodhouse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " the use of technical colleges to produce technologists, and has every intention of doing everything she can to help in that way. I am sorry, but I have come back to Wentworth Woodhouse—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—because I think it a pity not to tell hon. and right hon. Members opposite about Wentworth Woodhouse. There is there a training college which is called the Lady Mabel Training College.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Comic Cuts.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "asked were, I think, Newton Park at Bath and Easthamstead, and the figures there are similar. I will send them to the hon. Gentleman who asked me about them. Now I will, if the House will permit me—indeed, I will anyway, audibly or inaudibly—come to the fascinating question with which we began, of when is a cut not a cut or when what is not a cut is profitably described as such for party purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ntleman who asked me about them. Now I will, if the House will permit me—indeed, I will anyway, audibly or inaudibly—come to the fascinating question with which we began, of when is a cut not a cut or when what is not a cut is profitably described as such for party purposes. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Comic Cuts.'\"] I would invite hon. Gentlemen opposite—if they could believe me to be serious for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That argument has been perfectly seriously and clearly put today, and I say to hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite that when they get to the point of not being able to think clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND SOAP PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And then end the rationing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "erjection during my hon. Friend's speech by an hon. Member on the other side, who said that, under the Labour Government, there were times when the whole of the bacon ration was not taken up. If the whole of the bacon ration was not taken up when bacon was at the price it was under a Labour Government, then very little of it will be taken up at the price bacon will reach under the Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.351.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-25", "file": "debates1952-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df371ac6134fd6a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND SOAP PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": " of sale; This, I take it, is a \"determined, extensive attack on the cost of living.\" No. 4 says, prescribing halfpenny maximum-price stages from 1d. to 2s. 4d. (instead of, as previously, up to 2s. only) for biscuits sold by the package; I need not speak about bread. The price has shocked everyone. If there were a General Election next week, the party now in opposition would be returned to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-25a.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I have said that this is a matter of administration into which I am willing to look.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.394.4", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "l allocation and that there is great danger of future unemployment? Will he take steps immediately to remedy the situation because, with rising costs, something will have to be done in respect of the proportion of dry cargo vessels to tankers? Will he take powers to allocate extra steel for that purpose, because, in view of the policy of Her Majesty's Government of reducing stocks in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.394.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.411.5", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory reply and the attitude of the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.411.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Following a Ruling of my predecessor, I should remind the House that in giving notice to raise a matter on the Adjournment, the only proper formula is, \"Owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the reply.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.411.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "and where they think Lancashire is going, because Lancashire is asking that question. It is undoubtedly true that what is threatening Lancashire is nothing less than a slump. Lancashire is asking two things. First, is this a temporary situation, or is it the beginning of a new and enduring depression? Secondly, is this accidental or is it, to some extent, deliberately created by Government policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.449.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He has only just come in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Gentleman had followed my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "e by making dairy machinery. Yet because it is not engaged 100 per cent. on export trade or 100 per cent. for defence, its steel allocation is giving it a headache which is already sending it reeling. How can industry be diversified in that way? The policy which this Government have embarked upon is a deliberate policy of reducing the standard of life, and that is a policy of reducing consumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "bled to make profits which are now of great advantage to it. I say to my hon. Friends on this side of the House: in an industry which is dependent upon raw materials coming from abroad, which is subject to the vicissitudes of either fashion or demand all over the world, if the firms which are engaged in it are not allowed to make a profit in good times, who is going to pay the losses in bad times?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.474.5", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "So modest that it is the highest in the century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.474.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.474.7", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I cannot give way. Time is getting late now, and I want to allow somebody in before 7 o'Clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.474.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EALING CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ant to make one point in answer to the hon. Member for Tottenham on the subject of Ealing's housing abilities. I think I must correct his statement straight away. He quoted some figures which would appear to indicate that Ealing was a very backward housing authority. In point of fact, up to 31st December, 1951, Ealing Corporation had been responsible for the erection of no fewer than 2,279 houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EALING CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "struggle has gone on between county districts and county councils. I say quite frankly, in order to make my position quite clear, that I am strongly opposed to the entrenched position of the county councils in this country. I believe that experience shows, irrespective of the party which controls them at any one time, that they are inefficient in the way they administer the affairs of our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EALING CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benson), in fact there has been a very considerable reformation of local government since 1945, and very substantial functions and powers have been taken away from the smaller authorities and given to the larger authorities. Was there ever a voice raised in the House by any Member of a county division protesting against these new powers being given to the counties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "I was saying, when the House passed to other business, that the recession in the textile industry is worldwide, and all the work that has been put in by way of modernising our mills and increasing the efficiency of our industry in recent years has been of no avail to stop it. I want to suggest to the Government one or two ways in which they can be helpful. First of all, as regards Purchase Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.559.3", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am sorry the hon. Lady does not feel that she implied what I have just said. I certainly took her speech as implying that the difficulties of the textile industry started at the time my right hon. Friend took office. The hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn, East, certainly did say in her speech that the difficulties had become very much worse since November of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "barriers of trade and in the next breath saying that we must keep Japanese stuff out and keep somebody else from going into the Colonies but that everybody must let our goods go through. It is extraordinary to me how people have asked for discussions with the Empire and other countries to force down these barriers and then have suddenly stopped. Nobody ever seems to mention the words \"free trade.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.565.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "preceding_text": " soon recover. Some six months ago we had only 6 per cent. of unemployment in the Ulster textile industry; today we have 12 per cent. I had a telegram from the Belfast Chamber of Commerce this morning saying: Unemployment in textiles increasing. Outlook not good. Approximately 20 per cent. looms stopped. Only about 40 per cent. on full-time. Some anomalies in D scheme should be dealt with quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "preceding_text": "I bring this to the notice of the President of the Board of Trade so that he can see that not only Lancashire has been hit as a result of that. Buying has stopped all over the world and the textile pipe-line is full. That is what has brought about the present depression. My four suggestions are these. The first concerns the Lancashire Cotton Exchange. It would be a good thing if it were re-opened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "preceding_text": " four suggestions are these. The first concerns the Lancashire Cotton Exchange. It would be a good thing if it were re-opened. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because I believe that manufacturers could then go, as in the old days, and buy exactly the quality of cotton they want for the goods they are going to produce. It also provides a hedge for them. If they are selling forward they know where they are.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " the President of the Board of Trade who, I think, slipped once when he became somewhat partisan, trying to make political capital out of certain contracts placed abroad in the past year. I think that he might have told the House that when those contracts were placed abroad, firms in this country had been asked to tender, and that the contracts were placed abroad with the approval of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member will soon be on this side of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "st people in this country realised. I think that is profoundly true. Unless they are very lucky, I think that every exporting industry will find themselves in exactly the same position as the textile industry are faced with today. We are facing what I would call a crisis in the world capitalist system, and we either stand or fall on the way it is handled and the measures taken here and in America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody has done so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "l prove to have been optimistic. That is what the previous Government said over a year ago. This problem of manufacturing textiles and being able to sell them abroad at a reasonable price was obvious to the previous Government 18 months ago. The only point I am making on this is that it would be unreasonable to put all the blame for the present crisis, acute as it is, on to the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing of the sort.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "nners and manufacturers have cut the price to try to keep the wheels turning, this lower price has not been passed on by the wholesalers or by the retailers to the customers. We have been told that one of the causes of this is a buyers' strike. But was not the buyers' strike to some extent contributed to by the party opposite which, a few months ago, promised that Purchase Tax would be abolished?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is the capital of Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": " temporarily stopped in tens or dozens six months ago, we must now unfortunately count them in hundreds. So, what must it be like in areas such as those represented by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) and other hon. Members from Lancashire? I have spent a good deal of time in Lancashire between the two wars. Some may argue that when in Liverpool one is only on the perimeter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member wishes to make that contribution to the debate, I am sure that when his turn comes—and, as we now know this is exempted business, so he has an opportunity—he can make his case. But, without going into figures, I do not think that he contests what I am saying. He only intervened, if I may say so, to put something else to me about which I was not talking.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who fixed them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "gh communities which are not completely unemployed. We must leave it if the hon. Gentleman does not agree with that. I think he will find that most social students take that view. Whether it is a greater or a smaller obligation, we all agree that there is an obligation to see that they do not suffer. Let us see what are the consequences of that agreement. Our rates of unemployment benefit are low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.624.4", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member propose to wear the shoulder badge\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ut down a Question to the Foreign Secretary. Instead of being encouraged to go and make such investigations on the spot as were possible, he was frowned upon and told that it was not in the public interest for him to go even to look. That was bad advice. I have accepted an invitation to go, and I shall go. I cannot see that the textile trade will have lost anything if I come back with empty hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.624.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "3.5 per cent. of Japan's exports, while about 5.8 per cent. went to the rest of Asia. Today, the position is reversed, as 5.8 per cent. goes to China's mainland and 40 per cent. goes to Asia, competing with the very markets we were searching for. This is suicidal. This is not private enterprise, it is merely moving into a position where economic war will lead to physical war and world destruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.660.8", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Certainly, Mr. Speaker, if it is thought that I meant by that that any hon. Member or any hon. and gallant Members opposite is a villain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.660.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I was not in the House then and nothing like the same attention, I am sure, was given to the difficulties of the lace industry as is now being given to the wider textile industry in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I was not in the House then and nothing like the same attention, I am sure, was given to the difficulties of the lace industry as is now being given to the wider textile industry in this debate. [ Interruption. ] I wish the hon. Gentleman would contain himself. We are all fatigued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.686.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.693.4", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "At the end of this long tirade of misrepresentation, the hon. Gentleman comes finally to the assertion that, whatever may have been true six or seven years ago, and whatever justification may be derived or not derived from that, at this moment the failure to trade is due to his lack of desire to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Driberg", "preceding_text": "g cost of living. It fits in alarmingly with the general pattern of the Budget—a Budget which has illustrated vividly one of the Gospel texts which I have always found the hardest to underestand: \"To him that hath shall be given, and from him that bath not shall be taken away even that which he seemeth to have\"; for it is a Budget which makes the rich a little richer, and the poor a little poorer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "t under-developed areas for a century or so to come. It would mean there would be an opportunity for our sons and daughters to seek employment in a life that was worth while, and to go out as research technicians, veterinary surgeons, experts in insectisides and the like, bringing health, amelioration, psychological and educational development to areas which have been deprived of them for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Am I going to be debarred from the privilege of putting forward certain matters which I think should be answered and not have the opportunity of hearing the Parliamentary Secretary replying to me? I am in exactly the same position as every other hon. Member and I contend, however unparliamentary it may seem, that I have been deliberately ignored in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "o hope at all. There is one positive way in which a real contribution could be made to the unemployment in the textile industry. It used to be said that one inch on the tail of an Indian's shirt would mean that Lancashire would work two or three shifts. I would say that if one gave a pair of shorts to each native of Tanganyika one would go a long way towards solving the unemployment in Lancashire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "I will say what I want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And on that side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ich would result if the debate were now to be continued. Many of us on this side, and many, indeed, on the other side have sat in the House to debate the serious situation in Lancashire and elsewhere in the textile trade—with an interruption of three hours from seven o'clock until 10 o'clock last night—from 3.30; that is to say, for many hours. I see many faces here that I missed during the night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "many faces here that I missed during the night—[HON. MEMBERS: \"And on that side.\"]; it is perfectly true, as has been pointed out most vociferously from the other side of the House, that there are some new faces on this side of the House, too. But there is a difference between the two cases. In the case of my hon. Friends on this side, they voted against the suspension of a Parliamentary—colleague", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.735.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.735.4", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I understood that the hon. Gentleman had finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "hat, but I did hear the hon. Gentleman say quite a bit about his hon. Friend, and I was making the point that the House had come to a decision on a Motion which is automatic after action is taken by Mr. Speaker on an occasion like that. As the Consolidated Fund Bill has to be got through, I suggest that he should withdraw his Motion, and that the House should listen to the Parliamentary Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "out his hon. Friend, and I was making the point that the House had come to a decision on a Motion which is automatic after action is taken by Mr. Speaker on an occasion like that. As the Consolidated Fund Bill has to be got through, I suggest that he should withdraw his Motion, and that the House should listen to the Parliamentary Secretary—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—who was in possession of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must point out that the acceptance or not of the Closure is a matter for the Chair. It can only be moved by hon. Members. I certainly understood that the hon. Member for Brighouse and Spenborough (Mr. J. Edwards) would speak to end the debate for his side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ptance or not of the Closure is a matter for the Chair. It can only be moved by hon. Members. I certainly understood that the hon. Member for Brighouse and Spenborough (Mr. J. Edwards) would speak to end the debate for his side. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I may be wrong about that. However, on the Question which is now before the House, the best service I can render to the House is to put the Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.742.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.760.10", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Before those interruptions, the Parliamentary Secretary was just going to deal with the question of Purchase Tax. Surely he is not now going to refuse to deal with it out of pique. The subject was raised by a number of hon. Members in all parts of the House. Would the hon. Gentleman say a word or two about Purchase Tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.760.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "On this question of Purchase Tax, the House will recollect that I said a considerable amount—admittedly it may be rather far back in the recollection of the House—in the earlier stages of this debate about this aspect of the matter. I said that I thought that, while it is certainly in the scope of the debate, we had had a fairly wide discussion during the Budget debate upon the D scheme generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think I made that perfectly clear in what I said before. I have always been well aware of these facts. The decision as to whether or not the Question be put is left to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.764.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Which quotation is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend forgive me interrupting for a moment? After the great record of those engaged in this industry, which has mainly saved this nation, if that is the policy adopted, then those who are retained in the industry will have the right to consider their position with regard to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.775.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. P. G. T. Buchan-Hepburn)", "preceding_text": "rose in his place and claimed to move, \"That the Question be now put.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am bound by the Standing Orders, after two minutes have elapsed, to put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must bring this to a conclusion, and I must take the responsibility for doing it in the interests of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Collect the voices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must request the House to contain itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.780.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must request the House to contain itself. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Collect the voices.\"] I am going to collect the voices now. In fact, I have already done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.780.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must request the House to contain itself. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Collect the voices.\"] I am going to collect the voices now. In fact, I have already done so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Order. This is not seemly behaviour. The Speaker is bound to put the Question and the House should support him in the exercise of his duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.780.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.783.6", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "In spite of an all-night Sitting, it is obvious that you are on the alert, Mr. Speaker, and, in view of the grievances of our people so are we, although some of us have not received the legal training which other people have received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.783.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "Further to my point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or an injustice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I really must say something about points of order. The real function of a point of order is to enable an hon. Member in any part of the House to draw the attention of the Chair to a breach of decorum or order which the Chair has not perceived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I just heard it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I just heard it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] There was so much noise going on. I understand that the Order was read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The next Order, after the one we had disposed of, which was the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill, Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The next Order, after the one we had disposed of, which was the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill, Second Reading—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I understand that it was called and postponed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The next Order, after the one we had disposed of, which was the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill, Second Reading—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I understand that it was called and postponed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes, I am told that that is what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I became Speaker, is that an Order like the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill, which is No. 2 on the Order Paper, should not be read by the Speaker but by the Clerk. On the other hand, when it is a question of calling a Minister to move an Order, it is for the Speaker to call him. That is why hon. Members heard my voice saying \"Sir David Maxwell Fyfe\" and failed to hear the Clerk reading the Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " the other hand, when it is a question of calling a Minister to move an Order, it is for the Speaker to call him. That is why hon. Members heard my voice saying \"Sir David Maxwell Fyfe\" and failed to hear the Clerk reading the Order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] In any case it would be an abuse of the time of the House to discuss this, because the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill is not before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ing a Minister to move an Order, it is for the Speaker to call him. That is why hon. Members heard my voice saying \"Sir David Maxwell Fyfe\" and failed to hear the Clerk reading the Order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] In any case it would be an abuse of the time of the House to discuss this, because the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill is not before us. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] It has been postponed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "s for the Speaker to call him. That is why hon. Members heard my voice saying \"Sir David Maxwell Fyfe\" and failed to hear the Clerk reading the Order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] In any case it would be an abuse of the time of the House to discuss this, because the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill is not before us. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] It has been postponed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] Before this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-26", "file": "debates1952-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "106ce919c2bbca98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.5", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member wishing to discuss a point on the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill? I rule now that any question relating to the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill is out of order, because the Bill has been postponed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-26a.788.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.811.4", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that this pamphlet contains countless really fatuous remarks, one of which says that a building severely damaged by a bomb usually presents an appearance of complete chaos? Would he not agree that that kind of remark is about as superfluous as saying that Lord Woolton tells lies in an election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The decision is that of Her Majesty's Government as a whole, and it was made for the reason which I have stated—the well-being of the tribe itself. In the view of Her Majesty's Government, the happenings to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred do not affect the timing of the decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "ntleman's question as to whether my noble Friend would receive the deputation from the Bamangwato—it is not certain whether they are coming or not, I believe—the answer is that that would not help. No obstacle is placed in the way of their coming to this country and they have been issued with passports, but my noble Friend has said that he is not willing to see them as all the arguments are known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. J. M. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. J. M. Alport", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that this decision follows absolutely inevitably from the decision of the previous Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unanimously.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The opinions expressed at the latest kgotla of which I have recollection were mainly in favour of the return of Seretse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.837.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.838.3", "colnum": "838", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a play on words.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "He is excluded from the chieftainship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.838.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.839.3", "colnum": "839", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "These Motions have to be brought up at the earliest possible time or else they lose their priority, but so far as the subject matter for the debate is concerned, it can be postponed to another day. I am told that there are cases where it has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Form filling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "o exemptions. Everybody will pay, in the first instance. Those in receipt of National Assistance grants will claim, presumably, their refund, and they will get it from the office where they draw their assistance when they next go there to get it. They will produce for that purpose a special receipt which the chemist or the dispensing doctor will have given them. It is a perfectly simple procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.845.4", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I thing that the right hon. Gentleman's recollection is at fault. A great many rumours and exaggerations have got about on the subject of the appliances with which we intend to deal. We do not propose to touch artificial legs or arms. There is a very short list, and if it is for the convenience of the House perhaps I might be allowed to give it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.845.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.845.4", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ect of the appliances with which we intend to deal. We do not propose to touch artificial legs or arms. There is a very short list, and if it is for the convenience of the House perhaps I might be allowed to give it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] First is the surgical boot. Hon. Gentlemen will realise that people who have surgical boots prescribed for them ipso facto do not require ordinary boots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.845.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where does it say that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " form of words which puzzles me, and perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would enlighten the House about them. Apparently the National Assistance Board can give assistance to persons receiving dental treatment outside the National Health Service. What is the meaning of that? It is referred to in the Explanatory Memorandum, which states that Clause 6 (2) empowers the National Assistance Board …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "As I understand, that is more or less the practice now. Doctors know about that quite well and do, in fact, prescribe quite a bit ahead of time. All I am saying is that I do not think that the lay authorities ought to lay down in black and white to a profession like the medical one, exactly how they should prescribe in any particular case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ll, of course, receive repayment of the charge, just because they are on Assistance. Out of the old age pensioners that covers, I am sorry to say, something like 750,000. They would be immediately exempt and of the other four million old age pensioners if there are cases of hardship they will be able to make their case. Part of our plan, as outlined in the Budget, is to increase the pension rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "f the old age pensioners that covers, I am sorry to say, something like 750,000. They would be immediately exempt and of the other four million old age pensioners if there are cases of hardship they will be able to make their case. Part of our plan, as outlined in the Budget, is to increase the pension rates. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"] It is more than hon. Members opposite were able to achieve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You voted against it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "othing could be further from the truth. We have not always hated it and are not trying to destroy it. I only have to remind the House and the nation that it was a Conservative Minister who, in war-time, took the first step along this road under Lord Woolton, as Minister of Reconstruction, and under the Prime Minister in command. There is no reason for us either to want to destroy it or to hate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.856.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "t deal of procrastination—to come to this House with this Bill without insisting that there should be some amendment to it. After all, I think it must have been a little difficult for the Government to make hon. Gentlemen sitting on the back benches opposite forget that in the Tory Election Manifesto of October, 1951, it was said: … in health some of the most crying needs are not being met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "sive proprietary drugs for their more well-to-do patients. As most hon. Gentlemen know, every doctor is supplied with a national formulary by the Ministry of Health. It contains economical and adequate prescriptions suitable for most of the complaints with which a doctor is called upon to deal. Today doctors are departing from the national formulary and prescribing unnecessary and expensive drugs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They go there anyhow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ng her circumstances to the other customers and the staff. It may be the Minister will devise something to obviate this, but then she may have to visit the Post Office. She may have a book but if she has not a book she may come within the category of a hardship case. Then she goes to the Post Office with a receipt for 1s. or 2s. to claim a refund and once more she will receive unwelcome publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman, and as I would not wish to say anything behind his back I repeat that I said he was the guilty man and that he should be sitting holding the hand of his right hon. Friend the Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ons and prisons. This is a time when the Minister and the Chancellor must recognise that this service is a good investment. Where will the children of the unmarried mothers go if we do not undertake some responsibility for them? Unfortunate young women with a stigma placed upon them will go to find minders. These are the children for whom the Chancellor of the Exchequer should have responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "idea of a ceiling. What does a ceiling mean? A ceiling means a figure that must last more than two Estimates. That is the meaning of it—that a spending Department must suit its behaviour to the fact that not only in that particular year but for a number of years that is the figure it must not exceed. I am glad that the Chancellor is in his seat. Does he mean that by ceiling? I should like to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That really is a most unworthy statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.890.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That really is a most unworthy statement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] In point of fact it was the Treasury Committee which was appointed to try to work out the practicability of the proposals that reported them impracticable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that explanation but it is entirely inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.894.10", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "That is utterly ineffective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.894.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dentally.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "Of course the health of the schoolchildren is higher today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "I accept that, but I put it to the hon. Gentleman that when a man is excluded from his own country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.907.3", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": " emotion and approach this problem from a judicial point of view. But on every occasion when I have listened to the hon. Member for Eton and Slough, not only in this House but outside, I have found it difficult to avoid emotion. He gives me the impression that everything he says and his whole line of approach is that everything that the British people in this country and in this House do is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "The next question raised by the two hon. Gentlemen was that of mixed marriages. That has nothing whatever to do with the case of Seretse Khama.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.910.5", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": " been taken, there are certain grounds for that attitude. Let us consider three points. What has been the effect of the decision of five years' banishment on Seretse himself? Every hon. Member in this House who knows Seretse, has kept in touch with his position and has been following the situation very carefully, will agree that Seretse is almost a nervous wreck today, and one can well imagine it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.910.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.914.3", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "He has refused them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.914.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "if the Leader of the Opposition, through some accident to his present wife, were next week or next year to marry a girl from the Bamangwato tribe, in spite of the friendly exhortations and the presence at the marriage feast of the hon. Member for Eton and Slough, this event would undoubtedly hasten the advent to the leadership of the Labour Party of the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ken down or changed in favour of some ideal solution by hot words and angry sentiment but only by working together over a long period of time. The question is much simpler than it seems. The young man may marry whom he likes, but he cannot inherit if he marries such and such, just as the Leader of the Opposition could not possibly lead the Opposition if he married a girl from the Bamangwato tribe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.926.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ideal solution by hot words and angry sentiment but only by working together over a long period of time. The question is much simpler than it seems. The young man may marry whom he likes, but he cannot inherit if he marries such and such, just as the Leader of the Opposition could not possibly lead the Opposition if he married a girl from the Bamangwato tribe. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Could he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "The point is quite clear. Not only did the late Government make the decision, but they recognised, in the White Paper, that they were doing it. They said \"at least five years,\" but there was every prospect, and they knew it perfectly well, that at the end of five years there would merely be another extension of five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO TRIBE CHIEFTAINSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "I must say that I had not thought of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "tions of the epileptic, the anaemic, the rheumatoid arthritic, the diabetic, and the chronic sick who know that until the day of their death they must go week after week to the doctor for advice and prescriptions? How do right hon. Gentlemen and hon. Gentlemen opposite address themselves to these complications? By shutting their eyes, their ears, and their hearts, and pretending they do not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.979.4", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Baird", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member for Putney (Mr. Linstead) did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Baird", "preceding_text": "I should first declare my interest in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.979.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "preceding_text": "I was not, unfortunately, able to hear the first part of the speech of my hon. Friend, the Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain MacLeod), but I understand, he dealt severely with the right hon. Gentleman, the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the moneylenders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "y: Constantly increasing taxation has required the maintenance of absolute levels of tax so high as seriously to check incentives to work and to enterprise.\"—{OFFICIAL REPORT, 29th January, 1952; Vol. 495, c. 52.] It is my belief that if we want to maintain the value of our social services we have to work to maintain it, and must therefore give every incentive to harder work and higher production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "There are so many minorities that it is very difficult to get them all in. I felt that it was right to call the hon. Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Holt), representing the Liberal Party, and I have called representatives of the party to which the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr. Manuel) belongs. With so many Front Bench speakers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the book?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that I certainly do not pretend to have the knowledge; but it is in this booklet, and the people who wrote it know a lot more than I do and, I suggest, more than the hon. Member knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has referred in general to the difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And paying a prescription.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "What is in that Act is the possibility that a person requiring a set of dentures which he might want once in five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "What is in that Act is the possibility that a person requiring a set of dentures which he might want once in five years. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And paying a prescription.\"] No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "What is in that Act is the possibility that a person requiring a set of dentures which he might want once in five years. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And paying a prescription.\"] No. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] The hon. Gentleman is talking about an Act of Parliament for which I was responsible, I suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.5", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "No, I have undertaken to stop at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1005.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1011.7", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members with a little experience of the House know that interventions frequently take place during speeches. I wanted to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1011.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I understand that the terms of reference are known to the right hon. Gentleman and were given by the previous Government. I think I should have started by saying that we are having a lively debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1012.2", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "He will be glad to know that the terms of reference were settled by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Middlesbrough, East (Mr. Marquand) when he was Minister of Health.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1012.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1012.7", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the hon. and gallant Gentleman reading anything yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1012.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1014.5", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I want to carry that a little bit further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1014.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1014.9", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I want to remind the right hon. Lady of a speech which she made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1014.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ection. That is no less true if the resources set free by any particular reduction in demand do not themselves contribute directly to our exports. We have to look at the economy of the nation as a whole. The relevance of these Health Service charges are that, if people have to pay now for something which they received free before, to that extent their purchasing power for other goods and services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "It was always the general practice in the past to draw Money Resolutions so narrowly or widely that there was always the question of discussing them to provide hon. Members with an opportunity of having a proper discussion in the financial Clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that comes under the Money Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Will you, Sir Charles, permit me to finish my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1037.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1037.4", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that no physical steps will be taken by the Government to implement the adjudication until the House has considered the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1037.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£400 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": ", and is the sum which, if added to the ceiling of £400 million, ought to be equivalent to the total cost of the service, because otherwise, of course, there is no point in our enacting this Measure at all, or in our passing this Money Resolution. The payments into the Exchequer must be sufficient to offset any additional cost of the service and to bring the total cost of the service down to £400.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£400 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "ing of £400 million, ought to be equivalent to the total cost of the service, because otherwise, of course, there is no point in our enacting this Measure at all, or in our passing this Money Resolution. The payments into the Exchequer must be sufficient to offset any additional cost of the service and to bring the total cost of the service down to £400. [HON. MEMBERS: \"£400 million.\"] Down to £4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1038.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-27", "file": "debates1952-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "300cec7f224c5125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite clear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) reminds me that I am putting them in the wrong order. I hasten to correct myself. So that there there should be no dubiety, let me put the point in its correct order. The two payments we are asked to authorise are, ( a ), a payment out and ( b ), a payment in. In each case, the Exchequer or public funds are obviously affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-27a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-28", "file": "debates1952-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dae62070c5bcc82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-28a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTESTATES' ESTATES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Mr. Hopkin Morris)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Mr. Hopkin Morris)", "preceding_text": "Mr. MacLeod.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-28a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1196.3", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "tand, has already been paid. He will recollect that when I provided for increased charges of £8 million in the Post Office the House was in a furore. The hon. Gentleman, apparently, has agreed with the Chancellor to raise at least another £13 million, very much of which is not required for Post Office purposes. Apparently he has allowed the Post Office to become a department of the Inland Revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Manpower.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I agree that when the Report of the Estimates Committee was put to the Treasury, the Treasury turned it down. The explanation was made to the Estimates Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1281.3", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "The responsibility for selecting a suitable area is not mine. This was a case where an area was selected where it was proposed to build houses on top of 30 million tons of good British coal. As a result the cost of that new town will be very much greater than originally planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1281.3", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": ". Later, they changed their minds about it. It was now to house a population of 80,000. In their last Annual Report the figure of 90,000 is mentioned. Originally the sewage was to be taken to the River Crouch, but as a result of this vastly increased population and of other difficulties it is now to be taken southwards to the River Thames, with the result that it is to cost an additional £250,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1281.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "everal times to make it absolutely clear— This area will become a leasehold area but a leasehold from the community, the community owning the land. He ended this part of the speech with this declaration: I said, and I repeat, that for the purpose of creating a new town it is necessary to have single ownership of the land of the area.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th May, 1950; Vol. 475, c. 965–968.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": " First of all, sheets. Our price is £40 2s. 6d.; United States of America, £40 16s. 0d.; France, £49 10s. 8d.; Germany, £44 2s. 1d.; and Belgium, £52 5s. 0d. Angles: United Kingdom, £27 19s. 6d.; United States of America, £35 4s. 0d.; France, £36 0s. 5d.; Germany, £31 19s. 7d.; and Belgium, £31 9s. 11d. That is compared with our figure of £27 19s. 6d. Those figures speak eloquently for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "echnical position so that we can still say in the severely competitive days ahead that British steel is the cheapest and best. I am not sure that this is the appropriate moment to make reference to the sudden death of Sir Andrew Duncan. I will content myself, however, with saying that I doubt whether we shall see his like again, for his death will be a grievous loss to the industry and the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a subsidy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "What happened about this alleged subsidy of which other hon. Members than the hon. Gentleman speak, is that the industry was supposed to have been given something by the taxpayer rather than by the consumer of steel. The taxpayer, rather than the consumer, paid the excess costs of transport of foreign ore into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "gained for. That kind of pressure may be all right when applied to certain members of the Corporation, but I am certain that my hon. Friends will not yield to pressure of that kind by the right hon. Gentleman. I invite him now to say whether he is prepared to publish Mr. Hardie's letter of 24th January in which Mr. Hardie, on behalf of the Corporation, said he was opposed to an increase in prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1344.3", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "amily in their bereavement. He was an able administrator, a man with a fine brain, and, when it came to making a settlement for or against the steel workers, he was always fair. So far as the speech to which we have just listened is concerned, I can only say that I am amazed. Here is the hon. Member for Heeley (Mr. P. Roberts), claiming to represent the steel workers, and getting up quite nakedly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has that been going on under nationalisation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " the time I could prove that administrative costs alone since the war have gone up 30s. a ton in certain of our steel works. But, besides time, to prove this would involve mentioning personalities and firms. I could prove also that on the managerial side there are three, four, even five times as many people as before the war, drawing wages of £700 to £750. That is where the industry ought to look.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A bad bargain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Government is to seek to do the right thing so far as prices are concerned. The American steel bargain was the worst thing in the Government's history. The hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Summers), who has knowledge of the steel industry, admitted that 70 per cent. of the increased price is due to having to equate throughout the whole of our cost of production the cost of the American-bought steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1351.3", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "o say that prices would have to be increased as soon as the commitments were entered into, that is to say, last autumn. The second letter which I would certainly ask to publish would be the reply, stating that the late Government accepted the principle that these increased costs would involve increased levies and that they would have to be passed on to the consumer in the form of increased prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1351.4", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "That has no relevance to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1351.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.2", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the letter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I thought I had been clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.2", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the letter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I thought I had been clear. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the letter.\"] Here is the correspondence, which shows the House the amount of paper involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.4", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Would it not be better to read the letter?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.5", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "No. If I read the letter I should be obliged to publish the whole correspondence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.5", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "No. If I read the letter I should be obliged to publish the whole correspondence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Let me make it clear that the letter did not convey to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.5", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not read it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "No. If I read the letter I should be obliged to publish the whole correspondence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Let me make it clear that the letter did not convey to me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] The purpose of the letter was to place on record, as it said, arguments which had been advanced by Mr. Hardie at a meeting the day before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1355.4", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Would it not be for the general convenience of the House if the right hon. Gentleman read the particular letter in question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1358.6", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "oration or not?\", to have to reply, \"I do not know.\" That was the position after the 23rd January meeting. There was little opportunity for me to bring any pressure to bear on the Corporation members, even had I wished to do so, for, before the meeting started, Mr. Hardie warned me that if, during the meeting, I asked the opinion of any member of the Corporation other than himself, he would leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1358.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-03-31", "file": "debates1952-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "cbf61f7b0b07355f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1358.6", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ts advice, the members went away to discuss the matter by themselves. When they returned Mr. Hardie informed me as I have already told the House, that the Corporation by a majority, was of the opinion that prices should be increased by an amount sufficient to yield £56 million a year. Shortly afterwards, as the House knows, Mr. Hardie resigned. I apologise for having had to go into so much detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-03-31a.1358.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1397.0", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "In almost every case the local authorities offer the person affected alternative accommodation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1406.3", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — N.A.T.O. SUPREME COMMANDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I really do not think it would be advisable from any point of view for us to express very strong opinions upon this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1406.6", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — N.A.T.O. SUPREME COMMANDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have had controversies on this point on another subject. It seemed to me quite natural that the British should have the command of the Atlantic, and I am bound to say that when we think of the great American Army and all that they are doing to support the front in Europe, if they have the slightest wish to have the command we should certainly support them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "I thought the Secretary of State for War got off on the wrong foot. Indeed, he will be on the wrong foot for a long time until he brings down the other one. When driven into a corner he lashes out and closes his eyes at the same time. He blamed us because, during the last six years, when we were the Government, we did not do what we are now seeking to do as an Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Weeds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "xt year, who knows, there may be such important legislation that the Government which will be then in office may adjourn for only six weeks for the Summer Recess. In those circumstances we may be a little pressed. 4.15 p.m. Let us deal with this matter at a time when it does not fall into the middle of financial business. That has been the trouble. We have weeded a good many flowers from this Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "printed it should not have all these openings for barrack-room lawyers and perhaps other lawyers, too. If, under Parliamentary pressure, we break down on this task, we may make a mess, for instance, of the Second Schedule. We may fail to revise it and, if so, what if a man demands, in accordance with the Second Schedule, four ounces of bacon or 12 ounces of meat? What would the sergeant-major say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for his remarks, which, I take it, were made in his position as a \"private\" Member rather than as a Member of the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1436.4", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "pinion among hon. Gentlemen opposite. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Islington, East (Mr. E. Fletcher) says we have plenty of time before 30th April to make a real job of it, but another hon. Gentleman opposite has said that we have not anything like enough time. The proposal would involve prolonging the Act to 15 months. It would also make a considerable impact on other Parliamentary business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I was not present to hear that important pronouncement, but having heard it somewhat belatedly, it provides me with all the argument I require to fortify my contention that the right hon. Gentleman should accept this very desirable Amendment. What possible harm could it do? It would not upset the Army. It might disturb the War Office—they will have to do a little more work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ve the matter consideration and see what he can do? Or does he intend just to twiddle his thumbs? This is really not good enough. The right hon. Gentle- man must do something about this. If he does not I am afraid that this is the beginning of the end of the reputation which he has gained as a successful and effective Secretary of State for War. We want to help the right hon. Gentleman all we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1442.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "hich the Secretary of State for War must resist. After all, it is for the Secretary of State for War, if he now admits that the Act is crammed full of anomalies, to go to the Leader of the House. Did he tell the Leader of the House that here was an Act crammed full of anomalies and that there were a number of Amendments of a vital nature—and did he demand time from the Leader of the House? Did he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is asking me this question, but I have produced, in this Bill, a series of extremely important Amendments which we wish to make for the benefit of the Army. They are the most important and urgent ones; but what the hon. Gentleman is saying is that I should correct in one Session all the sins and omissions of the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1552.6", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. My right hon. Friend was on his feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1552.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I asked whether it was the pleasure of the Committee that the Amendment be withdrawn. I did not hear \"No\" from anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1553.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1553.4", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "ter of considerable importance which may affect the Admiralty if there is a complete re-definition of the words \"active service.\" If consultations have taken place between the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War, it is obviously bound to affect the Navy and we must be quite certain that there has been adequate consultation and what the result of it has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1553.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1556.2", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the next Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "have solved it. The biggest difficulty which I see in the form of words proposed by the Government is one which my hon. and learned Friend has not mentioned: that is, the position of our Forces in Germany. 10.45 p.m. Under the Clause as I see it, we should perforce have to regard the whole of the British Army of the Rhine as permanently on active service so long as it was in occupation of Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1556.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1564.0", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "force has a steadying effect, and, therefore, it has an indirect effect on the preservation of life and property. But that is not referred to in this Clause, which deals with a force engaged in operations and not sitting passively in a country. Hon. Gentlemen are making heavy weather over a force sitting quietly in billets in a foreign country. This Clause is to cover forces engaged in operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, from his own experience, should know that a force posting normal sentries is acting on a routine basis. This definition concerns a force engaged in operations. There can be no other interpretation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1565.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1572.7", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "The Question is, \"That the Question be now put.\" Tellers for the Ayes", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1572.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1574.1", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "You said that the difficulty was because of noise in the Chamber, Mr. Hopkin Morris. I want to make it clear that I am not raising my point because of noise, but in relation to the fact that you did not say what you said you said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1574.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Would you accept a Motion from me, Mr. Hopkin Morris, to report Progress so that we may send for Mr. Speaker to report to him what has happened? Clearly the rights of the Opposition are not safe in your hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1575.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1576.2", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Certainly, I will withdraw it. But I repeat my original request and ask if you will accept a Motion to report Progress so that we may send for Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1576.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1576.6", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": ". Wigg) in view of the unfortunate circumstances which have transpired. No one wishes to criticise the Chair in any shape or form, and I have no intention of doing so, but it is, of course, a relevant matter in considering whether the Committee should at this stage decide to report Progress and ask leave to sit again in order to consider the things which have happened in the last 10 minutes or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1576.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1576.6", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "er we are so tired that we are beginning to err in our recollection of matters and whether it is worth while continuing the debate in this atmosphere. I was going to raise a point of order, but decided against doing so because I did not wish to add fuel to the fire. But then two things happened. The first was that my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley who speaks with great authority on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1576.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1584.2", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Shameful,\" not \"shameless.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Hopkin Morris. During the Division, from this somewhat remote perch I distinctly heard the hon. Member for Lincoln (Mr. de Freitas) say, regarding your Ruling, \"Disgraceful\" and \"Shameless\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1584.5", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " half-hour. The Amendment I rise to move concerns the last five words of Clause 3 of the Bill, but I must remind you, Mr. Hopkin Morris, that in the interval between discussing the Amendment moved by my hon. and learned Friend and my own Amendment, two things have taken place of a quite extraordinary character. First we have had a Division taking place without any voices being collected. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1584.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1585.2", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "e the unfortunate and unprecedented events of the last 45 minutes. Because of those, some of our confidence on this side of the Committee has been shattered, and the behaviour of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite has been part of the reason why our confidence has been shattered. But we had better resume the debate in the best spirit we can. Unfortunately, this pseudo-Division that took place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1587.3", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be pompous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "At least, the minority must have the right to have their Amendments moved in the form in which they move them and not as an unwritten Amendment of the Secretary of State for War. Perhaps we could get back to the substance of what we were discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1587.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1618.5", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "The Patronage Secretary moved to report Progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1618.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1618.6", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "He started to move that. I think he made a slip of the tongue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1618.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-01", "file": "debates1952-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c2ef0dbe7467a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1621.0", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "er is a physical strain. We come here to do our best, and it is not right that hon. Gentlemen—I emphasise \"Gentlemen\"—on the other side should show their gentlemanly upbringing by sneering at those on this side who have suffered war disabilities. We have done our best to make the lot of the lads in the Forces—and especially the National Service men, who are citizens in uniform—as good as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-01a.1621.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1653.4", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "eman should read the correspondence between my noble Friend and the hon. Member for Sunderland, South, before he makes such a statement. I think if that correspondence were released to the Press, the conclusions which his constituents would reach would be that the hon. Gentleman and his Friends were far more pernickety about their own dignity than they were about the welfare of their constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1657.2", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A contemptuous term.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, North-West (Mr. Janner), is quite right. Knowing that the time is getting very, very close under that six months arrangements, surely the Minister can say when this White Paper will be laid. Are the Government still muffling along when they do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1657.2", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "he time is getting very, very close under that six months arrangements, surely the Minister can say when this White Paper will be laid. Are the Government still muffling along when they do not know—[HON. MEMBERS: \"A contemptuous term.\"] That is a very different thing from saying that Parliament has no right to any sense of dignity. The Government postponed the matter of the Charter for six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"—", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Is not the Leader of the House trying to make a fool of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1709.3", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": " whole field of foreign broadcasting—and that is what the hon. Gentleman carefully did not take in forming his argument—there will be a reduction of only a little over 5 per cent. in what are called \"channel hours,\" in which the available wavelengths are in use. In spite of the length of this list of economies I have read out, I do not think that the House will find the actual economies excessive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1770.1", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I know that steady reductions were made in the overseas broadcasting of the B.B.C. and it does not seem right that the hon. Member who was responsible for these information services, should be the hon. Member who now criticises Her Majesty's Government for the further cuts that have been made. When we took office—and this cannot be said too often—the country was on the verge of bankruptcy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1779.3", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And whether the Colonial Secretary is too expensive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "preceding_text": " in Africa comes to be known throughout Africa and the tropical Colonies, when that is fully understood, much more than £40,000 will have to be spent to make the Africans understand again that what the Colonial Secretary says does not really represent the view of democratic Britain. It is at this stage that I recommend the Government to think of doubling up spending on Colonial Office information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1804.1", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ervices which deal with that subject. There are those of the societies and the representatives of other Governments, but he would agree that it would be quite wrong if we left the House under the impression that the abolition of this service would deprive the people of this country of the opportunity of ever hearing a word about the Commonwealth and Empire. The lecture service cost £70,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We lost three hours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "e for it. It is quite true that in what he calls the old times there were all-night discussions on this Measure, but I do not think that in the old times to which he was referring the debates ever started as first Order of the Day. The Committee stage of those Acts was embarked upon at about 10 or 11 o'clock at night—very different from yesterday, when we started as soon as Question time was over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1809.3", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "urse, I am talking only of when the debate started. In the good old days to which the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition so longingly looks back, as all Socialists do, we used to embark on this stage of the discussion late at night. This year we started at the earliest possible moment. However, the right hon. Gentleman accepted, I understand, the suggestions of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1809.3", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It should be the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ialists do, we used to embark on this stage of the discussion late at night. This year we started at the earliest possible moment. However, the right hon. Gentleman accepted, I understand, the suggestions of my right hon. Friend. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] But the right hon. Gentleman did. It is no good other people saying \"No.\" They may not have. I am addressing myself to the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1809.3", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": ".\" They may not have. I am addressing myself to the Leader of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It should be the Chair.\"] I understood from the right hon. Gentleman that he was agreeable to the suggestions that my right hon. Friend made. There is just one point which, perhaps, he did not quite appreciate—I do not know. However, he kept referring to the fact that this should go to a Select Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ides hon. Members of the House, including hon. Gentlemen opposite. It would be a co-operative—if I may use the word—endeavour to try to bring up to date, as my right hon. Friend said, an Act which has been on the Statute Book for all these years and whose—I will not say errors—whose lack of up-to-dateness has apparently escaped the notice of right hon. Gentlemen opposite during the last six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman (Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has given way\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman (Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "preceding_text": "Order. If the right hon. Gentleman does not give way, the hon. Gentleman must not rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1811.2", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "We are trying to get the best way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1815.0", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is being a bit pedantic about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1821.2", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "uld be embodied in a Bill because of that? A Select Committee, as I understand it, advises the House and the House accepts, rejects, or amends the advice, and determines what are the principles to be embodied in the Bill. It is that stage that technical experts are brought in, to put our decisions into legal form. 10.45 p.m. When the right hon. Gentleman speaks of \"experts,\" does he mean officers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1821.2", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s what are the principles to be embodied in the Bill. It is that stage that technical experts are brought in, to put our decisions into legal form. 10.45 p.m. When the right hon. Gentleman speaks of \"experts,\" does he mean officers? [ Interruption. ] Ah, so that we have no guarantee at all that the Government would not pack the Committee at this stage. Indeed, the technical experts may be persons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1822.3", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I remind hon. Members opposite that their constituents are listening to their nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1824.1", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "No, just let me finish. In order to safeguard the position of hon. Members, which I fully understand, we went on to say that if required—through discussion through the usual channels—we are quite ready to consider, after the work in the inter-Departmental committee is done, whether a Select Committee is needed to examine and express their view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " how much we are prepared to concede of our rights, because if we are not prepared to concede our rights, the Government cannot move at all. I am going to ask the Government to show a little more recognition of the weakness of their position tonight. They entered the debate last night in a very cavalier way, as though they thought, \"They are just a lot of amateurs with a lot of phoney Amendments.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "erms of reference are discussed for an adequate time. We are very well aware that public opinion, when the people hear about the principles of reform which we have adumbrated, may not permit the brass hats to get their way. When the British public, whether the young men going into the Forces or the fathers and mothers, begin to hear of the sort of principles we want to see enshrined there will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " principles we want to see enshrined there will be—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] There is the whole difficulty. Hon. Members of the Opposition have been working on the Amendments, and there are a large number of people who have been working on the Amendments. We have not yet started to work, and hon. Gentlemen opposite will get used to it in time if the right hon. Gentlemen are not amenable to reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1831.3", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " to deal with is the suggestion we had before the Committee. We have offered a committee. We suggested, first, a Departmental committee and then consideration of a Select Committee. The Leader of the Opposition, I think reasonably, said he did not now want to pronounce for the inter-Departmental committee first, or indeed for any committee, but that he saw value in the idea of a committee as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1831.3", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " the usual channels we should work out two things—first, the composition of this committee, however decided, and secondly, its terms of reference. That was something the two sides might do through the usual channels. That sort of thing has been done at least a couple of hundred times in my experience, if not more. That is the proposal and, naturally, it is for the Committee to accept or reject it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1831.3", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "econdly, its terms of reference. That was something the two sides might do through the usual channels. That sort of thing has been done at least a couple of hundred times in my experience, if not more. That is the proposal and, naturally, it is for the Committee to accept or reject it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members keep interjecting. I am talking at the moment to the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1831.3", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ce, if not more. That is the proposal and, naturally, it is for the Committee to accept or reject it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members keep interjecting. I am talking at the moment to the Leader of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"To the Committee.\"] I am entitled to do that. Hon. Members shake their heads. I am still entitled to speak to the Leader of the Opposition, even if he does not like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1832.0", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I gave the answer about three-quarters of an hour ago. I think we on this side of the Committee are all agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1832.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1832.2", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1833.10", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Sir Charles, may I respectfully seek your guidance? I will put my point as reasonably as I can. In the course of a debate some weeks ago my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) was suspended from the sittings of this House for being on his feet at the same time as the Chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1833.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-02", "file": "debates1952-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1da4258e3f108c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1858.0", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "a higher officer, General Post, who occupies posts of various sorts from place to place? Suppose he is attached to the United States Forces and finds himself, for good or ill, obliged to disclose to Chiang-Kai-shek, directly or indirectly, the countersign or password. We have a mass of difficulties in the Act and if we do not clean them up where will we be? It may be said that all this is nonsense", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-02a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1890.3", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I have already made statements on that subject before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1890.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1895.4", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shortage of meat.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "Why is it that this problem has developed so recently? It did not exist to such a serious extent before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1907.12", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What decision?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "While welcoming the decision of my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1907.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1909.0", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": " curious that within a very short time four men, each of them with several years' engagement in this factory, should have been discharged on a plea of low efficiency—low efficiency being, of course, the very reason why Remploy exists? Is it only a coincidence that at the same time a new rule about sick leave is imposed by which a constituent of mine is informed in the second month of his sickness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1909.0", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": " should have been discharged on a plea of low efficiency—low efficiency being, of course, the very reason why Remploy exists? Is it only a coincidence that at the same time a new rule about sick leave is imposed by which a constituent of mine is informed in the second month of his sickness—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—that because he has been away two months he is going to be struck off the register?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1909.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1910.10", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "Is that a categorical undertaking from the right hon. Gentleman to give us the Economic Survey on Saturday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1910.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1911.4", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unimportant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the House. This matter has only been put to me within the last two minutes and it is a little difficult to sort out which it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1911.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1911.5", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Muddle.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " is to be made tomorrow. I had not appreciated that there was any White Paper in connection with it, but if the right hon. Gentleman understands there is to be one, and has asked for it, that is another matter. The other paper which was in my mind was the Economic Survey. Perhaps there is some last minute hitch about it; I do not know. I had understood that was to be available on Saturday morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1911.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1911.6", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Could we, then, have, later today, or at any rate tomorrow morning, a clear statement as to what White Papers are to be available. Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that at this time of year, at the beginning of April, it is customary to issue both the balance of White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1911.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1912.1", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, but the right hon. Gentleman will realise that the Budget was brought forward this year to an unexpectedly early date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1912.2", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your invention.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "It has been customary for some years now for there to be Economic White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1912.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1914.2", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the question of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan), will my right hon. Friend consider bringing forward that part of the Army Act concerned with the reading of the Riot Act, for the benefit of the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1916.2", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "ustry. I saw people come into the House, be called, speak, and disappear and never appear again—and they had never appeared before. I sat and watched them. I watched the situation very carefully. I have read in HANSARD every word of what happened in the difficult situation in which I was put. I am not making any comment, because the public know what the position was and I believe that I was right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1918.2", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "lled in the debate. It is dated 26th March, and it says: Dear Mrs. Braddock, In case you want to be present on the National Health Service Bill, I intend to refer to your speech against Clause 1 of last year's Bill and your subsequent vote for it. Don't acknowledge. The card is signed. It is the content of the post-card that I am concerned with. The hon. Member said that he intends to refer to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1918.2", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "d is signed. It is the content of the post-card that I am concerned with. The hon. Member said that he intends to refer to me. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"] If hon. Members will look at HANSARD for Thursday, time 6.34 p.m., they will have no need to ask me the details. Do I take it that in major debates—I am not talking about Committee stages—if a person desires to speak, he or she must notify you first?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that you have twice referred to the long-established practice, Mr. Speaker, may I call attention to the fact that, for more than 10 years of my experience of the House, Mr. Speaker Fitzroy always refused to form a list and always refused to take names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1921.2", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I have in mind the rank of Privy Councillor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1922.4", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "t would be unfortunate if this House were to pass this Resolution without warning the Government that possibly the Resolution is not wide enough to cover the Bill. Therefore, I want for a few moments to direct the attention of the right hon. Gentleman to the Money Resolution. I hope that hon. Members, for what, I hope, will be a fruitful if not an unduly prolonged debate, have equipped themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1922.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1946.6", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "That might be true but, as I understand, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Middlesbrough, East (Mr. Marquand), was pursuing another argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1946.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1952.1", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Of course. No Acts of Parliament can be permanent. There is no such thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1959.0", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are telling us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "e party spirit has been brought in. I certainly do not want to add any fuel to those flames, because I think that we are being judged in the country today in a way that a great many of us do not quite appreciate. I think that the people up and down the country are watching the House of Commons and wondering what we are doing. I think that our performance is not altogether up to their expectations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1982.5", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The Closure was moved and carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1982.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1983.6", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "That having been done, I said, \"The Question is, 'That the Question be now put.' All those of that opinion say 'Aye'; to the contrary, 'No'.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.1983.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2005.3", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I did notice that the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), made certain points of a Second Reading nature without curb—in fact it has been happening during the whole of the Committee discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": " find out how this would operate. If the Health Service is used for the prescription, and the prescription is under this part of the Bill taken to a hospital dispensary, a charge of 1s. is payable. If a patient thinks that the medicine costs less than 1s., or if the chemist dispensing from the general practitioner's prescription advises that it costs less, he can buy it outside the Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "The vast majority of the prescriptions costing less than 1s. are for 10d. The old-age pensioner will pay his 1s. and reclaim it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2028.9", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "s by patients in hospital. There is no charge of any kind for in-patients. The hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Carmichael) suggested that the charge would fall most heavily on the poorest people. I reiterate what my right hon. Friend made plain in the Second Reading, that where there is a genuine case of need the patient has the same recourse to the National Assistance Board for meeting the charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2028.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2029.7", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is entitled to his own opinions, but I made no allegation at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2029.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2030.2", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why did he quote it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "A quotation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2030.3", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Broughton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Broughton", "preceding_text": "These charges which are being imposed for drugs and medicines issued in outpatients' departments of hospitals have been mentioned in this Bill in order that the Government may give the force of law to those economies which were told to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the first day we returned after the ridiculously long Christmas Recess. They are some of the measures which the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2030.5", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Broughton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Broughton", "preceding_text": "ions. But when the Labour Government came to consider the necessary regulations for implementing it, they found the charges could not be imposed without inflicting serious financial hardship upon some people and injustice upon a large number of people. The Labour Government had the courage to say that they had found that that Act, hastily passed, I suggest, under Treasury pressure, would not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2030.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": " suitable for me to intervene and, in view of what I understand to be the very sensible attitude taken by hon. Members opposite, the Liberal Party and, I suggest, ourselves, to say that this might be a suitable moment to withdraw the Motion. We have many important matters to discuss and, therefore, by your leave, Sir Charles, and that of all hon. Members, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2075.0", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Enlistment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "I wish to protest against the conscription of little children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2117.0", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": "That is an extraordinary statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2133.2", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 7.—(NEW PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO ENLISTMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "htest sign of their seeking the desirable end which he now claims. There was no sign or attempt to do anything about this Act. He now gets up and says there was no sign of Her Majesty's Government now doing anything about it. We have done something about it with all these Amendments. He had six years in which to do something about it, but nothing whatever was done. Need we really go into all this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-03", "file": "debates1952-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "913eb90c541edb90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2135.1", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 7.—(NEW PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO ENLISTMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I think it is unfortunate that we should conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-03a.2135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2178.1", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lord Woolton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "n to these three alternatives and in relation to recent trade agreements. There is much talk about liaison between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Food. What I want to see is more liaison between those two Ministries and the Board of Trade, because there is anything at the moment but co-ordination between the three Ministries and the conflicting policies of those three Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2181.1", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "They supported it to a certain point, but they did not believe that in the long run it could be effected without more centralisation, and without being far more in the hands of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2185.3", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "The subsidies on home-produced food were £245 million, which means that £245 million was included in the sum paid to British farmers for their products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2185.3", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "d do well to consider. The agricultural workers under the sagacious leadership of my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Gooch), who sits beside me, have made very great gains in the last few years, and we are all delighted. It was quite time. But we see that a position can develop similar to that envisaged by Jack London in the \"Iron Heel,\" if hon. Gentlemen opposite have ever read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2187.3", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "t is the question I am asking today. It is a question which I and many of my hon. Friends feel can only be answered satisfactorily by a Royal Commission. We regard the National Farmers' Union as a price and profit boosting organisation, and we make no complaint of that; it is their job. The part played by the National Farmers' Union in the February Farm Price Review negotiations is the major part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2198.4", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That may be so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2198.6", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "o hazard a guess that the producers of milk are not satisfied with what they are being offered? Of course, it is not. There are conflicting interests here, and somebody has to adjudicate. The complaint we are making is that the tribunal or committee at present dealing with the matter is too narrow and too constricted in the representation of the interests concerned. Is that a reasonable deduction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2198.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2202.0", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "hat should be done without further inquiry. Therefore, I leave the matter at this point, as there are other hon. Members who wish to speak. I say that, while we are appreciative of the great job which is being done by the farming industry, largely under the inspiration and leadership, as the \"Economist\" has well said, of the Labour party, as compared with the years of dereliction between the wars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2202.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2229.1", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is wrong.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "and reasonably advanced would hold water better if, in fact, the industry, out of its assumed confidence now, were giving us the kind of increase in production that we need. In fact, as the Minister knows, in the last 12 months the wheat acreage has gone down 500,000 acres, with consequent aggravation to the dollar problem, without any increased sowing of barley, or oats. Is or is not that a fact?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2234.1", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " the consumer than by any other single action that the Government could take. I warn the Government to watch their policy in that respect. It is, in fact, destroying their intentions. I now wish to mention the subject of marketing boards. The hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Deedes) said that we did not agree with them. From 1930 onwards all the credit for marketing boards belongs to the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2240.1", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rather not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": " a lone one in the previous Administration. At least under the Labour Government the then Minister of Agriculture was in the Cabinet. Under the present Administration the Minister of Agriculture is not in the Cabinet. There is a strange individual who is responsible for co-ordinating the activities of the Ministries of Agriculture and Food. The strange individual, I think, should be in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2240.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2246.0", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Lord Woolton.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "Who is the shopwalker? Is my hon. Friend referring to a noble Lord?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-04", "file": "debates1952-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7e863f55ebae091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2246.1", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": " that our Amendment should be judged. We do not object in the slightest, and never have done, to the 1947 Act. My hon. Friend the Member for Wednesbury (Mr. S. N. Evans) and I stand by that Act now as we did then, but we say that the Act and its provisions have become a habit, and that it is now broadly assumed that what the farming community wants in the way of higher prices it is tending to get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-04a.2246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ne thing which is quite clear, it is that the greatest economies which have been made in the use of petrol and oil over the last three or four years have been achieved through the cutting out of what is technically called \"dead mileage\" by the operations of the Road Haulage Executive. The Road Haulage Executive have been able to link up return loads in a way in which they were never linked before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "er linked before. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, it is a matter of fact. The way in which the Road Haulage Executive have set up machinery so that the groups in different parts of the country can exchange prior information about loads has enabled them to save a phenomenal degree of dead mileage. This is a matter of fact, and it can be demonstrated very easily by questioning the Road Haulage Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2314.1", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abadan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ncrease in the tax to 1s. 10½d. can now go into the Lobby to vote for an increase to 2s. 6d. It is logical for hon. Members on this side of the House to say that 1s. 10½d. was the height to which it ought to go and can vote against this year's increase. But it is not logical for the party which last year objected to 1s. 10½d to come along and support an increase now to 2s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2324.1", "colnum": "2324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman thinks that he has a let-out because, he says, he is not giving as much relief to the Surtax payer as my right hon. Friend gave. But let me tell the Chancellor this. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland financed his Surtax and Income Tax reliefs out of decreases in Government expenditure; he did not finance them out of the worst-off sections in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2324.1", "colnum": "2324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "for saying that the £10 a week miner shall be relieved to the extent of 4s. 6d. a week—I am taking only the Income Tax figures—and that the man on £2,000 a year is to pay 25s. a week less? What is the justification for a Budget which leaves that result if, as the Financial Secretary constantly reminds us, the miner is the most important man in industry today? He is the man who should have the 25s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2326.1", "colnum": "2326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " was most favourable to him. I should like to put it in the way that I think is accurate. What, in fact, is happening is that 70 per cent. of the benefits under the Income Tax remissions go to those getting less than £15 a week, to those paid up to between £750 and £800 a year. Let us put it the other way. Thirty per cent. of the Income Tax reliefs are going to those getting more than £800 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2326.1", "colnum": "2326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " year. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] They number something like 1,500,000 out of the 20 million Income Tax payers. In other words, 7½ per cent. of the best-off people are to get Income Tax reliefs amounting to 30 per cent. of all that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is giving away. That is the way in which those figures ought to be looked at. Now I come, finally—I have been rather a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2331.0", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is still mounting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "l remark, and is that the advice Her Majesty's Opposition are to give to workers either by head or by hand? If that is the position, we are in a sorry plight. The hon. Member referred to the fact that my right hon. Friend was having to budget for the largest sum ever in peace-time. That is true, but whose fault is it that over the years the expenditure of the nation has been mounting and mounting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2331.2", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "It is a sound and commonsense Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2331.2", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask them in Leicester.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "It is a sound and commonsense Budget—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who for?\"]—and it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2335.5", "colnum": "2335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "I am glad to give way to the hon. Gentleman, because he is as interested in this question as I am. I was coming to that point. Already much mischief has been done to the trade by the Purchase Tax, because it has penalised the higher quality part of the trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2335.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2357.0", "colnum": "2357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldock", "preceding_text": "Chancellor is in the House and is listening to this argument. What I am saying in no way conflicts with the fact that the Budget is larger than it has been before. The fact is that Budgets have been increasing at a tremendous rate over the past years, but the present Chancellor has managed to curtail the civil expenditure of the Government for the first time in a very considerable number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2358.1", "colnum": "2358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldock", "preceding_text": "I believe that the time will soon come when that capital will begin to run out, and that is why I ask the Treasury to be considering now what steps can be taken when that occurs. All over the country there are great numbers of private schools educating children, and it is surely highly desirable that they should continue to do so, if for no other reason than that the State schools are overcrowded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2367.2", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "preceding_text": "ouch with its customers. That year was not a normal one for that industry. We all know—I have very painful memories of it—that in the last quarter of 1947 we suffered considerable diminution in production owing to the many cuts in the power supply. There was a very severe winter, which has often been referred to as \"the great coal crisis.\" I do not know whether the word should be \"coal\" or \"cold.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2376.0", "colnum": "2376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Webbe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Webbe", "preceding_text": "I will leave hon. Members opposite to examine the Budget and their own consciences, where they will easily find the evidence. Now I want to say something about one proposal in the Budget which is calculated to do harm. The proposal to which I refer is the Excess Profits Levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2388.3", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blue blood.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Well, some people take a cock-eyed view of the texts. The common people will contrast the implemented promises to this Government's paymasters, the steel barons, the road hauliers, the bankers and the brewers, with the broken promises of good red meat and a reduction in the cost of living. There is no red meat and very little red blood left in the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2389.3", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "sion of nationalisation. So we have, in fact, a general consensus of opinion throughout the House that we shall have to go on operating a form of mixed economy. It is our duty, on both sides of the House, to see that mixed economy works to the maximum efficiency. We on the Conservative side have accepted the nationalisation of the coal mines, the railways, electricity, gas and the postal services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2392.1", "colnum": "2392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "or controlling the level of monetary circulation. The task of such controls, on the contrary, is made all the more difficult by inflation. This is the plain lesson not only for our own experience in the last three years, but also of Soviet Russia in the nineteen thirties. Professor Lewis is a distinguished Socialist economist, and non-Marxist Socialist economists are extremely rare birds nowadays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2397.5", "colnum": "2397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "st and the division of view between the lower paid workers and the higher paid workers, and hence has led to this large spate of wage claims from lower paid workers. A little while ago an hon. Member, speaking from the benches opposite, said that my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) had incited the trade unions to make wage claims. They do not need inciting at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2402.1", "colnum": "2402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "I do not know the figure. I am perfectly prepared to hazard a guess and to find out tomorrow whether I am right or wrong. I should think that out of the 23 million wage earners in the country, there are certainly more than 12 million and, perhaps, more than 15 million who are under that income level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2407.3", "colnum": "2407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel L. E. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel L. E. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Mikardo), is called a technologist—one of those people who, in their spare time, try to help businesses to promote their profits. Tonight he has done nothing but mischief with what he has said. He has tried to make trouble as between one set of workers and another. He has tried to pretend that wage claims now are far more necessary and understandable than they have been in the last few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2412.1", "colnum": "2412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The striking feature of this debate has been the extraordinary change in the attitude of Conservative Members to the Budget. We knew before the debate started that the British people had seen through it. We knew that because of the county council elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2412.1", "colnum": "2412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "tion we should be prepared to take it off. I believe that the time has come when we definitely ought to encourage the home consumption of textiles, and that is the first question which must be answered. Is that the view of the Government, or does the right hon. Gentleman think that the level of unemployment in Lancashire and other areas is only just what he wants to secure the turnover to defence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.1", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I am astonished at the right hon. Gentleman. If he has not used the argument many of his hon. Friends courageously have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "mittee stage—we give fair warning—on the value D in the Fourth Schedule, to force the Government to put up its value and relieve from tax what was previously Utility. It may be said, \"That is all very well, but look at the amount of revenue which we shall lose.\" That is not a thing which the Chancellor can fairly say to us, when he is giving away large sums of money to fairly-well-to-do taxpayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ning—on the value D in the Fourth Schedule, to force the Government to put up its value and relieve from tax what was previously Utility. It may be said, \"That is all very well, but look at the amount of revenue which we shall lose.\" That is not a thing which the Chancellor can fairly say to us, when he is giving away large sums of money to fairly-well-to-do taxpayers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] He is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The miners are earning that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ve from tax what was previously Utility. It may be said, \"That is all very well, but look at the amount of revenue which we shall lose.\" That is not a thing which the Chancellor can fairly say to us, when he is giving away large sums of money to fairly-well-to-do taxpayers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] He is. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\".] He is giving substantial relief to those earning more than £15 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or a resignation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " in a statement which was circulated, so I am assured, to all Conservative candidates as the gospel. This is what the right hon. Gentleman said: In present circumstances, while we fight and strive to reduce the cost of living, we shall maintain the food subsidies.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th March, 1952; Vol. 497, c. 2043.] We really are entitled to an explanation from the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Vol. 497, c. 2043.] We really are entitled to an explanation from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Or a resignation.\"] My hon. Friend says \"or a resignation.\" I would prefer to hear the explanation first, because that would be fair to him. This is a gross contrast between a pledge given during an Election campaign and something the Chancellor himself has done of major importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " do. After all he was, by implication, criticising me personally. He was defending Lord Woolton and as my noble Friend, Lord Pakenham, said, no doubt in his passionate loyalty to another colleague, he went rather far. He said, as an excuse for this, as an excuse for the Government changing their minds about food subsidies, that they had been kept very much in the dark about the economic situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "bt in his passionate loyalty to another colleague, he went rather far. He said, as an excuse for this, as an excuse for the Government changing their minds about food subsidies, that they had been kept very much in the dark about the economic situation. [ Interruption. ] I am a little surprised at the noble Lord expressing approval of that, because I made a fairly full speech at the Mansion House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " explicitly, to suggest that it was necessary to cut the food subsidies to obtain a greater measure of confidence in the £. What does that mean exactly? Does it not really mean, in effect—because there is no question of deflationary influence here the Chancellor has given away more money than he is saving—if it is true, that foreign speculators are dictating the policy of Her Majesty's Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The 'Daily Worker'\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " Laughter. ] I am quite serious about this, because this is being put around. I hope that the Chancellor will deny it and will assure us that that was not his reason for breaking the pledge and cutting the food subsidies. If it were to be so, we should certainly be faced with a very grave situation indeed. When I read these things in the paper, I naturally get worried about it, and I am surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The 'Daily Herald'\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "t the Chancellor will deny it and will assure us that that was not his reason for breaking the pledge and cutting the food subsidies. If it were to be so, we should certainly be faced with a very grave situation indeed. When I read these things in the paper, I naturally get worried about it, and I am surprised—[An HON. MEMBER: \"The 'Daily Worker'\"?] No, not the \"Daily Worker.\" As a matter of fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ve the broken promises for a moment. In essence, this policy is simply a pure Tory policy. The hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. Boothby), gave it away in the course of the Budget debate, when he said, \"Well, of course, some redistribution is needed in order to give incentives.\" In other words, to give incentives to better off people, the party opposite must take it away from poorer people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2427.1", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "bsidies, we had deliberately framed it with a desire to please the foreigner. I may say that neither this Government—nor, I hope, the previous Government—are governed by the views of either foreign bankers or foreign speculators; nor are they governed by the views, nor shall we follow the policy, of any other nation but our own; nor shall we have respect to the views of anybody but our own people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2427.1", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "th the severe economic problems of the time. Perhaps, the right hon. Gentleman recognises these words. But the very intensity of our situation makes it essential to lighten the burden on the economy to bring back the sense of reality to which I have referred.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th March, 1952; Vol. 497, c. 1298.] That was my definite motive, and entirely on the basis of patriotic considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2428.0", "colnum": "2428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the manifesto.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me? In that case, how can he really reconcile what he has just said with the words in this famous pamphlet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2428.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2430.1", "colnum": "2430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " we may help to solve the country's problems. I will further say this, that the T.U.C. leaders would not expect me not to say at the same time that there are profound differences of opinion between us. That should be said because the basis of this must be sincere. But I think it is also clear that they realise the policy which is inspiring us at the present time and upon which we are now embarked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2430.1", "colnum": "2430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A pocket?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ruption. ] My business is to reply to this debate, and a little debate does nobody any harm. The most anxious task for any Government to deal with properly is the labour side of the problem. We cannot get more production unless we have the right climate for labour, and that is why it is so tragic that there should be in England a pocket of unemployment in the textile industry at the present time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-07", "file": "debates1952-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f45f3cd64a5ce7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2434.3", "colnum": "2434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the county council elections?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "That is a very interesting question to which nobody can give an answer tonight. I should have thought that the whole thing would be reviewed together. I am glad that the hon. Member envisages that we shall be in power so long that we shall be able to cope with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-07a.2434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2482.10", "colnum": "2482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor will make inquiries as to what is being collected towards the end of that time. I think he will find that as regards textiles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2482.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2493.1", "colnum": "2493", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE (INCREASED BENEFITS AND PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the doctors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that is quite impossible. None of my predecessors in this office has ever found it possible to make increases in pensions retroactive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2507.2", "colnum": "2507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has moved a Motion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that I have called the right hon. Gentleman to move his Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2514.0", "colnum": "2514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which quarters?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I have said that I have no figures or anything of that kind, but that view is still held in many quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2518.2", "colnum": "2518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "eiling—once more we are back to King Charles's head—he did not seem sufficiently to appreciate the fact that the ceiling has already gone. Is he really seriously proposing to assimilate the £10 million a year increase for general practitioners within the ceiling? I should like an answer to that. Is he intending to do it? I should like to know. I am prepared to give way to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2531.6", "colnum": "2531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "closer analogy with the 1949 Act, which laid open the possibility of charges on a wide range of articles than with the 1951 Act, which imposed charges on two very limited specific types of appliances. At any rate, I shall confine my observations to the narrow and relevant question of the four appliances upon which my right hon. Friend intends to impose charges—intends at present to impose charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2531.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2531.6", "colnum": "2531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or increase them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "observations to the narrow and relevant question of the four appliances upon which my right hon. Friend intends to impose charges—intends at present to impose charges—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—because regulations can be altered from time to time and there is every reason why it should be possible for the Minister by regulation to reduce or eliminate these charges altogether when that becomes possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2531.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2546.1", "colnum": "2546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "ght speed up the proceedings. I am very willing to give way to him if he is prepared to say so now. Apparently he is not willing. We can take it on this side of the Committee therefore that although the Government are trying to get an easier passage of the Bill by saying they are imposing charges on only four items, they have every intention of imposing charges on the whole field before very long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2550.4", "colnum": "2550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "No, it is the Act of 1949.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2553.2", "colnum": "2553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "That is still being discussed. We are dealing with appliances and I will not go back over the very large field of prescriptions, particularly as there are only four types of appliance in question. The number of these which would be disposed of in any given hospital is such a small figure that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2556.0", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "I have here the Parliamentary debates for 1948–49.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2556.3", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And of the case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am in possession of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2556.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2556.4", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am in possession of the Committee. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And of the case.