{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-25", "file": "debates1955-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f4a2a6d3f2f11d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (SOVIET PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I have listened with some regret to that answer. May I ask the Prime Minister if he does not realise that a stubborn insistence on the Paris Agreements at the moment when there has been an offer for elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.30.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-01-25", "file": "debates1955-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f4a2a6d3f2f11d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "May I ask, in view of the fact that Ministers do not seem to find it difficult to make a series of statements after Questions on matters of no very great urgency, whether the Government intend to volunteer a statement on the Formosa situation and President Eisenhower's statement to Congress?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.44.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-25", "file": "debates1955-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f4a2a6d3f2f11d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "ncorporate Scottish law into the Army Act, any Englishman who did something which was forbidden by Scottish law but which was permitted by the Army Act would not commit an offence. English law is also incorporated into the Army Act. Nobody in Scotland will be prosecuted under English law but under United Kingdom law, which is the Army Act, and which incorporates English law. That is the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-25", "file": "debates1955-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f4a2a6d3f2f11d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Colonel Gomme - Duncan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-25", "file": "debates1955-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f4a2a6d3f2f11d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ather more fundamental—I do not really think that the sort of technicality which has been mentioned will disturb the average soldier so much as others. Why is this new Bill of 138 pages, with all these ramifications, and penalties, and procedures necessary at all? Oliver Cromwell, Julius Caesar—even Napoleon—could have drawn up a code of military law in about one-twentieth of the space taken here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-25a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.134.8", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "In view of the representations which my hon. and gallant Friend has made, I have had a careful check kept on all the correspondence addressed to him over the past six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.134.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "FAR EAST (INTERNATIONAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "As to the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, I must say that I am surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "FAR EAST (INTERNATIONAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "As to the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, I must say that I am surprised—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]— that he should couple Formosa and the offshore islands in one sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "FAR EAST (INTERNATIONAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "hat I am surprised—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]— that he should couple Formosa and the offshore islands in one sentence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because, as the right hon. Gentleman must surely be aware, those have always been treated as separate issues, including during the period when he was responsible as Prime Minister. Formosa has never in this century been a part of China and the status of Formosa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "FAR EAST (INTERNATIONAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman must surely be aware, those have always been treated as separate issues, including during the period when he was responsible as Prime Minister. Formosa has never in this century been a part of China and the status of Formosa—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—this is very important; I must be allowed to finish—was dealt with by the Treaty of San Francisco, signed by the late Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "FAR EAST (INTERNATIONAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "Then we are completely agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "FAR EAST (INTERNATIONAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "I should be reluctant to follow the hon. Gentleman in all that. All I have tried to postulate this afternoon—and which, I hope, the House will bear in mind—is that I think that in international law as well as in international fact the position of the offshore islands should be kept distinct to some extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "o the Chamber and asked for assistance from the Chair, which the Chair, at that time, was not able to give. I went out again, to find that mounted police had cleared all the citizens from this side of the road and had got them over and pinned them against the railings. Various little incidents were going on; an elderly man was knocked down, a woman was being pushed against the railings, and so on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": " to find that mounted police had cleared all the citizens from this side of the road and had got them over and pinned them against the railings. Various little incidents were going on; an elderly man was knocked down, a woman was being pushed against the railings, and so on—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I must say that very few of the interruptors opposite are in a position to contradict what I am saying-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "My point of order is this: that I then went across to find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "My point of order is this: that I then went across to find—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] My point of order must be based on my experiences, which I will try to make clear. I went across to the other side of the road, recognised one of my constituents and spoke to him. I managed to gather together five of them and was bringing them over when I was ridden down by a mounted policeman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.165.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is funny about that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "My point of order is this: that I then went across to find—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] My point of order must be based on my experiences, which I will try to make clear. I went across to the other side of the road, recognised one of my constituents and spoke to him. I managed to gather together five of them and was bringing them over when I was ridden down by a mounted policeman—[ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "rom our own police who act under your authority through the Serjeant at Arms. There, there is quite a different adjective. This is my point of order. There is a sudden shift of authority. I have no doubt that if your authority had been exercised out there in the same kindly, paternal way that it is exercised in our own Palace here, there would have been no trouble. The outside public sees in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. On the account of the matter which my hon. Friend has given—and which, I am sure, we would all accept—is there not clearly a breach of Privilege involving a Member of this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member is under a misapprehension. The taking by a Member of his seat is itself a question of Privilege and cannot be interrupted by any point of order. I understood the hon. Member who asked the supplementary question to say that he was going to raise the matter again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It would certainly be a very regrettable thing if such an impression was created. I was told—I could not myself hear, I admit, for the noise—that the hon. Member had said that he would raise this matter on the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Craddock", "preceding_text": "I did not say that, Sir. I was saying this: \"In view of the unsatisfactory nature,\" having regard to the fact that I spent an hour outside, I know precisely what took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "e first supplementary question raised by the right hon. Gentleman, which concerned the interference with the privileges of Members wishing to see their constituents, I would only say that that is the very reason why the police took the action which they did. The privilege of constituents seeing their Members was almost completely stopped by a deliberately organised attempt to make that impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "sandwichmen in the streets, distributing leaflets asking people to come here. The queue, which between 2.30 and 6.30 p.m., numbered about 400, increased after 6.30 to about 4,000, and consisted mostly of Londoners. At 7.45 p.m. the police officer in charge did what I think it was his duty to do. He warned the crowd—which was getting a bit noisy and slightly disorderly; singing songs, and so forth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Medlicott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Medlicott", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the police were last night engaged in the overriding task—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.172.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "preceding_text": "Is it not the Minister's intention to proceed against persons who, seeking to intimidate hon. Members, deliberately organised a mass demonstration yesterday upon the precincts of the Palace of Westminster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS PRECINCTS (DISORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.222.4", "colnum": "222", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is responsible?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "I am accusing those who are responsible for the set-up which will operate in Newcastle. The evidence is provided by the changes which are to take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.222.5", "colnum": "222", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": " responsible? Is the Commission responsible, or am I? The hon. Member says that the Commission has done something which is not in accord with the action of an independent body; that it has done something for purely political purposes. He is either saying that, or that I, in my position as Home Secretary, have done the same thing. No support of any kind has been brought from that side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "The fact remains that the whole debate which took place just before the Recess was based upon the allegation of a misinterpretation of the rules by the Commission. I hope that that question has been disposed of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Weight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "nt concerns the question of excessive disparity. Suppose there were a law—it would be a foolish one, but not more foolish than some I have seen passed—that it was illegal to marry—and that registrars, licensed clergymen and others would be acting ultra vires and what they did would have no effect if they did marry—couples where there was excessive disparity in height or excessive disparity in age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e, but I am sure that anyone who had listened to the whole debate would be much impressed by it. The people of Nottinghamshire might be interested to know the way in which this Order is being put through the House, if, indeed, the Minister intends to abide by the recommendation of the Boundary Commission. For most of the debate, we have had the Joint Under-Secretary, a Whip, and an aspiring P.P.S.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "overnment. If hon. Gentleman opposite who have spoken so eloquently on this matter really believe what they say, they ought to be prepared to vote against this Government on the Order, and certainly on the question of the change of name. It is an outrage that names of this character should be treated in this fashion by the Commission. I do not know whether they had a public inquiry on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "70,000 in the Holland with Boston Division. He will see that one can obtain examples one way or the other wherever one likes to go. However, if one works out the average electorate in the contested seats at the last General Election, contrasting the seats won by the Conservatives with those won by the Socialists, one gets this result. When I say Conservatives I mean Conservatives and their allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "There is no question whatsoever of reducing the status of the city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.374.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-01-26", "file": "debates1955-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4aa366930958fc81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "on. It is not the first time it has happened, for there was the occasion when the election of Mr. Speaker became a matter of party majority for the first time in the history of this country. I see a danger in a political party of hon. Members interfering with the constitutional practice of this country, and I leave that word with the Government: they are entering on a very dangerous course indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-26a.375.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-01-27", "file": "debates1955-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a3e6fc9026dded7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.400.9", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The manufacturers of British furniture and the men and women who work in that industry are doing a good job and there is no question of their exploiting the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.400.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-27", "file": "debates1955-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a3e6fc9026dded7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.408.4", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, despite all the flippancy that we have heard, the serious thing about this matter is the growth in our democracy of private courts and private powers to fine people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.408.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-01-27", "file": "debates1955-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a3e6fc9026dded7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.408.5", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "of private courts and private powers to fine people? [ Interruption. ] If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite will keep quiet for a moment and think of the public interest instead of their own, we may get somewhere. Something ought to be done by Parliament to prevent the situation to which I have referred. The Conservative Government were going to set the people free but what they are doing is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.408.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-27", "file": "debates1955-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a3e6fc9026dded7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CROFTERS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "It is very interesting to you, Mr. Speaker, and to me, because we have a special knowledge of the problem, to have the history of Scotland told us by an hon. Member who, I think, came from Ipswich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-27", "file": "debates1955-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a3e6fc9026dded7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CROFTERS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "preceding_text": "It would require the complete acquisition of crofting land in all the crofting counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-27a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Have any of these German officers been furnished with information which has been denied to hon. Members on security grounds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Communist paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understood the Minister to say that the hon. Member had copied these from some paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steward", "preceding_text": " handled by the manager are immediately reported to the staff sub-committee, which then meets the staff representatives; and the problem is settled. To my knowledge, there is no point of dissatisfaction which has not been satisfactorily settled. With regard to week-end parties, I can assure the House that the people who have attended those parties have been impressed with the dignity of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COCOS ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "l Bill, but it is a very important Bill. We are glad that there has been a long time before it has been brought before the House so that sufficient discussions could be undertaken and a sufficient degree of importance attached to it. We are concerned with the welfare of only a very few people—the Minister said that at the moment there are only 303 there—and most of them, no doubt, are uncivilised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.721.4", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COCOS ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "allenge his opinion. But I have heard his manner of address in this House and outside and I must say that I prefer to hear his language in this House than the sometimes rather crude language he uses outside. The circumstances in which I was brought up lead me to believe that his language at times did not seem to be quite gentlemanly. May I proceed with what I was saying? I was trying to point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.721.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "ome degree seeks to modify, brought about a state of affairs in Ireland which has practically done away with the almost natural and continuous state of violence which existed in Ireland prior to 1920? Nothing could be worse for Ireland at the present time than for people to make speeches about possible inflammatory situations and about rising unemployment when, in fact, unemployment is not rising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "se of us who visited Northern Ireland just before Christmas; it is their economic future and the problem of getting work for their people. That is why, when we discuss petty matters such as who shall administer coroners' courts, and even greater matters like the salary and expenses of the Governor, we are up against difficulties. The real problems of Northern Ireland are not being discussed today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "ltogether I am very near to being in order. I have heard references to the office of the Governor. I have even heard it suggested that the expenses payment of £10,000 a year is not nearly sufficient. I have heard it suggested that there is a possibility we may have violence in Ireland, and that the Governor might be expected to call out the Army. That would entail considerable expense on his part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.814.5", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTIMATES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " along which, presumably, it works. The argument with which the House is faced tonight is that put forward in essence by the noble Lord, and is what the hon. Gentleman the Member for Nelson and Colne was saying: that too much authority has been given to the usual channels in nominating the members for these Committees. The Whips, said the noble Lord mixing his metaphors, were a convenient vehicle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.814.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTIMATES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will remember that I put the point both ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTIMATES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " members of the Committee, assuming that the number was divisible according to the number of Committees, what would be the position? The Patronage Secretary would approach the Opposition Chief Whip and ask him for 18 names. He would be taking 19 names, because there would be one Liberal, to make 38. The Chief Whip would be only entitled to submit names of members of the Parliamentary Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTIMATES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "roportion of the members. It still will not bring in the independent Members. There is no more reason why the Parliamentary Labour Party should nominate independent Members than that the party opposite should. The fact is that if the number of members were raised to 38 the Opposition Chief Whip would be asked to supply 18 names and would produce them from members of the Parliamentary Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTIMATES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " why the Parliamentary Labour Party should nominate independent Members than that the party opposite should. The fact is that if the number of members were raised to 38 the Opposition Chief Whip would be asked to supply 18 names and would produce them from members of the Parliamentary Labour Party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because he is responsible only for members of the Parliamentary Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTIMATES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "I apologise, but I had not heard the announcement from the Chair that we were discussing the two Amendments together. We have been discussing the question of adding one name and making the number 37. If the hon. Member for Ladywood were going to rejoin the Estimates Committee, then that would be a very important matter. I do not wish to say any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTIMATES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "a temporising fashion and indicated that, with reluctance, he had come to the conclusion that he would have to tender certain advice, and sat down. Speaking from great experience, having spent some years in the House, he felt it his reluctant duty to indicate an opinion to his hon. Friends. Now we are told that they are to have their bottoms smacked if they do not vote in accordance with the whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESTIMATES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ult, delicate, and onerous duties, and I think that the present burden has been put upon them as a result of a position in which for some years the party balance has been so small that it has been necessary to have almost every hon. Member of this House in attendance. It has been an almost intolerable burden. The whips have to decide whether someone is fit enough to come and vote on a vital issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-01-31", "file": "debates1955-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "64c0f412950486ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "Does not the Leader of the House intend to say a word in reply to what my hon. Friends have been saying in proposing and seconding this Amendment? The right hon. Gentleman has had plenty of time in which to rise had he wished to reply to the arguments of my hon. Friends. After all, if this Amendment, also, is not to be accepted, it looks as if there is some vindictiveness at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-01-31a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-01", "file": "debates1955-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6888a540f36c4026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They still do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "ad been rivals and not partners. There were periods after 1707 in which everyone was almost agreed that Scotland should be called North Britain, and we still have relics of that in the names North British Railways, the North British Station Hotel, and a great many institutions of that kind which still exist in our midst. Indeed I can remember when letters were sent to many people, addressed \"N.B.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-01", "file": "debates1955-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6888a540f36c4026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Warmongering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "d the belief that before the General Election the Unionists would be able to capture the votes of a large number of people who are showing such enthusiasm for Scottish Convention. A more cynical approach to an important Scottish emotion I have never heard in my life. If that is the type of electioneering that has made the present Government the Government of the day they ought to be ashamed of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-01", "file": "debates1955-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6888a540f36c4026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Major Anstruther-Gray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "ith, he was brought down to London by matters quite out of his control, such as a Cabinet meeting or other urgent business, and was bound to fail to keep his engagement. To my mind, nothing was more vexatious to public bodies in Scotland and other bodies than for them to make an arrangement and then find themselves palmed off with an Under-Secretary when they wanted to meet the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-01", "file": "debates1955-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6888a540f36c4026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "ission points to the relatively worse housing conditions in Scotland as compared with England—and I would emphasise that the word \"relatively\" is important in this connection. It points to the relatively poorer health standards in Scotland as compared with England and Wales. It points to the relatively greater unemployment, or the fewer job prospects in Scotland as compared with England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-01", "file": "debates1955-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6888a540f36c4026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. R. H. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Mary Queen of Scots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. R. H. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "he main value of this Report is that it brings a question which has been worrying Scotland down from the plane of emotion to the plane of realism. As was said by the hon. Member for West Lothian (Mr. J. Taylor), we are an emotional people. If one wanted any evidence of it, one need only look at our national heroes—Bonnie Prince Charlie; Rabbie Burns; Wallace—all tragic and highly coloured figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-01", "file": "debates1955-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6888a540f36c4026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Henderson Stewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Henderson Stewart)", "preceding_text": "g by the two Opposition Front Bench speakers. We all very much hope that the Secretary of State will have a good holiday and will find the sun beneficial, and that he will come back in his usual form. I might even go the length of hoping that it would be in accordance with the wishes of the House if tomorrow we sent my right hon. Friend a note to say that universally the House had wished him well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-01", "file": "debates1955-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6888a540f36c4026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES (CARRYING CAPACITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "preceding_text": "nest Davies) and the hon. Member for Bradford, East (Mr. McLeavy) should have moved this Prayer and should have supported it with the arguments they have, because all those arguments were used when the Transport Charges &c. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1954, was being considered in Committee. It is under Section 9 of that Act that these Regulations are made. Those arguments were fully answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-01", "file": "debates1955-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6888a540f36c4026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES (CARRYING CAPACITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Trains.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "eriment. I would certainly not advocate such a bus for ordinary services in most places, but any means which can assist in relieving congestion on the roads and provide greater convenience for the passenger should be welcomed. After all, it is the passengers who should be considered. A man might very well prefer to get home from a football match to waiting half an hour or more for a seat On a bus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-01a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-02", "file": "debates1955-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0e63a6fe39332024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Quite apart from development, can my hon. Friend say if production contracts were placed prior to the Government taking office? If they were not, have they been placed since?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-02", "file": "debates1955-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0e63a6fe39332024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister explain why, if the R.A.F. do not want it, presumably because it is no good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-02", "file": "debates1955-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0e63a6fe39332024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1096.9", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "EXPANDED ROAD PROGRAMME (GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman is going too fast.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "rst instalment of the Government's expanded road programme. There have been few major improvements and very little new construction in our road system since 1939, and the problem which now faces us is, therefore, an immense one. Her Majesty's Government are working to plans which will take a good many years to complete, but which are intended to provide this country with an up-to-date road system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1096.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-02", "file": "debates1955-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0e63a6fe39332024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "EXPANDED ROAD PROGRAMME (GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Severn Bridge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " Park boulevard scheme. Traffic there is heavier than in any other part of London, and possibly any other city in the United Kingdom, but it is absolutely essential that when we move on that particular part of London the proposals we put forward shall be right. It is necessary to get them absolutely right before any question of authorisation can arise. So far as other schemes in or outside London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-02", "file": "debates1955-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0e63a6fe39332024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " of poverty and under-employment in the Colonies has been brought very sharply home to our people. This has been one of the effects of so many West Indians coming here to seek work. Wherever I go I find a really deep anxiety. Indeed, I think it is something more than that. There is something like a guilty conscience. There is a feeling that in the past we have exploited and neglected the Colonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-02", "file": "debates1955-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0e63a6fe39332024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will. I want to know what plans are submitted by the Colonies. It is clear from the Report that what are submitted are plans to maintain development. I believe we should have plans for accelerating development, and then we should find the money to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-02", "file": "debates1955-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0e63a6fe39332024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is responsible?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": " the impact of the West upon those countries which has shaken them out of their apathy and fatalism and made them look for better things, because we have provided them under our administration with many things which they never had before. If anyone seeks to blame us for the fact that these people have not had a higher standard of living, I would reply that there is no substance in that suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-02a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1274.4", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "stion, including the use of the words \"They are not correct,\" is clearly meant to indicate that there was no truth in my suggestion. This is contrary to what the Under-Secretary of State actually said. I have inquired of the Editor of HANSARD how this happened. He informed me that a secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for Air had been allowed by the reporter concerned to make the alteration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1274.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (ALTERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ady of influenza. I have no doubt that the germ of that complaint, which must be presumed to have been then incubating within him, affected his judgment in that particular instance. I have said what I have said for the clear guidance of the House in these matters. It is a clear rule that is laid down. I think the House will agree that those who report our debates serve us, on the whole, very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1281.3", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ten to him-is because I am dealing with the matters which come first in the logical sequence of events, and which are in the Motion before the House. As I have said, I propose to deal with the human relations and with the background of things which are essential to the understanding of the full picture. I quite realise that the right hon. Gentle- man does not understand human relations. If he did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "know what I mean. Perhaps I may now be allowed to proceed with my arguments. It is a matter of regret to me, as I think it will be to the country as a whole, that the Opposition, in its Amendment, deliberately turns away from the practical problems of this great industry. It clearly believes that the railways cannot stand on their own feet, that they must be subsidised by other forms of transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "As the Parliamentary Secretary seems to be on the point of sitting down, may I ask whether he intends to finish his speech without telling us about the Government's share of responsibility for this matter in relation to the increasing prices which have caused these wage claims? Are we to hear nothing about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He is in a muddle.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "No, I did not say anything of the sort. To clear up the doubt in the hon. and learned Member's mind I will say that my Ministry produces the Interim Index of Retail Prices and is responsible for providing those figures for the public as a whole. My Ministry is not responsible for fixing prices or wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1292.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1295.0", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " of the dispute. The whole operation was conceived with the utmost courtesy to the House. There was no question of discourtesy to the House at all. Neither were we altogether surprised when we found the Opposition wished, by drawing attention to the sale of the Commission's lorries, to distract attention from the primary object of the debate which, I understood, was the future of British Railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ice to his remarks. Therefore, he must not be critical if I put my own gloss upon them before hearing them. As I know him and his mind so well, let us see what he might have said had he had the audacity to speak first. So far as I can see, what the Opposition mean by this extraordinary statement is that, in order to make the railways pay, there has got to be a continuing subsidy from road to rail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "imary responsibility must rest with the Commission. That is the outlook, and what I have tried to do today in a preliminary way is to examine the outline of the plan and to say that I think there is a financial basis upon which, taking year by year and taking into account the recent settlement, the existing deficit and the outlook, there can be a balance in these accounts on the basis of the plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ritish Transport Commission of a profitable source of revenue. I say once again that we are much obliged to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for having intervened and made a speech, which, at any rate, has given us some information about the outlook and the mind of the Government. I have no doubt that the Chair will take into account the fact that we have had two Government, speeches in succession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1312.1", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rochdale.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s in one year are in difficulties and road transport or something else is doing well and they help each other out, there is nothing criminal or terrible about it. There is not a policy of deliberate subsidy there any more than there is in the case of a departmental store in Oxford Street, such as Selfridges, or the Royal Arsenal Cooperative store at Tower House, Lewisham—and a very good one it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1317.3", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were in trouble before the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "wspapers and hon. Gentlemen opposite have nagged at them. I do not say that British Railways are perfect, but I will say that they are much improved, and I would ask whether, if the old private companies were in existence now, if there had been no nationalisation, there is any hon. Gentleman opposite who would be optimistic as to their financial position and their state of efficiency at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the Act of 1947.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "othing to do with the effects of that Act up to the present. If hon. Members opposite seek to argue the theory, the combination of road assets and railway assets in a single financial entity, they are making one of two propositions: they are either saying that the losses on the railways ought to be made good by the profits from the road services—and that, I understand, a large number of them deny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "mmission is destitute of reserves and has no funds, while the union, with considerable funds, by-passes the ordinary negotiating machinery, makes its appeal to the Government under threat of strike, and gains the day—and gains the day not just on one occasion, but two or three times. The Commission is in a position of weakness, and the union, I would say, is in a position of considerable strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1365.5", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "e future of the railways. It refers to the constructive policy of transport co-ordination and integration.… Was it so constructive? \"The Times\" today does not seem to think so. It says Nor is it generally felt, after a limited experience of integrated road and rail transport, that its benefits outweigh the different benefits which a competitive system confers. That is plain enough speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1365.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "As I understand, the first stage in the taking-over of services was completed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten shillings per vehicle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "Let us split it at 35,000, which is the figure it stood at when denationalisation started. There were 35,000 vehicles with a capital value of certainly not more than £20,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw. Shocking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Proctor", "preceding_text": "t the back of their minds the hope that they are going to get a job on these national hoards. Let us, therefore, make it quite clear that there is no misunderstanding in the minds of these industrial quislings that betrayal and appeasement never pay in the long run, and that they will find that they will not serve their selfish interests by betraying the industries with whom their first duty lies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1374.2", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "My quotation finishes: It is with that desire, and with the ultimate authority of this, the ruling body of the party that our views on this subject should be made abundantly clear to all concerned, that I beg to move the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1385.3", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wishes to put the fact right he can do so, but if he does not know that things get out before an award is published he does not know as much about these things as he ought to know. I have been a member of the trade union side of negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " cut out a guard here and a porter there. It may well be that a reorganisation of methods would save a considerable number of men. But the conciliation grades see no reason why they should be cut down while the empires being built up above them go on. I believe that if the empires building up above them were cut down, it would be more easily possible to get rid of a number of people at the bottom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1392.3", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "h, and which, as the Chancellor knows, shows a substantial increase in the cost of foodstuffs in particular ever since the Government came into office. The charge I make against the Chancellor—and I have only two minutes left in which to make it—is that, under his philosophy and under his administration, we in this country are now living in an era of grab. Profits, dividends, share values, prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quislings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "bound to say that it is a pity, when the British Transport Commission is making the most strenuous and skilful efforts to build up the prosperity and strength of an industry which right hon. Gentlemen opposite nationalised, that those same right hon. Gentlemen should seek by this Amendment to deny to the Commission that expression of confidence which is given in the words of the Government Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "ly, during the last year, some details of which I will give in a moment. Let me deal with the point which appears to interest hon. Gentlemen opposite far more than the future of our railway system, and that is a speech which I made at Brighton many years ago. I was not given by the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South or any other hon. Gentleman any notice of an intention to refer to that speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "another set of people whom I have in mind. That is the industrial quislings. In some menaced industries there are a small minority of people who are not wholehearted in their fight against nationalisation because they have at the back of their minds the thought that it would be very nice to end up on one of these State boards. That is a very different thing from what the right hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I have not the slightest difficulty, as on other occasions I have made abundantly clear my very high regard indeed for those who serve on that Board. I can tell the hon. Gentleman at once that these observations—which related, of course, to people who at that time had not, or may never have, been appointed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1397.3", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " new tunnel has been completed. The House may be interested in the financial and commercial results of recent electrification. The Shenfield electrification scheme is an example. In 1949, while under steam operation, the line carried 11·2 million passengers. In 1953 the line, by then electrified, carried 30·6 million passengers. That is an indication of what electrification can mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-03", "file": "debates1955-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f650cb756a522836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1397.3", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "sed basis, if you like, but a system which matters a great deal to this country. There are similar figures, with which I will not weary the House, which show that, taking the various indices which are normally used in railway operation, indicating the extent to which locomotives, track and rolling stock are employed, there has been a steady improvement in efficiency, particularly in the last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-03a.1397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, many other considerations would have to be borne in mind before I could give him an answer of that kind. I really think that what I have already said to the House is, in all the circumstances, as far as I can go today. The House really must have confidence that we are doing everything in our power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1535.3", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "I do not want to express any opinions about what I have already said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1535.3", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "I do not want to express any opinions about what I have already said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"]—because I do not think that I should be helping the cause of peace if I were to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman really think that it would help matters if I were to say that this is the view of Her Majesty's Government, though the United States Government take a different view?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman really think that it would help matters if I were to say that this is the view of Her Majesty's Government, though the United States Government take a different view? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] In this particular context?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — A.N.Z.U.S. AND MANILA TREATIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is this not an exceedingly dangerous and provocative action against the Peking Government? Is it not a fact that we are in Hong Kong at the present time under treaty arrangements and that, in point of fact, if the Peking Government did not want us to remain, it would be highly doubtful whether we could defend our position there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1571.2", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COCOS ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Billericay (Mr. Braine) is right, they will still remain citizens of the United Kingdom. They will also be citizens of Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1571.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1673.9", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman did so.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I realise what the hon. and gallant Gentleman says. I had not realised that anybody wanted to speak on the Order. If the hon. and gallant Gentleman had said \"Mr. Deputy-Speaker\" or something of that sort, it would have attracted my attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1673.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1674.7", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "ss that? Why should not the Minister have got up and told us if that is the case? Why should not he have said what the farmers have done? This is, once again, a case in which, unless the Opposition—the Labour Party—at the risk of being slightly awkward late at night, stands up for the interests of the farmers, the Government will let the matter go absolutely by default and try to get away with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1674.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1680.3", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ant, if the land is not back in cultivation at all and no grant, if it is back? There may be cases where some cultivation is going on and some payment ought to be made, but where it would be unreasonable to pay too much. I should like to know whether the hon. Gentleman thinks that there are any such cases, and whether he has power under the Scheme to deal with them. I hope that I have said enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-07", "file": "debates1955-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d88747a732b8a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "believe the Chancellor knows quite well, and realises he cannot make reductions of Excess Profit Tax or Income Tax, or even tax on mink coats, unless he recovers the money from some other source. There are many millions of working men and women who use bicycles, so it offers itself as a very ready source of revenue to the Chancellor. It may help him to make more bountiful gifts to his own friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-07a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1720.4", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "If I were to concede to the hon. Gentleman's request, everybody on holiday abroad would have the right to free treatment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1725.3", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "on. Is he aware that, if he makes further inquiries, he will find that, counting the total charge on mess funds, the average cost per head was nearer £4 or £5 than the 10s. which he has mentioned? Is he aware also that what was voted for at the mess meeting was a cocktail party on the usual modest scale, to end presumably at about 8 or 9 o'clock—but that it went on until nearly one in the morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1725.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1725.4", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "As I have said, this party was given by four units.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1764.2", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I was trying to shorten my speech by leaving that out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "Through bad conditions, not enough pay, and inadequate opportunities for promotion to get to the higher level; and through the stodginess of management and lethargy in the managerial set-up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1804.1", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Kidderminster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is the old story. If a broomstick were put up and called a Tory, people in some areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1804.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1805.3", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for permitting me to intervene. May I point out that this question of closing branch lines has arisen only since the Socialist policy of nationalisation was introduced in 1947?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have said nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "illion tons. Those words are an extract from the Weir Report on Main Line Railway Electrification, 1931—the second of the Weir Committee's Reports. He said there would be a saving of 9 million tons of large coal. Nothing was done about it at any time in the 30's, and I hope no hon. Member of the party opposite will try to make a party political point out of the fact that nothing was done about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ng.\"] Hon. Members should wait a minute and not bite too soon. The right hon. Member for Gower (Mr. Grenfell) would readily confirm that an economy of 9 million tons of coal in the 30's, when miners were out of work and when coal was very cheap, would have aggravated mining unemployment by 30,000 men. In pre-war years that was the primary reason that railway electrification was not proceeded with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1817.1", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "oad factor at the power stations was 47·1 per cent.; in 1952–53 44·7 per cent.; and in 1953–54 43·9 per cent.; each year it is falling, and a 1 per cent. fall in the load factor of power stations, exemplified by the figures I have quoted, means a loss of over many million pounds per annum of revenue. It means a loss of several million pounds per annum of revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-08", "file": "debates1955-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "16ce66365148b3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ine are wide tracts of open country where electric current has not yet been made available to farms, villages and hamlets. A parallel development programme for railway electrification and the transformation down of the current provided along the main line metals for rural electrification in the areas immediately contiguous would mean that very substantial sums might be saved in capital investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-08a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.5", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman be good enough not to deceive the House any longer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.7", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order. The hon. Member should not suggest that another hon. Member of this House is deceiving anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.8", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I did not say that the hon. Gentleman was wilfully deceiving the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.8", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I did not say that the hon. Gentleman was wilfully deceiving the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I will withdraw nothing. The hon. Gentleman, through no fault—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.11", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am very anxious, Mr. Speaker, to meet your Ruling, but unless you order me to withdraw, I will not withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1870.