\"] If the sensitive natures of hon. Members are in any way disturbed by any of these things I am prepared to leave the documents in the Committee here, and to remove the offending case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2569.2", "colnum": "2569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, there was to be a wide debate, but I understand that we have had a wide debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2569.2", "colnum": "2569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "mendments; otherwise, we would not have discussed these very points which we have dealt with during the earlier debate. We have had speeches on such things as surgical boots, abdominal belts, and so forth. That was my understanding. We were having the wide debate followed by such Divisions as the Opposition chose to call, but only on some or all of the four which had been selected by the Chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2570.3", "colnum": "2570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "My recollection is quite clear. I have been in the Chamber the whole time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2579.0", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "ended to carry out and which we found must not be carried out, but upon which they say, \"Here we have something; this is what we can do at long last.\" I said at the beginning that I feel that we were fully justified in putting down these Amendments. There has been a good deal of talk about corsets, and I can tell the Minister where he went wrong and where there was some confusion in the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2585.5", "colnum": "2585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "leasure whatever in imposing these charges. If we are to go into this matter, I remind hon. Members opposite that if they look back at the speeches which were made immediately after the announcement of the charges on prescriptions in 1949, they will find that there was no outcry from hon. Members opposite and no mention whatver of the subject in the debate which followed on the economic situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2585.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2588.1", "colnum": "2588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "d in the phrases of 1952, is so typical of what is worst in the party opposite. Let me tell the hon. Gentleman that those of his right hon. and hon. Friends who collaborated in producing their pamphlet on the social services, and whom I have watched in this Committee, lack, despite their superficial slickness in their, attitude towards these so human problems, that essential kindheartedness which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2597.0", "colnum": "2597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is a lot more yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ave heard from the other side of the Committee during the afternoon, that was the quality which was conspicuous by its absence. Certainly, the adjectives and, one might say, the ruderies, which have been directed at the Government and at my Friends on this bench and behind me, have been very severe. We have had a general review, almost a Second Reading debate, for the third time on this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2597.0", "colnum": "2597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "t quite clear what our intentions are and, therefore, the impassioned speech, for example, of the hon. Member for Brierley Hill (Mr. Simmons), to which we all listened, I am sure, with emotion, was completely off the mark when he said most emphatically that we must all demand that artificial limbs should be free issue for all pensioners—war pensioners and the rest. None of that is in issue at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2597.0", "colnum": "2597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ber for Brierley Hill (Mr. Simmons), to which we all listened, I am sure, with emotion, was completely off the mark when he said most emphatically that we must all demand that artificial limbs should be free issue for all pensioners—war pensioners and the rest. None of that is in issue at all. [ Interruption. ] I have made it clear every time I have spoken that we are not dealing with that at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2599.2", "colnum": "2599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course you are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "A little of the charitable feeling which the hon. Lady the Member for Cannock (Miss Lee) suggested should be in hon. Members' minds. The only other point I was about to make at this stage—because I have made these points before—is that I very much resented the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mr. Baird), saying that we were doing all this gleefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2600.7", "colnum": "2600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "There is one other point I should like to stress, because so much has been said—by the hon. Lady the Member for Cannock, among others—about what a terrible burden these charges would be upon people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2600.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2640.3", "colnum": "2640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "We have been trying to point out from this side that whilst the power was given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2640.3", "colnum": "2640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "We have been trying to point out from this side that whilst the power was given—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—I am doing the answering. If hon. Members opposite would make a few more speeches instead of merely sitting and interrupting with that kind of remark, we should get on with the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2640.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2641.1", "colnum": "2641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2643.1", "colnum": "2643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not yet\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I have sat through this debate since it began. Occupants of the Chair have been more numerous than the Amendments we have discussed. Is it reasonable to move the Closure when hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2643.3", "colnum": "2643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put it in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": " the first of the Amendments we are discussing, spoke with his customary knowledge and, if I may say so, with a general restraint which has not been so apparent among other hon. Members opposite. But he wandered rather wide of the Amendment. I think it a little unjust to accuse us, or at least to infer that we propose to levy charges on appliances for which we have no intention of charging at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2644.2", "colnum": "2644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Friendly Societies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "What about Lord Woolton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2645.1", "colnum": "2645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it in the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend made that statement on the Second Reading of the Bill. My right hon. Friend certainly made it amply clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2645.4", "colnum": "2645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "charge in connection with the 1949 Act. If the second Amendment were accepted, it would, in fact, mean that the charge on prescriptions from general practitioners, dispensed either by them or at chemists' shops, would be a shilling, and, if dispensed in hospital dispensaries, sixpence. The hon. Gentleman would be the first to get up and point out the injustice and inequity of two separate charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2648.1", "colnum": "2648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman went on to say that it was fundamental in the minds of all hon. Members opposite that there should be a free Service. He forgets that his own Government imposed charges which brought economies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2648.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2648.3", "colnum": "2648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about their eyes?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "What about their surgical boots and shoes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2648.5", "colnum": "2648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "There has been throughout the debate a persistent attempt to ignore the fact that the same provisions for hardship are made in this Bill as were made in previous legislation by the Labour Government, and I do not remember hon. Members opposite then complaining that there was this complete lack of provision for those who might be in need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2648.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.0", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "I wish to give notice that I intend to put down a Motion regarding the conduct of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2665.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.2", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 1, line 9, at the end, to insert: Provided that the charges which shall be made in respect of the supply of appliances to nationals of foreign countries shall in no case be less than will represent the full cost of the supply of such appliances to the persons aforesaid. I must apologise to the Committee for having such a croaky voice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.2", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "rges which shall be made in respect of the supply of appliances to nationals of foreign countries shall in no case be less than will represent the full cost of the supply of such appliances to the persons aforesaid. I must apologise to the Committee for having such a croaky voice—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"] I say so to hon. Members opposite that I have been brought up in a tough part of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.4", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "on. Friend will be prepared to reconsider his position in this matter. Supposing that a dentist is faced with a client who is a British subject and who has not a permanent address, I say it is quite obvious that the dentist would have to find out his permanent address; for one does not walk into a dentist's or an optician's and walk out with dentures or spectacles. There has to be a lapse of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.4", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "; I am basing my argument on dentures and spectacles. If the dentist cannot find out to his own satisfaction whether his client is British or of foreign birth, it is possible to refer the case to the local committee, which can check up as it would do in the case of an application for a duplicate pair of dentures, and see what the background of the applicant really is. I want to make another point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.4", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "f being able to say so, and I cannot see that there is anything derogatory in suggesting that dentists or opticians should make some inquiries to find out whether their clients are British or foreign nationals. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary must be aware, as I am, that there is a very strong feeling in the country on this particular matter. Though I am not expecting an answer tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2673.0", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "One could ask her certainly; but if she were sufficiently attractive one might get an unexpected reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2674.3", "colnum": "2674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has resisted this Amendment on purely technical grounds, but I hardly feel that it is good enough because although we join with him in congratulating the hon. Lady on her courage in contending with great personal difficulties, neverthless her Amendment seems to be a most regrettable one. It is, simultaneously a vote-catching Amendment and the very essence of Nazism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2674.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2676.6", "colnum": "2676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am certain that the hon. Member does not want to mislead the Committee. He has said that the visitors from overseas are treated freely by the medical profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2676.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2677.4", "colnum": "2677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I cannot feel that the hard-pressed, over-burdened taxpayers, whose Government cannot afford to pay higher pensions to men who have been wounded in the service of their country, should be required to look after foreigners free of charge at a time when further burdens are being placed upon the poor who live here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2685.1", "colnum": "2685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Northern Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "y reasonable for the Committee to spend a few moments considering seriously what has been moved. That is where I blame the Minister. He tried to laugh it off, but it is not a laughing matter. It is the only Amendment that hon. Members opposite can think of. I am coming back to deal with the question of who are foreigners and who are not. Inhabitants of the Protectorates raise a difficult question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2685.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2690.1", "colnum": "2690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan-Hepburn", "preceding_text": "rose in his place, and claimed to move, \" That the Question be now put.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2697.1", "colnum": "2697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Chairman do report Progress and ask leave to sit again.\" I move this Motion for the traditional and usual reason, to give the Government an opportunity to express their intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-08", "file": "debates1952-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2503834ade16a8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2701.5", "colnum": "2701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ere pressing for an answer that, after all, if the Minister did not know he could not answer. It was impressed upon all of us that the right hon. Gentleman, apparently did not know when consideration of the Bill was to start. That has been revealed to us by the mere efflux of time; but can the right hon. Gentleman, now answer the more serious question of when consideration of this Bill will cease?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-08a.2701.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2721.3", "colnum": "2721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Profumo", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that on this side of the House we are getting sick and tired of these constant attacks on private enterprise business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2732.5", "colnum": "2732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Prime Minster's statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2732.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2738.5", "colnum": "2738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "That is a most extraordinary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2738.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2749.2", "colnum": "2749", "heading": "ATTACHE CASES (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "ears ago, when a somewhat similar incident was drawn to the attention of the then occupant of the Chair. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Kelvingrove (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot) will appreciate that I raise this point with no personal animosity against him. Indeed, there are very few hon. or right hon. Members on the other side for whom I have a greater regard. But it will be found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2750.0", "colnum": "2750", "heading": "ATTACHE CASES (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "e of debate; but with the exception of Ministers, whose despatch cases and official wallets are under a special dispensation, despatch cases should not be brought in. I hope the House will agree with me that the Messengers who, under the direction of the Serjeant at Arms, remind hon. Members if they should unwittingly be transgressing these old customs, perform their duty with the utmost courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2751.0", "colnum": "2751", "heading": "ATTACHE CASES (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eggs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Bowles", "preceding_text": "Further to that Ruling, Mr. Speaker, may I ask this question? There has grown up recently in the House a tendency for hon. Members to produce exhibits, such as a fish or other things of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2753.0", "colnum": "2753", "heading": "DIVISION LISTS (PUBLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I should be very glad to consider that matter. The House will, I think, agree that, when we have these very late Sittings, it is very much to the credit of the printers that they can produce the Votes and Proceedings even in the form in which they are put before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2763.0", "colnum": "2763", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman consider for future occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2773.5", "colnum": "2773", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "tage we shall be able to obtain some reply as to why this period has been chosen at all. If I may resume where I left off the argument when some of my hon. Friends came to my assistance, we are now entering upon a period—and I do not think the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health sufficiently appreciates the fact—which is governed by Rule and Standing Order No. 16 and the Gibson-Bowles Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2773.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2779.3", "colnum": "2779", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It has not been moved.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The point is that we are not discussing a substantive Motion. We are discussing an Amendment which is being moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2794.1", "colnum": "2794", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "tter; if he does not, the pilot who is piloting them through will be dropped—which will be so much the worse for him—because the Front Bench opposite and the Leader of the House cannot get their business through. We are discussing this Motion for the Adjournment of the House for Easter to get an assurance from the Government as to what are their intentions. I beg to move the Amendment that stands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2808.10", "colnum": "2808", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Division must start again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2808.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2809.0", "colnum": "2809", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not observe anything myself. I shall find out about it. If there is any question of an irregularity in the Division, I shall have to put the Question again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2809.2", "colnum": "2809", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The report I received from the Assistant-Serjeant at Arms was that certain Members moved into the Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2810.3", "colnum": "2810", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As we have made a mess of that Division, we shall have to start again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2810.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2816.2", "colnum": "2816", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Cheeky man.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The incidents were quite different. If the hon. and learned Member wishes to criticise my Ruling, he must do it in the regular way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2816.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2816.5", "colnum": "2816", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2816.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2816.7", "colnum": "2816", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must have one point of order at a time. Mr. Porter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2816.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2821.7", "colnum": "2821", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has got the sequence of events wrong. I called the hon. Member to speak, but, a moment or two after he had started to speak, the main Question was claimed by the Patronage Secretary, and I accepted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2821.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2843.5", "colnum": "2843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that that happens in every hospital that he has ever heard of, but does he seriously suggest that the majority of our hospitals are denuded of staff during the evenings except for medical officers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2843.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2844.1", "colnum": "2844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "Certainly not. How many hospitals in London have dispensers on duty during 24 hours? I have never known of one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2872.1", "colnum": "2872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "A circular has been sent to every management committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2895.3", "colnum": "2895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "I am indebted to the right hon. Gentleman, and I do not want to press the matter but, as he knows, many of my hon. and right hon. Friends have to depend upon the public conveyances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2898.1", "colnum": "2898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I have not shared in the pleasures of this debate but, like other hon. Members, not to say right hon. Gentlemen, I am anxious to get home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2898.1", "colnum": "2898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With the Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "n in the most reasonable frame of mind, at any rate at this stage. There are my opinions. If the right hon. Gentleman does not like them, I can change them. But I suggest that it would suit the convenience of the Committee if we could gather from the Minister what his intentions are. We are anxious to facilitate the proceedings on this Measure. The Patronage Secretary advises me to get on with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2901.0", "colnum": "2901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I have listened carefully to the hon. Gentleman. I did not hear all his earlier observations because there was so much noise in the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2906.0", "colnum": "2906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And drugs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I thought I had made it clear that there was a difficult little problem here, but I must congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on the very amusing description he gave of the \"in and out\" of these patients, if one may call it that; but what we are concerned with here are the appliances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2925.4", "colnum": "2925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2926.1", "colnum": "2926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Steel Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "peaking before. But the Government are deliberately creating a dilemma in which they will insist upon our passing the Finance Bill almost without hearing it, and with scarcely enough time even for the Guillotine to work. So I say that the correct thing to do in this situation is to drop these health charges. I ask hon. Members opposite to be responsive, as we all must be in a democratic community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2926.1", "colnum": "2926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": " insist upon our passing the Finance Bill almost without hearing it, and with scarcely enough time even for the Guillotine to work. So I say that the correct thing to do in this situation is to drop these health charges. I ask hon. Members opposite to be responsive, as we all must be in a democratic community—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Steel Bill?\"] That was almost dropped for the same reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2928.3", "colnum": "2928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I want to reinforce the arguments which have been advanced by my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock (Miss Lee). We should refuse to report Progress because right hon. and hon. Members opposite have no mandate in the country for the legislation which they are placing before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2928.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2930.2", "colnum": "2930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "he last two speeches to which we have listened have been obvious humbug. We have the hon. Lady the Member for Cannock (Miss Lee) trying to paint a picture of the previous Government with a small majority recognising the rights of the other people in the House, when we know that with a majority so small that one could hardly see it, they pushed through some of the most controversial of legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2930.4", "colnum": "2930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "If we are to examine what the country wants or does not want, it is perfectly clearly that at the time the Steel Bill was pushed through the last Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2930.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2932.5", "colnum": "2932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. Member's pardon; I thought he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2932.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2934.3", "colnum": "2934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not constituencies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "When this Parliament was elected we discovered that although the Government won a majority of seats their confidently-made claims that they represented the majority of the voters turned out to be quite false. Our position is quite otherwise. At all times during this Parliament we have represented the majority of voters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2934.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2934.5", "colnum": "2934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "is pretty easy to get up and say \"filibustering\" or \"obstructing;\" and to imagine that there will be an echo in the hearts of those of the population who are still supporters of the Conservative Party. It does take a little longer to show why this charge is not rightly made against the Opposition now, and it seemed to me that I was right in saying that we who all along have represented a majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2934.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2935.3", "colnum": "2935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "some other time—of harrying and trying to drive men to an early grave—upon a public platform. These are serious arguments, serious Amendments. Unhappily, the Minister of Health and those in charge of the Bill have not accepted our arguments in that spirit but mechanically, all the time, have said, \"No, no, no.\" In our judgment this Bill is a bad Bill. The same view is taken by the Liberal Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2937.6", "colnum": "2937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I did not quite follow the full significance of that explanation, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2937.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.2", "colnum": "2938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "preceding_text": "I suggest that it might be of assistance to the right hon. Gentleman, in assessing the present mood of the country, to learn that out of 21 results in the Norfolk County Council elections this evening 13 wins have been recorded for Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.3", "colnum": "2938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not want it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members are fully at liberty to cheer that and anything which can possibly encourage them. It neither depresses nor surprises me that they should be elated by those facts. What I am dealing with is the particular stage at which we are on this Bill and I was pointing out that it was possible that people in the country might take the view that we have not been making such rapid progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.4", "colnum": "2938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ich we are on this Bill and I was pointing out that it was possible that people in the country might take the view that we have not been making such rapid progress. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not want it.\"] If the country do not want any progress made, hon. Members are, on their own admission, obstructing the Bill and will have no complaint when we point out that filibustering tactics have been used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.9", "colnum": "2938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "Once again the Chairman has given way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.13", "colnum": "2938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It has.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "That is completely unwarranted; I do not know what the hon. Member means. The Closure has not been moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2938.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-09", "file": "debates1952-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ee571bc8c8908faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2940.0", "colnum": "2940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "what happened. After having heard the speech of the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison), I came to the conclusion that the Committee was ready to come to a decision. I therefore proceeded to put the Question that, \"The Chairman do report Progress and ask leave to sit again.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-09a.2940.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.6.8", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I was not raising any question on the merits of the statement which we have not yet had. I was merely asking whether it is now the Minister of Transport or the Prime Minister who takes responsibility for the Government's transport policy. Cannot we have an answer to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.6.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.7.6", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eleven.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I must give notice that we intend to pursue this matter. It is surely without precedent for a Minister to come to the House, and on a whole series of Questions, at least eight or nine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.7.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.29.8", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN DEFENCE COMMUNITY (U.K. RELATIONSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, or on a point of explanation, anyhow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.29.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARES INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am sure we are all very glad to see the Prime Minister here, notwithstanding his recent cold, and we are happy that he is entirely recovered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARES INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " in no way derogates from the duty of answering Questions, but I thought that on the whole it would be in the general interest if these Questions, instead of being answered specifically today, were reserved for the debate. The right hon. Gentleman also asked whether there would be a White Paper. I need hardly say that the Government have been studying the whole of this question long and carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARES INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "his question long and carefully. [ Laughter. ] I hoped that might have to be repeated. The Government have, as I have said, been long and carefully studying this question. We have a White Paper in preparation and the entire structure of the future legislation is also considerably advanced. However, I am not yet sure whether the White Paper should be included in the debate we are to have on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARES INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gladly concede the Parliamentary principle invoked by the Leader of the Opposition. I only thought that on this occasion it would be more in accordance with the wishes of the House—the answers were of a limited and negative character", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.42.4", "colnum": "42", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARES INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, I am sure I had. As to the very much larger question of whether rail services should be subsidised, that overlooks the fact that for the last three or four years they have been subsidised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.42.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARES INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To blame us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am ashamed to admit that no final decision has yet been taken on that point. However, it would seem to me convenient if we framed a Motion in such a way as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.43.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.44.6", "colnum": "44", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARES INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "What about this side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.44.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.47.7", "colnum": "47", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Beswick", "preceding_text": "Further to that point. Mr. Speaker, a moment or two ago you said you had no knowledge of what the Motion was. The right hon. Gentleman said that before he considered this Motion he discussed the matter with you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.47.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "CHINA (BRITISH NOTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House I should like to make a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "mittees to look after them, and to direct them not only to the places where they may be wanted but to the sorts of jobs they are capable of doing, and to take care of them. The head of this family from Loughborough was an engineer. He had been an engineer at the Brush works. He had passed his examinations at Loughborough college. The best job he could get on landing, however, was as a piano-tuner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-21", "file": "debates1952-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae0ae548a4f57a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Desert.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "It does apply to New Zealand. I cannot say to what extent it applies to Canada. One of my hon. Friends was wondering what was the proportion of land in Australia suitable for settlement. Well, Queensland alone could take 20 million inhabitants. Western Australia has a million square miles of territory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-21a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Driving?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "The driver is at the moment employed in driving on local journeys and is under observation by his unit doctor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COTTON IMPORT COMMITTEE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask whether a copy of this reply has been supplied to the Opposition Front Bench and not afforded to the hon. Gentleman who asked this Question, because it would appear to me that the three questions asked by the hon. Gentleman opposite could not have been prepared in advance unless a copy of the answer had been supplied to him in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COTTON IMPORT COMMITTEE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. After many years in this House, I have never yet been given an advanced copy of an answer to a Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.218.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COTTON IMPORT COMMITTEE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "May I correct the erroneous impression given by the hon. Member? I have been repeatedly putting down Questions of my own composition to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The changes are developments of the brilliant ideas and admirable designs set in motion by our predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I have given the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As usual.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "No. I am coming to that. The hon. and learned Gentleman is quite wrong about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.245.6", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is all wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "I tried to put the matter slowly and simply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.245.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "thinks local authorities ought to build. He jeered at my right hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) and said that my right hon. Friend had started these houses. But my right hon. Friend never at any time put the financial compulsion on local authorities to build them. That is what the right hon. Gentleman has done. He has said, \"I will base my subsidies on a sub-standard house\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman cannot have it that way. I gather it would be regarded by the Conservative Party as a good local authority if 50 per cent. of its allocation went to private licence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman cannot have it that way. I gather it would be regarded by the Conservative Party as a good local authority if 50 per cent. of its allocation went to private licence—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We are coming along. Therefore, right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite consider that a good local authority would be that authority which the least adopted the Tory principle?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " of Bristol granted no licences. Nor did many of the other blitzed areas, because they considered such was the housing need of local populations that emphasis ought to be placed on houses to rent. That is the reason why I deplore this encouragement to local authorities to sell their houses, not because I do not believe a person ought to own the house in which he lives. I believe that is desirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "me farmers the other day and they were shocked by this further provision. They asked what was wrong with the existing provisions. They could re-condition a cottage and all they had to do was to create a tenancy. Surely there is nothing wrong with freeing agricultural workers. Why does the right hon. Gentleman want to give this additional subsidy and annoy the psychology of the agricultural worker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "all be supported by other hon. Members in testifying that the proposed reduction of £50 on the agreed figure of £1,575 as the reasonable cost of a three-bedroom cottage is not challenged by local authorities throughout the country, and that we have just listened once again to another example of an ex-Minister in the last Government saying that local authorities cannot be trusted to know their job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": " some excitement about fares. What will bring most support to this side of the House and to our friends in the country is the great efforts made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) in building up a housing organisation which has produced more houses at rents which people can afford to pay than have ever been produced in any comparable period in the history of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " when all is said and done, members of the council are trustees for the ratepayers. Why should we have this foolish remark made about a week's notice? In the main, council tenants are in subsidised houses at present and, whatever the right hon. Gentleman says about the position of rent control and the fact that many people are in a private tenancy, are these living at too cheap a rate in his view?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.309.7", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "e special obligations and a statutory duty to let at reasonable rents. It is often said that the local authority has certain advantages compared with the private landlord, but they have to take on obligations of hardship, sometimes of anti-social tenants and the rehousing of people because of children. This is a health service as well as a social service. No such duty lies on the private landlord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.309.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "House, the type of people who go into public life giving their time voluntarily, are of course people moved by moral impulses. We should also bear in mind when we consider this matter of selling houses to people at the top of the list that there are hundreds and thousands of dwellings in places like Leeds, back-to-back dwellings built in the old days by the predecessors of hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": " Tory Government council housing became a music hall joke. One thing of which my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) can be proud is that he took housing away from the music hall joke of the Tory Party and raised it to the very fine standards of creditable housing for the workers that we have had since the war. No longer do we hear jokes from the music hall about council houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.329.2", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": " the rates on the notional house was made up by £16 10s. from the Exchequer and £5 10s. by the local authority from rate fund charge. The new assessment is, as the right hon. Gentleman said, £1,525, and at 4¼ per cent. the annual loan charges become £70 8s. Look at what hon. Members have done through their monetary policy. The notional council house means £30 a year in the bankers' pockets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.329.2", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "g rates, are going up into the range of 35s. and 40s. a week, which is above the ability of the ordinary worker to pay, even in a period of full employment. Under a Tory Government we cannot be sure of full employment. People are really worried now about taking on a council house. So long as there was security under a Labour Government and full employment with good wages they were prepared to pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.329.2", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "e in tied cottages. Mr. Speaker lives in a \"tied cottage,\" and the Prime Minister lives in a \"tied cottage.\" It is a question of the general treatment which one receives when living in a tied cottage and the ability to find alternative accommodation if one has to get out. I know of no industry which has been more vicious in its application of the tied cottage system than the agricultural industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "They could not have ended it with a stroke of the pen. Hon Members said the system does not work viciously, but in my own constituency and in cases within my own knowledge I have known of a dozen cases of agricultural workers who were put on the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, dozens of cases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I will give hon. Members a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "public money to it. There may be something to be said for a farmer who has built a house with his own money for somebody whom he employs to do something for him, but there is no justification whatever to use the taxpayers' money in order to perpetuate a system so that private individuals may use it ruthlessly in regard to persons employed in their industry. If I may now pass from the tied cottage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "not opposed at all to the individual ownership of houses, provided that the person concerned is in a good job, has a good wage and has security. He should have every encouragement to own his own house, but, for a person who is in an insecure job, living on a low standard and low wage, house ownership is not for him. Unfortunately, the general majority of workers are not in that fortunate position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "has always been there. Under the 1923 Act, local authorities could build houses and sell them, and some of them did so. Under the 1936 Act, they could do it. Let me tell the Parliamentary Secretary and the Minister that I was a member of local authority deputations asking permission to build council houses to sell under the 1936 Act, and successive Tory Governments and Ministers of Health refused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "uccessive Tory Governments and Ministers of Health refused. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] In 1937, in 1938 and in 1939, when the last application was made. The powers are there under the 1936 Act, and they were there under the 1923 Act. I know that hon. Gentlemen opposite do not like this, but the fact is that the power was there, and that successive Tory Ministers would not allow that power to be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "l hon. Gentlemen why. It was because it interfered with general estate developers and speculative builders, and they did not like local authorities coming into competition with speculative builders and estate developers. That is the reason. Hon. Gentlemen may smile, but I can tell the House that the real trouble is that hon. Gentlemen opposite, or most of them, have never been in local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.333.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "wned house becomes vacant it is put up for sale; and that means one house less in the general rent pool. I will close in fairness to the Parliamentary Secretary who, because I have been led astray by hon. Members opposite, has already been deprived of some of his time. We shall allow a Second Reading of the Bill. Hon. Members opposite need not smile. If they want a Division we can give it to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.340.3", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What a hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " which he can dispose of it, he has to give the local authority the right of pre-emption, in which case the local authority can buy it back again. At the end of four years he can dispose of it elsewhere. Do hon. Members opposite really mean to say—because four years' time is 10 years after the end of the second World War—that after six years of their own Government and, I hope, four years of ours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do not like to listen to it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You do not like to listen to it.\"] The Parliamentary Secretary has made some suggestion about Scottish Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "ster knew perfectly well that the bone of contention about this Bill would not be about the Bill as drawn, but about the adequacy of the grant of money to be made to local authorities in view of the increased costs of building, for which this afternoon he has had to admit he has made no allowance. In this House of Commons we are now in a state when, one by one, our fundamental liberties are going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-22", "file": "debates1952-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "329efafbd62014f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "at the right hon. Gentleman, if he takes the advice of his legal advisers, will find that in drawing the Money Resolution in these terms he may have made Clause 3 of the Bill inoperative, because it certainly involves expenditure out of local funds when it repeals that section of the Housing Act which makes it obligatory upon local authorities, if they do sell houses, to sell them at market value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-22a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that whatever the hon. Lady may say, people have been sickened by the cynical profiteering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.385.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.386.8", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Snow", "preceding_text": "What is the Army coming to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.386.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman must himself know that that is by no means an accurate observation. Anybody is free, naturally, to oppose, or to support—as does the majority of this House—the principle of federation. What this individual did was to urge a political strike against federation, and the non-payment of taxes against federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that his reply does not justify an overall ban on three towns—Preston, Chorley and Blackburn? There is a shortage of skilled labour in many other parts of the country as well. What is the reason for the overall ban on my constituency and two others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stooges.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I just correct the right hon. Gentleman on an inaccuracy he has just committed? There will be African representatives. There are African representatives from Southern Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Driberg", "preceding_text": " With great respect, Mr. Speaker, would you be good enough to indicate, for the guidance of the House, on what future occasion you think it would be possible, in the reasonably near future, to debate this matter in the House? I submit that the programme for some little time ahead is mapped out. There is the Finance Bill and other urgent business and, as you yourself are aware, under the procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "Further to that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am in a difficulty about the basis on which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am in a difficulty about the basis on which—[ Interruption ]—hon. Members need not listen, but if they do not it will take longer. There is no hurry as far as we are concerned. I am in a difficulty, with great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Certainly not. I have allowed this question in exceptional circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am agreeable to the matter being discussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am agreeable to the matter being discussed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Hon. Members opposite seem to be anticipating trouble today, and, by the way they are going on, they will get it. We are quite agreeable to this being discussed through the usual channels, but it is a change of Government policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As amended.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "With respect, we are dealing with a substantive Motion which eventually has either to be carried by the House or rejected by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "ompleted earlier than is required by this Order; or 60 (ii) prevent any business from being proceeded with on any day, in accordance with the Standing Orders, if the Proceedings which under this Order are to be completed on that day have already been completed. ( h ) Standing Order No. 41 (Business Committee) shall not apply in relation to this Order. It is indeed with great reluctance and regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very soon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "astly more unpleasant things befalling us. Still less, as a student and lover of Parliamentary institutions, and one who, in the past, has been most jealous of the rights of Private Members and minorities—and who still is, in my position as Leader of the House—do I like this Motion. I have protested against Motions of this kind in the past, and it may very well be that I shall have to do so again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "preceding_text": "That is what the whole debate is about. I gather.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not see how we can discuss the Bill. What I understand we are discussing is the Motion before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I am not proposing to discuss the Bill in any shape or form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ore days. I later suggested completing the Committee stage after Easter by allowing a further day. That would have made four days in all in Committee, which, by any reasonable standard, might have been thought to suffice for a Bill of this nature and length. However, by the time we adjourned for the Easter Recess, after 21½ hours of debate in Committee, only five lines had been disposed of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By county council elections?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " country, I am surprised that it should be even suggested that the present Government should follow the example of their predecessors and deliberately do nothing. Certainly, we have no such intention. We accepted office from His late Majesty with the firm intention of governing. We intend to clear up the mess which we have found and in that determination we have been strengthened and not weakened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is Minister of Health as well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rnment vote, and therefore the argument that they are particularly entitled to do anything they like in the way of a counter-revolution, or reactionary Tory policy, because they have a small majority, is another indication that the Leader of the House of Commons has no sense of the constitutional proprieties and ought to get out of the job as quickly as he can, because he is incapable of doing it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "issues of substance and real points of public policy, and there are 50 of them. No doubt they vary in importance and would vary in the amount of time required to deal with them. But the 50 are down on the Order Paper and there is much yet to do on this important Clause of the Bill. How much time have the Government given us under this allocation of time order? Ninety minutes. One-and-a-half hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or points of order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " remaining proceedings on the Bill is a preposterous argument more worthy of Hitler than of the right hon. Gentleman. We have 90 minutes left to deal with 50 Amendments, or such of them as would have been selected by the Chair. That is an hour-and-a-half, if there are no Ministerial statements; if there are no business questions and no supplementary questions arising out of the business statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Ministerial statements; if there are no business questions and no supplementary questions arising out of the business statement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Or points of order\"]—certainly, and if there are no points of order. After all points of order do arise, they have arisen absolutely legitimately this afternoon, and time has to be taken about them. Consequently, it is even possible and in an extreme case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ings to Ministers so that they could better understand their own Bill. All the thanks we get for this is the allegation that we are wasting time and this allocation of time order, and I think it is unreasonable. It is said that we have only reached line 9 of Clause 1, and that is true, but there have been useful and valuable debates. I deny that there has been organised filibustering on this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And some pathological ones.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ble debates. I deny that there has been organised filibustering on this Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Filibustering is a humiliating practice which I would never recommend to my hon. Friends and those associated with me in this House, and I would not recommend it to the other side either. The arguments have been serious. There have been contributions by a number of medical hon. Members on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "preceding_text": "believe that to be an even greater travesty of the rights of minorities and of the rights of individual Members than the Guillotine itself. Certainly, the committal of a Bill of general interest which affects the country as a whole from the Floor of the House to a Committee upstairs combined with the Guillotine is something even more drastic than that which is contemplated by the Government today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "preceding_text": "rnment have some other important Measures to introduce and that the debate on this Bill was holding up the Government programme. I concede that there are many Bills which the Government have in mind in relation to which in given circumstances they might be justified in introducing the Guillotine. That might be the case in connection with the Finance Bill or the denationalisation of iron and steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way, because I want my remarks to be very short. I want to make it clear that, in my humble opinion, having spoken to a large number of people in all walks of life, Parliamentary Government, and Parliament itself, is losing its reputation because of our misbehaviour in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.465.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is quite true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "I suspected that we were again straying away from the rules of order, and I will return to the subject under discussion. It seems to me that the examples I have tried to give show that there has been considerable time-wasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Broughton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Broughton", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. and gallant Gentleman has misunderstood me. I was making no attack on the Foreign Secretary for having come here in evening dress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Broughton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Broughton", "preceding_text": " afraid, I can only regard as cheating. By doing that they have sunk to undemocratic and unconstitutional methods They are pushing aside the Standing Orders and barging their way through Parliament to try to put on to the Statute Book an ugly, objectionable little Bill. They will not listen to reason. The speeches that have been made during the Committee stage have not been filibustering speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.483.5", "colnum": "483", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Much to your regret.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "se for the hon. Member, who has formerly sat on the Front Bench, to address the House from a seated position. We have had many remarkable contributions this afternoon not only from a seated position. We have had an embarrassment of riches, not only from the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) who, so far as I can see, will speak in every debate that comes before this House for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.483.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the hon. and sedentary Gentleman the Member for Northfield (Mr. Chapman), part way through the speech of the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South, the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale left the Chamber and did not return to it until after the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South, had finished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.488.2", "colnum": "488", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Clauses in one Bill and another are, of course, entirely different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the hon. Member?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "omplicated calculations, and he found that if we proceeded only at the same rate as we have been proceeding on the National Health Service Bill, it would take 23 years for the Government programme to be got through the House. The hon. Gentleman made a mistake in his arithmetic. I am not criticising him for that; he had a classical education and cannot be expected to get these little matters right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " have been many instances in these debates of what might be called bogus points of order made by hon. Members opposite which have contributed to the time-wasting aspect of these proceedings. That is another matter which should be taken into account. Because I have, owing to the helpful interventions of hon. Members opposite, taken up more time than I expected, I shall not detail all the instances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "ecedent. If anybody wants to weary himself by looking it up he will find that the protest we then made when we were in Opposition was precisely against that. The words I used were that the main part of our case rested on the Government's decision to guillotine these Bills upstairs before there had been any proper examination. We considered they should have been discussed on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "he time taken in that discussion before the Guillotine was imposed. For the purpose of this comparison I include all that. If one takes the Town and Country Planning Bill, on the same basis we had 32 minutes per Clause. If one takes the present Bill on the same basis we have three and a half hours per Clause. I quite understand that hon. Members may say that that is not a fair basis of comparison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " Vale (Mr. Bevan), say how absurd it is to make economies on a small scale at the expense of the cripple and so on in relation to the general national position. But it can be said how small the economies are in relation to almost any broad scheme of economies that has to be made. This is only part of the Government's scheme, and if we as a nation fail to maintain the purchasing power of our money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must let them answer. He cannot answer for them. Is that the position of the Opposition Front Bench?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.506.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.510.3", "colnum": "510", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I was merely directing myself to the remark of the right hon. Gentleman when he said that Clauses disposed of under the Guillotine were Clauses of no importance, were procedural or machinery Clauses. They were important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.510.6", "colnum": "510", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": " and careful and sincerely offered advice of my right hon. and hon. Friends whose everyday business is the business of this Bill. Only three times—in relation to the old-age pensioner, in relation to the child under 16, in relation to the country doctor—did the right hon. Gentleman find it possible to say to the Opposition, \"There is something in what you have to say and I will look at it again.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.510.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.523.5", "colnum": "523", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I made it quite plain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.523.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " much longer than would have been necessary if proper time had been given to the consideration and preparation of that Bill before it was brought before the House? If blunders of that kind had not been made in the management of the Business of the House there would have been plenty of time for proper consideration of this Bill without the attempt to impose a time-table of this kind. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You meant that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "I did not use the word \"frivolous\" or", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.532.5", "colnum": "532", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "I was not here. I was about to say that, but the hon. Member said it first. I came to the House, new, in 1951, but with considerable knowledge of Parliamentary procedure, having passed examinations in it and having read HANSARD for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not the hon. Gentleman speak?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "to the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Hornchurch, and that is that there is a very good maxim which says that one must always be presumed to have anticipated the consequences of one's acts. I would apply that maxim to hon. Gentlemen opposite in the making of their speeches on this Bill, many of which can only be described as filibustering. I heard them, and so did hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On this Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "Why did not the hon. Gentleman speak?\"] Why did not I speak? Because many hon. Gentlemen opposite would have liked me to have done so, because they wanted to waste the Government's time. But they forget this much—the Government are here to govern, and govern they will. I said there was filibustering. If hon. Gentlemen opposite want to be referred to a particular instance, I will refer them to one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "The Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.534.5", "colnum": "534", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "n had kept their speeches shorter and more to the point, I am sure that there would have been no necessity for this Guillotine. I can tell them this. Though some of them appear tonight in their sheep's clothing and say how disgraceful it is that a minority should be silenced, I can assure them that they would have no stronger friends in this House than those who sit upon this side of the House if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.550.4", "colnum": "550", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " 2 was important, and it was essential to make sure that debate took place on it, and so three hours were allotted. It is all very well saying \"Oh, but in Committee of the whole House three hours is nothing,\" but in a Committee stage upstairs three hours is more than a morning, and it has to be a very long Clause with undue prolongation of debate if one Clause is found to take more than a morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.550.4", "colnum": "550", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "te if one Clause is found to take more than a morning. [ Interruption. ] I am only asking hon. Gentlemen to put the matter in its right perspective. What has happened is that a great deal of time has been given here in Committee of the whole House, and many hon. Gentlemen have taken the opportunity of making speeches of a length they would never have dreamed of had they been in Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "½ hours has been allotted for a certain part of the Bill, half an hour or three-quarters of an hour is a very considerable portion of that period. Surely we can be informed whether these statements will be made. I take it that the business statement will be made. Are we to have a statement on agricultural prices which will eat further into this part of the time-table? Can we have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.561.5", "colnum": "561", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "which to discuss these matters. Let me further remind him that, if there are any new Clauses to be considered at that stage, they must be taken before the Amendments, and those new Clauses would eat further into the time which would be available for Amendments during the Report stage. In my submission, in the interests of the House, it would be better—Does the Prime Minister want to interrupt me?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.561.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.607.6", "colnum": "607", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "If I may refer by way of illustration, to the sort of topics which remain unexplored and undiscussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.607.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which Amendment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " not called, and I submit that the issue being precisely the same—for extra time on the Report stage as on the Committee stage—then if it was legitimate to talk on the previous occasion in justification of sufficient time, then it is in order to do so now. We moved an Amendment; it was debated and after five hours, the Closure having been moved, it was voted down. What happened to that Amendment?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By making a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "st Nine o'clock on that day. Let us analyse this matter of time. We start probably at five o'clock and give an hour to a Front Bench speech. From 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. there will be points of order. From 6.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. there will be questions of \"Further to\" these points of order. There will be another hour taken up by another Front Bench speaker. Where does an hon. Member, like myself, get in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "preceding_text": "nd you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, and the House that this Bill deals not only with the National Health Service Act for England and Wales but with the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, too. It is for that reason that we are pressing for more time on Report stage. The Leader of the House, and many of his hon. Friends behind him, have accused certain hon. Friends of mine of wasting time in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": " move, in line 21, after \"Order,\" to insert: ( b ) On any allotted day upon which Consideration of the Bill is not entered upon by half-past Three o'clock, there shall be added to any times specified in this Order a time equivalent to the time which elapsed between half-past Three o'clock and the time at which Consideration of the Bill was entered upon. I hope that this Amendment will be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "at this Amendment will be accepted. [ Laughter. ] Yes, because it is designed to prevent one of these petty little meannesses which the Minister of Health generally sees fit to inflict, rather like the Patronage Secretary who waited until my hon. Friend the Member for Kirkcaldy Burghs (Mr. Hubbard) was on his feet, knowing that he was a diabetic sufferer who had waited here all this time to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£52 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": " questions when he made his calculation that we should have 90 minutes. But it is a far more serious matter than that. What neither right hon. Gentleman has dared to disclose to the House—I challenge them to discuss it now—is that they have set down a long statement to be made in the House to-morrow. They know that there is a statement to be made in regard, I think, to the spending of £62 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "t, but they are giving away £52 million. That is all right; but when it comes to a question of whether we ought to take a few hundred pounds from people in need of surgical boots or something of that sort, then time must be taken away so that we cannot discuss it. How is the House to conduct its business? Is it to be carried on in this sort of way? Do we not even have the Leader of the House here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": " He agreed to this being put down. Where is the Foreign Secretary, with the 90 minutes that he thought sufficient to discuss these matters? Now they are all to be taken away for something else. Since this is so, or if it is to be so, they ought to come forward honestly and say so. This really is not the sort of way in which the business of this House should be conducted. We have had a lot of talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "Give them three years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Start again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "Give them three years? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No. You.\"] It may be so. I am not going to be one who is going to assess the loss of life, or loss of expectation of life by various people—by the sufferers from tuberculosis, for example. I think hon. Gentlemen opposite exaggerate when they say three years. Perhaps some of those sick will take only six months to die. Now I see that we have got a full House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "hing; let us work together with the doctors who do well out of the sufferings of others. Let us see if we can wreck the Health Service altogether.\" That seems to be the attitude of hon. Members opposite. They say \"Let us not give any time at all for discussion. Let us spend it all on statements.\" Can we not have from the Leader of the House an account of how many statements it is proposed to make?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "The figures I want to quote are to this end and to show that hon. Members opposite are more ready to take up the time of the House at the beginning of the day than they are at the end. If I can give one or two figures I think, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I can satisfy you on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.642.4", "colnum": "642", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And wasted more time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " we would have 90 minutes to discuss the rest of Clause 1. We have to remember what happened earlier in this Sitting. We did not have a statement, but we did have a Private Notice Question, and from a rather unpremeditated reply from the Minister for Colonial Affairs the proceedings dragged on, eventually leading to a Motion for the adjournment of the House on a matter of urgent public importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.642.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.642.4", "colnum": "642", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a replay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "er, the results of which he passed on to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who assured us we should have 90 minutes, which I do not think is adequate, nor would anyone on the opposite side agree that was a generous allocation of time. A football match is decided in 90 minutes, but if there is not a satisfactory conclusion at the end of that time one gets extra time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.642.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s nonsense of his proposal that the House should have a certain amount of time on the Bill. Surely the poor should not be brought into competition with the farmers? The House should see that cripples are not brought into competition with the farmers. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman who has made no concession at all at any point will make this very small concession one which we cannot exploit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " back into the 80's were cited for a time-table Motion. It really does not do any good to exaggerate matters in that way. However, we are on the small Amendment about whether or not any time lost at our next Sitting—if any time were lost—should be made up in some other way. The first thing I would point out is that no saving clause of this kind has ever, in fact, appeared in any time-table Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "It is quite true that it is normal for a business statement to be made on Thursdays, but it does not necessarily follow that much time need be spent upon that. It really very much lies in the hands of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "t can be done. Sometimes, of course, a statement is an agreed statement and has to be coincided—if I may use the expression. Supposing there were a Foreign Office statement tomorrow. I have no knowledge of one, but one does know that it is impossible sometimes to change an arrangement to make a statement. I shall do my best to try to see that no statement will be made tomorrow—if that can be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "nowledge of one, but one does know that it is impossible sometimes to change an arrangement to make a statement. I shall do my best to try to see that no statement will be made tomorrow—if that can be done. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Today.\"] I beg pardon. It is today. I apologise. I had forgotten how long we have been here. We all want to do our best to assist the business tomorrow, to get the maximum time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "iscuss the Amendment on the Order Paper, and it would not help the right hon. Gentleman, because the word \"Consideration\" with a capital \"C\" refers to the Report stage, and that will not be today. In Parliamentary language, that refers to the Report stage. If the right hon. Gentleman means the Committee stage, he means to use a small \"c,\" and I have been trying to find a way out of the difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "e now concerned should be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the Standing Order on Sittings of the House. If \"this day\" means Wednesday, that would mean that we should have ceased sitting at midnight and should have no business to be sitting here now. But the fact that we are sitting here still, means that the proper interpretation of \"this day\" is such that we are still in Wednesday's Sitting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-23", "file": "debates1952-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d5d47dd6c32f0fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL (TIME-TABLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, to leave out lines 22 to 29. This Amendment is, I hope, not a very contentious one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-23a.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.702.9", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the local education authorities have now laid down that these six schools with four teachers shall have their staffs reduced to three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.702.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That was afterwards.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Hurd", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I distinctly heard you say that the statement was to be made in answer to Question 57, in my name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.728.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.733.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Webb", "preceding_text": "the House wants to know and is entitled to know, and which certainly the housewives of this country are entitled to know: how much does this mean in terms of the food prices? Will some Minister on the Front Bench opposite tell us exactly how much the prices of the foodstuffs—the meat and the milk and the bread—will go up to the housewives as a result of this arrangement? That is a simple question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it roughly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think that, on reflection, the House will agree that it is absolutely impossible to assess exactly what it will mean in retail figures and prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.734.5", "colnum": "734", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "The White Paper will give all the information which is available to my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.742.7", "colnum": "742", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "But may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he knows what the Motion is going to be? It was not unusual for the previous Government to give advance information to the House on the terms of Motions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.742.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I leave that to the right hon. Gentleman who made the speech. It was he who referred to the charge he was about to impose by Regulation. I am anxious not to take up the time of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.760.2", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Fort", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Fort", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the Committee for more than two minutes, but I am sure it is the feeling of every hon. Member here that, working, as we are, under the Guillotine, we should now, at this stage, take note of real Committee points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "diet was followed by an improvement both in the structure and in the resistance of the teeth. The danger that we have all seen is the danger of the falling off of the school dental service. It is true that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) takes a contrary view. He says that the schoolchildren were being looked after by—were being merged into—the general dental service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.794.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.811.11", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " £1 and then the patient pay all above it? That is the argument between us, but we must not overlook the fact that we are concerned here, quite apart from the important aspect of the priority classes, the conservative work and the purely dental side, to assist—I am sorry to say this again because I know how it irritates hon. Members opposite—in the recovery of our financial and economic situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.811.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I am trying to deal with the Amendment of the right hon. Gentleman opposite to the effect that the first £1 should be free. I am saying, in reply, that there would be a strong inducement for people continuously to try to have treatment which did not exceed £1 every time they went for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "s matter, but by arranging the charges as we propose, we hope to achieve the priorities which the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) referred to long ago and which have been mentioned by my hon. Friend. That is the issue between us. If it is true that some form of charge would act as an incentive for a better dental service, as the figures about the Scottish situation may or may not show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.814.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We are moving upwards.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "e position is that since the charges for dental work were imposed, the number of school dentists has risen over the past year by 40. They now stand at under 900. In order to get an efficient school dental service we have been told that we need between 2,000 and 3,000 dentists. How long have we to wait? There is no proof that by the method proposed by the Government we shall get that establishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain MacLeod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain MacLeod", "preceding_text": "lear up the point which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Greenock (Mr. McNeil) has in mind. As the right hon. Gentleman and the ex-Minister of Health know, this point is practically identical with one that I urged on the Socialist Government upon the Second Reading of the Measure a year ago. I was the only person who raised the point and I was the first hon. Member to put down an Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "we are not masters of the economic situation and so on? It does not mean any more than that the future is rather uncertain, to put it mildly, as it was in the time of the right hon. Gentleman. After all, we have to remember that there were three major financial crises during the occupancy of the Government by right hon. Gentlemen opposite. It is the dreadful situation which they left us to tackle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-24", "file": "debates1952-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2547f5103795481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.880.4", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (LORD MANCROFT'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "No, I am seeking your guidance, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, because I want your protection, and the protection of all hon. Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-24a.880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-25", "file": "debates1952-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "83c592fc8887578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.891.8", "colnum": "891", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (LORD MANCROFT'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And at night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": " whose name has been bandied about in this way. Clearly it affects every one of us, and I think it is a grave reflection upon the work of this House to suggest, for example, that the Minister of Health, instead of pursuing his considerations of the Health Bill, was larking about in the Division Lobbies with the hon. Lady his Parliamentary Secretary, the Member for Chislehurst (Miss Hornsby-Smith).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.891.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-25", "file": "debates1952-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "83c592fc8887578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (LORD MANCROFT'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "Though I say it reluctantly, there is one sentence which was uttered by the Leader of the House from which I should like to dissociate myself completely. In the first place, the noble Lord has made an apology which is almost too ample.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-25", "file": "debates1952-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "83c592fc8887578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.895.3", "colnum": "895", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (LORD MANCROFT'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep quiet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member ashamed of the Empire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-25", "file": "debates1952-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "83c592fc8887578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (LORD MANCROFT'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "inclined to treat seriously and with dignity a difficult situation and it was spoiled as it has been by the speech we have just heard. I speak with some admiration of the fact that the right hon. and gallant Member for Kelvingrove (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot) has shown a sense of the importance that ought to be attached to the matter that my hon. Friend has raised. I am speaking under the influence of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.896.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-25", "file": "debates1952-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "83c592fc8887578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (LORD MANCROFT'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "ess to listen to the appeal made by the Leader of the House. I must remind the Leader of the House that last night he did not look at all in the way in which he is looking at the present moment. He has looked very serious this morning, but not so last night. He and his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister then appeared to be treating the matter as a huge joke, as it was by many other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-25a.896.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1003.8", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL STOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The other way round.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "It is 24 cwt. during the six summer months in the south, and 20 cwt. in the north.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1003.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1018.5", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL SECRETARY (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend informs me that his reference to stocks was to stocks of unrationed foods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1018.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "preceding_text": "great and undue hardship to a large section of our fellow citizens. A glance at the provisions of the scheme outside London shows how fully justified was that view. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite will have some time today to declare whether they believe that that view was not justified or whether it was justified. We await with interest to hear these declarations, individual or collective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "preceding_text": " in these classes of case that some of the most acute hardships arise. The scheme also leaves the Commission free to abolish all concession fares, subject again to a maximum increase of 42 per cent. In a number of cases increases of this order would actually occur. These include anglers, commercial travellers, members of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, members of the Mercantile Marine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "When I was a boy at school, I had great difficulty in defining a tangent. Since the hon. Member has asked me that question, I shall have no difficulty in the future; I shall merely say that it was shown in a question put to me by the hon. Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish). The hon. Member knows very well that we are discussing fares today. However attractive that subject may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "r debater, if he will allow me to say so, to look at the way in which the Question was put? The Question asked about directions to ensure— … that this burden is evenly shared in all sections of the country.\"—[OFFCIAL REPORT, 17th March, 1952; Vol. 497, c. 1919.] The Minister clearly did not mean that he had no powers, but that he must use them after due consideration, not only of his legal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I have already explained—and I challenge anyone, reading the Questions as a whole, to take any other view—that on 10th March my hon. Friend was dealing with the normal functioning of the Act and not with the over-riding provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hand the railways back.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "rest on the relevant Transport Stock. No doubt we shall be assured by the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison), that prosperity in transport is just round the corner. According to him, it always is, but the results so far show that we shall not deprive the Commission of a goldmine by de-nationalising road transport. On the contrary, we are conferring a financial benefit on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1040.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1041.9", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it correct for the Minister to confuse the House by treating, in his analysis of road haulage finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1041.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1041.11", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": " the Amendment rashly calls attention. There is one other aspect which we must always bear in mind, for the sake of the railways, as for everyone else. Apart from the vehicles of the Road Haulage Executive, there are 120,000 vehicles operating on short distance owned by A and B licence holders and nearly 800,000 by C licence holders; and the C licence holders carry the licence-holders' goods only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1041.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "tical and as tactical as the decision of the Government which is under debate. That decision was political. It had electoral considerations behind it, and the speech of the right hon. and learned Gentleman had similar electoral and political considerations behind it. It was not the speech of a great lawyer advocating a serious case. It was the speech of a partisan trying to score political points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "my sympathy is with him all the more. I earnestly hope that his worries may be relieved and that he may soon be fully recovered. I will relieve the Home Secretary right away by telling him that his invitation to us and his fervent enthusiasm that we should go into the Lobby against the Government's decision is doomed to disappointment. We are not going into the Lobby against the Government Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1046.7", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s what we are doing this afternoon. I wish to ask the Prime Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport this direct and pertinent question. Did the Minister, or did he not, consult, as the Section requires, the Transport Commission before he made his direction, and if he did when did he do so, and will he produce any correspondence between the Minister and the Commission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1046.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "In our time, we did our best and achieved considerable success in keeping a check on the rising cost of living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "whatsoever. In other words, the Socialist Party have completely abandoned their concept of democracy in relation to economic matters. They stand for the nationalisation of everything. And it will be no use having a Parliament when everything is nationalised because Parliament will have nothing to do. That is exactly what has happened in Russia, and at the end of their street is the Russian system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "hought his idea was a very bad one and that it was deplorable that he should seek to turn this organisation into a monopoly. I was in some difficulty, because my own town council wanted the Bill to go through since they were losing £20,000 a year on their trams. I took no notice of the town council; I opposed the Bill in the interests of the travelling public. We have got a dull, incompetent body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " Her Majesty's Government, the whole organisation of London transport will be seriously examined. I think it is deplorably bad today. The consideration on the part of the staff is less than it was. I use buses to a certain extent, and if I approach a bus which is about to start I run into the roadway in order that the driver may see me and I give a signal, but it makes no difference. He drives on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rails.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that reinforced concrete sleepers have been used for donkey's years in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Hargreaves) will read my speech in HANSARD tomorrow, he will find it recorded that I said \"for the most part.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1085.5", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "the well-established principle of workmen's fares. Historically, it is very interesting to see how workmen's fares came into operation. Public opinion felt very strongly that those workers who were displaced from their homes through the driving of the railways through big cities, especially London, should, as a quid pro quo for being dispossessed from their homes, he given cheap travel facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1085.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I have always said that it is only right that the railways should run road transport in that connection, but they used to complain that they had not the power to do so. I could never understand why they did not come to the House and ask for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So has the stage coach.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "preceding_text": "e London Transport area. I wonder how many hon. Members have seen the splendid Green Line buses which are available for their transport? I doubt whether during the last five or six years it was necessary to provide new and such expensive buses for the people of London. One reason why the tram was invented was because it was a good, cheap and effective form of public transport. The trams have gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen McAdden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen McAdden", "preceding_text": "he first increase that has taken place. There was an application by the Transport Commission to the Tribunal in 1950, as the result of which a very substantial increase in fares took place. I cannot remember a single Member opposite rising in his place to demand that the Minister of Transport should do something about it. Indeed, the then Minister of Transport, the hon. Member for East Ham, North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "edly less than the normal standard charge, but the railways have made and continue to make a very substantial profit on them. Yet they will, if they continue on these lines, turn this profit-making venture into a loss-making venture by so increasing the prices that people will now move away from the constituency which I have the honour to represent in order to be nearer their places of employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which class?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "eir interests when they happen to be in opposition and forget them when they are the Government. As an instance of what is happening and to show that fares have not only been increased recently, prior to 1950 the cost to a working man—there are 20,000 people who travel on that line daily, and they cannot all be wealthy stockbrokers, some are working men—of a quarterly season ticket was £9 12s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "During the war.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Did not the speech from the right hon. Member for East Ham, South (Mr. Barnes), prove that the railways were paying before the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And of steel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "m, which took a great deal of time from April, 1951, when the scheme was put forward, until December, when the hearings were finally concluded before the Tribunal. In the other nationalised industries there is as serious a situation, though it is almost more difficult to do anything about them. We have had tremendous increases in the price of coal, in the price of gas, in the price of electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "he hearings were finally concluded before the Tribunal. In the other nationalised industries there is as serious a situation, though it is almost more difficult to do anything about them. We have had tremendous increases in the price of coal, in the price of gas, in the price of electricity. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And of steel.\"] Not as much as in these other things which affect the consumer much more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourpenny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "ave taken a great deal of action in one way or another. I have done my best to appear before the Transport Tribunal to speak for certain sections of the people. I am making this speech now, and I have done a great deal in other directions as well. The hon. and gallant Member for Brixton (Lieut.-Colonel Lipton), whose constituency, I believe, is about a twopenny bus ride from here, or a threepenny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Manchester.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "d I have done a great deal in other directions as well. The hon. and gallant Member for Brixton (Lieut.-Colonel Lipton), whose constituency, I believe, is about a twopenny bus ride from here, or a threepenny—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourpenny.\"] A fourpenny ride now? Well, the hon. and gallant Gentleman is very lucky to be able to get to his constituency for 4d. I cannot get to Heston and Isleworth for 4d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Morris", "preceding_text": " in the same speech as he said that there were no fewer than 800,000 C licences, apart from the A and B licences. What sort of monopoly that can be, I cannot imagine. The Prime Minister, replying to a question after his statement on Monday last, suggested that the difficulties confronting the British Transport Commission are due to nationalisation and the implementation of the Transport Act, 1947.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Freda Corbet", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Freda Corbet", "preceding_text": "tion it appears that the basis on which the figures given to us were calculated included in London the road and the rail services but outside London included only the rail services. We are well aware that road fares outside London have not increased to the same extent as they have done inside London. In fact a number of undertakings have, I understand, made no increase at all until this past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was not the Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbet", "preceding_text": "me kind or other to review the whole position. We are also worried about what would appear to be sheer ineptitude on the part of the Minister. It is all very well to make some increase in charges, but to couple this increase with the reorganisation of the fare stages and to present people with such an enormous jump in their fares was something less than tactful. It resulted in showers of protests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "interest burden of some £35 million, so that it runs at a loss, although it is making a profit. Many economies have been made, and it is no use hon. Members trying to decry those economies. Since 1948 the railways alone have made economies in train-mile working representing some £35 million to £40 million a year, which could never have been possible under private enterprise competing as companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "tions such as the one we are debating today are not unconnected with their political prejudices, and I do not think that the people in the country will get out of their minds that there may be something between the protestations of the Conservative Party about nationalisation and the actions they are taking to make it more difficult for the nationalised industries to survive. My last word is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1150.5", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "d a half million pounds is the amount of the increase the Government does not dispute. I wish to ask the very simple question, and perhaps the Parliamentary Secretary can tell me, as the Home Secretary cannot, why is that figure not to be held up now and why did they propose to increase those fares in accordance with the decision of the Transport Tribunal? It is, I think, simple, and plain enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I was treating the question of correspondence as a separate question and was coming to it immediately. There were conversations—there was no correspondence—between the Chairman of the British Transport Commission and my hon. Friend the Minister. Conversations took place on more than one occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "These conversations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1163.5", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ully dealt with at that time. May I come to what I believe was the most important feature of this debate, which has revealed the views of people all over the country on this topic. It would be, I think, a great mistake if this important occasion were to pass without some attempt to relate the cause and the effect. It has been agreed that something has gone wrong with the machinery of the 1947 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1163.5", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "TRANSPORT FARE INCREASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "one has found the key and the grisly remains are displayed for all to see. In my view, the right hon. Gentleman was motivated by two slogans with which he placarded the hoardings of the South and East Coast resorts during the time when he was Home Secretary and the country was in great danger. The first said, \"Go while the going is good,\" and the second, \"Spend your holidays at Home.\" My point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-28", "file": "debates1952-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "230f51642a8fbc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "f my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg). If I remember rightly, the interjection was, \"You had six years in which to do it.\" The Amendment which we are discussing is part of a scheme which will make it possible for us to undertake a thoroughgoing reform of the Army Act, and the point of the interjection was to suggest that such a reform might have been carried out by the late Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-28a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1198.5", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tilney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tilney", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that his decision will be received with great satisfaction by many people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1198.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1215.7", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. and gallant Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1215.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1215.7", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "ve always been friends; it is very difficult to look upon him otherwise. I ask that the hon. and gallant Gentleman will give certificates issued for senility. In view of the large number—22,000, of whom over 40 per cent. are people over 60 years of age—is it too much to ask for an additional certificate of senility? I have certificates here. They are for lunatics, idiots, and the mentally unsound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1215.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1226.8", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ARREST, ITALY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "policeman who was seriously injured in the incident and who is the principal witness for the prosecution. Under Italian procedure, the presence in court of this witness is essential. Although the efforts of Her Majesty's Consul-General to induce the Italian authorities to waive this requirement have so far failed, I am informed that the charge has now been reduced to one of assault without injury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1226.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "If that is the only explanation which the right hon. Gentleman has of the matter, then it appears to me to be a very flimsy and unsubstantial reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1278.3", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Maybe it was because of the war, but it was dropped. It was only revived again in 1950, and by the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia—the White Paper says so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1278.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear it. It means that the power is reserved here. Ordinarily, when we set up a new constitution we do exactly what was done in regard to South Africa. We can see what has happened in one part of the area which is supposed to come within the federation. I have only one or two more things to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILES (PURCHASE TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "t trade if there is a good home market to support it. To remind the House of what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said on the subject I would quote these words that he used, so wise were they: Can we suppose that a fertile and healthy export trade can be maintained except with the overspill of a very much larger domestic trade? These are two good reasons why Purchase Tax should be removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILES (PURCHASE TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yorkshire was mentioned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " the fact—not as one might have thought when listening to some of the speeches today—that this is not a sudden bolt from the blue which has fallen upon both the Lancashire textile trade, which has been mentioned, and also the Yorkshire textile trade, which has not. I was born in that county, and I rather resented that it had received no mention so far as I could recall in the course of our debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1376.2", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED SCALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "that there are abuses. It is easy to talk about them, but difficult to know what to do. If the money of a man who has refused to work is cut, his wife is injured. This is a difficult matter to solve. Then there is the fellow who pretends he has lost the money paid to him and goes back for more. It would be possible to examine the question of giving relief in kind instead of money in certain cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-29", "file": "debates1952-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f74031eb32a8184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT PRODUCTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to detain the House very long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-29a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "In asking a supplementary question, may I, on behalf of the whole House, be allowed to congratulate my hon. Friend upon his appointment as Parliamentary Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Scottish Civil Aviation Advisory Council have been considering this question for a number of years? We have got no further towards a solution of this problem of replacement and even the Heron, which is a possible replacement type on some of these services, is not suitable for places such as Barra. Can the hon. Gentleman give some assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The right hon. and gallant Gentleman has not started yet.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is the last one who should make an observation like that. As a matter of fact the last negotiations took over a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1445.6", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, we have taken steps to alleviate some of the hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1445.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "By encouraging economy in the consumption of petrol and oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ur of the tax in the last two years, I would say that that was the main consideration. I still have the advantage over hon. Members opposite that at least I had the grace to keep my mouth shut and I am not on record to be quoted. Everyone knows that the petrol tax is inflationary in its incidence. If a tax is put on cigarettes or a bottle of whisky—that may interest hon. Members opposite far more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "re than that—the tax on petrol was a contribution towards the sacred cow of the Socialists, British Railways, and an attempt to drive traffic off the roads. That was the sort of contribution we had then. It is not only a matter affecting London with which we are concerned, but a matter applying all over the country. There are so many pages of quotations I could use, but I am trying to hurry along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1510.1", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What you did last year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ecause someone has to pay for those increases in the long run, and they will fall not only on fares, but on foodstuffs and similar things. If the hon. Baronet the Member for Handsworth (Sir E. Boyle) wants all the quotations in a compressed form, he need only read my speech on the Second Reading of the Finance Bill. What are hon. Members going to do tonight? Presumably they will go into the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1540.0", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "result of the rise in interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1548.0", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Christopher Peto", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One hundred and forty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Christopher Peto", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman sits down may I ask him a question? He was rather evasive about his arithmetic, but I understood him to say that £57 is the maintenance allowance for a car and that it travels roughly 150 miles a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "A tricycle.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Christopher Peto", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman sits down may I ask him a question? He was rather evasive about his arithmetic, but I understood him to say that £57 is the maintenance allowance for a car and that it travels roughly 150 miles a week. [An HON. MEMBER: \"One hundred and forty.\"] The hon. Gentleman said it would use about two gallons a week, which comes to £25 a year approximately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1562.3", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. A. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. A. Pargiter", "preceding_text": " even after the tax is no longer there, because it increases the capital costs, the interest costs, and so on. I imagine that the Government do not want to do something of this nature which will have a fairly permanent effect. I can understand them saying, \"We want some more money; we will put a penny on a pint of beer.\" One drinks the beer and that is the end of it. There is no subsequent effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1562.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-04-30", "file": "debates1952-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "35495c39b9c4169d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about last year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "rris) would have moved him because, as in his case, I am particularly concerned with one of the dye works. So far as the hon. Gentleman is concerned it is a case of now or never. If the hon. Member will go into the Lobby against the Government on this issue, he would be surprised at the success that would attend his future efforts on this Bill, because it would indicate that he means what he says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-04-30a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1630.2", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Since the debate that we had last night is not yet reported in HANSARD and many hon. Members will, therefore, not know what was said, unless they go to the Library to look up the typescript—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Gentleman say whether his attention has been called to the Motion on the Order Paper on the subject of collective punishment in Malaya, signed by 131 hon. Members on this side of the House, and to the two Amendments to it, signed by 138 hon. Members on the other side of the House? Since this means that nearly 270 hon. Members on both sides of the House want to discuss this subject on an early day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1662.8", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": " that Motion, which is a corollary of the duty to accept the decision of the Chair, should be completely nullified by failure to find time for such a Motion to be debated, when, in fact, it has been put down. This must be at least as embarrassing to you, Sir, as to the House of Commons itself. There are two complications, and I hope that hon. Members opposite will be a little indulgent about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1662.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1664.4", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " been given very grave consideration. I recognise that it affects the House as a whole, the position of the hon. Member concerned, and, of course, the position of Mr. Speaker. I did not think it was possible to afford time for this Motion now, because I had hoped that, perhaps, having put the Motion on the Order Paper, second thoughts might have occurred to the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1664.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. C. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. C. Manuel", "preceding_text": "er should tell the House how this has happened and what directive has been issued from his Department anticipating an Act of Parliament. Or does he not believe any longer in democracy? Does he believe that directives should be issued anticipating what is going to happen in an Act of Parliament—issued at a time when the Measure is still a Bill before the House? Surely such action is entirely wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or longer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": " not may be merely a matter of chance. If an individual who develops tuberculosis happens to live in Stepney, he will be able within a few days to get into St. Georges-in-the-East Hospital, where there are tuberculosis wards, because there is practically no waiting list, and the treatment will cost him nothing. If he lives in some other part of the country, he may have to wait four or five months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Commander T. D. Galbraith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Commander T. D. Galbraith)", "preceding_text": "anxiety, those hon. Members who have spoken in support of this Amendment have in some measure exaggerated their case, because it is the fact that the treatment of tuberculosis is undertaken to far the greater extent either in hospitals or in clinics, and that the proportion who receive medicine which is prescribed, and will therefore be subject to the 1s. charge, is really a very small proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Where the treatment is given in the clinic, he will not have to pay for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If he is an out-patient.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Where the treatment is given in the clinic, he will not have to pay for it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Where it is a case of getting a prescription, the shilling charge will be payable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1702.5", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I rather think that in such a case application would be made to the Assistance Board prior to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1702.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1702.6", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "In anticipation?", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I rather think that in such a case application would be made to the Assistance Board prior to that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sympathy is not enough\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "—as anyone in this House. I have shown my interest in it since I assumed the office which I hold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1703.3", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not understand it now\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "When this Bill becomes an Act and the position is really understood by the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1747.0", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman's last words called attention to the fact that my name had not been added to the Amendment, it will not surprise him when he hears from me that I do not advise the House to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1747.0", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman's last words called attention to the fact that my name had not been added to the Amendment, it will not surprise him when he hears from me that I do not advise the House to accept it. [ Interruption. ] In spite of the clicking noises being made by the hon. Member for Leicester, North-West (Mr. Janner)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "s. prescription is all that is involved. Here we have an Amendment suggesting a reduction in the fine to £20 and the abolition of imprisonment, and yet hon. Members opposite, through the Minister, oppose it. I wish to utter my most emphatic and sincere protest against the absolute heartlessness of hon. Members opposite in regard to the welfare of a class which I am proud to represent in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "n in the fine to £20 and the abolition of imprisonment, and yet hon. Members opposite, through the Minister, oppose it. I wish to utter my most emphatic and sincere protest against the absolute heartlessness of hon. Members opposite in regard to the welfare of a class which I am proud to represent in the House. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members will laugh on the other side of their faces before long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1773.0", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1779.2", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I am contending for the principle on which the Bill is based, and which, until 20 minutes ago, was common ground between the two Front Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1779.4", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "It would have been perfectly easy for the right hon. Gentleman in criticising this Bill, and it would have been the most potent and complete criticism, to deny from the outset that the ceiling ought to be maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-01", "file": "debates1952-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "8f4f98ecf52420e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UTILITY SCHEME (REVOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": " would be launched suddenly upon an unsuspecting community, is not borne out too readily by the facts. It is possible in most textiles, at any rate, to see whether the goods are bad. It is true that in furniture it is quite easy to conceal a perfectly awful frame by some, perhaps, quite acceptable upholstery, but in most textile goods the value is more or less apparent to the eye and to the touch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-01a.1793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-02", "file": "debates1952-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "158543970c62b441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-02a.1842.0", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION RATES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "We have to determine who is to pay. We are all sympathetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-02a.1842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-02", "file": "debates1952-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "158543970c62b441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-02a.1843.1", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION RATES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "hetic as anyone in the case of the class of person who has been gravely injured by the increased cost of living, although such persons are not limited to injured coal miners. There are masses of people who worked hard and built up small savings and who are now living lives of acute poverty. One hopeful feature about the situation is that there is every indication that the cost of living will fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-02a.1843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-02", "file": "debates1952-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "158543970c62b441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-02a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "This young man was offered, in insurance offices in the City of Glasgow, the sum of £9 in settlement. Unfortunately, he was not accompanied by a trade union official to advise him and he accepted. Of course, if he had sought the advice of the trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-02a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-02", "file": "debates1952-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "158543970c62b441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-02a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "N.A.T.O. POWERS (PARTNERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Leather", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Dominions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Leather", "preceding_text": ", must be a prior consideration, and on that we are almost entirely agreed. The same fact applies to all the Western nations. I know that many hon. Members in the House are afraid of an idea which they interpret as being a sort of exclusive Anglo-American alliance, but surely no fact in history has ever been more clear than that the peace of the world depends on this country and the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-02a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-05", "file": "debates1952-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e039e7d80256c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.7.7", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I should not like to make detailed comments on a particular case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.7.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-05", "file": "debates1952-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e039e7d80256c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.23.8", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer. The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is unable to tell us whether it is a fact that £12 million more is being paid by the London travelling public, will his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.23.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-05", "file": "debates1952-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e039e7d80256c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN MEMBERS: \"Have changed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-05", "file": "debates1952-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e039e7d80256c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.70.2", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan McKibbin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan McKibbin", "preceding_text": "the full cost of local services. We are therefore paying our way and are not poor relations living on the bounty of Great Britain. The danger of losing these many benefits by integration in an Irish Republic whose social services are far inferior to those of Northern Ireland and, in some cases, non-existent is one of the principal reasons why the shrewd Ulster Worker votes Unionist and not Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.70.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-05", "file": "debates1952-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e039e7d80256c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1942.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " security means security of income up to a minimum, but the provision of an income should be associated with treatment designed to bring the interruption of earnings to an end as soon as possible. That is the basis on which Lord Beveridge constructed his great scheme. Unfortunately, he never for one moment contemplated the tremendous financial and economic changes that have taken place since 1842—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-05", "file": "debates1952-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e039e7d80256c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that, and if, in the melancholy event of a Labour Government coming back to power and the hon. Member remaining in the House, we shall look forward to hearing his strictures upon his right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-05", "file": "debates1952-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e039e7d80256c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.93.2", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "nnot see how we are going to help ourselves get out of this vicious circle of the larger and larger diversion of resources to the elderly by extending family allowances to the first child. I could argue this for a very long time, but I will try to be as brief as possible. First of all, obviously by definition one can say that anybody who is going to have children at all is going to have one child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.93.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-05", "file": "debates1952-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e039e7d80256c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Or the same size.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "What if the second child is not of the same sex?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-05", "file": "debates1952-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e039e7d80256c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ding spirit to destroy the principle of details and to put in its place the general desire of the community to be helpful to its most stricken members. Although some jeer at that as a piece of hopeless altruism, it is the thing of which we on these benches are most proud, and it is on the basis of that accomplishment that I make my complaint, although I certainly will not vote against the Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-05a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "CO-ORDINATING MINISTERS (RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not, I believe, served in any Cabinet so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "CO-ORDINATING MINISTERS (RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have the greatest confidence in Lord Woolton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "CO-ORDINATING MINISTERS (RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Government was precisely the policy followed by him when he was Prime Minister, by which exactly the same rules were laid down with regard to the chairmanship of the Committees and the responsibility of Ministers? It is not a new policy; it has always been the policy. May I ask him one other question? He said he had confidence in Lord Woolton. Was it as Lord President or as organiser of elections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "CO-ORDINATING MINISTERS (RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d Woolton grew up in the days when the Leader of the Opposition and I watched with admiration his conduct of our food supplies during the whole of the war. He had, up till the end of the war, not taken any part in party politics. My confidence in him was not at all diminished when, confronted with the dismal scene which closed our victory, he chose to associate himself with the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "BROADMOOR INSTITUTION (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were lucky to get out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Of course, the phrase \"visiting Broadmoor\" is liable to misunderstanding, but assuming that what my hon. and gallant Friend means is whether anybody has inspected it, it so happens that I did that six weeks ago myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " make so much of that kind of thing. It is not well known that the Football Association rules fix a maximum dividend of 7½ per cent. before tax, and that all other income is used in the game. Some clubs have not paid a dividend for years. A report of P.E.P. for 1951 stated that the clubs of the Third Division have to follow a hand-to-mouth policy of struggling for existence year after year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Newcastle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "far as I have done. The whole tax paid in the seasons 1950 and 1951 average £400,000 in respect of Association Football alone. If this increased tax is applied it will mean £1 million being paid—an increase in taxation of £600,000. Can that increase be justified? Will anyone stand at the Despatch Box and justify an increase in tax of that character? Last season, the country's finest football team—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the team?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "0,000 in respect of Association Football alone. If this increased tax is applied it will mean £1 million being paid—an increase in taxation of £600,000. Can that increase be justified? Will anyone stand at the Despatch Box and justify an increase in tax of that character? Last season, the country's finest football team—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Newcastle.\"]—which is now earning a large dollar income for us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "at there is absolutely no party feeling about it. Some hon. Members are acquainted more with one particular sport and some with another, but we are not divided, as we so often are, on party lines. I want to speak on one particular branch of sport, and I must at once declare my interest, because I represent a constituency which has a not altogether unknown football club called West Bromwich Albion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": " the summer months. That is happening now in many clubs. They are disposing of the services of players who in the ordinary way they would retain if they thought that they were not going to be faced with this increased tax. The aggregate of this tax for all clubs in the country based on the scales applied and the profits made on the turnover of last season was £400,000, and it will now be £700,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.248.3", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which side is the hon. Member on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "go on the 2s. side rather than sit with the directors, because there one gets a much better flavour to the game. Every hon. Member so far has said that the gravity of the position of the cricket clubs is so great that unless something is done they will go out of business. But the gravity of the position of cricket and football clubs is in no sense greater than the gravity of the nation as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": " as does the whole Committee, to the great work the cinema does in advertising National Savings, which the hon. Gentleman himself wishes to encourage. Surely this is one small way in which he could show his appreciation of the work which they do on his behalf. Those of us who patronise the cinemas know that they make appeals for Civil Defence. Through them millions of people learn about rationing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "proved by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise. On including those two clauses in their constitution, the All-England Netball Association found themselves in the position of being exempt. 10.0 p.m. I want to move on from that to the All-England Women's Hockey Association and to tell the Chancellor very proudly that this is a game that British women play better than any other women in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "privilege of sitting down in the ground. The hockey people had to pay on the 2s. and not on the additional ls. This greatly detracted from their revenue. We now come to the Women's Cricket Association. I do not know that I would be rash enough to say that the English women lead the world in cricket, but a good many of the women could show a good many of the men one or two useful things in cricket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-06", "file": "debates1952-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "050c442f17355683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We should get more good will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "mmonwealth. Like many other Members, I have been on a Commonwealth Parliamentary delegation of good will overseas, and I have also been in a football touring side. If we send out more sporting teams, particularly in football, to places like West Africa, we gain as much good will as we get in sending out the more orthodox delegations that we often send from the House of Commons to the Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-06a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-07", "file": "debates1952-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8740dee33467448b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.363.7", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is asking me to reveal the reply to a Note which cannot yet be made public. I can only say that we certainly do not exclude the possibility of a Four-Power meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.363.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-07", "file": "debates1952-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8740dee33467448b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.363.7", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is asking me to reveal the reply to a Note which cannot yet be made public. I can only say that we certainly do not exclude the possibility of a Four-Power meeting—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Good.\"]—at the appropriate moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.363.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-07", "file": "debates1952-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8740dee33467448b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There were some.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Could the right hon. and learned Gentleman tell us what was his objection to sending observers to this Conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-07", "file": "debates1952-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8740dee33467448b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.386.4", "colnum": "386", "heading": "KOREAN TRUCE TALKS (REPATRIATION OF PRISONERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "r not. There are thousands of people in these conditions, who have genuine reasonable grounds to fear reprisals when they return home. They must not be sent back, but equally there are thousands of people who are genuinely afraid of being sent back owing to false reports and false propaganda and in some circumstances better standards of living where they are. There are certain things which we did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-07", "file": "debates1952-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8740dee33467448b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.386.4", "colnum": "386", "heading": "KOREAN TRUCE TALKS (REPATRIATION OF PRISONERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "ve genuine reasonable grounds to fear reprisals when they return home. They must not be sent back, but equally there are thousands of people who are genuinely afraid of being sent back owing to false reports and false propaganda and in some circumstances better standards of living where they are. There are certain things which we did—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] Then may I ask the Foreign Secretary", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-07", "file": "debates1952-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8740dee33467448b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "TRANSPORT WHITE PAPER (PRESS REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ivilege. It has always been understood that, whereas a document may be given to the Press for the purpose of predigestion, no references could be made to it until it was available in the Vote Office. That has always been the rule, so far as I remember, and whenever it has not been done points of order have been raised in the House and Mr. Speaker has usually said that it was a breach of Privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-07", "file": "debates1952-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8740dee33467448b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "CLOSURE (MR. SPEAKER'S ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member did not say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I did at that time disapprove of the action of my own party quite as strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-07", "file": "debates1952-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8740dee33467448b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must bear in mind that I am talking about the saving in foreign exchange. I am perfectly prepared to admit that the acreage which may have been ploughed up had this subsidy not been introduced would have yielded something, but it would not have made any great contribution to saving in foreign exchange, which is what I am discussing at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-07", "file": "debates1952-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8740dee33467448b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.445.4", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "t of pigs. The increase in our pig population during the last two years has been extremely gratifying and will surely be welcomed by hon. Members in all parts of the House. The precise figures are illuminating; they show that in December, 1950, the United Kingdom pig population was 2,715,000; by December, 1951, it had grown to 3,906,000; and the latest estimate is that it is approaching 4,250,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-07a.445.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.528.3", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that when there was a system of control there was no unemployment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": ">May I ask whether it is proposed to have a debate on the White Paper on transport policy, which is now available to hon. Members? It seems to me to be desirable, if only to make it known that this proposed policy cannot possibly last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.557.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "n is not finding time in accordance with the speech by the right hon. and learned Gentleman. The delegation is shortly to go to Strasbourg, and it seems to me that that promise of the Home Secretary should be carried out; or is it that that promise, together with the views of the Prime Minister oh the Council of Europe, have completely changed now that the right hon. Gentle. man is Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "These things are closely linked and could certainly be dealt with in Wednesday's debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman will find that his 90 per cent. relates to only that part of furniture production to which the Utility specifications apply. The whole criticism of the Douglas Committee is that that is not the whole of the industry. It may be 90 per cent. tax free in a limited part of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.610.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And National Debt.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "Is not my right hon. Friend aware of the immense defence burden on the community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "om that price upwards it will bear a tax. Even a pair of corsets at £1 will bear a tax. If housewives could see this Schedule they would be appalled at what confronted them. Doubtless the news will not burst on them until after all the municipal and county council elections are over. I should like to quote from a newspaper which is not even a Liberal one—it is definitely Tory—the \"Glasgow Herald.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "I am speaking for myself—and I am not suggesting that I am as good a businessman as the hon. Gentleman is, for that would be too much flattery for the hon. Gentleman, and one must not flatter—but these last six years have been more uncertain, more uneasy, than any year previous in the 40 years in which I have been engaged in business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "There are several answers to that. I said a moment ago that the right hon. Gentleman was a tricky politician, and he is showing it now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "preceding_text": "that it was a great tax in relation to the article mentioned. These interventions have shown me that I was wise in suggesting that particular cases should be dealt with under the relevant Schedules instead of in a debate on a Clause. I do not think the Committee will expect the Government to agree to a modification of this Clause as it now stands. It is obvious that we must go on with this scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": " suffer somewhat as the result of the Budget and who will not benefit from the concessions which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been able to make. Undoubtedly, they will look very closely at the new prices which they will have to pay for their clothing as the result of this tax. I do not think that the Minister of State for Economic Affairs was a very enthusiastic defender of these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.672.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Here is the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order, though it may be a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The Minister is not the only Member of the Committee who has had no refreshment for a long time. There are lots of people in Lancashire who have had no refreshment for many months, and there are some who will have no refreshment for many months to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " the Committee who has had no refreshment for a long time. There are lots of people in Lancashire who have had no refreshment for many months, and there are some who will have no refreshment for many months to come. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"] With every possible sympathy for the right hon. Gentleman, I think he could have delayed his refreshment at least for five minutes to hear one speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did the hon. Member say 'Slinking'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "y for the right hon. Gentleman, I think he could have delayed his refreshment at least for five minutes to hear one speech—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yours?\"] No, the speech of the hon. Gentleman behind me, the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond), who does not even belong to my party: but he could not even wait for that one speech before slinking out. The argument which he advanced to the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the hon. and gallant Member thought it worth while to intervene to make that point. I am not going to defend discourtesy on anybody's part, whether it is now or three years ago, but there is all the difference in the world between being present at the commencement of a debate and blowing in, blowing off and blowing out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rmanent cure for the difficulties or any permanent remedy. 9.45 p.m. We have to look elsewhere for permanent remedies. One of the things we complain of about the Government—it would be out of order to discuss it now——is that they have so far shown no sign whatever of any constructive thought at all about how this matter is to be dealt with. They do not know what the level of the industry is to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.683.5", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "(Louth): Does the hon. Gentleman think, and this is a serious question, that if Purchase Tax were taken off textiles it would materially increase their sales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.683.5", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "(Louth): Does the hon. Gentleman think, and this is a serious question, that if Purchase Tax were taken off textiles it would materially increase their sales? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] My own experience in one branch of textiles is that the cheaper stock is offered at the present time the less readiness there is on the part of the public to purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-08", "file": "debates1952-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e798caeb7ab5d5e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " textile industries has been discussed in the House on more than one occasion recently he would really not have been in any doubt about the attitude of the Opposition. As for his complaint that no Front Bench spokesman has so far taken part in the debate, it is perfectly within our rights, especially in a debate on Clause stand part, to wait until the Opposition Front Bench spokesman has finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-08a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-09", "file": "debates1952-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8d1b38aabcbdadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-09a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFAMATION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I was trying to point out that the law moves less slowly in England than in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-09a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Minister for that answer, may I put to him one or two points which, I am sure, must cause grave anxiety to hon. Members on both sides of the House and to parents in this country? Is he aware that since putting down this Question I have had information from other sources and that it seems to be quite a regular thing that lads who have done their National Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "It seemed to the Government—I think quite rightly—that public anxiety should be allayed at the earliest opportunity. The Easter holiday intervened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "CO-ORDINATING MINISTERS (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If any doubt existed in the end, in the very difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "t is one for which, quite frankly, the solution is far from easy. I certainly start with a good deal of sympathy both for the objects of this Amendment and for the considerations which were put forward in the very reasonable speech of the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Pannell), in moving the Amendment. He laid some weight, as did the hon. Lady the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "or nearly a year. I have often made the point that 70 per cent. of the industry in Macclesfield is connected with the manufacture of textiles. I am glad to say that the Government have helped in one way. A licence has been granted for a new industry, but we do not want too many new industries. We must protect our old industry, which is the manufacture of silk. There have been considerable exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "t us preserve this great industry. If it is left in the present position regarding taxation, it will become increasingly difficult to make sales and gradually the industry will have to close down. There is already less trade. I believe that the recession may be only temporary. I have had indications from industrialists that they can already see a brighter horizon with inquiries from abroad‖", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No assurances.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I have a better realisation of the position of the country than has the hon. Member. In asking leave to withdraw my Amendment I readily accept the assurances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.940.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "id—hon. Members will read it in HANSARD tomorrow—that the Government will watch this industry very carefully. I assure hon. Members that I shall watch it also and I shall raise this matter again, if necessary. But I feel much happier about the assurances the Financial Secretary gave than about what was said by his opposite number in the past few years. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "for the benefit of those who are not present to hear what I say. In regard to the selection of Amendments, as it has been suggested that there should be a wide discussion on the various groups, I feel it would be unwise to give any prior indication as to what Amendments may be selected. I think that is the position so far as I am concerned. Is it agreed that the group discussion should take place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": ". Member who has consulted anybody in the trade will appreciate that the D line in this classification has no reality at all. If hon. Members look at line 24, which refers to shorts, they will realise that this refers to cycling shorts, khaki shorts and white tennis shorts, and it also includes cord shorts—and cord shorts are very similar to cord trousers except that the bottoms have been cut off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.986.2", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "he Member for Rossendale (Mr. Anthony Greenwood). If the Chancellor had £17 million to give away, and if in any case the uncertainty was to prevail until tomorrow night, I think it would have been rather more courteous to the Committee, and certainly more satisfactory to this side of the Committee, if the Chancellor had waited to hear the case to be made on the various individual items and groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Assheton", "preceding_text": "It is only right that I should say, on behalf of some of us on this side of the Committee who have been giving the Chancellor a very great deal of trouble during recent weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS (TRANSPORT AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A sketch.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "s full liability will amount to possibly more than the £360,000 per annum as remuneration of the Company for its services, plus the further amount. I congratulate the Minister of Transport on the fact that at least the policy of transport for the Highlands and Islands merits about 15 pages in the Agreement. He managed to get the policy of transport for the whole country into about 2½ pages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-12", "file": "debates1952-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "565f25eed27d6e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS (TRANSPORT AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She has gone now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "delay the House unduly. To the points made by the noble Lord the Member for Inverness (Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton), I would reply that we all share his desire to make MacBrayne's both adequate and efficient; we are all agreed about that, and I assure him that anything which we can do to achieve those ends we shall do. I am sorry about the lady who was left standing on the quay at Loch Boisdale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-12a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1108.9", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister consider the matter seriously? There is a danger that our Service men in Korea may become forgotten men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1108.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Having known the right hon. and learned Gentleman's father in the old days, I am very glad to learn that he has got out of his difficulty all right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1111.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "boots and shoes. It was probably rather more than coincidence, or the common philosophy of distinguished Tories, that an Amendment appeared on the Paper in the name of the right hon. and gallant Member for Leicester, South-East, and other hon. Members suggesting that the Purchase Tax rate should be halved. As the right hon. and gallant Gentleman has just pointed out, it has in fact been Quartered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the Chancellor, but I had that very well in mind. Perhaps I did not express myself clearly. What I meant was the argument in the Douglas Committee Report that the home market must be maintained as a showroom, as it were, for the export trade. There is no more that I can say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "of the trade and Scottish consumers do not have exactly the same feelings. I represent a constituency which is probably traditionally better known for engineering and for what might be termed the \"spirit of Scotland\" and that brand of whisky that is \"still going strong.\" We have in Kilmarnock, however, a very important boot and shoe industry—the best in Scotland and, probably, the best in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "perly described as bootees, a most objectionable term but one which, I gather, one is compelled to use, even in legislation, if one wishes precisely to describe the article concerned. In looking at this matter my right hon. Friend came to the conclusion that the D for what we generically refer to as bootees was too low—in fact for all the articles in the bootees and boot category other than boots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1168.4", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman (Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "preceding_text": "Is not the Committee ready to come to a decision yet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "A great disadvantage of the Douglas Committee was that they knew nothing whatever about the boot and shoe trade; they were in hosiery a committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Mc Adden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Mc Adden", "preceding_text": "I do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Mc Adden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Mc Adden", "preceding_text": "I do not—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] I do not follow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1230.5", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "ing about and that he was relying on the figures of my hon. Friend to draw wrong conclusions, I am prepared to accept his withdrawal. If, in fact, it be true, as the right hon. Gentleman proceeded to argue, that there has been a two-thirds reduction in the rate of orders, I do not think it can be seriously contended that the whole of that reduction is exclusively due to the Chancellor's proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What legacy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " I did not reply to the thanks I have received for my so-called tributes to the late Administration offered by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay). I do not know whether it would help him if I added the tribute that I am certain the discussion we are having in this Committee would not be necessary if it had not been for the wretched legacy he and his friends left us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "y to the Chancellor that welcome as this concession has been and valuable as it is nevertheless at this moment the fur-backed glove industry is now dead. I am asking my right hon. Friend to bring new life not only to the industry, but into his own concession by considering an adjustment of the D level. I do so very earnestly. As a new hon. Member I would not consider it right to press this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1231.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1232.4", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Is it the Committee's pleasure that the Amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "n the Utility scheme was in being. The fact is that general suits and ladies' costumes costing £9 wholesale before the D scheme paid £3 in Purchase Tax and now pay only 12s. 6d. The hon. Lady shakes her head, but that happens to be true. I ask her to work it out for herself. If the D level is £6 10s., on a coat which sold at £9 before the D scheme came into operation and paid tax at 331 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1247.4", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "There was no top Utility price of £20, never. I may not have bought costumes, but I have been manufacturing them for quite a number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1247.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1247.5", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now we know.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "There was no top Utility price of £20, never. I may not have bought costumes, but I have been manufacturing them for quite a number of years. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1247.8", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I said that I had been—I do not manufacture them myself now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1247.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1247.8", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "enied to the general public because of the high tax of 331 per cent. imposed by the previous Government. Now, because of the D scheme, the public are able to buy those better-class garments much more cheaply. The hon. Lady said that she and her hon. Friends had taken the garments they are wearing off the peg and that they would be going back tomorrow. I hope that they will be marked \"shop soiled\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1247.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put it on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "preceding_text": "I am not going to be rash enough to argue about women's clothes with any of the lady Members of the Committee, and certainly not with a covey of them, or a flock or gaggle, whichever they like to call themselves. Nor am I going to be dressed for the part, although I have beside me the garment to which I wish to refer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "preceding_text": "This firm has specialised for many years in making nurses' dresses, aprons and uniforms. It is a specialised trade, and in the past it has been specially treated by the Board of Trade under the Utility scheme. If one feels the material of this garment, one has a strange suspicion that it ought never to have been classed as high-grade Utility. In my opinion it is far too good for the Utility range.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "preceding_text": "e material of this garment, one has a strange suspicion that it ought never to have been classed as high-grade Utility. In my opinion it is far too good for the Utility range. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is a very high class material. Speaking as a layman, it seems to me that it should never have been the subject of one of the wangles of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "preceding_text": " for the Utility range. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is a very high class material. Speaking as a layman, it seems to me that it should never have been the subject of one of the wangles of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson). [ Interruption. ] I think that the hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Dodds) admitted just now that the Utility scheme had become in a way a sort of wangle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1270.3", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "The Tories did not have to accept its Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. H. Gage", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. H. Gage", "preceding_text": "nt; normally, the complaint is that one receives a great deal too much literature of that nature. Perhaps his hon. Friends will pass it on when I say that I can arrange to remedy it at once. In view of his newly found interest in trade in Northern Ireland I am pleased to say I have ropeworks, shipyards, and a whiskey distillery in my constituency and I shall see in future that he is well supplied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": " induce people to vote for us, and yet to support the party vote while still endeavouring to satisfy those who voted for us. 5.15 a.m. Are hon. Gentlemen opposite going to say how many Amendments they had on the paper; how they copied the Labour Amendments, every single one of which referred to Northern Ireland, but how they did not, of course, vote for them? I need not delay the Committee longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-13", "file": "debates1952-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "402447a9ac5abf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PURCHASE TAX: PRESCRIBED LISTS FOR WEARING APPAREL AND FOR CLOTH, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Like my right hon. Friend, I do not want to detain the Committee for long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-13a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "s it not a fact that an attempt was made, by the use of dictatorial and monopolistic powers, to force down the normal rates charged by this well-known and old-established Liberal newspaper? Is it not a fact that both the Chadderton and Oldham food committees have unanimously protested against the chaos caused by the lack of information? Is it not a fact that 39,000 ration books remained un-issued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1413.4", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eggs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I am not certain what the hon. Member has in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1413.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1415.4", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "We certainly promised it to them, and we will give it to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alibis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I cannot. It was an exceptional year for Denmark last year, as the hon. Member knows. He also knows what has been happening in Australia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1424.7", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If the matter was considered by a great many people who decided that General McLean, with all his qualifications, should be replaced by General Sir Ian Jacob, who had been retired for many years, could we be informed who these people were and whether a single one of them was associated either with the Chiefs of Staff Committee or with any of the Forces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1424.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1434.7", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the hon. and gallant Gentleman for this assurance. I did use one word which was wrong just now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1437.5", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "May we not have this Question, Mr. Speaker, because it is of the greatest importance to Scotland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1437.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "—and in Korea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1450.7", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " it—the contractual negotiations with Germany and every one of the proposals which were approved and pursued for years under the impetus of the late Government—would have to be held up indefinitely. They could not hope to be reached by the autumn or winter of next year. They could not hope to be signed. That would be an inevitable result of giving effect to the recommendations of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1450.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "All right. I will accept the hon. Gentleman's novel doctrine that a signature is not a commitment. According to this, we need not have all this furious indignation about Her Majesty's Government signing all these papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1455.7", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I was dealing, I thought in a perfectly rational manner, with a point made in this party resolution. The right hon. Gentleman below the Gangway, rather more courteous than the hon. Gentleman above, was following my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1455.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, that is a very good question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "d of figure we ought to have in mind when assessing this problem. I submit that these E.D.C. proposals do meet European needs because it is only in combination with the general Western defence forces that the Germans can make a significant contribution and help to defend themselves. The plan to pool resources is not only desirable from the Western point of view; it corresponds to what is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or free elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "he Committee will have observed in this connection the statement by Herr Ulbricht of the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany two days ago. He warned those people who support the Contractual Agreement, particularly members of the Bundestag, that their names would be noted and that they would not escape punishment at the hands of the people. What a commentary on Communist views of free Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1477.0", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the Foreign Secretary know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "This is mainly a matter for E.D.C., but I think I can give the right hon. Gentleman the assurance that it will not consist mainly of volunteers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1491.3", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the misfortune.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "I count myself fortunate in having caught your eye, Mr. Hopkin Morris, following the last speaker on this side, to whose maiden speech we listened with great pleasure. I listened to it with special pleasure, since my hon. Friend the Member for Lanark (Mr. Patrick Maitland) represents a constituency which once I had the fortune to represent myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1491.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1507.0", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": "what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has aptly called a process of \"belated conversion to the obvious,\" the Labour Government advanced during those six years of office from a Socialist foreign policy based on the ideological affinity which they fondly believed to exist between themselves and the Russians, a policy of \"Left talking to Left in comradeship and confidence,\" a Zilliacus policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1507.2", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that the words were used by Mr. Bevin, but the policy at that time was very largely the work of the former Member for Gateshead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1507.2", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that the words were used by Mr. Bevin, but the policy at that time was very largely the work of the former Member for Gateshead. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Before 1945 he played a leading part in the framing of Socialist foreign policy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ne time it was Napoleon Buonaparte. Then it was Hitler—although I must say that I never found hon. Members on that side of the Committee, between 1933 and 1939, when German workers were being brutalised in Germany, when German Socialists were being thrown into concentration camps, half as angry with Hitler as they are now with Stalin—and that goes for most of the Members of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " in Germany the same type of persons who financed Hitler before the war. What is the use of the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for War talking as though all that is happening in Malaya is a Communist conspiracy? The fact is that a great deal of what is happening in Malaya at present is happening because for generations the British Imperial Government refused justice to the population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1513.2", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e more faced, for the third time, with a situation caused by panic decisions. We did so with the £3,600 million programme. We did so with the £4,700 million programme, both programmes being impracticable here and in America because each time we accepted soldiers' estimates of the necessities of the international situation and each time their estimates were wrong The Prime Minister has confessed it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Exactly. I do not quarrel with that statement which, however, is in flat contradiction to the recommendations of the National Executive of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ngerous nature in the East. \"The Times\" has put the whole thing with the utmost lucidity and makes it quite clear that the other part of the Labour Party Executive's pronouncement has been contradicted by the Government. That is, that we should immediately enter into discussions with the Soviet Union to find out what they mean by their note. But the answer of the British Government slams the door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " but that Government must be free to make any alliances which it wishes.\" In other words, it must be allowed to exercise the full panoply of sovereign Powers before a peace treaty is made, and it must be permitted to enter into alliance, military and otherwise, with the Western Powers. \"The Times\" says—I think they are right—that this is a proposition which the Soviet Union cannot possibly accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t we want to ask ourselves is this: Is that situation harmful to us? Is it a fact that if there is a period of time during which Germany is not rearmed, that necessarily will work to our disadvantage? What is certain much more to work to our disadvantage is if we integrate a Western Germany into our defence forces and make ourselves the enemies of German national unity. Those are the alternatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cross over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend address himself to this, because I want to get the matter clear and I am sure that he would want to answer it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "here is a solution to that, too. If we are really to make peace in the modern world, it is not only by having our defence forces strong enough. It is by the Western nations pooling their resources more intelligently and helping those parts of the world that are boiling up all the time because of unendurable hunger. The Germans could be asked, and could be made, to make a contribution to that pool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "dern world, it is not only by having our defence forces strong enough. It is by the Western nations pooling their resources more intelligently and helping those parts of the world that are boiling up all the time because of unendurable hunger. The Germans could be asked, and could be made, to make a contribution to that pool. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] Well, the Government are making them do this now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "use it was justified or not, but because they like the political complexion of that Government. On the other hand, if we made an alliance with Spain, hon. Gentlemen opposite, particularly those below the Gangway, would be filled with ardent horror, not because it was economically, strategically and politically right or not, but because they do not like the colour of the Government of that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "lad to have support of my argument from those concerned. I now come to another example of carrying personal political views into foreign affairs. I have not read at any length the recent all-embracing book by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale, but I have noticed in reading some reviews of it that he refers to a friendly country's Government, namely, Portugal, as an ugly masquerade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-14", "file": "debates1952-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8721d8f42dffd179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "spoke in the same debate and she used very similar words, and the hon. Gentleman the Member for Edge Hill (Mr. Irvine), who spoke to the Committee this afternoon, expressed his opinion quite definitely that, as a result of the actions of the Government, the country was nearer to war. Now, after another three months, we hear from the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale that he thinks things are easier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-14a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No; underlings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—between the overlords and the under-lords; I think that the right hon. Gentleman said under- lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1630.0", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You allowed the Prime Minister to make a long, rambling and tendentious statement, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1636.0", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I understand that there will be a White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady knows more about tea than I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1654.3", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "The variation in the price of tea is because there are varying kinds of tea in existence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1656.1", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At what price? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "as compared with last year, the overall supply of bacon will be somewhat greater. This is due to the expansion in home production. Whereas the average domestic ration throughout 1951 was about 4 oz., for 1952 the prospects are for an average ration of about 4½ oz. This is not as much as we would like, but at least it is an improvement, and no mean addition to the total supply of most foods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1656.1", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "his is not as much as we would like, but at least it is an improvement, and no mean addition to the total supply of most foods. [HON. MEMBERS: \"At what price? \"] I will come to prices later. I do not want to avoid that question. Last year was a very disappointing year for consumers of eggs. Unfortunately, the effects of the bad weather and the killing off of poultry are still being felt this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a minute or two. In the meantime. I am trying to teach the right hon. and gallant Gentleman something about the facts of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1669.3", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Could take them for a ride.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "nions feel all right when they are being put into the bag, but when one goes to cook them one finds that they are soft and rotten. I know that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman has told me that I should be more careful when I am buying. I notice that hon. Members opposite nod their heads in assent, yet I am quite certain that any smart girl at the back of a counter in any shop in Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1678.4", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "Laughterl.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "rise in prices, to pay for the rationed commodities to which they are entitled. One can go into almost any grocer's shop in the country and buy butter, bacon or cheese. The shopkeepers will sell these commodities at the offical price because they have quantities over and above the ration by reason of the fact that many people cannot afford to buy these commodities. I suggested in my Budget speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1678.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1693.5", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. and gallant Gentleman will agree that since the war there has been virtually a revolution in. our countryside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1693.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1695.3", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "he pre-war situation the food production has increased about 9 per cent. while population has increased by about 12 per cent. That is a reality which we must face. What is serious is that the gap between the well fed and the ill fed is increasing. In other words, the well fed are becoming better fed, and the ill fed are becoming worse fed. That is what I glean from information from United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1697.3", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "We have diverted wheat to India, and I believe that it was right to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1712.6", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the hon. and gallant Member going to do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "A quarter of the white fish or rather 22 per cent., actually comes from Iceland, and by the Icelandic restrictions that quantity is almost entirely removed from this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1712.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1712.6", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Red meat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "here has not been greater anxiety in the country regarding a matter which affects our well-being as much as this does, and that greater publicity has not been given to it. Now I turn to another matter closely akin to what I have been saying. In this country one can have a bit too much of fish. There is no question about it—it is not fish that the Englishman wants to eat. He would like to eat meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1712.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1719.1", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "on this and ounces off that, we must get down to the problem on an international basis through the United Nations organisation. I believe that we have to have international action and thrash out an international policy with regard to population. This debate has now been going on for approximately four hours, and in that time the population of the world has increased by 12,000. That is the measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1722.2", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "ng which the hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North (Miss Herbison), said. She made an extremely controversial speech, and I should like to take one quotation from it. She referred to what she calls, \"The lean and hungry '30s.\" I hope that everyone in this Committee knows that what she called the lean and hungry '30s arose from the disastrous three years in which the Socialists were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1722.4", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "1929 to 1931. Now. we have only been in office seven months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1725.0", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "I gave way to the hon. Gentleman because I thought he wanted to make a point of substance. If he had listened to my qualification he would have appreciated that what I meant when I said that the cupboard was bare was that the national housekeeping money was steadily running out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1725.0", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "something on the important matter of the maintenance of the value of our money. Since this Government came into power the value of the £, with which we have to buy our food, has been steadily rising. I have got quotations here to prove what I am saying if I am challenged. There was a fall at one moment in the value of the £, and that fall coincided with the results of the county council elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1725.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1736.0", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": " for an increase of 4d. a lb. in the price of bacon, can, at one stroke—the first stroke too, because there is to he a further increase—increase the price of bacon by 10d. a lb.? People with long memories are disturbed about this; they have not forgotten the policy of high food prices pursued by the Tory Government during the 1930's. The problem of food was the primary problem of purchasing power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "It was doing it pretty quickly, but as the preceding Government had allowed that increase of £20 million over the subsidy level of £410 million to stand for five months before 1st November last —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "the Exchequer that the increase involved by the subsidy exercise in all its parts would be 1s. 6d. per week per ration book holder. Let me say that that remains the estimate of the Government, and nothing has happened to vary it.>lb/> My hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Mr. Hurd) raised the question of releasing pork from control. I would say to him that that possibility is under consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "es, as they believe, out of the decision of The Hague Court on the problem of Norway. In that difficult situation I would ask my hon. Friend not to press the matter further now, but to accept my statement that very careful consideration is being given to the reply, the study of which should precede, I suggest, any further discussion. I now come to the main issue raised by the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "sufficient supply of food would of itself raise prices without securing an increase in world supplies. He said that in his approach to the problem he was not doctrinaire. In fact, he accused my right hon. and gallant Friend of the doctrinaire attitude. About the general issue of Government bulk buying which is the issue to which I wish to come; clearly there are arguments in favour of bulk buying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "se in world supplies. He said that in his approach to the problem he was not doctrinaire. In fact, he accused my right hon. and gallant Friend of the doctrinaire attitude. About the general issue of Government bulk buying which is the issue to which I wish to come; clearly there are arguments in favour of bulk buying—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—in certain circumstances, such as the circumstances of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1747.3", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": " into, it is all too common for subsequent agreement to be reached on increased prices. Consider what happened under the bulk purchase arrangements with the Argentine in the last five years: 378,000 tons of meat were received by us in 1947; 280,000 tons were received in 1948; there was a slight increase to 294,000 tons in 1949: we received 236,000 tons in 1950; and we received 87,000 tons in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1747.3", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "ed in 1948; there was a slight increase to 294,000 tons in 1949: we received 236,000 tons in 1950; and we received 87,000 tons in 1951. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"] Bulk purchase as we have seen it, while justified on certain grounds and in certain circumstances, has been accompanied, in the case of this principal exporting country over the last five years by a steady decrease in the amount of meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1748.6", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about cheese?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "of the agreements which have been entered into with New Zealand and Australia on meat and with the Commonwealth on sugar, there is in each case a clear clause contemplating the possibility of a return to private trading, that return not being inconsistent with those agreements. May I pass to the question on which the hon. Member for Sunderland, North, laid great stress, the problem of the subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1748.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1748.6", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "of social benefit payments, people should pay what food costs and know what it costs, and spend their money on necessities or luxuries as they may desire. If we examine the Budget picture as a whole, we find that whereas, by the Chancellor's action, the level of food subsidies has been lowered by £160 million in a full year the gains to the people, including social benefits and Income Tax reliefs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1748.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-15", "file": "debates1952-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8498837123e9c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1750.9", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "Finally, much has been said in the course of the debate to suggest that our balance of payments difficulties have little or nothing to do with our food position today. May I give some examples of the additional foods which would be available if we had the currency? Sugar, oils and fats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-15a.1750.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "ought the hon. Member for Sowerby said that what he was seconding was the gradual implementation. If I am correct in that, there is nothing more to say on it. I support this Motion, after having searched my conscience very thoroughly. Notwithstanding the great difficulties that certainly we are in at the moment, it should be possible to name a date—not necessarily next year, and nor do I ask that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I do not blame hon. Gentlemen entirely that they apparently do not appreciate the gravity of the crisis in which we are living. My right hon. Friend and Her Majesty's Government missed an opportunity when they first came into power of bringing home to the people just how serious the situation was. They have not driven it home, through the magnanimity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The women.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ce up to realities now, we shall find that the opportunities ahead of us are immense. There can be no survival without British national sovereignty, without the British Commonwealth and Empire, and without a real faith in the future of this country to be of service in preserving peace in the world. If there is one section of the community today which deserves an increase of pay of any kind, it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about ex-Service women?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "n.\"] There is only one section I can think of, and that is the section of the community which should have been looked after far better in years gone by. The obligation of the State must always be to those men disabled in the defence of this country in war. If in 1919 that had been accepted as a principle, none of the difficulties which have arisen since regarding ex-Service men would have done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1828.0", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "That may or may not be so, but if it be so, it is nothing to be proud about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1833.1", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "Everybody who has taken part in this debate has welcomed this Motion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And to the family woman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ely the other way, as the hon. Lady the Member for Tynemouth and I said at the time, and as we have continued to say. What the social services do is primarily to help the family man. What the social services of our country do is to supplement the wages system in such a way as to give that assistance to the family man which it is claimed by some people must be given through the wages system itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1849.2", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I would rather not be tied to a time-table. What I have said was a carefully considered statement and I would rather not add to it. We certainly hope, as my right hon. Friend has said in this House, that this will be well within the life-time of the present Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1850.5", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "tee upstairs and on the Floor of the House of Commons, to reopen the matter. Indeed, general practitioners have entered the National Health Service since July, 1948 on the basis of the terms I had negotiated with them. In point of fact, I refused to allow the matter of the value of money to be reopened, not because they might take the Government back to 1939, but because they might take this back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1850.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1851.3", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "ng, the right hon. Gentleman added: Further, can he tell us whether, taking into account his last paragraph, this reform in future is to be indelibly linked in the mind of the Government with a further addition to the family allowance scheme?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th June, 1951; Vol. 489, c. 529.] The present Chancellor has made himself responsible for the further addition to the family allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1854.0", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ryder", "preceding_text": "What about the last six years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-16", "file": "debates1952-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "133540f198420bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1855.1", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "EQUAL PAY (PUBLIC SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "nsider once again the fundamental principle of equal pay. In the year 1904, when I was secretary of the Manchester Teachers' Association, I moved a resolution in favour of equal pay. On that occasion it was voted for by only about five out of 700 people. Two were well-known suffragettes, one of whom was Theresa Billington. It was about the same time that I was associated with Christobel Pankhurst.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-16a.1855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.10.5", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In replying to a previous supplementary question relating partly to the same subject matter as this Question, the right hon. and learned Gentleman said that he would await the Question which has just been asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.10.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STATE ASSETS (MINISTERS' SPEECHES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "that speeches such as that made by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport on 13th March to the Road Haulage Association aim at reducing the value of those assets when they will be sold? Is he further aware that the Parliamentary Secretary said that it did not seem to him that there would be much paid for the road haulage undertakings because, in the short time of nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Clause 10.—(CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1952–53.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "de before we reach the end of the Committee stage. All of these will be resisted on the ground that the surplus must be retained. Hon. Members opposite believe that the surplus must not be retained, but the only proposal they have on the Order Paper for giving back any part of it is to give the payer of the full rate of Income Tax a relief which is denied to every other section of the community. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Clause 10.—(CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1952–53.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "not a stimulation of demand. The Front Bench explained at length that 75 per cent. of textiles have no Purchase Tax on them and that it is a lack of demand which is keeping people from the shops. Therefore, I believe that by a direct reduction in taxation we may try to stimulate this demand. This I also think is a Liberal principle and those of us who are Members of the Liberal-Conservative group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Clause 10.—(CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1952–53.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that point. There are two ways of stimulating demand. The first is, as the hon. Member for Sheffield, Park (Mr. Mulley) has just said, by increasing wages. But increasing wages without increased production is in itself inflationary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Clause 10.—(CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1952–53.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "All the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Clause 10.—(CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1952–53.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": " taxation. This penal system of taxation is a most serious thing, and it is now almost as high as it was during the worst years of the war. It is dreadful that the mass of the people and industrial companies have to be drained by high taxation while the Chancellor is hanging on to a surplus of £500 million. I think that most of that money should be allowed to fructify in the pockets of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Clause 10.—(CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1952–53.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "llion went to people earning £20 a week. He has, of course, already discovered the dangers of the consequences of his policy on prices and wages, and, at a later stage, on exports, of which he was warned by the T.U.C. both before and after the Budget, and also from these benches during the Budget debate itself. They are now beginning to appear in reality, and are pushing up this wage-price spiral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Clause 10.—(CHARGE OF INCOME TAX FOR 1952–53.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about full employment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "e, I shall not embarrass the Government in the Lobby, although I may embarrass them a bit with my speech. The Chancellor has inherited a difficult situation, but he has also inherited some bad practices. I think that the late Lord Keynes and the late Sir Stafford Cripps�žboth have been dead some time now�ždid immense harm to this country by introducing certain novel financial procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Clause 11.—(ALTERATIONS IN EXISTING PERSONAL RELIEFS, ETC.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I have also listened carefully to what my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) has said, as I think we all have, and it is my view that he made out an extremely good case. What he said carried with it the absolute unanimity of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Clause 16.—(EXPENDITURE BY MINING CONCERNS ON ABORTIVE EXPLORATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "olitical problem is simply that as the Clause stands, companies which have to set up offshoots or total subsidiaries in foreign lands are not protected. Members on all sides of the Committee, and especially on the other side, with the memory of Abadan burning hot, I hope, in their memories, must realise that today there is a natural growth of nationalism. to which certain concessions must be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-19", "file": "debates1952-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb1134f66451dcd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (STATUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e best he has made in the course of his time in this House. I am assuming that if this Motion is carried it will be necessary to go back again on this issue that we should increase the number of representatives of graduates. I am assuming that if that is done to maintain the balance it is not unreasonable to assume that the Faculties of teachers will also want to strike a balance with Convocation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-19a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.235.9", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE, LIVERPOOL (DETAINED PERSON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "in regard to private notice. I submitted a Private Notice Question to you. You considered the matter and rejected that Private Notice Question. I accept of course, without any reservation, your authority, but I am in a dilemma about it, because although I have accepted your Ruling I do not think that it is a fair consideration of the position which I put before you. I honestly accept what you say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.235.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.244.5", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Member for Orpington (Sir W. Smithers).", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman would let me have the names of any artistes who want to go out, I should be immensely obliged to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.244.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He will lose them", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "This man is rather rare in so far as he is an armament artificer (radar) and we have only one establishment, at Lydd, where we train this particular very specialised type of man. It will be our intention to get him back in time, and I hope that he will not lose his shifts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Clause 31.—(CHARGE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": " Party. Do we or do we not believe that private enterprise should be encouraged to provide an increasing livelihood to the people of the country? It is ridiculous to think that the Conservative Party can come into power every now and again simply by shouting \"red meat\" and \"groundnuts.\" Do we, or do we not, believe that private enterprise is the best hope of a decent livelihood for the workpeople?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Clause 31.—(CHARGE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ners and weavers at work. It was estimated that in its original form E.P.L. would cost the combine about £500,000, but £500,000, of course, cannot be taken from £160,000. Where is the money to come from to enable them to start buying their own cotton and financing the stocks which will be necessary if the Hopkins Committee Report is to be implemented? I do not want to detain the Committee further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Clause 31.—(CHARGE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBURS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": " the physical controls, and not against them. This is not the moment to relieve taxation on company profits, even the taxation on retained profits. The hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) said that the trade unions would not be very interested in taxation on retained profits. I do not intend to develop this argument, but we must not forget that retained profits belong to individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.330.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Clause 31.—(CHARGE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "d Shetland (Mr. Grimond) said that the trade unions would not be very interested in taxation on retained profits. I do not intend to develop this argument, but we must not forget that retained profits belong to individuals. [HON. MEMBURS: \"No.\"] Really, that is so. To whom do they then belong? The profits belong to the companies, but any profits that are retained, of course, belong to individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Clause 31.—(CHARGE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am not discussing at present the question of unemployment. I am talking of the balance of overseas payments. Our imports approximately balanced our exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Clause 31.—(CHARGE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "uced would be so complicated that no one would be able to understand it and that, in the course of the provision going through this Committee, it would be whittled away until nothing would remain of it. That guess is turning out to be remarkably near the truth. I was discussing this tax this morning with two gentlemen who are skilled in the business of chartering the accounts of trading companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Clause 31.—(CHARGE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in a fur coat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "ches opposite—a procedure which is as rare nowadays as it is welcome to Her Majesty's Government. My hon. Friend has had a gay time on the Budget, and my picture of him now is of his going to an entirely free cricket match this summer, there being no taxation on entry, in a taxi which does not pay Petrol Duty, and employed by some organisation which does not in any way pay the Excess Profits Levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Clause 31.—(CHARGE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"£60 million less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "e are considering in relation to the tax—will, I am certain, be important to the Exchequer. It is not possible to give an absolutely accurate estimate in this field, for the tax will fall for the first time on the profits of 1952, which are not yet known. We estimate, however, that the concessions I have proposed will make the yield of the Excess Profits Levy between £140 million and £150 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Clause 31.—(CHARGE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has today listened with very great good humour to a certain amount of criticism. On behalf of several of my hon. Friends who have been associated with me in putting down Amendments I should like to say that we want to thank him for the great care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.399.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-20", "file": "debates1952-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "45ae893e64604d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Clause 32.—(SCOPE OF THE EXCESS PROFITS LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member for Islington, East (Mr. E. Fletcher) tell us, himself, what time he did get up this morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-20a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "nd announce their determination, if the chance comes, to reverse the decision that Parliament has reached. Indeed, an hon. Friend of all of ours who was in the House at the time, and who wound up for the Conservative Opposition in 1947, said at the close of the Third Reading of the Socialist Transport Bill that we looked forward to the day when we could reverse some, if not all, of its provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ion of a Bill, before the Bill has been seen or the picture as a whole can be discerned, that it would be reversed without qualification is not the act of a very responsible Opposition. I see that the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South, is also being urged to say that no one who comes into the road haulage business now should get any compensation if later the industry is once more nationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get to the White Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "to say that on no section of our people more than on the transport people did the war fall more ferociously and continuously. From the days of Dunkirk all through the period of the whole evacuation, ceaseless bombing, attempts to paralyse London transport, right up to the 10,000 special trains that were run in the three weeks before D Day, the conduct of our road and rail industry was unsurpassed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "fore D Day, the conduct of our road and rail industry was unsurpassed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get to the White Paper.\"] We are getting to the White Paper, but hon. Gentlemen opposite might, I think, remember that there is a large background to this business which has been much sullied and marred by their own more recent activities. I will say that the 30 George Crosses and George Medals that were earned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "he authority had the mass of vehicles and the power they thought they ought to enjoy. But what in fact happened? We have an organisation that took over control of some thousand or more millions of pounds worth of investment and capital, rail and road. It is the largest organisation of its kind in the world. If a private monopoly gives bad service, the public suffer, but the monopoly goes bankrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "t immediately after acquisition by public ownership of a large amount of road transport, road profits began to dwindle and then cease altogether. Instead of being able to help the railways, they themselves became a national obligation. These facts cannot be denied. The amount paid by the British Transport Commission for the goodwill of long-distance hauliers is generally thought to be £30 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ears as an average, these undertakings, therefore, were pre- sumed to be earning during that period an annual profit of £6 million. But in fact, of course, on the average number of years, the profit was much less than the maximum, and the annual profit of the acquired undertakings must therefore have been considerably more than £6 million. The Road Haulage Executive, with enormous monopoly powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ut they have been given an impossible task to discharge. They have been asked to produce a pattern making transport an end in itself to which trade has to subordinate itself, rather than taking the traders' needs as being paramount and making the transport system correspond to those needs. On the roads the swift, economical and individual service that trade, industry and agriculture need has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "in recent years have taken out C licences. Hon. Members opposite, except at election time, do not like C licensees. Why have these people taken out these licences? People do not buy transport and have extra expense merely for fun. They have taken them out because they are not getting from the nationalised transport the service that they need. When the war broke out there were about 365 C licences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "nt of those employed in the industry. I should like to make certain things perfectly plain. In regard to the 80,000 people who are working today for and under the Road Haulage Executive, it is our belief that the vast majority of them will be as most of them were before, absorbed in private enterprise, and we will certainly take steps to see that such as might not be are justly and fairly treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.485.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And a rise in the Petrol Tax.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " knows that it needs—and that is what we are now trying to do. This demands getting a fair balance between road and rail. We shall never get a wholly fair balance between road and rail in this world. No one, I think, would suggest that we could. For example, if we arrived at a fair balance one day, a rise in the cost of coal or a rise in the cost of fuel oil would throw the whole plan out of gear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a blue print!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "e will also be a top-level body, whether the British Transport Commission—under that or some other name—or a similar body to look after broad policy on railways, on London transport, docks and canals and the equity holding of the Commission in the passenger services. The London Transport Executive will remain, but not necessarily as an Executive—perhaps as the old London Passenger Board used to be", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jobs for the boys.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "e to provide will be subject to the ordinary licensing procedure, but those services operating in the London Passenger Transport area will be subject to the old jurisdiction which prevailed in the days of the Passenger Transport Board only. So much for the broad intention in regard to the Commission and the Executives. I now come to the sale envisaged in the White Paper of road haulage businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Robbery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that matter, but, if the hon. Member wishes, I will deal with it at this point. The railway companies were divested of their road haulage interest on nationalisation. It is not the intention of the Government that those interests should be restored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I was in fact just coming to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " was in fact just coming to that point. [ Interruption. ] Do hon. Gentlemen opposite not want to hear the answer to their hon. and learned Friend? The point of making it quite plain at the start is that there should be no misunderstanding about it in the future. I am anxious that it should be realised that there will be the protection for a period for all who are coming into long-distance haulage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "in regard to this levy. The precise form the levy will take will be discussed with the county and county borough authorities who collect the vehicle Excise Duty. At this stage it is our belief that the best and simplest way would be to use the machinery of the vehicle Excise Duty. It will not be charged on those not exceeding one ton of unladen weight, and so will omit all the small delivery vans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How will it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "rpose of the levy is twofold: first, to offset any loss on the sale of assets by amortisation—and the period for which it will run will depend on what losses are incurred; and second, to offset traffic that may be diverted, as a result of the proposals, from rail to road. The Transport Tribunal will have a task, the difficulty of which I do not dispute, to decide when traffic has been so diverted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "th the general level of national productivity? How far has there been an increase of road traffic in that area? What evidence is there of actual transfer of contracts from rail to road? Those are difficult considerations, but not much harder than the obligations laid by the Socialist Government on the Transport Tribunal in the Transport Act. If it is said that this is feather-bedding the railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "y. That represents the broad plan to which the Government are committed and for which we ask the approval of the House. In this plan the railways will play a part of immense importance. If I have not given as much attention to the position of the railways as I have done to the roads, it is because it is not proposed to alter the national ownership of the railways or to undo the Act in that regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "entral purchase of stores and equipment and features of that kind. We shall ask the Railway Executive to prepare for the approval of the Government a scheme to submit to me on the de-centralisation of railway administration. This scheme I shall lay before Parliament and there will then be an opportunity to debate it. It will settle the areas. If the Government agree—if my right hon. Friend agrees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t is significant that the right hon. Gentleman, with his political past, should instinctively fall back upon Communist sources or be sympathetic with them to produce an argument. If there was ever any doubt in the mind of working people as to the wisdom of public ownership, this White Paper has removed any such doubt. The whole of the workers in the transport industry are against this White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "bout with the livelihood, the safety and the security of nearly one million people in the industry. To ignore them and their leaders is wrong. When the Government came into office—it has also happened since—the leaders of the trade union movement said that they would treat the Government like any other Government in the ordinary way of fair negotiations between the trade unions and the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Orderly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "look at the road commercial transport industry. I do not deny that in many respects the road commercial transport industry has done a good job. I do not assert that everything was bad in that industry, because that would be unfair, but by its nature, under large numbers of separate and conflicting private ownerships, there had to be a scramble for traffics instead of orderly catering for traffics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.510.3", "colnum": "510", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Abadan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "g. I understand that the indications are pretty certain that their last year's financial operations will show a modest profit after fixed charges and other charges have been paid, and I think that is a remarkable achievement. Let us remember that the Government are not helping the transport industry. They have increased the taxation on petrol, and private enterprise in petrol has put the price up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "And in the meantime the people suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "l practice that financial statement would wait until the full account of its operations is ready. I am quite prepared to consider the matter to see whether, in view of the imminence of a Transport Bill, we should not consider publishing the financial statement in advance of the full report. I think the right hon. Gentleman will agree that, as I received it only last night it is a little difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "r to see whether, in view of the imminence of a Transport Bill, we should not consider publishing the financial statement in advance of the full report. I think the right hon. Gentleman will agree that, as I received it only last night it is a little difficult—[ Interruption. ] I am prevented from disclosing the accounts until the published facts are put before Parliament, under my statutory duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What monopoly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "m told that their charges are, on the average, less increased than private enterprise charges have been. I ask any Conservative businessman opposite—if he were here I would ask the Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power; and if the Lord President of the Council were here, the gentleman who acquired Selfridge's to add to his monopoly a little earlier, I would ask him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e our public duty, and our public duty in these circumstances is to say, as I do on behalf of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition for Members on this side of the House, that in our judgment it is only fair and proper to the nation and to the interests of possible innocent investors, to indicate to everybody concerned the shape of things to come. I say this not in any way as a threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "-acquired on terms that will not involve the public in loss. In short, we will pay compensation, but only on terms which will fully safeguard the public interest and which will prevent private speculators from making profits at the public expense out of the Government's reckless folly and their willingness to serve private greed. The Labour Party do not believe in confiscation of private property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": ", in part, that is what the Government and their interested friends are proposing to do. If they so act, they must take the consequences. That is our case against the White Paper and against these proposals. That is our intimation that we thought it our decent public duty to make as to the course we shall pursue when we are returned to power. In view of the strong case which, I trust, I have made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "are, in regard to the railways, two sorts of road services. First, there is road haulage. Road haulage consists of various undertakings, and there were 45 of those undertakings which were formerly owned or controlled by the mainline railway companies. We fought hard to get those-and we got them-in order to improve the public services. Are those services to remain with the railways or are they not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "iculous to upset it. These vehicles belong to the Transport Commission, and have been paid for. These surely cannot be taken away. Then there are 225 other undertakings which were taken over by the Transport Commission at the request of their owners. Are those to be taken away? Why should not the freedom we hear so much about be left with the people who voluntarily entered into these arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "nder the ex-Minister, whose loss through ill-health we greatly regret, worked in the closest harmony with Lord Leathers whose long proved practical business efficiency was of so much service to us in the war. I have seen it suggested that this White Paper was a hurriedly produced document. In fact, it has been before the Cabinet for several months, and this is, I think—I am sure—the fifth edition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A fair price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ave sprung into being under C licences while the nationalised 41,000 vehicles were being taken over. It was pretty hard on people who had for many years run small but efficient businesses—the man driving the van and the wife keeping the accounts —that often happens—when their vehicles were acquired under the 1947 Act. True, they were paid a large sum—£30 million—for the goodwill they had built up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "That is not true. May I ask if the hon. Member has seen the Statistical Memorandum 21, which was in the Library? It gives the average earnings on the issues of capital of the railways for a number of years before the war. We find that in no year was the average anything like half per cent. I have it here —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The \"Square Deal\" campaign did, I regret, gradually work over in the direction of that argument, although it did not start with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Open charges.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member is making a series of veiled charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.597.3", "colnum": "597", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "y lasting effect when it is faced with the criticism levelled at it by the hon. Baronet and by everybody concerned with transport who knows what is taking place. The plain fact is that the Government have not been convinced by the facts in this case. They affirm that the British Road Services have failed in their duty and that they have not been able to supply the trader with the service he needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.597.3", "colnum": "597", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"C licences?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Economic Survey of Europe in 1950 produced statistics about the growth in the number of commercial vehicles in all countries in Europe. I am indebted to the British Road Federation for this bulletin. There is not a country in Europe in which the number of commercial vehicles on the road has not increased substantially since the end of the war—not one—and they did not have a Transport Act in 1947.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.597.3", "colnum": "597", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " British Road Federation for this bulletin. There is not a country in Europe in which the number of commercial vehicles on the road has not increased substantially since the end of the war—not one—and they did not have a Transport Act in 1947. [HON. MEMBERS: \"C licences?\"] They do not have C licences. What we are discussing is whether there has been an increase in the amount of commercial traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.597.3", "colnum": "597", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"C licences.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "re discussing is whether there has been an increase, as there has been in this country, in the growth of commercial vehicles because the railways are not able to carry the traffic for one reason or another. In every other country—Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Western zone of Germany—there has been a substantial increase in the number of commercial vehicles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "firm that, although it has not been a big problem, there have been large companies so animated by political prejudice that they were never prepared to give British Road Services their business. That is well known, and if the Minister had taken the trouble to invite the opinion of British Road Services I am sure they could have told him of some large firms, whose names I have in my mind at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " known. Well, it obviously is not known to the right hon. Gentleman or he would not have made such a silly mistake. It is in the thousand local depots up and down the country where this figure of 12,000 staff is to be found. Contrast that with the situation under private enterprise. In even the smallest operating unit there would be the governor, the foreman, the typist, the clerk, the accountant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ght at least listen. They have betrayed their ignorance about this subject many times today. I quite agree, a mere error of some 3,000 per cent. in the number of people at headquarters is small. It is the view of a great many experts in this country, people who do know about it, that the organisation of the Road Haulage Executive has resulted in a saving of administrative staff in every direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Rail Traffic Act, 1933, lays down that licences have to be renewed at certain intervals of time. All these gentlemen who now acquire these undertakings will have to come up for renewal of their licences at regular intervals. It may well be that when the integrated public system is running properly we shall have sufficient transport to be able to do without the operations of these men on the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.606.4", "colnum": "606", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with the White Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "preceding_text": " day and listened to the very high level of debate. perhaps I might offer my very genuine sympathy to the large number of hon. Gentlemen, on both sides of the House, who have been unsuccessful in catching your eye, Mr. Speaker. It is an experience which all of us have suffered for many years when sitting on the back benches, and we are often consoled, as I might have been had I not spoken tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ry great importance raised by the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South, on the subject of compensation. One or two other hon. Members have referred to that since, but I think it is of such importance that it is worthy of reiterating that certain Sections of the 1947 Act—98 deals with compensation and 101 and 102 with compensation, and it is our intention to write into our Bill similar provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": ". Members have referred to that since, but I think it is of such importance that it is worthy of reiterating that certain Sections of the 1947 Act—98 deals with compensation and 101 and 102 with compensation, and it is our intention to write into our Bill similar provisions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] It has been raised by more than one hon. Member and I shall not forget it. I shall come to it later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-21", "file": "debates1952-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "35aead4823d465c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for East Ham, South (Mr. Barnes), made that point with great emphasis later in the debate. I was reserving that point for my reply to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-21a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-22", "file": "debates1952-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e34b50549b955439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.651.4", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ACCIDENT PREVENTION (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "special consideration to this question in Birmingham? I understand that all the authorities have been co-operating in this propaganda work, which is so valuable because of the large number of children being killed as a result of accidents in the home. Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman help this work to be carried on? At the last exhibition, 7,000 people attended, and these exhibitions can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.651.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-22", "file": "debates1952-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e34b50549b955439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALACE OF WESTMINSTER POLICE (OVERTIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not his job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman make a general inquiry into this matter? In the course of that inquiry, will he also inquire into the conditions of other servants of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-22", "file": "debates1952-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e34b50549b955439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY (COMPASSIONATE LEAVE CASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I sympathise very much indeed with this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-22", "file": "debates1952-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e34b50549b955439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY (COMPASSIONATE LEAVE CASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Exercise it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I sympathise very much indeed with this question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—but I see no reason at all to think that hon. Members opposite have a monopoly of sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-22", "file": "debates1952-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e34b50549b955439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY (COMPASSIONATE LEAVE CASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "uch indeed with this question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—but I see no reason at all to think that hon. Members opposite have a monopoly of sympathy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Exercise it.\"] Certainly I sympathise with this man, but what I am trying to explain to hon. Members opposite is that every case of a young brother or sister dying is extremely sad. Why should I grant it to this man and refuse it to others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-22", "file": "debates1952-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e34b50549b955439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Clause 33.—(STANDARD PROFITS FOR A FULL YEAR WHERE TRADE OR BUSINESS IN EXISTENCE AT BEGINNING OF STANDARD PERIOD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "d by an effective rate of interest policy. That is a perfectly consistent attitude, but if we decide that the direction of investment should be deter- mined by the rate of interest or by monetary policy, it follows that industries the shares of companies in which are very depressed—if we are to adopt this sort of market attitude—ought not to have these new capital resources at all. I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.735.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-22", "file": "debates1952-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e34b50549b955439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.756.6", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Clause 33.—(STANDARD PROFITS FOR A FULL YEAR WHERE TRADE OR BUSINESS IN EXISTENCE AT BEGINNING OF STANDARD PERIOD.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am afraid we have passed that Amendment and cannot go back to it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-22", "file": "debates1952-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e34b50549b955439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Clause 36.—(RELIEF IN RESPECT OF DEFICIENCIES OF PROFITS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I have not got it written down. I will read out exactly what I have received. The right hon. Gentleman will see that it is exactly what I said in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-22a.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-26", "file": "debates1952-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "605a66e25d03ad7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Clause 53.—(ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "re running true to form. They do not mind if large companies get away with their excess profits for some time by financing enterprises out of money that ought to be paid over to the Exchequer. If they do mind it, they had better accept the Amendment. The Government cannot resist the conclusion that they are prepared to allow these companies finance at a lower rate than the market rate of interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-26", "file": "debates1952-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "605a66e25d03ad7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Clause 53.—(ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had better address those remarks to the Financial Secretary and not to me. In 1942 there was a Coalition Government and a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer. I think I have made the point clear, which is that it is obviously more worth while for a company to retain the levy and use it, rather than to borrow money from the bank at 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-26", "file": "debates1952-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "605a66e25d03ad7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Clause 53.—(ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "y and use it, rather than to borrow money from the bank at 5 per cent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Even if that is wrong, which I do not accept merely because hon. Gentlemen opposite interrupt me, why is it that a rate of interest which stood at 3 per cent. in 1947 when the rate for borrowing was somewhere around that figure, should remain the rate today when the rate of borrowing has increased so much?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-26", "file": "debates1952-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "605a66e25d03ad7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Clause 29.—(RELATION OF PROFITS TAX TO INCOME TAX, RATES OF PROFITS TAX, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Gloucestershire, South (Mr. Crosland) sneers at for making a profit—have to make more and more profits to stay where they are. That is always what happens in a period of rising prices. We on this side of the Committee think that profits are a good thing. Hon. Members opposite think they are something to be apologised for and to be penalised. That is their fundamental weakness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-26", "file": "debates1952-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "605a66e25d03ad7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Clause 29.—(RELATION OF PROFITS TAX TO INCOME TAX, RATES OF PROFITS TAX, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "possible. There is a continuous demand opposite that there must be a great reduction in taxation, but the right hon. Member for Blackburn, West (Mr. Assheton) gave it away when he said that it made no difference whether the tax was on distributed or on undistributed profits. It is a demand that there should be a very much greater return to those who invest their money as shareholders in companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-26", "file": "debates1952-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "605a66e25d03ad7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Clause 29.—(RELATION OF PROFITS TAX TO INCOME TAX, RATES OF PROFITS TAX, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He risks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "I see absolutely no connection whatever between them. The wages received by the worker are the return for the work he does. What does the shareholder do? He does not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-26", "file": "debates1952-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "605a66e25d03ad7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1019.2", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Clause 54.—(APPEALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "My anxieties are not entirely allayed, because very important discretion is granted under Clause 39 to the Commissioners in dealing with the computation of profits or losses for any individual company. I should have thought that there should have been a right of appeal in that case but, in view of the assurances now given, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-26a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-27", "file": "debates1952-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "066979beb8f2cccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-27a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "he Member for Reading, South (Mr. Mikardo) has a direct interest of some importance. Everybody expected in earlier years that the Air Corporations would be subsidy-carrying industries for a good time to come. When they are showing signs of paying their way, why do the Government want to come charging in with a view to jeopardising that situation, out of purely theoretical considerations? Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-27a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-27", "file": "debates1952-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "066979beb8f2cccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-27a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman referred to the Government barging in. If he takes the trouble and does me the credit of reading what I have said, he will see that there is no interference whatever in the existing network of the Corporations. It is our belief that in this field, as in the field of road transport, there is a very good opening for private enterprise to open up new opportunities for public service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-27a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-27", "file": "debates1952-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "066979beb8f2cccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-27a.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Clause 64.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PERMANENT ANNUAL CHARGE FOR THE NATIONAL DEBT AND AS TO THE OLD SINKING FUND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "n extent that it is the kind of Clause which has been picked out, not by some Socialist organisation, but by the Economic Commission for Europe, a body set up by United Nations, and which has said that this Budget in its total effect, and particularly through Clauses like this, is—and I quote the words of the Economic Commission—\"generally regressive.\" Here we have an impartial international body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-27a.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-27", "file": "debates1952-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "066979beb8f2cccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-27a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "New Clause.—(COMPUTATION OF PROFITS FOR PURPOSES OF EXCESS PROFITS LEVY IN THE CASE OF CONCERNS PRODUCING CERTAIN METALS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "On the whole I would rather not take the risk, so I will eschew figures and, because I think it is slightly more simple, use one or two signs. Suppose an output of X, on which the normal profits per ton come to a figure of total profits which we will call Y. That is simple. Suppose, also, a figure of net assets at end-51, which we call Z, 8 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-27a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1341.0", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister then telling the House that there has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "e made last year have any sincerity whatever, the Government will be bound to accept the new Clause and repeal the old Clause 32. But we have become so accustomed during the last few days to so many Members of the Government eating the words which they spoke a year ago that I have a shrewd suspicion that the Chancellor will not accept the new Clause which his hon. Friends behind him have proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1402.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "e. 5.30 p.m. I do not know whether there is any significance in the fact, but we also had a speech from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, who was here until a moment ago. He indulged in a vitriolic attack on the Clause, and he was followed by the Minister of State for Economic Affairs, whose intermittent appearances we are glad to have this year in our finance debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1405.4", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "e again in a position to say to our customers in effect, \"Come, and come as you please, because we know that under those circumstances you will come and stay.\" But, having said that I must say that I do not believe it would be fair for hon. Members on this side of the Committee, who feel as strongly as I do about this, to press the Chancellor at this moment to say he will repeal this here and now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1405.4", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "hose circumstances you will come and stay.\" But, having said that I must say that I do not believe it would be fair for hon. Members on this side of the Committee, who feel as strongly as I do about this, to press the Chancellor at this moment to say he will repeal this here and now—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"] Hon. Members opposite had better be quiet, they may draw some of the fire on themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1405.4", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Cheer up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "y that I do not believe it would be fair for hon. Members on this side of the Committee, who feel as strongly as I do about this, to press the Chancellor at this moment to say he will repeal this here and now—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"] Hon. Members opposite had better be quiet, they may draw some of the fire on themselves—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"] Their scarlet, financial sins are irredeemable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To Oldham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I am not now sure where the hon. Member for Oldham, East wants capital to go. He has painted such a horrible picture of the fiscal conditions in this country and the political conditions of other countries that it is difficult to know where capital can go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1488.0", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that what the new Clause suggests is substantially in accordance with actual present practice in the Inland Revenue under the present Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1489.3", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson", "preceding_text": "e Tote. Tote taxation has dropped more than 40 per cent., and, to keep the thing on some level, if some concession was made on the previous argument of equity with the Tote, I think that would meet our case. This taxation has been very harsh, and I should like to read to the Committee a letter from a man who has been put out of business. Bookmakers, like other people have to work for their living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1489.3", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson", "preceding_text": "stand this crippling betting tax the late Government imposed. At Wakefield I have paid £1,150 tax to earn myself £7 10s. and at Parkside I have paid over a thousand pounds tax to earn forty pounds. The bookmakers stop no tax from the punter on either of these tracks. One or two of us have had meetings to try and get the tax stopped from the public but to no purpose. Thanking you for past favours\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1489.3", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson", "preceding_text": "of working people from archbishops to grave diggers, we do not yet cater for bookmakers— Thanking you for past favours and I know how you opposed the tax as an association in every way that you could but the odds were too heavy. I remain, yours truly. That letter, although it causes some hilarity, embodies a tragedy, for this is a man who is going out of business, whose living has been taken away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1505.2", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "icient there would be difficulty in borrowing the money required to pay the duty. Board of Inland Revenue figures show that the number of such cases is small. However it is done—by borrowing the money or selling the shares on the market—there is no doubt that the inheritors would continue to control the business in the first generation. If in the second generation the family inheritors are unable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1505.6", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "There are many devices by which a family can keep control of a business if they want to. If on the second passing of the business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1505.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1505.6", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "There are many devices by which a family can keep control of a business if they want to. If on the second passing of the business— [ Interruption. ] If hon. Gentlemen would stop muttering I might be able to get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1505.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "y. I suppose that anybody could begin a bicycle factory and make his income out of it for a number of years, at the end of which time he could sell it as capital and pay no Income Tax on it but the author is unable to sell the copyright of his own books for capital. He may write 50 books; but at the end of his writing life he is not allowed to sell the copyright in those books for an outright sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "ht hon. and learned Friend has outlined the persons who are included in that group. I am inclined to agree that it includes too large a variety of people. I think the phrase \"in any of the arts\" is a rather loose one, and it might be taken to include music hall performers and all sorts of persons whom we would not think were particularly deserving of the community from the point of view of Surtax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about gin distillers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "urtax. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I do not think they have any special claim on the community in the way that those who are engaged in the arts have. We have tried to narrow down this section to cover the people who make the spirit of the country. I think that authors, writers, artists and musicians do, in fact, make the spirit of the country. Without them literature, painting and music would die.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " of the policy, I can repeat that we are prepared to treat individual cases on their merits, either by way of representations made by the traders themselves to the Board of Customs and Excise or, if hon. Members themselves are interested, by correspondence on the normal basis with my right hon. Friend the Chancellor or with myself or my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Economic Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1574.4", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": " out. In spite of the changes introduced then, there is no doubt that very great abuses of the system of expense and entertainment allowances still occur, both for personal expenses, entertaining in restaurants and so on, and also in the provision of flats and suites in hotels and so on, for a purpose ostensibly connected with business but frequently apparently as a means of luxurious tax evasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1574.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1574.4", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "re taken into account. I am not going to quote examples, but hardly an hon. Member will not have heard of cases of the type I have described. In fact, it would not be possible for a large number of the luxury restaurants and luxury hotels to exist at all in this country if it were not for the large expense allowances received by hotels, and directors and other senior officials of corporate bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1574.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1581.6", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Coloncl Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "May I finish?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1582.0", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "Let the hon. Member, who has had the advantage of being six years in Government, produce one case, or two cases, or even a category of cases, in which the Inland Revenue have not been capable of dealing with this. He knows there are not any.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1582.0", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "Let the hon. Member, who has had the advantage of being six years in Government, produce one case, or two cases, or even a category of cases, in which the Inland Revenue have not been capable of dealing with this. He knows there are not any. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course he does. That happens under the existing reguladons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1582.4", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I certainly will not withdraw. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman looks at subsection (4) he will see the whole thing is permissive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1582.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1583.8", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is always most free of his allegations when he is less certain of his ground. I never pretended to be a legal expert and never have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1583.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1583.8", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is always most free of his allegations when he is less certain of his ground. I never pretended to be a legal expert and never have done. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps some hon. Members opposite would have the grace to look at the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1583.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1583.8", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ground. I never pretended to be a legal expert and never have done. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps some hon. Members opposite would have the grace to look at the Order Paper. [ Interruption. ] I have it here. I shall not read the whole Clause. It is a purely permissive Clause that starts, \"If the Commissioners.\" The former Attorney-General would not expect anybody except someone well versed in the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1583.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1584.2", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "May I say again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1584.2", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is correct.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "May I say again—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give it up.\"] Certainly not; there is nothing to give up here. I am the first to admit that the right hon. and learned Gentleman may be correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only £1,000?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Suppose, for example, that we are talking of a company director with an income of £1,000 a year. One per cent. of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a very rare sum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Suppose, for example, that we are talking of a company director with an income of £1,000 a year. One per cent. of that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Only £1,000?\"] That is not an unreasonable sum for a company director.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1609.4", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Transport.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "serious actual concessions to them. It is particularly important now that we should encourage these companies. We on this side want to encourage them for all manner of reasons. We certainly do not wish to see British industry dominated entirely by large, monopolistic concerns. It is important to encourage every possibility of competition against these large concerns on the part of small companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1609.4", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "ow that we should encourage these companies. We on this side want to encourage them for all manner of reasons. We certainly do not wish to see British industry dominated entirely by large, monopolistic concerns. It is important to encourage every possibility of competition against these large concerns on the part of small companies. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Transport.\"] We believe that this is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-28", "file": "debates1952-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "9d076922d5955908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1623.13", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 12.—(ESTATE DUTY: LIST OF WOMEN'S SERVICES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is; he is in bed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Yes. I think this important Amendment should not be allowed to pass in silence, and I should like to ask the Chancellor what he means by allowing this insult to the Royal Army Dental Corps. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg), in whose name the Amendment stood, is not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-28a.1623.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-29", "file": "debates1952-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "785a952aa149a313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-29a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister aware that I first raised this question with his Department as early as February this year, and that since that date I have received all kinds of assurances from his hon. Friend, followed by letters containing all kinds of evasions and prevarications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-29a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-05-29", "file": "debates1952-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "785a952aa149a313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-29a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this is, so to speak, a unilateral aggression against public concerns by the Government and that in this case it is really up to the Government to provide time? We did not start this row.