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am willing, and I accept your Ruling, Sir, in so far as I cast any aspersion on the hon. Gentleman, but I assert that in fact the House and the country are being deceived on this issue, and I ask the hon. Gentleman to tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1871.2", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman—and I think the House knows me well enough by now to realise it—that I am not deceiving the House in any way. All I ask the House to accept is my statement that at this point I am not in a position to make an announcement on this subject, but that the White Paper is being produced within the next few days and there will then be ample opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1871.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1903.0", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "HOSPITAL BUILDING PROGRAMME, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": ", but I cannot at present say which of these will be started in 1956–57 and 1957–58. There is, of course, much to be done and much will remain to be done. Nevertheless, the Government believe that these outline proposals represent what can reasonably be achieved over this period and they represent also the first programme of new hospital building in this country since before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1901.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1910.1", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "HOSPITAL BUILDING PROGRAMME, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Do I understand from the statement of the right hon. and gallant Gentleman that the only proposal for Glasgow is the unit at the Western Infirmary? Is he aware that there is not a single hospital in Glasgow which has not a long waiting list for admission? If this is all that he can do to ease that situation then, so far as Glasgow is concerned, his proposals are totally inadequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1910.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1919.4", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "AIRPORTS LICENSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Follick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I heard my name called. I am not backing the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1967.0", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "preceding_text": "n deterrents have to be created to help to keep the men upon the track which most people believe to be the right one, I cannot bring myself to understand the matter sufficiently to make me feel very strongly about why it is argued that the death penalty should not apply either in civil life or in the Army. I feel that I have to go further afield to understand my own position. I am not quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-09", "file": "debates1955-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "31562894307d50f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1999.0", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "e first, one's mind turns almost automatically to my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) and my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede). These two, I think I am right in saying are the most distinguished former non-commissioned officers on this side of the Committee. Why should they be placed in a special category, and, therefore have to be tried under the old Section 40?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-09a.1999.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2046.8", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister answer my question as to whether or not the trade has been unco-operative?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2046.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2050.3", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "As the reply is rather long, and I should have great difficulty in pronouncing the names, I will with persuasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2059.0", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that by dithering for nearly two years he has lost his opportunity of talking with Mr. Malenkov?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2059.0", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that by dithering for nearly two years he has lost his opportunity of talking with Mr. Malenkov? [ Laughter. ] Is he going to sit dithering for another two years until it is too late to talk to Marshal Bulganin?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2092.0", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Abolish them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "by way of amending the penal code. The House of Commons accepted it and we sent it back to the House of Lords. The very people who rejected our original proposal on the ground that it would not cover the special cases, said, when they received our Clause which specifically set out to meet those special cases, \"This will not work, no jury will be able to understand it.\" So they rejected that, also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2092.0", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "eek or two later a farmer in North Wales was convicted on the clearest possible evidence of murdering his partner because his partner wanted his own money back. He murdered his partner so effectively that no trace of the body was ever discovered. That raised a legal question which was fought out in the courts and was decided in the Court of Criminal Appeal. No one thought of taking it any further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": ", as the Report of the Commission shows that it was not. What is going to happen then? I suggest that we ought to think of the speech which would be made in 1960 by the right hon. and learned Member for Neepsend. Cannot hon. Members hear him getting up and saying, \"What right has the House to put back this dreadful thing which we have taken away unless it can prove it is necessary to put it back?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "nnot hon. Members hear him getting up and saying, \"What right has the House to put back this dreadful thing which we have taken away unless it can prove it is necessary to put it back?\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am grateful to hon. Members because by their applause they are making my point so clearly. What we are going to do by this Amendment, if it is accepted, is to create a fait accompli.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2143.3", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "otes a man whom he calls \"a lifer\" as saying how much better it would be to have the whole thing settled by being hanged. That comes actually from a man who is serving a life sentence, and what he has said was conveyed to the Commission. I think it is something which ought to make this House think. There are men who believe it is more cruel to condemn people to life imprisonment than to hang them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2147.1", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "ith murder, and I said so, but the magistrate did not agree. The case went before a jury at Liverpool. We had five more long days there, and in my view there was no evidence given then against that man. After an absence of less than an hour, a Lancashire jury found that man guilty of murder, and an audible whistle went through that court as they announced their verdict because members of the jury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2156.3", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "preceding_text": "Commission went on to say: We are satisfied that as long as capital punishment is retained, this\"— that is, jury discrimination— is the only practicable way of correcting the outstanding defects of the existing law. The Home Secretary turned that down, but he made no mention of any possible alternative to correct those outstanding defects of the criminal law that the Commission was trying to meet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2169.1", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "hearts and souls we know, when we see these executions taking place—and all who take part in them know—that we have been in contact with something that is profoundly evil. I believe profoundly that we do not match good by doing evil and that which we know to be evil. To kill unnecessarily—here is the word which is wrong—and here I will deal with the point of the former Attorney-General's argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2171.1", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": " which is set out in the Report, in paragraph 57. It is said there—and I will not quote the whole of it— No other punishment deters men so effectually from committing crimes as the punishment of death. This is one of those propositions which it is difficult to prove, simply because they are in themselves more obvious than any proof can make them. He was talking of the death penalty as a deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2175.1", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "He was dealing with the death penalty generally as a deterrent, as contrasted with other deterrents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-10", "file": "debates1955-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9df94680addc9464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2175.1", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "is no death sentence, the worst that can happen to this double murderer is that he goes on serving the life sentence which has already been imposed upon him. Surely we should not weaken the protection which the law gives to those in the prison service. We owe them a duty not to do that. We rely upon them to see that those who are reprieved do not escape. Some murderers will commit a second murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-10a.2175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "int, in fairness, I think she would wish to state that the £16 million to which she refers were not distributed. The amount distributed by the 176 companies in dividend after deduction of tax was less than £3 million. It is true that large profits have been made recently by the tea companies, but they can argue that they do little more than offset the trading losses of the past two or three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.12.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Rub it in.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I can quite understand that the right hon. Gentleman finds tiresome the fact that prices have risen little more than half as compared with the previous three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.23.3", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "The rate of the rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.23.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.23.8", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Am I not right in saying that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food made a broadcast two or three days before polling day in which he personally gave an undertaking that the cost of living would be reduced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.23.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "Surely it would be more practical if the Government did something about this? They introduced it as a temporary scheme two years ago and have taken no proper steps to implement it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Supply and demand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "It is a complicated matter.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Duthie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Duthie", "preceding_text": " their application would be rejected and they must go through the whole rigmarole of appeal tribunals and finally must refer to their Member of Parliament. While on the subject of deterrents against getting crews and to the industry as a whole, I must mention the further deterrent of the cost of drift nets and ancillary gear. The herring fisherman, as we know him, is essentially a share fisherman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "I should like to begin my remarks by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Banff (Mr. Duthie) for the very kind things he said about me. He was far too generous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.95.3", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "money invested either in the men, or in the ports from which they work, is an investment in the defense of this nation, for if we should have to defend ourselves again the Admiralty would immediately want the assistance of all those engaged in the industry. I do not want to be controversial, but it might have shown a helpful spirit if someone from the Admiralty had been present during this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.95.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Ross and Cromarty (Mr. John MacLeod) asked about Ullapool Harbour. The harbour is being extended to double its size—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-14", "file": "debates1955-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "0b5b921212649eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The question which I raised is related to seasonal fishing. Before he leaves the subject, will not the hon. Gentleman say something about persistently taking herring out of the water when they are not fit for human consumption?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-14a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.163.9", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "s he further aware that last year he said that by adopting the Belgian rifle we should gain a year in production, which evidently is not the case? Is it not the case that the new rifle which the British Army will have is now being remodelled in inches measurements and not on the Continental metric system and that consequently there will have to be further troop trials when it is finished and also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.163.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "This rifle is standardised with Canada.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "What is one to do in these circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is entirely mistaken in thinking that there has been any change of policy. If he will refer to the correspondence of about 11 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.179.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.181.7", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Shall I repeat it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.181.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.202.4", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "No. In coming to that conclusion the hon. and learned Member omits from his calculations the very great number of steps which will be taken between now and 1960, partly in a field I have not even mentioned. For example, normal provisions now being made to allocate part of every waiting list to a number of people in requisitioned houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "00,000 houses a year, they would never have been provided with new permanent houses. I am not suggesting that if the right hon. Gentleman and his friends had been in power three and a quarter years ago they would not have exceeded 200,000 houses a year, but I am saying that if the maximum of 200,000 houses had not been relaxed there would have been 1 million fewer people in permanent houses today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Incidentally, I think that they would have a much better chance— we cannot debate this now but we shall have to do so sooner or later—were not so many council houses occupied by tenants who are must better off than the people for whom they were originally built, and who would otherwise be able to occupy them. That matter is being discussed by the London County Council and by many borough councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "Will they not help to solve the problem which this Bill may raise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Markham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Markham", "preceding_text": "tant point in the Bill is to end requisitioning, by and large, within five years. I am convinced that the majority of thought in the country is in favour of that. The average Englishman, Welshman, Scot, Northern Irishman, has a very great sense of justice, and it is manifestly unjust that, ten or fifteen years after the war, there should be this difference between one kind of property and another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Class legislation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Price", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Clapham (Mr. Gibson) began by calling this a rotten Bill. In my view, it is a fine and courageous Bill and I have already written to my right hon. Friend to tell him so. It is another example, of which we have seen many during the past three years, of the way in which this Government have taken hold of knotty problems, however difficult and unpopular it might have been to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.306.6", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Clapham (Mr. Gibson), who, like myself, represents a part of Wandsworth, said that the State should continue to pay 100 per cent, of the net cost. We do not agree. We consider, having regard to the fact that these houses have become part of the general pool of housing accommodation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.306.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.306.6", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " in the same way as they do for council houses. Only in that way will they have a direct interest in keeping down the expenditure. That, broadly, is what the Bill tries to do. In view of some of the things which have been said during the course of the debate, I should like to emphasise two things which the Bill does not do. The first is that it does not place an unfair burden on local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.306.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a ceiling?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I have worked out these proposals suggested the following formula, which I will read to the House. They suggested that provided the Minister is satisfied with the progress made in carrying out the Bill in a particular local authority area, a local authority whose net expenditure under the Bill exceeds the equivalent of a 2d. rate should be eligible for a discretionary additional grant… and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-15", "file": "debates1955-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe49dea91dfa12b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "It will be implemented by good faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-15a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-16", "file": "debates1955-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c91a85cbd4ca927c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No tolls.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend not aware of the great strength of feeling there is in the country against the whole idea of going back to tolls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-16", "file": "debates1955-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c91a85cbd4ca927c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTI MATES FOR REVENUE DE PARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a saving.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "—but I see, in page 79 of the Supplementary Estimate, an additional sum of £8,562,000, which is then sub-divided, and I see an item which is called K.6—Prevention of Illness &c.—£42,000. Would not my hon. Friend be in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-16", "file": "debates1955-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c91a85cbd4ca927c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.475.9", "colnum": "475", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTI MATES FOR REVENUE DE PARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "s. That went up from 16s. 4d. per patient to 17s. 2d. in the years 1952–53–54. That was due to increased cost of materials and other matters. I turn to the pharmaceutical services. There no new service was provided, but the services were used much more than had been anticipated. I want to know exactly how that has happened and whether the Government have been controlling it properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.475.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-16", "file": "debates1955-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c91a85cbd4ca927c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Class II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. W. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. W. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "t stronger than all those the fear of what might happen if one protested or showed opposition on any count at all. Now in Kenya there is no longer the prestige of success, there is no longer the lure of self-interest and, most important of all, there is no longer the fear of showing oneself in opposition to Mau Mau. 9.0 p.m. Time is short and I will not try to say all that I had thought of saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-16", "file": "debates1955-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c91a85cbd4ca927c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Class II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "certainly have been terribly disturbed to feel that I had deprived this House of the speech he has delivered tonight. The right hon. Member for Rochester and Chatham (Mr. Bottomley) sought to put a certain amount of blame for our troubles in Kenya on this Government, but far too little is said of the blame which attached to the Socialist Government in the six years prior to our coming into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-16a.498.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shocking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "n. Last year, in the course of this laudable ambition, it seriously outran its expenditure. I want to make it plain that there is no question of cutting down the amount of money spent on Remploy. All that is happening at the moment is that the normal wastage of about 600 to 700 a year is allowed to go on, to run down the numbers slightly so that Remploy can get into a reasonable financial balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.546.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.547.4", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I know that the right hon. Gentleman took great interest in Remploy, as did his predecessors, and as his successors have done. There is no question of reducing the amount spent on Remploy. In fact, next year it will be larger than it is this year, but there must be an attempt, for the sake of the men themselves, to try to get this thing on a reasonable balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.547.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.558.7", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "With what result?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think it will be found that the Government have acted with sincerity, earnestness and vigour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.558.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.580.5", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 70.—(CIVIL OFFENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "May I ask a question of the right hon. and learned Member for Kensington, South, before he sits down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.580.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 145.—(FORFEITURE OF PAY FOR ABSENCE FROM DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Maclean", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"For how long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "ort of case we have in mind. Perhaps I might return to the question of allowances and allotments while a soldier is under detention. It is not quite such a simple matter as some hon. Gentlemen opposite seem to think. In general, the position is as I stated it, namely, that the soldier's pay is forfeited, but that certain allowances and allotments continue to be paid for a period to his dependents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 226.—(SHORT TITLE, COMMENCE MENT AND DURATION.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Therefore, I endorse what my hon. Friends have said, and I hope that between now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.688.4", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 226.—(SHORT TITLE, COMMENCE MENT AND DURATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is being a little less than frank with the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.688.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 226.—(SHORT TITLE, COMMENCE MENT AND DURATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "he Select Committee, and it was on this that we reached an arrangement and a compromise. We were told that the Select Committee's Report was accepted. The right hon. Gentleman has said some rather dubious things which were not clear to some hon. Members and certainly not clear to me. He ought not now to be allowed to draw back from the arrangement that was made. I do not want to say anything more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.689.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.703.8", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(DISCHARGE, OR DESIGNA TION FOR NON-COMBATANT DUTIES, ON GROUNDS OF CONSCIENCE AT TERMINATION OF BOY'S SERVICE.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "The \"conshies.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.703.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-17", "file": "debates1955-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f7fedd135ab680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Clause 148.—(DEDUCTIONS FOR BARRACK DAMAGE.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "en a little increased by the experience in my own constituency, where I have an aerodrome, though the people who live there are not residents because they are never there long enough to register for a vote. But I have certain Parliamentary responsibility for them, and this is the Clause which deals with barrack room damages. This is a matter which I think ought to have been raised on the Army Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-17a.737.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-18", "file": "debates1955-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "84cebf5032e7942a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-18a.756.4", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES (CONTRACT CARRIAGES AND SPECIAL TRAVEL FACILITIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"It was a majority of 10 to one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": " to local authorities. Against that opposition, Birmingham has operated the normal Private Bill machinery and called the usual town meeting. The town meeting decided by a majority of three to one in favour of the Birmingham Private Bill to authorise concessionary travel. So I do not think that the National Union of Ratepayers' Associations can really claim to represent the views of all ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-18a.756.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-18", "file": "debates1955-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "84cebf5032e7942a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-18a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "LOTTERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Somerville Hastings", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Somerville Hastings", "preceding_text": "l. He explained its details very clearly indeed. My objection is not as regards details but as regards principles and I should like briefly to put before the House the reasons for my objection to the Bill. The organisation of society during the last 50 years has changed a very great deal. Fifty years ago the struggle for existence was infinitely keener than it is today. There were many people who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-18a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-18", "file": "debates1955-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "84cebf5032e7942a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-18a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "LOTTERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Somerville Hastings", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Somerville Hastings", "preceding_text": "iples and I should like briefly to put before the House the reasons for my objection to the Bill. The organisation of society during the last 50 years has changed a very great deal. Fifty years ago the struggle for existence was infinitely keener than it is today. There were many people who—[HON MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] Another change which has taken place during the last 50 years is industrialisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-18a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-21", "file": "debates1955-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d624e6db92e377d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.855.7", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the conclusion of the hon. Gentleman. He seems to be saying simply, \"Something must be done.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.855.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-21", "file": "debates1955-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d624e6db92e377d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.856.5", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Is there not something \"phoney\" about all this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.856.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-21", "file": "debates1955-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d624e6db92e377d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.857.5", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "Are not these questions extremely useful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.857.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-21", "file": "debates1955-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d624e6db92e377d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who gave it up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman not agree that it remains a fact that the method used by the late Government of procuring tea by bulk purchase for many years succeeded in keeping the price down, during a period of far greater shortage in supply than exists today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-21", "file": "debates1955-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d624e6db92e377d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.858.5", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Not now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not aware that, despite the recent fall in tea prices at the auctions, various tea, companies have announced that there will be further increases in price at the end of the month?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.858.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-21", "file": "debates1955-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d624e6db92e377d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.864.6", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": " he aware that, due to the in crease in the index figure of the cost of living, the iron and steel workers in my constituency, whose earnings are tied to the cost of living, have had an increase in their wages? The inference is, there fore, that the prices of iron and steel are bound to go up, because the right hon. Gentleman is closing his eyes, is adopting a do-nothing policy, which means that——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-21", "file": "debates1955-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d624e6db92e377d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot make a comparison, why was the dishonest statement made in the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.877.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-21", "file": "debates1955-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d624e6db92e377d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not know who was the author of the White Paper, but the hon. Member should not use terms like \"dishonest\" about other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-21", "file": "debates1955-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d624e6db92e377d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY (AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aubrey Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aubrey Jones", "preceding_text": "are not the matter is different. I do not see that we can proceed to the complete elimination of restriction on exports and imports. What we can do, most certainly, is to reduce barriers. The tariff on steel grew up in the 'thirties and could certainly be reviewed in the different conditions of today. Most certainly, also, we can lay down and enforce a code of good behaviour for commercial policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-21a.901.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1068.4", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONALISED BOARDS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The White Paper is an accurate factual summary about the supply of military——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1115.7", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "in the law relating to obscenity, and I associate myself with him. May I add that I am in grave doubt about this law altogether. Intention is the better test, but how are we to define intention? When I was an undergraduate at Oxford I read French and Italian literature. I was recommended to make a special study of the \"Decameron,\" the works of Rabelais and the \"Heptameron\" of the Queen of Navarre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1115.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "ements of the horror comic. I turn to the Clause dealing with the right of the police, on the order of a justice of the peace, to enter the premises of printers, publishers, and booksellers. Candidly, that frightens me very much, and I do not think it is right. Under this Clause, the lady who sent me the protest against Pinocchio could go to a justice of the peace, even without a copy of the book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "d booksellers. Candidly, that frightens me very much, and I do not think it is right. Under this Clause, the lady who sent me the protest against Pinocchio could go to a justice of the peace, even without a copy of the book—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Yes—and tell the magistrate that in her opinion there was a prima facie case for the magistrate to send a policeman to my offices to confiscate the books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "er plea. Then the magistrate sends an ordinary police constable—he does not go himself, and we should not expect him to—to my office. He is at liberty to force his way in if I do not want him to get in, and to search my premises for copies of the offending document. If, in the course of his search, his eye happens to light upon other documents which did not take his fancy he can remove those, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be appropriate if that matter were dealt with later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "s over the next 30 or 35 years. The Parliamentary Secretary was plausible, attractive, and nice, but he could not hide the essential fact that the taxpayer and his children will now be forced to pay increased sums amounting to £19 million so that the Chancellor shall have a few mean, miserable pounds to hand out in tax reliefs this year. This is one of the nastiest, dirtiest, meanest little Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "wise he would not be given the job. Were it something to boast about, the Minister would do it and not the Parliamentary Secretary. It is the same in all parties. This is something which has nothing to do with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and nothing to do with the provision of water supplies and sewerage. It is a mean little Measure by which the moneylenders in the City of London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "\" As the hon. Member said, the major Act left a very great deal of flexibility with the Ministry. The local authority having gone to the Ministry, the Ministry argues about the matter for the devil of a long time. There are two rural districts in my constituency—Repton and Belper—and they are pretty good, too. Neither is Socialist-controlled, so I am paying a sincere tribute to the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If I remember, the Gadarene swine took a similar view, but they went over the brink just the same. The hon. Member may be right and I may be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1200.2", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We are willing to allow the Bill to go through because—does the hon. Member want to know the answer, or does he suspect already what it is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "I wanted to be the first Member to congratulate the party opposite on having found, or on thinking they had found, one point on which to fight the next General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1201.3", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about Sunderland, South?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad. Do not let the hon. and gallant Gentleman worry himself about us. The reason we cut the Tory majority at Norfolk, South from 3,500 to 800—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1201.5", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " a Rural Water Supplies Bill, and Sunderland is hardly a rural area. Let the party opposite note that the reason why we are progressing in the rural areas, the reason why we managed to cut the Tory majority in Norfolk, South is that we had many issues on which to fight the by-election. It is very clear from the response of hon. Members opposite that they are extremely uncomfortable about the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1222.4", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "I have explained that, and the category of water and education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1222.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1226.0", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "t is treating the House of Commons with gross discourtesy. The hon. Gentleman has no title to retain his high office. He has obviously had sufficient time to collect his thoughts and to consult the brief which he surely has on this matter. Brief or no brief, he has a responsibility to this Committee which he can only discharge by giving an explanation of the Motion which he has put upon the Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deedes rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-22", "file": "debates1955-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "cea26521c41f86c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "ial Secretary to disregard the earlier advice he gave him, and to answer us. On what basis is it decided that it is expedient to incur additional cost for financing rural water supplies and sewerage by long-term loans, and not to apply the same doctrine to other things? On what principle has the Treasury decided to do it in respect of this one service? Perhaps the Financial Secretary will tell us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-22a.1226.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1253.7", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Night defences.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Was not the implication of the right hon. Gentleman's reply to the previous supplementary question an indication that he was trying to make political capital out of it? May I ask if he has seen the reply to a Question put to his right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of Supply who, when asked about our air defences, said that they were the best in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1253.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1253.7", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Night defences.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "entleman's reply to the previous supplementary question an indication that he was trying to make political capital out of it? May I ask if he has seen the reply to a Question put to his right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of Supply who, when asked about our air defences, said that they were the best in the world—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Night defences.\"]—our defence system was the best in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1253.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "BRITISH SOMALILAND (ANGLO-ETHIOPIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Every aspect of this problem was gone into most carefully during the negotiations and I am afraid that it is impossible to reopen them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "BRITISH SOMALILAND (ANGLO-ETHIOPIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "On 5th January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1300.4", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Clause 1.—(EXTENSION OF BORROWING POWERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "e maximum inconvenience to the ordinary road-using public, in spite of the fact that those responsible for the railway avoid having rail traffic crossing and recrossing unnecessarily. I understand that if diesel trains are used in the local run from Grantham to Lincoln and elsewhere, it will mean that engines by themselves will not have to cross the High Street again to return to the engine sheds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1300.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1309.3", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Clause 1.—(EXTENSION OF BORROWING POWERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "ut the facilities are not normally provided for seven days a week. If one has the misfortune to travel on a Sunday, one will probably find that one cannot get anything at all and other facilities also are not open to one. A great deal of money should be spent on the hotel services run by the Transport Commission and I should say that the hotels which they run are probably the worst that there are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "preceding_text": "most step from the area which is outside the ambit of a national park into the area which is within its ambit. The area provides facilities for many traditional English sports. It is interesting that Nelson learnt his sailing on the Broads. There are facilities for swimming, skating, fishing, bird watching and a whole host of other real British sports which call for an expression of individuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "that, when I was an undergraduate at the Mother of Universities, I followed the advice of the philosopher Voltaire, who, having surveyed the whole scene of human endeavour in his \"Candide,\" came to the conclusion that the best advice he could offer to mankind was \"cultivate your garden.\" Perhaps I took him a little too literally, for I did, in fact, lease an allotment from the Oxford City Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is unnecessary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "rsities. I believe hon. Members opposite may also sympathise with me in my agricultural interests. I am sure the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan), who I am sorry to see is not in his place, with his broad acres, would be only too glad to support this objection, to say nothing of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kongwa, with his interest in enterprises in Tanganyika.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I know that we have to place Scotland in a special category in all these things. Most of the economic activities of Scotland have to be carried at the expense of England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " Press. In fact, the Commission has written letters to certain people who desire to use the Kennett and Avon Canal to say that this is so. There is also the Oxford Canal, from Oxford to Napton. It is an important waterway from the pleasure point of view. It does not get one from Blackpool to Cheadle, but it does take one from Oxford to Napton. I never go to Oxford without wanting to get out of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1386.3", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "preceding_text": "Is not the whole of this Bill, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, concerned with making the railways of this country more efficient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-23", "file": "debates1955-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "86d1d9c3bcd3c7f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, (SCOTLAND) (MINERAL DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Be generous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the right hon. and gallant Gentleman for explaining, or attempting to explain to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-23a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1421.0", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "That is a good point, and I know the case which the hon. Gentleman has in mind. I will do what I can in that particular case. Once a man leaves Remploy and goes to full employment, he is to some extent out of the field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": " aware that in those places where security arrangements were available it is a fact that the services which have been provided for upwards of 55 years by Messrs. P. & A. Campbell, Ltd., do not now possess security arrangements? Unless some sort of alternative may be come to, the company will have wholly to withdraw the services. Will the right hon. and gallant Gentleman consider the possibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "a number of finishing trade operatives have been paid off on the completion of work on the liner \"Southern Cross.\" It is always difficult to avoid redundancy in these trades on the completion of large passenger liners, but I have been glad to learn that Messrs. Harland and Wolff will again be able to take on the men who have been paid off as soon as the next passenger liner is far enough advanced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.2", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "While I thank the Prime Minister for that reply, which will be appropriately received in Northern Ire land, may I ask whether he is aware that there is a great apprehension in Northern Ireland over this matter? At this time last week, I was addressing an audience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.2", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "While I thank the Prime Minister for that reply, which will be appropriately received in Northern Ire land, may I ask whether he is aware that there is a great apprehension in Northern Ireland over this matter? At this time last week, I was addressing an audience—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—I ask for the indulgence of the House, Mr. Speaker, because I am speaking about unemployment in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.2", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "d in Northern Ire land, may I ask whether he is aware that there is a great apprehension in Northern Ireland over this matter? At this time last week, I was addressing an audience—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—I ask for the indulgence of the House, Mr. Speaker, because I am speaking about unemployment in Northern Ireland—[Hon. Members: \"Ask a question.\"]—and I am speaking particularly of the men for whom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.2", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " Northern Ireland over this matter? At this time last week, I was addressing an audience—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—I ask for the indulgence of the House, Mr. Speaker, because I am speaking about unemployment in Northern Ireland—[Hon. Members: \"Ask a question.\"]—and I am speaking particularly of the men for whom—[ Interruption. ]—On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Can I have the indulgence of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1448.0", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I should be grateful, Mr. Speaker, if you would permit me to get an answer without this hullabaloo from the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1448.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1448.5", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKibbin", "preceding_text": ", has been captured by a Hamburg firm, and that the reason given is that the German yards can quote a firm price and a guaranteed delivery date? In the interests of shipbuilding workers in Belfast and elsewhere, will the right hon. Gentleman cause inquiries to be made as to why shipbuilders here cannot give the same facilities? If necessary, will he give Government backing to enable them to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "As part of our general policy of limiting home demand the Government have decided on certain measures of restraint. For this purpose orders have been made today to restrict the terms on which cars, wireless and television sets, furniture and a wide range of other consumer goods may be bought by hire purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1456.4", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tea!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The remarkable thing is that, first, the Chairman of the Conservative Party is the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—the Lord President of the Council is being bandied about rather freely at Question Time today. Secondly, it is a remarkable fact that Conservative freedom does work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1456.4", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tea!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " that, first, the Chairman of the Conservative Party is the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—the Lord President of the Council is being bandied about rather freely at Question Time today. Secondly, it is a remarkable fact that Conservative freedom does work. [Hon. Members: \"Tea!\"] Let the right hon. Gentleman take any of the fundamental tests which affect a British working-class family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1456.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1458.8", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POSITION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not know that the rates of interest charged by building societies, which was the original question——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1458.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1477.0", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "By no means—and bearing in mind the hon. Member's contempt for trade unions, which has been evident from speeches he has made in the House in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Contribution to party funds?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ma monopolies. Why are they so tender to the Rank Organisation? This is a very serious threat which will affect independent production in this country, yet, whenever they can, the Government seem to help these monopolies. We are bound to ask whether this is the pay-off for the news-reels from the Rank Organisation which, for a number of years, have been supplementing Conservative Party propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Can we have the Government's?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "preceding_text": "s monopolies and restrictive practices on the basis of a full investigation of the facts before announcing the action to be taken. I welcome the occasion of this debate. I was anxious to hear what was to be the policy which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) would present to the House of Commons as the Socialist attitude towards monopoly. I now have it absolutely clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1483.3", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "e most powerfully sustained. I wish to start by making a few observations on the background to this question of monopolies. We are dealing here today with a subject which has very much more than a transitory interest. We are dealing with conditions in which a whole range of restrictive practices has been deeply interwoven in the British industrial system, not recently, but over a very long period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1483.3", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "hich a whole range of restrictive practices has been deeply interwoven in the British industrial system, not recently, but over a very long period. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is right that we should seriously ask ourselves why it is that men should devise these complex restrictive arrangements. I believe that in the main they devise them, not out of greed or out of a desire to amass profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1483.3", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " been deeply interwoven in the British industrial system, not recently, but over a very long period. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is right that we should seriously ask ourselves why it is that men should devise these complex restrictive arrangements. I believe that in the main they devise them, not out of greed or out of a desire to amass profits. [ Interruption .] I am entitled to my opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1483.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1484.1", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "There is none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " and of the activities of combines; and to take appropriate action to check practices which may bring advantages to sectional producing interests but work to the detriment of the country as a whole. That quotation comes from the White Paper on Employment Policy (Cmd. 6527), and it is worth recalling because that was the considered approach of all three parties in the House of Commons at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1488.2", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I shall never get them right if I try to memorise them. I will try to let the hon. Gentleman have them later in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "me, and authorised me to say, that they are satisfied that the procedure of the Commission is both appropriate and fair. I would add that any minor modifications which may be made will certainly not diminish the length of investigations. I hope that the fact that this reference to the Lord Chancellor and to the Attorney-General—and on a matter of this kind one could not get any better authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all hon. Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ng if it had been said three years ago and we had been expecting a report three years ago. But in our opinion it was not necessary to make reference to the Commission under Section 15 because the evidence already existed. As I have said, it is obvious from the speeches of hon. Members today that they are sufficiently impressed by the published evidence before ever they see the Commission's Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Price control.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " after night, day after day, taking individual competitive enterprises and turning them into State monopolies. And what did they break down? It is all very well for the right hon. Gentleman to say that he did not have much time. He had over seven years of Socialist Government, and during that time all these price rings, all these collective boycotts in the oil industry and all the rest were there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-24", "file": "debates1955-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "44e3a5e697f39b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "n. Member as a man of real experience—should be fully put before the House. I will say another thing. In examining this difficult and complex question, let us by all means express our different views about it, but remember that those who practise these particular methods—resale price maintenance is one of them—do hold deeply and sincerely the view that they are benefiting the public in doing this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-24a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-25", "file": "debates1955-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "af2a06533cf5ac3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-25a.1625.5", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (PEACEFUL PURPOSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "hether we use solid smokeless fuel, in accordance with the wishes of my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro), who has urged its advantages very successfully in this House for a very long time, or whether we have efficient burning appliances consuming anthracite or rely on supplies of electricity, we do not get over one problem, the pollution of the atmosphere by sulphurous fumes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-25a.1625.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-25", "file": "debates1955-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "af2a06533cf5ac3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-25a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (PEACEFUL PURPOSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"Or just another bee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "very interesting experiment the other day in which the Rothamsted research station was trying to find out why bees are always turned away at the door of the hive if they do not belong to that hive. It is a matter which has been noticed for a long time and most of us have wondered about it. How do the guardian bees know whether it is one from their own hive that is coming to the door or a stranger?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-25a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-28", "file": "debates1955-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d5878450b804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1695.3", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "An honest one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-28", "file": "debates1955-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d5878450b804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1750.1", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Dead wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member said, there is a certain amount of local and short-term borrowing by the bigger local authorities, but 99 per cent. of the borrowing of the bigger authorities who have sought recourse to the open market have done so by flotation of long-term loans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-28", "file": "debates1955-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d5878450b804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "e there is life there is hope, which is the fundamental reason why there is no provision in certain Measures for the writing off of bad debts. I listened with great interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South (Sir W. Darling). He feared that the behaviour of the Board was encouraging to profligate local authorities. My own view is that local authorities generally are not profligate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-02-28", "file": "debates1955-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d5878450b804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1852.5", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "OFFICERS' PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "There are large categories of people with fixed incomes as well as Crown servants. My hon. and gallant Friend also suggested that officers who retired under the 1919 pensions code have been the victims of a breach of faith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1852.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-02-28", "file": "debates1955-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d5878450b804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "OFFICERS' PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "overnment are in power are pestered into seeing that justice is done. The hon. and gallant Member for Totnes (Brigadier Rayner) said that it was a limited liability. It is more than that; it is a diminishing liability, because the number of people concerned is diminishing. I hope that further pressure will be brought to bear upon this Government and any succeeding Government until justice is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-02-28a.1854.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1862.0", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Dollars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Would the Chancellor take the opportunity of correcting the wholly inaccurate statement which he made last Thursday, when he said that reserves fell between June and October, 1951, by £900 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1880.4", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUEMOY AND MATSU", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Chinese Nationalists are claiming that this is the view of the United States Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1880.4", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUEMOY AND MATSU", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " United States Government—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"]—and that it has not been repudiated by the United States Government? Does he not think that ambiguity in this matter is extremely serious, particularly as the Chinese Nationalists are being allowed to remain in Quemoy and Matsu, not to defend Formosa, but merely in order to maintain their morale in their determination to attack the mainland by force?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1880.4", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUEMOY AND MATSU", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "s matter is extremely serious, particularly as the Chinese Nationalists are being allowed to remain in Quemoy and Matsu, not to defend Formosa, but merely in order to maintain their morale in their determination to attack the mainland by force? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] As the whole situation is impregnated with danger to peace in that area, will the right hon. Gentleman at least get an assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1880.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1881.1", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUEMOY AND MATSU", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it not for you, Mr. Speaker, to say——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (BROADCAST DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Although it may have been convenient in 1948 to come to such an arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1888.2", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (REGULAR EX-SERVICE MEN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in most parts of the country the residential qualification has not been insisted on in respect of many of these people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1888.4", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (REGULAR EX-SERVICE MEN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or civilian workers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "preceding_text": "If this principle is to be applied to retiring ex-Service men, may I ask whether a similar principle ought not to be applied, say, to retiring colonial civil servants who are also, by the same token, ending a period of service for their country? What is the difference between the two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1893.2", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ned in more detail in the Departmental Papers which have been laid before the House by the three Service Ministers. No doubt, nothing is perfect; certainly, nothing is complete, but, considering that these arrangements have been made in the first year after the apparition of the hydrogen bomb, the far-seeing and progressive adaptability which is being displayed by all three Services is remarkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1893.2", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "rk have always been the core of Civil Defence, and no city, no family nor any honourable man or woman can repudiate this duty and accept from others help which they are not prepared to fit themselves to render in return. If war comes, great numbers may be relieved of their duty by death, but none must deny it as long as they live. If they do, they might perhaps be put in what is called \"Coventry.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1893.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1907.0", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Logan", "preceding_text": "Mr. David Logan (Liverpool, Scotland Division) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ould like to say one word to the right hon. Gentleman, more in sorrow than in anger, about his attitude when he sat on this side of the House. Hon. Members will recall how he used to say that if only he were in the Government, he and his right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, their influence in foreign circles and inter- national circles would be of such a character that peace could be promoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1912.1", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Someone mentions Malaya. These are the small minds that work after the massive oration we have had from the right hon. Gentleman on the consequences of atomic attack. Malaya is not in the picture at all in relation to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1912.1", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will not listen to the right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ion will be different because we shall have the hydrogen bomb. In the meantime, we have to hope that Russia will not mount an attack, or change her mind. We have to hope that the right hon. Gentleman will use his profound influence in international circles to persuade the Russians not to do anything wrong or immoral. I am not sure that the Russians will be inclined to listen to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "We were not speaking in terms of atomic deterrents at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "We were not speaking in terms of atomic deterrents at that time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] No, we were faced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The right hon. Gentleman never told us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman speaks about the atom bomb. We did not believe that the atom bomb in itself would prove an effective deterrent. My right hon. Friend the Member for Waltham stow, West (Mr. Attlee) never came to the House and said that we were going to manufacture the atom bomb to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1914.3", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The manufacture of the atom bomb followed on the decisions that we reached at the end of the war resulting from scientific discoveries both in this country and the United States, and it was decided to proceed with this, not necessarily as a deterrent against war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1914.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1917.1", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": " involved. For these reasons, and whether rightly or wrongly, an aggressor might well conclude that a swift campaign for limited objectives could safely be undertaken without provoking atomic war. But it would have to be swift; and this brings one to an important conclusion. If we wish to avert war altogether, we must in no circumstances deprive ourselves of the means of defence by the older arms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1926.1", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has never been said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "preceding_text": "—a radar screen which will detect enemy aircraft long before they reach us, and no aircraft will get through without being effectively screened; a ground-to-air guided missile which is bound to home on its target—those are the sort of things which will be designed to suggest that our hydrogen bomb will get at the other fellow but his hydrogen bomb will not get at us. That is what we shall be told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1936.3", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I think there are difficult questions to answer. If there is an advance by the Red Army we shall have to drop bombs on the Red army wherever it may be. My point is that it is surely better, if bombs are to be dropped, to drop them only on the Continent, and not on Britain and on the United States and the U.S.S.R. That is something, I should have thought, that we should have been agreed about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Under the National Service Acts men are called up to serve. It is now proposed that instead of undergoing combatant duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1941.0", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": " that the local authorities in both reception and evacuation areas know precisely what they must do. That takes time, especially when it is remembered that now practically any part of this country might be exposed to the danger of radioactive \"fall out.\" In the course of his speech, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Easington said that there was no adequate defence against the hydrogen bomb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1941.0", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "adequate defence against the hydrogen bomb. [ Interruption ] I was only quoting what the right hon. Gentleman said, and, if he will wait a moment, I will tell him what I think. As far as protective measures for the civilian population are concerned, we have to face the fact that it is of no avail to try to provide deep shelters that would be proof against a hit or a near miss from a hydrogen bomb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1957.1", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": " mine said—a very good man, much better than I am—\" Mankind is touching the hem of God's garment.\" We are not good enough and wise enough to have this awful accession to power. Now we have it, we do not know what to do with it. The fact is, we have it, and the Prime Minister has come to the House this afternoon to do what he did in 1951—to exploit the defence position for party political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1963.1", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Since babyhood I have been told so often to tell the exact truth that it becomes a habit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1963.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1995.1", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made a statement which may appear in the foreign Press and which may do this country great harm. He said that the Hunter could not fly in formation at all. But an all-party delegation went to see them only 10 days ago, and saw them landing in formation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.2000.1", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "ink we should try to get the same sort of merger between the personnel who have to use the aeroplanes and the Army as we should have with the Navy, and I would also make certain members of the Air Council and of the Army Council interchangeable members of that Command. The heavy tank, like the battleship, has a future which is also highly questionable. It is far too slow and is a very easy target.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.2000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is only taking time from his hon. Friend who will follow me. I could debate this matter with the hon. Gentleman till tomorrow morning if he wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-01", "file": "debates1955-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e26d18d5f05a127f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.2005.1", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. R. H. Hutchison", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No aircraft.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. R. H. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "uction of new wheeled vehicles—and there are a great many wheeled vehicles in the Army; the introduction of the Conqueror tank, the L.70 light anti-aircraft gun, the F.N. rifle, about which the hon. Member has been speaking, and the new machine gun. Then there are some notable innovations on the naval side—the Gannet, the mirror landing device, the angled deck and the launching catapult equipment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-01a.2005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2035.6", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OIL (U.N. REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"It was in the Press\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "Whether a document is restricted or not depends on the ruling of the Secretariat of the Economic Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2035.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2044.3", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Can I explain to you, Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2044.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2067.3", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Explain the statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "preceding_text": "w of the strategic implications of the thermo-nuclear weapon does not radically alter the role of any of the three fighting Services. It is almost incredible that that sentence should be there, but it is there, in black and white. Surely everyone in the world except the authors of the White Paper must have known that the thermo-nuclear weapon revolutionises the role of all three fighting Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2070.5", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "pened, and that is how the present defence programme has been drawn up. It cannot be doubted that what is called the agonising reappraisal of the rôle of the Defence Services has not been carried out. I always imagined that it would take a hydrogen bomb to shift the dead weight of military tradition, but we see now that even the hydrogen bomb does not do it. What, then, should be the shape—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2070.5", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The fourth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "nister or any Minister of a Service Department in the way that the Prime Minister and his colleagues attacked us when we were in office, or anything approaching the way in which they would now attack us if we had made one-tenth of the mistakes made by the Government. The Prime Minister should remember that this is the third year in which his Government have been in charge of the defence programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2070.5", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And no foreign policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "urth year. The third year has been completed. Does the right hon. Gentleman remember one of those great, characteristic phrases of his, when he described an arms programme? He said, \"The first year, nothing. The second year, very little. The third year, as much as you will.\" Can we possibly describe the results we have today—80 Hunters, no Swifts, 10 Valiants, no new rifles and no guided missiles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2079.1", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the Government's attitude?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "emen opposite have been very carefully co-ordinated. It is not at all clear to me how many Members of the Opposition agree about how much. Should we have the hydrogen bomb or not? Should we have conventional forces or not? Should we resist an attack by conventional forces only by conventional defence? I do not think that their attitude to these questions was made any clearer by yesterday's debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2091.0", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that my information was two years out of date. It was given to me two days ago by a deputation of shop stewards from the Hunter factory", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2096.5", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "other day, in reply to a Question I put, he accorded unsought approbation. Moreover, I had in mind all the time what the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister used to say of us when we were in the Government, and now I discover that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has to concede what was well known to the people inside, namely, that we had done everything possible in the then circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2096.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2100.6", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware—by the way, I wish the Prime Minister would not always assume that nobody but himself knows anything about this subject—that 18 months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2100.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2104.0", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Twister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has completely misconceived what I said. I said that my advisers and I sigh for the lost years. That is a plain statement of fact. We wish that we were further on with this programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2103.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2104.5", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way. Mr. Wyatt rose —", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "In view of the campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2104.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2109.1", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " we took inadequate steps to meet it. Fortunately, we were wrong. Fortunately, the assumptions upon which we based our programme were inaccurate, as inaccurate, I believe, as the assumptions underlying the speech of the Prime Minister yesterday. In 1950 and 1951 we said that we had three years. It has turned out to be more. Yesterday, the right hon. Gentleman said that we have another three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2109.1", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "he bombers to deliver it, and that the power to do so rested with the West. So we have the power from which to negotiate. In those circumstances, one would have thought that we would be sending Notes to the Kremlin asking the Soviet leaders to meet us, because we can talk out of strength. But the contrary is the position. The Notes to negotiate are coming to us, from the Soviet Union all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "But we want to know what the right hon. and learned Gentleman means by it. The Amendment of the Opposition reads thus: …. it is necessary as a deterrent to aggresion to rely on the threat of using thermo-nuclear weapons. I want my right hon. Friends the Leaders of the Opposition to answer me. Do they mean by that language what the Government mean by the White Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2119.2", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We shall try to get an answer. We are led to believe that this is just what the language of the White Paper means. Will the Prime Minister or the Minister of Defence answer the question before the end of the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2119.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2119.4", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer it now.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Minister of Defence will refer to this point tonight when he winds up the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Daines", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Daines", "preceding_text": "t a result out of all proportion to the total strength of the party. I will go further. I could name industries in which, if the orders were given, strikes would automatically take place. It is not without significance that the two industries in which we have had the greatest demonstrations are one affecting the power of the country and the other the docks, almost the jugular veins of our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Sharples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Sharples", "preceding_text": ", but only a short time is left. However, I should like to leave that thought with the House. I also believe that it might be possible for the Ministry of Defence to assume direct responsibility for some of the subjects which are today the responsibility of various Service Departments. There are many subjects which might be considered for this purpose, such as certain aspects of intelligence work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2176.3", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": " long haul.\" Although I might indicate the right road, I am afraid I could not predict in this White Paper with any accuracy how long or how costly the journey would prove to be. The second charge relates to the deficiencies in the weapons which are available to the Forces. Anyone who listened to the masterly not to say devastating speech of my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of Supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-02", "file": "debates1955-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9e2fc0ac031ef441", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2183.1", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "r defence. That seems to me very clear. I do not think anything would be gained by attempting a more precise definition. Members may well ask what will constitute a major war. Would some incident in one place or some minor attack in another count as a major war? That is a question very easy to pose, but very dangerous to answer. It is rather like the question, \"Have you stopped beating your wife?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-02a.2183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-03", "file": "debates1955-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ba5c1e327e01614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2216.0", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I am not talking about homosexuals, and I am indifferent to what the Minister thinks about me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-03", "file": "debates1955-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ba5c1e327e01614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2223.4", "colnum": "2223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "preceding_text": "May I ask if the Minister is satisfied at the present arrangement for the functioning of visiting committees, especially regarding the number of times within a given period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2223.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-03", "file": "debates1955-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ba5c1e327e01614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2261.5", "colnum": "2261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. J. P. L. THOMAS'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "And the right hon. Gentleman went on to say that it was retired field marshals and admirals who were busy doing the attacking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2261.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-03", "file": "debates1955-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ba5c1e327e01614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2278.0", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. J. P. L. THOMAS'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "the House is ineffective. I want to stress most particularly the absolute necessity of getting strike aircraft capable of carrying the atom bomb. I now turn to the question of bombs. I do not know the weight of an atom bomb, nor the weight of a hydrogen bomb. On Tuesday the Prime Minister knocked the sides of the Dispatch Box and appeared to imply that a hydrogen bomb could be contained within it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-03", "file": "debates1955-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ba5c1e327e01614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2318.2", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "LOWER DECK (LIVING CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fore and aft.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "are not ignorant. They know the difficulties, and they do not expect the same sort of accommodation at sea as they have a right to expect when they are ashore. I found in the submarine in which I went to sea that almost all the space is taken up by equipment. There is very little space for human beings to move around. Even for sleeping they are pushed to either end—if that is the right expression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-03", "file": "debates1955-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ba5c1e327e01614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2353.1", "colnum": "2353", "heading": "LOWER DECK (LIVING CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. It is a somewhat complicated calculation. One has to add what is seen in one part of the Estimates to other parts which have to be taken account of as well. The hon. Member knows as well as I do that in the way in which the figures are presented here they are somewhat misleading", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-03", "file": "debates1955-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ba5c1e327e01614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2398.1", "colnum": "2398", "heading": "LOWER DECK (LIVING CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": " very well for hon. Members to laugh. I doubt whether a certain hon. Member sitting in a corner on the other side of the House has any knowledge of this subject. He talks in every Service debate, but I do not think he gives the subject matter a single thought. A hydrogen bomb kills everyone in the centre of the explosion literally 50 or more times. All one wants to do in war is to kill a man once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-03", "file": "debates1955-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ba5c1e327e01614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2407.2", "colnum": "2407", "heading": "LOWER DECK (LIVING CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They had not washed their collars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "dmirals, because, for one thing, I do not think that they matter so much. They do not think anyway. What I am saying is that at the end of the year, there were 794,440 American naval personnel and 249,000 marines at drill pay stations, and 149,617 \"white collar\" workers, and 298,861 \"blue collar\" workers. I do not know exactly what they are, but that is the description which I find in this report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-03", "file": "debates1955-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ba5c1e327e01614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2420.3", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "LOWER DECK (LIVING CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To all the Services.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "extremely regrettable that when the Minister for Housing and Local Government made his announcement about his circular to local authorities on the subject of housing he did not include naval ratings. It may well be that they are included. If they are, then I am very glad, but, according to the terms of the right hon. Gentleman's announcement, it sounded very much as if it applied only to the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-03a.2420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-04", "file": "debates1955-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e4b588300a4123b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2442.1", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "g the withering away of our Parliamentary democracy, I and my hon. Friends will listen with pleasure and with care. Our Bill, on the whole, is a modest one. Inevitably, it is a lengthy Bill, but its substance can be appreciated by every hon. Member. I consider that it has one virtue—I say this in all humility—that it is one of the most lucidly phrased Bills I have ever had the pleasure of reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-04", "file": "debates1955-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e4b588300a4123b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2445.3", "colnum": "2445", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Excellent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "rthern Ireland when the Government of Ireland Bill became an Act. My hon. Friends, who know the Bill at least as well as I do, will answer fully any questions, if they catch your eye, Mr. Speaker, but before I sit down I want to appeal to the House to treat the Bill seriously. I know that the relationship between Wales, the Welsh people and the British Parliament has been rather good on the whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-04", "file": "debates1955-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e4b588300a4123b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2466.1", "colnum": "2466", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is not in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "om, I am venturing to suggest that it is brought in because the agriculturists must not be disappointed; and so must be provided for. Perhaps the proposal would fare better in the case of some other industry. Railways? I am reminded of that lock which might be built in the middle of the Severn Tunnel and which would be big enough to be a Customs and Excise station. Would the railways be protected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-04", "file": "debates1955-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e4b588300a4123b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2469.1", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I think it would be desirable for the House and also for the organisation if the name of Urdd Gobaith Cymru were not brought into this context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-04", "file": "debates1955-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e4b588300a4123b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2481.5", "colnum": "2481", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "eges was £70,000. Without the Exchequer grant, the University of Wales would go \"bust.\" It is amazing how some of the students hate the English. In 1952–53, there were 4,600 students at Welsh colleges; 3,700 of them had grants and allowances from the education authorities, and two-thirds of the cost of those grants came from the United Kingdom itself. Hate the English, but take their money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2481.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-04", "file": "debates1955-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e4b588300a4123b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2525.0", "colnum": "2525", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"All levers, no engine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "fits and welfare schemes apply throughout the United Kingdom, even in Northern Ireland, which enjoys a measure of legislative autonomy. It is important to remember that the devolutionary experiment of Belfast was conducted by a Conservative Government which did not use all the powers to its hand. The position would be different in Wales because there we would have a progressive hand on the levers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-04", "file": "debates1955-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e4b588300a4123b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2536.5", "colnum": "2536", "heading": "TAY ROAD BRIDGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An. Hon. Member: \"The Ministry always does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "n have considered the three sites where a bridge might be beneficial. There is the possibility of one at Friar-ton, which we estimate would cost £3 million, there might be one at Abernethy, costing £6 million, and there might be the one which we are discussing which, I am advised, would be likely to cost £10 million. We tend to favour the bridge at Friarton because it would be the least expensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-04a.2536.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-07", "file": "debates1955-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "05bf42aee7bd2f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.23.4", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In 1951?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "The only figure given was that of 240, which was assessed by the Working Party on the basis of the total of authorised establishments and the number of inspectors at present in employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.23.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-07", "file": "debates1955-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "05bf42aee7bd2f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA (TREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Felton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Can a traitor to this country sink much lower in furthering enemy aims than play on the feelings of heart-broken parents whose children have died fighting for their country? Was this not done by Mrs. Monica Shelton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.33.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-07", "file": "debates1955-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "05bf42aee7bd2f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA (TREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What was the answer?", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I did not answer that question because it had been answered by the Minister of Defence on 3rd March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.35.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-07", "file": "debates1955-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "05bf42aee7bd2f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.36.9", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Clause 1.—(GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE ACT, 1944.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " me that not only was the Chancellor of the Exchequer engaged in a deflationary operation but that it was highly necessary for him tobe so engaged. How can it be deflationary to put up the cost of every £100 worth of work by £67 8s.? Such a procedure sounds to me highly inflationary. We on this side of the Committee are not supposed to understand these things as cleary as do hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.36.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-07", "file": "debates1955-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "05bf42aee7bd2f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Clause 1.—(GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE ACT, 1944.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "No. The point is that the right hon. Gentleman is taking this Bill so seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-07", "file": "debates1955-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "05bf42aee7bd2f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Clause 2.—(LIMIT OF COMMITMENTS BY PUBLIC WORKS LOAN COMMISSIONERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": " better position than they would be by going to the Public Works Loan Board. That may probably be true. Certainly, so far as my own experience goes, it is true of the bigger local authorities. I am appalled, every time local authority matters are raised in the House of Commons, at the way in which hon. Members of the party opposite continually set themselves out to denigrate the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-07", "file": "debates1955-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "05bf42aee7bd2f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.101.5", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Clause 2.—(LIMIT OF COMMITMENTS BY PUBLIC WORKS LOAN COMMISSIONERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"We said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "ies are quite capable of managing their own financial affairs, quite capable of using skill and judgment as to whether to go to the Public Works Loan Board under the terms of this £500 million increase or to go to the money market—to choose the moment for the development operations and to obtain the greatest advantage to be gained as between the Board and the open market. They are capable of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-07a.101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.147.8", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Is it part of the functions of the Chancellor of the Duchy to consult the Chancellor of the Exchequer before putting up expensive and misleading posters in the country about prosperity and Conservative freedom and so forth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.147.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Owing to the frivolous and malicious refusal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.152.5", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "I can say for once with a clear conscience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST, SOUTH-EAST ASIA AND FORMOSA STRAITS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "ith the minimum of outside interference and pressure. Democracy in these countries will grow stronger as they gain confidence from its practice and example. From Singapore I flew to Malaya and spent a memorable day, with the help of helicopters, in seeing the work of our Commonwealth Forces. The spirit in which these men are facing their daily ordeal of foul discomfort and danger is beyond praise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "TREASON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "s proposing to do is to amend the law of treason of this country. I suggest to him that if the criminal law is in need of amendment, one can think of no more undesirable procedure than the procedure which he has adopted. If it needs amendment, the criminal law ought to be amended on the initiative of the Government of the day and not on the initiative of a Private Member under the Ten-Minute Rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "TREASON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"The hon. and learned Member said nothing of the kind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " I am sure he realises, in a very complicated field indeed and would produce a totally different Bill from the one that he has in mind. The second point I would make to him—I think he will agree with me about this, in view of what he said towards the end of his speech about what he did not intend to do—is that patriotism does not require that a citizen shall think that his country is always right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. ANTONY HEAD'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"The average man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "rs. I feel that because this demand for a two-year National Service period continues, it is my duty to try to deal frankly and carefully with the question of manpower in the Army. Without doing so and without justifying it to the hilt, no Government can be fully justified in introducing Estimates which demand its continuance. I think that the average hon. Gentleman, in the light of present events—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. ANTONY HEAD'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "gular Army. The risk was taken. It was rightly taken, I believe. I believe, too, that the late Government, had they remained in office, would have done the same thing—though I do not say that in justification of what we did. The responsibility for the decision lies fairly and squarely on this Government. The figures for prolongations, which are relevant in finding the trend, are not yet available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. ANTONY HEAD'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "We are doing that, not to please the hon. Member for Dudley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. ANTONY HEAD'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "Very much the same as they have done after previous wars, only more so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.196.7", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. ANTONY HEAD'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "we had gone in for the new E.M.2 we would have added to the delay. We would have had to tool up to make the rifles so that there could be troop trials, whereas with the FN. we could buy the rifles and go on with troop trials. Troop trials will finish this summer, and by June we shall have had delivered to the Army in Germany 10,000 FN. rifles. We shall have got standardisation throughout N.A.T.O.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.196.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. ANTONY HEAD'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "ated in the same field. Both of these acquisitions will not merely improve air trooping, but in emergency will be a valuable adjunct to the strategic air lift. The strategic air lift, which now is equivalent to a lift of about one brigade, will itself be improved also by the gradual re-equipment of Transport Command. It will be still further strengthened by the introduction of the Beverley Baxter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. ANTONY HEAD'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "If the Secretary of State says that I am wrong, perhaps he will tell me in what way. He knows a great deal about armoured warfare from the last war. I think it is a fact that except, in the desert campaigns, these tanks had to keep to the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "me after in control of Anti-Aircraft, but quite suddenly Anti-Aircraft Command has been disbanded. I am in agreement with the comments made by the right hon. Member, but he should not derive much satisfaction about Anti-Aircraft Command's failure to develop. The atom bomb and the supersonic fighter all arose in 1945. The consequences of those developments must have been clear to anyone, even then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-08", "file": "debates1955-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "10af1b5684c925c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "Three o'clock in the morning is not the best time to address the House, especially when I know that hon. Members want to go home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-08a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST INDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "If he does receive such a request will the right hon. Gentleman give it very favourable consideration indeed in view of the fact that this new Constitution is going to cause serious trouble in Nyasaland? Does he believe that proposals whereby 5,000 Europeans and 7,000 Asians are going to have six representatives on the Legislative Council", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST INDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "f he does receive such a request will the right hon. Gentleman give it very favourable consideration indeed in view of the fact that this new Constitution is going to cause serious trouble in Nyasaland? Does he believe that proposals whereby 5,000 Europeans and 7,000 Asians are going to have six representatives on the Legislative Council [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] while 2 million Africans have five", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST INDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "With due respect, Mr. Speaker, it is not as long as some of the answers. There are, at the same time, no representatives on the Executive Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.447.9", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " sure we should all like to welcome back the President of the Board of Trade, in a state, if not of health, at any rate of convalescence, and express the hope that the strain of the debate will not be too much for him. On so important a debate, we certainly welcome his return. It has the additional advantage that it spares the House the ordeal of a winding-up speech by the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.447.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.447.9", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ebate will be dealt with in a constructive manner. Certainly we shall not impugn the right hon. Gentleman's motives for his treatment of Lancashire. I am not going to repeat the charge frequently levelled at him by many employers, as well as trade union representatives, that the Government have written off Lancashire. I admit that all the evidence points to the suggestion, but I do not believe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.447.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was going to say that. He knows perfectly well that that is a completely phoney use of statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Remarkable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " quick profits on Indian imports. If as a result of their action a section of the industry goes into a serious slump, it may not recover. There has been enough difficulty in getting operatives back to the mills after the slump of 1952. There is a shortage of operatives. Vacancies are notified to the employment exchanges at the very time when we have short-time working and anxiety about the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "There was a decline in the first part of February, as the figures showed last week. I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Farnworth (Mr. Thornton) will be able to deal better with that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.458.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "It was the Lancashire working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "o much longer. The President said that export orders are running at a rate which is one-third lower than it was a year ago. Practically everything he said in building up his reply reinforces my argument about a positive step which should be taken. The one thing the President would not talk about was Purchase Tax. I ask him now what is his view about Purchase Tax. Would its removal help Lancashire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "We know that there are several people in the background who are technically members of the Board. If we examine far enough, I may be a member of the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "from this side of the House at all, but from the presidential address of the President of the Blackburn and District Incorporated Chamber of Commerce. I am sorry that the right hon. Member for Blackburn, West (Mr. Assheton) has just left the Chamber. I do not suppose that the President of the Chamber, Mr. T. Guy Aspden, is a supporter of my hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn, East (Mrs. Castle)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-09", "file": "debates1955-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e82d052c3a53de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "faithful supporters, and when that kind of thing is being said from Conservative quarters in the county, I suggest that the Government ought to sit up and take notice. In fact, since this Motion was tabled I have had a telegram, as no doubt other hon. Members have had, from the Blackburn Chamber of Commerce inviting me to consider voting against the Government if effective action is not announced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-09a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-10", "file": "debates1955-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "fe40ec8a7d5ca6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.592.7", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the elaborate and expensive snobbery of school uniforms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.592.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-10", "file": "debates1955-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "fe40ec8a7d5ca6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.643.5", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Air Estimates, 1955–56", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "ed in the debate on the Amendment, and if that is raised I will certainly deal with it. But I was talking about the number of people who have signed on for 12-year engagements—the long-service men—in the four advanced skilled trades. I have dealt with aircraft and manpower at greater length this year than usual and I apologise for the fact that I have left myself no time, without tiring the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.643.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-10", "file": "debates1955-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "fe40ec8a7d5ca6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "LONG ENGAGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "failure of the deterrent, which is among the most serious possibilities we have now to face. It may be left to them, in the situation that now faces us. Theirs will be the responsibility for guidance to him and guidance to the rest of the House on what should be done. I cannot go any farther with this matter, because the debate is about the Air Estimates, but I know what the alternative should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.770.