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-29a.1669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-29", "file": "debates1952-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "785a952aa149a313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-29a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Second Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF BENEFIT PROVISIONS OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "I was only talking about what happened in the days of Queen Elizabeth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-29a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-30", "file": "debates1952-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "7b6d9fdcff477aa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-30a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "POST OFFICE, NORTHERN IRELAND (CENSORSHIP AND RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healy", "preceding_text": "the careers of these people depend a good deal upon their answers to that question. We want all promotions to be by merit and we want all recruitment to the Post Office to be by merit. For that reason I appeal to the hon. Gentleman to restore the competitive examinations which have been in abeyance for a considerable time. Northern Ireland is peculiar, as the hon. Gentleman will probably remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-30a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-30", "file": "debates1952-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "7b6d9fdcff477aa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-30a.1872.4", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "POST OFFICE, NORTHERN IRELAND (CENSORSHIP AND RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes they did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "othing new or unusual. It has gone on from time immemorial. If I recall aright, there was a case just before the war—the Bailey-Stewart case —in which the prosecution rested its evidence upon certain letters which were produced and which had been handed over by the Department of the Postmaster-General for examination and scrutiny. No one at that time thought that there was anything improper in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-30a.1872.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-05-30", "file": "debates1952-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "7b6d9fdcff477aa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-30a.1878.0", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "POST OFFICE, NORTHERN IRELAND (CENSORSHIP AND RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I see the hon. Gentleman wags his head. I am sorry. Perhaps I can never satisfy him. Perhaps he does not want to be satisfied on this matter. Those are the facts. On the question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-05-30a.1878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-10", "file": "debates1952-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "6045a7551c28c602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There still are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend in no way under-estimates the difficulties which lie ahead of all of us in this unemployment problem. There have been difficulties in Scotland, due particularly to cancellation of orders from Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-10", "file": "debates1952-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "6045a7551c28c602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "On the contrary. It is important to get this matter right. I did quote to the hon. and learned Gentleman the figures both for the whole of Scotland and for his own area of Aberdeen, and in both cases, as I told him—and I am very glad to be able to announce this from this Box—there is at the moment a decrease of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-10", "file": "debates1952-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "6045a7551c28c602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "the overspill has gone into that very narrow section of Lancashire right by the boundary which separates Oldham from Ashton-under-Lyne. An hon. Member opposite, I think it was the hon. and learned Member for Ilford, North, said that the job of a county borough or county town which wished to build outside its area was to apply for powers to extend its boundary. I will not dispute that for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-10", "file": "debates1952-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "6045a7551c28c602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "angle of incomprehensible verbiage. It has spread, as everyone has got another idea and another idea, until it has become a veritable absurdity. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to look at this in the light of what I have said and to introduce in another place a nice simple Clause which will give him all he wants in about one-tenth of the space. Remember that each one of these unnecessary additions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-10", "file": "debates1952-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "6045a7551c28c602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I rise early in this debate so that perhaps I can facilitate the progress of our discussion. I hope that the Minister will emphatically reject this new Clause. It would be unfair to attribute to the right hon. Gentleman the views of those who sit behind him. We are not always responsible for what our colleagues say from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-10", "file": "debates1952-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "6045a7551c28c602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": " which will continue. Towns will continue to grow. There will always come a time when a town ought to grow no more and some of the people ought to go somewhere else. The hon. and learned Member for Ilford, North (Sir G. Hutchinson), has a great knowledge of local government, but his is very much the townsman's view of local government. To have bigger and better county boroughs is not the solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-10", "file": "debates1952-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "6045a7551c28c602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " that arise on this new Clause. That is why I rise to ask the Parliamentary Secretary to give the most categorical reply, that he will not merely consider this or try to do something about it, but that he will say that this is quite impracticable. The second point was largely covered by the speech of the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Lindgren) who spoke with ability, eloquence and sincerity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-10", "file": "debates1952-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "6045a7551c28c602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I am a little confused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-10a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.200.4", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH KOREA (POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that—I think I speak for all of us on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.200.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "imulus to efficiency and an incentive to development, yet once there is any mention of sponsoring these consequences are forgotten and it is assumed that in the broadcasting world standards will be reduced and debased. It would be foolish to ignore the point. It would be equally foolish to accept as axiomatic that such debasement must follow. I am not impressed by analogies from the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": ". I agree with paragraph 17 that the Governors are supreme. Indeed, as I said myself in an earlier debate, and as the Home Secretary said this afternoon, the Governors are the Corporation, and they should not regard themselves—indeed, they are not required to regard themselves—as a mere advisory committee to the Director-General. They are the masters of the show. They are the captains of the ship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "mately a settlement is reached; the list is published, and my hon. Friends on the back benches, and those outside, may complain most vigorously that the Labour movement has been let down in the composition of the Board of Governors, and that Labour—which is an important and respectable element of the community—is hardly there at all. What is my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rously that the Labour movement has been let down in the composition of the Board of Governors, and that Labour—which is an important and respectable element of the community—is hardly there at all. What is my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition to do? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] I gather the proposal is that he should resign from the Committee, but that would create an awkward situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Co-ops.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "o complain about Socialists that now and again some of them get a bit too theoretical and dogmatic and abstract, but it is now obvious that this trouble is more prevalent in the Conservative Party than it is in the Labour Party. There is a case for competition in many fields of industry. For example, there is a good case for competition in electric lamps, departmental stores, chemical manufacture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ble thing. The noble Lord the Lord Chancellor said that there was a power of authority. Well, when we go on the air as politicians and have controversial broadcasts, as we do from time to time, no authority interferes with us. Nobody interferes with the script. We are absolutely free to say what we like—and so we do. Therefore, I say that the Lord Chancellor hopelessly misused the word \"monopoly.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "dified according to who is the Government of the day—but we all try to take them in good part, as we ought; and I really think with respect to the Lord Chancellor—the Lord High Chancellor of England, a great lawyer, a man for whom I have the warmest personal respect—I really do think it was not worthy of the high office he holds that this misrepresentation about the B.B.C. should have taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like the films.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "we must presume that the American agencies will be able to come into the business as well, and so we may get that very Americanism about which the Home Secretary seemed to be apprehensive. If this happens we shall not be able to maintain reasonably good and high standards of television or sound broadcasting, because the very nature of the thing is that it must be a chase for listeners and viewers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite say: \"Like the films.\" Are they all ideal for children to see? Have we not to mark a lot of them \"A,\" for adults only? That is really a false argument. If we bring in this commercial rivalry and sponsoring, which in itself is dependent upon the number of people it can attract to listen to or look at it, there must be a competitive drive in a downward direction of standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacPherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacPherson", "preceding_text": "he question whether or not the B.B.C. is a monopoly is not an important one with regard to the policy upon which we must decide. That is made abundantly clear when we read the speech of the Lord Chancellor in another place. He got himself as confused as he possibly could. He ended his speech with the blunt and vigorous statement that this monopoly, like all monopolies, should be brought to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "ment of this country in those critical days and there was a sort of conspiracy to denigrate anything he said, so there was a feeling in the B.B.C. that my right hon. Friend might say something which nobody in the House of Commons wanted to hear. The Government did not want it said because their policy was different, and the Labour Party did not want it said because their policy was more different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "t may come as a surprise when I say that the B.B.C. already take advertisements in a paper which earns over £1 million a year. They already choose between good and bad advertisements, they already exercise their taste to exclude advertisements that would shock the right hon. Gentleman. If it is too much to ask that the B.B.C should do that, why not let some group of commercial people get together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.269.5", "colnum": "269", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We want to improve it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": " of sponsored broadcasting there is an avenue of profitable investment for them. We have had tributes to the work of the B.B.C., both in the other place and in the White Paper, and there are one or two specific questions that I want to address to the hon. Gentleman who is to reply to the debate. If we are agreed that we have the best system in the world, why do the party opposite want to alter it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": ". It is said that Beecham's told a certain church that they would supply their hymn books provided that they could do some concealed advertising. One day at Christmas, the congregation sang: Hark the herald angels sing, Beecham's pills are just the thing. Peace on earth and mercy mild Two for man and one for child. I find the Home Secretary saying that that is the kind of thing we should have now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Profumo", "preceding_text": "as pointing at me the whole way through his speech. I have absolutely no connection with any radio industry or other industry. I have one interest, which is that of an average listener, viewer and licence-payer. I think I share that interest with 90 per cent. of the householders and families of this country, and it is on their behalf that I wish to address the House for a few minutes this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"DO you look at ' Jane'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "t. of the readers said that it was bad. To a supplementary question whether the B.B.C. programmes would be better if there were competition. 65 per cent. of the readers replied that it would be better. Let us come up to date with this point. When this matter was a live issue, the \"Daily Mirror\" published a lot of matter about this question, as hon. Members will be aware if they read the newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": " will not praise it during election times and condemn it out of hand in between elections. The whole of the front page of the \"Daily Mirror\" was taken up with an article about this matter, asking readers to write and give their views. Hon. Members opposite may be surprised to know that 63 per cent. of the letters which the \"Daily Mirror\" received as a result were in favour of sponsored television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "views. Hon. Members opposite may be surprised to know that 63 per cent. of the letters which the \"Daily Mirror\" received as a result were in favour of sponsored television. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How many were they?\"] As a matter of fact, I am led to believe that there was not a large correspondence, which also shows that in the eyes of the public this matter is not regarded as of paramount importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "n, they would say to the people, \"You shall have no freedom of choice,\" and they would tell the people, on whose backs the party opposite climbed to power in the last six years, that they are not fit to choose their own entertainment. How does that line up with \"Labour believes in Britain\"? The only answer that I know to that is not a very Parliamentary one—it is \"Gertcha.\" In the name of freedom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ther he was echoing what Lord Woolton said in 1951, before he accepted responsibility. Lord Woolton then said: I have come to the conclusion that the B.B.C. should be retained in full possession of their present powers, except that they should not have, for any long period, the exclusive right of broadcasting in this country.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Lords, 25th July, 1951; Vol. 172, c. 1222.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "hat the B.B.C. should be retained in full possession of their present powers, except that they should not have, for any long period, the exclusive right of broadcasting in this country.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Lords, 25th July, 1951; Vol. 172, c. 1222.] [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I do not know what hon. Members are \"hear-hearing\" about. The noble Lord was talking about the medium waveband.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.322.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-11", "file": "debates1952-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4ee1ebaa53d039dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CHARTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "Sir Waldron Smithers (Orpington) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-11a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.390.8", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The hospitals will do everything they can to carry out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.390.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.390.8", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have no discretion\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The hospitals will do everything they can to carry out—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—I am answering —the law. I am quite content to rely on their discretion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.390.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "In view of that very large number of cases, and the very small number of actions against dentists employed by corporate bodies, is it not clear that dentists practising privately are a good deal more culpable than dentists employed by corporate bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "bodies, is it not clear that dentists practising privately are a good deal more culpable than dentists employed by corporate bodies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, the facts speak for themselves. In these circumstances will not the Minister reconsider his ill-starred Dentists Bill, which is designed specifically to operate against corporate bodies and the appointment of dentists, so far as one can see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.446.4", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "tastrophic, and accepting the assumption of the White Paper, the profit of the industry did not go down as a result of the fall in production but went up by £45 million. I want to ask this Committee and the nation: if indolent farmers are to be insulated against the economic consequences of their apathy and inertia in advance and at public expense, what incentive is there for them to be efficient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.446.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Black market.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer Baldwin", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman leaves that point, does not what he is saying prove what I have said on many occasions, that there is no single commodity for which the farmer is getting a subsidised price that he could not get more for in the open market? Eggs are a case in point. They make more in a free market——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They want the skin off your back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " Price Review White Paper, something like £45 million. I say again that this industry which is receiving so much benevolence and so many hundreds of millions of pounds from the State, from the taxpayer—in addition to what the farmers get from the housewife—stands in urgent need of very careful investigation. The farmers can have the shirt off my back if they want, if they will give us the results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Legh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Legh", "preceding_text": "y way benefited from the 1947 Act which the previous Minister extolled—quite rightly—at considerable length in his opening remarks. I refer, of course, to the growers of fruit and vegetables, many of whom live and work and go bankrupt in my constituency. I am sure there will be general agreement on both sides of the Committee that the best known source of the British strawberry is South Hampshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "rthampton (Mr. Paget) will remember, if he cudgels his forensic brains, from it arose the Stevenage case. As to the question under Clause 4 as to what is the more appropriate procedure, I differ from the hon. and learned Gentleman. It seems to me that if, as may be the case, there is a dispute between the local authorities, it would be difficult in any event, even if it were desirable to shut out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "h was not made by anybody else. The hon. and learned Gentleman said that this Clause meant nothing. I always bow to the lawyers, with their immense knowledge, and forensic skill, but I must here point out that, if this Clause is not in the Bill, the exporting authority will have no power to make contributions to the receiving authority. What does the Clause mean? We are told that it means nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I feel that our patience and good temper are being imposed on by the Minister. I moved this Amendment in a few words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.571.4", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "n the first place one might say that even the side note is not clearly intelligible. It reads: Contributions to authorities participating from the Exchequer and local authorities benefited. That is, I suggest, certainly not clear, but the purpose of my Amendment is to establish that a participating council, if it can satisfy the Minister—and the Clause is quite clear about that—and it is implicit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.571.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-12", "file": "debates1952-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "b77d80ec9e685f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "orward in this way. The Clause itself is a monumental example of how not to say a thing. Words seem to have been inserted purely to prolong it and make it incomprehensible. I do not want to use any discourteous words to the Minister tonight. He has been most courteous and accommodating, and I am glad we have made such rapid progress with the Bill. We have done much better tonight than I had hoped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-12a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-13", "file": "debates1952-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c15380a42ae6f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend did not say that the stock was of no use for civilian purposes. What he said was that it would not be capable of being applied immediately to civilian purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-13", "file": "debates1952-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c15380a42ae6f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I have done better than that. I have revealed it to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-13", "file": "debates1952-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c15380a42ae6f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ately may have some civilian use I shall do so; and what, is more, I shall be the very first to insist on that being done. I shall do it because it is sound accountancy and for the reason which the hon. Member for Willesden, West mentioned, which is true, that anyone who has had anything to do with the Post Office has gone away with a great admiration for it and a determination to stand up for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.673.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-13", "file": "debates1952-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c15380a42ae6f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It has gone.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "be covered up at a later stage. Certainly, both the House and myself came to the conclusion that he really meant to have that exchange ready in May, so that this position would be remedied. Therefore, I went back to my constituents and said to them, \"There it is; there is a decent indication on the part of the Minister to do it, and he said that you shall have the new exchange in May.\" May comes——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-13", "file": "debates1952-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c15380a42ae6f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He lost it long ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The Minister says it is not his face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-13", "file": "debates1952-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c15380a42ae6f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.695.3", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e decided to make them in full public view and, for his purpose, he took the public counters. But Sir Kingsley Wood never looked behind the scenes in the Post Office. Had he done so, he would have required millions of pounds to make some of the present sorting offices decent for the people working there and bring them up to modern efficiency. I do not want to take the time of the Committee unduly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-13", "file": "debates1952-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c15380a42ae6f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.709.6", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I agree that it may be very difficult to draw the line, but the line, surely, must be drawn somewhere, otherwise we could discuss the whole administration of the Post Office on this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-13a.709.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-16", "file": "debates1952-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "58d32e683e2fc5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.756.5", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman will agree that this is one of the most difficult problems of all. I would remind him that about one-fifth of the egg producers of this country are people owning 25 hens or less, and they can sell freely without restriction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-16", "file": "debates1952-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "58d32e683e2fc5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.758.4", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I get advice from the White Fish Authority. The position at the moment is that the White Fish Authority have asked the railways and Road Haulage Executive to give certain information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-16", "file": "debates1952-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "58d32e683e2fc5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.808.5", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "spect of the matter, with which I have dealt for rather too long. It is not only a matter of the terms upon which people will be employed but of the whole conduct of agriculture. It is no use our pouring money into an area over which we have no effective control in regard to general agricultural policy. The areas most in need of assistance under the scheme are the counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.808.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-16", "file": "debates1952-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "58d32e683e2fc5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.812.6", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful for the various pieces of information from different parts of the Committee. I was speaking on the practical level that anybody in Northern Ireland buys just as much milk, indeed just as much meat, as he wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.812.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-16", "file": "debates1952-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "58d32e683e2fc5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "even after the invitation offered. To pursue the point I was making, the broad point which requires answering is whether or no there should be a separate scheme. I appreciate that the hon. and learned Gentleman felt concerned about this. I noted that the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. F. Willey) in his intervention, which, I thought, started on a tone rather lower than his usual courtesy——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-16", "file": "debates1952-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "58d32e683e2fc5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.878.2", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "her occasions, emphasis has been laid that we were to have a great deal of devolution for Wales. This would seem to me to be an admirable occasion to approach Welsh devolution and at any rate to consider a separate scheme for Wales. As has been said on this side of the Committee, the average size of a Welsh farm is smaller than the average size of an English farm. The Welsh farm is about 95 acres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-16", "file": "debates1952-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "58d32e683e2fc5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARINE AND AVIATION INSURANCE (WAR RISKS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "laying such was a normal peace-time precaution, and that this was a display of rather less precaution than in peacetime, and was not ipso facto a war risk. I think that that is still the law. It may be that the Parliamentary Secretary is able to say that it was not the practice of the Department to interpret it so during the last war. He could have given us a little more information in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-16a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-17", "file": "debates1952-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae918aea8e1af9d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The pigeons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The men to whom I have refused licences have been interviewed. Every one admitted that the Square must be cleaned up. Every one put the blame on somebody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-17", "file": "debates1952-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae918aea8e1af9d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that some weeks ago an exactly similar case arose in my own constituency, which I raised in this House; and is it not significant that these discharges continue to go on of men who have been employed for several years? In my own case I was able to show that there had been no significant deterioration of condition at all. Is the hon. Gentleman not aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-17", "file": "debates1952-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae918aea8e1af9d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": " I am quite sure when the Government introduce their next Finance Bill my hon. Friend will find a means of embodying in it the principle with which this House agrees. All I can say is that it does not commend itself to the right hon. Gentleman and his Friends. I realise that as soon as they have divided the House the troops will be out all over the country trying to explain that the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-17", "file": "debates1952-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae918aea8e1af9d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to pay tribute to that. We are always delighted when we get a non-party approach to matters of this kind and I was delighted that my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary showed that he has got a broad mind and was willing to consider the terms of the Clause and the idea behind it. I am bound to say that the speech of the right hon. Gentleman was made entirely for political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-17", "file": "debates1952-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae918aea8e1af9d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.1127.2", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman has only just come to life. I am not difficult to hear and if he had been listening to what I was saying he would have heard what I said in support of the principle behind the Clause. I do not intend to detain the House any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.1127.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-17", "file": "debates1952-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "ae918aea8e1af9d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "May I, by leave of the House——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-17a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1198.2", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is a very improper observation——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1198.6", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have frequently ruled, as my predecessor has too, that in giving this form of notice, which the hon. Member was about to do, the proper form of words is, \"Owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the reply.\" It is really out of order to load that notice with words of that character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1198.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1205.7", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION (DRAFT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; those statements are not correct. I think I had better not go into the details of the White Paper which, on the matter of representation, will, I think, give the hon. Member some comfort. They are wider than those provided by the officials' report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1205.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1239.3", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The people directly concerned are the exhibitors. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the producers are closely connected with this, both directly, from the ordinary point of view of the customer and buyer, and, equally, through the working of the Eady plan. When I use the expression \"industry\" in connection with the pricing of seats, I am, of course, referring to the exhibitors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House will want to give the hon. Gentleman leave to speak a second time and, before he does so, I want to intervene to appeal to him to go further than he has done. This has been a very good debate, at any rate up to now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "ing down on overdrafts very quickly indeed. The increase in Entertainments Duty is likely to discourage people from attending football matches by making it more costly for them that do so, and, therefore, the revenue which clubs are likely to get in the future is reduced. If the Chancellor persists in this policy it seems to me that one of two things, or perhaps both of them, are likely to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not people watching.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "or 10 hours he can produce 100 articles. That does not happen. The man needs rest and, equally, he needs entertainment. A worker may be required to spend long hours standing behind a shop counter or over a bench. He needs to be physically fit. This sort of entertainment which it is proposed to tax more heavily is one of the best means of increasing the physical well-being of the people as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner (Leicester, North-West)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner (Leicester, North-West)", "preceding_text": "s will be completely put out of activity. The smaller promoters will be particularly affected. It is a serious matter, because boxing is followed by a very large section of the community. It is held at a time when men are not usually at work, and if boxing is attacked in this way the younger boxers will not be given the opportunity of rising to the heights so important in the international sphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "We have a Third Division football club in Coventry and I think it is known throughout the country that Third Division clubs have difficulties in making ends meet. But it is not only these clubs that are penalised. I do not know where the Chancellor was born, but he sits for Saffron Walden. I come from Yorkshire and everybody knows that that is quite the best cricketing county in the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Injustice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "II which is added to the Fourth Schedule the following result will be observed by close students of Parliamentary drafting, but it is almost incomprehensible. It is that 14th May will be fixed for the date of introduction of the footwear and fur garments concession, 3rd June for Class B material weighing not less than six ozs. and 18th June for cloth and certain linen articles of Class C material.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "f residence, is the Chancellor's interpretation of the law such that, as it stands, a man has to prove he has no female relatives able and willing to do the job? Certainly, the Section reads like that, and, if it is so, it is rather ridiculous. I can imagine many of my own female relatives whom I would not trust to bring up my own children and instead of whom I would be happy to have someone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1381.2", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "She would.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I do not think that in that case the housekeeper would be resident with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1415.2", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that my hon. and learned Friend has been unable to accept the Amendment, but, in view of the cogent reasons which he has given, and the way in which they have been received by the House, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "When one is considering public service uniforms, I suppose that one should include the uniforms of the mayor, town clerk, and mace-bearer, but it goes to prove how modest we are that we have not put those in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1487.3", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Strike it hard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "At this hour of the morning I dislike striking a discordant note.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about hon. Members opposite?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": " firms in the country manufacture it. It is particularly popular in the industrial areas of the north-east of England and South Wales and in some parts of Scotland. It has been in use for centuries in mining districts and elsewhere. It acts as a blanket which tucks right over the bed. I see a number of hon. Gentlemen laid out on the benches opposite who might very well be tucked up at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-18", "file": "debates1952-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "ea1ebf9f192d6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. Marshall", "preceding_text": "early all the ships in our Mercantile Marine were either requisitioned by the Government or were operating under controlled rates of freight, so that the industry was subject to either a very low E.P.T. or no E.P.T. at all. In consequence it was only necessary for those companies which were liable to E.P.T. to allocate a portion of their repairs in order to wipe out the E.P.T. position altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-18a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-19", "file": "debates1952-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d269e7ce3d61d477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA (DEFENCE MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If that was all I was warned against it does not amount to much. I should have thought that it was very reasonable and proper for the field marshal to wear his uniform when going into the battle zone. Indeed, I think that even from a practical point of view to have one civilian going around amid a mass of military officers might have attracted attention from the enemy air service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-19", "file": "debates1952-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d269e7ce3d61d477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1558.8", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who is the one man?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "Is it considered that this country is in a serious economic position? If so, is it not a scandal that so many days should be devoted by the House to considering the position of one man, when we have not had a day or even part of a day to consider the Economic Survey, published three months ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1558.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-19", "file": "debates1952-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d269e7ce3d61d477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1560.2", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman has referred to the three days for the public corporations in the autumn, but the understanding is that the three days should be during the Parliamentary Session, and, usually, I think that means before the House rises for the Summer Recess. I presume that the right hon. Gentleman is not presuming that this Parliamentary Session will run on indefinitely after the Summer Recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-19", "file": "debates1952-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d269e7ce3d61d477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "B.B.C. GOVERNORS (METHOD OF APPOINTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " in the White Paper, to take the appointment of the Governors as far as possible from the political arena, as a safeguard against any risk that the Corporation might be subordinated to political ends. This was, I think, a very reasonable proposal. However, the attitude of the Opposition, and their action in including this issue among those on which they divided the House, has defeated this object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-19", "file": "debates1952-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d269e7ce3d61d477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1565.8", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED NATIONS (SPECIALISED AGENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ey said, it was very difficult to get the experts and to get the necessary administrative machine going. In consequence of the 40 per cent. cut made by the Government on the previous contribution, a conference on technical assistance which discussed ways and means was unable to reach a target of £20 million. I would say that this mean action is without parallel, even in the life of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1565.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-19", "file": "debates1952-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d269e7ce3d61d477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1619.1", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED NATIONS (SPECIALISED AGENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "I have been aware of some of these facts for some time, but the sheer gravity of the situation has been borne in upon us only in the last few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-19", "file": "debates1952-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d269e7ce3d61d477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1689.0", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHEESE AND TEA RATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "on. and gallant Gentleman has referred this evening. The only reply which he made was that we cannot get any more North American cheese because we have not got the dollars available. That reply assumes one of two things. It assumes either that we are not spending any dollars on anything at all, or it assumes that we are using our dollars to the best effect. Or, to put the second point another way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-19", "file": "debates1952-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d269e7ce3d61d477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1695.6", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHEESE AND TEA RATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He never is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) is not very well informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1695.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-19", "file": "debates1952-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d269e7ce3d61d477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1697.6", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHEESE AND TEA RATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Oldham, West mentioned six subjects that I did not refer to at all. We all deplore this Order. We are Short of cheese because we have not the wherewithal to buy it, because the party opposite dissipated our resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-19a.1697.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-20", "file": "debates1952-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "18f76ca5b8df63ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-20a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "t no longer can these roads be used throughout for their primary purpose; and we must impose restrictions upon them. Twelve months ago we drew the attention of the Department to another instance at Neasden Circus. The Department said it would receive attention, but even to this day at the peak hours it has been necessary for as many as four policemen to be there on duty to disentangle the traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-20a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1830.0", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will realise that we are dealing with only a comparatively short period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "his increase to sustain the surplus. I hope you will stop me, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, if I get out of order; it is very difficult to discuss this argument without referring to other matters as well. We have to face the fact that when the Chancellor made his Budget, of which these charges were an essential part, he had very little room in which to manoeuvre. The country was plunging towards bankruptcy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1872.6", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "would have known that his hon. Friend the Member for Westbury (Sir R. Grimston) had admitted that progress was being made in that regard. If the hon. Member refers to HANSARD tomorrow he will see that there was no need for him to make that intervention. On the political aspect of this matter, there can be no question that before the advent of the very important Labour Government which did so much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1872.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1874.1", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A penny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": " House on a number of occasions. The tenant is thus compelled to send his rent to the landlord by post. Every week, if the landlord insists upon that right, the tenant has to send a postal order or cash. The additional 1d. charge or 2d. charge which is to be made is of considerable importance to poor tenants. It means nothing to the rich tenant, but it means a considerable amount to a poor tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I do not think that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": " not do so. I can quite understand his reticence, because I suggest that the right hon. Member for Caerphilly has not really faced up to the reason for these increases. The main reason for these increases, as well as the other increases, is that wages have gone up. What he and his hon. Friends will be doing tonight when they go into the Lobby against this Bill is objecting to those wage increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1924.1", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It always was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "rse, we want a Licence to the B.B.C. and, on the face of it, I admit that this Licence is the same as previous Licences, but it is, in fact, quite a new creature. It is what is called a nonexclusive Licence. The Government have dragged that word into the Royal Charter for the first time so that we shall be told what is the document we have in front of us. It is described as a nonexclusive Licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1925.4", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why unscrupulous?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "thing new. Before I was interrupted, I was trying to show that there were three points in the Licence which led one on to a brief glance at the problem of sponsorshire. The first is on page 10, where there is a reference to 85 per cent. The situation is entirely new, because the Government are proposing to expose the B.B.C. to most bitter and unscrupulous competition and therefore they should not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1931.6", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "I will, naturally, do my best to keep within the Ruling given by Mr. Speaker. I observe, however, that the other side seem to be extraordinarily shy of discussing the matter, and I do not doubt that people outside the House will draw the proper conclusion. The party opposite are using rather gagging methods to try to stop this being discussed at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1931.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1933.5", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "We now have one thing clear. It is a non-exclusive Licence; we have been told by the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I can assure him that the previous Licence for which we were responsible was an exclusive Licence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1933.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "oters have certainly done nothing to demand that they should be ruled out as untouchable in any kind of promotion of either entertainment or education for the people of this country. As I say, the Glyndebourne opera itself is one of the outstanding examples of a man of wealth devoting his wealth to elevating the public taste. Hon. Members opposite suggest that all men of great wealth are vultures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1956.3", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "I pass then, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, from that with a slight regret that if what I was saying was in order, I should be showing that those who pay in this manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": " children's welfare as a single aim. The view of the Government is that the entertainment and education of children is a thing which may be exploited to advertise commercial products. That is the view of the Government; it is the view of hon. Members opposite. The hon. Member opposite is quite happy that his child should sit in front of a television set watching a commercially sponsored programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-23", "file": "debates1952-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "973c371072fe05f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1963.1", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (LICENCE AND AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "up a programme such as \"What's My Line?\" They have the financial resources and they would use them to buy away with double or treble the fees the performers, technicians, cameramen and producers. This happens today in Canada and Australia. Every time the B.B.C. produced a winning programme it would be bought up by big business and put on with advertisements in the middle, in a sponsored programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-23a.1963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2011.5", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "It is my duty to make an appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2019.2", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "It is not a wrong claim for a landlord to ask his tenant to make a voluntary addition to the rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2019.2", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "It is not a wrong claim for a landlord to ask his tenant to make a voluntary addition to the rent. [ Interruption .] That is not a wrong claim at all. Hon. Gentlemen know from their personal experience that in some cases the tenants have thought it right and fair to pay more rent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2024.6", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I did not consult the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2024.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2024.6", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I did not consult the local authorities. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because this question of repairs differs very much from one area to another. The facts are that the amount of underemployment in the building industry due to the financial policy the Government are pursuing is somewhat increasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2024.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2039.1", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "KOREA (AIR ATTACK, YALU RIVER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that he told the House not long ago that his Government were following the policy laid down by the previous Government? The policy laid down by the previous Government was to let the fighting in Korea die away as much as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2040.0", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "KOREA (AIR ATTACK, YALU RIVER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Afterwards.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the Communist war effort in Korea. Among other things, they supply power to aerodromes in Manchuria from which Communist aircraft operate in Korea. Therefore, it seems that the matters are those which primarily fall within the purview of the Supreme Commander of the United Nations. Of course, when these matters occur, careful consideration is given to them by all the Governments who are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2040.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2043.2", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "KOREA (AIR ATTACK, YALU RIVER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I submit also to you upon that point, Mr. Speaker, that an Adjournment is not customarily given when the facts are in dispute or before they are available?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2044.0", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "KOREA (AIR ATTACK, YALU RIVER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e United Nations were limited to Korea and were to be executed within the framework of declared United Nations Policy.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th April, 1951; Vol. 486, c. 1027.] Is it not also a fact that the spokesman of the United Nations in the meantime has taken pride in the fact that, as a consequence of the destruction of these stations, thousands of square miles of territory inside Manchuria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2044.0", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "KOREA (AIR ATTACK, YALU RIVER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "clared United Nations Policy.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th April, 1951; Vol. 486, c. 1027.] Is it not also a fact that the spokesman of the United Nations in the meantime has taken pride in the fact that, as a consequence of the destruction of these stations, thousands of square miles of territory inside Manchuria—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the point of order?\"] If you want to go to war, why not say so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2044.6", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "KOREA (AIR ATTACK, YALU RIVER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Could I ask you, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2044.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2045.1", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "KOREA (AIR ATTACK, YALU RIVER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "namely, that a Motion of this kind to be in order must be the responsibility of a Minister or Government. Erskine May has numerous examples where the executive act complained of was done by an authority not His Majesty's Government, when the Motion has been in the past refused. There is also this difficulty about this particular Motion, namely, that from what I hear the facts are still in dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2045.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2045.3", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "KOREA (AIR ATTACK, YALU RIVER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Mr. Attlee rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2089.3", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. G. Cove", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Labour Government introduced it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. G. Cove", "preceding_text": "ardship is there for the lower paid pensioner? It is a negation of the principle relating to hardship, because, if it is a case of hardship, the hardship lies with the lower paid pensioner yet this one-third provision will penalise the lower paid pensioner more than the better paid pensioner. That seems to be a complete muddle. We resent very much the introduction of the means test in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2159.1", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "tee stage in an atmosphere in which it is felt by certain Members that the Government, by drawing the Resolution very tightly, prevent adequate discussion of strongly felt grievances which could be decently and properly aired in Committee. The Leader of the House is here, the matter has been circulated among the Whips, and I have no doubt that the Government could beat us if it came to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2159.1", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "circulated among the Whips, and I have no doubt that the Government could beat us if it came to a Division. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Perhaps they are not so sure, but I am assuming that that is what would happen, although I am sure that a number of the Government's supporters would not vote very wholeheartedly with them. I appeal to the Financial Secretary We do not want to end on a Division tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "nt of view on this Money Resolution, otherwise it will look as if on the benches opposite the whole thing is being allowed to go by default, leaving my right hon. Friends and my hon. Friends to appear in the light of captious critics expressing vexatious sentiments and destroying the good will on Second Reading and altogether appearing to be unreasonable people. 10.45 p.m. All we are trying to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2178.6", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "preceding_text": "orm the wording of the Clause, which, as it stands, is inexact and ambiguous. I am not concerned that there should be a separate scheme for the Principality of Wales at the moment. There are strong arguments for such an arrangement, but I am not arguing that particular point. My concern is that the Clause, as it stands, is so badly drafted, that it does convey a studied insult to the Principality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2178.6", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A corgi.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "preceding_text": "afting possible? Is there no one in the drafting office, who takes care of this kind of thing? Is there no one among the advisers of the Minister who can point out to him how inevitable and unnecessary a feeling is aroused in Wales by this kind of drafting? What about the Minister of Welsh affairs? Where is he? Being the watchdog for Welsh interests, I suppose? What a watchdog. More like a poodle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-24", "file": "debates1952-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2650847f1f0853ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2188.2", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wales including England?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister confusing instances where the phrase \"England and Wales\" is used and where there is statutory authority for Wales including England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-24a.2188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2219.9", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "While offering the right hon. and learned Gentleman congratulations—qualified congratulations, I am afraid—on his safe return—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2219.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2256.3", "colnum": "2256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I intended to deal with that point. It is one which we have to weigh in considering this decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2259.0", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does not look like it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ill have to say, that report, from the point of view of our defences, is extremely reassuring. I think I am right in saying that a statement will be made on Tuesday next in this House and in another place, when the Cabinet have had time to consider it and the conclusions to which they will come. I have not the least doubt that the visit of my two right hon. Friends has been an outstanding success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2264.6", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "shes the policy of the Government today from the policy of the recent Labour Government. There can be no doubt whatever that the policy that has been pursued by the American High Command in Korea is entirely different from the policy which the Labour Government supported in Korea. I want to make that quite clear, and I am entitled to do so because I was a Member of that Government for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2264.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2264.6", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "was also quite clear that there were certain elements, particularly in the United States of America, who regarded these circumstances as an opportunity for counterrevolutionary action. That counter-revolutionary action has been taken by the United States of America, simultaneously with the fighting in Korea, by the arming and the training of Chiang Kai-shek's forces in Korea. Let us face the fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2264.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2267.2", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "What are you babbling about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2267.4", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "hat we are to be able to influence American policy if at no time in this House are we able to express criticism of what is happening without being accused of anti-American propaganda. It is quite clear that the Foreign Secretary was wrong in arguing that this would be an extension on the same kind of action. But I want to call his attention to a statement made in 1950 by the United Nations itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2267.4", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " accused of anti-American propaganda. It is quite clear that the Foreign Secretary was wrong in arguing that this would be an extension on the same kind of action. But I want to call his attention to a statement made in 1950 by the United Nations itself.[ Interruption. ]We know the technique which is indulged in on the benches opposite. We have been in the House of Commons too long not to know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2294.4", "colnum": "2294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " a United Nations Commission on the spot. It is now known—and I think it is not in controversy at all—that that was not the case, that the United Nations Commission on the spot—indeed, the first telegram on the whole matter rested on this—never purported to be doing anything more than to detail to the Security Council what the Syngman Rhee Government had told them, which is a very different thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2298.2", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am not making any assumptions at all. I am stating well-known facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2300.3", "colnum": "2300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is tempting me into a much wider field than would be in order and I will not follow him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2301.0", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " to attack such legitimate military objectives for the whole of the two years, and at times when it must have been very tempting in view of our military fortunes to attack them, we should now have thought it proper to attack them at a moment when only one point, and a small point, and a point on which there is considerable doubt whether we are right, prevents the signing of an immediate armistice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2301.0", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "n the United States of America, \"We would rather that you consulted us. We regret it when you do not. But if you do not consult us and if you then do something of which we do not approve, even though the result of that may be to land us in a world war which we are all trying to prevent, nevertheless rather than quarrel with you we will support you.\" That is exaotly what the Foreign Secretary said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2306.1", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (BOMBING POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So have we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " coming to agreement. As we have accepted one stipulation, they have thought of something else. And that has gone on until it is only natural that one should begin to assume that they are doing it for some ulterior motive. That assumption is very much strengthened by the fact that during the whole of this time they have been building up their forces in Korea and Manchuria on a most enormous scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2345.1", "colnum": "2345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eleven months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "But, if you want them to come to the council chamber, negotiating with us in the United Nations for a truce, you must exercise the arts of peace. You must exercise infinite patience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2354.1", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "hmetic. If we make our contribution —and we have made our contribution earnestly and with a readiness to bring this struggle to an end and to defend the free world against aggression—we must be treated by the United States Administration and by the military commander as equal partners in this affair. That is our demand. What we want to know is what the right hon. Gentleman is going to do about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Labour Party had six years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman hopes to do better than was done before, better than we have done. He has had more than six months in which to undertake the task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman hopes to do better than was done before, better than we have done. He has had more than six months in which to undertake the task. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The Labour Party had six years.\"] Well, of course, the Korean affair has not been going on for six years. It has been going on for 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "preceding_text": "r six years. It has been going on for 18 months. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Two years.\"] All right, two years—whatever hon. Members opposite desire. But we never experienced an incident of this kind during that period. When there was a prospect of General MacArthur's taking action which exceeded his authority, and which was resented not only in this country but in the United States, we took effective action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "preceding_text": "tive in persuading the Administration of the United States to provide more consultation. Let them complain. After all said and done, they have always pretended to be more competent than hon. Members on the Labour side. This affords an opportunity for them to provide a demonstration of their competence, and if they fail, as they have failed in the last six months or so, since the General Election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not bother.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "preceding_text": "eplored the fact—and it is a fact, an inescapable fact—that he was not informed about it. Does that mean, in spite of the Prime Minister's remarkable and undoubted influence and powers of persuasion with the people of the United States, that the Government have failed in their task? Is that what it means? It cannot mean anything else. Anyway, we are going to give the right hon. Gentleman a chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shin well", "preceding_text": "ivities of this kind can be undertaken in Korea without consultation with the United Kingdom Government. We want to make that plain. I must give way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman opposite. I want to say, finally, that we propose to take this much further. It may be unnecessary-it depends, of course, on what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has to say —to divide the Committee tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2361.2", "colnum": "2361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "as been a considerable amount of artillery fire on the front. There has been a great deal of mortar fire, and on the day when we visited the Commonwealth position some positions of ours some distance away from us were being mortared by the Chinese and being mortared very accurately. It is not very pleasant for the people at the receiving end of a mortar bomb to be told that the front is quiescent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2364.3", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You knew nothing about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ch my right hon. Friend used of this operation having been planned. I have no doubt at all, and I should think that the right hon. Gentleman the previous Minister of Defence would agree, that this operation had probably been planned for many months. It is the sort of operation which any intelligent commander would plan together with a great many other operations which might have to be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2368.0", "colnum": "2368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ly wrong, because it was an attempt to get the Chinese to withdraw. They have failed to withdraw and, when we have nearly one million Chinese troops prepared to fight our troops, I think that sort of Resolution becomes mere words and of no value at all. I suggest to the House that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the Committee should have some regard for the safety of our troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2369.1", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "—because I say again that the danger of this sort of debate is that people may think that there is a division —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2369.4", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "In the one minute left I should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2369.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2369.4", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "In the one minute left I should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman — [ Interruption. ]— I should like to ask a serious question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2369.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2370.5", "colnum": "2370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SUPERANNUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Blenkinsop (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Blenkinsop (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East)", "preceding_text": "e some explanation given to the House in spite of the disturbed state of the Chamber at the present time. In particular, I should like to draw the attention of such Members of the House as may be interested, even at this moment, to the particular provisions of these Regulations in page 4, paragraph (9, a )which refer to the provisions for the superannuation of dentists. It so happens that exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2371.1", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SUPERANNUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "entists when, in fact, the State is to some extent ceasing to be the employer? As far as we can understand it, it is the intention of the Minister of Health not only to approve these existing charges which relate to this provision in the superannuation Regulations but possibly to propose other charges later. He has favoured us with the information that he approves of a system of charges generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2382.0", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "ady announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. That makes 4s. a week. I have another one which gives the result of these Orders at £1 a week for a family of five. I do not think that the estimate of the effect of the Orders so far, including these tonight, at £1 a week for a family of five is an inaccuracy or an exaggeration, and I implore the Parliamentary Secretary to retrieve his reputation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2382.2", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "It was a little unfair of the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. F. Willey), who moved the annulment of this Order, to refer to the \"Sunday Express\" last Sunday. We in the Conservative Party do not judge by what professional journalists say about our Ministers. We judge them by results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Ministry of Food, while they still exist— and I hope that they will not exist for ever, because I hope that there will be no need for a Ministry of Food before long—will be out to serve the community and not to make a profit, as I believe the Ministry of Food made under the last Government. The hon. Member has accused the Government of importing more sugar. Of course they have imported more sugar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-25", "file": "debates1952-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "2065f10d9ba49757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2384.7", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Charles Hill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Charles Hill)", "preceding_text": "f similar increases when he held the office I now hold, is due to substantiated claims, as severely tested by the costing department of the Ministry of Food. He knows that this increase is justified. We pass to the subject of sugar. I was surprised the hon. Gentleman made no reference to what he knows to be the cause of the sugar increase—that is the provisions of the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-25a.2384.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2405.8", "colnum": "2405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "I asked Essex County Council for this information, which they have now given me, and on 25th June I received a request from them that I should receive a deputation to discuss the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2405.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2426.0", "colnum": "2426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BAMANGWATO RESERVE (TRIBAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "d roofs and some had not. This is the normal means of transport by those Bechuana who can afford it. It is that used when tribesmen are brought to Serowe for kgotlas. It is correct that the prisoners wore the same clothes as when arrested. Additional clothing is not provided for prisoners under trial. The minimum temperatures at Serowe from 3rd to 14th June averaged 44.67 degrees. With regard to——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2425.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2427.5", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BAMANGWATO RESERVE (TRIBAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "May I say I do not——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2430.9", "colnum": "2430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But they have not the money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I would say in answer that the British public today can get better value for money in the shops than at any time since the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2430.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2444.3", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A responsible Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": " get this Bill through at all. They perhaps form the necessary army or column without which such a procedure is impossible. Although this Bill is twice as long as last year's and a great deal more complicated and far-reaching, we took only about three hours longer than last year to get through the Committee and Report stages; and we did not have to bring the discussion compulsorily to an end once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2467.1", "colnum": "2467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "s and towards putting our affairs in order?\" Somehow or other, despite the integrity of our motives, I am not sure that the result of our post-war policy has been all that we hoped for. All of us seem to have become a nation of takers; giving has taken a low place in our national virtues. All of us, it seems to me, have developed into parasites—parasites on the State and, therefore, on each other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2536.1", "colnum": "2536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": " locality some degree of individuality is the possession of its own post office, and where this is not so, it leads to great difficulties in the case of people paying their rates, and so on. Again, in the case of houses, when there is such a restriction on the number of houses available, as is the case in my constituency, it is important to be able to ascertain under which authority one is living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2539.1", "colnum": "2539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ths ago in Oldham there were several thousand applications for telephones outstanding, and some were of quite vital importance. At that time we were told in a speech at the local Rotary Club by a distinguished Post Office official that the whole of the lag would be taken up by June of this year. As I understand it, if there had been no change of Government, that might very well have been the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2540.1", "colnum": "2540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that why the hon. Member wants it abolished?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "d we are to have no new development at all. My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing) referred to the manual exchanges. I was very glad to hear him do so, because I think the time is coming when, except in rural areas where an automatic exchange is impracticable, we all want to see the manual exchanges go. I have worked on a manual exchange and my wife was a sub-postmistress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2543.1", "colnum": "2543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "ng with regard to the countryside, because telephones are highly important instruments of production on the farms today. We are trying to get a large increase in our dairy and meat production. That increase can be achieved by improved cattle breeding, which in turn can be achieved by artificial insemination; but the work of artificial insemination depends entirely upon a telephone being available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2565.1", "colnum": "2565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY, ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " that we should be a little generous in dealing with this matter in areas of some poverty and distress. But the figure of £93 per vehicle as the revenue that is obtained from the disposal of these vehicles seems to me to be a very small figure indeed. I should be very glad if we could be given some information on this subject. I do not think there is anything else which I want to criticise at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2575.1", "colnum": "2575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY, ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quartermaster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "hon. and learned Gentleman asked whether we were getting any of these sums back. He will see in the Appropriation Account that each of these cases is gone into in very considerable detail. and wherever it has been possible to recover from anybody responsible for these losses that has been done. I am afraid I cannot at such short notice solve his problem of the posting of the Quartermaster-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2587.3", "colnum": "2587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY, ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may refer to another Ruling by Major Milner which is directly contrary to that which you have given, Mr. Hopkin Morris.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2605.0", "colnum": "2605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": " the law in regard to motor cars has been more universally approved than the position with regard to motor cars being driven by persons insured against third-party risks, but I have always thought a mistake was made there, and that the law should have included passengers. That was one of the unfortunate omissions. I do say that, having spent most of my life dealing with motor accidents, I do know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2624.3", "colnum": "2624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, as the Committee has now accepted the first Amendment, which I think was very wise, despite the assurance given, I hope the Minister will now be able to accept the Amendment which I am now moving. It deals with this question of visiting Americans or visiting North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Forces. The Road Traffic Act, 1930—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2624.3", "colnum": "2624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "y of the Minister of Transport under that Section of the Road Traffic Act to make certain exceptions, so that other vehicles can from time to time go on the roads. Normally, the categories of vehicles allowed are the kinds found in every ordinary driving licence, but in certain circumstances—such as a time of war— he has to make exceptions for Service vehicles and other types that go on the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2625.2", "colnum": "2625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "If I may go back to the Amendment before the Committee, it deals with the making of exceptions for special vehicles. Since the Road Traffic Act was passed the Minister of Transport has from time to time made exceptions for such vehicles as motor mowers, rotary ploughs, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2625.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2638.5", "colnum": "2638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "It would be ungenerous if I were to move my Amendment in view of the concession by the Patronage Secretary on the first Amendment. As the Minister will now have an opportunity to think the matter over I therefore beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2638.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2642.2", "colnum": "2642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "That was later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2642.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2647.3", "colnum": "2647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is now out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2647.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2647.5", "colnum": "2647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "If I am directed by the Chair to withdraw, I withdraw. Otherwise, I do not withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2647.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-26", "file": "debates1952-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "86f6cc158d59cf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2656.10", "colnum": "2656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Hopkin Morris, surely it is your duty in the Chair——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-26a.2656.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-27", "file": "debates1952-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "827d24a630fe942f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-27a.2694.1", "colnum": "2694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AFFILIATION ORDERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Later.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "Many of us were here until three o'clock or four o'clock this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-27a.2694.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-06-27", "file": "debates1952-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "827d24a630fe942f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-27a.2784.4", "colnum": "2784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFAMATION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "n destroy it and deprive the Press of a benefit that every reasonable person in the House decides that they ought to have. I sincerely hope that hon. Members opposite will realise what they are doing. I do not suggest for one moment that the right hon. Gentleman has done this purposely, but one hon. Member did come into the House recently, quite clearly, with the intention of obstructing business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-27a.2784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "What I do say is this. In the last six years of the Labour Government more was done for the farming community than was ever done in the history of the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.44.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I do challenge them. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman is throwing figures about quite a lot. I deny the accuracy of his statement completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the private buyers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "rts. This adverse movement in the general terms of trade has, I am glad to say, been checked since the beginning of this year; but the extent to which our food prices overseas have increased will, I think, surprise many hon. Members. Before the war the average price we paid for Argentine meat was £38 10s. per ton. The average price for the same meat in the first half of this year was £139 per ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ountry—both direct and indirect—the unpleasant task of paying so many millions of pounds to the Exchequer so that in due course they can buy food at the same amount below world prices. The housewife might buy her butter below what it costs to produce it; she saves a few pence on her ration of butter. Her husband, however, pays the equivalent amount in Income Tax, in the tax on cigarettes, on beer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.58.6", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about warmongers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I quote accurately from Lord Woolton's statement, taking into account the context. He stated: There's the story that the Conservatives would cut food subsidies. That isn't true. What we want to do is to get rid of the need for the food subsidies. Do hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.58.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.58.7", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " that if one takes the average family of, say, a man, wife and two children, the subsidies were worth to them in those days about £33 per year, but if one person in that household drank a pint of beer and smoked a packet of cigarettes a day he paid in a year the whole of that sum in tax. Apart from the fact that the supplying of anything below the cost of production gives a completely false sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.58.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "in by recognising the limits to the possibilities of making changes. We have to go cautiously, because of the effect which sudden and large changes of prices may have on food consumption and indirectly on other aspects of our economic life. We wish to ensure that the consequences of the economic failures of the late Government do not hit unduly old-age pensioners, children and other social groups—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is it\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "falling in price. Unfortunately, my ability to take supply advantage of these changes is hampered by our balance-of-trade position. We cannot remind ourselves too often that if we are to have more food we must send more exports. While we must all regret the economic difficulties, whether they be due to the late Administration or to long-term economic changes which have resulted in these—increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did we give away?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ple forget where the responsibility really rests, and that is on the shoulders of right hon. Gentlemen opposite. I wish to emphasize two points, in conclusion. Until last November the Opposition had been in office for six years with one of the largest majorities of this century. During that period they received by way of loans and gifts about £2,228 million, the overwhelming part of it in dollars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.64.5", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "as reading a brief which he had been too hot to study before he came to the Committee. There were moments when one wondered whether he meant what he said. For instance, someone had provided him with the obviously cheap points that the luxury hotels enjoy subsidised food and that the richest people enjoy it. What is the logic of that? Does he think it is wrong that they should have subsidised food?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.64.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.64.5", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "some hon. Members opposite say that it is wrong that luxury hotels should enjoy subsidised food, and no doubt that well-to-do people should not enjoy subsidised food. Have I still got the agreement of hon. Members opposite? If that is the case, does it mean that hon. Members opposite want to end all food subsidies? The right hon. and gallant Gentleman was asked that question and he dodged a reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.64.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor the Chancellor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": " but has to meet the higher cost of food just the same. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman knows those things, so why did he say what he did? He knows perfectly well that he was put up at that Box today to fill the undignified roll of a Tory \"stooge.\" I say that it is unworthy of him and that he knows better. The Prime Minister did not think it worth his while to appear on the Front Bench today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.76.5", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "vate enterprise exactly the same thing would happen as before the war, that the more expensive cuts would subsidise the cheaper cuts. That did not require any Government planning. It just happened through the normal operation of competitive trade. I would refer to the very recent example of the importation of poultry and rabbits. When the Socialist Government were in power they did one good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.76.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "It is my contention, as I shall demonstrate beyond doubt, that in relation to wages, our prices of food are extremely low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.90.4", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"10th July?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "the people with the higher salaries. An hon. Member who addressed us earlier showed a very close understanding of the meat trade. I should like to quote from the President of the National Federation of Meat Traders, who was reported in the \"Daily Telegraph\" of 10th July as follows: The ration may be up to Is. 10d. in August. When this happens the ration will be as much as people can afford to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.90.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.90.4", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "Member who addressed us earlier showed a very close understanding of the meat trade. I should like to quote from the President of the National Federation of Meat Traders, who was reported in the \"Daily Telegraph\" of 10th July as follows: The ration may be up to Is. 10d. in August. When this happens the ration will be as much as people can afford to buy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"10th July?\"] Yes. 10th July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.90.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.90.4", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "understanding of the meat trade. I should like to quote from the President of the National Federation of Meat Traders, who was reported in the \"Daily Telegraph\" of 10th July as follows: The ration may be up to Is. 10d. in August. When this happens the ration will be as much as people can afford to buy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"10th July?\"] Yes. 10th July. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which year?\"] This year, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.90.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": ". The question was answered in anticipation by the late Sir Stafford Cripps at the Edinburgh Labour Party rally on 7th February, 1948. He said: … the one certain way to destroy full employment\"— I would point out, in passing, to hon. Members opposite that they are totally mistaken if they think that hon. Members on this side want to create unemployment. That is the last thing we want to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.114.4", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. The last thing I want to do is to misrepresent him, but we must realise that hon. Gentlemen opposite are complaining about our rations being cut and costs going up, and yet, on the other hand, the right hon. Gentleman wants to support a scheme for decreasing our rations further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.114.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "t—and I am sorry that I have been so long—is that we should make clear to our people that, despite these other factors, the United Kingdom today is not in a position to buy the surpluses that are offered. Therefore, unless we can purchase those surpluses that are offered, no matter what Government are in power, our standard of life will go down. What I think we ought to do is to go to the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " buy the surpluses that are offered. Therefore, unless we can purchase those surpluses that are offered, no matter what Government are in power, our standard of life will go down. What I think we ought to do is to go to the country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] There is one here who is not afraid to go to the country. I am not afraid. Hon. Members opposite may get a greater shock than they expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.125.5", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "On that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A lot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": " post-war periods. The only source of wealth from which all our needs and gratifications can be met is that which the workers make. Since that is limited and cannot quickly be altered, it is clear that we can only divide it up into certain proportions. I think that at this stage the most important thing of all is that we should give to those who make our wealth a little more of the national share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": " There is no getting away from that. No other country will subsidise our food for us. What I object to is paying more than world prices. Let us clear our minds on this question of bulk buying. That expression is often used on political platforms, and hon. Members opposite do not seem to realise what we on this side of the Committee stand for in this respect. Bulk buying is not objected to as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Soaking the poor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " living is a very important factor in the lives of every one of us. We think that it particularly affects the poorer section of the community—the old age pensioners, the disabled and others. We stand for shifting their burden. The party opposite used to accuse us, when we were the Government, of soaking the rich. I think that we can in truth retort that the Government today is protecting the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ubsidy rate. Perhaps the Financial Secretary will give us an assurance that there will be no increase in food prices until pensions and other increased benefits are given to the people in September. Another method which the last Government employed and on which the last hon. Member who spoke had some comment to make, was bulk purchase, in which we believe, although we are not doctrinaire about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-06-30", "file": "debates1952-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e189cf8041e5138a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.197.7", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (FIELD DRAINAGE AND WATER SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Champion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Champion", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not intend to take anything like the time my hon. Friends took over the last Scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-06-30a.197.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "FAR EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether, in the course of his visit to Korea, he made any inquiry at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ce even more serious than this will soon arise. That is why we have put down the last part of our Motion. We must not be, we cannot in future be, at the mercy of the failure of the human factor as we were this time. We must have more adequate machinery of consultation. The other night the Minister of State asked us what we mean. It is not really for people in opposition to make concrete proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ment was selected for the attack. According to the answer that I was given when I made that inquiry, air operations cannot be undertaken without reference to the weather conditions. Korea suffers from heavy monsoon rains in July and August, and it was necessary, if these attacks were to he made, and made successfully, that the operation should be carried out before the heavy cloudy weather set in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The Prime Minister has made reference to a speech that was made outside here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the Prime Minister accused anyone of doing anything fraudulent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "operation, and we wanted to consult you; we should have, and we recognise an error. There could not be a more full and generous statement than that, and the fact that it was said off the record, and that, afterwards, the speaker had waived all the secrecy which attended his remarks and made it public property, because he thought it in the public interest, only pays a higher tribute to his courage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "imes been said that we should meet force with force, but that is by no means always true. There are other and better methods often, but what is always true is that generosity should be met with generosity. It will, I am sure be the true opinion of the House and of the country that Mr. Acheson's statement, made to so many hon. Members, should have ended this matter, so far as the past is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ink that the House as a whole feels, as the Government do, that Field Marshal Alexander discharged his difficult duties with the utmost tact and discretion. On Monday we received a telegram from General Mark Clark in which he stated that he himself did not know that these plants were to be bombed while Field Marshal Alexander was with him, and that if he had known he would certainly have told him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "here has been some display of patience during that period, but I think it is a most false picture for the Prime Minister to present to the House to suggest that there has been a build-up on one side of the line but no build-up on the other. If that is the kind of suggestion which the Prime Minister is presenting his information does not accord with that brought back by his own Minister of Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "up on the other. If that is the kind of suggestion which the Prime Minister is presenting his information does not accord with that brought back by his own Minister of Defence—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said it.\"] The right hon. Gentleman was suggesting that great military advantage for the Chinese had been secured during that period. All I am saying is that if the Prime Minister holds that opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ey may be able to discover whether they agree with me or not. There has, of course, been a military build-up on both sides and it is by no means certain—certainly, it was not indicated either in the speech made by the Foreign Secretary last week, or in the report of the Minister of Defence—that the truce period has been of such great advantage to the Chinese and of such disadvantage to the Allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am certainly in favour of applying the same argument in references to other countries, and I am sure that our friends in Canada are as deeply concerned about this bombing as many of my hon. Friends on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "f unleashing that offensive, the United Nations had been prepared to stop, either at the 38th Parallel or on the waist-line, and make then an offer of peace negotiations, we would have done it from strength; we would have done it in a moment of victory, and the whole course of history during this tragic year-and-a-half might have been altered. Instead, we allowed the military authorities to assume", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": "st discouraging to our soldiers in the field to find that within a week there have been two debates on the conduct of the war in Korea. Such debates hardly help our side to win the war. It must be remembered that we and the United Nations are at war, and our troops are fighting in the United Nations team trying to win the conflict. The more that politicians keep out of this sort of war the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am certain the hon. Gentleman made many messes and will continue to make many messes in the future, but I do not see why he should make them here. I do not wish to offend any hon. Member on that side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have often thought that. In the early stages of the last war, before the present Prime Minister took over the direction of the war, the commanders in the field had one hand tied behind their backs. I was in Norway and we were not allowed for political reasons to take over the Post Office in Norway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "for political reasons to take over the Post Office in Norway. [ Laughter. ] Some hon. Members opposite may find it funny, but if some of them had been in Norway with me they would have found that for political reasons we could not take over the Post Office in that country. We were in constant communication with the Germans in Narvik, and the man with whom I was billeted rang up Narvik every night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "He knew about them being there. I am quite sure that a Field Marshal in the British Army would know about these stations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "He knew about them being there. I am quite sure that a Field Marshal in the British Army would know about these stations. [ Laughter. ] It is quite elementary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "ghter. ] It is quite elementary. [ Laughter. ] Perhaps we shall have to go back to kindergarten to teach hon. Gentlemen opposite who are laughing about some of these things. It is all very well for hon. Gentlemen opposite to take this matter lightly. They started this debate about why the power stations should not have been bombed. If they do not like them being bombed they can do the other thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "rs thereby. That is why I always have some difficulty in following the argument about the recognition of China and the argument of the counter-revolution which was produced last week by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. A. Bevan). The difficulty that I have is that that original revolution was a revolution by force of arms introduced from outside from Russia into China itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the germ warfare charge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " military men on the spot. There were supposed to be British soldiers involved, but there was a flat denial in this House of any evidence that any British soldier was involved. We had Mr. R. M. MacColl saying in the \"Daily Express,\" that the effect of that in America had been to create the \"massacre mood\" and that Senator Taft had said he was now in favour of using atom weapons on the battlefield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.346.4", "colnum": "346", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put the blame over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ecessary to do so is palpably dishonest. That machinery is identical with what was in force before; indeed, I would say that if there is any blame attaching to the Government on this issue of consultation it is that our Ministers did not appreciate that, like nearly everything else which they have inherited from the party opposite, they have inherited in this field something which was inefficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.346.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "nths to contribute substantially to the truce negotiations, and, on the other, too small to affect the military policy of our adversaries. Therefore, we on this side of the House have felt, to say the least of it, very grave misgivings about the merits of this operation. I want to repeat, and to adopt as my own, if I may, what was said about it by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Going to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Then the right hon. Gentleman said that we should work for a fully integrated command set-up. On that ground we at least have achieved substantially more than the last Government did, because under our arrangements there is going to be a Deputy Chief of Staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-01", "file": "debates1952-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "605aaf24b8d00713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "KOREAN CAMPAIGN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the, trouble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I apologise if I misunderstood the hon. Gentleman. If that is: what he said, there is not much between us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-01a.374.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.424.5", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman expecting a bumper crop of raspberries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.424.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will give the House the full facts at once. Last night Lord Alexander, speaking impromptu at what he took to be a private gathering of the Canada Club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption. )—I am saying what he thought, not what happened—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "reserves and to this extent the proposed statement was unexceptionable. In its original form it might be interpreted as implying that there were virtually no reserves, which was too bleak a picture. In consequence of this interchange, Lord Alexander omitted from his public speech in the House of Lords any reference to the reserves. But speaking as he thought to a private gathering, off the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many more questions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " as reported in the \"Evening Standard\" of this afternoon? Moreover, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that Lord Alexander, when asked \"Why not?\" by voices at the function, said: Because it is a thing I was asked not to mention as a matter of secrecy. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether Lord Alexander was instructed by the Government not to mention this statement in his report to Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including Tass.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "That, no doubt, gives the right hon. Gentleman a little time to work out a reply. The first question I asked—I repeat it—was whether he was aware that the Press were present at this function—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Lord Alexander was not definitely aware that the Press were present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Lord Alexander was not definitely aware that the Press were present. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If hon. Members want me to answer the question, I will do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was not consulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.432.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Wait a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.433.8", "colnum": "433", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not lose my temper at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.433.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.433.8", "colnum": "433", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not lose my temper at all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I was only trying to do justice to the needlessly offensive character of the right hon. Gentleman's remark. I think it is a rather serious thing to suggest that another Member is not making a straight and truthful answer, because the alternative conclusion would be that he was making a crooked and false answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.433.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that is all dealt with in the full—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the very full, frank and careful report I have given to the House. I have said that I thought it would have been much better if this particular statement had been included in the speech which Lord Alexander delivered in another place. It would have been better; but it would have been perfectly harmless whether it was delivered at the dinner under what were thought to be off-the-record conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.435.5", "colnum": "435", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not at all deny that there is some substance in that statement, but what happened was that the view which was entertained by General Omar Bradley was not that the matter was secret in the sense of affect- ing security, but that if it were stated in a very prominent public manner it might be misconstrued by the general public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.435.5", "colnum": "435", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "as undoubtedly unfortunate and I have said it was unfortunate. I have no doubt that Lord Alexander regrets that on the spur of the moment he was led to put in these words, \"I did not say this in the House of Lords\"—I am not quoting exactly—\"because it is of a secret character.\" But that does not alter the fact that what he said was perfectly harmless and could have been said in the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.437.7", "colnum": "437", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. and gallant Friend will permit me to answer so much of his question as I can remember. As I understand it, Lord Alexander was not aware that the Press were present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.437.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "nterruption of the Orders of the Day and the business assigned for the day when a discussion on some emergency of this character can usefully be held. I ask the House to consider what has been said today, and if they think fit to pursue this matter further, remembering that apparently it is agreed that there is no question of security involved, or I might have taken a different view of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It appears to me, and I hope the House will agree, that this really resolves itself more into a question of the propriety of the conduct of the Minister than of any real injury to the public service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "—if a Minister who has not been reared in the contentious atmosphere of this honourable House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "If such a Minister should, in the atmosphere of a social meeting, a friendly meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.441.6", "colnum": "441", "heading": "KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.441.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.447.2", "colnum": "447", "heading": "GOLD AND DOLLAR RESERVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Chancellor whether he will not agree that the Union was set up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.455.6", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMORIAL TO FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nudists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "It may be that sculpture will improve because the subject will look better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.455.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "n what happens to the £10 million, which is regarded, and for many years past has been regarded, as a reasonable amount for the surplus that the Post Office should have? As I reminded the right hon. Gentleman on Second Reading, if £6.9 million is to be the surplus the Post Office should have, why did he sanction a surplus of £12 million, and then one of £16 million, and finally one of £20 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "he will address his mind to that point. The Bill provides for an increase in the commercial surplus of £1,350,000 in a full year. All that the hon. Gentleman ought to ask for on this service to maintain the customary commercial surpluns is £300,000. What he is really doing is to get out of this service £1 million, which he admits is taxation. On the Second Reading he admitted that it was taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, North-East will be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.478.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "Certainly. If hospitals are confronted with the problem, as many of them are, of patients coming into the hospitals and of the hospitals being officially required to secure the collecting of the charge before treatment is given, I certainly would not blame a hospital for saying that they must avoid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course he will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Summers", "preceding_text": " attention to the position of the old age pensioners, and in the plea which he made on their behalf, he gave the case of the old age pensioner who was drawing National Assistance, suggesting that in those circumstances it would be impossible for such a person to afford to pay the 1s. required under these Regulations. Of course, the hon. Gentleman must know that such a person would not have to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.521.4", "colnum": "521", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "rmitting a broad system of charging to go on, is quite a different matter from saying that the whole scheme should be abandoned because of its effect upon a small number of people. There is great merit in these Regulations. It is right and proper that the system which prevails in this country should work so that the individual should look to his own resources for the running repairs that he needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.521.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker White", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You could not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker White", "preceding_text": "A large number of hon. Members opposite wish to speak and I shall be very brief. For fairly obvious reasons, I shall not follow the hon. Lady the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock) in her arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "I have been directly referring to the effect of this Statutory Instrument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "ff of that bureaucratic institution. As a working dentist, I have found that they have not as much form filling to do and the result is that dentists are getting many more needless and pin-pricking letters from them on all sorts of trivial and silly matters. The Minister could save money by cutting out waste in connection with the Dental Estimates Board. I shall be out of order if I say much more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "in this matter, but it seems to me an astonishing thing that at Blackburn the cost per person per year—which is the best guide—is £1 4s. 1½d., whereas in Bolton it is 16s. 2d. The second illustration shows how impossible it is to make any conclusion, because it is said—and, indeed, it is understandable—that because of the patients—the rich, wealthy Tory patients, as they are imagined to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Marquand", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Marquand", "preceding_text": "It is a little hard to determine whether the loud applause which greeted the right hon. Gentleman when he resumed his seat is a tribute to the political matter which he introduced at the end or to the fact that at last we have a Minister of Health who at least has been able to give the House of Commons some explanation of what his Measures are all about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-02", "file": "debates1952-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ee87b67762a00f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Marquand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Marquand", "preceding_text": "greeted the right hon. Gentleman when he resumed his seat is a tribute to the political matter which he introduced at the end or to the fact that at last we have a Minister of Health who at least has been able to give the House of Commons some explanation of what his Measures are all about. [ Laughter. ] It is welcome indeed. I think hon. Members opposite know perfectly well what my reference was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-02a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.598.5", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, when the Principality Furnishing Company at Cardiff recently went into voluntary liquidation, working families in that city lost over £16,000 without any furniture being made available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.598.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.612.8", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "I have no wish to make any offensive remarks, but there are vested interests in South Lanark and the hon. Gentleman appears to be appeasing those interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.612.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.612.8", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "I have no wish to make any offensive remarks, but there are vested interests in South Lanark and the hon. Gentleman appears to be appeasing those interests. [HON. MEMBERS \"Withdraw.\"] We have to bear in mind the two million people in the Clyde Valley, where there is heavy unemployment, and cheap tomatoes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.612.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "ving made the provisions, or the right hon. Gentleman claims it, as he is quite entitled to do, for his administration. Local authorities, such as Glasgow Corporation, also deserve a great deal of credit for their long-term planning. But it is very important that the Government, having impaired the Health Service, crippled the education service, badly bungled the economic condition of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "There is a tremendous shortage of houses, but it is still possible to rent houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "There is a tremendous shortage of houses, but it is still possible to rent houses. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] Houses do fall vacant from time to time; some are sold, but not all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "to rent houses. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] Houses do fall vacant from time to time; some are sold, but not all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"] Hon. Gentlemen opposite ought to be more careful what they say. Surely, it is absolutely clear that, so long as there are houses to be let, other than council houses, there is at least a choice for people whether they wish to become council tenants or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fraudulent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "preceding_text": "of the taunts that have been flung at my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland would apply as well to the East Kilbride Corporation as to anything which my right hon. Friend has proposed or has already promised. I noticed, for example, that the hon. Gentleman the Member for Glasgow, Central (Mr. McInnes) described the figures used by my right hon. Friend as being a gross deception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "t merely that of the adequacy of the subsidy, but of the conditions under which it is to be given. It might well be that this matter should be further inquired into, but I beg the hon. Member to remember that, when he appeals to Caesar, to Caesar he must go, and I do not think that either the local authorities or this House would willingly see these great matters taken entirely out of their hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is his house\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "to turn a family out into the fields without notice in order to sack a man from his job, and to penalise men through the loss of their homes. I know that farmers in Scotland say that it does not happen, but at a meeting at which I addressed farmers one of them rose to emphasise the need for these grants and gave as his reason that he wanted power to turn a man out because he was not doing his job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": " references were made to the extension of the improvement grants to tied cottages. Until the right hon. Gentleman the Member for East Stirling spoke, I thought we had succeeded converting the Opposition to the view that it was necessary for Scottish agriculture to have tied houses and that agricultural workers were as much entitled as any other section of the community to decent living conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.751.11", "colnum": "751", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I consider it is an insult even to be asked to submit them to a test. The figures are the figures proved over a period of seven months, and that is the figure on which we stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.751.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-03", "file": "debates1952-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "168487111a3a4413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, £8.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "No, by common sense. The hon. Member for Kirkcaldy Burghs (Mr. Hubbard) spoke about the proportion of earnings to be applied to the rent. I could give him some information about that, but time is so short that I cannot go into the matter at present. May I take the question of repairs and maintenance, the notional figure being taken at £11—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-03a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-04", "file": "debates1952-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "09f281c186b3d78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (TOURIST TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not go any further.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "ty. In some licensing divisions, summer time is regarded as being the duration of the operation of British summer time, in some others it is considered to be the four months of June, July, August and September, while in some other areas it is regarded as some lesser period. In Wales and Monmouthshire, upon which I hesitate to venture, there are three divisions in which the final hour is 10.30 p.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-04", "file": "debates1952-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "09f281c186b3d78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (TOURIST TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "ke things more awkward than they are. I am told that, in law, it would be perfectly feasible to have a restaurant car on the Inner Circle, and that, as the train went round and round that circle, people could get drinks all the time. I do not think there is any suggestion that, in order to improve the takings of the British Transport Commission, they should put restaurant cars on the Inner Circle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-04", "file": "debates1952-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "09f281c186b3d78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (TOURIST TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for reminding both myself and other hon. Members of that interesting fact. As I have said, the British Travel and Holiday Association are a Government-sponsored body who have produced a most interesting report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-04", "file": "debates1952-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "09f281c186b3d78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (TOURIST TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "n they come here? Are we to compete with Paris in appealing to the appetities rather than to the intellect? Is that what the sponsors of the Motion want? Do they want the tourists to enjoy the \"phoney\" entertainment of a night club in preference to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon, or a bottle party in preference to a moonlight trip to see the beauty of the upper reaches of the Thames.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-04", "file": "debates1952-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "09f281c186b3d78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (TOURIST TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Black", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Black", "preceding_text": "s of a statement made by the Chief Constable for Southend, and this is what the report said: The effect of music and singing in licensed houses and the part that they play in disorders during the summer on Marine Parade and High Street were mentioned in the report of the Chief Constable, Mr. A. H. Hunt, at the Southend Brewster Sessions. The report revealed an increase of drunkenness in Southend\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.833.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-04", "file": "debates1952-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "09f281c186b3d78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.844.5", "colnum": "844", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (TOURIST TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "What I said was that the trade was more dangerous because it was more respectable. It was a greater attraction and temptation to young people to go into a chromium-plated, up-to-date pub than the old gin palaces of the old days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.844.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-04", "file": "debates1952-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "09f281c186b3d78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (TOURIST TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" \"Forty years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "eriod of time by way of taking what the Continental people would call a digestif as distinct from an appetiser, and we reasonably, humanly and sensibly provide that people shall leave at 10 p.m. or 10.30 p.m., as the case may be. All of this seems to me to be so sensible and to conform, I submit, not only to the graph of the business in my dear landlady's public house over in Belgium 50 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-04", "file": "debates1952-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "09f281c186b3d78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (TOURIST TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": ". I do not think that applies in Belgium now. The significant fact about conditions in rural Ireland is that almost any landlord of almost any public house will assure one that he would like to close his public house for two or three hours in the afternoon, for the excellent reason that business is down and the customers are not there. I have made a study of this question from my very early youth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-04a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EXPORTS TO SPAIN (CIVILIAN AND MILITARY MATERIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that democratic countries like Burma and Israel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "preceding_text": "d to opencast mining operations again next year. I think it is distressing in the extreme to find that, this year, opencast mining operations are continuing at an even greater rate than they were last year. For instance, this year it is estimated that we shall get more than 10 million tons of coal by this terrible method. We all appreciate the need for coal today, both for industry and for export.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trams.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "The discontinuation of electric traction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell the Chancellor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "Take it off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.992.3", "colnum": "992", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"— although, of course, its coal is nothing like so good as that from South Wales—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " test, we are not quite holding our ground. I presume that is because the other countries of Europe have increased the total manpower engaged in the winning of coal. I thought that my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for South Fylde was not quite fair to the achievements of the Board over the past year when he said that, apart from the East Midlands, which we all know is a very successful area —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Andpoliticians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "hat a miner, when he is on the injured list, should be paid a sum comparable with his full weekly wage, or his average weekly wage? We find it so with the managers in the coal industry. We find it with other officials in the coal industry. It always has been so. Indeed, in all other industries the managers, the clerical staff, have it so. The police throughout the country, the teaching profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.998.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Neal", "preceding_text": "er of this House, he frequently led the debates for the party opposite. Before he sought refuge in another place, with what reluctance we can only imagine, he made severe criticisms of opencast mining. He wanted to end it two years ago, when he was speaking for the Tory Party. He said: Surely, the time has come to put an end to this vandalism.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT 19th July, 1950; Vol. 477, c. 2283.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neal", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neal", "preceding_text": "and in fulfilling some of his broken promises. If we are to restore the economy of the country, we must export more coal and consume less. It is startling to me that no coal target was fixed in the Economic Survey for 1952. I wonder why. The miners are doing their share towards hitting the target—if one had been fixed. They have loaned back to the Government for most of the year the five-day week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "The lady in question is a housekeeper in that sense of the word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "MEAT PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In what way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "rder would result in rationing meat by the purse, which he, supported by many of his hon. Friends, says is a great social evil. With that point of view I have a great deal of sympathy, but I wish to ask hon. Members if they think rationing by the purse is always and in every circumstance socially wrong, because if they do, they should say so; and if they say so, they should practise it themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1045.5", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "MEAT PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whisky?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "d so on—the amount added to each of these is not necessarily 4d. but is, in fact, a different figure this year as it was when this was done last year. The point I stress is that mitigating the severity of the increase in the lower-priced cuts is inevitably followed by more substantial increases above the average in certain of the higher-priced cuts. May I refer to the question of Scottish brisket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1045.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1045.5", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "MEAT PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whisky?\"] Brisket was the word I used. The hon. Member has no doubt examined the Scottish Schedules as a whole and compared them with those of England and Wales and he will appreciate that they are different. Appetites for different joints in Scotland differ from the corresponding appetites in England, and the technique of cutting in Scotland differs from the technique in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1045.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "MEAT PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That has already happened.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": " this occasion, as on the last occasion, any attempt to apply this average increase to the wide variety of cuts in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland is bound to be to some extent provisional and to be looked at again in the light of experience and this will be done. The point was made that the price increase, which amounts to some 3d. per ration, will make people unable to take up the ration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-07", "file": "debates1952-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bbdbcaa31a15a182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1047.5", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "MEAT PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much bone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": " there has been no evidence that the meat ration is not being taken up. If we take an example, and I admit it is an extreme example, of a cheap but good cut, scrag and breast of lamb—its name may not be attractive, but it is a pleasant enough cut—previously it was 1s. ld. a lb. and 17 oz. could be obtained on a Is. 2d. ration. Now it is 1s. 2d. a lb. and 22 oz. can be obtained on a 1s. 7d. ration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-07a.1047.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Front Bench opposite do not agree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " under service contracts. That is what we do—extend grants to cottages let under a service agreement, a contract of service. What was the argument which was developed and strongly urged in Committee? It was that it was a terrible thing that public money should be given to improve or to build cottages from which the occupier could, on the termination of his service, in law, although seldom in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I am not going into that kind of question now. It would take us well outside the limits of this debate. I would simply say that we have had a housing problem in this country for a very long time indeed, and we have only recently begun to recognise and face it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since October.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I am not going into that kind of question now. It would take us well outside the limits of this debate. I would simply say that we have had a housing problem in this country for a very long time indeed, and we have only recently begun to recognise and face it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—yes, recently, since the last war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is on a bad point. The person in question does not, of course, get the protection of the Rent Restrictions Acts because there is no tenancy. We all appreciate that. But it is a fact that in the service occupancy the farmer normally goes to the court for possession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1193.8", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Logan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Logan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I wish to submit to you, Mr. Morris Hopkins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1193.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "It is a very great temptation if a man knows that he can buy a council house for a certain figure and at the end of five years—the pre-emption period—he can sell it and make £1,000 profit on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's intervention was based on the hypothesis that a man would automatically make £1,000 if he sold the house. Had the hon. Member followed the property market recently, he would find that it was going down, and not up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "his place, knows all about this kind of thing and what happened to that provision. The Government found that they had to qualify it in the next Act and to allow the time to be extended, and then they had to take the provision out altogether. The fact of the matter was that local councils could not be certain of answering applications for leave for interim development within a period of two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1246.4", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " First, a word or two about the district valuer. The Minister seems to imply in every argument he puts to the House that district valuers are somehow used only for a different sort of valuation from that envisaged here. But it is not uncommon for local authorities to give general directions or general information to a district valuer as to the sort of valuation, bearing in mind certain hypotheses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a new one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "avour. The rest are undecided. I emphasise that that questionnaire dealt with sale at present, because my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Lindgren) mentioned it and it is common ground on this side of the House, we are not against selling as such. We are against selling at this time, just as we made it clear on Second Reading that we are in favour of tenants owning their own houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": " this time, just as we made it clear on Second Reading that we are in favour of tenants owning their own houses. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a new one.\"] If the hon. Member had been here on Second Reading, he would have heard me and many of my colleagues say, as we have said for years, that what we were against is the selling of the houses at present. We are in favour of tenants owning their houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-08", "file": "debates1952-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "945f55d341c860f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": ", that what we were against is the selling of the houses at present. We are in favour of tenants owning their houses. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"] As a result of six years of Labour Government there are more people owning their own houses in this country than ever before. It is very good and we say it is right. There are between 4 million and 5 million people owning the houses in which they live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-08a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Dean's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman not agree, in view of the Communist allegation about germ warfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman not agree, in view of the Communist allegation about germ warfare—[An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Dean's.\"]—that it would be a good thing to give instructions to our delegates to the United Nations to press for the complete abolition of bacteriological warfare research in this country and in America?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "hing to give instructions to our delegates to the United Nations to press for the complete abolition of bacteriological warfare research in this country and in America? [HON. MEMBERS: \"And Russia.\"] Well, bring in Russia, too. In view of the fact that America is spending 17 million dollars on bacteriological warfare research, and we have a bacteriological warfare station at Porton in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1303.6", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and gallant Gentleman realise that that very negative procedure in regard to the component parts of the sausage leaves the door wide open—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1303.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. D. Perkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. D. Perkins", "preceding_text": "dias, asked for your head on a charger, I should end up in the Clock Tower. Consequently, I think I should follow the excellent example of Agag and walk delicately. There are 51 trustees of the British Museum, the vast majority of whom are far too busy to take an active part in the running of the Museum. Some of them are backwoodsmen who long ago might have been transferred into the museum itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. D. Perkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. D. Perkins", "preceding_text": " time to looking after the British Museum. Moreover, for 199 years certain old families have had the power to appoint nine trustees to the British Museum. This is a hole-and-corner business reminiscent of the old pocket boroughs of long ago. I cannot help feeling that the time has come to abolish this system of patronage and privilege once and for all. Therefore, I propose to spring-clean the lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1322.2", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rovide it also, subject to suitable dispositions which will appear in detail in the Bill, which we shall shortly be considering, with some margin with which to deal with unforseeable contingencies, particularly those to which I have referred—namely, the course of costs and prices—and to do this at the beginning of what, I am sure, all right hon. and hon. Members hope and feel will be a long reign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Second, Her Majesty the Queen has voluntarily offered to abate the allotment to the Privy Purse by £17,000 a year, which, I am sure, the Committee would wish to acknowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1364.5", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Keeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Keeling", "preceding_text": "Might I just thank my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1364.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1364.6", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Keeling", "preceding_text": "Might I just thank my right hon. Friend—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Might I just say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1364.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1364.12", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Keeling", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Hopkin Morris. Might I just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1364.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cahir Healy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cahir Healy", "preceding_text": "ar—they who toil in the heat and the cold, who are up at the break of day and work until dark at night. After all, we are all human beings. I know that the majority of the people in this country are very monarchist and I am not quarrelling with them in that respect. They are entitled to be. But I object to the people who claim to be monarchical in one island claiming to dictate to the next island—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Black and Tans, also.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "preceding_text": "all that. I like to see the Army marching about. The hon. Gentleman said, \"Take the British Army away and see what will happen.\" Well, we need not go back into the past. We all know what happened at the time of Carson and the Ulster Division. I think we can forget the time we call \"The Troubles\" and think about 1952. There are a lot of things in the history of Ireland that could well be forgotten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1374.2", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is grossly inaccurate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "preceding_text": " middle of the night. He was the most popular member of the Royal Family when he was Prince of Wales, and be was made popular because of the attitude of the Press during the period of pageantry. But in less than 48 hours, notwithstanding all the nice things that were said in earlier years about him, he was regarded as quite incompetent to be associated with the decent men and women of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1374.2", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "preceding_text": " in their ordinary dealings with human beings, will be as decent and kindly as other people and will have all the virtues and vices of ordinary men and women. In the last 10 years, however, there has been an extension of the pageantry and bunting, and already the trimmings are being prepared for the Coronation as if it were one of the most important things ever to have taken place in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1374.2", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Irresponsible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "preceding_text": "do it. To save time later, I will deal with some of the other Amendments. There is one in line 12, to leave out \"£40,000,\" and to insert \"£10,000.\" It has been suggested that £40,000 should be the income of the Duke of Edinburgh. How was that figure arrived at? I regard the Prime Minister—this, also, was argued by the Leader of the Opposition in 1937—as the most responsible man in our public life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"She did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "esents a substantial cut. Many hon. Gentlemen opposite have said that we must have economy and efficiency. The hon. Member for Flint, East (Mrs. White) rather suggested that the House of Commons should constitute itself into an efficiency committee to look through the Queen's account book and to see that she had not wasted 6d. here or 6d. there. I regard that as not only rather impracticable, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "937; Vol. 324, c. 458–9.] It is on these grounds, in particular, that I oppose this Motion. On a number of occasions in my own constituency I have had questions put to me as to whether it was right and just for the child of Royalty to be treated in so vastly superior a way to anything that was meted out to the child of ordinary people. I protest at the lack of consideration for this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "c countries, to express a minority point of view in certain places. Therefore, I hope that hon. Members who have taken that line will understand that those of us who are critical of this Civil List proposal are in no way envious of the Royal Family, have no animosity and no hatred towards them. I do not in my heart feel hatred for any man, not even for the worst Members on the Opposition benches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not with television.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "y want pageantry, if they want to see the streets so thickly lined that all traffic has to be stopped. Of course, nobody believes that there would be no pageantry and colour in the lives of the people if we had to cut down this proposed provision, because people will at all times make their own pageantry. To an overwhelming extent this pageantry is enjoyed only by a very small part of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "led away by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who ought to know better. Let us see where there can be a cutting down. Does anybody really think it necessary, in order that the Royal Family may lead useful and dignified lives, for them to have Buckingham Palace, Balmoral, Sandringham, Holyrood, Windsor and so on. Is it really necessary to have these places manned and serviced all the time, as they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who said that there were not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "ybody really think it necessary, in order that the Royal Family may lead useful and dignified lives, for them to have Buckingham Palace, Balmoral, Sandringham, Holyrood, Windsor and so on. Is it really necessary to have these places manned and serviced all the time, as they are. [ Interruption. ] Presumably somebody is there. If the place is shut up and there are no gardeners and caretakers there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1401.0", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "But presumably there have to be all these servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1402.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have no hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": " would be increased to 42s. The same principle applied to anyone who was sick. What I cannot understand is that if we accept that on a percentage basis, why should there be this great difference between the allowances which members of the Royal Family receive when they are single and when they get married. If I were going to be the husband of a Princess I should be ashamed if I could not keep her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1402.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " received many times the amount that a Prime Minister would receive by continuing in office for 20 or 30 years. Is there any real comparison of rewards for services rendered in such figures? I suggest that they make comparison altogether ridiculous. I therefore contend, and I think it is a feeling that is fairly widely held, not only on this side, but fundamentally by Members on the opposite side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1409.2", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " he attains the age of 21, and for the last three years before attaining his majority to receive £30,000 per annum. Every Member of the House gets £1,000 a year. I suggest, without exaggeration or any claim that we are exceptional people, that we perform a decent job of work for the money that we receive. We get the rate for the job. Is it not absurd to suggest that for this particular individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1409.2", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "they would be laughed out of court. By comparison, the Government deal with the mass of the people, on whom we depend for our livelihood and our national revenue—the people who do the work of the world—entirely differently, in a state of parsimonious saving that is a discredit to Members opposite and to those who supported previous Tory Governments between the wars. I say to the Committee finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-09", "file": "debates1952-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d860979c1d74d09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "MOTOR VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like the Whips in this House\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "ry with motor cars, under a Convention which we are going to sign on the international circulation of motor vehicles, there must surely be some guarantee that these motorists are familiar with our normal customs on the road. Anyone looking at the Highway Code will see that one ought to know, for example, what is to happen when a whip is held straight up; and what will happen when it circles round—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-09a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-10", "file": "debates1952-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "26272e6ae87feb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1502.8", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "That still does not answer my question. Whatever may have been my faults in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1502.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-10", "file": "debates1952-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "26272e6ae87feb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": " about 4,000 tons. After the information which the Leader of the House gave us immediately after Question time, the outlook is a little better, because the Government's intention to proceed with the de-nationalisation of steel is not quite as plain as it was before, and I am sure the whole Committee will hope that the Government will add wisdom to discretion and abandon the proposition altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-10", "file": "debates1952-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "26272e6ae87feb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ot yet formed conclusions. Many matters are involved. As hon. Members will no doubt have gathered, there are many implications involved and I am not yet in a position to say what we feel about those recommendations. But I would ask the right hon. Gentleman to agree with me in this: in our search for new industries we must be careful that we do not neglect our traditional Scottish heavy industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-10", "file": "debates1952-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "26272e6ae87feb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "sing them in the right direction. We all felt a pang of uneasiness when the hon. Member for Bothwell referred to thousands of square feet of factory space standing empty. We have to be sure that all the resources of which we have control are directed along lines where they will give the maximum possible return. I am sure that a general strategy for our industrial development is urgently necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-10", "file": "debates1952-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "26272e6ae87feb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " only desirable but essential to our preservation. That is a slogan to which we on this side of the Committee can fully subscribe, and to which also I hope hon. Members opposite subscribe. The new writers of Socialist essays have given up the idea of finding Socialism. It is like the pea under the thimble; first you see it, then you do not. Which is it under? It is only a way of looking at things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-10", "file": "debates1952-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "26272e6ae87feb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": "n mathematics, metallurgy, draughtsmanship at night school. I am surprised to find in this Report that attendance at schools outside working hours still remains the principal way in which the apprentice who desires higher qualifications and technical theory and knowledge can obtain them in Scotland. I have worked for some big plants, and our boys had their technical education during working hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-10", "file": "debates1952-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "26272e6ae87feb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1657.5", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "MEAT PRODUCTS (PRICE INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or something in a bottle\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "of 1,600 degrees Centigrade, and when the sweat from the human frame dries into crystals on the shirt, one wants something to eat. The men used to be able to take cheese; which was one of the cheapest things taken to work, and one of the most popular; but now we have to forget about cheese. We have to offset that loss by a ham sandwich, or a tongue sandwich, or lettuce, or something as appetising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1657.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-10", "file": "debates1952-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "26272e6ae87feb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "MEAT PRODUCTS (PRICE INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": " right to reduce these heavy and indiscriminate food subsidies. It is right that this Order should have been laid, because it is part of the essential financial policy of the Government. The hon. Member for Brightside did not remind the House—and he should have done so—that the Chancellor in reducing the food subsidies gave very great compensating advantages to a great many people in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-10a.1661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-11", "file": "debates1952-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0bc50025098d5a6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1688.1", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(TRANSFER OF BURDEN OF PROOF IN CERTAIN CASES.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "I respectfully agree, Mr. Speaker. I was merely indicating the difficulty of anybody who puts down a series of Amendments, whereas if he had put down particular Amendments he might have chosen ones which might not have commended themselves to you. In this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-11", "file": "debates1952-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0bc50025098d5a6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(TRANSFER OF BURDEN OF PROOF IN CERTAIN CASES.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and learned Gentleman, who spoke for a considerable time without interruption, will let me advance what can be described as a non-party argument, I should be greatly obliged. I was saying that it should be the normal and main principle, and I hope I carry the House with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-11", "file": "debates1952-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0bc50025098d5a6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1740.2", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(TRANSFER OF BURDEN OF PROOF IN CERTAIN CASES.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "lls it neglect or negligence. In that part of his speech the hon. Member was favouring us and I was hoping that he would find it possible to accept the Amendment. In addition to that, when dealing with omission and commission, one has in any case in the Schedule, bundled together as offences, acts of commission and omission, and no distinction between the two categories is made by the Bill itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1740.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-11", "file": "debates1952-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0bc50025098d5a6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(TRANSFER OF BURDEN OF PROOF IN CERTAIN CASES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, they are not.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the law that we have heard from the opposite side is very sensible. The thing reads very sensibly— there shall be … the following words\"— I can understand what that means. The words are in the Bill, so why worry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-11", "file": "debates1952-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0bc50025098d5a6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1752.2", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(TRANSFER OF BURDEN OF PROOF IN CERTAIN CASES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Bill be now read the Third time.\" In moving the Third Reading of the Bill in its rather unexpected and rather vacant form, I think it should be said that there is no doubt that when the House was proceeding to the first Division on Report stage everyone was under the impression that he was voting on all three Amendments together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-11", "file": "debates1952-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0bc50025098d5a6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1762.1", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(TRANSFER OF BURDEN OF PROOF IN CERTAIN CASES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "r Paper this morning. I am sure that no discourtesy was intended but the difficulty in which that put us will be appreciated, and the fact that so few hon. Members are present is presumably due of the fact that it was not realised that these matters would be raised. There was also a general impression today that the three Amendments were being debated together and that there would be one Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-11a.1762.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-14", "file": "debates1952-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bbf8f70fc8b329dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1794.6", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Of what?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "They are a percentage of the volume. I have taken the full offtake as 100 per cent. The ration varies from period to period, as the hon. Member knows. Taking in comparable periods they are comparable figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1794.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-14", "file": "debates1952-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bbf8f70fc8b329dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1799.5", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The Minister has introduced a new factor in that reply which was entirely unrelated to the original Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1799.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-14", "file": "debates1952-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bbf8f70fc8b329dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UMSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES (CLOSING)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "ment to admit having made a mistake on a point of detail such as this, which lands us all in difficulty and deprives the nation of the right to inspect its own treasures, its own heritage. I think the Government should reverse its decision. For a long time we have been looking at something on the Order Paper described as the British Museum Bill. It is a very insufficient, curtailed, tiny document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1836.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-14", "file": "debates1952-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bbf8f70fc8b329dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UMSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES (CLOSING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "British capital.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "eally appears that in any particular case closure on the present figures is unavoidable, my right hon. Friend, as I have said, will look at the figures et that particular institution again. I hope that that will make it clear to the Committee that we feel as strongly as any hon. Member that it is desirable, if it is at all possible, to retain the splendid museum facilities of this English capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1886.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-14", "file": "debates1952-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bbf8f70fc8b329dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1888.1", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UMSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES (CLOSING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Muddle.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "avoidable, then, as I have said, my right hon. Friend will reconsider those figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-14", "file": "debates1952-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bbf8f70fc8b329dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1912.2", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO COUNTRYSIDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Black", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Generalising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Black", "preceding_text": "are, generally speaking, better qualified to carry out functions of this kind than are individuals appointed by a Minister who may be entirely divorced from local sentiment and who may know very little indeed about local conditions. In my view, that approach to the problem indicates the difference on this point between most hon. Members opposite and most hon. Members on this side of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-14", "file": "debates1952-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bbf8f70fc8b329dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO COUNTRYSIDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "rward with a passion hardly credible and argued with rhetorical and forensic skill beyond belief; and then it was said that I had weakly submitted to their pressure. There was very little else that I could do. Do the Committee know what it was that they wanted? What is it that so excites the \"Manchester Guardian\"? They wanted, instead of a joint board—I hardly like to mention it—a joint committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-14a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1975.4", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think so. It never occurred to me that such a thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1975.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1975.5", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister, first, whether he could give details in the OFFICIAL REPORT of this saving of £100,000; second, whether account is taken of allowances which would be paid to civil servants who use other forms of transport if there is no car available; and third, whether he is aware and does not agree that this saving does not really give any criterion of the real saving effected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " say that, so far as I know, there are none, but there always are stories about barnacles, which grow very quickly once they get a hold, or so my nautical friends tell me. Unless we satisfy ourselves on this matter, some of the irregularities which happened in the past may happen again. A 10-yearly review would make sure that the bottom of the old boat got scraped and that there were no barnacles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ort to the remarks made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, South on the importance of so arranging things that the Queen really gets a holiday. I well believe that a Select Committee might help to do that, with the co-operation of the Royal Household. Those of us who have had to occupy positions of responsibility, even for a short time, know what an absolute pest official papers can be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1994.1", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ersonal explanation about Princess Margaret. I agree with my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition in the attitude which he took in the Select Committee that Princess Margaret should be made quite independent and free to marry whomsoever she likes. I perfectly appreciate the point of view of those who fear that after making provision she may marry a foreigner. I hope she does not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1995.3", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I do not think I had better go on with that point. It may become rather personal. Now may I turn to the Bill for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1997.5", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What happened in 1931?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "rtain that it will be made. May I take an instance from one part of the speech of the right hon. Gentleman? Supposing, perchance, a disaster occurred in our economic position. Apparently the right hon. Gentleman envisages that there shall be no change in what we have decided in Committee should be the expenditure until the time for the review comes. In that case, what is to happen in the meantime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.1997.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2009.3", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "I think I agree with the last words of the hon. Member for Handsworth (Sir E. Boyle), when he spoke of the inability of Members of this House and the general public to discuss the general affairs of Royalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2014.0", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady must draw from the newspapers, as we all have to do, such amount of truth as she thinks resides in these stories. I was not trying to show that there was truth in the whole story or in part of the story I was reciting. I am not dealing with Balmoral, or with my hon. Friend's proposals about Buckingham Palace and the flats. Indeed. I never saw very much in that proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2030.3", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " went on to say that such expenditure should be at the discretion of the sovereign. We have been asked why that particular form of words should not be put into legal language. The answer, quite frankly, is that although we have at our command the most expert Parliamentary counsel in the world it is very difficult indeed to translate the whole of those words into purely legal language in a statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " a year was the maximum. I wonder how many hon. Members remember the saying which was popular in the desert during the 8th Army campaign, \"The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.\" The impossible has taken my hon. Friend and his right hon. Friend eight months. Already they are half way towards the target which hon. Gentlemen opposite said it was impossible to achieve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2078.2", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Why not change houses with your right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2082.6", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. and gallant Gentleman allow me to correct a statement that he has made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2082.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2084.1", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "t (Mr. H. A. Price). He would not give way to my hon. Friend, and I am going to tell him this: my hon. Friend lived for 20 years as one of five children with his father and mother in two rooms in Islington without any bathroom whatsoever. His father was a builder's labourer, and that is one example, and there are very many others, of hon. Members on this side of the House with similar backgrounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2084.1", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": " to my hon. Friend, and I am going to tell him this: my hon. Friend lived for 20 years as one of five children with his father and mother in two rooms in Islington without any bathroom whatsoever. His father was a builder's labourer, and that is one example, and there are very many others, of hon. Members on this side of the House with similar backgrounds. [ Interruption. ] I should have thought —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2085.1", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very few.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": " bad conditions. He may have a roof over his head, but be living in one or two rooms a long way from his work. Civil servants who were evacuated during the war to other parts of the country, and whose homes were temporarily requisitioned by the authorities, are now being brought back to London, and they want to get into their properties. Such cases are very sad and there is quite a number of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2086.2", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "ealise that housing our people is No. 1 priority. I would point out to the hon. Member, who insists on bringing this back to party politics instead of discussing it on a national basis, that it was the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) who, in the first Socialist Government of 1945, said time and time again that before the next Election the housing problem of this country would be ended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2087.3", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And their dishonesty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": ", as in this case, in excessive costs of houses at uneconomic rents and in a very heavy rate subsidy falling upon the rest of the ratepayers. I am very glad that we have had this opportunity tonight of ventilating the serious problem of housing. I join with my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West in saying that I marvel at the temerity of hon. Members opposite in raising this subject tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2088.1", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seven hundred and fifty thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "a matter outside party politics. Then he proceeded to give a speech so peppered with party political prejudices that it is almost impossible to know where the purport of the speech came in at all apart from its political attack. The hon. and gallant Member knows very well that it was estimated by the great thinkers in his own party that when we had 450,000 houses built the problem would be solved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2089.1", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "ties to use their powers in order to let the people know that this kind of thing is illegal and improper.\" All the answer that is given is, \"Well there is a legal possibility of those people exercising a right to prevent that kind of thing, but good luck to them.\" That is practically what it amounts to and the Minister cannot deny it because, if he looks up HANSARD, he will see it amounts to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2093.0", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman talks about abysmal ignorance he had better study the conditions in his own city, and in Chester, which is near to him, because he knows nothing at all about it. I will read to him what the Chester people say themselves and then perhaps he will understand the position better. They say, this is from Chester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2097.1", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "consequence of the fact that proper provision has not been made for them on the estate. The Labour Government, immediately after the war, at the most difficult time of all, when the Prime Minister of today said that this country was bankrupt and could not possibly live more than a few months—at least, that is how one would interpret what he said—in the way we wanted to, pulled the country through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-15", "file": "debates1952-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cfb07e786ba39395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2097.1", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "abour Government, immediately after the war, at the most difficult time of all, when the Prime Minister of today said that this country was bankrupt and could not possibly live more than a few months—at least, that is how one would interpret what he said—in the way we wanted to, pulled the country through. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Oh, yes, they did—and they built houses, and they built decent houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-15a.2097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2160.3", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": " and re-examination of all these difficulties, the Government will decide that it is in the national interest that Scotland's services should remain under public ownership and control. If they make that decision, I want to put a suggestion to the Minister. B.E.A. do not receive a subsidy as such for these social services. The expense of operating them comes out as a deficit at the end of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2195.3", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Because they do not trust a Minister of Transport being also Minister of Civil Aviation, this Government appointed an overlord who is in another place and about whose responsibilities we do not know. I want to bring my remarks to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2201.1", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why didn't you do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "ook what the Minister has done about landing fees. A 10s. charge may not seem a lot of money to him, but it is a lot of money to a young man who can just afford to hire an aircraft and who has to pay £3 an hour for the simplest kind of aircraft. Flying is already expensive. Why cannot the Minister follow the example of France and allow club aircraft to land free of charge on State-owned airfields?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2201.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2216.1", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, cashed in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Cashed in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2234.5", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He had more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "ttish nationalism has gone a wee bit awry_ Things were not quite as the right hon, and gallant Gentleman said. I should be the first to pay tribute to pioneers like Fresson, who operated with one aircraft day and night. He had a taxi service, not a scheduled service. He was at the beck and call of anyone and everyone who could pay for the service, and he did a first-class job. He had one aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2235.1", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "the personalities in the Corporations. Look at the contrast in this debate. For the whole of the six years of the Labour Government—and I am certain that my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Beswick) will correct me if I am wrong—the present Minister and right hon. and hon. Gentlemen behind him did their very best, in every civil aviation debate, to discredit the Ministry of Civil Aviation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2241.1", "colnum": "2241", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "out of the red.\" Whether they will be able to maintain that position is doubtful, because of the action of the Government about petrol. But, more important, we having established British civil aviation on a standard of operation and service second to none in the world, it would be a change if hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite were to give a cheer for Britain instead of cheering somebody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2244.0", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "I have an interest in this. I am connected with the company which makes them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2269.3", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " note. That is appropriate for me as a Scottish Member. It is appropriate also because in no general debate in this Committee in my experience has Scotland figured so largely. The majority of the speeches even from our comrades across the Border have included comment about Scotland. I conclude not by repeating much of what has been said, because that would be offensive at this stage of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-16", "file": "debates1952-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "07d5e7a984d6b211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2272.1", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Group Captain C. A. B. Wilcock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"De Havilland's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Group Captain C. A. B. Wilcock", "preceding_text": "ons from firms have been received by the Aero Club of Great Britain, only five have so far been authorised. That is a poor result. What is much worse is that, while we are always pressing the Government to take action about these clubs and give them a start, with only one exception—I stand to be corrected—no aircraft construction company or aero engine company in the country supports an aero Club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-16a.2272.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2334.0", "colnum": "2334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Since the Government proceeds against the dissemination of obscene literature to adults by statutory action rather than by relying on persuading people not to read this stuff but to read something better, how does the hon. Gentleman reconcile that with believing that we should take persuasive action and not effective action with regard to the sale of undesirable literature to children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2333.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2334.2", "colnum": "2334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "Is Lot the hon. Gentleman aware that reading matter of this kind, printed in America and exported to this country, is, in fact, on sale in London shops and that I have comics of this kind in my possession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2338.0", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, quite apart from the general dislike of Guillotine Motions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2338.1", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to have a dress rehearsal of the speech which the right hon. Gentleman intends to make next week. The fact remains that while the Government are supported by the majority which they are at present receiving in the House, it is the Government's responsibility to have charge of the business of the House. We consider it essential to get this Bill through as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2338.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2339.3", "colnum": "2339", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": " Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the reason given in the Committee upstairs why the Conservative Members refused to meet at 3.30 this afternoon was that they wanted to go to a garden party? Is he further aware that, that suggestion having been turned down, we then offered to sit at 10 o'clock and to sit all through the night, if necessary, in order to facilitate the passage of this Measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2339.5", "colnum": "2339", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HOW. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that, Mr. Speaker, but this is an appropriate time, I submit with respect, for challenging the Government on what they are doing. I hope that the Leader of the House will get out of this rather unwise and irritating habit, when legitimate questions are put to him which he does not know how to answer, of sitting there tight; let him get up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2341.0", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is quite out of order to make allegations of corruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2392.1", "colnum": "2392", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was nothing to withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to get such a withdrawal, because that was very definitely the impression that was created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2406.1", "colnum": "2406", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. H. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. H. Morgan", "preceding_text": "e asked some hon. Members to tell me the names of some of the West Indian islands and something of their history, but they have looked at me blankly and said—well, I cannot repeat the exact language they used, because it was rather strong. They have said, \"Where do these islands come in? We are concerned with the world and with Great Britain. We do not want to be concerned with these puny things.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2406.1", "colnum": "2406", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. H. Morgan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. H. Morgan", "preceding_text": "isgraceful economic conditions in which the people are forced to live. I have been to the West Indies recently when the British Medical Association sent me: my political enemies sent me there in 1950–51. There one sees the dreadful sanitary conditions, the low pay of the labourers on the estates and the disgraceful education offered to people who are willing to make any sacrifice to get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2429.3", "colnum": "2429", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is still here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": " some first-hand knowledge of it; and second, because Nigeria, in particular, is so important. Many of us forget that Nigeria has the fourth largest population in the Commonwealth. It lies only behind Pakistan, India and ourselves, with 30 million people and an enormous market, particularly for Lancashire, if some arrangement can be come to with a gentleman named Mr. Nwapa, who has been over here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2447.3", "colnum": "2447", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "onies. Today, the figure may be something like 25 per cent. That is a great improvement, but it is not enough. I ask the Minister, when he replies, to say whether he has had a report from the Education Mission which went to Africa to discover what can be done to forward African education. I hope that we shall not have a Butler axe on African children as we have had on the children of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-17", "file": "debates1952-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "88468582d7e129ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2456.3", "colnum": "2456", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "ways to which I have referred rather than in any general re-settlement scheme which must fail if those re-settled persist in their old methods. I propose to try to show later why, in the opinion of Her Majesty's Government, the problem could not be solved by handing over the so-called White Highlands in whole or in part for African settlement, which appears to be involved in the Opposition Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-17a.2456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-18", "file": "debates1952-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa3ef4b48c15047f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-18a.2490.1", "colnum": "2490", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE (RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "sets now; the air is already cluttered up. We have all the taxis in London, most of whose drivers, without training, are using wireless. If we listen on certain wavelengths we can hear private yachts in the Solent and in the Channel talking to each other on the wireless. We had a vast army of Americans and Britons before D day with their own wavelengths all nattering on the air for 48 hours a day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-18a.2490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-18", "file": "debates1952-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa3ef4b48c15047f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-18a.2514.4", "colnum": "2514", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE (RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. According to the rules of this House, is it not in order to call a Count after one o'clock on a Friday, and is it not in order for an hon. Member who is greatly interested in Civil Defence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-18a.2514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S. FORCES (POLITICAL ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I read in the \"Daily Worker\" some account of this. I was asked whether I would allow my name to be given to a trophy to be presented to the winner of two American Forces' teams that were to play a baseball match at a Conservative fête. I had not, I agree, fully realised the political implications that might attach to the matter, and in so far as I have erred I express my regret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT MONTGOMERY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. We are all, naturally, sympathetic with those who have suffered, Sir, but there are about 800 accidents every day on the roads and if those of us who wish to exploit constituency circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "WAGES COUNCILS' RECOM MENDATIONS (MINISTER'S DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Government were spending millions of pounds in trying to hold the cost of living with food subsidies. Does not the right hon. Gentleman appreciate—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I am entitled to say something on this, and I am making my speech in an interrogatory manner, Mr. Speaker. If I am putting too many questions at once, I shall be quite happy to spend the next hour putting the questions singly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "WAGES COUNCILS' RECOM MENDATIONS (MINISTER'S DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": "ity, and mine was the function. About the psychology of it, of course I appreciate the importance of that, and I am as anxious as anyone not to be hampered in the course of my duties by appearing to oppose out of hand rises in wages. I merely say that I think it was my duty to have these matters referred back to be considered again. Then, when they come to me again, I will again try to do my duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "WAGES COUNCILS' RECOM MENDATIONS (MINISTER'S DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "y I, Mr. Speaker, put one or two points to you? On the matter of the statute, part of which you have been good enough to read to us, it is perfectly clear that Parliament intended that as wages councils' proposals came before the Minister of Labour he would consider them and refer them back or authorise them, as the case might be. It is perfectly clear on this occasion that that has not been done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I ask the House to agree to this Motion on three grounds. First, it is necessary that the Bill shall become law during this Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I want to get the point right, and I know the right hon. Gentleman is interested in getting it right from the point of view of the House. As I understand it, the principle of the Bill has been approved by the House, and therefore one cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I think that raises a difficult point on which I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.58.4", "colnum": "58", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "r a very grave handicap; it is really to tie our hands behind our back while we are punched by the right hon. and learned Gentleman. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has specifically stated that one of the reasons why the Government did not find as much Parliamentary time as they expected was because they had to deal with these difficult financial and economic circumstances \"bequeathed to us.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.58.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I would not know if the hon. Member is right in any or all of those assumptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I am quite prepared to take that into account. Let me put it this way. There were 10 Sittings dealing with the actual Clauses of the Bill. The right hon. Gentleman says that there was time occupied with the Schedules. Some allowance must be made for the fact that that was the first propounding of a scheme of nationalisation, and this is merely a repeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.70.5", "colnum": "70", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Black", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Black", "preceding_text": "I think you will agree, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that in all the circumstances it is just that either now or in subsequent discussion of this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.70.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Black", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Black", "preceding_text": "If you will permit me to do so, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.72.5", "colnum": "72", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "rnment to withdraw it. At the same time, while they desire the withdrawal of the Bill, they wish this matter to be thoroughly considered in the full light of day. We have placed our Amendment on the Order Paper because this is unlike any other time-table Motion that has ever been moved in the history of this House. Three Sittings upstairs, and the right hon. and learned Gentleman made up his mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.72.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.80.7", "colnum": "80", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "And that that society has a finance committee of which the hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Remnant) is the chairman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.80.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.81.3", "colnum": "81", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The position of a pecuniary interest is really quite simple. A Member may not vote on any question in which he has a pecuniary interest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.81.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "It is quite illuminating how right hon. Gentlemen and hon. Gentlemen opposite are thoroughly enjoying grovelling in the dirt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.83.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.83.5", "colnum": "83", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we should accuse each other of insincerity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.83.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.83.6", "colnum": "83", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "It is the duty of the Government to ensure that its business is proceeded with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.83.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "compliments quite honestly to the Home Secretary in earlier debates, and, though I have been bitterly indignant with him for what I consider to be his quite unjustifiable behaviour with reference to what has gone on in the Committee, I am still hoping that he is not quite as bad as the rest of his colleagues are. He has talked today about the interests and rights of the residents in the new towns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.84.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who ran the poll?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Græme Finlay", "preceding_text": "The largest designated new town in England is situated in my constituency. Before the General Election a plebiscite was held, and the result was that 2,341 people were against nationalisation and State management and 110 were for it. Over 50 per cent. of the new town area voted in the poll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " Friends who make up what is called the Workers' Temperance League sent me on a deputation to Carlisle to see for myself what was going on. I was accompanied by a former chairman of the Trades Union Congress and by an hon. Member of this House, who occupied the position of Deputy-Chairman of Ways and Means, Sir Robert Young. We stayed a week and examined all the evidence and visited public houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scottish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "en, North (Mr. Hector Hughes), because I also represent a part of the country which has strong local feelings. His comment would be a great deal more powerful and persuasive, however, if his Scotch colleagues on Standing Committee C had allowed us to get on with business the other evening so that we could have reached Clause 7 of the Bill, which so deeply concerns Scotch arrangements I understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We could have sat all night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to take further time on this point which has been answered so often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Black", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Black", "preceding_text": "tation against me, but I am very glad now to have the opportunity of clearing up a matter which seems to be exciting the interest and curiosity of a great many hon. Members and about which, so far as I am concerned, there is no kind of mystery whatsoever, but a perfectly simple explanation. I was informed that the Sittings of this Committee on this Bill were likely to occupy a long period of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "o short. His memory, as far as I can see, is as tepid to him as he is to the temperance cause. The fact is that he was told, not presumably, by an hon. Member of the Opposition, that this Committee would last a long time, and that was the end of June. So it was then the intention of the Government that this Session was to continue for a long time after the Recess. That was obviously the intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We were informed that there was a Parliamentary Committee of whose Finance Committee the hon. Member for Wokingham was the chairman. That is perfectly correct because the committees to which I have referred very often have their meetings convened through the Whips. Everybody knows who is a member of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.115.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.116.4", "colnum": "116", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that my hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Remnant) did not say that he was a brewer. The first thing he got up and said in Committee was that he was a brewer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.116.7", "colnum": "116", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The cellar door.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "d to have a Guillotine and rush the Bill through the Committee. Now, a week after the Prime Minister's announcement that the economic and financial situation was so grave we are going to have a Guillotine. That is the only explanation we have, and so we now have once more displayed to us the full sense of priorities of the Government. As the Prime Minister has said, we are standing on a trap-door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.116.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ll read that statement to the House. It has been used earlier by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, North (Mr. J. Hudson). As hon. Members opposite consider I have been unfair to the Conservative Party I only want to try to put myself in the same relationship as the Prime Minister himself, and I wish I could do it as well as he did. He said that the Tory Party was one of great vested interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that got to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "tituency were so wealthy they paid political organisers to go out canvassing. We know about that because some members of my own party went to do the job. In fact, they had so much money—the party opposite —that they were not able to spend it under the amount which was allowed to each candidate. We hear a great deal about the funds of the Labour Party. Well, the Labour Party accounts are published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.134.3", "colnum": "134", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "However, I am not sure that she was very pleased with the intervention of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Carlisle (Mr. Hargreaves)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.134.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is certainly not in order to say that the right hon. Gentleman is abusing his position as Privy Councillor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.137.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.137.5", "colnum": "137", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have already pointed out to the hon. and gallant Gentleman that when he says that a right hon. Gentleman is abusing his position as Privy Councillor, that is not in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.137.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "is own trumpet. For one reason or another, the right hon. Member for South Shields must accept some responsibility for the conduct of the Opposition during these nights, which have forced this action upon the Government. I was very sorry indeed to hear the right hon. Gentleman's speech this afternoon. Unquestionably it will go down as one of the worst he has delivered. It was both rude and vulgar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.139.8", "colnum": "139", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "In rising to address the House this afternoon, I understand that I am supposed to be brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.139.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Snooper.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. J. M. Alport", "preceding_text": "Mr. C. J. M. Alport (Colchester) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.142.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.148.5", "colnum": "148", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ot declaring an interest in connection with the Bill and the Motion now before the House. I only wish to say that I certainly would have declared an interest if there had been the least likelihood of any part of the proposals concerning the handing over of liquor dealing to the Co-operative movement. There is nothing of that sort involved, and the hon. Gentleman is merely trying to draw a curtain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.148.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Can you tell the House, Mr. Speaker, whether there have been any conversations between you and the Leader of the House as to the time when the Leader of the House was to rise and as to the time when this discussion should be brought to a close, and, if so, what was the nature of those discussions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.152.5", "colnum": "152", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After four months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "s allotment of time to other business, we proposed at the end of June that the Order should be discharged and the Bill should go to Committee upstairs. Here may I remind everybody present that the Motion was agreed to without a Division at all. It had the unanimous assent of the House of Commons that it should go upstairs, and that decision was taken in the early hours of the morning on 27th June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why was not it suggested?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I merely say that the right hon. Gentleman knows that we would have liked it. If he does not know it is not my fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale spoke for a long time, and all I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "That is begging the whole question, because we do consider this legislation in the interests of the majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Repeat it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ot hold with the nationalisation of public houses. We think that when there is a danger, as a result of previous legislation, of that happening in one quarter, then in the general national interest we should see that it does not occur. I was perfectly well aware that I had the right hon. Gentleman's words right, because this was not something reported to me but something which I wrote down myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gag.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " time-table a most remarkable thing happened, although I do not think it can happen in the same way in the Standing Committee. But on that occasion I had the statistics worked out, and I found that something like 95 per cent. of the Members who took an enormous number of columns of the OFFICIAL REPORT while the debate was open did not share in the discussions at all once the Bill got to Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Many? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman not agree that there is a close relationship between the Labour Party and many of the brewery trade at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Labour Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "The citizens of that burgh have no desire—no desire whatever—to have a public house installed. I believe that in view of the close relationship that the brewery trade has with this House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-21", "file": "debates1952-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab8fabffb9eb1c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.235.4", "colnum": "235", "heading": "RIVER WITHAM (POLLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"The Kitchen Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "rted putting their effluent into the rivers, the rivers began to be polluted. But even in the early days of the industrial revolution, it is said that apprentice boys in London and other large cities insisted that they should not be given salmon to eat more often than twice a week. Yet, tonight, in the Dining Room, the charge is 5s. 6d. for a very small portion of salmon. That is due to pollution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-21a.235.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.267.4", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And the Opposition.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Greenwood", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that there is no real evidence of any substantial improvement in the cotton and rayon producing areas, will the hon. and learned Gentleman be able to give an interim reply on this point before the Government go on their holidays for the summer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "o be worked out and to see whether a blue-print would succeed as its authors hope, it might not be a good thing to have a few more years' experience. The world cannot stop still, and meanwhile trade, industry, and agriculture in Britain, and the ordinary life of everyday people, are being deprived, because of the failure of the system of integration, of a service which we believe they could enjoy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The test is not, \"Is the system good on paper?\" but, \"Does it work out well in practice?\" By this test we are in a position to judge the Act of 1947, and by that test the Act has undoubtedly failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "d in the year, but all experience shows that there has been little or no integration. Nor, indeed, can anyone, I am afraid, pretend that they have had a very successful year. The transport of passengers and freight by the railways was up in 1951; the national productivity index last year was up by 5½ per cent.; but the Road Haulage Executive, which has had a near-monopoly for its operations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "hip. I should be very glad indeed to discuss with the unions and all concerned the problems of this Bill. I was ready, as I said, to discuss them before the Bill was published, but the unions decided otherwise. Now the Bill is published, I shall welcome any talks and conversations we may have. I would discuss it also with the Railway Executive and Transport Commission and all engaged in transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.314.6", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. H. R. Rogers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. H. R. Rogers", "preceding_text": "f us who want to talk. That will not make the slightest alteration to what the Tory Party called their policy on transport. He will not change his mind no matter how many people see him. He knows perfectly well that he dare not change his mind, and if ever there was a more naked attempt than this to secure the profitable part of a publicly-owned industry for private investors I have never seen it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.314.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "modest targets they set themselves in 1951 were not achieved by some 20 to 25 per cent. We have had reports from time to time that the running roads have not been considered safe for high speed traffic and considerable disadvantage has keen experienced as a result. When the Transport Act was passed in 1947 it was assumed that this process of integration, whatever we may mean by that, should go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " in most industries. In any event, if it had been in the old days under a Tory Government the men would not have been quite so prepared to get out of the industry for they would have been afraid of not getting another job. On a recent Sunday morning some of my colleagues and I addressed some 500 men, most of whom came from the road haulage industry. I am speaking today on their instructions to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "bingdon (Sir R. Glyn) who reminded the House of the facts in such forcible terms during our last debate? He spoke from practical experience, but there are some hon. Members opposite who never seem to learn. I hope therefore that all my hon. Friends will take this opportunity of proclaiming to the country that the responsibility for this diabolical Measure which is proposed rests on the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.358.5", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "Quite obviously, I should have expected the noble Lord to have taken that much for granted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.358.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.358.5", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "gnise that the change that there has been is for good. The amazing thing to me is that after three short years, when the Road Haulage Executive has just got the thing into something like real shape, and when at last it has been made a profitable enterprise, along comes the party opposite—and what do they propose to do? To smash this machine up and sell it out to their friends. I want to warn them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.358.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "that now, and anybody who speaks with knowledge of transport today knows that there are two words being used in the road transport industry. I want the Minister to remember this. The two words now that have gained common currency in the long distance road haulage industry are \"the racket.\" The present Government's proposals in regard to long distance haulage are talked about as being \"The racket.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.359.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "I have the impression, rightly or wrongly—we shall come back to all this, of course, when the House meets again—that this levy idea was to make up the loss which the Transport Commission might experience from the loss of revenue coming from the road haulage undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "ry, sometimes without the loss of single passenger life in a year—that was their record in 1950, when all these millions of passengers were carried without the loss of a single life—what a contrast to the slaughter on the roads when 450 people a month are killed! This remarkable record of safety of British Railways which has no equal in the world is something which everyone ought to admire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Coal Board; but I am bound to contrast the spirit in which the Minister of Fuel and Power approached his task when we had a debate on coal a little while ago with the spirit of the Minister of Transport today. The Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary have at least the duty of ensuring that the Transport Commission are not misrepresented by their hon. Friends because of their political spleen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is afraid of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ave increased as it has done in British Road Services. If he does not understand it, why has he not asked them? He has a telephone on his desk; he has a typewriter available and a typist there. Lord Hurcomb would have been glad, I am sure, to come to see him. Why has he consistently and deliberately ignored British Road Services and the Road Haulage Executive since he became Minister of Transport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I should have been there today but for this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think that the most significant thing about this debate is the way in which the Minister, so far as I understood him, has thrown overboard the idea of integrating the road and rail services. I confess that I am not clear about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ter, so far as I understood him, has thrown overboard the idea of integrating the road and rail services. I confess that I am not clear about this. [ Laughter. ] Yes, and I hope that the Parliamentary Secretary will give me some enlightenment, because it is a difficult matter to explain. If some of the hon. Members who are now laughing had been here all day, they would have seen what we have seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "preceding_text": ", a little differently. I would say that we are at the close of what I would call Part I of a two-day debate on the virtues or vices of monopoly, and it will be interesting to us on this side of the House to see whether tomorrow the speeches of hon. Gentlemen opposite follow quite the same line as that to which we have just listened from my distinguished predecessor in the office which I now hold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows it is always difficult to cover all the points raised in debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I take it, then, that the total of £90,000 a year will go to the Heir to the Throne when he becomes the Prince of Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": ", but I think everybody is bound to admit that it is a strange thing that we should be in Committee and yet not able to discuss Amendments. That is the only point I want to make on that. What I am disturbed about is that this youngster of three years is getting £10,000 at least of income without anything said about where it comes from. The Chancellor says that the Royal Family made a hard bargain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ification given for that is historical tradition, then I say that is to fail to understand the mood of the people of the time. 11.15 p.m. We are moving on to a higher and broader form of Government, and, until some stock is taken of these incomes, I tell the Government that they are failing to recognise the people's mood. My last word is about the \"Sunday Pictorial,\" one of our great publications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a commander.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "dard of living would indeed be modest\", as we know it would be for any naval officer of that rank. But because he has become the Consort of Her Majesty the Queen he has to wear a lot of clothes and change them frequently. He has to travel about the country and to live a life which I am sure as a private citizen or as a lieutenant-commander he would neither choose for himself nor be able to afford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.431.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Dean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "0 Cabinet Ministers. Perhaps I am not assessing the relative values of Cabinet Ministers, but if we take that standard it is not possible to argue that £40,000 is a reasonable sum. I understand that the Archbishop of Canterbury receives £8,000 a year, but I do not think the services rendered to the nation by the Duke of Edinburgh will be five times more valuable than those given by the Archbishop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "I am not so interested in that as in the £40,000 which is now considered to be practically tax free—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": ". I know that what I am about to say may be thought to be indecent, but I am one of those people who do not believe in angels. Whether they are royal persons or road sweepers, people are all liable occasionally to go off the rails, or to go wrong. What disturbs me is that the possibility may arise—though I hope it will not—because the Duke is a human being, that the domestic felicity may go wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "ent here to agree to things like that, and I do not think hon. Members should be so thin-skinned about these things and pretend that they can never happen. They should not be offended if somebody says that they might happen. It is something that could arise, and I think I am free to say so in the House. Hon. Members should be free to speak their minds without being howled at by a lot of hooligans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "at, and all believe it is one of the great assets they have in the hearts of the people. But when we get a sort of comment that it is lese-majesty for my hon. Friends to suggest that the Royal Family have matrimonial difficulties one must remember the example, immediately preceding, of the Duke of Cornwall's wife—he married, at any rate, as Prince of Wales—not even being allowed at his Coronation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ing made, but why £25,000? How is that sum reached? If it be the case that this Bill, when it becomes an Act, will extend for the whole of the present reign then other persons may be added to the list of people who are in financial difficulties. Is £25,000 liberal enough? In the event of the stage being reached where Her Majesty has outlived these persons, is this sum still to be allocated to her?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ant to lose my temper with him. I do not ask who are the people involved, because the Amendment refers to \"Their Royal Highnesses,\" but I think, without being too inquisitive or personal, if they are allocated a sum of money some idea of the numbers involved might be given, even if their names are not disclosed. What happens when the numbers diminish? Is the £25,000 still allocated to Her Majesty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my hon. Friend is anticipating the point I am going to make. The point on which I wish to have a reply from the Financial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "With great respect", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-22", "file": "debates1952-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "32e1c0964d09e6bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.484.5", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "f of the House would like to get home at six o'clock in the evening and go to the pictures. If one were to follow out the right hon. Gentleman's argument we would knock off at six o'clock every day. But we have our duties as well as the need for consideration for other folk. We all have a sense of our responsibility for not unnecessarily inconveniencing any servants of the Government or the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-22a.484.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.515.5", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I think the latter figure is not 44, but 37, but the fact remains that I have attended one of these interviewing boards, and I can say that they are very fairly conducted. The answer simply is that the others did not come up to the qualities expected or needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.515.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "—to the business already announced; and with good will it can be disposed of. As Leader of the House I have taken note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": ", I am sure, is desired by the great majority of the House and could be done without the Opposition sacrificing any of their undoubted rights of debate. We shall this evening get as far as we can with the business before us, but what we have not completed by a reasonable hour will have to be postponed to another day, with the inevitable result that the House may have to sit on August Bank Holiday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.537.5", "colnum": "537", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Naturally, I gave way to you, Mr. Speaker, without concluding the other part of my question. What I was saying was in an interrogative form, dealing with business generally. I was going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.537.9", "colnum": "537", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Leader of the Opposition is totally unfamiliar with what happened last night?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.537.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.537.9", "colnum": "537", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Leader of the Opposition is totally unfamiliar with what happened last night? [HON. MEMBERS: \"So are you.\"] No. In regard to the allegation about prolonging proceedings in the last Parliament on Prayers, that happened on only one occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.537.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLIES COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "This is interesting and important. I agree that it does not work with 100 per cent. efficiency in America and that there is still collusion, but I think there is much less in the United States than in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLIES COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No advertising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "The way in which the hon. and learned Member put it was a little unfortunate. I almost blush as a member of the Bar to hear a silk talking about restrictive practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLIES COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": " Barr (Mr. Poole) float into the Chamber like Prince Charming and stay only long enough to tell his hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith, North (Mr. Tomney) that he was talking nonsense about the B.E.A. manufacturing lamps. They could manufacture lamps cheaply, of course, for they could make up the price by subsidies from the charges. The Tory Party are not going to stand for that sort of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLIES COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "Prices are coming down. If there had not been these very strong resale price maintenance agreements nobody would have been able to get a car except at a fantastic price, whereas throughout all these difficult years, although people have had to go on waiting lists, and have had to wait for cars, at any rate they paid the right prices for them when they got them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.640.5", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLIES COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "ationalised industries were brought within the purview of the Monopolies Commission. Let us have that. I should be very much happier if they were brought in. Let us have a Monopolies Commission which is going to probe into every restrictive practice—including the restrictive practices of trade unions as well, because it is conceivable that their practices are helping to keep up the cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.640.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLIES COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "I am in a complete muddle now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.641.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member is going very wide of the Bill. On Second Reading he might easily have argued that some provisions for the concepts of which he is in favour might have been included, but they are not, in fact, and the hon. and learned Member must, on Third Reading, keep to the Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "I appreciate your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, but it ill becomes hon. Members opposite, when Members on this side of the House are trying to make a contribution in regard to a Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "g, Mr. Speaker, but it ill becomes hon. Members opposite, when Members on this side of the House are trying to make a contribution in regard to a Bill—[ Laughter. ]—a contribution in regard to a Commonwealth matter, to sit there jeering. It almost leads me to believe that there are still some hon. Gentlemen opposite who consider in some way that the Crown should be, as it was once, a party symbol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have some.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "in other parts of the world. I believe that when we enter into an honourable agreement we should keep it honourably. Therefore, when we on these benches say that we recognise the services which the Royal Family render as the Head of the Commonwealth and not just as the Head of an Island, we should show good taste when we are discussing, among other things, the financial provisions for their needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member know what he is talking about?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "I was wondering what my hon. Friend knew about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "now that the people of this country have begun to think about the problem and to express their own point of view. Since the first debate took place we have had some quite original expressions of opinion from the people at large and from our own constituents in the form of letters and conversations which have come as a surprise to some of us—as a revelation that the people of this country have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " reflect in our provision for that monarchy the new ideas and new expressions of social relationships which are taking place throughout the rest of the community. I suggest that that is something we should bear in mind when considering this Bill and its provisions. If we look at the profound changes since 1945 in the organisation of our economic life and in the social standards we have introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-23", "file": "debates1952-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "10b00cfc7acf9984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No such thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": ". He said I was barnacle-minded. That may be so. I find that in running a business successfully it is essential to cut the barnacles off the bottom. But I do not want to repeat what I said. I want to assure my hon. Friends that in the time available—we had nine Sittings in a limited time—we did our best to ensure that there were no barnacles and that proper provision was made for barnacle cutters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-23a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-24", "file": "debates1952-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "55767cd17ae1e5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAGES COUNCILS' RECOMMENDATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will not expect me to agree with his last observation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-24", "file": "debates1952-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "55767cd17ae1e5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ister who may be dismissed when the Cabinet remains or who may remain when the Cabinet departs. I think that since these proposals were originally made their strained nature has been widely recognised. I always like to quote from some source which is not in political harmony with my party or the present Government, so on this occasion I choose the Fabian Colonial Bureau pamphlet of September, 1951", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-24", "file": "debates1952-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "55767cd17ae1e5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "al point that I want to urge, because it is the most important of all, is that there is no provision here by which the political advancement of the Africans in the Federal Legislature can be ensured except by the will and the initiative of the European elected members in the federation. I say, and I measure my words, that if we accept that, it is the surrender of our Protectorate responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-24", "file": "debates1952-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "55767cd17ae1e5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.876.5", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, quite rightly on his own premises, when opening the debate today, said that in his view there ought to be a review in five or 10 years. But obviously if he is advocating a review he is in favour of the scheme as it is on broad lines. He cannot be asking for a review of something to which he is opposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.876.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-24", "file": "debates1952-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "55767cd17ae1e5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (SEASONAL WORKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ave read the Report of the Advisory Committee and it is quite clear that they have examined the situation and believe that no hardship is involved. Despite that, I ask the Parliamentary Secretary to give me a reassurance that he has given special consideration to the needs of these workers, about whose problem my hon. Friends, and perhaps hon. Members on the other side of the House, feel strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-24", "file": "debates1952-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "55767cd17ae1e5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 4.—(ANNUAL DUTIES (CONTINUATION).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " from what has happened up to now that we are in for a further considerable amount of muddle, waste and mismanagement. It may well be that when the next Budget is opened, and the Finance Bill is printed, there will have to be increases in taxation, especially in the field of Customs. If that is so, and this date is altered to November, the Isle of Man might be put in a specially favoured position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-24a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-25", "file": "debates1952-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "106954eefdf42960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-25a.972.5", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "se for more than a few moments on this matter, because it is obvious that we have to pass this Bill. It is based on highly unsatisfactory accounts, which we have discussed at some length, and all I want to say now is that by the next time on which we discuss such a Measure we ought to have some more satisfactory form of account so that we understand a little more clearly what we are talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-25a.972.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-25", "file": "debates1952-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "106954eefdf42960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-25a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "d taken place in recent years, perhaps something more would have been done to make the situation better and more reasonable from the point of view of the taxpayers of this country. The Opposition cannot be charged with having delayed the proceedings. If the Leader of the House had been more reasonable, this Bill would have been through, I feel certain, on the first occasion on which we debated it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-25a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-25", "file": "debates1952-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "106954eefdf42960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-25a.1031.5", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (CALF SUBSIDIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "preceding_text": "worth while to rear them—he will have a pretty good notion whether they are of a beef type—they will certainly rank for subsidy. When we come to heifer calves it is very difficult to draw the line. Someone asked why the Friesian is excluded. The answer is that it is a single purpose, direct dairy breed. I think that the Friesian breeders in the main would say that these are single purpose animals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-25a.1031.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-25", "file": "debates1952-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "106954eefdf42960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-25a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the point?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "oment in this most important industry, which keeps our pantry shelves stocked, is that it is having its manpower taken away. Even the village blacksmith is taken away apparently in order to keep the country secure. When the country is at its highest point of firing power and its lowest point in food production how long do the party opposite think that they can keep up the defence of these islands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-25a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-28", "file": "debates1952-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0cd4631f9e83ee20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1075.5", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about consumers?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend considered the desirability of consulting suppliers in the egg trade—the producers, packing stations and distributors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1075.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-28", "file": "debates1952-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0cd4631f9e83ee20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "preceding_text": "d the power of private enterprise to do so. Will he explain why it was, when that situation arose two years ago in the lifetime of the second Socialist Government since the war, that his successor as Secretary of State for Scotland went to the Duke of Westminster and said, \"Transport is breaking down. The Transport Commission has turned its back on it. We will accept no responsibility whatsoever\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-28", "file": "debates1952-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0cd4631f9e83ee20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ive that very ingenious man an opportunity to develop his machine. For one reason or other, for technical reasons about which I do not know, the project did not advance. I sometimes think that if it had we might be in a better position today. But that is a very personal note. I had intended telling the House about further plans for helicopters, but I feel that perhaps I am taking up too much time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-28", "file": "debates1952-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0cd4631f9e83ee20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ething of lasting benefit for Scotland, and I hope that we will rid ourselves of any doctrinaire ideas which we may have on this subject, which were manifest by hon. Members opposite when the Joint Under-Secretary was making his speech. May I remind the House that all the railways which were created and run by private enterprise up to 1947 were admittedly successful for a very long period of time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-28", "file": "debates1952-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0cd4631f9e83ee20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1158.3", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "oportion of these forms of service has been steadily rising since 1948 on British Railways, whereas the traffic paying at ordinary fares is falling off. The result has been an actual decrease in the average fare per mile charged on British Railways … The previous Reports were in a very different form. The form of this Report, obviously for propaganda purposes, is against de-nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-28", "file": "debates1952-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0cd4631f9e83ee20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1165.3", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": "they will set out with the purpose of cutting out the dead wood, that is, the uneconomic services, because if we take away from the British Transport Commission the road passenger services and the road haulage services, they cannot be asked to take on the responsibility of providing uneconomic services. The value of having one integrated service is that the responsibility rests upon the shoulders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-28", "file": "debates1952-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0cd4631f9e83ee20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wheatley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wheatley", "preceding_text": " to do so, because for an exhibition of kicking the ball out of the park in order to waste time I had never seen its equal in this House. We have had that charge repeated again today. The hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Sir D. Robertson) made an equally serious accusation. He said that the Report was misleading, and that it was misleading and purposely misleading for propaganda purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-28", "file": "debates1952-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0cd4631f9e83ee20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way, as there are only three minutes before the Minister is to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-28", "file": "debates1952-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0cd4631f9e83ee20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEWERAGE SCHEME. MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One has now arrived.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "preceding_text": "se and for the calm and courteous way in which he raised the subject. I quite agree with my hon. Friend when he said that Morecambe and Heysham were the most important towns in his constituency. Morecambe is a great seaside town. It has many conferences, and surveying from this Box the benches opposite I am sorry to see that none of the Members opposite are interested in the problems of Morecambe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-28a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1242.8", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Yes, but why does the right hon. Gentleman brush this matter aside as though it were of no consequence? After all said and done, if action has occurred of a disorderly character—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1242.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS' ECONOMIC CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "He is not included among those who are coming to this conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1272.6", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": " I will tell hon. Members how our continuing policies have already achieved definite results. But I shall also stress the need for renewed and intensified effort. This is not a time when a Chancellor of the Exchequer can announce changes in taxation or impose fresh charges, or in some way carry out his classical role of fleecing the taxpayer. Heaven forbid that we should have another Finance Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1272.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "n. The gold reserves, both in relation to our liabilities and in relation to the turnover of our external transactions, have dropped by five-sixths. The change in the terms of trade has added up to £1,000 million a year to our import bill. It means that another three hours' work a week has to be done by every worker in the country to get the same amount of commodities from abroad as we got before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell it to the benches behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "e same way as current imports of food or raw materials. If they are not, then the loss must fall, directly or indirectly, on the gold reserves, whereas our real need is to build them up again. Of course, we are proud of what we have been able to achieve as a country—our defence programme, the most impressive of any nation of our size in the world, and our system of social services, second to none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1289.7", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "What I wanted to ask the right hon. Gentleman was whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1289.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Abadan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "might say, in passing, that this habit of contrasting the first half of 1952 with the second half of 1951 is extremely misleading. It surely is well-known to the Chancellor that the second half of 1951 was extremely abnormal for various reasons. For example, the level of our invisible exports in those six months was no more than £25 million as compared with £250 million in the previous six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ch country should take a stand on its own, because—and here I come to something which I, personally, attach a great deal of importance to—there is real danger of anxiety and misunderstanding within the alliance—in all these areas. There are many people in this country who think, not so much that the total level of Western defence is too high, but that we are carrying an unfair share of the burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even Belgium?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " the total level of Western defence is too high, but that we are carrying an unfair share of the burden. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I think that that is a very widely held view, but let me say to my hon. and right hon. Friends—and I am not dissenting from it—that I also am quite sure that the same opinion is held in virtually every other member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1317.3", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "re high. If all those things will follow from a reduction in taxation, is it not highly desirable that taxation should be reduced? I suggest that by the end of our Nine Months' Plan the Chancellor of the Exchequer should have announced to the House that he will take 2s. off the standard rate of Income Tax. I cannot expect my right hon. Friend to answer that until the Budget. How are we to do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1329.5", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": ", which is immeasurably worse than it was six months ago. The basic factors are worse. Our dollar position does not depend so much on what we sell to the dollar areas as on what the rest of the sterling area can sell to the dollar areas. Our exports are, of course, most important, but one is bound to admit that the outburst of protectionism in the United States is a very disturbing feature indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1329.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1336.3", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alibi.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is beginning to see a glimmering of the truth, that our dependence on the American economy is so great that even a small percentage move either way could have a disastrous effect on our situation in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1336.3", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "y out a policy based on the truth —because they are afraid of admitting that somebody else was right. As a result of 18 months of trying to maintain an excessive programme we have had the worst of both worlds. We have not had the arms and our standard of living and economic situation have deteriorated. We have had neither the guns nor the butter. After 18 months we are not stronger, we are weaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And railway workers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "preceding_text": "nt, that this is no reflection on the integrity of the right hon. and learned Gentleman. It is important to remember, first, that in every case the negotiations on these wages councils were completed before the Chancellor made his statement on 15th May, and in most cases had actually been submitted to the Minister before then. In other words, these low-paid distributive, laundry and other workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1381.2", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not quoting precisely what the Chancellor said when he says that the Chancellor gave certain people 12s. a week when he reduced taxation. On that basis every reduction of taxation is a gift by the State to those from whom the State took it in the first place. That is just a Robin Hood theory. Hon. Members opposite have been pressing for an increase in their salaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1386.3", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "hat our standard of living is much higher than that of probably 75 per cent. of the rest of the world. We realise that if we are to keep that standard or to advance it still further, as we all hope we shall, and at the same time be of some help to other people, then it is perfectly true that we must have more and more production and higher and higher efficiency and that everybody must work harder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "rice is above 35 dollars at the present time. Let us suppose it went up to double that figure. There would be 680 million dollars more coming into the sterling area, assuming, of course, that the Americans agreed to play—and I do not see why they should not, because they would get an automatic enhancement of the 24,000 million ounces or whatever it is which they have buried in a hole in Fort Knox.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Groundnuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "to pay dollars, and a great deal of lead comes from America. What is being done to push on with that development in Tanganyika? Again, I had a look at that, but things seem to have got bogged down because years ago people were given wrong concessions. People who are given concessions which they will not work ought to be blown out of the way. I hope that the Government will do something about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "on. I have not time to go into the details, but briefly the system was to pay the exporting country in the currency of the importing country and that gives the exporting country an option on the goods of the importing country, which, if it is not exercised within a term of seven years, lapses on the principle that if a man goes without his breakfast for seven years he can go without it altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "d, and a more orderly system of buying was brought into existence instead of everyone going on a sort of smash and grab raid and forcing everything up. It is due to that effort that prices have come down. In my opinion prices will continue to come down. I am not one of those persons who thinks it a good idea that they should go up.. It is much more important to get prices down instead of wages up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-29", "file": "debates1952-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "a689dab7e1421806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "r over 70 minutes. He was followed by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) for over 40 minutes, followed by the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Mr. Norman Smith) for 35 minutes, followed again, from the opposite side of the House, by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Ogmore (Mr. Padley) for over 35 minutes—over three hours from those four right hon. and hon. Gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-29a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1480.6", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "is my hon. Friend aware that that answer will cause the greatest suspicion on the North-East Coast and will make us believe that we are not getting a fair deal? Am Ito understand that there has been more capital expenditure on transmitters than would have given us our Pontop Pike station on the North-East Coast?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1480.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1480.11", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Langford-Holt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1480.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1482.6", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — B.B.C. GOVERNORS (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "But, Mr. Speaker, is this very poor democrat unaware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1482.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1483.2", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — B.B.C. GOVERNORS (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did answer the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1483.3", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — B.B.C. GOVERNORS (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Was not the whole point of the previous discussion that these appointments should be made on Ministerial responsibility rather than by a committee? Therefore, when the Government gave way they accepted—maybe under duress, but they accepted—Ministerial responsibility. Is it a defiance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1492.2", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "t the Chancellor's speech yesterday was somewhat ill-treated, both here and out of doors, considering the commanding position which he has made for himself in Parliament and the immense load he has had to bear. I have helped him all I could in those efforts to further economies and he has been successful to a remarkable degree. I am told of differences between us. I was not aware that any existed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Well, I am giving the facts as I gathered them from the speech my right hon. Friend made yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do not know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Well, I am giving the facts as I gathered them from the speech my right hon. Friend made yesterday. [HON. MEMBERS \"Answer.\"] Exports of coal, as I said, will be sharply —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e facts as I gathered them from the speech my right hon. Friend made yesterday. [HON. MEMBERS \"Answer.\"] Exports of coal, as I said, will be sharply —[HON. MEMBERS: \"You do not know?\"] I do not mind at all being interrupted. I think the habit of disorderliness which I have noticed on the benches opposite recently only shows what guilty consciences hon. Members have. The aim at the end of the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "riend made yesterday. [HON. MEMBERS \"Answer.\"] Exports of coal, as I said, will be sharply —[HON. MEMBERS: \"You do not know?\"] I do not mind at all being interrupted. I think the habit of disorderliness which I have noticed on the benches opposite recently only shows what guilty consciences hon. Members have. The aim at the end of the year—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—the aim at the end of this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " not mind at all being interrupted. I think the habit of disorderliness which I have noticed on the benches opposite recently only shows what guilty consciences hon. Members have. The aim at the end of the year—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—the aim at the end of this year—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I will not answer a question if I do not choose. You distinguish yourselves by denying me a fair hearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "me a fair hearing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I could not have been making a simpler or plainer statement of what was said of our policy yesterday as announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. By increased sales of military equipment we expect to earn another £10 million this year. All this was said yesterday, and then it was argued that no effective statement had been made. As a matter of fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1505.5", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That question ought to be put to the Secretary of State for War. I have answered five questions and I will answer no more questions at this juncture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1505.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1508.9", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r country. My resolve is that the people should realise how different is their position from that of all other Western communities; 50 million of us here standing at a level of civilisation not surpassed in the world, and yet barely able to earn our living and pay our way, and dependent for the food of two-fifths of our people on how we can do this in this vast swirling world. Tragic it is indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1508.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1508.9", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is their position from that of all other Western communities; 50 million of us here standing at a level of civilisation not surpassed in the world, and yet barely able to earn our living and pay our way, and dependent for the food of two-fifths of our people on how we can do this in this vast swirling world. Tragic it is indeed. [ Laughter. ] Why is there laughter? Surely it is not a party matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1508.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1508.9", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen opposite cannot get much by shouting me down. Tragic indeed is the spectacle of the might, majesty, dominion and power of the once magnificent and still considerable British Empire having to worry and wonder how we can pay our monthly bills. I fully admit I am tortured by this thought and by the processes which I see around me, and I shall do everything in my power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1508.