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-10", "file": "debates1955-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "fe40ec8a7d5ca6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "LONG ENGAGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member is hedging.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I am answering the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-10", "file": "debates1955-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "fe40ec8a7d5ca6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.772.9", "colnum": "772", "heading": "LONG ENGAGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman wants me to say \"yes\" to suit himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.772.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-10", "file": "debates1955-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "fe40ec8a7d5ca6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.789.5", "colnum": "789", "heading": "LONG ENGAGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "must concentrate such forces as we have in this island. He then went on to show that two or three atom bombs were sufficient to wipe out this country and. therefore, presumably the implication is that we should not do anything at all about defending ourselves. That kind of argument is the one which has been put forward in this House by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.789.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-10", "file": "debates1955-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "fe40ec8a7d5ca6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "LONG ENGAGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not want him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes) says we are all in trouble with the party opposite. All I can say is that if he likes to cross the Floor of the House, he will find a united party here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-10", "file": "debates1955-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "fe40ec8a7d5ca6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "LONG ENGAGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "Mint,\" or in his own particular ideas about strategic plans. I would make this one point to him. He spoke of guilty men. My recollection is that the guilty men were appeasers, not ones who wanted to arm themselves and be strong. I think the hon. Member should be careful, when he speaks of guilty men, to make sure of what he means. The hon. Member for Lincoln spoke of security, and I am all for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-10a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-11", "file": "debates1955-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6af856bd40efb3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-11a.819.6", "colnum": "819", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "ountry by offering an opportunity of reviewing the affairs of this great industry. If we also have the great advantage of being able to comment upon the Price Review, so much the better. May I start by offering my congratulations to the farmers and farm workers of Britain for the good showing which the Price Review evidences of their courage, steadfastness and hard work during a most adverse year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-11a.819.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-11", "file": "debates1955-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6af856bd40efb3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-11a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": "I agree that it is one of the problems and one of the difficulties, but has not that difficulty arisen because it was not recognised sufficiently early? The young men feel that this is a neglected part. They want to get down to the lowlands where agriculture is more recognised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-11a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.932.6", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUDOLF HESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I heard that statement and it was entirely unsatisfactory and \"unfull\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.932.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "WORLD DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"July, 1954.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "tary had to return, was concluded. It was not until 26th July that I was able to address Mr. Molotov again. I said that after discussion with my colleagues I was about to send him a further message to suggest a meeting, say, at the end of August or in the first half of September at some halfway house such as Berne, Stockholm or Vienna. In the meanwhile, however, the Soviet Note of 24th July, 1944—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "WORLD DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": "Many other hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, whose speeches I will not quote now, have made the most robust speeches in favour of the great necessity of co-operation with the United States. I would say to them today that, although I do not ask them to vote for the Government, if they could see their way to abstain in the Division they would be doing something to encourage our allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "WORLD DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": ", by negotiating with the Russians. The situation has been vastly aggravated by the development of nuclear weapons and by the decision to use nuclear weapons right down the line in the N.A.T.O. armies, for that has made the Germans even more aware of the fate which we contemplate so gleefully for them in our N.A.T.O. strategy. If all that is true, I should like to make one suggestion to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.992.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "WORLD DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I did not think that sort of suggestion has ever come from my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "WORLD DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": ", if he went on a tour of hell in the company of Dante, would say, 'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but I did think it a little too hot'. The right hon. Gentleman moved a Motion of censure today, I believe, for precisely the same reasons as his party voted against Service Estimates before the war. It is not because he believes in it at all, but because he wants to keep his party together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "WORLD DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "that history would know him as one of the greatest authorities on armaments and war. I asked if he would not dedicate a part of his efforts to the work of this Disarmament Commission, tell his Ministers to prepare a British draft disarmament treaty, and send someone of high authority to try to see it through. The Prime Minister sat then in stony silence, without a flicker of agreement on his face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "WORLD DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "bout our lack of interest, about our lack of concern and how we have not produced this or that plan. I will shortly inform the House in detail of what has actually been achieved. When the right hon. Gentleman had to produce some result, he said that the Americans had achieved it. I am delighted. It is the first time that I have heard the Americans praised by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "WORLD DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "d and discreditable travesty of reality that I have ever listened to in debate in the House. This came from a member of a Government which increased armaments in this country at a greater rate than they had ever been increased before in peace-time, and which, in addition, spent £100 million on making an atomic bomb without telling the House of Commons a word about it. I do not complain about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-14", "file": "debates1955-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2086126679da1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "WORLD DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "I do understand that. What I was dealing with was rather the problem of whether it was possible, by means, shall we say, of a ban on the bang, to create a situation of greater confidence about future developments in this matter. That is what a year or two ago we thought conceivable, but I am afraid that it is not a line we can now follow with great results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-14a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-15", "file": "debates1955-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "d393739626d68d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-15a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Before this Question is answered, would you, Mr. Speaker, say whether it is in order, seeing that it is obviously designed and intended to throw some reflection on our allies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-15a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-15", "file": "debates1955-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "d393739626d68d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-15a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Navy Estimates, 1955–56", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman was out of order ten minutes ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "I began to develop a conscience, Sir Arthur, that perhaps I was out of order, but I have always found it difficult to keep in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-15a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-15", "file": "debates1955-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "d393739626d68d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-15a.1202.4", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Estimates, 1955–56", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "sent time. There is room for a considerable reduction of these Estimates. I am not biased against the Army like my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg). The hon. and gallant Member for the Isle of Ely said that my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley was biased against the Brigade of Guards. I have no bias against the Brigade of Guards. My bias, if I have any, is rather against the 3rd Welch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-15a.1202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-15", "file": "debates1955-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "d393739626d68d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-15a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Estimates, 1955–56", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Join with a wife?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member's point was whether National Service men got the marriage allowance. So far as I know—I should like to make a reservation, because I will check this later—they all get it regardless of age. I do not think that there is any bar whatsoever, and I think that I am right in saying that if a man joins with a wife, he starts off with a marriage allowance on the first day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-15a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-16", "file": "debates1955-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ec39e8969265804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1277.10", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And elsewhere.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that there is dissatisfaction in Twickenham over the telephone position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1277.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-16", "file": "debates1955-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ec39e8969265804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Of course, so far as working conditions affecting train crews are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-16", "file": "debates1955-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ec39e8969265804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Of course, so far as working conditions affecting train crews are concerned—[HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point.\"] The temperatures under which they work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-16", "file": "debates1955-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ec39e8969265804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Of course, so far as working conditions affecting train crews are concerned—[HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point.\"] The temperatures under which they work—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—I should regard as some of their working conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-16", "file": "debates1955-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ec39e8969265804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Of course, so far as working conditions affecting train crews are concerned—[HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point.\"] The temperatures under which they work—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—I should regard as some of their working conditions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the question.\"] If my hon. Friend has passengers in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-16", "file": "debates1955-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ec39e8969265804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1300.6", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REPATRIATED BRITISH PRISONERS, KOREA (QUESTIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister give us detailed information about how the evidence was taken, how much of it was oral, how much was written, and can he indicate how much of it was based—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1300.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-16", "file": "debates1955-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ec39e8969265804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Monstrous.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "of Commons. No one who knows me well, as I thought he did, would accuse me of being unapproachable. Even yesterday evening we had a brief talk about the debate today and this is the first time he has made any such charge. If the right hon. Gentleman feels it necessary, for purposes unknown to me, to make these suggestions in Parliament, surely he should also, as a colleague, make them to me first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-16", "file": "debates1955-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ec39e8969265804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " the misrepresentation and thorough unsuitability of those words in a multi-racial community, the expressions \"dangerous, suspect and clear\" will be adopted for public use in the future. I hope that every hon. Member will set a good example in using those words. Several hon. Members have referred to the rate of release. Clearly, we are anxious that those who are \"white\" should be released at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-16a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-17", "file": "debates1955-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d127483a39d3e0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1447.10", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We are getting too many points of order. The last point of order is not correct because, if an hon. Member thinks a Question is out of order, he is entitled to raise the matter. My own view of the matter is that this Question was probably put down before the recent statements. It was in order when it was put down, and there was no reason to take it off. Mr. Hutchison. Mr. Teeling—Question No. 37.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1447.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-17", "file": "debates1955-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d127483a39d3e0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "There seem to have been a lot of casualties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-17", "file": "debates1955-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d127483a39d3e0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1448.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Look round.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is not the House entitled to know the cause of this hilarity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-17", "file": "debates1955-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d127483a39d3e0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE A. NUMBER FOR AIR FORCE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was provoked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "y and good nature with which he has conducted these debates. In saying that, I should like to contract his good temper with the attitude shown by his colleague the Minister of Supply, when he was dealing with some of the criticisms made about aircraft manufacture in this country. I think that the Minister of Supply was arrogant in his attitude to the House when he dealt with the aircraft position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-17", "file": "debates1955-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d127483a39d3e0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1498.3", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE A. NUMBER FOR AIR FORCE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "will be saying precisely what he will be saying this year and what he said last year, that the Estimates have been under-spent, that once again Parliament approved Estimates although the money could not be spent because the Service authorities budgeted for too much. This matter should be looked at in the light of the experience gained in the last four financial years of extravagant overestimating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-17", "file": "debates1955-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d127483a39d3e0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE A. NUMBER OF LAND FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is most helpful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-17", "file": "debates1955-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d127483a39d3e0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1575.2", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE A. NUMBER OF LAND FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Surely the best way for the right hon. Gentleman to deal with the matter is to say that he will investigate it, and if, on investigation, it is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-17", "file": "debates1955-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d127483a39d3e0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1578.4", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE A. NUMBER OF LAND FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I know. But the point I am raising is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-17a.1578.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-18", "file": "debates1955-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e693d31393cda822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-18a.1617.3", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which two?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "id Lloyd George assured us all that he would grant enfranchisement if it were possible. The City of Cardiff is especially affected by this system. Two great financial corporations hold us in their grasp. WesternGround Rents Ltd. and the Tredegar Estates own a considerable proportion of our city. Two hon. Members opposite are associated with Western Ground Rents and I shall refer to them presently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-18a.1617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-18", "file": "debates1955-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e693d31393cda822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-18a.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We can see them in this House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "te recently to advise nearly 700 leaseholders in one part of my division to accept what I considered to be reasonable terms that had been agreed with their ground landlords. I only wish it had been possible to do the same in other cases, but I fear there is very little hope. A curious historical development of this problem is that we do not frequently meet the land owners with whom we are dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-18a.1627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-18", "file": "debates1955-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e693d31393cda822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-18a.1634.1", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "I gladly answer that he has no interest in Western Ground Rents at all. In the beginning he did have a mortgage", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-18a.1634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-21", "file": "debates1955-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae7aecc7453bb912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-21a.1740.2", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "We did not import 4 million tons of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-21a.1740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-21", "file": "debates1955-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae7aecc7453bb912", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-21a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Clause 151.—(DEDUCTIONS FROM PAY FOR MAINTENANCE OF WIFE OR CHILD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": " on behalf of the Bill. I often felt that I should rise to explain some knotty point of law, but always before I could do so someone like the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) or some other hon. Member had done it for me. This has been an important and a very major step for the Services, and it has come out of a great storm which was, perhaps, not generated out of the most noble purposes, but one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-21a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I suggest that my hon. Friend takes steps to get the information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS (GENETIC EFFECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th March, 1955; Vol. 538, c. 956–7.] We would all welcome such a statement if it came from genuinely independent scientists, but I find it difficult to accept that the right hon. Gentleman really believes that scientists from behind the Iron Curtain would come to such a conference without their briefs, without their set speeches and in a truly independent state of mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS (GENETIC EFFECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Try it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "56–7.] We would all welcome such a statement if it came from genuinely independent scientists, but I find it difficult to accept that the right hon. Gentleman really believes that scientists from behind the Iron Curtain would come to such a conference without their briefs, without their set speeches and in a truly independent state of mind. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] I should like to believe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS (GENETIC EFFECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And by the right men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "e. It was simply that they believed that the danger to the free world was very great, and something had to be done about it. We need, I believe, to look our dangers in the face. We do not want to run away because tiresome, dangerous and bestial things may happen. I come now to the question of conferences. Conferences can be very valuable when they are held at the right time and in the right place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1955.3", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Yes, but at that stage, under the existing law, he is able to remedy those defects himself if he so prefers. That right has now been taken from him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1955.3", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Yes, but at that stage, under the existing law, he is able to remedy those defects himself if he so prefers. That right has now been taken from him—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—if the cost is less than £250.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1955.3", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " to catch virtually all cases. Clause 26 (2) constitutes a deviation from the existing law, in that it fastens on the owner a new liability of serving a counter-notice if he wishes to remedy the defect himself. It may be that the London County Council can show a case for altering the procedure in regard to these Clauses and that there is a case for a more speedy procedure in regard to the Clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Webbe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"All the 120 of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Webbe", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer for my hon. Friends. I can only say that, for my own part, I missed this particular Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2005.1", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "HIRE PURCHASE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Roosevelt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "my of the country is not satisfactory difficulties arise not only for the Tyne furniture factory but throughout the whole range of British industry. I was very interested to note that the late Marshal Stalin said—and please do not call me to order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, because it really is in order—that the British were very peculiar people because they wanted both to have their cake and to eat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2013.1", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "HIRE PURCHASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "preceding_text": "e lack of reasoning in this Order, I mention refrigerators. Refrigerators having a storage capacity not exceeding 12 cubic feet come within the restrictions, and one must pay 15 per cent. down and clear the outstanding amount in not more than 24 months. This leads me to conclude that if the refrigerator I buy is of a capacity of 13 cubic feet, I can do as I like about paying for it. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "HIRE PURCHASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nd correctly stated to be about two years for the kinds of goods concerned. The hon. Member for Stechford suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had been a little too venturesome or even financially adventurous in removing all hire-purchase restrictions, last July. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor believes, as I believe, that Conservative freedom works. But there are many imponderables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "HIRE PURCHASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Dividends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " about bank advances for other things altogether. When he was reminded by my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South (Sir W. Darling) of the importance of the Bank Rate, the right hon. Gentleman said that we were not discussing the Bank Rate, but in fact he was discussing it very conveniently until he was interrupted by my hon. Friend. The Bank Rate looks after a great deal but not everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-22", "file": "debates1955-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3783d5b25eadbe73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2037.5", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "HOSPITALS, SOUTH-EAST SCOTLAND (CAPITAL ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about a new general hospital?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "epresents a definite contribution towards meeting these needs. In general, the need is less for new bed accommodation than for improvement and modernisation of existing services. It is true that some new beds are needed. In Fife, there is a definite shortage of accommodation for patients, and I have mentioned the special steps being taken in that area in connection with the infirmary at Kirkcaldy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-22a.2037.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2051.5", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDEPENDENT TELEVISION AUTHORITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2051.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2059.2", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I did advise the hon. and gallant Member that I proposed to mention his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2079.5", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "uidator in bankruptcy, the administrator of a policy already in ruins, although with this difference, that the act of bankruptcy usually brings an abrupt end to losses, whereas the right hon. Gentleman is accountable not only for past losses but for present losses on an aggravating scale. I understand that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food is not to intervene in the debate today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2079.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2082.1", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It could not be got before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "If we compare like with like, we see that bacon back rashers under the Labour Government sold at a maximum price of 3s. a lb. and they are now running at 3s. l0d. a lb. Gammon was 3s. a lb. and is now 4s. 4d. Cheese was Is. 2d. a lb. and the price range now is from 2s. to 3s. 6d. a lb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2084.1", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Eggs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "there is not much in that excuse. The second excuse given by the Government is that if we have a high-cost domestic market and a free market we will attract to this country additional food supplies; free enterprise will—to use the hallowed words of \"Britain Strong and Free\"—\"comb the world for greater supplies. \"I regret very much that the business men have not got on very well with their combing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2085.2", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "We have imported 40,000 tons less beef and 24,000 less mutton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2099.5", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Earnings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "Let us see what has happened to wages. Between 1949 and 1951, prices rose, on average, according to the retail price index, slightly over 6 per cent. every year. During these years wages rose, on average, by 5½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2099.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "out the increases in prices of certain kinds of food. The satisfaction which I am sure he feels with us at the lower prices for other imported foods which are available today was not quite so exuberantly expressed by him. I would remind him and the House that the prices of cheese, bacon and eggs are lower today than when they were controlled. So, too, are some brands of butter, margarine and fats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2102.4", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name the brands.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "At the present time it is possible to buy certain brands of butter, margarine and fats at prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2108.1", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "ay more for their food than they ought to pay, and that many people cannot purchase the food which they would like to purchase because of its very high price. About that there can be no doubt at all. The next thing which the Minister did—and I think this was a cruel thing to do—was to try to lead the House to think that old-age pensioners were now having a picnic because of the present Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2108.3", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "That is an excellent diversion, but it is a very poor interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2110.1", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "It is evident that hon. Gentlemen opposite cannot look these plain facts in the face. They are always producing an academic barrage or some sort of artificial thesis in order to hide the facts. What I was saying is irrefutable. It is that because of the high cost of living wages have had to be increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2110.1", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where do those figures come from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "tter—and buries the true facts under them. The fact, however, is that basic food costs have gone up more than 40 per cent. since 1951. Anybody who examines the graph will see how the figures have soared. For a family of four, the increase over 1951 in basic prices of food in January, 1953, was 23 per cent. By January, 1954, the cost had gone up to 33 per cent. and by October, 1954, by 40 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2110.1", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": " per cent. since 1951. Anybody who examines the graph will see how the figures have soared. For a family of four, the increase over 1951 in basic prices of food in January, 1953, was 23 per cent. By January, 1954, the cost had gone up to 33 per cent. and by October, 1954, by 40 per cent. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where do those figures come from?\"] They are from the research department of \"Reynolds News\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2112.3", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A very good speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member wants a clerk I invite him to engage one, but if he cares to walk from the Chamber—and I am sure he will not be missed—and go to the Library he can himself there do the work which he asks me to do for him. When the Foreign Secretary spoke some time ago, on, I think, the only occasion I have heard him do so, on domestic matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2130.3", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They introduced it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "ccurred during the last 12 months of the Socialist Administration. Furthermore, during our period of office there have been two reductions in Income Tax, and we have given or are in process of giving two rises in social benefits, which suffered tremendously from the rise in the cost of living under the Socialist Government. When the Socialist Government came into power the family allowance was 5s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2130.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2131.0", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What was it in 1945?", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "r in 1951, it was still 5s., although the purchasing power had declined considerably. I will admit that social benefits were introduced by the Socialist Government, but when they were introduced the basic rate for a single person was 26s. When they went out of power it was still 26s., with the exception of a limited number of pensioners and yet there had been a constant rise in the cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2130.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2131.2", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the hungry thirties?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2131.3", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No rise in the cost of living.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "t only have there been two reductions in taxation under the Conservative Government, not only have there been improvements in social benefits, but for the first time wage increases are ahead of any increase in the price of commodities. That was not the case in the days of the Socialist Government. I want to make a point which is too often misrepresented. The Conservatives never made easy promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2131.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2138.3", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "I think it lamentable that a Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2139.0", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"You may.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "I accept the hon. Lady's apology. I am well aware, as are hon. Members opposite, that the hon. Lady for Coatbridge and Airdrie is tonight winding up for her side. She will have every opportunity after I have finished, and that is why I particularly addressed this point to her so that she may be able to answer it. If I may conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2146.3", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " been said on more than one occasion, the cost of living is to be one of the prime questions for discussion at the next General Election, I would ask the hon. Member for Sunderland, North and the right hon. Member for Llanelly—whose case is that the cost of living is too high—how much too high do they think the price of food is today, and by how much are they proposing to promise to bring it down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2159.1", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ch hon. Members opposite seek to evade when they fight an election. I should like them to go to the country, when they get an opportunity, and say, \"Our statement in 1951that the Tories would bring unemployment has proved to be untrue.\" For we now have such full employment that the trade unions are in a very strong bargaining position and there is no free movement of labour such as we should like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2162.3", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I know of case after case where there are far too many spending their lives interfering with other people's lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2162.3", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ite try to depend entirely on their rather nebulous and out-dated story of the wicked Tory boss. They had better forget about that pretty quickly because the electorate has long since got over its fear of the spectre which the Opposition tries to portray. I should like to see more co-operation in industry because I think it would be a great help in bringing down the cost of our manufactured goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2173.3", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman leaves that point, may I apologise and say that I ought to have referred to 1950?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": " in it. Do not let them pull the wool over your eyes\"? Did not hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite promise women voters that prices would come down? If they have not found it possible to reduce prices, why, after making such promises, did they increase them? Was it because world conditions were against them? On the contrary, every act which increased the cost of living was deliberately planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The Co-op.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "—or the masters of the boys up there in the Gallery—who said, \"Abolish controls. Make a bonfire of controls, and in the free competition that follows prices will find their own level.\" Where I live there are seven different grocers' shops with seven different names above them, and they are all one combine. There are eight different names above eight different bakeries and they are all one combine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What about the time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "it to the housewives and tell them what will happen. The Chancellor of the Exchequer told us that of the £600 million extra consumer expenditure—this will be the washing machines, the refrigerators, the alcohol, the tobacco, the ice-cream and sweets we were hearing about—£525 million represented increased prices. Only £75 million represented increased consumption. He said that on 16th March, 1954.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-23", "file": "debates1955-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a8c296032273adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2198.0", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ons, or the amount which the community can afford to spend on less essential things; whether we look at the trading experience of the Co-operative and the multiple stores—the shops where the mass of the people go to spend their money—all the evidence is quite incontrovertible, that there has been a substantial increase in the standard of living of the people, as a whole, over the last three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-23a.2195.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2257.12", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am sure my right hon. Friend will give very sympathetic con- sideration to any suggestion made by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2257.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2326.1", "colnum": "2326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might continue with my argument but omit that point. On two other grounds a newspaper can never be a horror comic. If a horror comic is published under the auspices of a newspaper, then the sheet ceases to be a newspaper and becomes a horror comic. Newspapers contain news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2326.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2345.0", "colnum": "2345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "t as there are certain more important Amendments which I still hope will receive friendly attention from the Front Bench, and as this one does not seem as important as those, it might be bad tactics to irritate the Attorney-General by pressing him to accept the Amendment. I can do no more than ask leave to withdraw the Amendment, but it may be refused. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2344.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2357.1", "colnum": "2357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "us influence upon young children, I shall beg to differ from him. One could say the same of a whole library of those children's classics on which we have been reared. There is, for instance, \"Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.\" Who is going to say that one can catch living creatures, put them into a pie, bake them alive and then expect when one opens the pie to find them beginning to sing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2378.2", "colnum": "2378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. Nicolson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "May I, as a publisher, state my view? My hon. and learned Friend has indicated that he will look at the matter again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2382.3", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or for leaving them in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "f which I know which would not be struck at by the Bill, and there is nothing which is not a horror comic which the form of words in the Bill would not exclude. Certain hon. Members opposite and my hon. Friend the Member for Bedfordshire, South have said that if we strike out the words \"as a whole\" we do not alter the meaning legally. If that is so, there is no justification for striking them out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2405.2", "colnum": "2405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is not learned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "ver, I must say that I cannot accept either the right hon. Gentleman on that side or the right hon. and gallant Gentleman on this side when they say that the words which will be left if this Amendment is carried will result in no convictions being brought about. I wonder where all the great legal panjandrums have gone. I notice that the hon. and learned Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2405.2", "colnum": "2405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is not learned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": " left if this Amendment is carried will result in no convictions being brought about. I wonder where all the great legal panjandrums have gone. I notice that the hon. and learned Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) has gone. [Hon. Members: \"He is not learned.\"] I sometimes think that he is very learned. I notice that the hon. and very learned Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2406.6", "colnum": "2406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members are perfectly at liberty to laugh at that which is funny. In my humble opinion it will not be very funny for those who get convicted under this Measure if they are wrongly convicted. The Bill speaks of incidents of a repulsive or horrible nature\" which would \"tend to corrupt. I can imagine the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2406.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2407.3", "colnum": "2407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "It is all very well for the hon. Gentleman to say that. It is one thing to get successful convictions and another to get the type of successful convictions that we want. There is only one purpose in the Bill, and that is to stop the circulation of what we know as horror comics. Until my mind is perfectly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-24", "file": "debates1955-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb33f014d548f208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2410.0", "colnum": "2410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(WORKS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "says that he will agree to an Amendment limiting the period during which the Bill will operate. That brings us to the fourth of the protections under the Bill to which the right hon. and gallant Gentleman referred. He said that we could have the protection which seeks to limit the kind of conviction which would be obtained under the Bill. That brings me to the first \"tend to\" and to the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-24a.2410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-28", "file": "debates1955-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2900d4ecdca3d2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" That is unusual.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "With respect, Sir, I was preparing a very short supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-28", "file": "debates1955-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2900d4ecdca3d2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "EARL LLOYD-GEORGE OF DWYFOR (MONUMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "preceding_text": "nister. He raised the question whether the memorial to Lloyd George should be in this building or elsewhere. Personally, I hope that the monument will be put up in this building, as he was a great House of Commons man, but it raises the question not only of future statues but of those we already have in this building. If we look around the Palace of Westminster we find a rather odd lot of statues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-28", "file": "debates1955-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2900d4ecdca3d2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "EARL LLOYD-GEORGE OF DWYFOR (MONUMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" 0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "preceding_text": "ons man, but it raises the question not only of future statues but of those we already have in this building. If we look around the Palace of Westminster we find a rather odd lot of statues. [HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"] If we look in the Lobby, we find that we have Asquith, who was a worthy Prime Minister, but we also have there a number of other people, such as Harcourt, whom nobody now would remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-28", "file": "debates1955-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2900d4ecdca3d2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "f stuff pouring into his shop every week, to have to go through material in great detail to determine whether or not it comes within the terms of the Bill. Very dangerous precedents and difficulties would be created if newsagents and booksellers had to exercise this kind of censorship. I once wrote a book which W. H. Smith & Son Ltd. would not circulate and would not include in their bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-28", "file": "debates1955-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2900d4ecdca3d2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Look at Clause 4.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "I can understand the anxiety of the hon. Member for Devonport (Mr. Foot) on behalf of retailers, newsagents and so on who might be caught under the Clause, but perhaps he would like to tell the Committee how he would deal with importers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-28", "file": "debates1955-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2900d4ecdca3d2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ke penalties too severe, so that juries are apt to regard them as too severe, they become very reluctant to convict. To give an example, I am sure that one of the difficulties about getting convictions for driving under the influence of drink is the fear on the part of juries that if they convict a man for this offence he may be sent to prison. They object to sending middle-class people to prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-28", "file": "debates1955-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2900d4ecdca3d2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I have explained that we are advised that it would be more convenient if it were dealt with by two separate orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-28", "file": "debates1955-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2900d4ecdca3d2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I cannot quite follow the hon. Member in that. It would seem perfectly clear what we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-28", "file": "debates1955-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2900d4ecdca3d2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" 0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "With great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-28a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-29", "file": "debates1955-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bd6e2b51b7f5f5a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-29a.198.5", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALACE OF WESTMINSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the reply which he has given about this very important question will give great satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-29a.198.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-29", "file": "debates1955-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bd6e2b51b7f5f5a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-29a.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "wn in the information. But he is not allowed to have a free roam around the publisher's premises. When he arrives at the premises, it seems to me that what he will be able to do is not merely to seize the work which is the subject matter of the information, but also he will have the opportunity to roam round the publisher's premises and at the same time seize anything else which he wishes to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-29a.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-29", "file": "debates1955-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bd6e2b51b7f5f5a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-29a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "WIRELESS AND TELEVISION (INTERFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "do not know what evidence there is that this is necessary, but it is a pretty serious thing when one is quietly using one's electric shaver and contemplating oneself in the mirror if there suddenly pops up a little gentleman in a bowler hat and pin-striped trousers, with an attenuated calibrator or a calibrated attenuator, as the case may be, and starts telling one that the decibels are excessive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-29a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-29", "file": "debates1955-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bd6e2b51b7f5f5a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-29a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "WIRELESS AND TELEVISION (INTERFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "that it achieved its purpose without causing inconvenience to millions of householders. It seems strange that opposition to this set of Regulations should come from hon. Members opposite. If there is any blame in this matter it ought to be squarely placed on the Postmaster-General of five or six years ago, who obtained the powers which are now being criticised. I do not want to make a party point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-29a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-30", "file": "debates1955-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "1652afe53f621b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the reliability of this test has to a large extent been proved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-30", "file": "debates1955-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "1652afe53f621b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" It is in HANSARD.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "As I do not know what that answer was, may I ask the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-30", "file": "debates1955-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "1652afe53f621b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISARMAMENT SUB-COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "While strongly deprecating unauthorised, ex parte disclosures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.368.