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "rtant debate, I heard no suggestions of a constructive nature that could help us in solving our difficulties. I heard only two main points put forward: first, a complaint that there had not been sufficient information; secondly, a complaint that the Government were not doing enough. As regards information, the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday gave a clear exposition of our financial problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "eeting and said, \"Here is a Chancellor who has led us with such success from crisis to crisis.\" The justification for our policy comes in the recently published O.E.E.C. report on the financial problems of Britain which was undertaken by experts of the various countries with no political ties. Not only was it an indictment of the last Government's policy, but it is a tribute to the present policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": " reduction of food subsidies by compensating reductions in taxation and increased housing subsidies. While we note that report with great interest, we on this side of the House do not agree with the last remark because we believe that the Chancellor's Budget did everything that was possible to cushion those who were worst hit by that reduction and, on the other hand, to encourage greater earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Six months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "r of the Opposition did not requite the Prime Minister in quite the same way as the Prime Minister had treated my right hon. Friend, because when my right hon. Friend was made Prime Minister the right hon. Gentleman gave him a good chance. My recollection, which is a very lively one, is that we had not been in office for a few months before the right hon. Gentleman moved a vote of censure upon us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Canada.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " 1945, in circumstances of unprecedented difficulty, than we began to be harassed by the Opposition in the most irresponsible fashion. Not only that, but for the whole five years during which we were grappling with these difficulties we had a sustained and a vitriolic attack by the Members of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons and in the country and abroad of the most mischievous kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "tish economy was being over-strained by the arms programme? I am sorry to have to thrust home these painful facts, but it is necessary because, even now, we must try to recognise that our calculations went wrong. They went wrong for reasons that were apparent a long time ago, and it is necessary for us to try to find out why they went wrong in order to try and put the situation right. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is like the right hon. Gentleman in that respect.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged for the courtesy of the right hon. Gentleman, I think that he has really been treated quite unfairly. I have always regarded him more as an artist than anything else. I have never had very much respect for some of his other qualities, but as an artist he is supreme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not hear the remark made. Had I done so, I should certainly have deprecated it. It is not a word which we use about each other in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1529.0", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am following the right hon. Gentleman's argument with interest. But surely our coal production is now considerably less than it was before the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1529.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "This matter has been considered by the Service Departments. Is my right hon. Friend saying that the medical services of the three Services both at home and overseas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1559.7", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I happen to have worked longer at the coal face than any other Member of the House, and I want to point out how and where the incentives can begin. First, there is the question of manpower. An hon. Member has said that we got much greater output before the war, but in those days we had twice the men in the mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1559.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not wide enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "rnment. Those are the only two ways in which it can be done. We make no bones at all about our views. We stand for a constructive economic policy, a planned economy with rigorous controls to see that that policy is carried out. That is why the Amendment, moved this afternoon by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, was put down. Obviously, the debate has ranged over a very wide field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cups of tea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "not believe that it is merely a coincidence that there was a fall in production when a Tory Government came into power; I believe it was a contributory cause. I will give my reason for so saying. Every industrialist in this House knows perfectly well that we get our best production when in the factory we have happy and contented workers. \"Music while you work\" and all the amenities and facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Red meat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "all the amenities and facilities—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Cups of tea.\"]—yes, they are important at the right time—are designed to make workers happy and contented so that they can get on with production in the right frame of mind. What the Tories have done since they came into power has keenly disappointed the nation, very largely because of the wild and extravagant promises of easier and better living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He should do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ers think it is the wage earner? It is not. The person who presses for wage increases is the little lady at home, the woman who has to be a chancellor of the exchequer, and who has a much more difficult job than the right hon. Gentleman because she has to balance her budget every week and has to pay her way. If the wife, when the husband goes home on a Friday and puts his wage packet on the table—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1596.6", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "fered a good deal from the hon. Gentlemen opposite after I treated them with great courtesy throughout this Session. On a number of Bills I have always tried to listen to their views and I have tried to maintain a standard of fairness and courtesy throughout this long Session. At the end of this Session I am being treated in a manner by the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends which is quite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1596.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1596.7", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Now the Prime Minister wants to have a go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1596.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He cannot take it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "re that, first, the food subsidies should be moderately increased, and, secondly, that Income Tax and Surtax should be increased on the larger incomes. The right hon. Gentleman did neither; in fact, he did the reverse on both. He reduced the food subsidies and he reduced taxation. It had nothing whatever to do with the balance of payments; it was a mere redistribution of wealth within the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Groundnuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "nowledge, skilful guidance, and we cannot go on just talking about this. We really have to do something about it. To prepare the way, there will be some risks to be taken, and there may be some failures, but we shall not quarrel if some of the adventures in this field fail, as hon. Gentlemen opposite continually quarrelled with us when some most gallant adventures in this field failed in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1598.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1609.5", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Mr. R. R. Stokes (Ipswich) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "d be unanimously accepted. The Minister might then have time to come to the House and tell us whether he has any ideas about food at all. We have had two days discussing economic planning, without knowing anything about what the plans are going to be. Now we are discussing the results of the sort of economic chaotic semi-planning we have had from this Government. The results are vital and serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1631.7", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a challenge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I think that sneer was worthy of the man it came from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1631.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1635.2", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The brewers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "After all, it is the people of this country, that term including the poorest, who elect me and my hon. Friends on this side of the House. We do not get here by false pretences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1638.3", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "13;52, it was £94 million. In short, allowing for this price increase, the subsidy is approximately at the same level as in 1949–50 and substantially in excess of the subsidy in 1947–48 and 1944–45. The current subsidy is £90 million. The hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale), who denied any personal experience of this liquid in an earlier debate, referred to increased cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-30", "file": "debates1952-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2f62f7f4649285bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1641.3", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "The hissing hatred of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Sunderland, North, which I have experienced so often on these Prayers, leaves me unaffected. Because these price increases were imposed on 1st July, and because there can, as yet, be no official figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-30a.1641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1666.2", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN LAWYERS (ENTRY REFUSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Owing to the extremely unsatisfactory, not to say mischievous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1666.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1693.2", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why is he not here?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1694.2", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I desire to revert to the observations made with regard to information that the Kitchen Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1695.4", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I have been sitting here patiently for the last few minutes trying to listen to the hon. Member. There has been a con- tinual muttering and murmuring by hon. Members on the Government side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "re being invited to discuss a purely House of Commons point in which there is no question of party politics involved. I have no reason whatever to think that hon. and right hon. Members opposite are not just as concerned about this as anybody else, or that they have any greater desire to see an injustice done, or, indeed, that they have come to any conclusive opinion about it one way or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1711.0", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is very indulgent, and I am grateful. Before he leaves the question of the Russian proposal, I should like to put a question to him. He has made a number of assertions of opinion that the Russians think this and that. Is not the point of a conference to discover whether one is right or wrong about these pre-suppositions about the other side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1711.1", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "reaty. I do not believe that anyone who reads this correspondence impartially can doubt that the genuine offers for conciliation have come from us. If the House doubts that, I hope Members will tell us so and tell us where we fell down. But do not impute delay to the democracies because they like to argue and do not dictate. That is not an argument that any free Member of this House ought to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "ten brought forward that we dare not put arms in the hands of the Germans because we cannot trust them generally comes from those who are loudest in their demands that first there should be a free German election. They say that the Germans are essentially aggressive, we cannot trust them with arms and, therefore, we must put it in the hands of those same monsters to decide whether they are to arm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1762.3", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "surance that it is not going to cost us a penny more. Frankly, I do not think he knew much about it when he came back from Bonn. My suggestion is that our negotiators have been trying for months to taper off the occupation costs over a period of years. What surprised our negotiators was that this fight to retain occupation costs was given away at the highest level in order to bring in the Germans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "t if the present situation continues for two, three or four years and we get no hope of settlement, these things will become inevitable and we shall drift towards World War III. But I do not see why we should deliberately hasten the process. The Foreign Secretary says that there is really no point in negotiating with the Russians. He said that at first and withdrew it when I put a question to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1802.3", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rivately trying to change. We had that spectacle many times in the last debate on the Yalu bombing. The Government are far too restrained in all this. Perhaps I may quote the words of the great Commonwealth poet: They praise the fine restraint with which you write, I'm with you there of course, You use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse? I have taken too long already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1812.7", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I might mention 1919 and the attack on Russia, but I do not think that is relevant. As the hon. Gentleman mentioned Finland, although the attack of Russia on Finland may have been completely unjustified, I think it has been admitted to have been a strategically defensive policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1812.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1812.7", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ied, I think it has been admitted to have been a strategically defensive policy. [ Interruption .] Yes, I think it has been admitted even by the critics that it was a strategically defensive policy and came into operation only as such. However little justification, it must be borne in mind that it occurred only after the hounds of war had been unleashed by this army which it is proposed to create.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1812.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am sorry I have that unfortunate reputation: I thought I always gave way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL TARIFFS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member is right in his interpretation of the situation, but whenever I have raised this matter previously with the President of the Board of Trade I have merely been referred to the normal procedure under the Import Duties Acts, whereby certain orders", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL TARIFFS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not false\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " tonight. What is the basis of these demands for more protection and higher tariffs? I am prepared to agree that market gardening must be a highly precarious occupation and I am anxious to see it placed on a prosperous and stable basis; but I do ask the House to face objective facts and not to be misled by the quite false propaganda put forward both by the N.F.U. and by many hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-07-31", "file": "debates1952-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "705f7875f0bed174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL TARIFFS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "s propaganda the fact is that the imports of fruit since the war have been one-third less than they were before the war. When the N.F.U. comes along with this claim for higher tariffs on the grounds that home produce cannot stand the strain of ill-regulated and unco-ordinated import it is, of course, talking nonsense because imports have been regulated in the country ever since the end of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-07-31a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-08-01", "file": "debates1952-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8086ccc25a08a20f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1856.3", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING (DISMISSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steward", "preceding_text": "that. The 16 staff who have been dismissed throughout the Refreshment Department have been dismissed on the grounds of inefficiency or unsuitability. With regard to the suggestion of the hon. Member for Clapham (Mr. Gibson) that there should be some means of dealing with staff who are dismissed—I think he has in mind some right of appeal—I ask him why, when his party were for six and a half years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-08-01", "file": "debates1952-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8086ccc25a08a20f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1861.4", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "D. C. THOMSON, LTD. (DISPUTE SETTLEMENT TERMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "While congratulating the right hon. and learned Gentleman on the settlement, may we be assured that his Department will in future do its utmost to see that this hitherto benighted firm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-08-01", "file": "debates1952-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8086ccc25a08a20f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; there is absolutely no truth whatever in the statement made by the bon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-08-01", "file": "debates1952-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8086ccc25a08a20f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1889.4", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "e Government's Motion. Whatever speeches have been made here, whether they come from below or above the Gangway—except in regard to my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East; and it is sometimes difficult to break through the supersonic barrier of his mind to see what he really does believe—there is complete agreement on these benches that the Government are right in initialling these Treaties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1889.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-08-01", "file": "debates1952-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8086ccc25a08a20f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I think the best way to deal with the point—I am not trying to escape it, for I have the figures here with the authorities—is to show the figures to the hon. Gentleman afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-08-01", "file": "debates1952-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8086ccc25a08a20f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1924.3", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " all, in opposition. When in Government, we have, of course, to take more care. When in opposition, one can recover a certain healthy freedom and speak one's mind without too much consideration of these secondary aspects of the matter. I regard it as a perfectly proper thing that members of the Labour Party, when in opposition, should speak quite freely, and that that will be for the general good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1924.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-08-01", "file": "debates1952-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8086ccc25a08a20f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "what it would have meant—waiting until after the Recess. These hon. Members in their consciences must make their own judgment on this, but I am absolutely certain that if we had not taken this step now and we had waited until October, opinion in Europe would have said, \"There are those British again; they do not really mean to come along in this business at all.\" That is a perfectly fair position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-08-01", "file": "debates1952-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8086ccc25a08a20f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.2008.1", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "HALESOWEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE PRINCIPAL (DISMISSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. Gentleman knows better than I do that if that perturbs Mr. Johnson Ball's friends it perturbs the friends of everybody else whose contract has ever been ended in similar circumstances. That is asking for a particular and unique piece of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-08-01a.2008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or thirsty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "lking tour along the River Loire in circumstances of extreme beauty, but we were condemned by the travel allowance to visit only what the \"Guide Michelin\" refers to as sixth class public houses. However, we found always a charming and delightful welcome and most suitable accommodation in every village, however small. We made no preparations at all. We stopped when it rained or when we were hungry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "preceding_text": "about 73,000 public houses in this country and over 89 per cent. are already tied houses. I do not accept the argument that 89 per cent. of the people who go into the public houses in our towns and villages are as dissatisfied as the hon. and learned Gentleman made out when he moved this Clause. I oppose this Clause because, as the hon. Member for Oldham, West said, we want to set the people free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "preceding_text": "es a reasonable choice, however, I should like to say something about the suggestion, which has been made on more than one occasion, although not today, by the hon. and learned Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing) in particular, that the brewing industry restricts the right of the tenants to its houses to sell what minerals they like; in other words, that it ties them for minerals as well as for beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Glanville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Glanville", "preceding_text": "he areas concerned if the public become interested in their own well-being. Is there any question whatever that the Government are handing over the new public houses in the new towns as a bribe to the brewers for valuable services rendered during the Election? The Northern Clubs' Federation Brewery has, ever since its inception, stated the gravity of its beer on every invoice that it has sent out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "preceding_text": "me of it. The label on the bottle said that it contained lemonade, but when the child drank some of the contents she nearly poisoned herself. The invoice is a written declaration of the value of the commodity that is being sold. The Northern Clubs' Federation Brewery are the only people who will state the declared gravity. I do not wish to take up too much time as I know that others wish to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Baird", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt the hon. and learned Gentleman? It is rather an important point. Obviously, the hon. and learned Gentleman does not know much about the running of working men's clubs. The management of a working man's club is elected by the membership, and if the figure is quoted on the invoice it is open to any member to know what the gravity is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both new towns.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I support my right hon. Friend the Member for East Stirling (Mr. Woodburn) in seeking to keep the Scottish new towns out of the Bill. I believe the Joint Under-Secretary took my advice and visited one of the new towns in Scotland a week or two ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The argument of the hon. and learned Member for Paisley was that where no Scottish Bill was provided in the past it was because there was no drastic change in the law. What I am suggesting is that in 1949 there was a drastic change in the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) was here at the first. He has probably just arrived. I have already explained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the House will give me leave to speak again", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-14", "file": "debates1952-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "df91f6cb7c1fe88a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.150.2", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "preceding_text": "hat I face. He has not been able to make a statement that can really be satisfactory to the country or to the House on what is involved in this proposal. I submit that although he is about the best of a bad bunch sitting on the Front Bench opposite, he ought to feel thoroughly ashamed of himself for having imposed on the House the gag by which we are prevented from dealing with a genuine proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-14a.150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.188.5", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I said only that the hearings took place in September. We did not appoint the arbitrator. It was the late Government who appointed the arbitrator, and I do not think we are to blame if he takes a little longer than I should wish. Personally, I would give him a little more time—if he makes the right answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am in agreement with the last part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, and that is exactly what I am trying to do. In view of what has happened up-to-date, I do not want to make promises unless I am sure they can be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.199.4", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am not trying to award blame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.199.4", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am not trying to award blame. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"] The hon. Member has only to read the attacks made by Members of his own party over this business in the last few months. We have been attacked consistently by some of the Left Wing Press for something we have not done. Actually the whole of this arises from something done by the late Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.200.5", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am advised that once Herr Krupp was exculpated, as he was by the American action, of course compensation fell due to him as to anyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.200.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "PERSIA (OIL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the statement he has made is broadly continuing the policy of the late Government with regard to Persia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "e this part of the Bill—where I have been dealing with practical matters—without expressing my appreciation of the help, the very real help, received from the Opposition in working out the practical details. I do not expect any quarter for saying this, but I should not like to let the occasion pass without saying it. When we got away from the sterile, controversial irrelevancies of certain stages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.224.2", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not really dealt with the point, I agree entirely with him there, but it still remains a fact that I could not go and open up in that area. There is no competition at all. There are no licences anywhere in that area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seeing double.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "They are there in the spirit if not in the body, and I am seeing them in the spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The bride.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": " seen the red light and would have been only too anxious to withdraw the Bill, which I am sure will bring discredit upon them and which will certainly react upon them in the constituencies. We listened with interest to the Home Secretary—the bridegroom of the brewing interests—dressing up the Bill with garments of snowy white, in this marriage of convenience between the brewers and the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the Bill, of course, is to provide for the new towns the kind of services in the public houses that we believe the people want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.247.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the whole of the choice, particularly of draught beer, is limited by the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.248.3", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Of course, the hon. Gentleman has gone to great lengths to try to explain the situation in Welwyn Garden City. I do not propose to weary the House with the circumstances that led him to it, but the fact of the matter is that in Carlisle, under State control, one can get ale provided by the Carlisle brewery, and no other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "less, the attention of, the House ought to be called to one aspect of this matter in which my right hon. and learned Friend has been subjected to what seems to me to amount to abuse of the gravest kind. For good or ill, the Government decided that this was a Measure which ought to be brought forward. It had to be brought forward for reasons quite well known to hon. and right hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "; the public are buying the bottled beer to which the hon. and learned Member referred because they like it. They buy it because it is what they want. They do not ask for a particular measure, nor do I understand that it is sold in any specified quantity. It may be in any quantity in a bottle, but the customer knows that it is the bottle which he usually buys and he is satisfied with what he gets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "That is not the general conception of the plan, as I understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Great?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "the houses have not been better treated than they were before March of this year. They are worse off. The local authorities are not better off than they were. They are worse off, and they said so in Committee rooms upstairs when they came to see us and other hon. Members representing Scottish constituencies shortly before the summer Recess. There was a great demonstration at Scarborough last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-15", "file": "debates1952-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "2db6b84f0bb194d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not support the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "preceding_text": "he problem of housing they might at least give some crumb of comfort to the thousands who are now homeless. What surprises me in this debate is the stony silence of some of the experts on housing on the other side of the Committee. I am amazed, for instance, that the right hon. and gallant Member for Kelvingrove (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot), with his knowledge of this great problem, has not intervened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-15a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I would respectfully remind the Committee that if we are to have a wide debate on the Amendments, I shall feel it my duty, when the time comes, to put forthwith the Question that the Clause stand part of the Bill, and not allow a debate upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "h whether those houses are tied or otherwise, provided there are safeguards to see that farmers do not turn out their tenants without adequate reason. May we have from the Government a statement as to whom they think this Clause, as it is at present drafted, is designed to help? It seems to me that it applies to the small owner-occupier and landholders of various types, the crofter and the cottar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "s to see that farmers do not turn out their tenants without adequate reason. May we have from the Government a statement as to whom they think this Clause, as it is at present drafted, is designed to help? It seems to me that it applies to the small owner-occupier and landholders of various types, the crofter and the cottar—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] As I undertand it, it does raise this very question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "would stop building. They said so in terms, but here are people willing to build. The hon. Member for Midlothian and Peebles (Mr. Pryde) said so. Here are people who are willing to build far more cheaply to the community and to the occupiers of the house, and willing to build houses with every single amenity for which they asked—drainage, hot and cold water, inside sanitation and all these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "bitation. It is only fair to say that I want to consult with my hon. Friends and, perhaps, to offer an Amendment upon that point on the Report stage. To us it is a very important point. It is quite wrong that public funds should be available and should so enable a farmer, or anyone else, to continue utilising these dwellings which, by the very definition of the Act, are unfit for human habitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "ailable and should so enable a farmer, or anyone else, to continue utilising these dwellings which, by the very definition of the Act, are unfit for human habitation. [ Interruption. ] I thought that the Joint Under-Secretary—does he wish to speak?—who enjoys the reputation of being a forward-looking farmer, was perhaps blushing for the backwardness of the Clause and was going to volunteer to use—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you want to vote on this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "preceding_text": "ous from what has been stated by the Minister that there has been some collusion between the Government Front Bench and back benches to arrange to make this statement at this stage in the discussion of this Clause of the Bill. The statement has no fundamental relationship to this Bill as such. It would have had to be made as a pronouncement of Government policy even if this Bill had not been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH SAILORS AND SOLDIERS LAND TRUST BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Foster", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have noticed the unwonted division between the hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.519.10", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH SAILORS AND SOLDIERS LAND TRUST BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. and learned Gentleman say that I did not ask the leave of the House? He knows perfectly well that I did—and he heard me. Let him get up and say he did not. Perhaps I may get back to the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.519.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.520.4", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH SAILORS AND SOLDIERS LAND TRUST BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "rn Ireland. The hon. and learned Member for Northampton asked why we had not included in the Bill a power to charge rent. He will appreciate that whatever we do must be with the agreement of the Government of Eire. What the Government of Eire want is that we should not charge rent. The history before the decision of 1933 was that there were a number of tenant strikes; they objected to paying rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.520.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-16", "file": "debates1952-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0470c423ad02fdcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INSURANCE CONTRACTS (WAR SETTLEMENT) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I want to make just one point in a sentence, and I will not weary the Committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-16a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-17", "file": "debates1952-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "3465694329933ef6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-17a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "cular agreement which, within the framework of the N.A.T.O. Agreement, you come to with each participating nation, and that precise agreement can be brought to this House.\" Look at the first Clause of this Bill. It says: (1) References in this Act to a country to which a provision of this Act applies are references to— ( a ) Canada. In Canada we have two systems of law, one British and one French.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-17a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-17", "file": "debates1952-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "3465694329933ef6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-17a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " visiting force of that country, shall in any proceedings in any United Kingdom court be conclusive evidence of the fact so stated. Mistakes happen, and it really is a fantastic proposition that if by some mischance a certificate is issued and the name of the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Silverman) is given as a member of the American Forces in this country he is not allowed to change it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-17a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-20", "file": "debates1952-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "ecd139c8f5ced783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.667.8", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "It is not one egg a week; the average is two eggs a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.667.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-20", "file": "debates1952-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "ecd139c8f5ced783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "der Galbraith), said something of the same kind on Wednesday or Thursday last. He said that we want many more agricultural workers and that there is a great shortage of labour. I have not the figures with me, but I put it to him that the Government do not take the view that there is a great shortage of labour for agriculture and that they are not at all anxious to get more people into agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-20", "file": "debates1952-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "ecd139c8f5ced783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.712.5", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "to four or five miles, and now he is extending it to 10. The hon. Gentleman does not know his constituency if he does not know that children are indeed cycling 10 miles—five miles each way—to and from school. Children are doing that at the present time. That is the trouble with hon. Members opposite; they do not know their constituencies, and they do not know the problems that we are dealing with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-20", "file": "debates1952-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "ecd139c8f5ced783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman exposes his ignorance in speech after speech. Lanark is quite a town. If the hon. Gentleman says it is not a town he will meet some very vigorous criticism. If he goes to Lanark he will find some of these houses within a biscuit toss of the town centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-20", "file": "debates1952-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "ecd139c8f5ced783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "Not a thing. My only grumble is that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman did not stand upon that argument today and say to the Government, \"This is a foolish and improper and backward step you are taking\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-20", "file": "debates1952-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "ecd139c8f5ced783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tied house?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ssary to increase by 33⅓ per cent. the £600 to £800, then by that very fact he admits that the subsidy under Clause 1 and the calculations which he has presented to us are completely unreal. I am perfectly sure that if he plucks up enough courage to see them on that subject, the local authorities will press that point. We have had quite a lot of argument about the tied house under Clause 3,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-20", "file": "debates1952-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "ecd139c8f5ced783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (CALF SUBSIDIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": " thought to this matter. It is no secret now that the Union take the view that the whole of meat marketing should be undertaken by the producers and that the producers should be responsible for slaughtering the animals. We have seen in the newspapers—and I do not want to engage in party bickering—that the present advisers of Her Majesty's Government were considering winding up the Ministry of Food", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-20a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-21", "file": "debates1952-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e99d16ecc22e035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-21a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "On the other hand, there are signs that, except in the case of food prices, which can be attributed to certain action taken last March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-21a.836.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-10-21", "file": "debates1952-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e99d16ecc22e035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-21a.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "roach than that which is ordinarily found from hon. Members representing blitzed cities. This is a case where, out of the allocation given to the corporation, they have decided to spend it on shops or on the restoration of property which they think will be beneficial to their rateable value. I am glad to have that admirable statement of the other side of the problem, which has to be borne in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-21a.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-21", "file": "debates1952-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e99d16ecc22e035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-21a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "operate, and that, in the case of one of them—the Erith local authority—it has provided for this tribunal over a period of years the free use of the council chamber and free tea for the members when the tribunal has been sitting, and that, generally speaking, they have attempted to co-operate in the most friendly way? Does the right hon. Gentleman not think that, having received such co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-21a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-21", "file": "debates1952-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e99d16ecc22e035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-21a.864.6", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROAD AND RAIL TRANSPORT (CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have explained why I think the present state of waste and confusion, restriction and endless impediment should be brought to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-21a.864.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-22", "file": "debates1952-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "597e43406e184454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "TELEVISION TRANSMITTERS, PONTOP PIKE AND BELFAST", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask my hon. Friend whether he will convey to his noble Friend and the Cabinet, and the Prime Minister in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-22", "file": "debates1952-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "597e43406e184454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "TELEVISION TRANSMITTERS, PONTOP PIKE AND BELFAST", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "be grateful. And would my hon. Friend bear in mind, when the Opposition jeer at my reference to the Prime Minister, that it was on the intervention of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-10-22", "file": "debates1952-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "597e43406e184454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "TELEVISION TRANSMITTERS, PONTOP PIKE AND BELFAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You did not help it.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "The party opposite stopped it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-10-22", "file": "debates1952-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "597e43406e184454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Several Hon. Members rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-22", "file": "debates1952-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "597e43406e184454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1221.7", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "least this agreement is going to be published. That is, so far, the only minute crumb of consolation we have been able to extract from the Government after some considerable argument. At least we know now that it is not to be incorporated in a statute, that it cannot be included in an Order in Council, and that it is to be published. Before we can decide whether the Committee should divide or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1221.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-22", "file": "debates1952-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "597e43406e184454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ments are made, appropriate steps will be taken to give public notice of the procedure to be followed by persons who have claims against a member of a visiting force. In the meantime, however, I will explain to the House in general terms what arrangements are contemplated.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th October, 1952; Vol. 505, c. 573] The view taken is that it is not appropriate to put that in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-22a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1243.4", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "the Minister aware that none of the Kettering dentists provide treatment under the Health Service, largely because of their resentment at certain delays of the Dental Estimates Board? Is he aware that there is no doubt whatever that under the Health Service the dentists, the Kettering General Hospital and the Northampton General Hospital will not provide this very necessary treatment? Is he aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1274.2", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "orporation and, through that, control of the major policy of each one of those companies. The fact that the steel companies are accountable to the State Corporation, which, unlike an ordinary body of shareholders, is in continuous session and has its own staff of experts, must inevitably sap the individual initiative of the companies and create among them an over-cautious and bureaucratic outlook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ies Commission. We will put in a Clause which will not make them subject to any reproach from the fact that they happen to be held by the Agency, but which will ensure that all the individual companies will be subject to the same scrutiny by the Monopolies Commission as private companies. I do not propose to say anything about what has become known as \"the Strauss threat,\" except to make it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "It is good to know that, because since then a much more carefully considered statement of Socialist policy has been issued, in the pamphlet called \"Facing the Facts.\" It is just worth noting what is said there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "d steel industries which are sold to private buyers. This is a much more equivocal statement than the one which the right hon. Gentleman made. The operative words clearly are \"wherever the public interest requires,\" and I have no doubt that that phrase took quite a lot of working out and that it covers quite a wide divergence of view. At least it has one merit, that it still leaves the issue open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That is quite all right. It is sensible and I adhere to it. It arose in the course of debate. If I remember rightly, the original statement was made in Canada.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1281.9", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Party politics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "at all, it is, in its essence, a business matter. Again we can agree with the right hon. Gentleman. That is what we have been saying all along. Yet I think the House will agree with me that party politics is the only explanation we can find for the nationalisation of the steel industry. If I may adapt the right hon. Gentleman's phrase, I would say that it is our intention as a matter of practical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1281.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1281.9", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are making heavy weather.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " all along. Yet I think the House will agree with me that party politics is the only explanation we can find for the nationalisation of the steel industry. If I may adapt the right hon. Gentleman's phrase, I would say that it is our intention as a matter of practical—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Party politics.\"]—as a matter of practical business to undo the wrong that was done as a matter of party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1281.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Yes. We on this side of the House have never objected to bulk buying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Yes. We on this side of the House have never objected to bulk buying. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] What we object to is State bulk buying, which is quite a different thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plus the Agency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think that was an essential part of their work. But it was to be gone about carefully, and therefore if ever there was a case where decentralisation was envisaged it is this. I warn the right hon. Gentleman that if he is not careful, under the policy which he is pursuing, he will get more bureaucratic centralisation and interference under this Board—and remember it is the Board plus Steel House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plus the Ministry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ut it was to be gone about carefully, and therefore if ever there was a case where decentralisation was envisaged it is this. I warn the right hon. Gentleman that if he is not careful, under the policy which he is pursuing, he will get more bureaucratic centralisation and interference under this Board—and remember it is the Board plus Steel House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Plus the Agency.\"]—plus the Agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ntroversial from start to finish, whoever does anything. I understand that, but we at least did a constructive job, and the Government are doing a destructive job. It is a destructive job that will haunt them and any other Government for many years to cone, unless another Government comes in to put things right. In these circumstances, it is not fair, as they are the major aggressors in this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "other Government for many years to cone, unless another Government comes in to put things right. In these circumstances, it is not fair, as they are the major aggressors in this case—[ Interruption. ] Oh, yes, they are; they are undoing a constructive Act which was operating. If we merely restore the situation as it was, it is not fair to say that we are playing ducks and drakes with the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£300 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "d a policy, we do not know what is going to happen in the future of the British iron and steel industry. It is admitted—I think it is stated in the report; certainly it was stated in the development scheme that was put up to the Labour Government by the Iron and Steel Federation—that many millions of new money will have to be invested in the industry if it is to do the real job that we want of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "I also represent one of the Sheffield divisions. I remember that in the great city of Sheffield we made big efforts in the war. I was sorry that the hon. Gentleman did not take the opportunity to pay a compliment to Sheffield for its great efforts during the war. The right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) did indicate that there was some lack of effort at the beginning of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1317.3", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "The implication of what the right hon. Gentleman said was that there was some suspicion on the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "preceding_text": "I have here the statement made in January. I shall not trouble the House by reading out the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "r steel, it is he. I listened with the greatest pleasure to the vigour and the force of his argument, but I felt that the speech was not in line with some of his previous speeches, because it had not got a basis on which to attack this particular White Paper. All hon. Members on the Opposition side have found themselves presented with a comprehensive, well-thought-out and well-planned White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "y does not know—and I conceive it my duty to tell people tonight—is that the greatest hidden damage has been caused to the industry by six years of political disputation. Plans for vital plant extensions and for new plant and machinery, and for the carrying out of urgent modernisation have been unnecessarily delayed as a result, and that procedure has been unnecessarily protracted and complicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1338.4", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That may be the opinion of the hon. Member. He can argue it out with the T.U.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1338.6", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": " Earlier in the debate a point was made that the T.U.C. had decided certain things. My hon. Friend for Newton (Mr. Lee) produced a T.U.C. report—I think while you were out of the Chamber for a short while, Sir—and read what the T.U.C. had said. In the light of that, it was universally agreed in the House that the matter had ended. The hon. Gentleman now chooses to repeat a totally false statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1338.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "nally say to the right hon. Gentleman and the Government: Take this ridiculous White Paper back. If they proceed they risk bringing about those disastrous consequences about which the Minister so correctly warned us a little time ago. We ask the Government to take this White Paper away, to tear it up, and to think again—to think free from political prejudice and the vested interest of Steel House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply (Mr. A. R. W. Low)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply (Mr. A. R. W. Low)", "preceding_text": "rgument which my right hon. Friend used at the beginning of his speech, describing the disadvantages of the present set-up. Not for one moment did he deal with that matter. May I now turn to the rest of the debate? The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South was in very good humour. I think that those of us who have looked at the tape know one of the reasons why he was in good humour.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply (Mr. A. R. W. Low)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply (Mr. A. R. W. Low)", "preceding_text": "e nations. The right hon. Gentleman appeared in the course of that argument to be pointing to the merits of free enterprise. The right hon. Gentleman also used the argument that production had increased during the last 12 months in this country. That is true, and we are glad of it, but it is also true, unfortunately, that the total production this year so far has not yet reached the level of 1950.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "I was about to answer some important points put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "nciples behind the White Paper proposals on which we shall be voting in a minute. We on this side of the House say that this is a basic national industry and that there must be public supervision of it. If there is to be satisfactory public supervision, that supervision must be comprehensive. That comprehensive supervision is best carried out by a board that has not got ownership responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (CONTROL CENTRES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "hemselves as helpless as I feel tonight as we talk about these things. I submit that the Government should have come to us with a much greater sense of warning. All of us are aware, as we talk about the provision of shelters or control centres underground, or about the flowers that we plant in the parks on top of these things to conceal them, that the dread reality cannot be concealed after today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-23", "file": "debates1952-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c86e97e6c01c24b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERM WARFARE, KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Will the Chair accept my withdrawal? Further to the point of order, some of us have not a shadow of doubt that bacteriological warfare is being carried out in Korea at this moment. There are British personnel engaged in the Korean war. This Government is responsible for the Korean war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-23a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-27", "file": "debates1952-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c02ec375ef3f4d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-27a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the House as a whole accepted the terms and conditions upon which we employ this staff and that if there is to be this sort of cheeseparing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-27a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-27", "file": "debates1952-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c02ec375ef3f4d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-27a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VISITING FORCES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " and which made it a danger to other vehicles upon the road. Though he was rightfully acquitted, as I think, of any suggestion of culpable homicide, there is no doubt that the evidence disclosed a series of offences, and the old law and this Measure, too, protect him against any penalty for it because he cannot be charged in our courts and the things complained of are no offence in his own courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-27a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-27", "file": "debates1952-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c02ec375ef3f4d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-27a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "It would be a pity if the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Glenvil Hall) were allowed to escape with the suggestion that his friends and his friends alone had been responsible for the attention and consideration given to, and in some cases the improvements made in, this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-27a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1710.6", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that as the result of the propaganda of the party opposite before they were elected, a number of people in this country feel that they have had a cruel deception perpetrated on them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1710.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1738.4", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CANAL ZONE (MINISTER'S STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not see the relevance of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1738.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1739.7", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC RESEARCH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "war about our rights in regard to the atomic bomb and information with the United States. One would find it very difficult to say that everything that was done was done in the public interest, but I am very glad that what was done in the later phases, to which our attention is now directed, can in fact foe attributed to the Leader of the Opposition and his colleagues, or some of them, at any rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1739.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "CORONATION CEREMONY (TELEVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let him answer for himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am a member of the Coronation Committee of the Privy Council which, I gather, is another body from the Coronation Commission and does not carry membership of the Commission with it. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition is a member of the Coronation Commission, but he does not recall any specific request—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1744.3", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "CORONATION CEREMONY (TELEVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ation being received. What I want to ask the Prime Minister is this. It has been stated in the Press that the Cabinet were asked for an opinion and gave it. If that is so, will the right hon. Gentleman be good enough to state what were the Cabinet's opinion and advice, and what were the reasons for that advice. I do not want to be party political about this, but may I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1744.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "CORONATION CEREMONY (TELEVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What was it?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Cabinet, of course, tendered their opinion to the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1747.3", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "CORONATION CEREMONY (TELEVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "nitely said that with permission he would answer my Question at the end of Questions with a statement. In view of that I willingly agreed to withhold my Question until the end in order to obtain an answer in the statement. With respect, the Prime Minister has completely ignored and evaded the Question. He now refuses completely to answer the Question and I ask you, Mr. Speaker, what remedy I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1748.0", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "CORONATION CEREMONY (TELEVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did say.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask for your Ruling, Mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister has categorically refused to say whether the Cabinet to which he is responsible and of which he is the head has tendered any advice on this subject raised in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1770.3", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER RESOURCES (NATIONAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "preceding_text": "eard quite enough about what I consider to be this main problem in the opening speech by the Minister. It was rather like a production of Hamlet not only without the Prince of Denmark, but without Laertes, Polonius and Ophelia as well. The omission is rather striking, for two things that we can judge are, first, that during the first 42 weeks of this year, production has been lower than last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER RESOURCES (NATIONAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Tapering off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "I do not want to misinterpret the Minister, but the impression I got was that in the end the Service would be a service for Government Departments and would cease for industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER RESOURCES (NATIONAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "l and power ought to be judged against general economic background. The vital point is which particular fuel is going to conserve coal most greatly and make the greatest contribution towards increasing coal exports. Therefore, I say unequivocally, and I am sorry to say it, that I am much closer in principle to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby, South, than I am to my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-28", "file": "debates1952-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6846f051066ab0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1878.0", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSED PREMISES IN NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "s for these places of refreshment in the new towns. I make this appeal both for those drinking temperance refreshments, and those taking alcoholic refreshment, and I hope that the places will have the dignity and amenities which this House has tried to foreshadow. It is not enough that those responsible should just observe the letter of the law. I hope the law will be observed in the right spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-28a.1878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-29", "file": "debates1952-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "be739fe44d913581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1917.4", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "For the reasons which I have given, tolerance is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-29", "file": "debates1952-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "be739fe44d913581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was a Labour one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "I understand perfectly that there was an international figure laid down, but the payments made by the Postmaster-General in this country to B.E.A. were below the figure laid down by the international agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-29", "file": "debates1952-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "be739fe44d913581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": " and still retain the traffic. If they put up their fares the traffic would immediately go to the Corporation because of the better service which the Corporation are offering. The next step, therefore, must be for the Corporation to increase their fares. I now ask the Minister if he has made any representation at all to the Corporation in accordance with the wishes of others to put up their fares?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-29", "file": "debates1952-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "be739fe44d913581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1969.5", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On freight?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "The operational and development work has gone on since 1937.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-29", "file": "debates1952-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "be739fe44d913581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1969.5", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "most expensive development costs, we are now beginning to pay our way. This has been one field of endeavour in which the country has felt proud, and I am genuinely sorry that I have had to strike the note which I thought it my duty to strike during part of my speech. But the feeling is held strongly that the present Minister is not playing fair with the men and women of Britain's own Corporations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-29", "file": "debates1952-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "be739fe44d913581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1993.2", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "are doing that, I would remind the Minister of Section 19 of the Civil Aviation Act, 1946. Section 19 ought to be implemented if these people are doing work comparable to that of the Corporations. There is not only the question of the rates of pay. It is true that in some instances one or two charter firms are giving comparable rates of pay, but rates of pay are not the only conditions of service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-29", "file": "debates1952-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "be739fe44d913581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1997.0", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, perhaps, has a vested interest in whether Gatwick can operate as an airport or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.1997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-29", "file": "debates1952-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "be739fe44d913581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.2009.1", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "s anybody in this House in the last seven years, but, generally speaking. I have tried to be constructive in my view. I am sure that it will please the hon. Member for Uxbridge to know that on my notes I have a reminder to congratulate the management and workers of both Corporations. But do not let us forget that in the last six years it was the Tory Opposition which prodded the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-29", "file": "debates1952-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "be739fe44d913581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why mention them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "I assure the House that I would not want to be in a York aircraft of 70,000 lb. all-up weight taking off from Gander on a mid-winter day. And that is not all. One does not feel happy about a charter company which lost half its Hermes fleet in accidents, and about some other unfortunate happenings recently which I do not want to dwell on because one does not want to give them any further publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-29a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-30", "file": "debates1952-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8f450398c60556ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2094.0", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that reply, because I think it is damaging to the hotel industry for these statements to be made, but may I ask him whether he is aware that some travel agents in America are stating that prices are fantastic and are quoting £1,000 for one room for one week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-30", "file": "debates1952-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8f450398c60556ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2096.4", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Odey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Odey", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for that reply, may I point out to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-30", "file": "debates1952-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8f450398c60556ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2096.4", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Odey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Odey", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for that reply, may I point out to him—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that there are difficulties in the application of that protection, and would he bear in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-10-30", "file": "debates1952-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8f450398c60556ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2097.1", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Schofield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Schofield", "preceding_text": "average price per square yard of Japanese imported cloth into this country has peen rising steadily during the past year, and that, according to the Board of Trade Returns for September, the price has risen to approximately 6s. per square yard against an average price of less than 2s. per square yard in the previous year, and that these high prices which are paid for Ministry of Defence contracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2097.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-10-30", "file": "debates1952-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8f450398c60556ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2106.2", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "preceding_text": "I do not read the Question as being that, Mr. Speaker. I was asked from which industries it is planned to obtain increased production. I have answered that Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-10-30a.2106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Major W. J. Anstruther-Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major W. J. Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "ious Speech and also with assistance in the building of fishing boats, which will I hope be of benefit to Scotland and, indeed, to my own fishermen constituents, I am sure that nobody could reasonably suggest that Scotland is being ignored by Her Majesty's Administration. If I may come to the Gracious Speech, with which I must deal on non-controversial lines, it follows the pattern expected of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the moment. I venture to quote what he said in moving the Second Reading of the Iron and Steel Bill in 1948. He said: This great reform removes from the private sector of our economy to the public, the industry which is the citadel of British capitalism.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th November, 1948; Vol. 458, c. 78.] He is himself very well circumstanced to defend that citadel from every point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " logical step in the constitutional evolution of this primary basic industry. We hope—hope springs eternal in the human breast, and so, I say, we hope—that whatever differences of political approach there may be, the Bill will at least be judged on both sides of the House by the one primary test, namely, how it will help the iron and steel industry to maintain and further develop its productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ic need, but the mere fact that this enormous expansion in other forms of restricted transport has come into play is surely one which Parliament might, without partisanship, gaze at in thought. We all live in one country, and there is no harm in thinking about a thing like that. Then there is the millstone round the neck of the railways—the terrible fact of the £300 million or something like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What millstone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " like that. Then there is the millstone round the neck of the railways—the terrible fact of the £300 million or something like that. [ Interruption. ] I am a very old supporter of the nationalisation of the railways, and hon. Members opposite must take me with my past and all, but I am bound to say that to hang this millstone round the neck of the nationalised railways was a very formidable event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On top of all this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.25.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On top of all this—[ Interruption. ] I will not give way yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.25.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.25.6", "colnum": "25", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was the price paid to the shareholders. *", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.25.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the necks of the British Railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " obstructions could be cleared out of the way, free enterprise would bound forward and small people would have a chance to get a home, or to improve their existing homes, and many other things besides. But here at the moment we have the exact opposite. The problem which now confronts us directly and urgently is that of the £300 million, established by the 1947 Act, and also the development charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of Commons, and I trust that they may receive fair consideration in view of the association of both parties for over eight years in this extremely difficult and baffling situation. I have dealt now with the three principal Measures, steel, transport and the one I have referred to dealing with the development charge under the Town and Country Planning Act. I do not want to keep the House too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the first magnitude. Our taxation, especially on wealth, was and still is the highest in the world. Our reserves drained by the war have been spent with lavish hands, and many schemes of social welfare have been set on foot which increase normally and almost irresistibly every year. The fall in the purchasing power of money, or in other words the rise in the cost of living, was increasing rapidly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who do you mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "is point before—to think about whether we can merge these functions in some way. We could, for example, remove one serious difficulty in this country, namely, the stigma of the National Assistance Board. If the Ministry of Labour could deal with their N.A.B. cases, it would help to eliminate that small but difficult class, the professional beggars who are with us all the time in the Welfare State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And before she starts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "preceding_text": "the Housing Committee, so while we have been in Recess I have been doing a bit of the household shopping. I was amazed. I never realised the extent of the increase in the cost of things necessary in the home. All this about the cost-of-living index is so much \"baloney.\" It is not what she sees on paper that concerns the housewife. It is what she has in her purse when she has finished her shopping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-04", "file": "debates1952-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5989079a8fd9ed06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are some on the hon. Member's side as well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "preceding_text": " recalling, as my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. King) was speaking, of class legislation or the class attitude of the Tory Party in regard to education. A Tory Government retards progress in education whenever they have the opportunity, and perhaps one reason for this is that on their benches are 99 ex-students or pupils of Eton and Harrow. It is a fact which cannot be ignored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-04a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": "ning, we had it in mind to amend the Act in such a way as to strengthen the powers of compulsory purchase both for local authorities and the Central Land Board; and certainly something should be done because landlords are undoubtedly profiteering at the present time by charging too much for the land. When I am asked, \"In what direction do you want more Socialism now?\", a very interesting question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": "re are the food subsidies. Are we going to have a further reduction of them? There are the housing subsidies, the Health Service, education, defence or the National Debt. There is not much else. It must be some of these and we should like to know which. If I am asked to indicate my preference I should say the last. The National Debt is costing too much and we should have a reversal of policy here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "preceding_text": "ntion in my speech today. Two of the principal Bills have already been presented, and there will be full opportunity for debating them at a later stage. I am sure the opportunity will be seized on all sides of the House. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the omission of the Monopolies Bill. I share very much his regret that it was impossible to accommodate the Bill in the programme for this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ments do not give figures of that kind, and in view of that accepted fact all of us are entitled to study the facts available to us and make reasonable deductions from them. Indeed, even the Chancellor of the Exchequer referred at an early stage in the history of this Government to the extent to which he was meeting his difficulties by drawing on the cupboard which his colleagues told us was bare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No re-armament programme.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "No. I cannot give way any more—I do not wish to detain the House. I am only saying that we are talking now of another Elizabethan age. We all hope it may be so, but we must remember that the first Elizabethan age was not only a time when men played lutes and wrote madrigals, but a time when people were fighting for their lives. It was a time when they had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not everything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": " £1,500 in 1938 the loss today in the standard of living must be at least 25 per cent. On the other hand, wage earners had gained about 30 per cent. in real consuming power apart from increased social benefits. That is very good and something which we all welcome, but at the same time we also want to give very real attention to the professional people who mean everything in our productivity drive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.212.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They may have been miners.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "preceding_text": "proud of the class in which I was brought up. The ordinary people have stood by this country in a dangerous period, but do not stretch their loyalty too far. I had a most unfortunate experience recently when, on my way to a conference of some miners, I nearly got a smack in the face from some golf bags in a bus carried by people who may have been professional people and who were away to play golf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about one in Ebbw Vale?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "fort today from what he called the increased vote of confidence which the Government had just received at High Wycombe. I beg him not to place too much value upon an isolated by-election result in a district like that. It would have been more interesting, and I would suggest there might have been a very different result, if we had had a by-election in a Lancashire textile area at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "I think I am doing the right thing, not in order to advertise the book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.269.5", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": " them our manufactured goods and they could sell us their primary materials. I went to each of these countries, discussing the position with them, and they all wanted to have good trading relations with Britain. When I came back I spoke to the late Sir Stafford Cripps about it. He replied, \"Well, they are very poor payers. That is the reason why we have not tried to cultivate our trade with them.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "No, a trade delegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "lude at some stage or other a Clause in the Bill to make quite certain that the law shall say what we all meant it to say. With regard to the position of the voluntary schools, I happen to be the governor of a Roman Catholic girls' grammar school, a Roman Catholic boys' grammar school and of some controlled Church of England schools of which, as a matter of fact, I was a pupil in the last century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-05", "file": "debates1952-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "8d29766bb8cfa432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " year. I repeat it now on behalf of my hon. and right hon. Friends and myself. We were hoping that during the last Session some consideration could be given to this matter so that everyone could feel that he was able to take a more effective share in dealing with this matter than is the case at present. As far as this coming Session is concerned, we shall continue to behave as we did last Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-05a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-06", "file": "debates1952-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "1970a8c5319ba450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Professor Sir Douglas Savory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Germans asked for the inquiry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Sir Douglas Savory", "preceding_text": " was the sequel? A few days later Molotov addressed a letter to the Polish Ambassador in Moscow, as follows: You have now joined the Hitlerites. You have believed these slanders which have been promulgated against the Russians. We therefore break off all diplomatic relations. However, the Germans insisted on having a very careful inquiry made and 12 distinguished professors from neutral countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-06", "file": "debates1952-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "1970a8c5319ba450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I shall not stop to go into the details of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-06", "file": "debates1952-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "1970a8c5319ba450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "on. Gentlemen to, keep that point in mind. It has a bearing on the whole subject of the build-up of our forces. What about Commonwealth defence? The Prime Minister apparently was actually not aware of the fact that while the Labour Government were in office we undertook the organisation of a Commonwealth Defence Conference, over which I had to preside. I am bound to say it was a melancholy affair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-06", "file": "debates1952-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "1970a8c5319ba450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ountries, with their vast resources at any rate in the sphere of manpower, make a very small contribution indeed. While I am on this matter of our contribution, may I say how much I admired the speech of the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. Boothby)—and from this quarter praise is well worth while. It was a cogent, constructive speech. Speaking for myself, I cannot commit my party to this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-06", "file": "debates1952-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "1970a8c5319ba450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unanimously?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " the Government, immediately and without review, to reduce the period of National Service, even by six months. I think there is a case for it. That is my personal view, and I am prepared to argue it with anyone. I may be found to be wrong, but at any rate I make the attempt. So I am asking them on behalf of this party—and I have the authority so to do, which I am bound to say is a great advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-06", "file": "debates1952-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "1970a8c5319ba450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence (Mr. Nigel Birch)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fifty divisions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence (Mr. Nigel Birch)", "preceding_text": "about other countries until the N.A.T.O. review has taken place. This is to be held in Paris in December, but I do not think that, when the time comes, we shall find that the forces provided are a very long way below the forces promised. They will not be completely up to the forces agreed, but I do not think they will be a very long way behind. I do not think it is anything like a disaster at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-06a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-07", "file": "debates1952-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "647173f9bbd9504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "with was that Mau Mau is not economic in origin. No doubt the desire for power exists. However, that only reinforces what I was saying. I thought the hon. Member was about to correct me upon the matter of emphasis but I find from his question that he merely wishes to reinforce my argument. That is just the point, that if the causes are economic, the last thing would be to terrorise those who work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-07", "file": "debates1952-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "647173f9bbd9504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " of emphasis but I find from his question that he merely wishes to reinforce my argument. That is just the point, that if the causes are economic, the last thing would be to terrorise those who work—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members are now aware of the argument, and I may as well repeat before I go further that I have a lot more reasons than the one I have given that it is not directly economic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-07", "file": "debates1952-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "647173f9bbd9504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has told us that the leaders of the K.A.U. are active in Mau Mau.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-07", "file": "debates1952-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "647173f9bbd9504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has told us that the leaders of the K.A.U. are active in Mau Mau. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] He has arrested all the leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-07", "file": "debates1952-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "647173f9bbd9504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.462.4", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "cultivating their farms and fields. Even so, it would be idle to underrate the effects upon them of the curses and incantations of witchcraft, which still have a sinister effect. It is very difficult, here in Westminster, to realise the powers of darkness wielded by the witch doctor, which still have a real and terrible potency over the African mind, and that witchcraft is still one of the forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.462.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-07", "file": "debates1952-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "647173f9bbd9504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "preceding_text": "to work in the towns. I have said before in this House that Africa offers almost the last opportunity for unrestricted exploitation of primitive peoples, and in Kenya that exploitation is virtually unrestricted. The friend of the African is the member for African Affairs in the Kenya Government; the friends of the Africans are the district labour officers. Those are the only friends they have got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-07", "file": "debates1952-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "647173f9bbd9504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "y is too strong a term—it is shortage of money and shortage of teachers. Among the educational points to be noted, I would put the study of the history of Africa in the last 100 or 200 years. Many people talk as if it started in 1945 or 1925, or some such date as that. If people could realise the staggering advance in a lifetime of many Members of this House that has taken place throughout Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-07", "file": "debates1952-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "647173f9bbd9504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.550.6", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The Governor was consulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-07a.550.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.570.4", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that if a trade union elects a Communist as their representative, then that trade union cannot and, in fact, does not expect the same representation from that person as they would get from someone whose loyalty was entirely directed to this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.570.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.579.6", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he has the power to give a general direction to the Coal Board under the Act? He has the power to direct that they should cover costs which arise directly from mining subsidence. Will he reconsider the matter and give a general direction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.596.7", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To live.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "nd ultimate good. That is the test of Government; it is the test of statesmanship. So long as it is explained, it is right to hurt people for the time being in order to protect and preserve their ultimate good. This problem of exports and imports is really a very simple one. We have to export for the sake of employment and for other reasons—certainly in order to develop our standard of employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.596.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.596.7", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "les us to make the necessary investments so as to carry through the necessary assistance. I come now to production. Here again, there are signs which give us some cause for anxiety, if not for alarm. In 1949 production went up by 6 per cent. on 1948. In 1950 production went up by 7½ per cent. on 1949. In 1951—a politically mixed year—it was up by 3 per cent. on 1950, noticeably not so good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.596.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.596.7", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "Exchequer in his speech at that Conference. A resolution was passed which said: That in the opinion of this Conference public expenditure has increased, is increasing and ought to be drastically diminished, —language which, I have the impression, was borrowed from the Liberals of earlier years in another connection. This resolution was passed with acclamation and with the approval of the platform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.596.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Jarrow.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman referred to what happened during the inter-war years. I asked him to give an example of what he meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.606.6", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "or threat to the people, with the consequences I indicated earlier on. There is unemployment and short-time working. There is serious unemployment in the docks, as my hon. Friends from those constituencies know. Whilst it is tempting to the capitalist system and those who believe in it at home to have unemployment, it really would be a social disgrace if it should break out again on a large scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.606.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": ". For six years they were the Government of this country. For five of those six years they had power absolute and untrammelled, so that they could apply any remedy they liked to the evils they inherited. What was the result? The result was that when they abandoned office they had done nothing seriously to deal with the fundamental economic problems with which they were faced when they took office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "that taxation kills British ingenuity or British inventiveness. It does not, but it does destroy all opportunity of getting any advantage from British ingenuity and British inventiveness. That is one aspect of taxation problems and here is another. Why is it that production per head is so much higher in the United States than it is here? It is not just British laziness; I think we are lazy people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Such as what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "I am not attacking any policy, but, if the hon. Member would like it, I will attack the policy of his Government which wasted so much capital on purely unproductive investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": ". Members opposite may think of what I have said, hon. Members on this side of the House know that what I am saying is broadly true. But I think some of us are rather afraid to face up to it. We are afraid to face up to it because, if we do face up to it, we may call in question the Welfare State. And because we are all committed to the Welfare State and because we all had a hand in setting it up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.664.3", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "rse a trend in five minutes. But that was the worst period—1929 to 1931; and I am leaving out the fact that the Socialists ran away then from their responsibilities, on 24th August, 1931—in exactly the same way as they ran away from them in October last year—because they were frightened of what was coming to them. I want to say a few words about G.A.T.T.—the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " a Budget should be to raise sufficient money to finance the normal expenses of the nation. My right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice (Mr. Law)—I think it was—earlier on said it was wrong to raise taxation in order to enable the Government to have capital to lend out at interest to other people. I am looking forward to the time when I shall be able to save a bit to lend out to somebody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a sacrifice\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "I certainly will not because I am trying to stick to my last and make a straightforward speech. Actually I have not had time to fox hunt in the last three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Coffee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "t it is causing a very serious loss to our national effort all over our country. It is a symptom of our approach to hard work. I think we are crazy if we think that in the hard world of today we can carry a massive Welfare State plus a five-day week plus holidays with pay and yet have all these interferences with the job in hand. The Germans who are working desperately hard do not have tea breaks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "h the disastrous results which are following the action, or the lack of action, of the present Government. What has emerged beyond any shadow of doubt is that the back-benchers on the Government side of the House have taken off the sheep's clothing which they donned during the General Election and they now stand as the wolves with their teeth bared and with the axe in their hands ready to cry out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "lion hours in May and then went down, with the seasonal trend, to 3 million in August. Those are the last figures I have; I have not got the September figures. Three million hours with a 40 to 44 hours week represents unemployment to the tune of 75,000 persons. If we look at the figure for the Armed Forces, we see that it is 33,000 greater today, in September, 1952, compared with September, 1951.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "minution of 92,000 people. Those people represent persons who, under the Labour Government, had a job. It will be found that in those 92,000 people many of the older people over 60 years of age and many women who went to work are no longer signing on at the employment exchange. So we have in fact, as compared with the time when Labour was in power, unemployment of more than 592,000 people already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Less insurance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "er cent., that is £120,000 per week which the employers have to find. That must necessarily be added to the cost of freights. If the levy goes up to 25 per cent., the right hon. and learned Gentleman has the task of looking at that scheme afresh. There is something else. These 15,000 dockers who do not appear on the unemployment total are living or existing on their fallback wage of £4 8s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.718.5", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "f the situation in the docks. My right hon. and learned Friend is seeing the Dock Labour Board tomorrow. It is not for me to indicate what may be discussed at that meeting. All I would say is this: Let us try to face this problem in the docks as we have faced other problems—on a factual basis. Do not let us try to twist it into party political ammunition. Let us see if we cannot solve it together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.718.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "m any part of the House which tend to divide us on this matter are doing nothing more or less than a national disservice. Whatever else we may disagree about, I suppose we are all agreed that full employment today is vital to the success of our whole economy; but I think that we should go further and say that in the past six years—and I am not adducing any party political considerations from this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-10", "file": "debates1952-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3acc48fd9d11814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Imported steel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "not go into the arguments he raised about the nationalised steel industry, but I think it fair to point out to him that if the shipbuilding industry today is short of steel, it is because a nationalised industry has not produced enough steel. Perhaps he might have given some slight credit to the Prime Minister for producing one million tons of steel when he went to America at a very critical time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-10a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.750.7", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Surely the Minister is aware that that is not the correct answer to this Question, and that in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.750.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.768.8", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "I should first of all like to thank the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) for his very sympathetic references to me yesterday, and to apologise to the House for my absence, the reasons for which I am sure they will all fully understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.768.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "terial imports coming from dollar areas have been reduced in the dollar imports programme, but I do not think that explains the position properly. The Government have said, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer repeated it this afternoon, that there has not been any running down of stocks. I accept his assurance on that point. But the point is this: in 1951 we were increasing stocks in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Of course. That is exactly what we are all so anxious about at the moment. The point which the Minister of Labour was trying to make was that there was no call for the Government to take action because, he implied, we should not have taken action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Soames", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What services?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Soames", "preceding_text": "f Government expenditure. I would divide Government expenditure into three categories—the social services, subsidies and general Government expenditure. In the field of social services, the problem is not how much can we save of what we are already spending on the social services, but how much can we afford. The difficulty is in providing the same services year after year without increasing costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about 1951?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ased exports in that year alone by 22 per cent., and in the final quarter of 1950 we were, in fact, running exports 35 points above the previous year. As for production, hon. Members may take either comparison, but the two figures are that we increased production in 1950 by eight or 11 points. That was a tremendous achievement. It was a year of tremendous recovery. But what has happened this year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not do so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": "I should dearly love to follow the hon. Lady the Member for Coatbridge and Airdrie (Mrs. Mann) into the matter of food prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Hitchin (Mr. Fisher) is in favour of an expansion of agriculture in this country. I am glad to hear it. I shall regard him as a \"buddy\" henceforth. I want to talk about agriculture, and I realise that it is not a very popular subject in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ified by the fact that in no speech have we had any clear long-term policy for dealing with the fundamental difficulties of the position. I am not suggesting for a moment that the position is easy. It is a long-term policy. We were not content at any time when things got better. We had to work on long-term policies, always taking short-term emergency action just as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eighteenth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " this as the right and necessary basis for a civilised community. The trouble about the hon. and gallant Member and those who support him is that they seem to regard this not as fundamental but as a kind of luxury which can be afforded only by a very wealthy community, as a kind of unnecessary though possibly desirable addition to the normal. I am afraid that is because he has a 19th century mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tally-ho!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "May I point out to the right hon. Gentleman that I did not say we could not support a Welfare State, but that we could not support it unless we worked a good deal harder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "May I point out to the right hon. Gentleman that I did not say we could not support a Welfare State, but that we could not support it unless we worked a good deal harder. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tally-ho!\"] This is the second time I have been misrepresented by the Front Bench opposite over a simple speech. I was harping on hard work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "d not support it unless we worked a good deal harder. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tally-ho!\"] This is the second time I have been misrepresented by the Front Bench opposite over a simple speech. I was harping on hard work—[ Laughter. ] Mr. Speaker, this noise comes from a lot of right hon. Gentlemen on the Front Bench opposite who have guilty consciences in that they know that for 50 years it has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I quite agree, but it is my hope that in the 20th century we have got away from those ancestral notions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "were unobtainable. We had to make do with old clothes, smaller newspapers, fewer amusements and motor cars, less advertising and duller food. In the war, that Government of all parties put first things first. We put the basic strength of the people first. When I hear people saying that we must retrench, it so often means that the first thing to be retrenched is the standard of life of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " not to concentrate on more essential things for all of us. There are many people who have never really accepted the new dispensation. It comes rather from what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) said he had—a split mind. The hon. Member for Totnes was a distinguished soldier. He would never have thought of putting the amenities of the officers' mess before the needs of his men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fifty million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "the recommendations of the Geddes Committee and, unfortunately, they were accepted. I remember talking in the House—the other speaker in the debate was Lord Courthope—when we were discussing the shortage of timber. There was a very great shortage of timber during the war, and one of the economies of the Geddes axe to save a few thousand pounds was the destruction of several million seedling trees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crook-shank)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When are you going?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crook-shank)", "preceding_text": " year mixed up with the inevitable mobility of Ministers. We had a foreign debate on the eve of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Minister having to go to New York. We had a debate on Colonial affairs on the very morrow of the return of my other right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies from East Africa. Twenty, 30 or 40 years ago that sort of thing would have been quite impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crook-shank)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crook-shank)", "preceding_text": "lity of Ministers. We had a foreign debate on the eve of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Minister having to go to New York. We had a debate on Colonial affairs on the very morrow of the return of my other right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies from East Africa. Twenty, 30 or 40 years ago that sort of thing would have been quite impossible—[An HON. MEMBER: \"When are you going?\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " made by the right hon. Gentleman and others was that the balance of trade improvement was due to a reduction in stocks, or a cessation of stock building. The right hon. Gentleman quoted a figure of £387 million in 1951. On further reflection, I think that he will find that that figure is irrelevant to the balance of payments question, because it includes work in progress as well as stock changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " fall in production. The right hon. Gentleman argued that the fall in the production index of 3½ per cent. in place of a rise of 2½ per cent. represented something like £150 million on our imports, but the annual rate of raw material imports in the first half of this year was £1,600 million, and 3½ per cent. of that is only about £50 million. That is nowhere near £150 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I have not got them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " is the increase compared with this time last year. We must not all be pessimistic all the time. If only right hon. and hon. Gentlemen had seen the faces which we saw during the last two days while the ballot was going on upstairs. I would remind hon. Gentlemen opposite that the most spectacular fall in production took place in the months of January and February, 1947, when it fell by 21 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Schools: the amount of work done this year will be higher than last year. Factory building had to be reduced at the end of last year because of the steel shortage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-11", "file": "debates1952-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2158f6565fd57c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I suppose the hon. Gentleman would rather have had the men unemployed and doing nothing. The value of factory building under construction at the end of the third quarter last year was £173 million; this year it is £141 million. But the position with regard to steel has very greatly improved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-11a.897.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-12", "file": "debates1952-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c0f108082e7162a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.943.10", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer that one.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that the distribution of fish has been thrown into chaos by the inconsistent policy of the White Fish Authority with regard to the flat rate for transport of fish from Scotland to the large consuming centres in the South?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.943.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-12", "file": "debates1952-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c0f108082e7162a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "No, I think I gave my Ruling quite clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-12", "file": "debates1952-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c0f108082e7162a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.978.3", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I really hope I may say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-12", "file": "debates1952-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c0f108082e7162a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is being made.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "s which the right hon. Gentleman made, of course, but I put this to him. How does he think the business of this House or the convenience of hon. Members is to be met if the business for every day is to be at risk at any time? Surely the proper way to do it is the way in which it has always been done till today; that is, if there is any objection taken let it be made through the usual channels and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-12", "file": "debates1952-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c0f108082e7162a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.1047.5", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "—but, in addition, because of the financial discipline that only the money market can impose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-12a.1047.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that, by countenancing this deal, he is permitting a very important and considerable change to take place in this country's system of exchange control", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider another aspect of the deal? In view of the Prime Minister's criticism of the late Government for permitting the export from this country of military planes to South America and elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1114.6", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not in order to bring weapons into the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1114.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1114.7", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker, may I ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will stop the sale of these articles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1114.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Statute Book at all. Although there has been a White Paper, there has been also a great deal of chopping and changing in policy, and there is great confusion among the supporters of the Government and great need for clarification. This is a difficult and complicated Bill. It sets an entirely new precedent of trying to undo a nationalisation Measure. There is a strong case for the three-day debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1124.4", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The reference as to where they are is to be found in a pamphlet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1124.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I am sure that all those points of view can be put within the compass of a two-day debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Now that the right hon. Gentleman has had a day to think it over, can he tell us why he introduced two Bills in the wrong order yesterday? Was it a case of balanced flexibility or just plain confusion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW VALUATION LISTS (POSTPONEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will take time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "have been following up to now; it just cannot be done because of these other things; but I think it would not be honourable at the same time not to tell the House that this difficulty, this snag, has shown itself. Therefore, I say no more than that, as there is to be a delay, it will be reasonable, surely, to get the best possible advice as to whether some amendment of the formula may be obtained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-13", "file": "debates1952-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f0e19e534975bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW VALUATION LISTS (POSTPONEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "pletely to revise the methods by which we obtain revenue for local expenditure. There is also another and even more vital consideration, and that is that the central Government is now so heavy a subscriber to local expenditure that the position has been completely revolutionised. Indeed, in some counties in Great Britain as much as 80 or 86 per cent. of local expenditure is found by the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-13a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1257.10", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "he reasons for this difficulty in spending the money—it is nothing to do with the Colonial Office—has been the long delivery dates for capital equipment, and, indeed, for a wide range of goods. Expressed in other words, money is not always a guide, although it sometimes is, to the size and pace of a programme. A cheque is of very little use to a millionaire if he is cast away upon a desert island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1257.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1270.3", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "Throughout the six years from 1945 to 1950, hon. Members opposite tried to avoid the idea that anybody outside helped this country and took the line that the prosperity in Britain was entirely due to the unaided efforts of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1272.5", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "by and large, should restrict itself to what are sometimes called the utilities—road, railways, ports and hydro-electricity—leaving increasingly to free enterprise the task of undertaking the production schemes. These include the companies that exist for certain plantation crops, the peasant farmer and the producer co-operatives which we on this side of the House have always so strongly supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1302.3", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman almost makes himself the batman of the gallant major. The hon. and gallant Gentleman started off by saying that it was regrettable that we should have to seek the services of the International Bank, an organisation which we have helped to form—an act of statesmanship in which we participated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1302.5", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " I should like to make a personal explanation as to why I have not been present throughout the whole of the debate. I left East Africa some two days ago with the good wishes of the entire population, and since then I have had to concentrate more on the affairs of the body because of a slight infection which I have had. It was for that reason that I was not able to be present throughout the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1302.5", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " be done by private enterprise. No one really suggests that private enterprise would undertake desert irrigation and that the vast problem of soil erosion can be dealt with on the basis of private enterprise. Indeed, if we wish to put a party argument, we on this side would say if we had had national control the problem of soil erosion would never have occurred. Had there been a national planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "f the political speeches in this House; that the workers had to be kept at work for 14 hours a day to keep them disciplined; that it was a mistake to give them too much to eat, because they might get out of hand; that education might lead them astray, and make them think they should have a larger share in the affairs of the world and more right to a few hours in the sun than they were entitled to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I am so sorry if the right hon. Gentleman did not follow the analogy I was making. But I can understand it, because it is only a day or two since he received members of the Kenya African Union, in that dignified silence of which he is such a master, for half-an-hour without making a statement of any kind; and then made a statement to the European Members in which he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "e last week we are now, because this is surely an economic problem which we are discussing. If the right hon. Gentleman did not understand what I am saying I would like to give him a modern analogy. What was happening last week in Kenya was just this. The Government issued a wages scale, and a blue book in which they gave particulars of wages and incomes in Kenya Colony. They gave it in this form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "if they ate nothing else. I am told that sometimes a goat is killed and there is a bit of flesh, but, in the main, the African lives on posho. When the European settlers came to us, as they did—they were courteous, and we were receptive and understanding—they said that all Africans are dishonest, idle, unreliable and lazy. That is precisely what they said; I am quoting them with the greatest care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-14", "file": "debates1952-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e4469e52789f5b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1358.2", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made no attempt to reply to the whole basis of my speech, relating to co-operative farming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-14a.1358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1393.6", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BURMA (CHINESE NATIONALIST FORCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the United States.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "We have, of course, no means of representing our view to General Chiang Kai-shek, because we have no diplomatic representative in Formosa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Man Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Man Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": " version of the Transport Bill. I am sure we all regret the absence of the hon. Gentleman today. He has written to me explaining that he has an engagement in the country which it is very difficult for him to miss. I am glad to think that his absence is not due to the fact that he feels that, the Bill having been read once a Second time, it need not be read again. For this is a very different Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ay capacity. The equality of charges obligation, for example, dates from the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and in the same year incidentally—to show how archaic some regulations have become—this House also passed a Bill to stop the employment in industry of children under eight. Only three years before a Bill had been passed to stop the employment of children under 10 in the coal mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " who fear that they may be subjected to unfair charges, or whether the criticism comes from those who believe that the new opportunities available for the railways should be made available before the carrying out of a charges scheme instead of waiting until afterwards, as it might be a long time before a charges scheme could be produced. We shall listen to the criticism and then make up our minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " to be found in Clauses 14 and 15, dealing with the de-centralisation proposals. I have already said that, of the many wanton acts of the late administration, I think that one of the more absurd and short-sighted was the destruction of all the influence and guidance that could be given by the railway boards to railway administration. I must say that, in my wanderings throughout the railway system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) had a leading article about the Gallup Poll this week in the \"Tribune,\" approving of it because, as he pointed out, it said that the loss of the High Wycombe by-election was not due to him but—the hon. Gentleman will remember these words—to the inability of the Opposition to know how to oppose. We all know the difficulties of stirring up synthetic indignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "hem a chance of staying in the industry which is an extending and growing and not a contracting one. We shall show scrupulous regard with their help and with public opinion for the 1933 law dealing with the condition of vehicles, hours of rest, and hours of work. It is often said, but only at these partly empty demonstrations, that all the employers in the old road haulage days were bad employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e done under the particular terms of the Act, which he is now trying to argue. That is not what he said. What he said was that owing to the nature of this problem, we could not expect noticeable results inside 10 years. He was right. He spoke then as a good, straightforward Opposition Member of Parliament. He is now speaking as a professional advocate employed by the Government to make their case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ation of the road commercial services, instead of the road commercial services being a series of separate, conflicting, independent undertakings of one sort and another, they are increasingly co-ordinated. The quality of the rolling stock is, on the average, much higher than it was. Safety on the roads, as a consequence, has been improved, and the conditions of the workers have also been improved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "cutives, but the co-ordination of road and rail has also made improvement as a result of the carrier system whereby a carrier can be lifted from road transport on to the rail, and vice versa, to an increasing extent. It is surely perfectly clear that that is more difficult to do if the ownership of one form of transport is in one hand and the ownership of the other form of transport is in another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "arate ownerships and the conflict between the separate ownerships. The fact is that we cannot get proper co-ordination and integration if there is a vast mass of separate and conflicting ownerships, all of them playing their own game. It is when we get a common ownership of some sort that we can bring about the necessary physical changes. The Minister said that competition is better than monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "are going. We have a right to know where we are going. I am to take it from what the Minister says, therefore, that what the Government are doing is deliberately, consciously, and by plan deciding to stimulate the maximum practicable degree of competition between separate ownerships in the transport industry. That is right, is it not? I will give way to the Minister if he wants to comment upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power, that they are in favour of co-ordination and now, through the mouth of the Minister of Transport, say that they are in favour of severe and strong competition? Even that is not going to work out because it is well known that their Tory friends, who have money invested in passenger transport and in road commercial transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " said. We should have an extraordinarily chaotic state of fare charges in the London Transport area. What is done, in fact, is to pool the resources and to have more or less standard fares, and to try to treat the public broadly upon a fair basis and not upon the cost of the individual journey. Either the Minister meant what he said or he did not. He said that charges ought to be based upon costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1429.3", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maclay", "preceding_text": "That is a most distorted view of what happened. Would the right hon. Gentleman be good enough to accept the fact that my health broke down after a period of many months of overwork? That was the sole reason for my resignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ncil, announcements were put out that there was to be a substantial rise in the passenger fares. I was astonished at this because it seemed such an odd coincidence. I shall be perfectly frank with the House; then I was told, and I saw everywhere, that hon. Members of the party opposite were saying, \"There you are; see what happens under the Tories; up go the fares\"; and they were asking for votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Above that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "mpathy, but it is there all the same. After all, I have been a Minister of Transport and I know the job. But in this case the Prime Minister was playing party politics from beginning to end. Anybody would think he was the only man who has been embarrassed at London County Council elections. What has he got to do with London County Council elections anyway? He is the Prime Minister; he ought to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1438.0", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "In fairness to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "The remarks of the hon. Gentleman are really unintelligible. He has got the whole thing mixed up. I am not prepared to waste time on a point like that. I am not arguing here that there are not exceptions to the general rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": " from the eastern side of the country to the western side, and vice versa. It is cross-country running, for which there are no direct trunk railroads, like those radiating from London. The Commission have been able to integrate the road haulage service on cross-country runs from east to west and west to east, and goods and commodities are being conveyed more quickly than has ever been done before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Third and fourth thoughts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "the railways will be driven to do that, because as a separate entity they cannot hope to stand and survive the strain of competing against those whose capital costs and overhead charges are so much lower than theirs, when the competitive basis is so unfair against the railways. Therefore I hope that the House will reject the Bill, or at least that the Government will have second thoughts about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1465.1", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": " stated his case. He stated it with good humour and very fairly. He has also stated it after visiting the transport organisation which has just won the Walker Cup and which happens to cover my constituency. That may be expected of my constituency. But the right hon. Gentleman must realise that he has seen conditions at their very best and we cannot expect to see them at their very best everywhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": "m by what he is trying to do in this Bill. Very little has been said so far about the staffs who are working under the Road Haulage Executive. But it must be remembered that this Bill, in addition to destroying a national service, will have a terrific effect on the livelihood of the men who are building up that service. Do the drivers want to go back to the old conditions under private enterprise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": "mposed upon the employers, such as speed limits and rest periods, to secure traffic in intense competition. What about the former road hauliers themselves? Many of these are doing a good and useful job as depot managers. Those of them with whom I have been able to discuss the matter are all agreed that there is greater efficiency in long-distance road haulage today than there has ever been before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1487.7", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "re complete satisfaction is felt in this particular direction, but real progress has been made, and I desire to pay a sincere tribute to the Commission and to the trade unions in the transport industry for the way they have overcome obstacles. It has been a good job of co-operation that was never possible previously. This Bill gives notice that this type of co-operation is going to come to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1487.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": " own approximately 6 per cent. of the vehicles on the roads—44,000 vehicles with an unladen weight of 310,000 tons. A and B licence holders have 119,000 vehicles with an unladen weight of 585,000 tons. So far as the build-up of C licences is concerned, that, I think, shows one of the weaknesses of the 1947 Bill, and when we return to power we shall tighten up in our next nationalisation proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "nd of compensation by this weird method of a levy on the road transport industry, and it is reckoned to bring in something like £4 million. I question whether that will ever go through as there is so much opposition by all sections of transport, including road hauliers. I am afraid that transport is such a big topic that I am far exceeding the time I allotted myself but, nevertheless, here we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Graham", "preceding_text": "Road haulage most certainly, and the fine and vast machine shops, from Robert Stephenson and Company, who came to Darlington in 1900, and from those vast shops at which are made the castings for our greatest ships and the world's greatest bridges; from those vast marshalling yards at Darlington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Champion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Champion", "preceding_text": "I do not want to give way, for obvious reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1508.4", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Railway regions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "inister of Transport is more than anxious to combine all forms of transport in the most efficient way; but if speakers in this debate keep on dividing the question into rail and road, we shall not give that impression of joint working which is so important. In dealing with future policy in the regions—I would rather stick to the old term used in the first and displaced Bill and talk about regions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-17", "file": "debates1952-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8cebc18eb2ea2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "isions to road haulage. I do not see his basis for that argument. All he said was, \"Do not try to burden road haulage with disadvantages which the railways previously suffered.\" He admits they are disadvantages to the railways. Yet he is keeping the burdens on the railways but he is not going to burden road haulage, because the railways are the public sector and road haulage is the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-17a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1553.6", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reeves", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reeves", "preceding_text": "I desire to present a humble petition addressed to the honourable House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. The Petition is of several thousands of workers employed by the London Transport Executive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1553.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1582.10", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CORONATION PROCESSION (INDUSTRIAL REPRESENTATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The arrangements for the Procession are in the hands of the Coronation Commission and I expect that they will recommend that only military formations should be included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1582.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1587.3", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUILDING LICENSING LIMITS (CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friends have encouraged local authorities to do as much work as they can in the winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1590.0", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "If I have got those three questions right, I should like to start by replying to the last one. The intervention by the Government earlier in the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1590.0", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "TRANSPORT (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "If I have got those three questions right, I should like to start by replying to the last one. The intervention by the Government earlier in the year—[HON. MEMBERS: \"By the Prime Minister.\"]—by the Government earlier in the year was solely due to the use by the Commission of the discretion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "preceding_text": "e yesterday was that not for the first time the prophets were falsified. The Press predicted almost unanimously that our Second Reading debate would produce the most bitter controversy of the post-war era, that the Government and Opposition would be at one another's throats, that there would be thunder and lightning with the Floor of the House becoming something in the nature of a \"blasted heath.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "preceding_text": "ophets were falsified. The Press predicted almost unanimously that our Second Reading debate would produce the most bitter controversy of the post-war era, that the Government and Opposition would be at one another's throats, that there would be thunder and lightning with the Floor of the House becoming something in the nature of a \"blasted heath.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] I said a \"blasted heath.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear. Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "r the Socialist undertakings if they receive some competition from private enterprise? Let us not be afraid of it. What we are aiming at is the total economic efficiency and economic public spirit of the country. If within an appropriate field there is competition between private and public enterprise, the probability is that it will be good both for the public and the private sectors of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1618.5", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "Holders of other telegrams will perhaps catch your eye later, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. A speech of a very different calibre was that of the right hon. Member for East Stirling (Mr. Woodburn). I never heard him to better advantage than yesterday. His speech was moderate and full of constructive suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1618.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1620.3", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "The consultative committees with which I am dealing are advisory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1620.5", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member would read Clause 14 (2, c ) he will see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1620.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1624.4", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "Admittedly, that is a complicated matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1624.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1630.2", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "met with little response. In Bristol the other day there was a mass demonstration against the \"great sell-out.\" The local Socialist Party, not being content with an inferior character, billed a top-liner, a rising star, none other than the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will listen to this, because one of my supporters, who is politically minded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1630.2", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now we know how you got here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ther day there was a mass demonstration against the \"great sell-out.\" The local Socialist Party, not being content with an inferior character, billed a top-liner, a rising star, none other than the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will listen to this, because one of my supporters, who is politically minded—[ Laughter. ] Hon. Members laugh too soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1630.4", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cut it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "Oh, no, not to discuss the \"great sell-out.\" My friend went along early in the hope of getting into the hall, and he was surprised to find the streets comparatively deserted and no special constables on duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1643.3", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "There was steady progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1646.1", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ort problem. We went into the argument last night whether integration and co-ordination were the same thing. Let us leave that for a moment and look at what the Scottish Council really want. The point that I was making yesterday when I intervened was that the Scottish Council were not arguing that integration could only be achieved provided there was common ownership of all the means of transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "t the lack of co-operation between road and rail. It may not be wise—we need more time to consider it—to have one authority managing all the nationalised forms of transport in Scotland, but fortunately the Bill in Clause 14 provides for co-ordinating authorities, and it may be that in a co-ordinating authority the solution will be found for Scotland. May I put in a plea for the part-time director?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I do not pretend for one moment that there is a great deal of logic in the proposed application of the levy. Why should there be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "nk it was suggested before, they are making a mistake—that such a market can work properly today, in the interests of the community and in the interests of the consumer or the producer, unless it has proper rules and regulations. That is very different from having discrimination against entry. If we have a pricing system which rises or falls according to the cost, which will happen under the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1666.4", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "d qualities of transport by road, rail, canal and sea. As far as the Liberal Party are concerned, they will support the Second Reading of the Bill in order to affect improvements and will direct their efforts in Committee to this end. If the Bill eventually does what I have suggested, then, in all seriousness, I say that it will be one of the most significant pieces of legislation of this century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why was he born at all?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "It is obvious that the Minister was born a day too late. He should have been born yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "ht to do under nationalisation. I said: We do not need to search among the old Etonians, the farmers' unions and the retired Army ranks to find men to run the transport industry. They are within its ranks and they have been there all their lives. Had we put in charge of nationalised transport men who have spent all their lives in the industry I am satisfied that we might get a much better picture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "es in two transport debates and his theme on both occasions has been the same. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Toxteth (Mr. Bevins) made some reference to my campaign about C licences. That campaign was not against the C licence holder as such but against the wasteful use of C licence vehicles with their empty mileage. I would free the C licence holder. I will go that far with the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": " when we heard that there was to be another Bill, I felt sure that C licence vehicles would be dealt with in the Bill. But where are they? There is not a word about them in the Bill and the Prime Minister knew there would not be. Indeed, he never intended it, because Tory Party policy pamphlets for the 1950 and 1951 Elections both said that the present freedom of C licences would remain untouched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1678.0", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was in the 'News-Chronicle' yesterday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "I will duly search the columns of \"The Times\" for the answer to that one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1678.0", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not of heaven, surely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": ", and bringing them into a large State-controlled undertaking. We made provision that regulations should be laid to provide for any hardship or loss which employees might suffer. But that is not the position today. What happened in the 1947 Act is not a good illustration of what ought to happen now, when we are dispersing to the four winds of heaven all the employees of the Road Haulage Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not last year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "It was on mixed transport, and I honestly cannot give the actual degree in which it was mixed. This is a firm distributing all over the country, and the number of misplacements of consignments, of course, could not have occurred on any one aspect of transport. These things occurred on one type of transport or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wrong labels.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "tual degree in which it was mixed. This is a firm distributing all over the country, and the number of misplacements of consignments, of course, could not have occurred on any one aspect of transport. These things occurred on one type of transport or another. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not last year.\"] Yes, last year. It was necessary to ask for proof of delivery on 1,805 occasions in the case of one firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Millstone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ll take us into his confidence and tell us tonight what are his views about this. My right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham, South (Mr. Barnes) dealt faithfully with the question of the levy this afternoon. I cannot help remembering that Lord Leathers, in another place, six months ago, told us that the levy was the keystone of the Bill. What a keystone. The Government have already dislodged it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tombstone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ", South (Mr. Barnes) dealt faithfully with the question of the levy this afternoon. I cannot help remembering that Lord Leathers, in another place, six months ago, told us that the levy was the keystone of the Bill. What a keystone. The Government have already dislodged it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Millstone.\"] If the keystone is becoming a millstone, that is the fault of the present Minister of Transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who did?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ch as good a price as when they were bought—bought at the peak, sold at the trough. That is good business for the Road Haulage Association, but not such good business for the nation. The Government are selling off the vehicles at a time when, as the Minister told us, vehicles are idle. The manner of sale resembles the way in which they got rid of Government surplus stores after the end of the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ght—bought at the peak, sold at the trough. That is good business for the Road Haulage Association, but not such good business for the nation. The Government are selling off the vehicles at a time when, as the Minister told us, vehicles are idle. The manner of sale resembles the way in which they got rid of Government surplus stores after the end of the war—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Who did?\"]—in the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ave made the position as clear as is necessary in existing circumstances, so that no one need go into this industry now thinking that he is going to make a good bargain at the public expense. He is not. In conclusion, I would say that this Bill was certainly more logical than the last Bill, though it is a worse Bill because it takes us further from the completion of an integrated transport system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1708.1", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": " region of £10 million. The total net traffic receipts for the four years of operation of the Road Haulage Executive have been £4.7 million, which is certainly far less than sufficient to cover a proper share of their central charges and which amounts to an ultimate loss. No one has had the courage to suggest that we could possibly expect to get a payment back for a goodwill that we had destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1709.0", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making a challenge. Is not he assuming, by the sale to private enter- prise, that the public undertaking has failed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "f the right hon. Gentleman. If he thinks that after a Socialist Measure has destroyed profits we can expect people to buy back at the private enterprise rate of profit, I wonder what is the basis of his thoughts. Let us follow up the point. On this basis the right hon. Gentleman suggests that we are going to get a fairly light payment; but if we take the fact—as is the fact—that goodwill has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1725.0", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gag.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact, Sir Charles, that in Committee on this stage of the Money Resolution, the constitutional Prerogative reserved to the Crown for the raising of any charge on the people would prevent a discussion now as to whether there ought not to be a greater amount of money paid into the fund than the Bill provides?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1729.3", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Marcus Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "oney Resolution as any hon. Member sitting opposite—and possibly the Minister himself—and no greater admission of abysmal ignorance could be made than that. If we examine the Resolution we find that in paragraph ( a ) there are specified no fewer than seven directions in which payment may have to be made out of moneys provided by Parliament. Seven specific outgoings are recorded in the Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "k he put it quite so crudely as that. He knows that it is quite impossible to answer the question, and all I can tell him is that we all hope that once the Bill is law, whatever our views may be as to the wisdom and propriety of the Bill, the transition will be carried out smoothly. I think we all hoped that on 1st January, 1948, which was the vesting day of the Labour Party's Nationalisation Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1742.1", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I thought the reply of my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary was extremely generous in the circumstances when he said that if an ex-Cabinet Minister really had such naivety as to believe that one could carry out a complicated business transaction on those terms he was scarcely qualified to fill an important job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1742.1", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ad such naivety as to believe that one could carry out a complicated business transaction on those terms he was scarcely qualified to fill an important job. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The answer is, of course, that we are about to sell, as soon as the Bill is law, property from which, through all sorts of circumstances, the goodwill has disappeared. The goodwill has, in existing hands, disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1760.6", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or for a hundred years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "This, if I may, with respect say so, appears to be a most peculiar situation. A Motion is before us upon which, apparently, we can divide, but upon which there can be no discussion of the merits. May I, Mr. Speaker—and I agree that this is quite hypothetical—ask whether, if the Government came along and wished to move that the Bill should be continued for two years, and not for one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1760.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1774.5", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Credible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " Memorandum which states that the expenditure involved in the Road Traffic Act, which is to be continued: cannot be estimated but will be small. That statement runs like a refrain through the Memorandum, because exactly the same words are repeated about another expenditure, at the bottom of the page, where it is again stated that the amount: cannot be estimated but will be small. Is it creditable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1774.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1783.4", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "preceding_text": "vocating tonight, they are not alone. There is another body, with a distinguished, representative membership and a long history. I refer to the Early Closing Association. The Early Closing Association certainly cannot be said to be under the influence of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. The present Prime Minister has long been associated with it. Today, he remains its President.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1783.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1797.8", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Close earlier.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am not speaking on behalf of shopkeepers, but on behalf of industrial workers. Hon. Gentlemen opposite are justly concerned about this matter, and I was putting a point which I thought would appeal to them. One day last week I went round my factory where women are doing a very good job in the export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1797.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1797.9", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am not speaking on behalf of shopkeepers, but on behalf of industrial workers. Hon. Gentlemen opposite are justly concerned about this matter, and I was putting a point which I thought would appeal to them. One day last week I went round my factory where women are doing a very good job in the export trade. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Close earlier.\"] Go back to the bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1797.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "If I transgressed I withdraw my remark. At least, I was provoked. I have listened attentively to what hon. Members opposite had to say. I have not been given a hearing. What are they afraid of?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1799.4", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "preceding_text": "matter of cost is impressive, but I should like to say this to him. Eventually, with proper safeguards, we shall probably get to the point where every shop assistant is not in the shop at a particular time. I also think that from a long-term view we must consider the whole of the distribution system, and it may be that we can get some saving by not having as many small shops as we have at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1799.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1799.4", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "preceding_text": "m. Eventually, with proper safeguards, we shall probably get to the point where every shop assistant is not in the shop at a particular time. I also think that from a long-term view we must consider the whole of the distribution system, and it may be that we can get some saving by not having as many small shops as we have at present. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Oh, yes. We need a saving in distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1799.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1802.5", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not introduce legislation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "r, or eight o'clock, if we support the Order. I am the first to agree with the hon. Lady—I did so last year under the previous Government when this matter was debated—that 8 o'clock, and 9 o'clock on the late night, is too late, and I think most hon. Members on this side of the House will probably agree with me. The point, however, is that we cannot implement the Gowers Report without legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1802.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "urtailing the shopping week, while feasible and desirable when shopping facilities were unnecessarily extensive, is now reaching its limits. I think that that must be the conclusion which ordinary, commonsense people will also reach. In the old days, when work went on until 11 or 12 p.m., the only way to root out the evil was to close the shops. The Gowers Committee states that that evil is cured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1805.1", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shops, not assistants.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Boardman", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member aware that the Anglo-American Productivity Committee on retailing has just reported that in some American towns there are shops working 17 hours a day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1812.5", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman not only must make, but has made, better points than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1812.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1813.3", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary said that somebody came to see him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-18", "file": "debates1952-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "30cd01ede0542949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1818.3", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (CLOSING HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "hat there should be revocation. I came to the view that if 8 p.m. is too late, 6 p.m. is too early, and that revocation would be welcomed by the public, and was welcomed by the majority of the shopkeepers. For these reasons, I decided that I should make a revocation. I agreed that these hours of 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.—and here I agree with the Gowers Report—must not be allowed to continue indefinitely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-18a.1818.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-19", "file": "debates1952-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c6a45652d8c8fc33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-19a.1855.6", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that his negative does not even take into account the simple fact that many of these officers are required to live on pensions which are less than they were when they were awarded 34 years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-19a.1855.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-19", "file": "debates1952-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c6a45652d8c8fc33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-19a.1857.3", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which countries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "Other countries have two years service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-19a.1857.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-19", "file": "debates1952-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "c6a45652d8c8fc33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-19a.1861.3", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that last week's casualty list included a Scots soldier who was only called up in October, 1951? Is he aware of the public indignation at these men being sent out there to be murdered?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-19a.1861.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2050.6", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House put forward the principle that if a Government is told that it must expect wholehearted opposition to a Bill, it is entitled to put down a Guillotine Motion of the kind he has described as coming before us next week. Does he lay that down as a general principle in all circumstances? If so, we should like to have it clear for future use and reference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2050.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2052.3", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2063.3", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "ICELANDIC FISHERIES DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "of the Government to take action to put our trawlers to sea to catch fish for our homes. My objection to this Motion, though I must admit that it is nearer the mark, is that, as I understand it, there is no failure to put our trawlers to sea. I gather that only a certain number of trawlers have refused to go. I know no more about this matter than the House in general. If trawlers are going to sea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2063.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2068.0", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "ICELANDIC FISHERIES DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think it is undesirable to make accusations of that character. As regards reflections upon myself, I do not think any was intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2067.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2077.2", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I do not think you can have followed what I was saying, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. The Home Secretary referred to Regulation 54B. He said that was now altered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2077.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2084.0", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "If it will help the hon. Gentleman perhaps I should say that if there is some doubt about it being a point of order I should think it very likely is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2104.1", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " will naturally resist the Amendment, and I should like to try to strengthen their hands in doing so. At the same time, when I heard the right hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) I felt he was expressing many things on which I agree very strongly. He was true to his Radical tradition on that issue, and he will have in mind whom he reminded me of when he was speaking in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2114.1", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The whole of the local authority associations in this instance were consulted, but my remarks were general—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2114.3", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I am going on to deal with the points raised but I want hon. Gentlemen to get this clear. I was dealing with the general issue of the desire of my right hon. Friend to co-operate with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2114.3", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "t its consent may appeal to the Minister of Housing and Local Government. That is the Regulation. Twelve months ago it was decided that these emergency powers should be dropped as early as possible; more particularly because work done by the Regulation could, since the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, which came into force in 1948, equally well be done in the normal course of planning control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2114.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2121.1", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Gentleman a question? He has told us that his right hon. Friend consulted the local authority associations as to the proposals which he now puts forward? Will he assure the House that they are 100 per cent. satisfied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2129.1", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mt. Frederick Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mt. Frederick Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "ow. This question was put to the Parliamentary Secretary two or three times by my hon. Friends, but for some reason he did not answer it and I give him an opportunity to answer it now. Did a single local authority, exercising the powers of a housing authority, indicate their approval to the withdrawal of Regulation 68CA? I will sit down and give the Parliamentary Secretary an opportunity to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2151.1", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They all are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "preceding_text": "own back benches, which is natural because, after all—though it may be strange to remember it—hon. Gentlemen on the other side receive the same resolutions from local authorities as we receive. There is an admitted sense of unity in the House tonight on this question of Regulation 68CA. I want to suggest to the Parliamentary Secretary most respectfully and modestly that he is a man of flexibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2158.1", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "ich are contained in the Defence Regulations are those, which while they have to be brought up to date in many respects, are absolutely essential for the safety of the country, and there may be even more need for them than there has been in the past. It was only because we possessed those powers that the Labour Government, from 1945 to 1950, were able to see us through a dangerous economic period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2158.1", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "have a responsible reply on that matter from a Minister and not from a junior Minister. It is no use someone like the Home Secretary getting up and, in speaking about the revocation of the Encouragement of Export Regulation, which is concerned with textiles, declaring, \"I do not know about that; it is a technical matter.\" The encouragement of exports in our textile trade is not a technical matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2171.3", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "t technical point of view, if the whole body of Regulations is not to lapse—I understand it to be certainly not the desire of the right hon. Gentleman that it should—the whole of that procedure would have to take place before midnight on the night of 9th-10th December. Equally, I think hon. Members will agree that matters of this importance ought not to be left to be dealt with at the last minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2188.1", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": " the House of Commons to take advantage of this Motion to be very critical of the Administration, and to say that this is a real and a large scale organised hypocrisy. That was what hon. Gentlemen said when in opposition, and now, when in power, they suggest the whole thing can be dispensed with by some little conversation behind Mr. Speaker's Chair. I have still to learn that democracy functions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "andonment of the Transport Bill Guillotine. And it is only right that the Liberal Members should have the right to say, and their constituents demand that they should say—or I hope they do if there are any Liberal constituents left—whether they are going to facilitate tonight the passage of legislation dealing with all these rules and controls, against which they conducted their campaign in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2197.5", "colnum": "2197", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "n now for the practitioners of the law to know the shape and form of the law of England, and how hopeless it is for ordinary people nowadays to know when they are on the right or the wrong side of the law. In the words of the Prayer Book, the ordinary citizen can say: 'Lord, who knoweth how oft he offendeth,'.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th November, 1947; Vol. 443, c. 2143.] I only mention that to show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2197.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-20", "file": "debates1952-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "31bf2b6923d026aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2210.0", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That Motion was negatived.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understood that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) had already moved \"That the debate be now adjourned.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-20a.2209.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-21", "file": "debates1952-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecd6b3fd66495bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2305.4", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I understood that the right hon. Gentleman referred to the speech delivered today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2305.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-21", "file": "debates1952-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecd6b3fd66495bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2306.1", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "A very good one too.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is now making a Second Reading speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2306.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-21", "file": "debates1952-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecd6b3fd66495bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2318.1", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole Committee is very much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for his early intervention between the moving and seconding of this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-21", "file": "debates1952-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecd6b3fd66495bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2320.2", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point, Sir Charles. When the right hon. Gentleman was speaking he did go in some detail into the question of federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-21", "file": "debates1952-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecd6b3fd66495bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2320.4", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "rs that the House would have a right to consider in determining whether or not this was an appropriate occasion for a guarantee. I have made the point before, and I do not want to labour it, but it is right that I should make it now, that these guarantees are being made to the International Bank, which is representative of a wide variety of countries, including India. It may very well be a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-21", "file": "debates1952-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecd6b3fd66495bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2332.3", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY MEDICAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": " Service. The truth is that there are a considerable number of young National Service officers, recently qualified, who are very able and very keen on their job. Then there is the large gap which the hon. Gentleman says was created by the war, and then there are the senior officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, the majority of whom have never opened a medical book since the time they qualified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-21a.2332.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not think that, quite independently of the incident of this committee, it is most unsatisfactory that the United States should not have ratified the convention on immunity which everyone assumed they would accept when the United Nations headquarters was established in America?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "In view of this very satisfactory outcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " see that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) has brought with him his copy of this morning's issue of \"The Times,\" and no doubt we shall have extracts from the leading article. I do not want to anticipate his speech, but I will say that we are just as unhappy at having to do this. It is quite inevitable, in the circumstances, that this Motion should be moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is quite different.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "e had the attention of Parliament over a very long period. The Transport Act, 1947, was presented at the end of November, 1946, and received the Royal Assent early the following August; that is to say, it was before Parliament and the nation for only about eight months. On this occasion, the first time the subject-matter of transport reform came before Parliament was in the White Paper of 8th May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.53.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is wrong with that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "f the proceedings, I take it that no one on the other side of the House denies that that in fact was done. If it is denied, I need only remind hon. Members opposite that at the Albert Hall mass demonstration the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition said that they, in the House of Commons and in the country would offer the greatest possible opposition to the de-nationalisation Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.58.5", "colnum": "58", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "d frequently, though I am not quite sure that I accept his adjective, when he said the whole point was that this was really a constitutional problem, that major matters such as nationalisation and denationalisation which affect everybody in the country should of right and necessity be discussed on the Floor of the House. We are merely going back to what we think is the right procedure in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.58.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "introduce the Motion now before the Committee stage is begun. But I repeat that if we have to have an Allocation of Time Order at all, there is the most justification for one when part of the plan is debate by a Committee of the whole House. That is what we are doing here. We are not sending the Bill upstairs; we are keeping it here. There will be more opportunities for more hon. Members to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "der. Let it not be forgotten that hon. Members opposite—we were all here and we all saw—looked very pleased. They were smiling with delight and pleasure at the announcement that the Government were bringing in an Allocation of Time Order. Therefore, they were crocodile tears that the right hon. Gentleman was shedding this afternoon, and, if I may say so, it is in the field of humbug and hypocrisy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A wrecking Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " where the case for lengthy debate and discussion, not only for days, but for weeks and weeks, would be strengthened because such a Bill would threaten the fundamentals of the British Constitution. This Bill cannot be judged on its number of Clauses and Schedules. It cannot be argued on the acreage basis. Why do I say that? This Bill is what I call an undoing Bill. It is a Bill that undoes things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The worst.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s a matter of principle. Quoting the Prime Minister about another Bill that was introduced by a minority Labour Government, I should be glad if we could take the Bill upstairs and wring its neck. We do not mind the Bill going upstairs. Therefore, we do not take the same line as the former Opposition which opposed these Bills going upstairs. Take it upstairs, and we will do the best we can with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.70.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.71.5", "colnum": "71", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hours.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. J. Pitman", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members refer to HANSARD and do a calculation of the conversion of the length of printed matter to time, they will find that no more than five minutes of the time of the Committee were taken on that Amendment. That is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.71.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Conservatives, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": ", and I do so for the reasons which I have stated and the case which I have established. What happened? For Second Reading of our Transport Bill we gave three days. The Government for this Transport Bill have given two days only—a reduction of 33⅓ per cent. A lot of speakers were cut out, including spokesmen of the workpeople engaged in this industry whose livelihood was very much at stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "move that Scotland be excluded. There is a responsible body of opinion, not of a party political character, which has put forward proposals and would like the House to give them consideration, including the Scottish Council for Industry, and the chambers of commerce. Therefore, my Scottish friends argue that it would not be illegitimate for them to claim a day in Committee for the Scottish aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sack him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nning to get cross; that is healthy; he is not so cynical. He says, in effect, \"Accept our Bill; anyway, don't fight it with vigour, or we will push it down your throats.\" That is from the Leader of the House of Commons. I wonder whether the Prime Minister, who has some Parliamentary instincts, agrees with this. I say that such a Leader of the House of Commons ought not to continue in that Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ed they were prepared to threaten industrial action. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South again repeated the charge that we were not representative of a majority of the people in the country. I wonder whether hon. Members opposite will cast their eye for a moment on my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr. John Hall), who only recently got back here with an increased majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the hon. Member forgetting Dundee, East?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ombe (Mr. John Hall), who only recently got back here with an increased majority. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] I wonder if they remember that during the week preceding that by-election this particular Measure was forecast in great detail. I wonder if they remember that upon the actual day of that by-election the Queen's Speech was published giving the details of this new Measure about transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Red meat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "he Deputy-Leader of the Opposition said that their own nationalisation Bill was not so important as the Bill we are referring to today, because it did not take us further away from what had gone before, but his right hon. Friend had for many months hailed what had been done in the nationalising of road transport as \"a bloodless revolution.\" We want to put a little more red blood into the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.104.5", "colnum": "104", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I do not think that question arises. The point I am putting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.104.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-six and a quarter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "If 500 hon. Members do not want to take part, and if we reduce that figure to one fifth, I suggest that merely means that the Minister and his Parliamentary Secretary will have 25 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "obs which these people are now doing. Is a day, six-and-a-half to seven hours of Parliamentary time, sufficient adequately to discuss the consequences to some 75,000 or 80,000 people? In an earlier debate on the transport industry we were told that what is desired is that small units shall return; that husband and sons shall drive the lorries and the wife do the books by candlelight in the kitchen", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not be miserable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The point is that for nearly a year proposals and consultations have been going on outside Parliament, but that when it comes to the actual Committee consideration of the Bill in this House we are allowed seven miserable days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. I. J. Pitman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Direct action.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. J. Pitman", "preceding_text": "to do his duty in the Chair. Finally, it may be relevant when I say that, in taking what I might claim to have been a rather courageous line in the South-West in advising all gas consumers in the South-West to refuse to pay their accounts, I naturally took a bit of legal advice, because that is not the sort of irresponsible action which a Member likes to take without going very thoroughly into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "ctant to stifle discussion in this House. I also take the view that when a Government with a big majority introduces the Guillotine Motion they must go out of their way to satisfy this House and the country that they have a case for so doing. When a Government such as we have today, a Government which has no large majority in this House and which certainly has no majority in the country behind it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Sundays.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "s who are dealing with public property in this way. This proposal to sell the property of the nation at knock-down prices is one of the most wicked ever to come before the House of Commons. In order that we should consider this matter, it would be better if we sat on Saturdays as well as on normal days. The railwaymen would be quite prepared to sit here and discuss this Measure fully On Saturdays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "h his face unnaturally pale and looking unusually stern—well, Captain Margesson never had such control. Let us take another Bill which was debated—I am bound to say, at unexpected length: the Colonial Loans Bill. The same thing happened on that—one speech from the Government, a replying speech from this Box, an hon. Member of the Opposition speaking, an hon. Member of the Government side speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "cular grounds. But there is this final thing to say. When this Measure was first adumbrated, there was a strong desire on the part of quite responsible trade unionists to take drastic action against it. We opposed them, because we said, \"You will have this Measure debated in Parliament and you must accept the decision that will result from full Parliamentary discussion.\" That we can no longer say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "preceding_text": "y anxious that there should be discussion, and that can be ensured by the method I have suggested. There is one point on which I must join issue with the right hon. and hon. Members opposite. We cannot accept the basis of carrying on our work on the hyothpesis that has been put to us, that if a Government have a small maority they must for that reason be stultified and not proceed with their task—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "preceding_text": ". We are not today discussing, and we cannot discuss, our views on this Bill; that would be out of order. Therefore, I must ask hon. Members opposite, whatever deductions they draw as to our mental processes or abilities, to believe that we think that this Bill is necessary, as I have tried to explain on innumerable occasions, for the economic improvement of the trade and industry of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the brewers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ed him to consider a further point where he and I are in complete agreement. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South said that the question of a Bill going upstairs was either irrelevant or an argument for his thesis. I profoundly disagree. It is necessary at times, and I agree that it is also desirable with a technical Bill which wants intimate discussion, to send a Bill upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "With great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Now, now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "With great respect—[ Interruption ]—I am sorry, but if the hon. Member for Croydon, North (Mr. F. Harris), who has an interest in land in Kenya, will make his observation clear, I will reply to it. The hon. Member was himself one of the landowners in Kenya against whom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "bitterly opposed to federation, and they realise that if it goes through they will have no means of expressing their voice. That seems a matter on which we are entitled to express an opinion. The Secretary of State has ceased to listen. I am much obliged, but he was engaged in conversation. I am trying to put a point to him that is of concern to the African population—that their standards of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "If I had thought it unfair and unjustifiable, I should not have accepted the Closure.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-24", "file": "debates1952-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ca791a6d5e567aab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I want to offer the strongest protest against the action that you took, Sir Charles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-24a.197.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.227.9", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timmons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timmons", "preceding_text": "hat school; that there was a plan for a new school at that time; that certain improvements were being recommended to carry us through the period of the war, and that up to the moment all that has transpired is an increase of one or two huts to meet the increased school-leaving age? May I ask him to make further representations to his right hon. Friend to direct the Lanarkshire Education Authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.227.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ill the Joint Under-Secretary look at the matter again, because I have evidence from doctors who have declared to the Executive Council that they gave the prescriptions as medicines, and if the doctors are to have these accounts rendered regularly they will stop prescribing and the patients will consequently suffer? I can give the Joint Under-Secretary documentary evidence to show that to my mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "That Report may not be available for a long time. Would the Secretary of State—I am sorry that he is not here—in fairness to any possible buyer of this estate in North Uist, warn him that he will not have peace or comfort in possession of it so long as the Hebridians are suffering from land hunger?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "emely important question. I wish that the right hon. Gentleman opposite would keep his voice on a level with his intelligence—as low as possible. Is the Joint Under-Secretary aware that these men have given notice that they intend to raid this estate on Friday of this week? Is he also aware that they fully mean all they say? They have tried every constitutional method and have been driven to this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.238.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.248.8", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "This is a serious charge that has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.248.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SMALL BUSINESSES (DISABILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the satisfaction that that will give?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.254.6", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SMALL BUSINESSES (DISABILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I am advised that over the country as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.254.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the speeches made in this House during the last 10 days will still further inflame the very delicate position in Kenya at the moment, and will he consider having some curb, in some way or another, put upon speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.274.8", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And their profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ced that the majority of the founders are right in thinking that it is in their best interest to be included in the scheme. On the other hand, I sympathise with those who are anxious to be protected against the gentleman in Whitehall. It is the very essence of this Bill that companies should be free to manage their own affairs with the minimum of control necessary to safeguard the public interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.274.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "nd buyers for the more up-to-date and profitable plants, and that the State will be left holding all the obsolescent works. In fact, they say that private enterprise will just skim off the cream. But, in the same breath, they accuse us of intending to sell off the steel industry at knockdown prices, regardless of the loss of public money. These two lines of argument largely cancel one another out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "e to see rather more freedom and rather less supervision in a period such as this. We want the minimum of supervision and the maximum of freedom, but I recognise that in this Bill we have resorted to a compromise. There is considerably more supervision in this Bill than many of us would have written in on our own, but it is a genuine attempt to seek a permanent solution with hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " of wholly-owned subsidiary companies in any industrial structure is substantially different from the behaviour of companies whose shares are held by a large number of shareholders. The attitude of the board of directors towards the problems of their company when they are responsible to one single shareholder is quite different from that when they are responsible to a large number of shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ion Agency will be the sole shareholder of a number of companies when the Bill becames an Act, but it is the intention to dispose of the assets of the companies to as wide a number of shareholders as proves possible. I hope that, when the shares come to be disposed of, they will be spread as widely as possible and will be purchased not only by small investors but also by trade union pension funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman cares to give me that informaton, naturally I shall be very glad to receive it. I was dealing with the proceedings in this Chamber and in the Committee Room upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "Not the rolling of logs, but of steel sections whose cross-sectional areas are thereby altered. Forging is another process which surely calls for closer definition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "and the fears which were voiced, for the position, he said, was so different to the fears predicted for nationalisation before it was an accomplished fact. I hope the right hon. Gentleman will read the document, which has been circulated to all of us today, which is written by Mr. Hardie, when he will see that the fears referred to were the fears of an increasing bureaucracy after nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "ave a much more favourable reception than has been given to it by Members opposite. There is one point upon which even those who hope profoundly that this compromise may be a lasting one are some-, what disturbed, and it is one to which I want to allude, namely, the question whether, when this industry is no longer nationalised, it will be possible to raise sufficient capital for its requirements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": " the benefit, during the period of development of stage two, of the undistributed profits earned by the plant put up in the first stage, so that, on both these grounds, it will tend to be easier for the industry to finance its own requirements, and I expect that a higher percentage of the capital can be found from internal resources in stage two than it was possible to find, in fact, in stage one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "ownership should be in the possession of the Government representing the people as a whole. On the other hand, hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House do not believe in that. Nor do I. I always have been and shall always be anti-Socialist as far as that is concerned. I do not believe in public ownership unless it is proved to me beyond a peradventure that that is the best way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.317.7", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " often did I at that time advocate it and say, \"Look at it. If anyone of you suffers now I cannot do anything except possibly write to the Board who may not pay any attention, but once the industry is nationalised we can ask questions\". We all realise that after nationalisation has been carried out practically nothing can be done in that respect except once a year when the Minister gives a review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.317.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "Nothing I have said would be changed if what the hon. Gentleman said was true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": "ular inspector and two European inspectors who have been in the Kenya Police Reserve for only a short time, with Askaris, went to the scene. The first point which I want to make about this event is that I believe we are placing too great a responsibility on men of very young age and of very short experience when they are faced by this situation. The three European officers were aged 22, 21 and 20.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "This appears to be very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.345.5", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "preceding_text": "t to the event of last Sunday, but it is difficult to deal with that in a satisfactory manner. This is such a terribly serious subject, with possibly tremendous repercussions in other parts of the world, that I cannot see why it should be brought up in these narrow terms tonight and pressed by the Opposition. Outside, and especially in Kenya, this will be looked on as a question of party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.345.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The chief one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "llow public meetings again to take place and to allow the three gentlemen to whom he referred to go out and meet the members of the Kikuyu tribe. The hon. Member has told us more or less what he thinks they are going to say. My right hon. Friend has interrupted and pointed out that practically the exact opposite—at any rate, as regards the holding of public meetings—was said by one of them to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sometimes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "e of them to him. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The chief one.\"] That was said to my right hon. Friend by the chief one, the leader of the three mentioned by the hon. Member. That makes us begin to doubt what exactly these people say. I am quite certain that many of the things that have been said to the hon. Member for Eton and Slough, whose charming nature is such that he believes almost anything he is told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": ", and until it comes it is the duty of the right hon. Gentleman—and I am sure he accepts it—to satisfy this House that what is going on is rightly going on. So I make no apology whatever. The first contribution I want to make to the debate is to say that it seems to me quite apparent from what has so far been said on both sides that we do not yet know the full facts of what took place last Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-25", "file": "debates1952-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "357cce165e9ba9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And by the Corporation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "They were put up in agreement with the Corporation after the Minister had disposed of the previous Chairman of the Corporation—and that was the cause of the whole trouble at that time. It was a move opposed by the Chairman at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-25a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.452.4", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LABOUR ATTACHES (OVERSEAS EMBASSIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Cabinet and the greatest Minister of Labour this country has ever had, the late Mr. Ernest Bevin, and that it was his considered view, with his great knowledge, that this was a real contact that was necessary in order to get the proper realisation of what the ordinary people of other countries were thinking and saying and to communicate that in the ordinary way through the embassies? Would he not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.N.E.S.C.O. (BUDGET REDUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Director-General U.N.E.S.C.O. recommended a two-year budget of 20 million dollars for 1953 and 1954. The United Kingdom delegation proposed an alternative figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.454.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.454.5", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.N.E.S.C.O. (BUDGET REDUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "the Executive Committee has led to the resignation of the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee and of the Director-General, and that the countries with less developed educational systems feel very strongly about it? Is this not most unhappily reminiscent of the attacks made on the Budget of the League of Nations before the war, which the Prime Minister regretted as much as we?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (IRON AND STEEL BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I desire to ask your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, as to the position of business today. Last night the Government failed to keep a House and the House was counted out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (IRON AND STEEL BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As I gave you notice that I was going to raise this matter as a point of order, may I—and I think that it is common ground to everyone—call to your attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "the party opposite, in believing they are not a fit party to govern this country, is that they do not know how the people who experience hard times have to struggle. Even after the exhibition this afternoon of the party opposite cheering about eggs coming off the ration and the prices going up, I shall try to be generous. I should like to assume that there are some nice Conservatives in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "at no Conservative knew. She said that no Conservative really knew how the poor lived or how the cost of living affected them. I should like to tell the hon. Lady that I came from a working man's home. I do not think that my father ever earned more than 35s. a week. I went to an elementary school, and had to fight my way the whole of my life. I therefore understand that I am one of the exceptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "which he referred to as half a crown per head has been taken away by the reduction in the food subsidies. I think he knows that the increase in the old-age pension was not taken away completely and that the reduction in the food subsidies was forecast by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer as involving an increase of 1s. 6d. per head. In fact, it has resulted in a lesser increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.487.5", "colnum": "487", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": " of the pendulum and the rate at which the increase in the cost of living took place under Socialism; which was three times as fast as it has increased since the present Government has been in power. In August, for the first time, we began to see the cost of living coming down, which shows that the policies of the present Government are being successful in doing precisely what we said we would do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.487.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have been told.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "In the absence of being told the National Assistance element in that case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "foodstuffs to rise, but, generally speaking, surely I am right in saying that where these subsidies applied every one, it did not matter who it was, was directly getting a benefit from them. It was being spread over the whole populace, and it did not matter what their conditions were. Whether they dined at the Savoy or whether they dined at home, it made no difference; they still reaped a benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": "y. It is because these Orders will take food out of the mouths of some of our people and because they will add to the burdens of the overburdened people in this country, that most of us are praying against them today. If I may be personal, might I say that when we speak on behalf of the poorer people, the attitude of many hon. Members is different from that of hon. Members on the benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.499.7", "colnum": "499", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "mpton, Test (Dr. King). It is a curious fact that a large number of hon. Members on this side of the House represent industrial towns, and there is every reason to suppose that quite a considerable number of men and women in the lowest income group voted for my hon. Friends and myself because they recognised that we would give a sympathetic hearing to their needs and their day-to-day requirements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.499.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "ure that to suggest that we should be joined as triplets would be a repugnant idea to him, however desirable surgically or otherwise. Why are these Prayers with us at this unseemly and unusual hour? These Orders are to increase the prices of lard, butter, cheese, gammon and sugar. Hon. Members opposite are praying against the intention of the Government to increase the prices of these commodities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Prayer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "te are praying against the intention of the Government to increase the prices of these commodities. [ Interruption. ] I say that with perhaps one exception that is the invariable intention of these Prayers. If we look at one of these Prayers I see that there is a reduction in price. I would be glad to think that that has not escaped the notice of the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "dities. [ Interruption. ] I say that with perhaps one exception that is the invariable intention of these Prayers. If we look at one of these Prayers I see that there is a reduction in price. I would be glad to think that that has not escaped the notice of the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey). [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Prayer?\"] I think that there is a reduction in the price of dripping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You asked for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is mistaken; it is not excluded. This is the fifth interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were in it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "ifth interruption. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You asked for them.\"] It is incorrect to say that I ask for them. Hon. Members opposite are always impatient with anyone who differs from them. In a world where intolerance seems to be growing, they are leaders in that faith, and I deeply deplore it. I remember when the Socialist Party was a tolerant party and sought to understand the problems that confronted us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "rovide the complete answer. I say straight away that these figures of uptake which have been the subject of Question and answer in the past year are, as the hon. Member for West Ham. North (Mr. Lewis) knows, figures of uptake by the retailers from the wholesalers. Let it be at once agreed that that does not necessarily reflect the position as it really is—the uptake by the purchaser from the shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should be among them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "tional Assistance standards, for that would be outside the scope of this debate. But in so far as there has been this year an increase in the average cost of rationed food at a level of slightly less than 1s. 6d. per ration book, these figures must be viewed side by side with the increased benefits which have gone precisely to those groups which have been the subject of representations here today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are the facts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "found their way to the needy few have been the expression of a sound policy of allowing the people themselves to spend their money in their own way; and to make certain, not that everybody consumes all the food that he or she needs—for there is no way of securing that—but that no one is prevented by lack of money from obtaining the food which, on grounds of strength, they need. It would be wicked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.541.3", "colnum": "541", "heading": "FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not an hon. Baronet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "st need, in the homes of those who would require more of our protection in order to do more of the work that is needed in order that we should pay our way. That is our major complaint. Now I come to some of the speeches which have been made on this issue. I think the most engaging speech we have had today was that from the hon. Baronet the Member for Edinburgh, South (Sir W. Darling), who gave us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "BUTTER AND MEAT RATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I have read from the \"Sunday Pictorial.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-26", "file": "debates1952-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd2d3206591e7858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "oday from a dentist for under £1. This is a matter that needs investigation. I am not expecting the hon. Lady to be able to reply to this point tonight, but I hope she will be willing to say she will investigate any cases that may be sent to her. There is no hold over a dentist, who is completely at liberty to make what charges he wishes up to the £1 maximum. I do not know that we can do anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-26a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNDER-SECRETARY FOR WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Send the lot there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No doubt there could be improvements made in the Parliamentary representation of Wales, and I can assure the hon. Gentleman we will devote our attention to this aspect of the matter. There are advantages, in the present difficult conditions of the House of Commons, in having a Minister in the other House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.618.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Yesterday I gave notice that after the Iron and Steel Bill and the Money Resolution, we would proceed to the business already announced for that day. What is on the Order Paper is that business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "But the Defence Regulations must be got through this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.621.11", "colnum": "621", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "Would not the right hon. Gentleman be a little more frank with the House and say, first, that the Defence Regulations have only to be passed by 10th December and that the only reason for hurry is that certain of his hon. Friends who are Privy Councillors have made arrangements that make that difficult, and have thus abused their office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.621.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "There is really no need to anticipate any of those things occurring. There is no necessity for this debate to go on until 11 o'clock tomorrow morning by any manner of means. Regarding the Regulations, I assure the hon. and learned Member—I hope he will take it from me—that in fact next Thursday is the last effective day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Several times in discussions in the House there have been references to the number of my hon. Friends who were present when the House was counted out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.624.6", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot have that said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.624.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "ding of a very important Bill, the House have to dispose of a Motion for an Address to the Crown upon which there are 70 Amendments. It is quite impossible for the House to deal with that business adequately in less than two days. If the House decides to do away with Private Members' time, of course it is open to the House so to do, but I do suggest to you that it is your duty to say to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I have wearied the House for 15 minutes by answering that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "I think my statement was that they will be invited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "preceding_text": "indeed about the glories of the de-nationalisation of iron and steel. The reason he kept very quiet was either that he was a sensible man or that he was sensibly advised. The steel workers, not only in Cleveland, but throughout the country, take the wisdom of national ownership for granted. To them, nationalisation spells security, and they fear that a return to private ownership means insecurity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, as usual, gets frightfully confused and cannot distinguish between powers and responsibilities. I said carefully, \"If this Bill is carried out.\" One must assume that when a Government bring in a Bill they intend to carry it into law. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Watford that none of this may come about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.704.4", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": "ionalised, and that if by some fortuitous turn of events it prospers we should de-nationalise it, and then if some misfortune occurs and it starts going downhill we should nationalise it again? I was amazed when the hon. Gentleman said that this House should de-nationalise and nationalise according to the state of the industry. I am afraid that when we go to the country—and I hope it will be soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.704.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ce is indeed impos- sible or impracticable without Government ownership, then there is no escape from the conclusion that the Government must own all the means of production, distribution and exchange according to the sacred formula of Socialist holy writ. If banking is to be supervised in the national interest, not only must the central bank be owned by the Treasury but all the joint stock banks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the barrow boys?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ed but the farmers also. There will, of course, be the conventional separation between sheep and goats. The kulaks will be liquidated and all the rest will be collectivised. And then, if distribution is to be properly supervised, we must take over not only the large shopkeepers but all the small shopkeepers, too. Then, worse than that—I hardly dare mention the word—we have to take over the Co-ops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There were more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ge of righteous indignation from an angry and outraged public opinion. At one time, an hon. Member warned us what we must expect. \"Wait,\" he said, \"and see. See what Cleveland will say.\" There was not much of an upsurge of public indignation there—not any more than there was on the first day of debate here. I saw no upsurge of public indignation. There were four Socialists at the end of the count.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come to the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "yes, we heard this afternoon that there were 100 in ambush. I suppose they have got so accustomed to the cave of Adullam that they do not know of anywhere else to stand. First, we had Cleveland, then we had the great public indignation here in the House, and then we had other upsurges as well—all this and Wycombe, too. Meanwhile, let us examine a little more closely the argument about supervision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "arrassment. It has been said that ownership under the new plan will be in the hands of many people. We regard that as a good thing and not a bad thing. Under the present Act supervision is divided; that is a bad thing. Under the new scheme we shall restore diverse ownership, but we shall make for unified responsibility for supervision. That seems to me to make sense. It is perhaps worth recalling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "major matters of development, over maximum prices and over raw materials. The Minister's powers of intervention are reserve powers to be held as an ultimate safeguard in the national interest. The hon. Member for Newton (Mr. Lee) asked me what Questions we would answer. The answer I can make is that my right hon. Friend will answer Questions relevant to the exercise of the functions of his office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.743.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to be reminded of the circumstances. Has the hon. Member the leave of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.773.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "ust be re-stocked with fish for the sake of a sport that has been going on for centuries. This House has a duty to protect ancient fishing rights, and we should have some understanding from the Government Front Bench tonight on this subject, as well as on the subject of pathways. What is the view of the Government about the re-stocking of rivers that have been de-fished because of opencast mining?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.785.2", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ents than any other two hon. Members of this House. One of my constituents is a coloured seaman who is a Somali. He settled in this country in 1918, was issued with a seaman's identity card at the beginning of the war, and sailed in British ships for a long time. He fell ill in a foreign port in the Middle East. He was discharged from the ship. He was hospitalised, if I may use that horrible term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.785.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.785.2", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "nts is a coloured seaman who is a Somali. He settled in this country in 1918, was issued with a seaman's identity card at the beginning of the war, and sailed in British ships for a long time. He fell ill in a foreign port in the Middle East. He was discharged from the ship. He was hospitalised, if I may use that horrible term—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"] Must I withdraw it, Mr. Deputy-Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.785.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Then why have the Regulation?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "I was trying to correct the impression which I felt the right hon. Gentleman was giving that by using this Regulation we were in some way interfering with agriculture. I am not concerned with the Army; my hon. Friend will answer for them. So far as the Air Force is concerned it is a very small amount of land—1,500 acres throughout the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "preceding_text": "endment accepted laying down that 14 days' notice of entry on to land should be given when any regulation came to be made under that Bill. Yet under the Regulation there is no provision for warning being given that land is to be used for training purposes. A red flag is supposed to be put up when training is in progress. The red flag has been up in some parts of my county since the end of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is ill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "nt could easily abuse its powers in some rural districts. It goes on to say: It was for this reason that ten years ago a group of Conservative M.P.s, known as the 'Active Back Benchers,' was formed under the Chairmanship of Sir Herbert Williams, M.P., in order to watch delegated legislation. The present Chairman is Mr. A. T. Lennox-Boyd— I am sorry that I do not see the right hon. Gentleman here.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. However, I am glad to see the hon. Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) in his place as usual. In the same pamphlet I am told that if I have any problems or questions which I would like answered, I can write to Mrs. Winnie Welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ns—more perhaps from Wales than from England—from representatives of the churches about the weakening effect that will result from allowing this Regulation to go into disuse without any other step being taken. I am trying to be very brief about this matter, although I should have liked an hour for myself to deal with it. The Government have come forward with this proposal for an all-night Sitting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "which have brought me to this conclusion so that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite will have them in mind. If other points arise I shall, if the House gives me leave, be very pleased to deal with them. The hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey) has said enough in a humorous way to show that this is a difficult decision if one were to look at it merely from the political point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.834.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.846.2", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I have considered that. It was a strong reason which I took into account. But I think that the problem of the bogus clubs has been made too prominent. Against that there is the right of Welshmen, as of Englishmen, to form themselves into political or other clubs as they wish, which is an important one and which should be borne in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.910.2", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment. I do so with the keenest regret and only because the time for discussing this matter is so short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.914.2", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "ps more than any other that we have discussed during the night specifically relates to war-time purposes, is being continued in peace-time seven years after the end of the war in a form much wider than was considered necessary even during the war. I do not think it is possible, as I have said, in the circumstances in which this debate is taking place, to go into complicated matters of this nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.914.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "now, for the reasons I have given. Perhaps I could give this example, because I feel that the Ministry of Food may fall down on their watch on this matter. On Wednesday, 29th October, I put down two Questions which were answered by the Parliamentary Secretary. Both were connected with suspected substances which, I thought, might be used in food. One of these concerned compounds of polyoxyethylene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": " of his special knowledge, that he was making certain that the Bill for which we are all asking will be introduced into the House. However, he is not here, so I cannot ask him. 7.30 a.m. If I wanted to offer some further evidence I would say that it is a well-known and established fact, and everyone agrees, that the substances I am describing, namely, the fatty acids combined with polyoxyethylene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "fer some further evidence I would say that it is a well-known and established fact, and everyone agrees, that the substances I am describing, namely, the fatty acids combined with polyoxyethylene—[ Laughter. ] Hon. Members will note there is no harm in the fatty acid part; it is the unnatural substances not found in nature to which I am referring. When these fats are fed experimentally to animals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": " saying that when these substances are fed to hamsters which are queer little rodents, to the extent of 5 per cent. of their diet they caused death to some, while in others growth was stunted. And this is the part that will be interesting to hon. Members on both sides of the House who suffer from peptic ulcers. It causes erosion of the mucous membrane of the walls of the intestine and the stomach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "hat will be interesting to hon. Members on both sides of the House who suffer from peptic ulcers. It causes erosion of the mucous membrane of the walls of the intestine and the stomach—[ Interruption. ] I know of no body of people in the country more addicted to alimentary disturbances than right hon. and hon. Members of this House, and I make no apology for speaking quite forcibly on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "ucous membrane of the walls of the intestine and the stomach—[ Interruption. ] I know of no body of people in the country more addicted to alimentary disturbances than right hon. and hon. Members of this House, and I make no apology for speaking quite forcibly on this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad that I am now receiving more cheers and a little less laughter. I wish to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary conversant with the real danger that we are facing in drinking milk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": " food and drugs it would be a tragedy to remove such power as now exists to deal with such cases as have been proven, as instanced by the two already dealt with. I suspect that those who spoke in support of the hon. Gentleman do not really wish to see these advantages brought to an end, but wish the greater advantage of up-to-date legislation embodying much of what is contained in the Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.929.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-27", "file": "debates1952-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d550ace177f0fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "—shall I say, by their lack of loquacity? There is not much more in connection with these Regulations on our Order Paper, and if the present good temper of the House continues, we might well finish them and the other business within a short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-27a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-28", "file": "debates1952-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "28a3ed813a9cf8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1003.5", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "censorship. There is that danger. There may be that interpretation. I leave that point. I do not doubt for one moment that the party opposite at the time they came into power, while paying lip-service to the freedom of the Press, would have liked to get their fingers not exactly round its throat but somewhere near it. The party opposite have to fight an uphill fight against the Press. I know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1003.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-28", "file": "debates1952-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "28a3ed813a9cf8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You might be sent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "e? Here is a juicy phrase: to represent the Press on appropriate occasions in its relations with Her Majesty's Government. … What are the Government to do? I do not know. What about the organisations of the United Nations? Are men to be given free trips to these and other organisations abroad? Off we go to South America to talk with the South Americans, all at the expense of the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-28", "file": "debates1952-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "28a3ed813a9cf8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1006.5", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has just asked a number of questions about the meaning of Clause 1. It may have escaped his recollection, but may I remind him that he made all those jokes on the same Clause in the Hairdressers Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-28", "file": "debates1952-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "28a3ed813a9cf8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": " for example, \"The Times\" in London has great influence but has a smaller circulation. That cannot be altered by a Press Commission. The public has to find its own level. I agree that the Sunday newspaper problem is a great one, but the hon. Gentleman who moved the Second Reading of this Bill attacked the \"Daily Express\" and the \"Evening Standard\" as if they were among the pornographic newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-28", "file": "debates1952-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "28a3ed813a9cf8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What is the headline?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. Smith", "preceding_text": "y quotation. Again, I submit that any ordinary, reasonable person reading that would conclude that something most unpleasant had happened to the Labour, as distinct from the Conservative, candidate in that by-election. I come now to the \"Daily Herald.\" After giving the figures it said in its news story: In both divisions Labour and Conservative votes went down in approximately the same proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-11-28", "file": "debates1952-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "28a3ed813a9cf8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " is a most exceptional man in Fleet Street in that respect. Such men are very few. Even \"The Times\" commentator, who remains anonymous and who is described as \"Our Parliamentary Correspondent\" said this morning: The Government did not expect to regain either of these solid Labour seats, but the Small Heath result, in particular, will give more satisfaction to the Government than to the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-28", "file": "debates1952-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "28a3ed813a9cf8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and others know as much about this matter as I do, but my expectation is that if this Bill were sent to a Standing Committee it would be virtually impossible to arrive at any decision so long as that Committee proceeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-28", "file": "debates1952-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "28a3ed813a9cf8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "course, no statutory powers are required at all. The Council would agree what they wish to do, and they would, by virtue of their agreement, have such powers as they require. If the Press of the country as a whole is in favour of the establishment of this Council then this Bill is unnecessary, because the Press will succeed in the discussions now taking place and an agreement will be made finally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-11-28", "file": "debates1952-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "28a3ed813a9cf8e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "shford (Mr. Deedes), who moved and seconded the Amendment. They stated their point of view very fairly and without any kind of excessive partisanship, in which we all engage from time to time. We were glad to hear them. If I refer to the professional standing of the hon. Member for Ashford, I know he will forgive me. In our local Lewisham newspaper, which is not Labour—it is nothing in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-11-28a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1088.5", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ICELANDIC FISHERIES DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Will the Foreign Secretary take note of the comment by his hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Air Commodore Harvey) and realise that the reason why fish went to the fishmeal factories was because the price was too high?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1088.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1098.9", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister make it public that since nationalisation, it is alleged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1098.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1127.3", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": "the 1947 Act—namely, the transference of development values to the nation. That was one of the central features of the 1947 Act, and that is expressly abandoned by this Bill with the repeal of the development charge. To this extent—and it is a very important extent—this Bill therefore tears up the Uthwatt Report, which hitherto has been regarded as almost the scriptural authority on these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1127.3", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": "d have if planning permission were refused. Nothing could be simpler in conception than that. And the development charge is 100 per cent. of the development value. Very well. Now, I doubt—and here I am speaking with complete frankness to the right hon. Gentleman—on the one hand whether in fact up to now the development charge has impeded and delayed desirable development to any appreciable extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "pe only in passing as I do not wish to enter into discussion with him on that vexed question of the taxation of land values. We have all known a dog which is a good dog, but which cannot stand postmen, and which, whenever it sees a postman, barks itself silly. Whenever the right hon. Gentleman hears the words \"land values,\" I regret to say that—I will not use the whole quotation—he begins to bark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "I have quoted the views in the White Paper of the Government of which I think at that time the right hon. and gallant Gentleman was a member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": " be very loudly sung by the choir if it were sung here today, but I hope the Liberal Party still hold to those principles. I am prepared to admit that the 1947 Act has not quite worked out in practice as that simple theory to which I have referred. It has not worked out because landlords are law breakers. The 1947 Act said that if any landlord sold land he was to sell it at its existing use value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "ng here today, but I hope the Liberal Party still hold to those principles. I am prepared to admit that the 1947 Act has not quite worked out in practice as that simple theory to which I have referred. It has not worked out because landlords are law breakers. The 1947 Act said that if any landlord sold land he was to sell it at its existing use value. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] The 1947 Act said it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I am not a lawyer, but I will say this; they break the intention of the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": " point is all right, but I hope that the Minister, to whom I gave prior notice on this subject, will confirm that it is so. I want to deal with the question of the acquisition of the values which the community have created, and I want to call the attention of the Minister particularly to the Rating of Site Values Report by the Departmental Committee. I do not much bother about the majority Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "d if he is not content with all this, I should like to quote one or two things that the Prime Minister has said in his past life before he forsook the paths of rectitude. Now that he has, so to speak, eaten his way to the top of the Tory Party, perhaps he may do something about it. I think his speech has been quoted earlier today, but I have another bit of it. He said at Drury Lane in April, 1907—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " I said there were so many I was not quite sure. I do not want to keep the House very long tonight, but I do want to say just this. This Bill might very well be termed the \"Speculators' Charter.\" It is simply a permission to plunder. Everything is sacrificed on the altar of unearned income, and, if the Measure receives our assent tonight, quite certainly unemployment will rise and wages will fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "vidual efforts as a proper source of public revenue and the value of land which the community creates as a source of revenue for private interests. If that is not topsy-turvy economics, I do not know what is. We object to this Bill and move this Amendment, not simply on the ground of the removal of the development charge. As I explained, we are glad to see it go in the form in which it was abused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1227.7", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "All right, I will deal with this question of rating of site value, which I am certain the right hon. Gentleman would say had some relevance. I notice this is now the official line of the party opposite, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1227.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Our difficulty is to know whether it is the official party line or the unofficial party line. One thing is quite certain, the weight of opinion has always been that the rating of such values is impracticable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-01", "file": "debates1952-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a3cac809f69c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "idnes said they thought this was a simple Measure, it is interesting to note that the Opposition have put two Amendments on the Order Paper. The first reasoned Amendment came on the Order Paper, I think, on 27th November, and then they had another thought or two and decided to remove that Amendment from the Order Paper. Today, there is a second version of the reasoned Amendment on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-01a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNIVERSITY FRANCHISE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tory Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am bound to say that I do not think that Question time and supplementary questions would be a good opportunity for discussing at length, as it has so often been discussed before, the general question of university representation, which has long historic traditions in this country and from which, I think, we had derived very considerable advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1305.3", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "se views so strongly, why did they not take some action when their own party was in office? Quite frankly, I have no sympathy with the hon. Member who has a grievance because his wife is an alien. That is her fault. If a woman marries a Member of Parliament she should accept his nationality, or he should accept hers. I think it is most undesirable for a Member of Parliament to have a foreign wife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1306.7", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Quite seriously, if we have these people living here, quite obviously if they misbehave themselves we ought to have the power to deport them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1306.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1307.3", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "It is an Amendment not to continue the Order in Council of 1920. I submit that I am entitled to consider the effects of the Order in Council of 1920, and one of those effects was to expel, I think it was, 2,000 Italians from this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "t policy in general and about individual cases.\" That is literally true, but, in practice, it is a wholly inadequate defence. It is true that from time to time individual hon. Members hear of individual cases and raise those cases. But we are dealing ex hypothesi with strangers. We are not dealing with electors, we are not dealing with people who have Members of Parliament to whom they can appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry that the Liberal benches are empty now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1347.0", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": " present Government. We could, of course, have a very interesting debate on how far those actions have contributed to a reduction in unemployment, and, perhaps, an even more interesting debate on how far the actions of the present Government led to unemployment at all, because it must be remembered that when this Government came into office there was full employment in the cotton textile industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1347.0", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "w far those actions have contributed to a reduction in unemployment, and, perhaps, an even more interesting debate on how far the actions of the present Government led to unemployment at all, because it must be remembered that when this Government came into office there was full employment in the cotton textile industry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes, there was. Certainly there was in my division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "cause I thought it deserved an answer. I felt that some of his remarks were somewhat derogatory of Lancashire as a whole, particularly those which seemed to imply that Lancashire was not trying hard enough to sell its textiles overseas, and perhaps was not working hard enough to get itself out of the mess it was in. Let me now say a little on wage rates, coming to the real point we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1365.0", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": " may be that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, like the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour a few moments ago, will say: \"Yes, but this could have been made permanent or something else could have been put into its place and made permanent in the last seven years, when a Labour Government were in office.\" The Labour Government were pre-occupied with good works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "lternative, and quite frivolously and flippantly, at a stroke, the Home Secretary wiped out that safeguard, but nevertheless comes back to this Committee and says that he would like to continue this Act for another year. I conclude by saying no more than this. My hon. and learned Friend has quoted the late George Lansbury, and I think that on this issue the late George Lansbury made some mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1425.4", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "ight of the latest information. I wish to reiterate the last words of my right hon. Friend. The Irish problem, although certainly a problem of relations between Ireland and England, is in essence a Commonwealth problem. Next to the Jews, the Irish are the most dispersed of all peoples. Our relations with the Irish people affect our relations with the United States of America, Canada and Australia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1434.4", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "Of course, company savings have been the largest source of savings in the last few years. But even if they were to be increased now, I do not think, in view of the enormous demands for new investment in plant and machinery, that any increase of company saving by the reduction of taxation on companies would find its way into the market for colonial loans, local authority loans, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ment is that it will only issue loans for periods provided for in the loan sanction; but a local authority that is building houses does not wish to borrow money, say, for a housing programme spread over a great many years, at 4¼ per cent. for 60 years, when it knows there is a certain prospect of the return of a Labour Government with a cheaper money policy long before the end of that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ts of my right hon. Friends on the Front Bench. He will just have to follow a well-known maxim and wait and see. There is another point that I should like the right hon. Gentleman to consider. It is now 11 minutes past 12, and I would advise him that it certainly will create a very bad impression in Scotland when it gets out that this is the way in which a Tory Government treats Scottish business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "this Committee in the early hours of the morning. That is a terrible prospect. Hon. Members may have to listen to the Secretary of State for Scotland and to his three deputies. The Government may even bring the Lord Advocate from some recess in the House. That final argument should appeal to every hon. Member—and I believe that the Leader of the House will now agree that we should report Progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1459.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ouse, in view of the very eloquent plea which has been made to him by my hon. Friends. I am sorry that we do not seem to have attracted it. All I can say is that reason bounces off him, argument will not prevail with him, he is impervious to cajolery, he pays no attention to flattery and, indeed, he is determined to keep his supporters out of bed. We have done our best to see that they get to bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " are quite certain that the Government would not wish us to scamp the consideration which these Acts merit. I am certain that Scottish public opinion would not desire us to do so. In those circumstances, I can only recommend to my hon. Friends that they continue the debate. As we have no wish to save the Government from the consequence of their own folly, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1468.4", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ace of human labour. The hon. Member for Bridgeton made the interesting suggestion that we might approach the large firms, and on behalf of my right hon. Friend I undertake that we shall look into that. But, as the hon. Member and others know, adult labour has not been found to be available in anything like the numbers needed, and, in any case, adult labour is not so suitable for this as children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1473.5", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "be given to discuss fully the Measures that still lie before us as we have had in relation to the Measures which have gone before, then I would submit that the proper procedure is to report Progress and allow us to resume at a subsequent time or a subsequent date when there will be sufficient time in the estimation of the Patronage Secretary to enable us to give full consideration to this Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1475.0", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tedious repetition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "ill realise that there will be a little time longer unless the Patronage Secretary has the common sense and decency to give effect to the Motion I am now moving. I am glad to see the Leader of the House here. When he decided to carry on on the last occasion he did so on false premises. He proceeded on the premise that the Scottish Measures we would have to discuss would be very, very short indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1475.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ing debate. I want to recall to the Committee the fact that with your permission, Mr. Hopkin Morris, the Joint Under-Secretary of State rose to his feet and, while three Members were standing on this side, anxious to take part in the debate which we had been promised, caught your eye by saying that in order to help hon. Members on this side, he was \"only intervening\" in the debate. That was a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, Mr. Hopkin Morris, that in stating the truth. I should violate the practices of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1478.6", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I hope hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite will realise that a very serious thing happened tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1478.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1478.6", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not divide?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I hope hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite will realise that a very serious thing happened tonight—[ Interruption. ] It is not right that hon. Gentlemen opposite, who have no knowledge of what has occurred, should come here, in response to the lash of their Whip, and start to interrupt on matters upon which they are entirely ignorant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1478.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1479.6", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I shall obey your Ruling, Mr. Hopkin Morris. I was trying to put forward substantial reasons, derived from the Under-Secretary's speech, that if we have to debate behind the iron curtain created by the Patronage \"Manager,\" then debate is useless. The very basis of democracy itself has been shattered tonight by the Tory Party, and in those circumstances I submit that we ought to report Progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1479.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1479.7", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": " only are the ineffective Scottish Ministers suffering grave disabilities but that hon. Members behind them are suffering, too. I wish to support the Motion that has been moved by my right hon. and learned Friend. It seems to me that this is the most serious indignity that has been made against the Scottish people and the whole Scottish nation. Many of us have sat for many hours in this Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1479.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ould be allowed to expire in favour of a more comprehensive Act, and I was particularly anxious to put in a word for the very large number of tenants of office premises. I must obey your Ruling, Sir Charles, but I wonder if you would permit me to explain the extent of this famine by giving a single instance, after which I will leave the point. I should like to quote the case of a block of offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1503.2", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are the Scottish Ministers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "ery very seriously indeed whether or not there is justification for giving approval to this procedure which, in my opinion, is one requiring a great amount of justification, and I trust it will receive that justification from the Government Front Bench. I am particularly anxious about the post-war Acts carried on by virtue of the Schedule, because among them are three Acts which apply to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1503.2", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was no discussion\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "d on from year to year. I wonder whether the House should be giving approval to this method of procedure when the actual facts of the situation manifestly indicate that legislation of a permanent nature, and not this annual repetition, is the proper form of dealing with this problem. It was a great pity that the Patronage Secretary, in his wisdom, sough to exclude a full discussion on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "preceding_text": "w passed on, but then a great leader in the temperance movement, presented the evidence of the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches. None of it was accepted: therefore, none of it got into this Measure, though, as the Home Secretary said then—and he was responsible for piloting the Measure through the House—the Bill practically followed exactly the proposals that the Morris Committee made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ace these problems of building and of permission for building licensed premises, there have come into being all sorts of other institutions which make up the general provision of drinking facilities in any district. In a blitzed area, where the authority had to consider the problem to be faced, they had no chance to arrive at a fair decision because the question of bottle shops, of drinking clubs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "preceding_text": "of supplying the people with drink. It is possible to get that provision, not by an appeal to the planning committee or to the licensing magistrate, but merely by paying a small fee to the Excise authorities. As long as a person sells liquor in bottles of a certain size, he may carry on retail trade in the distribution of liquor on a large scale. Indeed, the bottle shops are doing that at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-02", "file": "debates1952-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0f078702197ad288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "t to the end of this debate because they have no ideas about the subject at all. They face a great public evil with jeers. They know that efforts have to be made by someone to deal with it, and when efforts are made by Members with some experience to explain what might be done about it and what are the weaknesses in the Measures that come before the House, hon. Mem- bers sit tight in their places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-02a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1552.5", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "That happens almost everywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1552.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1555.3", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "There is nearly always an interregnum between the departure of the retiring Governor and the arrival of the new one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1562.6", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEDITERRANEAN SUPREME COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seven.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister seriously suggest to the House that after six months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1562.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEDITERRANEAN SUPREME COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " is to get other people to agree. I hope to make a statement on this matter when we meet after Christmas and after the conferences now taking place in Paris, and I would, if I might be permitted by the indulgence of the House, warn the right hon. Gentleman not to be too prophetic about the way in which things are going. They may not all be as unfortunate for this country as he would no doubt wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1563.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1563.4", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEDITERRANEAN SUPREME COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Whether I have been able to use any influence I may possess in the direction suggested cannot be judged by Parliament until the statement is made after the conferences which are taking place in Paris. I certainly would not say this if I have not very great hopes of being able to give—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1563.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1563.7", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEDITERRANEAN SUPREME COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "An allegation by one hon. Member against another of un-avowed motives is always out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1563.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1564.4", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEDITERRANEAN SUPREME COMMAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of patriotism is necessarily un-Parliamentary because it may be urged that cosmopolitanism and internationalism cover even a wider sphere. It governs what I said in the matter, and I was warning the right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) that the result of these discussions may be more satisfactory than he now supposes, and he would find himself at a disadvantage in foresight at any rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1564.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1565.6", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Boo.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 1, line 8, to leave out from \"dispose,\" to \"of,\" in line 9, and to insert: by the exercise of their powers under this Act. We are now embarking upon a quick gallop through a miserable Bill for which inadequate time has been given. Most of us will be much relieved if the Patronage Secretary will withdraw along with the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1565.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1565.13", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will not withdraw that remark, he will withdraw from the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1565.