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-30", "file": "debates1955-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "1652afe53f621b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister's offer to extend the period to 1962 conditional upon hon. Members upon this side of the Committee not voting against the Third Reading? Is the right hon. Gentleman going to say that if we vote against the Bill upon Third Reading the period in question will revert to 1960, and he will not be prepared to extend it to 1962?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.426.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-30", "file": "debates1955-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "1652afe53f621b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I think you had collected the voices, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-30", "file": "debates1955-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "1652afe53f621b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": "casion. If it was right to shove this provision into the Requisitioned Houses and Housing (Amendment) Bill this time, and if in another 12 months or less, it is necessary to get fresh House of Commons authority for an advance to the Scottish Special Housing Association, goodness knows into which Bill we shall put it. We have some reason to believe that we may have a Slaughterhouses Bill next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-30", "file": "debates1955-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "1652afe53f621b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" What'? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Evans", "preceding_text": "vert to the final solution, which is open to them in Clause 11, of buying or leasing the premises which then remain requisitioned. If that stage is reached and the authorities in the hard core areas are faced with that problem. the Minister, if still in office, will be faced with the problem all over again. In my own borough, which is typical of many, 23,000 families are living in 13,000 premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-30a.504.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-31", "file": "debates1955-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ae009fbd475ec034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Wall", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend not agree that the short-fall of Icelandic landings is more than being made up by British landings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-31", "file": "debates1955-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ae009fbd475ec034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.553.4", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGED PERSONS (WELFARE)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "But is the hon. Lady aware that there are still far too many cases in which good men and women, merely on account of age, are pushed out of jobs which they are quite capable of carrying on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-31", "file": "debates1955-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ae009fbd475ec034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "POLICE (RECRUITMENT AND CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" And better grammar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "o do not represent Scottish constituencies have had the chance of looking at the Scottish Report of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary for the first time. I should like the Home Secretary to note that the Scottish Report is infinitely better in its lay-out and printing than the English one. This is not all-important, but it is something. The Scottish Report also bears a stylish coat of arms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-31", "file": "debates1955-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ae009fbd475ec034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "POLICE (RECRUITMENT AND CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " Of course, that position has now gone. We have to think out—and I hope we shall be able to think it out in this House with a fair degree of good will on all sides—what we are going to do for those who perform the inconvenient jobs that are so essential. We used to be asked who, under Socialism, would collect the dust. As far as I know, there is no trouble about obtaining scavengers at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.623.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-03-31", "file": "debates1955-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ae009fbd475ec034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "POLICE (RECRUITMENT AND CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Nineteen fifty-three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": " enough, the good Lord treats the Conservatives in the same way as he treats the Labour Party with his weather. As I have said, the Economic Survey states: Weather conditions for agriculture were very unfavourable during 1954. At the beginning of the year ploughing and cultivation were impeded, and this contributed to a reduction of about 500.000 acres in the tillage area, as compared with 1959 \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.649.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-31", "file": "debates1955-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ae009fbd475ec034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "POLICE (RECRUITMENT AND CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " and essayists have written about him, and politicians have made pontifical and pompous speeches about the wonderful British agricultural worker, but when it comes to the question of feeding him and giving him enough on which to keep his wife and children, or giving his children a secondary education or even an agricultural education, that is a different story. When our Government came into power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-31", "file": "debates1955-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ae009fbd475ec034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "POLICE (RECRUITMENT AND CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Yes, if it can take it. Nor do I think that is quite true of eggs and bacon. This is important to both sides of the House, whatever politics the farmers sitting opposite me may have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-03-31", "file": "debates1955-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "ae009fbd475ec034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.673.5", "colnum": "673", "heading": "CHRONIC DISEASES (PENSIONS CASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "From the time that I came into this House I have always endeavoured to raise, on the Adjournment, pensions questions such as I shall raise this evening. I have tried as far as possible to raise every aspect of this question without taking a tiresome attitude about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-03-31a.673.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ded in a ringed fence \"? While the hon. Member for Leek was out of the Chamber, my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South-West asked where we should put the notices dealing with the regulations. I know that it is easy enough to pick holes in this Bill, and I do not desire to pick more holes in it than I feel obliged to. Many of the things which I have mentioned could be dealt with in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ain while the hon. Member for Leek was out of the Chamber, reference was made to the question of delegated legislation. Some time between 1946 and 1950 I recall hearing senior civil servants say that the thing which concerned them most about the present trend of legislation was the increasing amount of delegated legislation. One speaker said that it led to a loss of anonymity in the Civil Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. 12 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Dr. Stross) will agree that it is a very wide field indeed and it covers, I believe, nine million workers. I believe it is something like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "e. I am very sorry indeed to be critical of the precise provisions of the Bill. I simply hate pouring cold water on the hon. Gentleman's proposals. I admire his initiative, and, as I have mentioned, the Government are in entire agreement with the general objective of the Bill. The Government have already made it clear that it is their intention to introduce legislation of, broadly, the same scope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "accommodation and have to go to the public conveniences. Can the Minister say that it is not necessary to have this Bill on the Statute Book when the washing facilities in many of these places are deplorable? Where a tap is provided it is sometimes only a cold-water tap. Would the Minister like to be served by a shop assistant who has to use a lavatory where hands can only be rinsed in cold water?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.757.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Remnant", "preceding_text": "al of pleasure, so I am sorry to say that today he has fallen far below his usual high standard. Hon. and right hon. Members on both sides of the House have declared that they are in favour of the objects of the Bill and we have been debating merely methods of attaining those objects. There were no party politics about the debate until the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Blyth introduced them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.763.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.764.6", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The brewers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Let the hon. Member declare his interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.764.9", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Remnant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Remnant", "preceding_text": "for it will be when the internal economy is not subject to the same strains and stresses. Last night the hon. Member was seeking to attack the Government for not giving proper help to the small farmer. He asked: What policy can we adopt to save the small farmer from bankruptcy?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 31st March, 1955; Vol. 539, c. 659.] Is it one of the hon. Member's methods to add to his expenditure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.764.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They resisted them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "ndustrial life of the nation. The right hon. Member for Epsom (Mr. McCorquodale) and some of his hon. Friends stated that they were afraid of Government action, that they were afraid of the power of Government interference, and that was one of the reasons they advanced against this Bill. The need for Government interference was realised by pre-war Governments when they produced the Factories Acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "that it is a pretty intelligent guess. I invite the Minister to confirm or deny it. That would be a much more comprehensive Measure than this Bill because it would contain many details which it is impossible for a Private Member's Bill to cover. If the Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department intends to reply, I suggest that he pays attention and that he does not do so much smirking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blyth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I do not know. [ Laughter .] Right hon. and hon. Members may laugh, but, so far as I know, I am entitled to vote on this Measure as I wish. It is all very well for hon. Gentlemen opposite to treat this as a humorous matter, but it is not very funny. It is not a very funny matter for the right hon. Gentleman whose constituency I cannot think of, which is very rude of me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "A number of us on this side of the House feel very much as the hon. Member for Leek does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.774.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "ose people in the countryside, who hitherto have looked to the Conservative Party for support and succour, it is seen once again that they have been let down by the Conservative Party and that nearly half the workers of the country are not being given the legislation for their own protection and wellbeing which they ought to have, many will alter their allegiance, if they have not already done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.779.4", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NON-INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": " this side of the House are against social legislation of this description. I think it can be said in all fairness—indeed, this is a statement of fact and something which was said by no less a person than that great member of the party opposite, the late J. R. Clynes, in the 'thirties when speaking of the previous 25 years—that no party had brought in better social legislation than the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.779.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-01", "file": "debates1955-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "9b3bfa799f643b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANIMALS (CRUEL POISONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-01a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-04", "file": "debates1955-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a868a8561fa1fcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.810.5", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Meat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that such things as meat, eggs, cheese and bacon are cheaper than when under control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.810.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-04", "file": "debates1955-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a868a8561fa1fcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.811.7", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Could the right hon. Gentleman say whether he has evidence to show that the increase is great in all the lowest income groups?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.811.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-04", "file": "debates1955-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a868a8561fa1fcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHURCH PROPERTY, PADDINGTON (LEASES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Crowder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Crowder", "preceding_text": "The Church Commissioners cannot be held responsible for leases granted in 1868.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-04", "file": "debates1955-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a868a8561fa1fcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "TURCO-IRAQI PACT (UNITED KINGDOM ACCESSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "casts doubt upon that is, I repeat, doing a great disservice to Israel, and in a most sensitive part, namely, by raising doubt in the Arab States as to whether the Tripartite Agreement is valid. The Minister of State has already given an assurance on that point, and I am sure that further assurances will be forthcoming in so far as they can be made without casting doubt upon the existing document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-04", "file": "debates1955-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "a868a8561fa1fcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "TURCO-IRAQI PACT (UNITED KINGDOM ACCESSION)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "But that is not all. Under this Pact we are rearming Iraq. We are to create four divisions, and the Iraquis are openly saying that they intend to use them for the second round against Israel. That is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-04a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-05", "file": "debates1955-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "696b1f350034a11b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in one factory in my constituency there are only 36,517 dozens of knitted gloves on order today as against 155,635 dozens last year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.985.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-05", "file": "debates1955-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "696b1f350034a11b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.996.4", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why? Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-05", "file": "debates1955-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "696b1f350034a11b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that so far as this serious dispute is concerned, nobody on this side of the House has made one single irresponsible statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-05", "file": "debates1955-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "696b1f350034a11b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that so far as this serious dispute is concerned, nobody on this side of the House has made one single irresponsible statement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—I am speaking of what has taken place on the Floor of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.997.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-05", "file": "debates1955-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "696b1f350034a11b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and gallant Friend aware that the Town Council of Ayr is quite willing to await the results of the negotiations being conducted by its Member with the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.1002.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-05", "file": "debates1955-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "696b1f350034a11b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Keenan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Keenan", "preceding_text": "ost.\" It may be that I had my attention drawn to that more particularly because of the limitations on newspapers nowadays, but I do read the \"Liverpool Post.\" Like other hon. Members, I hope that when I make a beautiful gesture or a brilliant speech the local paper will not forget to mention it. I often think that some hon. Members talk in this House so that local papers will report what they say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-05", "file": "debates1955-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "696b1f350034a11b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.1130.3", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If, in Opposition, the Minister had heard such an explanation from one of my right hon. Friends on exempted business, we should have been in for an all-night sitting, and, as this is exempted business, I cannot regard the Minister's explanation as in any way satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-05a.1130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-06", "file": "debates1955-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "b4b56760ecfbf887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-06a.1147.4", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that many motorists show a complete disregard for the line beyond which they are not supposed to park?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-06a.1147.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-06", "file": "debates1955-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "b4b56760ecfbf887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-06a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Horobin", "preceding_text": "Time is getting on, and I must resist the temptation to follow the hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-06a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-06", "file": "debates1955-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "b4b56760ecfbf887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-06a.1279.5", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "l of the financial structure of local government. Local government is not the junior partner in government. It is an equal partner in government, carrying on great services, the great constructive services. Most of the proceeds of the Income Tax, for instance, go to pay for wars past and present, but the finances of local government are for great undertakings which have never harmed a living soul.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-06a.1279.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-19", "file": "debates1955-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "32bdba40adf8c828", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOUR-POWER TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the right hon. Gentleman means. During the six years in which he was in office there were no top-level talks of any kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-19", "file": "debates1955-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "32bdba40adf8c828", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXTERNAL PROSPECTS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We must certainly watch other personal incomes also—for example, dividends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-19", "file": "debates1955-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "32bdba40adf8c828", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.63.13", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t should be so, because it is always a matter of grave concern to the economic well-being of the country. I have no doubt that the pessimism of the Government about the balance of payments situation and the balance of trade is one of the factors which has caused them to propose a General Election. There are disappointing features about the Budget. Those which the Opposition have cynically cheered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.63.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-19", "file": "debates1955-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "32bdba40adf8c828", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If he returns.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Crouch", "preceding_text": "is has been going down year by year by the hundred thousand pounds. It is a problem which he will have to face up to next year, because I feel certain that he will present the Budget which has to be submitted to the Committee in a year from now. There is nothing unusual about a Chancellor presenting a Budget, facing a General Election, and presenting another Budget after he has returned to office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-19", "file": "debates1955-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "32bdba40adf8c828", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "It was the first occasion I heard a \"Bevanite Member\" speaking of the Americans in a restrained way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-19a.153.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANNIVERSARY OF AUSTRIAN REPUBLIC (CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If that is the desire of the House, I will undertake to do so with pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "sing consumption under his Administration. Of course, we can see that consumption has risen faster in the last three years. But why was that? It was because the under the Labour Government we had to pursue a policy of austerity in order to build up our export trade. We had to pursue a policy of austerity and restraint so that we could devote enough of our resources to repairing the ravages of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.187.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.208.6", "colnum": "208", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Both.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Which is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I gather that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister repeated that word questioningly. Slumberwear is the modern equivalent of nightdress. A lady's nightdress—which I understand the Prime Minister thinks is a much better word—which sells in the shops at a guinea or more is likely to have borne Purchase Tax. I could continue the list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ople with incomes of under £500 have been relieved, on the average, of half their tax, and people with incomes of under £250 will have been relieved of four-fifths of it. I am sorry that my hon. Friend is not here today. The right hon. Gentleman, and other hon. Members opposite who spoke yesterday, sought to pretend that this was an unfair Budget, a class Budget, which gave only to the privileged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Butcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thirty-five per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Butcher", "preceding_text": "ocialist leader for a very long time. If I may comment in the absence of the right hon. Gentleman—I am sure he will forgive me—I would say that I fully understand the reason for his absence from the Chamber. The right hon. Gentleman dealt with the question of production under the Labour Government—30 per cent. in five years—and suggested that it was so much better than what was being achieved now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "preceding_text": "We have listened to large slices of gloom from the hon. Member for Edmonton (Mr. Albu) in the very racy manner in which he always speaks and gives us his warnings of impending disaster. Hon. Gentlemen on the Opposition benches ought to know a good deal about impending disaster, because they landed us into one in 1951. Our party rescued the country from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "We did. After a very short time the tendency to restraint fell off in the case of wages, but maintained itself in the case of dividends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If he is returned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain J. A. L. Duncan", "preceding_text": "use, I am sure that the other place would not delay its passage. In that case, my hon. Friend would have the great distinction of having been responsible for the passing of a Private Member's Bill of considerable interest to the literary people of Scotland in the last few weeks of this Session. If that is not possible, then my hon. Friend would have to take his luck in the Ballot, maybe next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-20", "file": "debates1955-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bfb460590d791c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "sors and others had constructed the Bill, but whatever criticisms were made it was, nevertheless, a better Bill than any produced by hon. Members on the benches opposite, because they have produced nothing for the workers since the findings of the Gowers Committee. There are six days left in which we can go into Committee upstairs and discuss in an amicable fashion this Bill and accept Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-20a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.338.11", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that if he interferes with the present constitution of the Burnham Committee, he will be asking for trouble?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.338.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ire. I should like to say a word or two on that subject. He was in error in supposing that any undertaking had been given that my right hon. Friend would make a statement this afternoon on that subject. The Government are not at the moment in a position to give to the Committee any comprehensive statement. We intend to make our statement at the time which will be of the most benefit to Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.361.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.364.2", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I think I have clearly explained the answer to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "y from 50 to 25 per cent.—will gather many votes of thanks in the County Palatine. I turn for a moment to a matter which has been raised today by the right hon. Gentleman. He could not have done better on Lancashire for he is not a member of the Cabinet and had to take what was handed out to him to say about Lancashire. Therefore I do not blame him for that, but he excels in smooth plausibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " to imagine. It is certainly the view of my hon. and right hon. Friends on this side that the way in which this £152 million is to be transferred to our pockets by way of Income Tax reduction is not the best way in which tax relief should have been given, and we certainly hold the view that a number of indirect taxes should have had some part of the total. I am not going to go over this in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.378.6", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "of what the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford referred to once as inevitable bankruptcy, when he was talking to President Roosevelt at a critical moment in the war, but we laid the foundations of full employment, and of a more equal, a more Socialist and a more prosperous society. Since then the Tories have had power for three and a half years, and now we are in the mess that we are in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.378.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "k the hon. Member knows the answer to that. It has never been the consistent policy of this Government that the value of the £ should drop, and I do not believe that it was the policy of right hon. Gentlemen opposite that the value of the £ should drop. What happened was that the value of the £ went down and down and down in their time, and the present Chancellor of the Exchequer has checked that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "rame large-scale taxation to suppress inflation or whatever it may be, we tax on a differential scale, and the man who can pay more is obliged to pay more, while those who cannot afford to do so and who are near the borderline do not pay so much, or nothing at all. When we get to a situation in which it is possible to relax taxation we return it to the people from whom it was originally extracted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.401.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He ought to be ashamed of himself.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "tanding, despite the sneers of people like the noble Lord, in building up and planning the prosperity of this country, and who turned aside from easy days and easy ways that we were asked to provide. We will remember the noble Lord himself going round the country telling people not to invest their money in National Savings. That was the extent of his patriotism, his contribution to national unity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " in this debate as to what will happen if we are returned to power, and it is only right that we on this side of the Committee should give fair warning as to what will happen in the international field in the matter of confidence in sterling if the party opposite is elected to power. Without any doubt at all, the rate of sterling would fall almost overnight if the Socialists came back into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.436.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.458.2", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Member will agree that indirect taxation is not only paid by the poor? If I understand him rightly, he said everyone pays indirect taxation, rich and poor—we all dress, all smoke and all drink—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "the wealth of the country adequate wages to enable them to maintain their standard of living. It is a well-known fact that the Tory Party represents the capitalists of this country, and what I am trying to emphasise to them is that as the cost of living rises, so the workers must have more pounds in their pay packets in order to maintain their previous standard of living. Another economic argument", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": " the subject knows perfectly well that if a man buys machinery at the beginning of a period during which prices rise, then during the four or five years before the plant is obsolete he has the use of cheaper machinery. He is getting the full advantage of increased prices at the same time. The result is that at the end of that period he has to pay three times the value of the replacement plant and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "lad to hear another laugh. It is pleasant to find that I am relieving the monotony in this way. When hon. Members opposite laugh so much it indicates that I am telling the truth. But let those laugh who can. As a capitalist I get pound notes much more cheaply than I used to get them, and with no more effort than the workman has to put in to get his wages. The cost of plant has gone up three times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "s no reasonable, logical, financial reason why financiers should have a claim to greater dividends because of the increased cost of plant. If they get the same dividend they get three times the same return, but financial journals, corporations and great capital concerns build up a psychology throughout the country that this is an absolute necessity and they get away with it. But this cannot go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "But this cannot go on—[ Laughter. ] I am glad to find that I am helping you so much. We have been told that Professor Kaldor is not to be relied upon, but take the words of the Chairman of the Asquith Company. He says that in 10 years the assets increased three and a quarter times. The increase was £964,000, and there was £731,000 from company assets to make up the £964,000 needed. In other words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-21", "file": "debates1955-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fdaedd437d618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": " the party believes and which will implement the theory and philosophy propounded to the Committee by my hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby. The Labour Party is supposed to represent the working people more truly and emphatically than the Tory Party, and to the extent that it does represent them, and plans a programme to implement the philosophy propounded by my hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-21a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-22", "file": "debates1955-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "58f25f4fc16078ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.485.21", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "f figures a year old, so presumably this year's figures will be better—will get a remission from the Chancellor of £760,000; Courtaulds will get £435,000; and Distillers £423,000. These are the amounts that have been given away to the big monopolies, while in my constituency and in the constituencies of us all a family man with two children, earning £12 a week, will get a concession of 3s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.485.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-22", "file": "debates1955-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "58f25f4fc16078ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The reply to that intervention has already been given from this side of the Committee. The circumstances were not comparable. The majority was very narrow and could not be counted upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-22", "file": "debates1955-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "58f25f4fc16078ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is two more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "1, the difference between success or defeat in a Division. It is a fact which cannot be denied that this Government, with its majority, has been enabled to continue in office and in power for no less than three and a half years. They cannot deny that, if they wished to go on for the next 18 months, there is nothing to prevent them doing so. Their whip is effective, their majority exactly the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-22", "file": "debates1955-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "58f25f4fc16078ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Essex.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "I should like, first, to congratulate the hon. Member for Norfolk, South (Mr. J. E. B. Hill), who seemed to me to speak much more eloquently for the farmers of Norfolk than I have ever heard the Chancellor do for the farmers of Suffolk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.554.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-22", "file": "debates1955-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "58f25f4fc16078ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "der whether hon. Members opposite realise that the Chancellor on his estimates for the present year, on the same basis, is spending at the rate of £32,000 million in six years? There was another manifesto, called \"Britain Strong and Free,\" which was certainly very free with the facts. It gave this categorical undertaking: Reductions in Government expenditure will make lower taxation more possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-22", "file": "debates1955-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "58f25f4fc16078ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "at the child allowances I am providing will be of some assistance to him. On the other hand we have had the really preposterous argument advanced by the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson)—who has been obliged to leave our debate for another engagement and who had the courtesy so to inform me—that £1,060,000 has been given to Unilever and only a few shillings to the man with two children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-22", "file": "debates1955-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "58f25f4fc16078ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "nute or two. Before I come to explain why there was this sense of moderation, I should like utterly to refute one statement by the right hon. Member for Huyton. He said—and I have only to repeat it for it to be rejected—that he supposed it was because the mill owners had not given sufficient contributions to the Tory Party funds that this Government had not paid sufficient attention to Lancashire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-22a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-25", "file": "debates1955-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c6ee5f6d7c07e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-25a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " off at a lower figure, owing to the reduced rate of tax. I now pass to subsection (5), which is also of interest to a great many of us. I suppose that I must declare my personal interest, because I have four children. This is a proposal to increase the child allowance from £85 to £100, and I personally am delighted to have a small share in supporting my right hon. Friend in carrying this through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-25a.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "Is not this relief of something just over 1s. a week to the bulk of these people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.741.6", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has given it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Why is the Chancellor seeking an excuse for not giving relief to the people who need it most?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.741.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.761.4", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say whether there is any type of person more despised by all ranks than the person who goes behind the back of his commanding officer and complains to his M.P.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "as no right to make such rules. What happened in this instance was they were going to have a guest night and there was a mess meeting. I suppose they decided what they were going to eat, who was going to attend and what they were going to wear. It is usual and natural that people do not want to feed in the evening in the clothes in which they work all day. This is the normal thing throughout life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.768.9", "colnum": "768", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "preceding_text": "ou know what is meant by a comprehensive school?\" Twenty-eight answered, \"No,\" and 72 answered, \"Yes.\" Then the reporter, not a member of the Labour Party but a reporter, explained to those 100 people what comprehensive schools were and the idea behind them, and asked, \"Having heard a broad outline of what they are, do you favour them?\" One hundred people answered \"Yes,\" and nobody answered, \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.768.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.768.9", "colnum": "768", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "preceding_text": "ing cost of maintaining the existing service. It is questionable whether, in real values, we are spending as much per child today as we were before the war. Education expenditure must be reviewed. Local authorities must either be given other sources of revenue or the grant formula must be revised. We would repeal the derating Act. This would give local authorities more money to spend on education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.768.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "Yes, certainly; it is quite a small town. Hon. Members opposite want to get rid of the 11-plus examination, and we very well understand the reasons. The difference between us is how to get rid of it. I do ask them not to try to do it by destroying 1,200 grammar schools and by showing the whole body of teachers and parents that the Labour Party has no confidence in the secondary modern school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.792.2", "colnum": "792", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I say that we should discuss the matter carefully with parents. Secondary modern schools are doing more and more good work at the top. We shall find that many parents will be quite satisfied with the choice that is made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.792.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.816.5", "colnum": "816", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "Entirely due to the financial crisis caused by the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "cel without effort in such poor company. The right policy is surely that of the Minister to try to improve secondary modern schools and in so doing to improve the lot of the people who do not have the good fortune to be borne with the genes, or whatever it is, to send them to an academic training. The Committee ought to recognise that there is no such thing as a late developer. That is a misnomer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.834.7", "colnum": "834", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " who very much want to try this experiment, and who in the judgment of the Minister have such arrangements that it could be there tried—without undue risk of anything approaching disaster, a great loss of known values—I propose in such places that it should be tried. But that is quite another thing from saying that we must have it everywhere and that if we do not have it we have not got democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.834.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-26", "file": "debates1955-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "21136b72b8b0a75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "preceding_text": "posite are trying to destroy at its most promising stage one of the greatest educational experiments we have ever undertaken, the secondary modern school. I cannot for the life of me understand how people who profess the ideals which hon. Gentlemen opposite profess can want to do it. I can understand their wanting to destroy grammar schools, because there are many things about the grammar schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-26a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-27", "file": "debates1955-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6d48c6eb4e02ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BURGESS AND MACLEAN", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider the very simple expedient of asking the Russians if they know anything about Burgess and Maclean and telling them that if they would like any more like Burgess and Maclean they have just to ask us and we will send them over?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-27", "file": "debates1955-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6d48c6eb4e02ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " war, the Government compelled the people to lend them money which they promised to return. Surely it would have been more equitable to have made a proposal to make some provision for the return of some part of these post-war credits? Would it not have been more equitable to do that than to give£1 million to Unilever? Never mind who else did not do it, would it not have been better to do that now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-27", "file": "debates1955-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6d48c6eb4e02ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.1002.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-27", "file": "debates1955-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6d48c6eb4e02ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.1009.4", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A Government diktat .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I do not have to give a reason for my Ruling, but I thought it was more courteous to the Committee to do so. I think that we ought to get on with the Amendment now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-27", "file": "debates1955-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6d48c6eb4e02ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "istible charm. I recognise his charm. There is no question about his charm. In my former days, when I was a practising solicitor, I encountered many confidence tricksters of one sort or another. Charm and ability were always there, coupled with a capacity to present financial matters in a most impressive, instructive, and moving way. With every desire to use words that are in no way controversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-27a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOUR-POWER TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's account of recent history is open to some question. Apart from that, I am perfectly ready to meet Marshal Bulganin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOUR-POWER TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is not excluded by the answer I have given. I have said that we are ready for a meeting at whatever level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPENDANT'S PENSION, LINCOLN", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Smyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Smyth", "preceding_text": "As I have said, all these cases have been reviewed. They have been very carefully looked into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1074.10", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman tried them all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ho believe that there is a need for it object to its continuance when it seems to be no longer required or when the circumstances justify a shorter period of service. I propose to pose a series of questions to the Government. The first is whether conscription is necessary at all and, if it is, what period of service is required? Should it be two years or 18 months or 12 months, or even six months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1074.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman can shake his head until it falls off, but those are the facts. The figure for Italy is 15 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBKRS: \"Hear, hear.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "s, and to see whether the whole of our military organisation requires adjusting or reorganising. Either the position has eased or it has not; we can have one or the other, but not both. I suggest that the Prime Minister might give his attention to that matter. Now it is argued further—and I saw this most interesting argument in \"The Times\" leader this morning—that we must have a strategic reserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "men from that Home Command for the purposes of operating elsewhere, may I remind the Minister of Defence that only the other week I directed his attention to the fact that the French Government had taken from their forces under N.A.T.O. Command a large number of men for service in North Africa, with the consent of N.A.T.O. Similarly, it could be done in our case. There is no real difficulty there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "This is so inaccurate and deceptive that the right hon. and learned Gentleman ought to be ashamed of himself for saying it. Is he not aware that, at that time, we had more than 11 divisions overseas? The right hon. and learned Gentleman has already said that the state of international tension was most acute at that time, and to say that we did not meet our commitments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " scope for inquiries into the efficient use of manpower in the Services, because I agree with the hon. and learned Gentleman that economies in the use of men obviously help to bring nearer the day when the period can be reduced. We are not opposed to examination or reexamination of particular aspects. All the Service Departments have standing machinery for reviewing complements and establishments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1127.4", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "If that is the case, it must be a matter of reducing our cold war and potential cold war commitments.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Even privates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "preceding_text": "h it. Is that a matter for scorn? Apparently, it is not, and, one would not expect any opposition to that object from hon. Members on the other side of the House, because Member after Member on the opposite side has got up with his hand upon his heart and sworn that he does not believe in the principle of conscription, that, indeed, he abhors it. This has been done by brigadiers, majors, colonels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": " serving officer one had to be careful what one said or one was accused of taking part in politics, even such a platitude as one volunteer being worth three conscripts was taboo. One understands the reason and that was that the Government of the day were very anxious to keep this subject outside party politics. In that desire they enjoyed the most loyal support of the then Conservative Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "existing burden of National Service as soon as circumstances permit. Leaving no stones unturned; exploring all the avenues; having the matter under constant review; that is the sort of thing we have had time and time again on almost every matter on which we have had to challenge the Government. The fact is that as these last years have gone by there has been an enormous change. The Services today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1193.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1194.3", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I do not think I will, because the Prime Minister wants time to make his speech. I will gladly give way to hon. Members who have attended the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1197.5", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Warmonger?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "all that the Motion on the Order Paper asks of the Government. But the Government's Amendment indicates that they are not prepared to accept the idea of a review. It seems to us that there may well be something in what has been said this afternoon—that, whilst publicity may not be given to it before the Election, it may well be that we shall have even greater commitments when the Election is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1197.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " country is opened up. Whereas, five years ago, when I was there, one could not move without an escort of armoured cars, without the greatest possible difficulty, now nine-tenths of the country is open, and one can move about in it, and our forces have made a great contribution to that. We do not want that situation to deteriorate again. Of course, I agree in time we should build up native forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-04-28", "file": "debates1955-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "92d4b3f59acccc83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It would be out of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I decided that I could reduce the tax on that by half. Some people say I ought to go further, and I have been waiting for this debate to hear from hon. Members whether they had constructive suggestions as to how I can go further. I must honestly say that, while I do not deny the sincerity of the points put by my hon. Members, I have missed the constructive suggestions as to how I could go further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-28a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-04-29", "file": "debates1955-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0b986fdd43463fbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-29a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And feudal baronets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "arned incomes derived from the ownership of wealth in real or personal estate of one kind and another is a separate one. There are not many people with invested incomes of modest dimensions who are able to give service of that kind to the community. As the Economic Secretary has said, there is a class of persons who used to be called the landed aristocracy. Before that they were the feudal barons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-04-29a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-05-02", "file": "debates1955-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "2c9a39e0adc7baab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-02a.1346.7", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREAN RECONSTRUCTION AGENCY (UNITED KINGDOM CONTRIBUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, the Government's.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "It depends on the optimism the hon. Gentleman has concerning his fortunes in the next three weeks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-02a.1346.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-02", "file": "debates1955-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "2c9a39e0adc7baab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-02a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": " the ghost in searching for a rational policy for the development of industry. This country cannot tolerate for many more generations the unregulated growth of London, of all cities. Many of us love London for its great historic and artistic associations. Nevertheless, it has now reached a size which means that traffic cannot move, people cannot breathe and many cannot even make a living honestly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-02a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-02", "file": "debates1955-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "2c9a39e0adc7baab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-02a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "We have had a very good and factual debate, and it is not surprising that politics have crept into it from time to time. If I may say so, in the last days of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-02a.1433.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "self be sufficient to provide an adequate number of houses to meet Glasgow's needs which can no longer be satisfied within the limits of the city itself. The right hon. Gentleman further points out that … special legislation may be necessary to assist the promotion of arrangements between Glasgow and the receiving authorities for dealing with the problem. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "He was perfectly in order in asking the company commander to find out why Mr. Breslin had not worn his Service dress which he believed him to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRIES, LANCASHIRE AND NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " about two days, I think it is, before the dissolution. Last week, on the Motion of my hon. Friend the Member for Preston, South (Mr. Shackleton) we urged the complete abolition of the Purchase Tax—well, of course, there are limits to what can be moved, but that was the argument—and that was resisted by the Government. Since then the Government have had to submit to the policy of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRIES, LANCASHIRE AND NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ny rate, the right hon. Gentleman welcomes the action of the Government of India—that is something about which we can all agree. It is also true, and the right hon. Gentleman will recollect, that we have repeatedly stated that while the discussions were going on we did not wish to state the whole of our intentions in respect of this problem. We have waited until this morning, when the declaration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRIES, LANCASHIRE AND NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Chancellor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the considered view of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1524.5", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRIES, LANCASHIRE AND NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If we are on the run, I do not know why the right hon. Gentleman is complaining, because the acting Leader of the Opposition has just been saying that we are moving the way he wants us to move.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1524.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "TEXTILE INDUSTRIES, LANCASHIRE AND NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "When the House debated the question of Indian imports on 9th March we were put off by the fact that the President of the Board of Trade had invited the Cotton Board to make suggestions. Is the Prime Minister now telling the House that because of this valuable but small concession from the Indian Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Heathcoat Amory)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": " days of rationing and controls, when producers and consumers did as they were told, and had to. That sort of thing is four years out of date, because now we are in a more challenging, a more robust and constructive period. The blue print that the right hon. Member and his friends have designed for British agriculture, so far as I can understand it, would lead inevitably to rigidity and rationing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1612.3", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ing to the hon. Member for Westmorland at the end of the debate, have turned the debate into a discussion of the Opposition's proposals and not the Government's proposals. The debate has been not upon the ideas and plans that the Government have in mind but upon the Opposition's plans. Of course, that is absolutely right, because the Government have not a single idea to put before the rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1626.4", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not expect us to accept any figures that he or anybody else cares to provide.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-03", "file": "debates1955-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "2b50368e6d4ca206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1627.4", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bogy, bogy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "arketing in this way and do not believe that it would lead to rationing, it leads to one conclusion, and that is not only that if they came back to govern this country we should have rationing, but that, had they continued to govern the country, they would never have had either the understanding or the courage necessary to undertake this huge operation and we should still have been rationed today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-03a.1627.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1685.6", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS (PRIVATE INTERESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "George that no Cabinet Minister should have a direct or indirect influence upon contracts with the Government of which he is a part has been abandoned? If it has not been abandoned, how can the right hon. Gentleman explain that the I.T.A. has given a contract to a Cabinet Minister who holds nearly 5,000 shares in a holding company, a subsidiary of which has got one of the four contracts in London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS (PRIVATE INTERESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why wild?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "he Question on the Paper asked what was the practice with regard to the holding of directorships, and, quite apart from any dictum of Mr. Asquith or Mr. Lloyd George, there is a very long reply which summarises the existing practice which, so far as I know, has been the practice for many years past by Governments of all shades of opinion. If the right hon. Gentleman starts making wild accusations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1686.2", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS (PRIVATE INTERESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did the right hon. Gentleman do, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I was not making personal accusations today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1687.6", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS (PRIVATE INTERESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The right hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Ness Edwards) has made a very serious suggestion on the eve of the Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1687.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1692.2", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "uation in the cotton industry which is one of increasing gravity. The significance of that Question is that this was a subject which the Prime Minister allocated to himself to deal with yesterday. The Prime Minister came here yesterday and made a statement on a limited aspect of the matter, saying that he proposed to accept the advice which we had addressed to him from these benches last Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1692.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1709.5", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was Cambridge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "rtunately, mothers learn that if they could find a few guineas a bed could be provided. Does the Minister think that he is justified in allowing beds to be earmarked for fee-paying patients? I am not talking about amenity beds. I think that he rather confused the Oxford Union last night about that, because one cannot expect those boys to know the difference between a fee-paying bed and an amenity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1709.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Osbert Peake)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Osbert Peake)", "preceding_text": "e was likely to be. The Minister of Health will intervene later and reply to that part of the right hon. Lady's speech which dealt with the National Health Service and with health questions. It is a little difficult to know how far we can go today, because, as I understand, in a debate on the Second Reading of the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill we are confined to matters of administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "f the questions which are raised in the Phillips Report. We have not, of course, kept any aged person waiting for an improvement in pension or benefit on account of the delay that there has been in debating the Report of the Phillips Committee. In fact, hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are just as much to blame as are hon. Members on this side of the House that there has been no such debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1757.0", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "which is habitually made by hon. Members opposite, the claim that they were responsible for the creation of what today is called the Welfare State. That claim has not been made in this debate, but I see that it is made in the Election manifesto put out by the party opposite. It says that it was the Labour Government after the war that began to abolish the fear of old age, sickness and disablement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1789.3", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. M. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. M. Thomson", "preceding_text": "ents. That comparison would not have been a very proper or valid one, even if it had been done accurately. The kind of redistribution of wealth that can be carried out in the community by social security depends on the particular circumstances in the country at the time. The circumstances in this country today are very different from those which operated during the period of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1835.2", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Part.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "th May. The right hon. Gentleman made some proposals to merge the present independent National Assistance Board and the Ministry. I cannot comment on those because they would require legislation, so I hope the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me. The right hon. Gentleman made another point on the question of taxation of contributions, that contributions are allowed as an expense for tax purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-04", "file": "debates1955-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "f10a3845a0ba38d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1842.3", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member should follow his own example, not necessarily the example of hon. Members on these benches. If he wants to follow the example of this side of the House he should join this party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-04a.1842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-05", "file": "debates1955-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb89f573f5af7959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n view of the facts to which my hon. Friend has called attention, will not the Minister come to the conclusion that it is no good dragging along like this? Ought we not to call a halt—call it a day, if he likes—and get the matter settled up, so that everybody will know where they are, instead of this drift? Has the right hon. Gentleman noticed that the General Council of the Trades Union Congress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-05", "file": "debates1955-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb89f573f5af7959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1906.0", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "PARIS AGREEMENTS (ENTRY INTO FORCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "We welcome the statement which has been made by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and we are glad that these Agreements have now been reached. Certainly a proper share of the credit is due to the Prime Minister for having assisted, in his former office, in rescuing the situation after the rejection of E.D.C. by the French Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-05", "file": "debates1955-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb89f573f5af7959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1906.0", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "PARIS AGREEMENTS (ENTRY INTO FORCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nd we are glad that these Agreements have now been reached. Certainly a proper share of the credit is due to the Prime Minister for having assisted, in his former office, in rescuing the situation after the rejection of E.D.C. by the French Parliament. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] If I may say so, credit belongs to this side of the House, too. My friend the late Ernest Bevin initiated the policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-05", "file": "debates1955-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb89f573f5af7959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1930.2", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I have not evaded it; I made my position perfectly clear on that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-05", "file": "debates1955-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb89f573f5af7959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1930.2", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Repeat it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I have not evaded it; I made my position perfectly clear on that point—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] I felt that it was quite understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-05", "file": "debates1955-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb89f573f5af7959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1959.1", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "at in a minute. Why is it that we do not do what we have done in West Africa, in Singapore, or what we have done in the Sudan to an even greater extent? Why is it we do not do that? I can think of no reason why we do not allow a democratically elected assembly to meet in Cyprus, except that we know that if we did there would be a majority in favour of Enosis. That is it, and let us face that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-05", "file": "debates1955-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb89f573f5af7959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1986.1", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "o welcome to her Cypriot constituents if, in fact, Enosis were conceded and if, in fact, the Cyprus population in England, instead of being subjects of the United Kingdom and of the Colonies, became foreign subjects. I will not deal with all the problems about alien regulation, entry permits and limited occupations. I will just limit it to this. They would, of course, lose their British passports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.1986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-05-05", "file": "debates1955-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb89f573f5af7959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.2041.2", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Short's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ern Ireland yard. What Northern Ireland must have is indigenous industries of its own. Of course, the hon. Member for Antrim, North (Mr. P. O'Neill) was right in supporting my right hon. Friend in his demand for a chilled beef industry, refrigeration plants and ancillaries that go with an agricultural industry. Those are indigenous industries that one can set up without being left with slop-overs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-05-05a.2041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.45.6", "colnum": "45", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. E. S. Simon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. E. S. Simon", "preceding_text": "ness it are being devised and built in my constituency at Thornaby. We share the general interest of industry that goods should be efficiently hauled by road and rail, but we go further—if we are given the orders we will actually produce the rails, the wagons and the bridges for the new construction and development. I now come to a matter on which I feel I need the special indulgence of the court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.45.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "preceding_text": "we shall still have the enormous problem of the growing difficulties of the roads. Hitherto the only thing the Government have done has been to add confusion to the roads by breaking up the co-ordinated system which we introduced. What is equally serious, as hon. Members on all sides will find if they talk to their constituents, is the steady lowering of the standards of employment of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—under the benevolent aegis of hon. Members opposite. The hon. Member for Fife (Mr. Hamilton) did not happen to make the speech. The trouble with hon. Members opposite is that they all want to be leaders at once. They really must take their turns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.60.5", "colnum": "60", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"About time it did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "figures for March and April are already between 3 per cent. and 4 per cent. above the average level reached last year. Unemployment remains at about 1 per cent. There has been an increase in exports of 9 per cent. and an increase in personal consumption at home. What I think the right hon. Gentleman would agree is also rather important is that productive investment is showing signs of an increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.60.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.60.5", "colnum": "60", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", are still causing concern. There was a welcome change for April from the rising level of March, but the rate is still uncomfortably high. We think it too early yet to measure the full effects of the action we took last February. The gold and dollar reserves have remained without any significant change since February, and, in all the circumstances, I think that is a pretty satisfactory situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.60.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.60.5", "colnum": "60", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e in all this are the parts that communications have to play if industry is to have its maximum development. Traffic is multiplying at a most alarming rate. I am told that there are likely to be another 1½ million vehicles on our roads in the course of the next three years. That is a staggering figure. There has not been any major road reconstruction plan at all over the last sixteen years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.60.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the broadcast speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " paragraph is clear. Perhaps in due course the right hon. Gentleman will re-read it. There is no question of my laying down a new doctrine. If the right hon. Gentleman will re-read it he will see what is happening. My right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of Labour was, a few moments ago—and will be later—engaged in discussions with the unions on this very topic. He has been to see them both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.69.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. Gentleman must realise now that he has read the sentence which he did not read before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.72.6", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " charge immediately. But I am bound to say that I was waiting for the sentence which, to my mind, was the important one. Now that the right hon. Gentleman has read this sentence again, is it not clear that there are many people in the country who took the view on those words which were used that, when there is an official strike there can be, so far as the Government is concerned, no negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.72.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-09", "file": "debates1955-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c2b6d1941523909e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "certain amount of apprehension has been caused through these words. The point which I raised was in order that the right hon. Gentleman might make the position quite clear. As he has just said, it would be wrong to prolong a strike like this until every single item was settled, but—to put the other side of it—people were under the impression that no negotiations of any kind could take place until—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-09a.73.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-10", "file": "debates1955-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f9926827be72785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.144.6", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "peaking on behalf of her husband who could not come along because he had not a decent suit of clothes to wear. He was a blind man. He had received an increase of 14s. 6d. a week, but now the Government had taken away 9s. 6d. of that amount by the cut in National Assistance. If that is the sort of two-decker economy that we are going to get then I hope that the Government will think again about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.144.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-10", "file": "debates1955-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f9926827be72785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "sed in political arguments in Huyton, but I hope that the right hon. Gentleman or one of his colleagues will take this matter a little more seriously. The right hon. Gentleman will certainly get no enthusiasm from these benches if the Chancellor of the Exchequer comes along next year with more concessions in company taxation if it is to be financed by taking 9s. 6d. from the benefits of blind men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-10", "file": "debates1955-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f9926827be72785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about cotton?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "e benches opposite in the clearest possible terms. It is said we ought to go back to a policy of controls. But for what? What goods do right hon. Gentlemen opposite want to control? What import restrictions do they intend to impose? Do they want restrictions on coal and steel? Those goods are vital to our exporting industries, and if it is proposed that they should be swept away we should be told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-10", "file": "debates1955-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f9926827be72785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " to ask that question, and it is a good debating point. We have been continuing from the war in one industry a very closely integrated central purchasing arrangement. It is a good question to ask, if the right hon. Gentleman will accept the logic of it. If he were to argue that the arrangements in the jute industry should form the pattern of the trade policy of the Government over the whole range—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-10", "file": "debates1955-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f9926827be72785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.229.5", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": " stop the dumping of Indian cloth. I need not go into the whole story again—my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) has told it over and over again—of how imports are increasing at a tremendous rate and have alarmed both sides of the industry in Lancashire. The Government owe a great debt of gratitude to Lancashire for the result of the Election. Frankly, I cannot understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.229.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-10", "file": "debates1955-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f9926827be72785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "t at least into line with the agricultural proposals. The President of the Board of Trade asked us today what was wrong with Government policy and said that if there was anything wrong we should state it. That is too big a subject for me to attempt to tackle at this time, but I do not want him to say that everyone shied off this question, and that, as it had not been mentioned, it went by default.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-10", "file": "debates1955-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f9926827be72785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "s that, when the President of the Board of Trade and others on his side of the House talk about sharing abundance, they do not seem to have the same understanding of the sharing of abundance as we on this side have. All through the Election we were criticising the way in which the previous Government did not share abundance fairly. Our whole point in the Election was that there were unfair shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-10a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-13", "file": "debates1955-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb2943a03e70a2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-13a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "In the absence of notice, what protection has Britain against the experimental explosion of a thermonuclear or hydrogen bomb in the North Sea or in the Straits of Dover?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-13a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-13", "file": "debates1955-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb2943a03e70a2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-13a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ICELANDIC FISHERIES DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Major Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Wall", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-13a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-13", "file": "debates1955-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb2943a03e70a2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-13a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": " speed and they are anxious to see that continue. That is the answer to the hon. Gentleman's interruption. I come to the other point which I wish to take up in the hon. Gentleman's speech, relating to the paragraphs which deal with education. I hope that we shall here meet upon common, agreed ground. I was delighted at the paragraph which is at the bottom of the second page of the Gracious Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-13a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-13", "file": "debates1955-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb2943a03e70a2b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-13a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": " I do not wish to waste the time of the House. I have done that in my time, and perhaps I may have another opportunity in the next 10 years. The words used by the hon. Member embolden me to believe that he agrees with me that this paragraph is not a pious aspiration which will never be translated into fact. I believe that it will. A very great deal has been done in the last three and a half years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-13a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-14", "file": "debates1955-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "227b968c8af5564b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.396.3", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that his satisfaction is not shared by the farm workers or the farmers, who realise that it is far more important that these men should be producing more food from British land than wasting their time in Cyprus, British Guiana and other places?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.396.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-06-14", "file": "debates1955-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "227b968c8af5564b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "cancer, tuberculosis, infant mortality, hospital buildings.' I really cannot see, if those words are left out, what claim the party opposite can have to a progressive attitude towards the national health. I intervened then and said: This is a political manifesto and not a medical text book. Then the Minister of Health said: I recommend the right hon. Lady to read 'United for Peace and Progress,'\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.428.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-14", "file": "debates1955-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "227b968c8af5564b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.447.3", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "Yes, that is a particular case which I have most in my mind at the present time. I do not know that I need say very much about the proposals, to which the right hon. Lady scarcely referred, in the Socialist election manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-14", "file": "debates1955-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "227b968c8af5564b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederick Messer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederick Messer", "preceding_text": " people that it will constitute a problem for those who are producing to keep those who are not producing, but what is forgotten is that in the process of ageing the population are retaining a degree of activity beyond the years for which it has been customary to regard them as being active. That is one of the reasons for which I think it is perhaps so wrong to discourage aged people from working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-14", "file": "debates1955-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "227b968c8af5564b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederick Messer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederick Messer", "preceding_text": "ck, they wilt and die.\" I said, \"That is not relief of activity. That is their consciences.\" The question has two aspects. The first is the welfare of the individual and the second is the economic value of what he can produce. It must not be thought that, arbitrarily, at the age of 65, a man is no longer of any value. It is quite true that from 65 onwards he will show a degree of reduced capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-14", "file": "debates1955-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "227b968c8af5564b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FOOTPLATE WORKERS' STRIKE (CONCLUSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "They have begun a long lease of the benches opposite—yes, the freehold. We will apply the Landlord and Tenant Act to them in due course. It would be helpful if hon. and right hon. Members opposite made up their minds on some of these issues. There is one particular matter on which there was a certain amount of original thought from the Socialist Party, and that was the National Health Service Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-14a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-15", "file": "debates1955-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b0216517b2325e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-15a.586.4", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOTOR CARS (CD PLATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "Does that reply mean that anyone can put a CD plate on his car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-15a.586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-15", "file": "debates1955-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b0216517b2325e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-15a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH SUBJECTS, REUNION (EXPULSION ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that these two British subjects have lived in Reunion for 20 years, that one of them is married to a French woman, and has nine children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-15a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-15", "file": "debates1955-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b0216517b2325e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-15a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": "and on his own. We have witnessed all the tortuous negotiations over Germany. We have seen the trouble they have caused even in my own party, in which have been found people who have had the courage to stand firm. If ever there was a justification for firmness, then we saw it in the last General Election; we saw it in the return of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-15a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-15", "file": "debates1955-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b0216517b2325e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-15a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": "e last General Election; we saw it in the return of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock). [ Interruption. ] Justification for firmness was given up to the hilt. We in this party know. We know what some of us have had to take. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite do not have to take it. They do not have the same troubles, because they do not have the same connections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-15a.641.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.730.6", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do not lump them together.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "May I ask the President of the Board of Trade two questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.730.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.730.8", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "en similar prices are put in they shall be accompanied ultimately by a costs certificate declaring the amount of profit made on the job and, if anything beyond the agreed profit has been made, that amount should be deducted from the contract? Secondly, am I to understand that the reason the President has veiled his Answer on the oil monopoly is that he has been already got at by the oil interests?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.730.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.744.5", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will look at the debates in 1940—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.744.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.745.9", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but I do not believe the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.745.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A nationalised industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "falls in commodity prices—there has been some slight decline on balance—but can any of us say that it is likely that the cost of living at home will go down? Is there any sign of that? I see from statements made in the Press that a large increase in the price of coal is likely to take place in the near future. I believe it was the chairman of one of the gas boards who spoke of a rise of 8s. a ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "m of £3,550 million. This is in one year, the total value now being £12,792 million. The \"Economist\" adds: Since these statistics were compiled, the market value of the leading equities has gone up by another 16 per cent. What does this mean? It means, in effect, that holders of ordinary shares must have gained in 15 months the tremendous sum of about £5,000 million in the value of their property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.770.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " language. But since this is clearly the situation in which we find ourselves, we have to face it. I am going to read to the House what the Prime Minister did not read, and which immediately follows the part which he quoted. Professor Lewis says this: High profits are tolerable to us, as Socialists, only on two conditions: if the profits are earned by public enterprises, or if property ownership\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ave read: It is possible to devise taxation, inheritance and financial systems with break up property concentrations, and redistribute property ownership. If the Prime Minister is telling us that he is in favour of the redistribution of property, I must ask him what exactly he is going to do to achieve it, because certainly nothing that the previous Government did led in any way in that direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I do not think the May figures are very much affected by the dock strike. We shall have to wait and see for further months whether the trend is satisfactorily continued. It is very difficult to give a satisfactory answer. I should like to say in general that I am not yet satisfied, nor are the Government, and it is most important not to have an air of satisfaction,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ow that we had succeeded by all manner of improvisation in getting through our troubles, but many troubles still remain. I will not go into them and take up the challenge of the right hon. Gentleman, who said that there was no actual connection between Government policy and these strikes, but I would remind him that these strikes have been concerned especially with matters at issue between unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ying out a very big defence programme, and we have managed to maintain our position of leadership in the world, due to our economic strength at a time of particular importance in world history. Our object is to place more responsibility on the individual and less on the State. We believe in a really working free enterprise system. We believe in the control of selfishness and restrictive practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "e has imposed on hire purchase have had some effect in diminishing home demand. I do, however, want to put one point to him, and I think it is a perfectly genuine one. Furniture comes into an altogether different and separate category; quite different from, for example, motor cars and television sets. Furniture is essential. Young couples who now have houses, thanks very largely to the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Where will the money come from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "consume, and rather less about how we are to produce what we want to consume in the future. We have heard a lot in this debate about the Stock Exchange; and in that connection I say frankly that I would like to see the workers of this country, as their prosperity grows—and it is growing—becoming much more equity share-minded than they are at present and buying some of the shares that rise so much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the right hon. Member for Woodford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "t me to close without saying a word about convertibility, of which, as he knows, I have a pathological terror—as anybody must have who sat and served in the House through the Chancellorship of Philip Snowden and, I must add, the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton). The latter tried to take us back to the gold standard in 1947, while Snowden kept us on it in 1931—and both were wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Captain Christopher Soames", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Christopher Soames", "preceding_text": "a vital subject like profit sharing and co-partnership. How much more imaginative, realistic and exciting as a theme are true co-partnership and profit sharing than nationalisation. The Opposition can say what they like about nationalisation; the fact remains that the workers in nationalised industries do not enjoy that feeling of personal ownership which they were led to believe they would enjoy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. C. M. Spearman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. C. M. Spearman", "preceding_text": " Parliamentary speech, and that today certainly was no exception. The right hon. Gentleman complained about the great rise in recent weeks in the prices of ordinary shares, but he did not add that that rise was due, to a considerable extent, to buying from America, where, rightly or wrongly, there is a far greater confidence in the future of industry in this country than there was before 26th May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " is to be saved for the workers. The Chancellor also urged control of selfishness and restrictive practices, but the whole philosophy and doctrine of the Conservative Party before, during and after the General Election has been the encouragement of selfishness. It is the basis of their whole sociological conception, and they are doing little or nothing to stop monopolies and restrictive practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ediate post-war problems as they were handled by a predominantly Conservative Government after the First World War, our economy would have been wrecked, our industry would have been in chaos, industrial disputes would have been much more extensive and this Government would not have had the chance, if it had been in office in 1951, to build upon the healthy economy created by the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ll-to-do and to remit taxation from their shoulders. But that is what the Government have been doing. If the Government are one-sided in favour of Conservative freedom for employers the co-operation of the workers will be difficult to obtain. So it will be if the Government are indifferent to the cost of living; and the Government are indifferent to the cost of living and to the consumer interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Korean War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " through the House to the country, about the outlook as a result of the stoppages of the last month. I do not feel that it is my duty to repeat what my right hon. Friend said there. As to the adequate surplus, it is the fact that in the time of our predecessors they began in office with deficits and eventually moved to the surplus stage. Then, by 1951, the whole lot was wiped out in that disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Whatever that figure, the point about the nationalised industries is, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.890.2", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "There was one point about profit sharing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.890.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-06-16", "file": "debates1955-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2ed0b3410d4d0e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.890.3", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "There was one point about profit sharing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] Of course, the right hon. Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) did have half an hour this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-16a.890.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-17", "file": "debates1955-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "0eae82979a8ef7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-17a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James MacColl", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or 1948?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James MacColl", "preceding_text": " the ordinary people of this country. After all, the position is this. If, as the right hon. Gentleman said in his speech on the Second Reading of the previous Bill, it was known both in 1929 and in 1934, when there were national revaluations, that there were to be a great number of objections which would clog the machinery—if it was known as long ago as 1929 and 1934—why was it not known in 1953?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-17a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-17", "file": "debates1955-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "0eae82979a8ef7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-17a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "Whatever else I happen to be in this matter, I am an unrepentant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-17a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-17", "file": "debates1955-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "0eae82979a8ef7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-17a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the sewer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have that enthusiastic support from my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison). No doubt my hon. and learned Friend was in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-17a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-17", "file": "debates1955-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "0eae82979a8ef7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-17a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": ", but for the purposes of statistical comparison we must infer that it remains constant—over the 10 years this local authority therefore lost 10 times £64,505. It has lost £645,050 over 10 years. Of course, it has been compensated out of the central pool, and I am not presenting one side of the balance sheet only, nor am I being party political on this matter. Let us have a look at the arithmetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-17a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-20", "file": "debates1955-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f873458bcb03d1be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FALKLAND ISLAND DEPENDENCIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the right hon. Gentleman's reply, is it not true to say that when the Labour Government were in office, in the case of Abadan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-20", "file": "debates1955-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f873458bcb03d1be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "ELECTION RETURN, KNUTSFORD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "We are very sorry to hear from the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford (Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport), who is not exactly a progressive Member of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-20", "file": "debates1955-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f873458bcb03d1be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROUND-TO-AIR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But that is what the Labour Government did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ly, this is a very lame excuse indeed. We have had two General Elections since the time of which the hon. Member speaks, and it is not good enough for the present Government and their supporters, including the hon. and gallant Member for Macclesfield with his supplementary question today, to explain everything by saying, \"Oh, look at what the Labour Government did from 1945 to 1950.\" This is 1955.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-20", "file": "debates1955-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f873458bcb03d1be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROUND-TO-AIR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what we did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "hat the Labour Government did from 1945 to 1950.\" This is 1955. [HON. MEMBERS: \"But that is what the Labour Government did.\"] If it was wrong to export Rolls-Royce engines to the Soviet Union in 1946, then instead of merely criticising what the Labour Government did, the first thing this Government should have done when they came into office in 1951 was to have stopped sending Rolls-Royce engines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-20", "file": "debates1955-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f873458bcb03d1be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROUND-TO-AIR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "yce company that would not be particularly anxious to stop sending the engines. There are trends of thought here which should be pursued to their logical conclusion. If the hon. and gallant Member for Macclesfield is so proud of Rolls-Royce engines, and believes that they are the reason why the Russians have superiority, somebody should be indicted for treason for equipping the Russians with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-20a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1126.7", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Surely the Minister realises that the Report of the Sorn Committee, which the House has not yet discussed, does no more than spread the burden?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1126.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Simmons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "epartment appreciates the difficulties arising in Kilmarnock's new housing areas, and the problem there of the lack of school accommodation, apart from the need of further technical education—as instanced in the Answer to Question No. 6—especially necessary in Kilmarnock, which is a very important engineering centre? Is the hon. Gentleman entirely satisfied with the present position in Kilmarnock?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1137.6", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALACE OF WESTMINSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEmBERs: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "As hot air always goes up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1137.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Private enterprise.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Remnant", "preceding_text": "Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1140.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1146.4", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "MERCHANT SEAMEN (NATIONAL SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Threats.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I ought to have read part of my answer more slowly. The second part of the answer was: If the strike were brought to an end now, call-up action would cease \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1146.7", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "MERCHANT SEAMEN (NATIONAL SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly willing to answer that fair question put by the right hon. Member. What I was seeking to say—I hope I made it plain—was that the action of the Ministry of Labour in this matter depended upon whether the men remained registered or not, and for that we had to depend on a different Ministry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1146.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "I said it had been suggested that Malaya has been carried on as a training ground and I was giving an opportunity to the Minister to contradict that and to put the position frankly before us as he sees it. I did not say that it was so, but that there were people who were saying Malaya was being used as a training ground, and I was arguing that we should disabuse their minds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1216.6", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the details at the moment, but it has been stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1237.3", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tut, tut.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "lack of education at the higher level, the question of extra-mural work in our Colonial Teritories which I have pursued on one or two occasions in this House, becomes very important indeed. We recognise that we cannot wave a wand and create a university overnight. We had a long time in which to do these things but until we had a great Labour Pary the conscience of Toryism was very slow to respond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "number of places. Sometimes, from what is said by hon. Members opposite, it would seem that the first failure by any kind of enterprise anywhere in the Colonies was that of the groundnut scheme. There were, in fact, plenty of private enterprise failures before that, and plenty of places where there was a failure to do anything at all. We have all heard of the difficulties of The Gambia egg scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "h economic questions and with only a few political questions, but I think that I have given enough examples to show that there is a deep cleavage of opinion in Colonial affairs, just as there is in home affairs, between hon. Members on this side of the House and hon. Members opposite. I think that during the next four or five years that gulf will be widened. Tory reaction will undoubtedly develop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "ive years that gulf will be widened. Tory reaction will undoubtedly develop—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course it will. What is the object in having this famous majority of 59 if it is not to do the things which the party opposite could not do when it had a small majority? That is what it is for. We shall see signs of it here and, I think, in the Colonies too. We shall fight this reaction day by day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-21", "file": "debates1955-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee9276b134f04759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "e. Shortly afterwards there will be a delegation from Mauritius. In or near London today there are 12 Governors, with whom I am, naturally, having talks. The Governor-General of the Federation of Nigeria has just gone to take up his immensely important post as the Governor-General of a Federation of over 30 million people under the British Crown. I know that the good wishes of all of us go to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-21a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-22", "file": "debates1955-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "8bda6c4483d27650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-22a.1291.7", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-22a.1291.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-22", "file": "debates1955-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "8bda6c4483d27650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-22a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "CEREALS (DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was the Chancellor of the Exchequer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "rnment will make it up to you.