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1565.14", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is really too bad of the Prime Minister when there is a Guillotine operating to come back and waste the time of the House. Secondly, is what my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) said so much out of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1565.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1566.6", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1566.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1566.15", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "With great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1566.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1566.17", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is on that point that I want to rise. I respectfully submit to you that there are two points to which you have taken exception. One is booing, which I can quite understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1566.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1567.3", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "In view of what the Prime Minister says, that he does not mind being called a goose I think we can say the incident is finished. It then does not matter to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " think we all agree that it is not a very good start to a very bad day. The Bill that we are going to discuss will not arouse any more unity, and certainly will not bring any more pleasure to the benches opposite, than the exhibition we have just witnessed. What we are about to discuss is the Amendment which I have moved. The purpose of the Amendment is to prevent the British Transport Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "very bad day. The Bill that we are going to discuss will not arouse any more unity, and certainly will not bring any more pleasure to the benches opposite, than the exhibition we have just witnessed. What we are about to discuss is the Amendment which I have moved. The purpose of the Amendment is to prevent the British Transport Commission—[ Interruption. ]—from disposing of such property as they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1572.0", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": " number of them. I am sure that no one will assume that, just because the Opposition have not voted against a proposal, thereby they are giving it their support. In fairness to the Commission, as they have no spokesman other than myself, I should like at this stage to make their position quite plain. I have had entirely harmonious relations of a personal kind with the British Transport Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "We are quite satisfied, even though there have been substantial improvements in the services offered by the Road Haulage Executive over what they gave three years ago, that none the less private competition in that field, too, will yield better results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1586.2", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I will be quite frank with the right hon. Gentleman. We are working under a terrible Guillotine, and we are trying to divide up the time to the best advantage we can. From the Opposition point of view, if much more time is to be taken up by other people our chances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1587.9", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Hobson's choice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am sure it was picked up accurately on this side of the Committee. It has not far to go. The right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) talked about the fact that we are applying a Guillotine. I will not delay matters by referring further to it except to say first, that this Guillotine is on the Floor of the House and not in Committee upstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1587.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1588.3", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask them and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "n interesting debate on that when we get to it. 4.45 p.m. The hon. Member for Bradford, East said that there was no consideration for the devoted service of these men. But the transport work will still be there, and a large number of those now driving for British Road Services do not view the possibility of a return to private service with the antagonism with which hon. Gentlemen opposite view it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "asonably fast\" and \"fast\" and words of that kind. But the words are strictly, as quickly as is reasonably practicable and by \"practicable\" we mean without undue dislocation of the transport services of the nation. I accept from my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) that it must be read in conjunction with Clause 3 and the vehicles put on the market from time to time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "roads a volume of traffic and a number of vehicles greater than they are capable of carrying. That is by far the most important point, and it has not been mentioned by either side. Hon. Gentlemen referred all the time to what the market can absorb. I am not interested in that. I am interested in what the roads can carry. That is what worries me, and that is the point I wish to put to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1593.4", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Practicable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "we are liable to be landed into a disorderly, unorganised and somewhat chaotic sale of road transport commercial assets, without taking any account of the needs of the country in respect of the provision of commercial road transport. That is the problem. The Government wish to get rid of the publicly-owned commercial road transport, up to the amount which they have stipulated, as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not if the noble Lord can help it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "nsport and the railways. We should like to hear the reason they want this done in this way. They have to accept that the House of Commons has decided in principle that the Road Haulage Executive should be wound up and its vehicles dispersed, and this Amendment is in no way an attempt to restore the principle which they lost on Second Reading of the Bill. I wonder if the country will understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1605.2", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "oble Friend the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke). The Opposition have been in a difficulty. In the Amendments they have put on the Order Paper they have had to hide a division of opinion which is really unbridgeable. They have had to draft Amendments which could be interpreted narrowly or widely according to the taste of whichever section of their supporters was considering them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1611.0", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nine months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends will profoundly disagree with the hon. Member for Edge Hill (Mr. Irvine) that there need be any dislocation or any inconvenience whatever in an ordered process of transferring the long-distance lorry fleet, with the garages and other fixed assets, from public ownership to private ownership. In fact, it is to be spread over a period of 12 or 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1613.3", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "That will be abolished on 31st December, 1954.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1613.3", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "That will be abolished on 31st December, 1954. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] More competition. That is precisely where I come back to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South. When I asked him why there should not be additional competition on the Great North Road, what did he say? That I was an anarchist for advocating competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1614.0", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "the Birmingham area. The hon. Gentleman will have heard, for instance—I mention one company at random—of MacNamara's, who were a famous road haulage company, in the days before nationalisation, and specialised on the London, Birmingham and Liverpool routes. Do hon. Members opposite really imagine that, first, British Road Services have provided an improved service, better than that of MacNamara's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1614.2", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "provided before nationalisation in those areas. I know that by the infinite number of complaints I have had on this score since I first became a Member of the House of Commons. The third point hon. Gentlemen opposite dwelt upon today is their complaint that the process of selling units back is going to result in some deterioration in the conditions of employment for those employed in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1616.1", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have not been very co-operative in regard to the Guillotine, and so I do not wish to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1623.2", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Of course, I agree with that. If that were not so, the Road Haulage Executive would be retained in toto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1624.6", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ill be a steady transfer of the Road Haulage Executive's vehicles to private enterprise, but the net number of vehicles will not, through anything in this Bill, increase. After the lifting of the 25-mile limit in 1954 there may well be an increase, possibly a substantial increase. All these people will then be subject to the ordinary licensing system. They will have that right like everybody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1624.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " at great length into the financial position of the Road Haulage Executive, and nothing that I might say on that account now or when speaking later means that I am in any sense blaming them for the difficulties which an impossible obligation imposed on them. The total net traffic receipts of £4.7 million over the past four years compare fantastically with the £10 million that I think we all agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "That is scarcely a very valid argument. Fuel increases, normal increases in insurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I have explained in the House when giving permission to the Commission within a short time of their asking to raise their freight rates, they obviously confronted the Commission and private undertakings with very considerable problems. There is one correction I should like to make. I think the £5 million increase in fuel is spread over all the Commission's activities, ports, harbours and railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1639.3", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "t Member for South Angus (Captain Duncan). Berry picking nearly came to a stop because of the absence of crates. A telephone call was made to the road transport manager at Dundee on a Friday afternoon, and by the Sunday morning sufficient crates were delivered from Manchester to enable the picking to be continued. That kind of service cannot be done by a ragged lot of odd private enterprise firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1643.0", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " are not necessarily made true because he said them with very great vigour and thumped the Dispatch Box as he did so. The right hon. Gentleman was singularly unhappy in his choice of illustrations, in that he happened to choose the very district which my right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Kelvin-grove (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot) probably knows more than anybody in either House of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1643.0", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Amendment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "business than anything else, I take it that the right hon. Gentleman agrees that, at least, my right hon. and gallant Friend knows something about it. It was a little unfortunate, therefore, that those illustrations were given. To put it mildly, it throws a slight shadow of doubt on the accuracy of some other observations on individual cases picked out at random of better service or worse service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": "o, I think, is to thank my right hon. Friend for the statement he has made. We have looked carefully into this matter and have examined the powers contained in the Bill, which is more than many sections of the Press appear to have done, and we do not agree with hon. Members opposite that the statement made by my right hon. Friend is not plain. We consider that it is quite plain, so far as it goes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": "e has made. We have looked carefully into this matter and have examined the powers contained in the Bill, which is more than many sections of the Press appear to have done, and we do not agree with hon. Members opposite that the statement made by my right hon. Friend is not plain. We consider that it is quite plain, so far as it goes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Obviously, in a short debate of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": "ull exposition of exactly what the form of transport is ultimately to be in Scotland. But there will be future occasions in the debates on this Bill to discuss the matter. For example, we have yet to come to Clause 14, and the hon. Member for Dunbartonshire, West (Mr. Steele) seems to have been confusing the special railway authority to be set up under that Clause with the co-ordinating committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1656.0", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Henderson Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Henderson Stewart)", "preceding_text": "In the five minutes left to me, I will do my best to answer the questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "One minute has gone already. In the four minutes left to me, I will try to answer the questions. I begin with the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Wheatley). First, I would point out that this is not the only occassion when Scottish problems will be discussed during the Committee stage of this Bill. There are several other opportunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1656.4", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " accepted the onus of the change. Of course, we accept the onus of the change. That is what this Government are always glad to do—to take responsibility for their own actions. We will show in due course that we are right in the action we are taking. Secondly, I was asked whether we accept the conditions of the Scottish Council. What is the first condition? I will read to the Committee a few words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1656.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "n parties who are affected by and interested in the operation of the Bill. The four parties mentioned in the Clause are all obviously closely interested in the operation of the Bill, but we believe that there is also one other party which is greatly interested in the Bill which is at the moment not represented. We believe that there should also be a representative of the trade unions on the Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "he Clause are all obviously closely interested in the operation of the Bill, but we believe that there is also one other party which is greatly interested in the Bill which is at the moment not represented. We believe that there should also be a representative of the trade unions on the Board—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and that is the purpose of the Amendment in the names of my hon. Friends and myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does it plan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "of the Amendment and the hon. Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish) have an entirely wrong slant on the composition of the Board. As it stands, the Board is evenly balanced between the consumer interest and the other interests concerned. The important thing is that the majority does not matter on this Board, because a difference of opinion has to be referred to the Minister. This is a planning body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1682.0", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "reserve himself until the end of the discussion—he told us that—so that there should not be more than one speech made by him. If we are to have two Ministers intervening in this way when we are working under a very heavy handicap, it is impossible to discuss the matter in a proper manner. Is it not preferable that the Government, instead of putting up their stooges to move Amendments of this sort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1681.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is on the wrong side\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must know that in the commercial motor vehicle industry at present there is difficulty in the disposal of new vehicles. Obviously, if a large number of secondhand vehicles are to be put on the market all at once that might lead to difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1692.2", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "e that all Socialists favour nationalisation, which they do not, and also a world in which they believe that all trade unionists favour nationalisation, and they certainly do not. 9.30 p.m. One has read this morning of an active trade unionist who has tried to gather together those fellow workers of his who do not believe in nationalisation and he has managed to bring over 60,000 of them together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1692.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1693.2", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. Jones", "preceding_text": "ate that they cannot be interested in transactions of their friends. It does not indicate that a representative of the Road Haulage Association cannot look after the members of the Road Haulage Association, and, in that way, we are likely to find that this Board doing what the Minister wants it to do, and that is to dispose of these vehicles as quickly as possible at any old price that he can get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1693.2", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said, 'hoped.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. Jones", "preceding_text": "e Road Haulage Association, and, in that way, we are likely to find that this Board doing what the Minister wants it to do, and that is to dispose of these vehicles as quickly as possible at any old price that he can get. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Of course it means that. The Minister himself has admitted this afternoon that he believed that they were going to dispose of these vehicles in nine months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where does the hon. and learned Member find that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "preceding_text": " Bill, I cannot agree with him. I do not believe that is correct. I beg the hon. Member to look at the provisions of the Bill which say that the conditions whereby transport units shall be sold will, in effect, be subject to the approval of this Board and that the conditions under which units are sold are conditions involving acceptance by the purchaser of rights and obligations of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "to feel that it would wish to do well for the private purchasers of the vehicles from a public authority. 10.15 p.m. It is typical of the mentality of Conservatives that if they are dealing with a public authority they assume it is an unhealthy and a sectional interest, but when they are advancing the rights of private interests they think that will further the general well-being of the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your hon. Friends have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " something wrong with the right hon. Gentleman, because it is an important consultation and the Minister was led to be somewhat critical of the T.U.C. and trade unions tonight in that they had not already seen him, when, in fact, apparently an interview had already been arranged when they would discuss matters of mutual interest. It is not for me to give a final, authoritative decision about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rs of mutual interest. It is not for me to give a final, authoritative decision about that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Your hon. Friends have.\"]—because the Minister will hear from the unions or the T.U.C.. But I think it right to tell the Committee that I have been informed by representatives of the T.U.C. and the trade unions, and we all agree that it is for them to decide, rather than the Parliamentarians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "barrassed in serving on this Board. That is my information, coming straight from the representatives of the T.U.C. and the unions of their own volition. It is entirely their own decision. I suggest to the Minister that it would be well to leave the Amendment to which I have referred over until the Report stage. If he accepts it tonight, he may be in the position of having to take it out on Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Warning?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I really do not think that this is a wise course for the Minister to take. I urge him to leave himself more time for reflection. First, the question of trade unions being represented was completely forgotten or set aside. Now the Minister is going to the other extreme, notwithstanding the warning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1711.1", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has come to that conclusion as regards tonight, because it will get us all out of a difficulty, but surely the Minister is not going to say now, before he has met the trade union representatives, that whatever they say and whatever their attitude is, he is going to put down this Amendment on Report? Surely, he should listen to what they are going to say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-03", "file": "debates1952-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7940ea59287a2ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1711.1", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "to say now, before he has met the trade union representatives, that whatever they say and whatever their attitude is, he is going to put down this Amendment on Report? Surely, he should listen to what they are going to say? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] We want to know from the Minister. As one who has had some experience in the handling of these matters, I want to intimate to the Minister that he is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-03a.1711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1750.0", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "But does not the Minister know that the Minister of Housing and Local Government is very niggardly himself and that we cannot get any satisfaction from him here? How does he expect his right hon. Friend to be able to deal with a position of this description? Does he not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1750.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1766.3", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "KENYA TRIALS (BARRISTERS' EXCLUSION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lyttelton rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1770.5", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "KENYA TRIALS (BARRISTERS' EXCLUSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "That was an extremely offensive interjection. I think everybody knows quite well where we stand in this matter. Every reasonable facility will be given to the defence. That may be quite clear, but I should like just to give an answer to the hon. Gentleman's question in the form, perhaps, of a fantastic analogy. Suppose 40 counsel from Harlem and three from Moscow were ininstructed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1770.5", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "KENYA TRIALS (BARRISTERS' EXCLUSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "e well where we stand in this matter. Every reasonable facility will be given to the defence. That may be quite clear, but I should like just to give an answer to the hon. Gentleman's question in the form, perhaps, of a fantastic analogy. Suppose 40 counsel from Harlem and three from Moscow were ininstructed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]. This is entirely hypothetical, but it illustrates the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "DEFENCE PRODUCTION PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More unemployed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "e depend so much for the vitally needed expansion of our export trade. In the light of these considerations, the Government have come to the conclusion that we must prevent any substantial rise above this year's high level of expenditure on defence production. Some curtailment must therefore now be made. This will to some extent involve the cancellation or modification of contracts already placed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was ill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "We all sympathise with the right hon. Gentleman. The right hon. Gentleman was terribly worried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are wasting it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "g to resign and he was attacked by the hon. Members for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) and Torquay (Mr. C. Williams). It is a kind of ritual with the Conservative Party to sacrifice. Then we had the unnecessary television business. We then had a wretched little National Health Bill, and then we had an abortive Paper on Transport. All this time was wasted through the incapacity of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "y to sacrifice. Then we had the unnecessary television business. We then had a wretched little National Health Bill, and then we had an abortive Paper on Transport. All this time was wasted through the incapacity of this Government. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You are wasting it now.\"] That is an Opposition matter. \"The Times\" put this matter very gracefully, if rather sardonically, in an admirable leader —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not you vote against it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "cts, and secondly, because it carries on for a year a number of Bills, the fact that they are only carried on for a year means that there is some doubt whether or not they should be prolonged. Therefore, they always have to be looked at in the light of changing circumstances. That was being done when the Chief Whip moved the Closure most ruthlessly, without any adequate discussion. He strolled in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1794.0", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "of affairs as in Kenya, I thought myself that, if there were a debate and Division on this matter, we might rupture and break the nerve of these young people, and we might well find that great disasters and bloodshed would follow. Not only might there be a massacre, but the whole structure of Government might be weakened. All the settlers throughout this scattered country would be in mortal peril.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1794.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1795.3", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Let me take one at a time. It is the House that gives permission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1795.9", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under the hon. Gentleman's instructions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The right hon. Gentleman has said that he will not withdraw the word \"wanton\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1795.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1795.9", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The right hon. Gentleman has said that he will not withdraw the word \"wanton\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Under the hon. Gentleman's instructions.\"]—although it is perfectly clear that, under the Ruling you have just given, Sir, the word \"wanton\" could only be an attack on the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1795.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1795.9", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "point I put to you is this, that to call that Motion or debate \"wanton\" is a reflection on the Chair, without whose permission the Motion could not have been moved, and if that is so, I suggest to you that it is your duty in the Chair in this House to keep every Member of the House strictly within the rules of order even if it be the Prime Minister himself, and not to discriminate between Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1795.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1796.7", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " lot to say, and I shall have to keep the House several hours if we go on at this rate. Nothing will induce me to be frustrated in unfolding the argument—not even sham points of order. Let me recall the House to the point I had reached in the argument. I said that the Adjournment of the House was given, that the debate on the Iron and Steel Bill, which, we had been told, was very important indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1796.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " half empty House was left to listen to the debate on a Measure which, we were told, was such a flagrant example of reactionary legislation. Nothing could more clearly vindicate the Government in allocating only two days to the debate on the Second Reading of the Iron and Steel Bill than the lack of interest—and, I may say, of argumentative power—shown throughout the proceedings by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ow reach the Adjournment at 7 p.m. on Kenya. I was very glad that the Opposition, or the responsible Members of it, on second thoughts did not force a party Division on the conduct of those young officers in their terrible ordeal, and that the right hon. Gentleman asked leave to withdraw the Motion. That shows how much better advised he and his colleagues would have been to have accepted my offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1798.4", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. When the debate on the Steel Bill was adjourned at 7 p.m. the last speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1798.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1798.8", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1798.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "was due to the contrast between the stormy debate about Kenya and the apathy on the Iron and Steel Bill. As I said, this is not an excuse. It is, however, an honest explanation of the error we made in thinking that all faction was over for the night. I am confessing quite plainly that we were in error. But what was the conduct of the Opposition? Only four of their Members were present at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and the apathy on the Iron and Steel Bill. As I said, this is not an excuse. It is, however, an honest explanation of the error we made in thinking that all faction was over for the night. I am confessing quite plainly that we were in error. But what was the conduct of the Opposition? Only four of their Members were present at the time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—only four of their Members were present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already said that we regret that we did not keep a quorum. I have already explained that the reason was that after the other debate on Kenya had been concluded there was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1800.3", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wanton incompetence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nds were in their places at the count, and I have already expressed my regret that a quorum was not maintained. But I repudiate with conviction the charge that the management of Parliamentary business this Session, or indeed since the new Parliament met, has been in any way unequal to the very difficult duties entrusted to these two Ministers. The word \"incompetence\" is used in the censure Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t six years has been 35 minutes, 46 minutes, 46 minutes, 50 minutes, 21 minutes, and, in 1950–51, 1 hour and 22 minutes, an average of 47 minutes for all that period, the bulk of which we were in Opposition. But on this last occasion, it is 8 hours and 39 minutes, or nearly 12 times the previous average. More time has been spent in this present Session on that Bill than in the previous six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1804.3", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Obstruction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e. I have repeatedly said that we ask to be judged by deeds not words, by results not promises; and time and perseverance are needed for these. We do not believe that it is in the power of the party opposite to prevent us from doing what we conceive to be our duty. If we act, as we shall do, in a resolute manner, we shall make it clear to our opponents that artful dodges and dull methods of delay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacPherson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacPherson", "preceding_text": "There are other names for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1815.4", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Or sideways.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": " of convertibility, which is one about which I feel strongly, but it would not be directly relevant to this Motion. I was also a little puzzled by his observations with regard to U.N.E.S.C.O. which I regard as rather a moribund institution. I did not know whether his reference to the contribution of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Education indicated that she was looking backward or forwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1819.3", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How can it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "preceding_text": "ommons, or to make its life so unbearable that it would want to go. That presupposes—I suppose there is some element of truth in this—that the function of an Opposition in the House of Commons is to get rid of the Government. I do not accept that view. It seems to me that the electorate should decide what Government it wants, and the electorate will decide when it wants to change that Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1829.5", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "uld, first of all, have to deal with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell), the late Minister of Defence. I think that, possibly, the Prime Minister was too harsh yesterday with the late Minister of Defence. What has the late Minister of Defence been doing recently? He has been going round the country campaigning for a reduction to half of the period of National Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1861.1", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "ens of thousands of small shopkeepers that the Tories look after in Scotland with the help of Lord Woolton and his friends. They went undiscussed. Think, too, of the many things that were completely unmentioned that night because the Secretary of State for Scotland and his friends thought, like the Prime Minister, that it was more important to go home to bed than to be legislating in this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1867.1", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "le (Mr. Bevan), who is a very vigorous and very powerful debater, that, instead of struggling to maintain this futile and miserable Motion, he should instead move a Motion of censure upon his own party for their failure to keep up their numbers in the Division Lobby, particularly after 10.30 p.m. If he did that, something interesting might be learned. Although I think—and these are my final words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1867.1", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "at, instead of struggling to maintain this futile and miserable Motion, he should instead move a Motion of censure upon his own party for their failure to keep up their numbers in the Division Lobby, particularly after 10.30 p.m. If he did that, something interesting might be learned. Although I think—and these are my final words—[HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"]—I can add another two or three minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1867.1", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "d that I do not lose my temper. Indeed, why should I? What I was going to say was that it might be advisable for the right hon. Gentleman to try to find out why it is that, at a time when he is accusing this Government of incompetence, incompetence is growing in the Lobbies on the other side. I think I am giving what I believe to be the answer. It was said by the Duke of Wellington long years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "n the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister hints, as he did today about the Steel Bill—before we have hardly started to discuss it—that we are going to have a time-table about that, the right hon. Gentleman is not only going back upon his own great past, but is doing very great damage to Parliamentary institutions. We believe on this side of the House in the eminence of Parliamentary democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1874.2", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nt to ask the Patronage Secretary this question, and I hope he can give the House a candid reply: When he moved, \"That the Question be now put\" on Part II of the Schedule to the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, did he think he was putting the Closure in the ordinary way or did he know that he was actually compelling Parliament at that moment to pass into law four Acts without any discussion at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1874.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1875.1", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "This is indeed a strange rejoinder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1875.5", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I have asked for it and I am giving it back. I am asking the Patronage Secretary what he means by his statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1875.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1875.5", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did not divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I have asked for it and I am giving it back. I am asking the Patronage Secretary what he means by his statement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"] Does he mean by that statement that if Divisions are not forced by the Opposition, discussion must be curtailed? That is what the right hon. Gentleman said. He said \"It is obvious that the Opposition had no intention of dividing.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1875.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1875.10", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "It has never been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1875.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1876.4", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "Mr. Assheton rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1876.9", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Having what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ad got very serious difficulties. In fact, the right hon. Gentleman is beginning to remind me more and more of Mr. Stanley Baldwin in his most decadent days. In 1931 to 1935, 1936 and 1937 we also had the situation about which the party opposite now boasts. We had the situation in which we had a favourable overseas balance of payments. We had it then, and stagnant production. We are having it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1876.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1876.9", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Housing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ourable overseas balance of payments. We had it then, and stagnant production. We are having it now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Having what?\"] Stagnant production. At the present time there is a fall in production taking place in every industry except those which are nationalised industries. The only industries in Great Britain at the moment where there is rising production is in the nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1876.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1876.9", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "vertime is down in many industries, and unemployment has grown in some industries. This is the picture hon. Members must face. It is always possible to have a favourable balance of payments position if production is cut down so that the country does not have to import raw materials, and all the Government have done is to achieve financial solvency at the expense of producing industrial stagnation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1876.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "ntleman's speech which leads me to raise any objection to the course which has been adopted. I am not quite clear at the end of it what exactly he proved, but the right hon. Gentleman certainly spoke with his usual charm and urbanity and in the best spirit of co-operation. This is a Motion of censure, and I cannot imagine any Motion of censure which has ever arisen out of such a very small origin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "tly he proved, but the right hon. Gentleman certainly spoke with his usual charm and urbanity and in the best spirit of co-operation. This is a Motion of censure, and I cannot imagine any Motion of censure which has ever arisen out of such a very small origin. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It has been admitted all through the speeches that what has really caused this upsurge of feeling were the incidents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " This is a Motion of censure, and I cannot imagine any Motion of censure which has ever arisen out of such a very small origin. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It has been admitted all through the speeches that what has really caused this upsurge of feeling were the incidents—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It was you.\"] Of course, it is we who are being censured, and I hope, therefore, that the reply might be listened to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " events of the other night when the House was counted out. I must say that at that time I thought it was a back bench manoeuvre originating with the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg). Has it now got the blessing of the official Opposition? Well, it does not seem so from the outstanding silence, and I am not surprised, because in point of fact it was a great breach of the conventions of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "of this House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I do not say that on my own authority, but take it from two organs of opinion which are not friendly to this Government as a general rule. It is a breach of convention to spoil a Second Reading debate on an important Bill. said the \"Manchester Guardian.\" It is contrary to the conventions for the Opposition to exercise its right\"— and no one is questioning that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1879.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1881.4", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a convention.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is the fixed rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1884.3", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "s of the Opposition are concerned? Does it mean now that instead of going off, as they are quite entitled to do as senior Members of this House, comparatively early to bed, they come out into the open to support the \"late night final\" activities of those who might be called partisans in a guerilla warfare? We made no attempt whatever when we were in Opposition ever to obstruct Government business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1884.3", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "mbers of this House, comparatively early to bed, they come out into the open to support the \"late night final\" activities of those who might be called partisans in a guerilla warfare? We made no attempt whatever when we were in Opposition ever to obstruct Government business. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am choosing my words. I said quite clearly that we did not in any way obstruct Government business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1884.3", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Prayers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "whatever when we were in Opposition ever to obstruct Government business. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am choosing my words. I said quite clearly that we did not in any way obstruct Government business. [ Interruption. ] Mr. Speaker, we have been attacked, and I in particular. I hope that I shall be allowed to reply. I was saying that Government business was never obstructed by the official Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1886.2", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (CENSURE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I will not keep the House a minute. This Bill had been passed in the previous Parliament. This was merely a consequential stage. The point I was arguing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-04", "file": "debates1952-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "19ea5bae97eb203e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1906.4", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "BLITZED CITIES (RECONSTRUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Morley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Morley", "preceding_text": "ing Committee in Southampton, said: Every one of the badly blitzed cities is going to express disappointment and dissatisfaction. I am starting the chorus of protest. Sir Clifford Tozer is Chairman of the Reconstruction Committee, and Alderman John Lane is a leading member of the Conservative Party in Southampton, and there is, of course, a Conservative majority on the Southampton Borough Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-04a.1906.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-05", "file": "debates1952-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0b0e26a27b68164e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-05a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "HOME-GROWN TIMBER (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "e same way as the flanks of the Norwegian mountains are covered with trees, and as many parts of Scotland, with a more rigorous climate, are covered with trees. There is no reason at all why this great expanse of country at the moment producing nothing but sheep and a little cattle, as the result of the improvements that have recently been made in hill farming, should not be used for this purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-05a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-05", "file": "debates1952-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0b0e26a27b68164e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-05a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "HOME-GROWN TIMBER (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "his country, and, in addition, there are thousands more acres growing this sort of timber in order to serve the needs of the brewers. Our economy is being distorted in the interests of liquor. Some of us are always fighting that, and I think the land ought to be used for growing other sorts of timber. I have nothing against the chestnut tree as such. Indeed, I am very fond of these chestnut woods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-05a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are these places?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "It seems unlikely that this case will be heard before the spring or summer of 1953.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.15.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "ANGLO-IRANIAN OIL (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman should know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am not quite clear what the right hon. Gentleman means by the last part of his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "TELEVISION EXTENSION 0 (GOVERNMENT DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I must point out that the limiting factor is not so much the transmitting equipment as the receiving sets, and at the present time the value of the receiving sets in the homes of the people of this country probably exceeds £100 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " I did venture to damp the enthusiasm of the Parliamentary Secretary by suggesting that it might not be as easy as he perhaps thought to find a place for it. But, at any rate, there was an important pronouncement that was made as the result of this discussion, and the hon. Member for Heston and Isleworth (Mr. R. Harris), who had managed to speak before the Patronage Secretary came into the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "n. The other evening the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House took credit to himself for having saved the Private Member's day last Friday week. But what happened with regard to that? It was only because my hon. Friends and myself declined to move on the matter then before us, on several Amendments that were called by you, Mr. Speaker, that we were able to get the business through in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman says that he did not wave his hand at, let me say that he waved it towards, the Chairman of Ways and Means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " Now may I refer to Standing Order 29 itself, because the charge made against the Chairman is that he showed partiality and was wrong and incompetent in applying Standing Order 29. As I read that, it is a directory Order. It says: After a question has been proposed a Member rising in his place may claim to move, 'That the Question be now put,' and\"— then I leave out the other words for the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "not entitled to exercise his discretion, and that by so exercising it he was so wrong that it is complete evidence of partiality and incompetence? I am not prepared to say that upon that evidence. Now let me come to the other point, which is a short one, and is mainly that the Chairman did not call the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) and that he did call the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Assheton", "preceding_text": "sed. When it is used it must be a matter for the judgment of whoever is in the Chair to decide whether or not to accept it. I was surprised the other evening that the Patronage Secretary did not move the Closure sooner. I was not surprised that he moved it when he did. I did not really believe that on that evening business was conducted as well as it might have been in the interests of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "the House itself. Decisions should be given, not on the basis of voting, but of free exchange among Members of the House, one to another, as to how business should be best conducted with the most regard to the principles of democracy. This is a very difficult Motion for many Members of this House to speak to, because of the great personal regard in which we all hold the Chairman of Ways and Means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "We are discussing the conduct of the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.71.3", "colnum": "71", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "It does not concern the case I have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.71.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "lieve that the legislation should be abolished, which shows that hon. Members opposite were even more hypocritical than I thought. After we had finished with that, we got on to the Cotton Manufacturing (Temporary Provisions) Act. I listened for an hour while two hon. Members devoted themselves to reading out to this House a very good speech I made in 1934. Again, they wanted permanent legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.78.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "preceding_text": "I made no remark of any sort just now, but I wish the hon. Member, whose vulgarity grows from day to day, would leave me out of his remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the hon. and learned Member for Hornchurch?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "preceding_text": "tleman the Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies), the Leader of the Liberal Party. During the time when the trouble arose, not a single Member of the Liberal Party was present. I feel that it is essential, if a person is going to intervene in a debate to call attention to any point of procedure, that that person should have been in attendance so that he would have all the facts at his finger tips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "preceding_text": " if a person is going to intervene in a debate to call attention to any point of procedure, that that person should have been in attendance so that he would have all the facts at his finger tips. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the hon. and learned Member for Hornchurch?\"] My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing) was in attendance that night, or in the early hours of the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "of order at all. It is obviously a very difficult situation for whoever is occupying the Chair. But so far as declining to allow the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to make his point is concerned, when future historians look back to see what happened according to HANSARD they will find that the words attributed to the right hon. Gentleman occupy far more room than those attributed to anybody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": ". It is true that every part of it is debatable and may be debated. It is also true that that occasion is not in the only time in the year when that can be done. If it was the fact that never again could any matter arising out of that part of the Schedule which was not debated, be debated, or any point be raised, that would be one argument. But that is not the case. There are other opportunities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I say that there are opportunities. I am not going to lay out the whole of the Parliamentary possibilities for the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I say that there are opportunities. I am not going to lay out the whole of the Parliamentary possibilities for the hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us one.\"] It is obvious that anything relating to administration can be dealt with on a relevant Supply day. That is perfectly simple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "On 22nd October, 1902.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.98.2", "colnum": "98", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "e Patronage Secretary moved the Closure and it was very unfortunate, as has been pointed out already, that the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland in intervening used words which, however unwittingly, led the Committee to believe that he was merely inter- vening and that the debate would continue. We now know from the admission of the Patronage Secretary in his maiden speech last Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.98.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": "omery had the thing entirely wrong, because I think that he was dealing with the wrong part of Standing Order 29. He did not draw attention properly to the effect of an important part of Standing Order 29, because the whole thing is conditional upon its appearing to the Chair that the Motion for the Closure is not an abuse of the rules of the House or an infringement of the rights of the minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (CONDUCT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By leave of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "When 18 months ago a similar Motion was moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would need a lawyer to understand that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "The benefit of the Clause is, however, claimable in respect of schools which, although already projected or carried to a further stage, are not yet established and maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.148.7", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Rev. LI. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Rev. LI. Williams", "preceding_text": "We cannot settle this matter at this juncture. I say again that many hon. Members have told me of this pressure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.148.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-08", "file": "debates1952-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "adfdc1702dad3e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.148.7", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Rev. LI. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many years ago?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Rev. LI. Williams", "preceding_text": "We cannot settle this matter at this juncture. I say again that many hon. Members have told me of this pressure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"] I have heard my own father-in-law say it when he was a Member of this House representing the Ince Division of Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-08a.148.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.213.9", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Z RESERVE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he will receive grateful thanks from many people for doing that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.213.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.216.7", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "tter which was sent two months ago? Secondly, why, generally speaking, in their relationships with the staffs does his Department seem to handle this matter in rather a ham-handed manner? Thirdly, is the Minister aware that the staffs still consider that the offers of compensation for changing from Leeds to Halifax are in many cases completely inadequate, and will he consult with the staffs again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.216.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Investigate it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "This matter has been investigated, and we have been in touch with Colonel Thompson. I do not think that necessarily quotes in a newspaper can be taken as an absolutely Grade A source by the War Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.226.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "A White Paper of this character will be published shortly. I should like, however, to take this opportunity of acknowledging the valuable services rendered by those to whom the Question refers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.238.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Is it the Committee's pleasure that the Amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"May.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "d reward are not added to the considerable number of C-licensed vehicles which are already in the country. 5.45 p.m. The hon. Member for Wednesbury objected strongly to the Clause, but apparently he has overlooked the fact that the Clause contains the answer to his difficulty, because it states in page 4, line 42, that …specified conditions may … be attached to the sale of transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the advantage of national ownership.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "t, if not impossible, to legislate for. The areas of operation of lorries are, surely, controlled by the laws of supply and demand, and always will be. That is most certainly so in the case of British Road Services today. If British Road Services have too many vehicles in their Wolverhampton depot for the goods that are available to be carried, they would move the surplus vehicles to another area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 7, to leave out lines 13 to 29. I think that it would be for the convenience of the Committee, Sir Charles, if we took this Amendment together with the Amendments in page 7, line 18, leave out \"six-fifths,\" and insert \"twelve-fifths,\" and the Amendment in page 7, leave out lines 25 to 29. We would not, but for the Guillotine, wish to take these Amendments together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "lways be remembered against them that on the occasion when we proposed that there should be competition between public and private road haulage the Minister, speaking on their behalf, declined the challenge and refused to allow public road haulage to compete with private road haulage; and instead, has put private road haulage into a licensed, privileged, semi-monopoly, without outside competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "hat given the capital resources and the capital investment they should be able to get out in front, and no Member on the other side who approaches this question objectively or fairly can deny that the property that has been built up, the mechanical workshops that have been erected and the traffic control units that have been designed, are in advance of anything that private enterprise has to show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am perfectly willing to show the correspondence to the hon. Member behind the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "he humbug of the Conservative Party's reputed distrust and dislike of delegated power and bureaucracy. In subsection (1) we have red tape gone rampant and the most confused bureaucratic procedure—from the Minister to the Disposals Board and back again whereas in subsection (2) we have arbitrary Government gone rampant, for the Minister is granted absolute and arbitrary powers. It is a great shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.389.7", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (BILLETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "I am rather surprised that there is no Minister here responsible for these Regulations relating to Civil Defence. Neither the Minister nor the Parliamentary Secretary is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.389.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.389.9", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (BILLETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "preceding_text": "The explanation is that if an emergency comes, it will be necessary to see that the people who are in difficulties are able to get accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.389.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (BILLETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "e for large numbers of homeless people from Germany. I suggest that we are placing a far greater burden of responsibility on the local authorities to find homes for these people than can possibly be undertaken with the machinery outlined in these Regulations. Although the Parliamentary Secretary did not realise it, these Regulations establish military Communism on a large scale in our rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "of officers murdered on duty. This is a matter which, the Home Secretary knows, concerned me very much before I left the Home Office, and I know it causes him equal concern, and today, of all days, it must be very prominently in our minds. I therefore hope that if there is any representative of the Treasury here other than the Patronage Secretary to convey the views of the House to the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-09", "file": "debates1952-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c9b85230a6a3d947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is —65,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "know the figure and I should he grateful if the Under-Secretary would tell us. I understand that the total number of police widows who would be involved if this were done outside the Metropolitan areas is some 7,000. I do not know the figure for London, but the total cannot be very great We had an answer from the Home Secretary a few weeks ago about the amount of money, £62,000, which is involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-09a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.435.7", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "While thanking the right hon. Gentleman for the documents he is going to send me, I should like to ask him, is it not a fact that the Government delayed eight months after receiving the expert and authoritative report of Sir Philip Mitchell, then the Governor of Kenya", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.435.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.465.5", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "ch it enjoyed, on the face of it it would appear that the Commission should now be liable to apply for and should be obliged to obtain, licences for the vehicles that it operates. I say that on the face of it that appears logical and reasonable, but if we look further into the matter and examine it, and particularly if those hon. Members who were present during our discussions yesterday afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.465.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.474.6", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "y can decide to take them off again. I take it that that is correct? There is no obligation on him to provide that public service. That is the fundamental difference between the private road operator and the Commission which I think the Minister and the Government have entirely overlooked, or have not deigned to notice. What does this three-month period mean? Within a short period of three months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.474.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.489.5", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I dare say that I share that lack of knowledge with some hon. Members opposite. May I answer one hon. Member at a time? I am trying to answer the hon. Member for Nottingham, East (Mr. J. Harrison), who asked what proportion of these vehicles might be reasonably expected to be off the road at any one time. I can only draw upon my Army experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.489.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.489.7", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "ven so, even though I spent a whole day on this matter and devoted other occasions to it as well, one cannot probe extremely deeply into a figure like this which affects the whole countryside and on which visits to many separate areas would not give the answer. Judging on the figures of empty running given in another part of the Road Haulage Executive's Report and the poor operating results shown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.489.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A slight recession? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "What I am saying is that at this moment on the trunking services there is a certain amount of merchandise moving about and a certain demand for hauling. It has been the point of hon. Gentlemen opposite for some months past that owing to a slight trade recession there is not so much traffic as there was formerly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.494.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.514.5", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Irvine", "preceding_text": "Would it not be for the convenience of the Committee if these two Amendments could be considered together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.516.2", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I submit that subsection (1), although the Amendments to it do not hang together, is, in a sense, consequential upon the rest of the Clause. The subsection is necessitated partly by the changes in the law which the rest of the Clause makes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.516.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.516.4", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I was not denying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.516.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.520.8", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Fletcher) made great play of rather intricate changes which the first subsection of this Clause will create. I think there is nothing undesirable in the words: the interests of the public generally … including primarily those of persons requiring facilities for transport. Surely the proper interpretation of that is that the licensing authority must have overwhelming regard to public demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.520.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to devote much of my short intervention to the question of charges because you, Sir Charles, ruled earlier that we should have a full opportunity to discuss them later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member explain to the Committee that the serious conditions which he said existed in the transport industry in the early 1930's also existed in nearly every other industry in the country at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Lionel Heald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Lionel Heald)", "preceding_text": "on for the interests of the public in the words proposed to be substituted than there were in the original words. Originally, the Act said: shall have regard primarily to the interests of the public generally including certain matters. Now there is substituted the words: shall have regard to the interests of the public generally so even more emphasis is being placed on the interests of the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.527.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Member is trying to make a distinction where no distinction exists, as between the interests of the consumer and of the public; the consumer interest is, in fact, also the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.530.4", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "re concerned. There is a case in which the interests of the public generally may be different from the interests of the person who needs the transport and certainly different from the interests of those who provide the transport. The Attorney-General has stated quite clearly—and his first and brief intervention has been most illuminating—that the public interest generally comes third in this race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.530.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman attempts to suggest that a large body of the public have an interest in this field other than that of the public who need transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.537.3", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO GROUNDS FOR GRANTING OR REFUSING LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "I do not wish the Committee to be under any misapprehension. I prefer the Government's subsection and their Amendment, although I would have preferred that we should not have wasted so much time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 16.—(REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE COMMISSION'S FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Murder.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I was not making a point of it. I was merely stating the fact. The hon. Gentleman always states his opinion with great frankness. I am replying at the moment to the right hon. Gentleman who has the melancholy experience of a very proud parent watching the demise of one of his favourite offspring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 16.—(REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE COMMISSION'S FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to come to that when we discuss the Clauses which we are waiting to discuss. And I will also deal with the very large holding of the Transport Commission in a large number of crucial companies like the B.E.T.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 16.—(REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE COMMISSION'S FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "l. But he has a shocking bias against any public authority owning anything. The Bill is loaded with prejudice against public authorities, and I say that it is loaded with prejudice in favour of private enterprise and, indeed, monopolistic conditions. The inevitable net result of this Clause in operation is going to be that if the Minister exercises his powers—and much depends upon that, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 16.—(REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE COMMISSION'S FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what they will do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "mmission own, in the same area, 55 buses run under the name of Darlington Triumph, 71 buses run under the Durham and District and 1,035 run under the United Omnibus Services, of Darlington. What will happen if the Minister uses his power under these Clauses of the Bill to instruct the Commission to sell their majority shareholding in these three bus companies when Stratton House asks him to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 16.—(REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE COMMISSION'S FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "hey will do.\"] It will mean that every single bus operating in the North-East will be in the control of the British Electric Traction Company. Let me say this to the right hon. Gentleman, Some of my friends in the municipal passenger transport service tell me that Stratton House is already making preparations for when the Bill passes into law. Now we understand why the Minister wants a Guillotine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 16.—(REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE COMMISSION'S FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend that his figures were wrong, my right hon. Friend was quoting the percentage of issued share capital held by the Commission, as shown in the Report of the British Transport Commission. As far as I know, where the British Transport Commission hold even as much as 50 per cent. of the ordinary share capital, in fact, control is expressly left to the British Electric Traction Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.599.6", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 16.—(REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE COMMISSION'S FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ute. I hear the Minister saying, \"Hear, hear,\" and that means that he knows that it is open to any local operator, however big or however small, who can provide a service to go along to the licensing authority and say that he can provide a better or cheaper service than can the British Transport Commission's own companies, and that B.T.C. can be challenged and, if necessary, turned off that route.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.599.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-10", "file": "debates1952-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1eaa28b71aaeb130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.599.6", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 16.—(REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE COMMISSION'S FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"His friends are not getting it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ster's power for mischief in this Clause is just as great as it is in relation to the road haulage undertaking. The profit that last year poured into the coffers of the British Transport Commission from these controlled bus companies was £3·8 million, and every year it has been between £3 million and £4 million. What is the Minister's objection to public enterprise making £4 million profit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-10a.599.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.648.4", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The procedure is that under orders made by the Army Council and the Air Council under paragraph 2(3) of the Schedule to the United States of America (Visiting Forces) Order. 1942, the United States authorities have power to summon a civilian witness to give evidence at a court martial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.648.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.657.5", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "In view of the wealth of good will, self-sacrifice and superhuman endurance associated with this disaster, does not the right hon. and learned Gentleman think that the nitwit who was responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.657.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.666.4", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The hon. Member is reading it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. Gentleman's experience in 1912 of the intolerance shown to him in Belfast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.666.5", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have nothing to add to my answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.666.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.668.4", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — N.A.T.O. (MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. Gentleman would agree that Her Majesty's Government must have made submissions to the N.A.T.O. Council on this very important matter, and can we know what those submissions are?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.668.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "mind the right hon. Gentleman that on Finance Bills it is quite usual to have three successive days in Committee, whether his Government is in power or ours. There is nothing unusual in that. As to whether it would be a good thing to have only two days, and to stand one over until after we return, I think that, on consideration, he would see that that really would not meet the general convenience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.671.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.674.2", "colnum": "674", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "With a view to meeting the desires of the Opposition and of discussing these matters of taxation, could not the House sit another day next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.674.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The suggestion seems to be received with enthusiasm on the other side of the House. but I think that, on reflection, everybody will prefer to adjourn on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "All sorts of tempting suggestions have been made with a view to getting rid of the Transport Bill, but I must repeat that it is the Government's policy that the Transport Bill should proceed along its course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The users?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ements which determine transport costs as a whole for the users of transport. Therefore, to some extent the cost of the levy will be passed on to the users of transport. But our whole thesis is that it is the users of road transport qua users of road transport who will have the benefit of the Bill, and it does seem not unreasonable that they should carry at any rate part of the burden of the levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another hare.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "n the view of the trading interests. They fear that this may be made a precedent for increased taxation. Doubtless they think that this Government is one to decrease taxes and that it is the party opposite that would increase them. I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman finds this difficult to accept, but I am not going to be deterred in any way by that, although I do not want to discomfort him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ed in any way by that, although I do not want to discomfort him. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Another hare.\"] There are no hares in the Committee at the moment to chase. I want to deal with the particular points raised by the right hon. Gentleman, and which are very relevant, about retail deliveries, local authorities, and, of course, the vehicles of the Commission and the vehicles of Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Immoral buccaneer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "hild—it is always a small one. But, be that as it may, I look upon the levy as one of the worst features of the Bill. We know that compensation is to be paid in this case by the innocent parties. The Government have created the chaos, but the compensation, of course, is to be paid by all sorts of people who are innocent parties. In this sense, I look upon the Minister as a sort of moral buccaneer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "d. In principle, I believe the levy is unfair to the C licence holders, and that in practice, based on past experience, it might well be imposed for a long and indefinite period. I readily accept the positive and categorical assurance of the Economic Secretary, and that has relieved my mind considerably, but behind him stand the Treasury and the Service Departments. He might not be there for ever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.706.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "tments and all other Government vehicles. That was one principle he found in the course of his embarkation on the high seas. The other principle does not seem to me to be a principle at all. It consisted in his saying that a large amount of goodwill had been lost, as I understood him, by the mere act of nationalisation. He will excuse my saying that that is complete nonsense from beginning to end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.708.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They hate it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nsport undertakings which are in the possession of the Commission. That in itself is bad, I should have thought. It is injurious that property which has been purchased and built up should be affected in this way. Nevertheless, that is the policy of the Government. Why are they injuring the Commission? Why do the Government go out of their way to damage the interests of this publicly owned concern?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They lost the L.C.C. elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "all over the country from town clerks objecting to the taxation of local authority transport—dust vehicles and various other vehicles. What have they done to deserve this? They are not in the world of commercial road transport at all, so far as I know. Why should municipal government be assaulted? Why should the ratepayers incur this bitter enmity of the Tory Party and the Conservative Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.749.2", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The two Divisions which have taken place on Amendments to the Bill have shown Government majorities first of 14 and now of 11. This is a few days after the boastings of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I agree: voluntarily within a Guillotine which we did not voluntarily impose upon ourselves. It is not as if these were mere talking debates. I think hon. Members who have listened to the debates will agree that they have been relevant and businesslike and that there has been nothing in the way of obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.769.4", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "who spend their full time on other subjects, and who would have to spend a lot of time finding out what is the disturbance value to the Commission by taking out these vehicles and transferring them to the road. I do not think the members of the Transport Tribunal know anything about roads at all. they have never prepared any charges schemes for roads. They have never seen a vehicle in their lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.769.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "We all know that, as a large part of its work the Tribunal is busy with railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.779.6", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t which should become payable to the Commission by reason of the diversion of traffic from rail to road. There was a widespread measure of public criticism of that provision on the grounds that it would be impracticable to ask the Members of the Transport Tribunal to make any such assessment. This Government, as ever, attentative to the views of informed public opinion, accepts that point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.779.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ", and we will do the worst by you,\" because no one in his senses can say that the figure of £1 million bears any relationship to the amount of disturbance. Has the Minister asked the Commission to estimate what the disturbance will be? Have they volunteered any figure to him? Has he asked them? Has he entered into conversations with them? I do not know whether he has or whether he has not. Has he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is funny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "ing to bear increased accumulated net deficits and has saved them from having to bear poor financial results from the Road Haulage Executive. The hon. Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Ernest Davies), in moving this Amendment, spoke of costs reduced by nationalisation. He conveniently ignored those costs which have been increased by nationalisation and which we shall be reducing by de-nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-11", "file": "debates1952-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "aa9bdf69c89c555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If I might follow that up, I should indeed be happy to accept that submission if it were for me to do so, but I would just point out that we did not introduce this about goodwill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-11a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-12", "file": "debates1952-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "837a934ffb2707ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-12a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Thomas", "preceding_text": "tion. A man following an arduous occupation may eventually find himself suffering from hernia, but it should be provable by medical evidence that he should be paid compensation as the result of hernia arising out of his occupation. There are other instances that one could cite. Coming here this morning by Underground train I was reading a daily newspaper. I have it here. It is the \"Daily Express.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-12a.863.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.951.7", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that both he and his Parliamentary Secretary told the House that the cuts to manufacturers would be 75,000 tons, and that it is greatly unfair to the housewife to take an additional 35,000 tons from her?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.951.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is it possible for the right hon. Gentleman to acquaint the House with his views as to whether a British admiral should be appointed in charge of the naval Forces in the Atlantic, or rather, I should say, in the Mediterranean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guillotine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I was just coming to that. The right hon. Gentleman complained that so far there had not been, so he thought, adequate exposition of the Government's views on Scottish affairs. Whose fault is that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "All right, but I do not want to go on until 10.30. The only reason the Scottish case has not been presented in more detail is that the Opposition have not given us time to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "the consultations—the close, personal consultations—we have had with the Council, I am of the fixed opinion that the Government's policy and that of the Council are not so far apart as would appear to be the use of the words chosen. I have every belief that by the time we have got fully to understand each other's words and meanings and interpretations and objects, we shall be in virtual agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "now what I am talking about than the Opposition, with great respect; and I say that I do not believe that there is between the Scottish Council and the Government any real, substantial difference of opinion. Let me explain to the Committee what in fact we are trying to do. First of all, let the Committee recognise the very remarkable changes for the better that this Bill brings about for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Let me go on. It is time the Government's view on this matter was put. That is the first thing. This Bill will create a Scottish railway authority with wide powers, an authority drawn up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I have already said that the Bill contains a clear provision at present so that ultimately the Scottish railway authority, while the main responsibility for charges still rests with the Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ifferent methods by which the special needs of places like the Highlands can be met. That is a great advantage, and I now offer another sharp contrast. At present, under the present Act, the Consultative Committee is very limited in its scope, very limited in its action. Under our proposal its scope is broadened, and it will have direct access to the Minister. That will make a profound difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "I have not read that inquiry. The fact remains that many people in Scotland—I believe many hon. Gentlemen opposite are among them—want for Scotland the same kind of organisation, in principle, as exists in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.992.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": " and circumstances may occur which will not make it possible for the scheme to be brought forward within the 12 months period. We accept that period as a time target showing what is, in our view, the kind of period within which a scheme ought to be presented to the Minister. I would add, for the benefit of hon. Gentlemen opposite, that a good deal of work on decentralisation has already been done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "s, in our view, the kind of period within which a scheme ought to be presented to the Minister. I would add, for the benefit of hon. Gentlemen opposite, that a good deal of work on decentralisation has already been done—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"]—by the Commission before the Bill was presented. It is common knowledge that the machinery of the 1947 Act was creaking and was not working satisfactorily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.998.4", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"About Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "thise very much with Scottish Members who desire to speak about something which is of very great concern. The breaking up of their transport system will concern all, no matter on what side of the Committee they sit. After the longwinded and tedious speech we have had from the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, who told us nothing in longer time than anybody I have ever heard in this Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.998.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. Macpherson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "a particular area. If it is to appear to the Commission or to the Minister, the scheme which is being prepared must, presumably, already have been seen by the Minister in the course of preparation, otherwise the drafting does not work out satisfactorily. If the Minister does not accept the Amendment, it would appear that a minor alteration would be required to subsection (3, a ). The same applies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1005.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Harrison", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the whole of this Amendment is far more pernicious than appears from its wording, and I get that impression from the explanation of it which has been given by hon. Gentlemen opposite. They make it quite clear that there is a desire for the Minister to interfere in the day-to-day management or re-organisation of British Railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1011.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1013.3", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "That is what I understood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1042.4", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I could not undertake to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1042.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two Bills.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "hanges incorporated in this Bill affecting the railways are brought into operation, there should be this inquiry which the right hon. and learned Member was demanding. Instead of an inquiry, what do we get? The Government produce a White Paper which is supposed to be a statement of transport policy—19 paragraphs supposed to be a statement of transport policy—and then follow that on with this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the material?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have to hark back to this, but from the correspondence which I read out it was evident that they had made every endeavour to obtain a quotation in time. I admit freely that it had not occurred to them that they ought to have gone straight away to the British Transport Commission in the first instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What material?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have to hark back to this, but from the correspondence which I read out it was evident that they had made every endeavour to obtain a quotation in time. I admit freely that it had not occurred to them that they ought to have gone straight away to the British Transport Commission in the first instance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the material?\"] In the framework of this Bill as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One of 600,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ember for Truro (Mr. G. Wilson), an example of that spirit. I am sure that my right hon. Friend was right when he said that the provisions of this Clause are welcomed by the railwaymen far beyond the ranks of those who voted Conservative. As typical of the feelings of many of these men, I am going to quote again an individual case, and this is an engine driver who happens to live in Wolverhampton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "rganisation. As the hon. Gentleman has now resumed his place, may I say how greatly I enjoyed the visit which I recently made to Southampton, and how very much I was impressed by everything I saw at the docks, particularly the Atlantic terminal for which, I think, the highest credit is due to all concerned with it. My hon. Friend the Member for Truro (Mr. G. Wilson) asked about the railway police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about competition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "Not a bit. Southampton can have all its present trade and more. The only thing that we say is that a port like Southampton must not be able to lower charges because of connection with the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "his country, on those who work in it, on those who use it, on the whole economic life of the country, and sets up a Guillotine to prevent the proper and adequate discussion of this iniquitous kind of tyranny. After all we have heard over the past six years from right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite, what do they suppose they are doing now? Are they really promoting the interests of their country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": " and total costs. It will be a major task for the Commission, on which their whole financial future will depend to work out with expert and far-seeing advice the principles on which they will seek to base their charges and the organisation by which they will be able, in face of competition, to maximise their traffic and their revenue. We take the view that their hands cannot be tied at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": " act, and, however embarrassing it may be for him in his relations with the Treasury, for him to tell the Treasury that their policy is really disastrous. We have the position that a meat ration which was previously fully taken up by the average consumer is now not being taken up even by the butchers. The Parliamentary Secretary and his colleagues made express promises during the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "hs on those negotiations, whereas the present negotiations have been going on since April. What wonder- ful things we were told would happen if only we would send to the Argentine and other countries people who understood how to buy meat; that they would get all the meat we wanted if it was available. Why have the Government not sent these people to take part in the present Argentine negotiations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": " Christmas, \"Why do they not eat turkeys at 6s. 6d. a lb?\" I suggest very seriously that the Government have failed to carry out their promises and, after all the criticisms that they made of the Labour Government in days gone by, they have failed to meet the bill. There is very severe disappointment in the minds of the people at the lowness of the meat ration. This miserable, battered Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-15", "file": "debates1952-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0cea695d65e8a774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "The fact that this method was used by the hon. Gentleman's predecessors does not convince me at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-15a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1178.8", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister give an assurance that if there is a reduction in the price of wool in three months' time the price of carpets will also come down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1178.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I feel it would be quite unfair to other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "In answer to the last part of the question, the British Standards Institution issued its statement, as it is entitled to do, without being urged to do so by the Board. On the time that will be taken before the standards, or most of them, are effectively in use. I take a considerably more optimistic view than the hon. Member, and so, I think, does the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1187.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1188.5", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "preceding_text": "The answer is in the negative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "N.A.T.O. (COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, MEDITERRANEAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "knew most about the reception end, as I have called it. I would have preferred at that time to have had the Supreme Command in the Atlantic for Britain, and would have welcomed the Americans in the Mediterranean, because it was very desirable that they should intervene in force and with a fleet there. However, the right hon. Gentleman had his way. When I went to Washington, it was already settled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1201.3", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "PRIVATE HOUSE-BUILDING (RELAXATION OF CONTROLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I had no intention of misrepresenting the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1202.2", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "PRIVATE HOUSE-BUILDING (RELAXATION OF CONTROLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. As I said, it is difficult to answer this in a short statement, but the last sentence of my reply was that these arrangements are being made through the regional officers to insure that the flow of private house building does not prejudice the claim on labour and materials available for the construction of houses for letting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The big stick again, evidently.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentlemen opposite than it has yet done. I do not think it is even yet realised—not perhaps in this House, but in the country—what are the evil forces arrayed against peace in Kenya today. I must give the House a few true examples of atrocities which have been committed within the last month or so. They will give a fair impression of the sort of terror with which we are today faced in Kenya—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "his capacity as Governor of Kenya, Sir Philip Mitchell addressed a despatch to me—not the one which is printed—on 16th November. I was impressed as I still am impressed, with the wide knowledge and statesmanship of the contents of the despatch, and after some consultations here I sent it on for study by the East African High Commission. At this time Kenya was quiet and no ripple broke the surface.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fenner Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1244.3", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "d to cherish, and to seek to try to draw political advantages from the dangers by which we are all surrounded. Many of the speeches and actions of their supporters—and again, not all—throughout these testing times in Kenya will, no doubt unwittingly, bring comfort to the Queen's enemies, and show little of that support for their own countrymen, Asians, and law-abiding Africans, which they profess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "embers to think that I am not personally concerned with this matter. I have two of my closest and dearest relatives living in Kenya and, therefore, I hope that I am not saying anything irresponsible. I am bound to say that when I was in Kenya, some three years ago, I was told by almost every white settler I met, \"After all, these Africans are really monkeys just recently descended from the trees.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The Scots eat more than porridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Harris", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman know when that was drafted? That was drafted under the Socialist Government when the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) was Secretary of State for the Colonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1290.6", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "pposite who are interested in farms in Kenya and who have shares in these companies and in the land told us what they are doing about it. I said with deep sincerity and deep conviction before, and I spoke without preparation and came to the House unexpectedly and found an unexpected opportunity, that there is a real fear that the time is coming when every African will begin to hate every European.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1290.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " parts of the Motion—co-operative farming, the cost of living to the African, the extension of free education, the creation of new industries, the provision of better houses, the democratisation of local government. He talked with scorn about our \"platitudes.\" But on nearly every point he said that he is going to do at least a part of what we demand; and it has taken our Motion to make him say SO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "atavism, is not really something different—a protest, conscious or unconscious, against the recent admission of light into darkest Africa—and, therefore, something in the nature of a reaction to barbarism rather than a groping forward to the future. The right hon. Gentleman went on to refer to the danger—and I have his words—of \"destroying \"the last chance we have in Africa. That is mere rhetoric—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1312.1", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I gave way to the right hon. Gentleman, although I thought that he might have allowed me to finish a phrase. I say that we owe it to the British pioneer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1312.1", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No colour bar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "o me in one of my activities—is not an excuse for its misuse. After centuries after centuries of stagnation Africa, it is quite true, is in the throes of revolution; but it is we who have been the revolutionaries. Why, in the lifetime of men still alive there was not in Kenya a railway, of course, not even a road, not even a wheel, not, of course, a school, not even a alphabet, no plough, no shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1312.1", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hitler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "if not entirely, against those whose innocence was suspect, and that if they were not accessories to crime they were at least guilty of neglecting the first duty of every citizen and subject, if any order is to be kept, of participating in the pursuit of criminals and of aiding the forces of order in their punishment. Nor are these measures, distasteful as they are, without respectable precedents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1320.2", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1338.5", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "as not obtainable under the old regime. I wish to mention a point relevant to the question of why the councils have met with such opposition. It is because hon. Gentlemen opposite have played a big part in unnecessarily generating opposition to development councils. How many times have I heard hon. Gentlemen opposite talk about development councils as if they were the back door to nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I can only refer the hon. Member to one specific example, though I am not restricted to one example, because this statement has been made time and again. If the hon. Gentleman does not know of this he cannot have been attending here or listening to his hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-16", "file": "debates1952-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ba53b47c5d50d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "rept in as it went along, because it winds up in a grand frenzy and says: This Order may be cited as the Clothing Industry Development Council (Dissolution) Order, 1952, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1953. I want to address one or two questions to the Parliamentary Secretary and I hope he will answer them. First, how has the present Development Council failed in its job?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-16a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1388.9", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I should imagine not, but I have not looked into the case at all yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1388.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1402.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "KOREA (RIOTING, CIVILIAN INTERNEES' CAMP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "iven to us so far has been wholly on the basis that all that we were dealing with was prisoners of war in a prisoner-of-war camp, whereas in fact, as the Under-Secretary has stated perfectly clearly in his original answer, we are not dealing with prisoners of war at all but with civilian internees who, presumably, have been unlawfully removed from North Korea and taken away, quite contrary to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No, but the shares control the undertakings and once the railways dispose of their majority control in their undertakings their position will be substantially weakened as we find it at present in the case of B.E.T. where, though holding substantial holdings, the Commission neither have control nor much voice in their undertaking. How would our Amendments work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1438.2", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "We need to have maximum charges published by the railways because the railways will have a degree of monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1443.3", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And put up the price of fruit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "The answer is that if the cost of bringing these empty baskets back is considerable, the railways, under the Bill, will be able to charge accordingly instead of being hamstrung as they have been by the old charges arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The maximum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "l enough. Therefore, it comes as no surprise to us to learn that on these Amendments he does not intend to accept a proposal which would clearly equalise the obligations that are laid upon the Commission and upon the road haulage organisation. In any competitive world, one of the most desirable things that one trader can find out is what his competitors are charging. That is what he wants to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Exactly. It does not matter to me whether they are maximum or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Exactly. It does not matter to me whether they are maximum or not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I see no particular virtue in not telling the truth about maximum rates or about any other rates. It is true, and the hon. Member for Clitheroe is quite right, that a number of these small hauliers have such low standards of public honesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Clitheroe is quite right, that a number of these small hauliers have such low standards of public honesty. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] Do hon. Gentlemen want me to quote? I hope that they will not tempt me to make a long speech. It is clearly stated in information provided by the road hauliers' own representative bodies that large numbers of them were constantly engaged in breaking the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1480.2", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I cannot imagine a place, unless it is a very tiny village, where a road haulier has a monopoly. Are we to say that all this process for which the Clause provides—appealing to the Tribunal, the Tribunal having to require a particular road haulier in a certain village to substantiate his charges, having to secure publication and all the rest of it shall be carried out in a case like that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1483.2", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cole", "preceding_text": "We consider that this haulage industry is made up of small men—not anarchists but individuals—the sort of people who made this country as great as it is; and they are not the sort of people to be anarchists, as the Opposition sought to make them out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1499.2", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I sometimes feel that lawyers are the last hope of the nation. There are honourable exceptions, but the hon. Gentleman who has just interrupted is not one, I must agree. When I remember the experience of the hon. Member, I realise that it taught him nothing at all. I can understand his leaving the railway service. If he understood as little of it then as he has revealed since, he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And that of the Parliamentary Secretary\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Morris", "preceding_text": "It was not I who did that. The initiative was taken by the noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke), who took us back to that time, and it was replying to his argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1503.5", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"He had to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Paddington, South (Mr. R. Allan) declared his interest in regard to the docks and harbours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1503.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "d to be amended lays it down as a condition that a road haulier or any other competitor may make a complaint to the Transport Tribunal if the Commission is operating a service which can be regarded as being operated at a loss. The hon. Member must understand that there are quite a number of services operated by the Transport Commission at the present time that are being run economically at a loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "I may have said some queer things in my time, but I certainly did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1517.2", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "s have under the Act in question until a revised Clause 21—and now we are dealing with the original Clause 21—comes into force after a charges scheme. When we drew up this Clause we were anxious to provide for what is unmistakably a period of transition. We are moving from a world in which the railways were handicapped into a world in which we all hope they will be able to stand on their own feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1519.5", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " (a) which is less than that of the person's maximum published charge, if any, or that comparable charges made by the Commission; and (b) which, if continued, may result in a loss to the person.\" The only reason that I rose to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman was to say that all of us admire what happened at Dunkirk without reservation, but it is not fair to bring that argument into this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1519.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1527.2", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "e from the commencement of the Bill was to try to make the Commission work for the nation as a whole. Instead, what this rotten Clause was designed to do is to ensure that the Commission would be placed in such a position that if they were to be competitive so as to put the other people with the vested interests, whom the party opposite represent, in a position where they could not compete fairly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Clause 29.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " for Paddington, South (Mr. R. Allan)—to protect coastal shipping. We are preserving their rights in Clause 21. We know that they need more protection than that. I have had talks with them and with the Commission and with the coastal people and the Commission together. We propose to give further consideration to how we can retain the existing protection to coastal shipping contained in Section 39—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1549.3", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PASTURE LAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " to grow more food. But-nothing's happened.\". There is another paragraph headed, \"Minister Misfires.\" It ends by saying, On results to date, Sir Thomas Dugdale has failed the farmers and the country. He should make way for a better man; I do not endorse that. I think he is the best man his party has. The article continues: and the Prime Minister should make a way for that man to be in the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1549.3", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PASTURE LAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "geously delivered an unpalatable message and was violently assailed for it by the farmers. I applaud both his courage and his judgment in doing that. There is a moral there for the Minister of Agriculture. When my right hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams) held that post, he never once shirked the job of taking unpopular powers, if he thought they were justified, and using them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PASTURE LAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "n I anticipated that the action which my right hon. Friend then took might lead to the abolition of bacon rationing at an early date. I said on that occasion that the Order authorising the payment of ploughing-up grants would make a direct contribution, and very quickly, through the prolific breeding of pigs, to the abolition of bacon rationing. What has happened in the six months since that date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1557.1", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PASTURE LAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "hanged? Why has the Tory Party changed now they are in power? The then hon. Members for Ripon (Mr. York) and Leominster (Mr. Baldwin), the hon. and gallant Member for Barkston Ash (Sir L. Ropner), and the hon. Members for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton), Skipton (Mr. Drayson) and Newbury (Mr. Hurd) all made very violent speeches against this Order. The Minister himself went into the Division Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PASTURE LAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "On wheat acreage, and the need to have increased tillage acreage, on the need to implement what this Order seeks to do. One has only to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PASTURE LAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "But less wheat. It is ridiculous to take particular figures which we get in one of the best harvests Nature has given us for years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PASTURE LAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " Speaker. I was going a little wide in dealing with the general question of the absence of confidence, which is alarming to all of us who believe that the salvation of this country depends on our being able to produce a greater proportion of our food. We shall not do that. We must not be deluded by figures which are not too bad this year. Every indication is that they will be much worse next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-17", "file": "debates1952-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "953fc673f7daa448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1575.7", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PASTURE LAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ire (Colonel Gomme-Duncan) does not agree. I could explain it a little longer than I had intended tonight by telling him what the Executive Committee of the National Farmers' Union said about that speech. I could tell him what the Hawick branch of the National Farmers' Union said about the speech. I have got a quotation from the Edinburgh newspapers. I do not want to take up the time of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-17a.1575.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1599.3", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister appreciate that this decision has caused considerable dismay to the trade unions in the engineering industry, and is completely contrary to anything they had understood with regard to the law; and will he take it from me that I have been requested, particularly by the Amalgamated Engineering Union, who have nearly 900,000 members interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1609.6", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were locked out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Minister for his reply and appreciating the efforts that he has made, may I ask if he is aware that the 77 men will have been out on strike for eight months tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1609.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1627.2", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "MOTOR VEHICLES (PURCHASE TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your own?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I have been asked whether I can control the statements of motor manufacturers. I must say that it is equally impossible for me to control the statements of Prime Ministers of other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1627.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There may not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "st possible personal circumstances. What is to be done with the older man, who has a perfectly good chance of earning his corn in the Road Haulage Executive because they can fit him in, but who now has to go into the much more violent competition of private enterprise road haulage, where he must be prepared to do much longer night runs and all that that involves? There may be a job offered to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1725.0", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Nor did I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1750.0", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ollow the suggestion in the Amendment and extend that to private passenger operators. I said that I thought the last of the three Amendments of the right hon. and learned Gentleman is based on a misunderstanding. It is not the function of this committee to be a continuous reviewing body from which will flow Ministerial directions, but to be a watchdog of the public on monopolies in their district—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1750.6", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ge-scale nationalised industry can be conducted without undue Parliamentary control and how to bring it back to a proper commercial competitive basis. This was one of the pieces of machinery devised—and we think wisely so—by our predecessors. But the purpose of this last Amendment would be to extend the scope of the committee to include first, road hauliers and second, private passenger operators—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1750.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1752.0", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ve both spoken. I would say to my hon. Friend the Member for Central Ayrshire that when he refers to arrangements between the Front Benches he should realise that any arrangements entered into as far as I am concerned are for the purpose of discussing this Bill better and focussing the attention of the Committee on the greatest weaknesses and getting the maximum benefit for our own side out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1755.1", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "our Government are returned to power. We believe that if they were now given the power of review for all services, both public and private, within their area it would help very considerably as a first step towards the integration which we propose shall take place once again after the next General Election which we shall win. I suppose this is the last speech I shall make at this stage of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1755.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1758.5", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1759.2", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is no more in order now than he was earlier. What I want to find out from the promoters of this Amendment is whether this is their last effort to torpedo the whole of this Bill. Have they introduced this in the last resort in order to prevent us carrying out our promises to the electorate at the General Election? May I have the attention of the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1764.2", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I am basing my own procedure on the speech made on the Floor of the House on 30th April, 1947. It is true that that followed the Report stage, but there was no Committee stage on the Floor of the House on that occasion, so that this is analogous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1765.4", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "There are two answers to the hon. Gentleman. One is that it was more time than has been allowed on this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1765.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1765.7", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The question I was asked was the comparative time of the Committee stage on our Bill compared with this Bill. I say that the comparative time allowed for the Committee stage on our Bill was materially longer than the Committee stage allowed on this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1765.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1765.7", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the Report stage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e stage on our Bill was materially longer than the Committee stage allowed on this Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is what the hon. Gentleman asked me. The Minister, not content with his hon. Friend's losing my time, must jump in and lose some of my time as well. I gave a fair answer to the hon. Gentleman on the question he put to me. When the present Home Secretary made this speech in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1765.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.0", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Can you tell the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.4", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not so noble\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The Minister has already replied, and therefore that point falls. Perhaps the noble Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.4", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The Minister has already replied, and therefore that point falls. Perhaps the noble Lord—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not so noble\"]—in pursuance of his nobility will think up something else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.4", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The Minister has already replied, and therefore that point falls. Perhaps the noble Lord—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not so noble\"]—in pursuance of his nobility will think up something else. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] Well, it was effective, anyway. We have been endeavouring throughout the proceedings on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-18", "file": "debates1952-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2df350453770053f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.4", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The Minister has already replied, and therefore that point falls. Perhaps the noble Lord—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not so noble\"]—in pursuance of his nobility will think up something else. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] Well, it was effective, anyway. We have been endeavouring throughout the proceedings on the Bill— [Interruption.] Even the entry of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-18a.1766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-19", "file": "debates1952-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "7924cafee2bfc721", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-19a.1798.7", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ich have been made as a result of his protest. I would draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the fact that my hon. Friend's Question dealt with the defence arrangements at Kapenguria covering the whole of the trial and concerned all the defence counsel, and that he did not introduce the name of Mr. Pritt. Mr. Pritt's name was introduced for the first time by the Secretary of State for the Colonies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-19a.1798.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1952-12-19", "file": "debates1952-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "7924cafee2bfc721", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-19a.1804.0", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "May I ask you, Mr. Speaker, to press the learned Attorney-General further on this point? His intervention, as I understand it, has been very unhelpful to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1952-12-19a.1804.0"}