\" The Joint Parliamentary Secretary laughs, but he knows that that is said in every market and to every farmer. The farmer knows that it cannot go on at this rate. The Minister found it difficult to make an agreement at the price review this year, so the Prime Minister came along and said, \"We are going to have an Election in the next few months, so let US fix it up.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-22a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-22", "file": "debates1955-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "8bda6c4483d27650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-22a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "CEREALS (DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was it calculated?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "ts which handle our produce after it has left the farms. That is a great weakness in the present method of subsidising. Let me tell the House what hon. Members opposite did to bolster their approach to the electorate on this subject. As a farmer, I received a cheque for £70 two days before the Election. I suppose thousands of other farmers received their wheat subsidy payments on 23rd or 24th May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-22a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1473.6", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the figures which he proposes to circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT are that imports from India for the five months rose from £151,000 in 1953 to £21 million and later in these five months to £3,400,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1473.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1503.6", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY DISPUTE, FRASERBURGH AND PETERHEAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hoist. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am going out to sea next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1503.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1506.2", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "to debate the agenda of the European Consultative Assembly meeting at Strasbourg, in respect of which the Prime Minister made an announcement yesterday? I ask the question because, following a supplementary question on the right hon. Gentleman's statement, it seemed to be indicated, at any rate by the right hon. Gentleman, that the delegation was in some way representative of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1506.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1518.3", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is purely advisory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": "I readily give way to the hon. Member, who has not been without assistance to me in these matters. I think the distinction between us is what is meant by arbitration. What the hon. Member is really saying to me is that this machinery of the railway industry does not contain compulsory arbitration in the sense that either party is bound to accept the award. That I entirely accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "f opinion between workers and management can merge and be settled around the conference table, rather than that the men, management, and the nation should be involved in industrial unrest and disputes which pay no dividends to anybody. The right hon. and learned Gentleman, in that remarkable peroration, which received great applause from this side of the House—not too much from his own supporters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way to the hon. Gentleman at this stage, but I will do so later. The investors have done very well indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at Knutsford anyway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "d something which was remarkable a little while ago. He said that he had in his possession two letters, one dated 15th June informing a seaman that he was to be taken off the register and one dated 17th June from the Ministry of Labour stating that the man was to be called up. I know that we have a highly efficient telegraph and postal service but I have never known it work as quickly as all that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "entitled to be so treated. One of the great problems is that the line of communication in large industry does not go all the way from boardroom policy down to the worker on the shop floor, and the same applies in large trade unions. When first-class agreements and arrangements on behalf of their members are nationally negotiated, they are very often completely unknown to many of the rank and file.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1555.3", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " with other countries, and they are at loggerheads with us. They do not agree with us and we do not agree with them about our respective ways of living. Nevertheless, we are ready to enter into agreement with them to end war, because we regard war as barbaric, old-fashioned, played out and no longer necessary in a civilised world. Why should we not apply the same principle to our internal affairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Easington.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ich is going on in the rest of the world will take its tempo and a great deal of its actual doctrine from what is said and done in this country—even in this debate. That is the very great responsibility that falls on us, and that is why we should treat very seriously and constructively suggestions such as those made by the Minister of Labour and tonight by the right hon. Member for Seaham Harbour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "That is the point. Each man is looking round because he does not want to be the odd man out. Gradually, rather slowly and, perhaps, rather reluctantly, one's hand goes up too and the strike is on, although it may be that the majority of people present do not really want it and it may have been inspired by a comparatively small Communist minority, for all I know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or an insurance company?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member will realise that the question of investing in industry which I am bringing to the attention of the House is a very stabilising factor, because if the trade unions do invest in industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1613.4", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An all-night sitting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " worker in this country today, who is working longer hours and more overtime than he has worked at any time since the end of the war, and, indeed, during the war, is more ready to down tools because of these long hours than he would if he were working an ordinary working week. Anyone who has had experience of working long hours and overtime knows that they are hours and times of particular strain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1613.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1613.4", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or at 10.30 a.m.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "d if he were working an ordinary working week. Anyone who has had experience of working long hours and overtime knows that they are hours and times of particular strain. [An HON. MEMBER: \"An all-night sitting.\"] As the hon. Member reminds me, an all-night sitting is a particular case in point. Indeed, I wonder how many of us turn up at 2.30 the next afternoon when we have had an all-night sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1613.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-06-23", "file": "debates1955-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "3042b07c3540c708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1617.3", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that my hon. Friend has not had an opportunity of expressing his point of view, but that cannot stop me from expressing mine. This happens to be a point of view which I hold very strongly, and I believe he does, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-06-23a.1617.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-18", "file": "debates1955-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d13e81b9719d271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-18a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "MID-ULSTER CONSTITUENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "s contained in part of this Motion, that his opponent had been adjudged guilty of felony, had been sentenced to penal servitude, and, therefore, was incapable of being elected or returned as a Member of the House of Commons. It looks as if the House this afternoon is being invited to resolve that the petitioner before the Ulster High Court is right. In other words, we are prejudging in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-18a.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-18", "file": "debates1955-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d13e81b9719d271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-18a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "MID-ULSTER CONSTITUENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "een sentenced to penal servitude, and, therefore, was incapable of being elected or returned as a Member of the House of Commons. It looks as if the House this afternoon is being invited to resolve that the petitioner before the Ulster High Court is right. In other words, we are prejudging in this House—[ Interruption. ] I am making a submission to Mr. Speaker, and I think it is a substantial one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-18a.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-18", "file": "debates1955-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d13e81b9719d271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-18a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "MID-ULSTER CONSTITUENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Patriotic felons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "nd from complete destruction, whether we still hold exactly the same opinions that we held forty years ago or not, we may still say that we are not ashamed of having held them and are not ashamed of having paid the price of holding them and standing by them, as we would again in the same circumstances. The mere fact that a man has been convicted in a court is not necessarily a dishonourable thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-18a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-18", "file": "debates1955-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d13e81b9719d271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-18a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "MID-ULSTER CONSTITUENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Under the law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "of democracy the late Mr. Joseph Stalin was returned by a majority which exceeded by 30,000 the total number of the electors in his constituency. That is the sort of thing we expect. The wholly essential basis of the other kind of democracy is that the constituents—not us, not the Government—decide whom they shall elect. It is the will of the constituency, not our will, not that of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-18a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-19", "file": "debates1955-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5d897e8c9a20ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.181.6", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend remember—I am sure he will—that the people who use petrol on farms and in connection with agriculture and horticulture are generally small men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.181.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-19", "file": "debates1955-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5d897e8c9a20ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "driver was convicted of careless driving, and that Birmingham Corporation therefore feels that it has a very strong moral obligation, such as that which it had, for example, when it went to Mablethorpe? Is the Minister aware that that was a similar case where thousands of pounds were spent by a local authority without, as far as I can see, any Statute allowing it to do so? Nevertheless, we did it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-19", "file": "debates1955-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5d897e8c9a20ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A high rate of interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "What we are doing is to maintain a high rate of house building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-19", "file": "debates1955-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5d897e8c9a20ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "REMPLOY FACTORIES", "cue_speaker": "The Rev. Llywelyn Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty pounds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Rev. Llywelyn Williams", "preceding_text": "fore, we must dismiss altogether this idea of Remploy being a matter of £ s. d. It is a social service and this departmental outlook of the Treasury, this thinking of communal life in terms of this and that Department, is completely irrelevant to the existing picture. I do not see why we should not think of Remploy in terms of a hospital. Patients probably cost £5 or £6 a week to keep in hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-19", "file": "debates1955-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5d897e8c9a20ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "REMPLOY FACTORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "making a job analysis in order to place in open employment a large number of men, particularly those who had been injured in the war. But we are dealing here with a different sort of problem. I thought that the hon. Member for Morecambe and Lonsdale might have recognised that one of the great claims made by Remploy is that it has already trained a large number of people to work in open employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-19", "file": "debates1955-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5d897e8c9a20ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "REMPLOY FACTORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I have the figures in my Department. As a matter of fact, in the year when the right hon. Gentleman was responsible for Remploy his figure was a thousand less than the minimum figure to which we are committed at the moment. I do not want to press that point; I do not want to go into statistical comparisons, because they are very arid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-19", "file": "debates1955-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5d897e8c9a20ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "REMPLOY FACTORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why 6,000?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": " phase. We clearly stand by what my right hon. and learned Friend said, that the numbers will not be allowed to go under 6,000, even during this temporary period while we are conducting the most expert examination that we can achieve. That must mean that very shortly we shall start recruiting again, and we must do so. This will be done as soon as the company gets anywhere near the figure of 6,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-19a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.380.4", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And some seats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "ough to say so in precise and definite language, so that those of us who have been prevented from ventilating the people's grievances may in future resume our historic rights of having the opportunity to do so in the House? Last year—I give credit where it is due—there was a partial restoration of our rights. This year we have been through a General Election and have lost a certain amount of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.380.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And bad management.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "f to drive ahead with its own tremendous reconstruction plans. If the coal industry is to gain the maximum benefit from this opportunity, it needs to be administratively reorganised. This is a most important subject, but a most difficult and most delicate one. This is an old industry with strong traditions. It is one that suffered more perhaps from bad trade than any other industry in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "e long decay of the coal industry under private enterprise; the fall in output from 289 million tons in 1913 to 174 million tons in 1945 and the fall in manpower from 1¼ million to 700,000. The miners know what that meant to them, year long unemployment, starvation wages, searching desperately for other jobs that were not there, with their wives and children hungry and ill-clad all the time", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Members of Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ory perorations about absenteeism have not helped. The miners' leaders conduct a constant campaign to improve attendance in the pits. The Tory jibes do great harm. Let us see the facts in their true perspective. What is voluntary absenteeism today? Under 5 per cent.—one day a month for every miner throughout the year. Who can point a finger of scorn at a miner for leaving the pits one day a month?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Sylvester", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Sylvester", "preceding_text": "Member for Derby, South mentioned that we were following that course in the case of wheat, and paying £10 a ton to the British farmer. Another point in the Report is the fact that the total cost of producing coal during 1954 was £3 1s. 11d. per ton and the average selling price was £3 3s. 6d. per ton. I think that it is fair to say that the domestic consumer pays about £6 per ton or over for coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "preceding_text": " an advantage which it is not in the interests of frank discussion to ignore. A good deal is said about the wastage of our better seams. In the sense that our best coal has been worked out, that is quite correct. The most valuable of our coal has been worked out, but the coal now being worked, although of an inferior quality, is not much less in thickness than the coal which was previously worked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "preceding_text": "rk in the past, and a tremendous task faces them in the future. They can do their job only if they receive the assistance which they are entitled to expect from the Government of the day. No one has yet been able to justify a case for denationalising the coal industry. It is all very well to sit on sidelines, sniping, and playing at being a trombonist, but this matter is much too serious for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.449.4", "colnum": "449", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With trees as well?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ken him round many sites all over the country. He is quite satisfied with the work that has been done. It is not a question of just filling in a hole. This work is done in a proper sequence of events. All the top soil is put on one side. The subsoil below that for another two feet is put on one side, and it is all put back again, with proper drainage, when we have finished, and with proper hedges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.449.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "as carefully refrained from giving figures of the last three years' coal production. My hon. Friend the Member for Hall Green (Mr. Aubrey Jones) called those figures stagnant. I think what he meant was static. It is true that between 1945 and 1951 coal production in this country did rise from 175 million tons a year to 224 million tons a year, but I suggest—and here is where my fuel policy starts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From the Queen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "wo years ago. Those men would not have come back and written in black and white, in a voluminous and most well-informed Anglo-American productivity Report, that we were wasting thirty million tons of coal a year in industry in this country if that were false. The Professor of Thermo-dynamics of the University of Oxford, Sir Fredrick Simon, received a knighthood from this Government only last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "w weeks. I suppose it will have to be in the next week if it is to be before the long Recess, but at any rate we can all co-operate and endeavour to see that the Bill reaches the Statute Book before Christmas. Finally, in my proposed Fuel and Power (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, I come to the most important matter of all. This has had a curious history. I was the first hon. Member of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.458.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I did not say that at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.489.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-07-20", "file": "debates1955-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "92e6c1460121fdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us whether or not it is a fact that owing to the six months' delay in granting the request by the Board for an increase in price the burden on the Board was increased by £50 million? Will he now say whether the Government will have an inquiry into the whole business of prices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-20a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-21", "file": "debates1955-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "2ca95e352c921957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-21a.572.4", "colnum": "572", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE DISPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "ced under the licensing system of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933; and considerable progress has been made with the disposal of vehicles owned by the British Transport Commission. Of the 32,500 vehicles originally thought to be available for disposal. 16,748 vehicles have been sold. In addition, the parcels company with 4,000 vehicles will be put on offer under Section 5 of the Act in October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-21a.572.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-22", "file": "debates1955-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a9da0ae982f9b9b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-22a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALIDATION OF ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is making up for it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "alculate, unless he bears in mind, as the learned Attorney-General pointed out to the Select Committee, that it is only what has happened in the last two years for which he can be brought to book. However, the figure must be a substantial one, even for the last two years, because I imagine that very few hon. Members have caused the Patronage Secretary fewer wakeful nights than Sir Roland Jennings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-22a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-22", "file": "debates1955-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a9da0ae982f9b9b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-22a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALIDATION OF ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How dare he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ent of mine. He tried unsuccessfully to get on the county council. He was a colliery manager and was opposed by a very formidable miner called McTurk. There was an election and Mr. McTurk won. That was the first discouragement that Mr. George received in public. He then showed his determination to represent his fellows in a public capacity by becoming the Conservative candidate for South Ayrshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-22a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-22", "file": "debates1955-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a9da0ae982f9b9b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-22a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALIDATION OF ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "nt's efficiency and dispatch, I would draw attention to the fact that in Question No. 72 Mr. George was asked whether the conversation that he had with the Parliamentary Secretary had taken place before he received a message from the Chief Whip, and Mr. George replied: Yes, quite a week prior to that. In those circumstances, it is justifiable to inquire why a whole week apparently elapsed between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-22a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-22", "file": "debates1955-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "a9da0ae982f9b9b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-22a.784.5", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALIDATION OF ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " in the end, the debate would have to be adjourned. It is impossible to think that a matter of this importance could be dealt with in under an hour-and-a-half. While there are precedents for a debate being started and adjourned, in this instance it would have meant, owing to the interruption of the Recess, that it would have been adjourned for so long that it would not be Parliamentarily sensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-22a.784.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-25", "file": "debates1955-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "60ca5e8ef1419229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.810.5", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Somebody has to lead in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.810.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-25", "file": "debates1955-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "60ca5e8ef1419229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "In that case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-25", "file": "debates1955-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "60ca5e8ef1419229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "ill be as short as possible. In my speech on 16th June, in the debate on the Address, I undertook to keep the House informed about any developments in connection with our balance of payments situation. The monetary measures taken in February have been by their nature slow in their effect on home demand. The trade results for April and May were better, but the strikes, particularly the dock strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.824.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-07-25", "file": "debates1955-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "60ca5e8ef1419229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman would like the answer to that question straight away, I can give it to him. We are making arrangements for a debate tomorrow evening. The business already announced is for a debate on Scottish education, and it is suggested that after that we should proceed to a debate upon the economic situation until about 10 o'clock, and then take the rest of the business which has been announced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-25", "file": "debates1955-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "60ca5e8ef1419229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that my right hon. Friend is anxious to have this debate tomorrow and that talks took place through the usual channels. Whether the debate should come in the first half or the second half of the day might be arguable. As to the Scottish business put down for tomorrow, I understood quite clearly that the suggestion which I made just now was agreeable to both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-25", "file": "debates1955-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "60ca5e8ef1419229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman feel that he has been somewhat misleading the House by stressing the effect of the strikes on the balance of exports and imports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.832.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-25", "file": "debates1955-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "60ca5e8ef1419229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.890.3", "colnum": "890", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY (SUBSIDY AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "They are not subsidies. If agriculturists were allowed to sell food at low prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.890.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-25", "file": "debates1955-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "60ca5e8ef1419229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY (SUBSIDY AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "ring terms better than those in this and the preceding Scheme to the people entitled to avail themselves of it? This is the real problem to be solved, because the Schemes cannot fully benefit the people for whom they are intended, unless those people will come in in large numbers and seek the advantages which are offered to them. Happily I am in a position to talk in a constructive way about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-25", "file": "debates1955-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "60ca5e8ef1419229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.921.3", "colnum": "921", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY (SUBSIDY AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Conservancy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "trawling. There is no doubt that with the trawl now used, much of the food on which the plankton feed—and on which the fish feed—is destroyed. If the White Fish Authority is to give grants of this kind to fishing vessels, it should make sure that the methods of fishing are not such as will destroy the sea bed growths on which the plankton lives—and without the plankton the fish would not be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-25a.921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I do not at all agree with the hon. Member. I think that there is here quite a genuine misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor must be aware that in the \"Economist,\" the \"Financial Times\" and other papers it is said that at a meeting of the O.E.E.C. he did, in fact, indicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1000.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There were no rumours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "are that in the \"Economist,\" the \"Financial Times\" and other papers it is said that at a meeting of the O.E.E.C. he did, in fact, indicate—[ Interruption. ] I am not criticising him for the substance of what he said. The substance of what he said, apparently, is that we did not want to have fixed rates of exchange. What I am saying is, in face of these rumours, of which he is perfectly well aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1000.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "] I am not criticising him for the substance of what he said. The substance of what he said, apparently, is that we did not want to have fixed rates of exchange. What I am saying is, in face of these rumours, of which he is perfectly well aware—[An HON. MEMBER: \"There were no rumours.\"] If somebody says that there were no rumours I must ask him to turn to the Chancellor's own statement about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1000.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "It is one matter to say that there are rumours, which I acknowledge there were and which we all regret, whichever side of the House we are on. We all wish to defend sterling. It is quite another thing to lay a charge at my door and say that those rumours are due to me because of a statement I made in Paris.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor says that he made no statement, then, of course, it is very satisfactory. I only wish that he had said this earlier. I want also to draw the attention of the House to something else. We cannot, after all, avoid reading these things. There was an article recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "hancellor says that he made no statement, then, of course, it is very satisfactory. I only wish that he had said this earlier. I want also to draw the attention of the House to something else. We cannot, after all, avoid reading these things. There was an article recently—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] If hon. Members want it, we can quote it later in the debate. I have not bothered to bring it along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "thing else. We cannot, after all, avoid reading these things. There was an article recently—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] If hon. Members want it, we can quote it later in the debate. I have not bothered to bring it along. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] No. I am not prepared to quote it now, because I did not want to waste too much time. I will ask my right hon. Friend who will wind up the debate to quote it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "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": "at there is the necessity to adjust the expansion of home demand and home consumption, that there is a distinct necessity to put more into exports, and that everyone, as I said. must save rather than spend more. I think that the evidence today, from the reception of the statement which I made yesterday, is that the Government have, in fact, found about the right balance in the measures we propose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "t humanity. The attitude for the future is as I have described it, namely, we shall be aiming at the target of 300,000. I cannot enter into the domain of the Minister of Housing and Local Government by defining exactly what the expenditure is likely to be on private or local authority building, but the right hon. Gentleman will find it on page 69 of the Monthly Digest of Statistics for this month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1052.4", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A vacuum cleaner is not a luxury.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": " most important aspect of hire purchase concerns the buying of cars, and upon that the new rules will make very little difference. I understood that the Government were against discrimination, and I can see no reason why a woman who wants to buy a vacuum cleaner should receive worse terms than a woman who want to buy a sofa. It is a type of discrimination from which I thought we were getting free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1052.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman feels now, as he said this afternoon, that we have gone a bit too fast in encouraging investment. Now he wants to have a cut. He has done an extraordinary thing. He has appealed to private industrialists to cut their less essential investments. That is the first time we have heard from the Government that some industrial investment is less essential than other industrial investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have they got boots?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "wer our queries about education. We have had some very brave words recently from the Minister of Education, and I would remind the Chancellor, who, apparently, is now to introduce these new cuts in education, that if he were to come to my constituency he would find children of six years and even of seven years of age being told that there is no school available for them. That will be the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Building houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "t areas which we inherited from his Government, and if we had not devoted a great deal of our resources to building up the oil-refining industry—from which the Chancellor now derives great benefits—and also the steel and chemical industries, we should have had far more resources available for building houses. We also had to repair 4 million bomb damaged houses. What are the Government doing today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "could give no assurance that the local authority would be given a housing allocation—and that is in respect of a council whose council house building has totally stopped because of the policy of the Government. That authority must rehouse all the people on its housing list, together with those whose houses have been pulled down by the Government. That is the housing policy that we are now getting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-26", "file": "debates1955-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb08197b01b9d4b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I shall say something about monetary policy and about investment—there are one or two matters on which I should like to comment briefly. The hon. Member for Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins), who told me he would be unable to be here tonight, suggested in his speech that my right hon. Friend's Budget had itself caused the troubles which we have today. I do not think anybody could seriously believe that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-26a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1167.6", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I should be glad to examine any evidence or information which the hon. Lady cares to send to me, but the Governor was fully satisfied that the gentleman in question is an ardent and dangerous agitator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1175.6", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": " died on 4th June, not as a result of the march, but of an acute virus infection. Further precautions have been added to those already observed in these tests. The arrangements will be supervised by a captain or more senior officer in addition to the officer who accompanies the men, and tests will not take place in very hot weather. The squads will be counted at the beginning and end of the march—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1175.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1184.7", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e application of the usual formula that the Government should recall the House in the event of an emergency is hardly enough. I do not believe that it is desirable that this Motion should go by default, and I venture to give my reasons for that belief. There are two matters that ought to be mentioned. One is that if one cares to oppose a Motion of this kind one may be accused of seeking publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1184.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1184.7", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ncy is hardly enough. I do not believe that it is desirable that this Motion should go by default, and I venture to give my reasons for that belief. There are two matters that ought to be mentioned. One is that if one cares to oppose a Motion of this kind one may be accused of seeking publicity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is precisely what I expected—but what is one publicity-monger among so many?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1184.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1184.7", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "if we are to set an example to the people. I make the humble submission to hon. Members that two months is adequate, and perhaps I may give my reasons, as otherwise that might seem to be an arbitrary figure. I believe that hon. Members need a holiday. Obviously, the right hon. Gentlemen on the Front Bench opposite are very much in need of a rest. They have been assailed very hotly in recent weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1184.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1184.7", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "very hotly in recent weeks. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"] If the hon. Members on the back benches opposite do not recognise it, their right hon. Friends certainly do. I presume that one of the reasons for the long adjournment is that they require more holiday. Some of us would be only too willing to concede an even longer holiday to the Government as a whole, but that is not the proposition before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1184.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "t, arising from what occurred at Geneva, surely we may expect some consequences in the course of the next two or three months—about which, if this Motion is carried, hon. Members will not be permitted to express a single opinion here. We know that the matters considered by the representatives of the various nations at Geneva have been referred to the Foreign Ministers, but a situation may develop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Daises", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Daises", "preceding_text": "e have to consider this afternoon is not the question of past precedents, but what is the situation which faces us today, and it is from that point of view that I propose to approach this problem. I would also say to some of my hon. Friends that if the sole criterion of Opposition has always to be what we did when we were the Government, then we shall not get very far without spiking our own guns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Daises", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Daises", "preceding_text": "y the paramount interest of Members. I strongly object, as I did when I supported the Government, to a three months' holiday. It is far too long. I would make one constructive suggestion. If hon. Members are not wanted in the House for three months, why not send some of them to look at the mines which we so often discuss? Why not let them see the opencast system of mining and the railways at work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marcus Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "ations in the House until those figures become available? I think they will indicate an even more serious state of affairs than was disclosed in the course of the debate yesterday. What is to happen as a result of our disappearance from Westminster for 88 days? In effect, we shall be handing over the economic destinies of this country to the bank managers of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1194.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1203.7", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALIDATION OF ELECTIONS (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1203.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE, GENEVA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he importance of strengthening relations beween their two countries by maintaining the personal contact which they had established at Geneva. The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., Mr. Bulganin, and member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., Mr. Krushchev, have accepted the invitation of Sir Anthony Eden to visit the United Kingdom in the spring of next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1218.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1251.2", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE, GENEVA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "y reference at all to the condition of Eastern Europe and to the fact that the whole of Eastern Europe is occupied by that Power which has, at least to that extent, so far defeated us in the cold war, which it was fighting when we were fighting a hot war side by side and which it still is fighting. We ought not to forget Europe. We should remember that Eastern Europe is still there geographically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE, GENEVA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "be full confidence. Control and inspection of arms are the keys to a collective security pact that will be valuable and effective. President Eisenhower dramatically offered that the Russians might take aerial views of strongpoints in the U.S., provided that the Americans might do the same in the U.S.S.R. Apart from that being dramatic and catching the popular eye, there was not a great deal in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-27", "file": "debates1955-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d90cb770a8cb255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE, GENEVA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "er people. I wonder if the Foreign Secretary can do something before the conference starts? We need to establish many more contacts but there are some which we could, I think, do without. I wonder if it would be possible to get an agreement that at least until the Foreign Ministers' conference is over we might stop this war of words on the radio over Europe —the abuse that goes on from both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-27a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-28", "file": "debates1955-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "ca4a92c186f980a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-28a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman see these spring clips himself? If he decides that they have no other purpose at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-28a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-07-28", "file": "debates1955-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "ca4a92c186f980a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-28a.1342.3", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And school building.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Is it, then, the policy of the Government that the local authorities should reduce their housing programmes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-28a.1342.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-07-28", "file": "debates1955-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "ca4a92c186f980a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-28a.1343.2", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why did not the hon. Gentleman say that before?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "This is a very complicated question because the United States investment may be direct investment or portfolio investment. I would gladly write to the hon. Member to explain this matter further. American sources of information estimate that in 1953 the total value of United States direct investment in the United Kingdom was about £400 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-07-28a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-25", "file": "debates1955-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "01b32d237b7d7d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "May I remind the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-25", "file": "debates1955-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "01b32d237b7d7d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Harrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Harrison", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister visualise the City of Nottingham taking over the cemetery and continuing to run it as a cemetery or taking it over to prevent it from being left derelict and becoming a public nuisance? What does the right hon. Gentleman mean by \"taking it over\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.9.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-25", "file": "debates1955-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "01b32d237b7d7d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.36.4", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CSOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rfere with the autonomy of the three Service Departments, particularly the autonomy of the Board of Admiralty, the Air Council and the Army Council? Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that, however strong the Minister of Defence may be, or thinks he may be, even with the help of the new officer who is in charge of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Board of Admiralty will defeat him every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.36.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-25", "file": "debates1955-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "01b32d237b7d7d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR PERRY BARR (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "That is the intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-25", "file": "debates1955-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "01b32d237b7d7d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "ELECTION PETITION TRIALS, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "er time whether it is right to leave the position in this way. But the position, as I understand it, is this. There is an Act of Parliament which lays a duty upon the Divisional Court in Northern Ireland to decide on what was, in fact, the result of an Election held within its jurisdiction; that when it has done so, that has no effect at all unless the House of Commons passes some such Motion as--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-25", "file": "debates1955-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "01b32d237b7d7d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "n of Scotland. This shows what can be done very late at night, because we got this extra £40 million for the rural population between 11 o'clock and 12.15 a.m. Unfortunately, the newspapers \"go to bed\" long before that, so the rural population did not know what we were doing for them. We had to suffer our light shining under a bushel unseen, but nevertheless we did good. That is where I must stop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-25a.105.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.179.3", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Very cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might be allowed to say that I read in \"Tribune\" that the hon. Lady was to assume leadership in matters of this kind. Therefore, I am not surprised at that intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.202.5", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "Paris, in June, on the subject of a European clearing system. These discussions were necessary in order to secure the renewal of the E.P.U., and to preserve the invaluable co-operation of the European nations in O.E.E.C. This uncertainty coincided, however, with a second and separate factor—the emergence of a significant degree of internal inflation, due to wage claims and rising personal incomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.202.5", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": " create a firm basis for future forward moves in national policy. Thus we shall consolidate sterling's recent recovery and take advantage of the opportunities which world trade offers us. I discussed all this with the Commonwealth representatives at Istanbul, where my public assurance that further action was imminent did much to re-establish confidence, and I am quite clear now where my duty lies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.202.5", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": " further action was imminent did much to re-establish confidence, and I am quite clear now where my duty lies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"]—namely, that we must take further action, and take it now. We shall be moving in company with the Governments of Australia and New Zealand within the Commonwealth. These and a number of other countries have been suffering from troubles somewhat similar to our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Tory propaganda?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "r Government were at their peak immediately after the £ had been devalued. As a result of that devaluation, there was a rise in the cost of living greater than at any time since the war. I have devoted two or three minutes to some of the propaganda which we have been hearing from the other side of the Committee, and now I want to say something about my right hon. Friend's statement this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.250.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady agree that the purchasing power of old-age pensioners is higher today than it was when her party was in power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "party we have done a good job—a very good job. To hon. Members opposite, and particularly to the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Lewis) I would say this. We hear so much about the poor people, so much about the hard-working women, but although West Ham, North is a very strong working-class area it is also an exceedingly prosperous one. I should very much like to own a shop in West Ham, North.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "I should expect it in the two very minor matters I have mentioned—they are minor, but all these things add up—and, for example, in the Board of Trade, where at present a very considerable number of officers are engaged in operating controls which affect industry. A considerable number of officials are in the Treasury dealing particularly with Customs and Excise and with Purchase Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. and gallant Member will get the sack.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "tioned—they are minor, but all these things add up—and, for example, in the Board of Trade, where at present a very considerable number of officers are engaged in operating controls which affect industry. A considerable number of officials are in the Treasury dealing particularly with Customs and Excise and with Purchase Tax—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I will develop my case with regard to Purchase Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "deal to build the prosperity of the country. On the other hand, until very recently, the nationalised industries have been able to borrow whatever money they might have required. The Government must set an example themselves in cutting expenditure and taxation. It should be the target of my right hon. Friend, when he introduces his Budget next year, to cut expenditure by no less than £500 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "I will agree entirely with the hon. Member, but it is because today we have National Assistance Boards instead of having to go to the relieving officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-26", "file": "debates1955-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a25aea95f858acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did the hon. Gentleman vote against it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "g is done which seems to affect the interests of those I represent. Therefore, despite my great admiration for the Chancellor, I must sorrowfully protest against one or two suggestions put forward in the Budget Resolutions. Like several other hon. Members, I find it difficult to see what real contribution towards stopping inflation the putting of a tax of 30 per cent. on household goods will make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-26a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I must tell my hon. Friend that it would not end there. If I once started admitting on to the Burnham Committee bodies which represent special interests, there would be several others who would have at least as good a claim. Then I think the whole negotiating machinery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, there was practically no politics in this at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.357.6", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I ought to say at once that no decision of any kind has been taken about raising the school-leaving age to 16—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.357.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.357.6", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I ought to say at once that no decision of any kind has been taken about raising the school-leaving age to 16—[ Interruption ]—not within the near future, anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.357.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.369.8", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "One effective piece of action was taken by my right hon. Friend yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.369.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether my hon. Friend can confirm that the levels of the reserves today are substantially higher than in 1951–52?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.373.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Boo!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "nual growth of Exchequer expenditure on housing. But, since they will not affect the subsidies payable on houses already built, they cannot, of course, reduce the present total of the subsidy bill. Nevertheless, I believe that it will be generally recognised that the policy which I have announced represents an important step in the direction of restoring some measure of reality to housing finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.379.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I really do not know what the hon. and learned Gentleman is talking about. It has always been clear that it was the intention of Parliament that the subsidy should not go to persons for whom it was not needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did they say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's first question was about consultation. The usual consultations did take place. I myself had two long meetings with representatives of the local authority associations, and my officials also had further meetings about details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From different people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "erpiece of deception—actively encouraged instead of damping down additional spending. Now, having bought his votes with a bribe, the Chancellor is forced—as he knew he would be—to dishonour the cheque. Last night, on television, he said he did not believe in making promises. He is much cleverer than that. He simply gives the money away at the time of the Election and then takes it back afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "emind the Committee, briefly, of the figures. Income Tax reductions were so spread that nearly 8½ million people received from those concessions £19 million, about 1s. a week each. At the other end of the scale 325,000 received £25 million, or a benefit of about 30s. a week each. This was a Budget, the April Budget, which was overwhelmingly in favour of the better-off half of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "preceding_text": "roblems which are created by an employment situation of that kind, we might all do well to remember for a moment the problems that confronted a previous generation. If these post-war years have given us the problem of full employment coupled with a steady tendency to inflation, in the prewar years there was a general absence of inflation accompanied by a continuous large-scale unemployment figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "preceding_text": "he prewar years there was a general absence of inflation accompanied by a continuous large-scale unemployment figure. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault was that?\"] I do not think that any of us would wish to exchange the problems of today for the problems of 25 or 30 years ago. Thirdly, incomes. Since 1938, the real value—that is, in terms of purchasing power—of dividends has sunk by one-third, while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson", "preceding_text": "there is nothing from national funds but their little pension, although we have heard that they can get the amount lifted a little by going to the National Assistance Board for the Tory means test. These people are entitled to some consideration. Are they to be turned down again by the benevolent autocrats who are running the Government? Are they to be left down the road, as they always have been?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.444.4", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Hewitson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Hewitson", "preceding_text": "It is now. The hon. Gentleman should come to Hull. I could take him not to one but to a hundred houses where that is happening today. He should not stick his neck up and say \"No.\" It is happening. It is part of our life. We can see it and feel it. I suggest that some hon. Gentlemen opposite should go to see these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.444.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "at benefits which will occur, if the landlords are allowed to raise the rents to an economic figure, will be that young couples who do not wish to incur the cost of renting a house at 30s. or 35s. a week will be able to get a very good house to rent at a figure which may be anything from 15s. to 17s. a week. It would be in good condition, perhaps twenty years old, and they would be far better off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "0s. 6d. a week and in good condition comes on the market because the tenant vacates it, that house is not relet, because the owner tries to sell it. That is being done all over the country, and some of the houses, I must confess, sell at very high prices, even when in deplorable condition. What we want to get back is good landlordism, and the only way to do that is by a real free market in houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": " place. It is all very well to say, as the hon. Member for Kidderminster did yesterday, that the Government mentioned the economic crisis during the Election. Certainly, they did, pianissimo and in footnotes. The whole Election campaign was based on the prosperity of Britain under the Tories and on the denigrating of all that had been achieved under the Labour Party in the six years after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-27", "file": "debates1955-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ddde77feee188d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "ty, but that does not mean that the smaller authority shall be exempted from the question of whether it can borrow on its own credit. As well as the stock market, there is the mortgage market too, where the small authorities may well find willing lenders. The principle holds that the Local Loans Fund is available henceforth only for those who cannot raise their finance from non-Government sources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-27a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "mas—and this Government is always very tender to Mr. Rank—council houses have to be cut. I had a letter yesterday—perhaps other hon. Members did—which was quite unsolicited, advertising a vast, new motor showroom in North London which was built since licensing was ended. Because that sort of thing is going on, hospitals have to be cut. City offices are mushrooming now. but schools have to be cut —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.542.4", "colnum": "542", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I will adhere to the statement I made on 26th July and the statement I made in the course of my Budget speech. As I have said, the Minister of Health has communicated with regional hospital boards about capital expenditure which is not of the first priority—[Hors. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] Hon. Members opposite need not be so amused about a man who attempts to stick—as I have done—to honest statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.542.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "at the Chancellor has said. Now the tale that he appears to be going on, and what he said on Wednesday, is: … we are asking the hospital boards to ensure that only those works are undertaken which are of the most urgent and necessary character.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th October, 1955; Vol. 545, c. 218.] I want to ask this of the Chancellor; he has just repeated that the programme is going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.543.6", "colnum": "543", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the rest of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.543.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not seem to be getting much support for that proposition. The Tory Press and financial interests are baying for more attacks upon the Welfare State. They are disappointed with his Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give an example.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "ltimate cost of staffing or heating are not adequately gone into, or perhaps even the number of people who can be accommodated. The local authority may buy a place with extensive gardens and grounds, which represent, not a large capital expenditure but a large potential maintenance expenditure. They may buy a building the water and drainage system of which is wholly inadequate for the new purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " may have been the case, but we have to accept that all these mistakes have been made, that the April Budget—the give-away Budget—was introduced in circumstances which called for a completely different sort of Budget. With the import controls largely gone the Chancellor went to Paris and made these unfortunate statements. We have to accept that and, that being so, what at present ought to be done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "d-humoured banter with which he introduced his proposals then, and the sullen bad temper in which he now replies to our criticisms. The Chancellor is really striking in the wrong direction. What should be worrying him is not that he has lost the confidence of my right hon. and hon. Friends, because he never had it. What should be worrying him is that he has lost the confidence of his hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.614.5", "colnum": "614", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " is that the Chancellor has tried to be all things to all men. He has tried—and to some extent he has succeeded in the short-run—to put forward a policy of full employment, and to maintain certainly the main basis of the Welfare State, combined with large reductions in direct taxation and a steady sweeping away of controls. He has been able to do that because of the benefits of the terms of trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.614.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.618.2", "colnum": "618", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "ere making a cut in the hospital programme, and would not, until my hon. Friends had challenged nim for about five minutes, read one single, simple sentence from my right hon. Friend's speech, in which he said: In the hospitals, as in the local authority services, we are not reducing the programmes which have already been announced …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th October, 1955; Vol. 545, c. 217.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the April Budget?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "as all directed to one lesson, which was, \"Wait for the crisis to come, and then act on it.\" That is the great difference between hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite and on this side of the Committee. We believe in taking the necessary action in time. It does not worry us in the very least if this necessary action is described by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite as \"deceiving the people.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.622.2", "colnum": "622", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": " about their importance. First, as I see it, by far the most important of the Government's measures is that combination of measures relating to housing and local government borrowing. There is certainly no dispute between the two sides of the Committee that this constitutes a major change of policy. There is no dispute about that—and I hope that it will be fully realised outside the House as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.622.2", "colnum": "622", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": " here. Having studied the views of my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster on the one side and of the Royal Commission on the other, I think that the middle way of my right hon. Friend has a very great deal to commend it. I should now like to say something about the Purchase Tax. First, I have absolutely no doubt at all that this in- crease in Purchase Tax will, in fact, help our export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-28", "file": "debates1955-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b381f5d4ddda4fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.622.2", "colnum": "622", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "solutely no doubt at all that this in- crease in Purchase Tax will, in fact, help our export trade. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] It is not always easy, in economic matters, to establish an absolutely precise connection for everybody to see. but there is an overwhelmingly wide body of opinion which is sure that some increase in Purchase Tax over the whole field must result in benefit to our export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-28a.622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "There is nothing whatever ambiguous in my right hon. Friend's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.668.2", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "if the hon. Member refers to the declarations in question, he will find that they refer to the principle and not to the right of self-determination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.668.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "We hope that in time this matter will be settled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.670.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "ry included, no longer have a monopoly of arms supplies to this area. This situation involves difficult decisions for this country and her Western partners. We cannot, on the one hand, embark on an arms race in competition with the Soviet bloc; on the other hand, to put a ban on deliveries would merely have the effect of further driving these countries to less responsible suppliers than ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ther proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whilst not providing a solution to the problems now facing Great Britain, are unjust in that they impose heavy burdens on persons of limited means and discriminate against local and other public authorities. This is a Motion of censure upon Her Majesty's Government which has been put down in the names of certain leaders of the official Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "k, these allegations were proved to be true. This is not the only case in which the Chancellor has deceived the electorate. In the Election of 1951 he gave a categorical undertaking that if the Conservatives were returned they would not touch the food subsidies. He was associated in that undertaking with the present Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Yes, I think I have got him right this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is why you lost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ncellor of the Exchequer was categorical at Berwick upon the point. He did not wait for years or for a long period to break that promise. In his very first Budget after his party won the Election, and he had become Chancellor of the Exchequer, he slashed the food subsidies. That takes a bit of explaining. I challenged the right hon. Gentleman with this in the last General Election time after time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " about solemn undertakings like these I am not a bit surprised. The Tories think that cheating the electorate is one of the larks. The electors bad a right to know in the succeeding Election why the Chancellor had broken the promise he gave in 1951, and they got no answer. They still get no answer. Therefore, if the Chancellor is \"under the weather,\" so far as his personal reputation is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ught deception of the country at the General Election and just before it in the floating of the General Election, which is an exceedingly serious thing. Take the timing of the General Election. The Prime Minister, in his announcement and in the personal statement which is a preface to the Conservative Election manifesto and which makes him responsible for everything that is said in that manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was in 1951.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ent is already in its fourth year, and it is inevitable that, with change of Prime Minister, there should he expectation of a General Election. That was said both in this document and in the official statement which was issued when the announcement of the General Election was made giving the Prime Minister's case for holding at that time a General Election which was not constitutionally necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "stimulate Conservative supporters to work in the Election and to help in the return of the Government. What was the general line of the Government, economically, at the General Election? With all of them, Conservative candidates as well, it was the line \"Things are well—things are going all right.\" It is true that now and again they said, \"We are not out of the wood, but we are on the right road.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "they deceived the electorate by spreading the impression that we were substantially out of trouble. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was quoted many times last week and I shall not refer to more than one three-line quotation. He was speaking in his own constituency of Saffron Walden on 16th May of this year. The quotation is very brief and to the point. He said: The last Budget was short and pure\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not hospitals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "field of local government. It includes not only housing but education. Every teacher in the country, man and woman, had better take note of the fact that additional difficulties will face them in the schools in future years. The message concerns drainage, maternity and child welfare, public health, highways and bridges, water schemes and many other things which are the concern of local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They lost the election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " Jenkinson, who floated a scheme of this sort in that city. I went to speak for him on the eve of the poll in a municipal election. He was very much like my friend Dr. Salter, in London—that is to say, he had no great respect for public opinion. I recall him saying, \"They say public opinion does not agree with me. What do I care about public opinion?\" I forget whether they won the election or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rationing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "made. It means less freedom for public authorities. It means the imposition of restrictions upon public enterprise and public authorities of all sorts and, therefore, it is an untruthful claim that the Government stand for freedom. In our judgment the Government's policy of drift and neglect of the wider issues of economic policies is bad. I believe that there should be selective import controls —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "now whether that is what the Government want. There is ineffective economic education and leadership, yet the British people are great and could respond. The Government must play the game with the people if their co-operation is to be won. The Government must not cheat, as they have been cheating and as they cheated the electorate at the Election this year. We of the Labour Party love our country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.697.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the change?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "rous forecasts of 1947 and 1949. The proper doctrine, not as announced by the right hon. Gentleman, was announced by Sir Stafford Cripps, his predecessor, in his Budget of 1948, when he pointed out that if circumstances changed … we must then make a rapid readjustment of our economic and financial policies.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th April, 1948, Vol. 449, col. 49.] That was on 6th April, 1948.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "n the Budget in April was that production would increase faster than demand, thus leaving us with a margin for increased exports. In the first six months of this year, in fact, industrial production was 6 per cent. higher than it was in the first half of 1954. The figures for the third quarter are still provisional, and July was, I think, undoubtedly affected by the dislocation of the dock strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.713.3", "colnum": "713", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "s. In broad outline, the means that I have adopted to curb home consumption is a moderate increase in Purchase Tax across the whole range from top to bottom. The Opposition have mostly exaggerated the difficulties which this will cause for the ordinary family. The hon. Member for Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins), whose speech the other day I thought was a little less intense than on previous occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.713.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gaitskell rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In London.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ak now of petrol stations, public houses or cinemas but will take what is quantitatively a much more important illustration, private offices. There is a tremendous burst of private office building going on, most of all in the City of London, but also elsewhere. If I understand aright figures that have been given today about £10 million a year is being spent on private office building at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "—the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir Winston Churchill). who, in the first volume of his history of the Second World War, has in the index this entry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) has closed with a charge against the late Stanley Baldwin which, he must have enough knowledge of the historical controversy to know, is one which at best is based on a very arguable hypothesis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "w, is one which at best is based on a very arguable hypothesis. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) need not be so enthusiastic. The Leader of the Opposition knows this as well as I do. If one reads carefully that passage of Stanley Baldwin's as it actually was—I have got it here, although I have not got time to read it now; I have other things to bother about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why carry it about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "[ Interruption. ] The right hon. Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) need not be so enthusiastic. The Leader of the Opposition knows this as well as I do. If one reads carefully that passage of Stanley Baldwin's as it actually was—I have got it here, although I have not got time to read it now; I have other things to bother about—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] I am only suggesting to hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "actually was—I have got it here, although I have not got time to read it now; I have other things to bother about—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] I am only suggesting to hon. Members—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why carry it about?\"] I saw it circulated last week. I am not going to read it now, because I wish to answer this debate. It is nothing for the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) to giggle about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": " was in this matter. I am only doing this as what I believe to be an act of historic justice, and I am asking the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland to do what I have not yet had time to do, namely, to read Dr. Jones' account of this business and to read some of the other historical accounts, when I think he will find that he was in all probability tonight doing an injustice to Stanley Baldwin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "as the right hon. Gentleman entirely forgotten that there is still one Government stock, which I believe is familiarly known by his name—it is still called \"Daltons\"—issued at 100 in October, 1946—I think with a song in the right hon. Gentleman's heart—which had fallen to 64 before the Labour Government left office? I have never blamed the right hon. Gentleman for that, and I do not blame him now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "epared to face. What we are working for is the national result, for the nation as a whole. The right hon. Gentleman made much play with the month of February, when my right hon. Friend introduced some measures to correct the excessive pressure of demand in our economy. It is true that this had a good effect at the time, both in the balance of payments and in the balance of trade. We all know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nd I want to explain to the House and to give reasons why it is not true. First, the House forgets that when the last financial year closed the Chancellor had a surplus of £280 million to distribute as he thought fit—an infinitely larger surplus than the year before when he had been chided for doing nothing with it. In actual fact, what he did was to distribute about half of it. Was that reckless?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "lly, I think it is to the credit of the Chancellor that with that surplus he had regard to the uncertainty there always is about the British economy in respect of balance of payments. If the hon. Members opposite say we were so very reckless in April, why did they not vote against these proposals when they were put to the House? Why did they not go to the country and say how disgraceful they were?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " a position in which competition between companies for material and labour would have brought our industry to chaos. So we preferred to take the action that we have taken; action to prevent what otherwise must result, unless we keep the balance equal, in pricing ourselves out of foreign markets and unemployment for our people. Those who remember the '30s must always have that haunting their minds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "erwise must result, unless we keep the balance equal, in pricing ourselves out of foreign markets and unemployment for our people. Those who remember the '30s must always have that haunting their minds—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I can assure hon. Members that it haunts mine. In that context, I cannot accept that these proposals are harsh. The \"Manchester Guardian\"—not notoriously a biased paper", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to do. We do not consider—and I would like the House to await the fuller statement of my right hon. Friend—our action on housing subsidies oppressive. We came into office five years ago, and we appealed to the local authorities, to private enterprise and to others to make an extra effort to step up the rate of house building. They responded very well. We promised to try and secure 300,000 houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "00,000 houses have been completed in this country; two million altogether since the war. I think the House will admit that up to now these houses have gone mainly to those families who were without a separate home, who were sharing a house perhaps with relations or, perhaps, living in lodgings. Their need was great—is great; but there are many other families whose housing need is equally pressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about rent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " places on us an obligation to take up again the slum clearance drive which many people on this side of the House, and no doubt on the other, wished to carry forward in the 30's but which, unhappily, was halted by the war. We stated this quite clearly in our Election manifesto. Finally I want to deal with the questions which the right hon. Gentleman asked me, and fairly asked me, about the policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.792.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.798.2", "colnum": "798", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Mr. Morrison rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.798.3", "colnum": "798", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you cutting?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Finally, when the right hon. Gentleman says to me that the only things we are cutting are the nationalised industries, I say that is utterly false—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.798.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-10-31", "file": "debates1955-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7ff16e240591be32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.798.3", "colnum": "798", "heading": "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "are the nationalised industries, I say that is utterly false—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you cutting?\"]—because in our programme is nuclear power, and the coal mining industry has been given a clear bill to try to meet our needs. I believe I have fairly stated all the programme. It is all in that document and we shall proceed with it, but there has to be an order of priorities between those things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-10-31a.798.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-01", "file": "debates1955-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "483706db9019f3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-01a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that any fall in employment in the cotton industry has been more than counterbalanced by increased employment in those industries making man-made fibres? In addition, is it not a fact that any unemployment in the cotton industry has been immediately absorbed in other industries in Lancashire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-01a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-01", "file": "debates1955-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "483706db9019f3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-01a.845.2", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It has long been the practice, and it is now open to any hon. Member, of course, to seek information about future debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-01a.845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-01", "file": "debates1955-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "483706db9019f3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-01a.851.4", "colnum": "851", "heading": "EDUCATION SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "iendliness made him a favourite on all sides. I know of nobody else who was on first-name terms with so many hon. and right hon. Gentlemen. The House has been deprived of one of its most valued and able colleagues. Our greatest loss is that of a friend who always evidenced glowing sympathy for those in distress, and a kindliness to friend and foe alike. I am quite sure that we all mourn his death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-01a.851.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-01", "file": "debates1955-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "483706db9019f3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-01a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "That is an hypothetical case and we shall have to consider", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-01a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1014.6", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "I have not checked up definitely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1014.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "One of the points which the right hon. and learned Gentleman made ought to be clarified for the benefit of hon. Members. Do I understand his view to be that a soldier cannot undertake active soldiering until he has been trained for twelve months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anybody could suggest that the present system is one of absolute universality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unconditional surrender.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "-too-distant future. Looking at the White Paper, however, I see what has happened. Manifestly, a period of two years is more attractive to the Defence Staff. The admirals, the generals and the air marshals have been plugging this and the Government have given in. In fact, when I got my copy of the White Paper and read it, I wrote across the front, \"The Government have surrendered to the generals.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the commanding officers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "e of function of the National Service men. As the Minister rightly pointed out, the original intention was to build up reserves. Now that intention has been dropped and the men are really wanted to supplement the Regular Army. Some of the generals have told me that the last six months of the two years is the only part of the two years that is worth while. I do not believe that for a single moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": ", bring some advantages, perhaps not in every individual case, but certainly in the majority, from the point of view both of the man and of the employer. The Government could not sell that one to a mothers' meeting! It really is ridiculous. The real trouble, above all, is that it will not be of any advantage to anybody who does not have an advantage already, if hon. Members understand what I mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ing something about it, instead of allowing them to sit about doing nothing, which is what they have done. At any rate, I am going to make a few proposals, even though the Minister cannot. First, I want to emphasise that it is not merely a question of pay and pensions, although it is vitally important that the men in the forces should be paid on terms equal to what they would get in civilian life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": " done. At any rate, I am going to make a few proposals, even though the Minister cannot. First, I want to emphasise that it is not merely a question of pay and pensions, although it is vitally important that the men in the forces should be paid on terms equal to what they would get in civilian life—[ Interruption. ] I do not know that I can face interruptions from behind as well as in front of me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Earlier than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "o one channel or another, and they have very little chance of getting out of it, or of substantial promotion. If something could be done on those lines, I am sure that it would be a big help. Secondly, something ought to be done about barrack conditions. The Secretary of State said, in one debate, that nothing had been done to some of the barracks since 1900. I should think that he was dead right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did the right hon. Gentleman advocate it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "nd ourselves in an extraordinary position in Germany. The victorious British soldier will be conscripted for two years, while the defeated German is doing only eighteen months. That is one point which I should have thought would give people cause for irritation. I want to ask, why the sudden enthusiasm for a strategic Reserve now? We have got along without a strategic Reserve for about four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And feeding?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "r. Worn-out members of the executive travel by sea, so that they can have a rest before they reach their destination. Generally speaking, what one does is to send people by air because that saves time and money and is very much more efficient, and the cost does not work out at more. I have just been round the world, and the cost worked out at 5d. a mile—far cheaper than any other method of travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "But before he does so there are words in the Amendment the right hon. Gentleman has moved which I should like him to be kind enough to explain. Does … an immediate reduction in the length of National Service mean that men now serving with the Colours would have their period of service reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "gements for the provision of married quarters; but much more requires to be done. I want to come to the point of real substance. For what do we want twenty-four months' service? The right hon. and learned Gentleman the Minister for Defence said—and I thought that this was the most illogical part of the argument which he deployed—that twenty-four months was needed because the men had to be trained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nt of the individual as in the best interests of the country. That brings me to what is perhaps the most important consideration. We have had a debate on the Budget. I listened very intently to all that was said, and what I did not hear I read. But last year, when the Chancellor deployed his Budget arguments, among other things he said that we must cut defence costs. I know from behind the scenes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1067.2", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "more advanced in their ideas. Let them get the right concept. Nuclear methods have emerged, and they have come to stay until the world is less crazy and we promote total, or, at any rate, partial, disarmament. In the context of nuclear strategy it is absurd to have large ground forces. The Russians have reduced their land forces by 600,000 men. The Americans contemplate a reduction of 300,000 men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1067.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentlemen on both sides that if we end conscription our defence fails and falls to the ground. It so happens, as the House will know from previous occasions when I have had the honour of addressing it, that I believe that conscription is morally wrong. It is a denial of liberty to one section of the community imposed by another section which will never have to give up that liberty itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "lling servant does not make the best sailor, soldier or airman, and the majority of these conscripts have one idea in their minds from the minute they go in—and that is to get out. We all know that that is perfectly true. Therefore, we ought to ask, \"How did we get our soldiers before? How did we have our Armed Forces without conscription, and will it work now?\" It was unemployment before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Commander J. W. Maitland (Horn-castle)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander J. W. Maitland (Horn-castle)", "preceding_text": "he call-up should remain at two years, he was thrown on one side. In my view, the most important point in the White Paper is its opening remarks to the effect that we are proposing to reduce the numbers of the Armed Forces. I believe that in a nuclear age that is a very proper advance, but I should have thought that if a reduction is made it would underline the need for a longer period of service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Commander J. W. Maitland (Horn-castle)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander J. W. Maitland (Horn-castle)", "preceding_text": "ould underline it by reducing as soon as possible our commitments under National Service. I cannot believe that it is not now possible to make considerable reductions in manpower in National Service. If we pin our faith to the thermo-nuclear deterrent we have undoubtedly to spend just as much as we have ever spent, and possibly more if we are to be safe. The one economy we can make is in manpower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "May I offer my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Kershaw), who made a maiden speech earlier in the debate? I feel sure that other hon. Members who heard him will agree with me that we look forward to hearing him again. I do not have the honour and pleasure of knowing the hon. Member for Lady-wood (Mr. Yates). I wonder whether he is an ex-Service man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "their N.C.O.s one-third of their corporals and one-half of their lance-corporals in any given unit are National Service men. Many National Service men are used as instructors of the new intake coming into the regiment from the depot. If we take away six months of the National Service men's period of service, those battalions will simply fall. They will simply cease to be fighting units any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Korea?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "preceding_text": "ituation. If hon. Members can honestly look at the situation in the Middle East today and say that they believe, without any doubt at all, that our commitments there have been reduced—despite the actual physical commitments which may have been eliminated for the time being—they have greater faith in those matters than I have, and they have greater faith in them than the situation really justifies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "hat we shall see some of the good; but one cannot escape the fact that during the hon. Gentleman's speech this evening we heard only of the bad and nothing of the good. Let me deal with the next argument, that other countries do not have such a long period of National Service. That may well be the case, but I would not have said that is a very encouraging attitude to leadership in foreign affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ts, which has acted as a political flypaper and, I regret to say, has caught a number of my right hon. and hon. Friends. The commitment aspect of National Service is only half the story. It is just as if the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Budget day dealt only with what was to be spent on the Departments, but did not say how he would raise the money. One cannot spend money until one has raised it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "t we have to look at it from the long-term angle. I can only apologise for again saying what I have said on a dozen occasions. It does not matter who sits opposite. Take my right hon. Friend the Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Strachey), my right hon. Friend the Member for Basset-law (Mr. Bellenger) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) and put them on the benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "dministration it has not found an exception. Yes, there is one exception, the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Ward), who I think has done a useful job at the Air Ministry. The Secretary of State for War has done for the British Army something which Napoleon could not do, something which the Kaiser could not do and something which Hitler could not do—he has turned it into a jelly, an amorphous mass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": " surge in, but six months later the Government run into the trough; they borrow from the future. What the Secretary of State did not understand, and what the country did not understand either, was the important thing that my much-maligned right hon. Friend the Member for Easington had introduced the differential. It needed political guts to do that, particularly with the kind of party that we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "h we were told by the experts only a few short years ago were absolutely essential. That is all gone, and we are now to have an Army organised on an entirely different basis. I appreciate this. I do not blame the military authorities because they are attempting to adjust their ideas and plans to a very rapidly changing situation. I am not saying this in a spirit of censoriousness or facetiousness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-02", "file": "debates1955-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7eb1b0e7c3f7620f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": " put it in a sentence, that whereas industry was losing 500,000 man-weeks in 1954 through part-time service, in the year to come that loss will be reduced to 180,000 man-weeks, which is a substantial difference to the advantage of industry. As to the Services themselves, I think enough has been said to demonstrate that the last six months of a man's service are the most valuable that he can offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-02a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this dwindling number of ex-officers consider that they are being disgracefully defrauded by the present Government?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": " Members are conscious that they are elected on the broadest possible franchise by probably 60,000 people, and they think that election to this place is an honour and that selection by Mr. Speaker when we wish to speak, in the presence of people who can contradict, is rather better and more preferable in the present age than selection at the caprice of an often irresponsible and ignorant producer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1217.3", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "preceding_text": "I think on two occasions, said that so far as he was concerned it would probably be possible, after discussion through the usual channels, to have a debate on the ban? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I suspect that the House cheered what my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell) said a few minutes ago probably not entirely because it approved of the content of what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1219.2", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "t I want to make is that we as back benchers have very limited rights in the House. As back benchers, we do not know officially about the following week's business until 3.30 on Thursday afternoons. Then, if hon. Members wish to raise certain matters they can, subject to catching your eye, put a supplementary question. But if, in fact, the Press has quite obviously been given an official hand-out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1228.2", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It definitely does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "ut of a central body of highly qualified technical inspectors. I do not think that there has ever been a quarrel over that principle. For that reason a number of chemical and other industrial processes are already registered under the Alkali Acts. I should stress that an extension in the field of alkali responsibility should not be regarded as diminishing the powers or rights of local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "en a spokesman on a clean milk Bill, and a clean food Bill, and now it gives me tremendous satisfaction to support this Clean Air Bill, which, we hope, will reduce in some degree air pollution. A few months ago, when I was the Member of Parliament for Fulham, West, I would have felt very srongly about this matter, but now I am the Member of Parliament for the industrial constituency of Warrington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "nly, I have been very well-chosen. My interest in and knowledge of this question is considerably greater. In fact, when I have spoken for a few minutes more, hon. Members will realise how warmly and emotionally I feel on this subject. This should not be a campaign; it should be a crusade. I thought that the hon. Gentleman, in his last few sentences sounded as if he was advocating a go-slow policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Salford initiated it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Manchester initiated it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Storey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Storey", "preceding_text": " use our coal efficiently and to promote good health so that we may increase production is such that the extra cost and effort involved in tightening up the Bill would be well worthwhile and would pay a full dividend. I wish the Bill well, but I hope that between now and the Committee stage the Minister will re-examine it with that same realism as that with which he examined the housing subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "preceding_text": "bout the incidence of sulphur in the air. The Parliamentary Secretary did the House a disservice. My right hon. Friend the Member for Warrington (Dr. Summerskill), at the opening of the debate, asked for particulars about the amount of sulphur that is being produced, and the hon. Gentleman did not know. I know how much sulphur is being produced because I happen to have read the Beaverbrook Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1308.3", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Austerity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "eing done to minimise the nuisance, and then a little later we find that nothing or very little has been done and things are as bad as ever. I should like to be able to ask the Minister of Housing and Local Government to send us whenever there is a conflict between the local sanitary inspector and the local works management, an expert, someone who will look into the matter with complete austerity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-03", "file": "debates1955-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "33b76ca9d824b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1329.2", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister a question about this, because it is most important? We in Manchester are very proud of our smokeless zones, but my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Mr. Hobson) has seriously disturbed our minds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-03a.1329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-04", "file": "debates1955-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "07ea117fcaabecbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-04a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "DENTISTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The auxiliary pilot\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "riences which one generally has when one goes to other countries at the invitation of the Government, and when one is inclined to see something that we cannot do better in our own country. In New Zealand, in 1943, the Government supplied me with a small aeroplane, and the Minister of Health and I, with two officials, and of course the pilot and assistant pilot—I am not quite sure what we call him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-04a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1453.4", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA (TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is not the position of Her Majesty's Government on this question now quite indefensible and cynical almost to the point of dishonesty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1453.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1456.2", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "China is already a member of the United Nations and a permanent member of the Security Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S.S.R.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "is not this a most gratifying and remarkable result for the Government and the Eastern European Governments concerned and can my right hon. Friend say whether some indication of our thanks to those countries will be conveyed to them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1480.4", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S.S.R.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "May I have a reply to a specific question? I asked whether we are going to supply jet planes and other arms to people who are using them for aggressive purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "id extreme Left-wing, which I think was a fair point. Perhaps the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell) will wait for what I was about to say. I was about to ask the House, whether supposing the Board had known that he had expressed even Communist sympathies as an undergraduate, in those days would the House have felt that such a man should automatically be excluded from the public service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker, before I proceed with my speech, perhaps I may be permitted to stray beyond the bounds of order for a few moments to refer to the deeply regretted death of my right hon. Friend William Whiteley, Member for Blaydon. He was respected in all quarters of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear. hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "Parliament, a man of the most upright character, and I would say, having seen a good many Chief Whips—and I think that the Government Chief Whip will agree—that William Whiteley will stand out as one of the great Chief Whips in the House of Commons; a servant not only to his party, but a man who also had a sense of duty to the House as a whole, including the Opposition. We all deplore his passing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ways. Let no one think that this aspect is confined to the working classes: I do not think that anyone does think so. In fact, the cases with which we are concerned are not of that character. There have been some working-class cases, but the funny thing about the middle and upper classes, the well-to-do class, is that if they go wrong in this fashion they are, if anything, worse than other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend said a moment ago that he set up a committee of inquiry just after he heard of the Maclean affair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Promoted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " recklessly condemned. I think that in the Civil Service as a whole—whether it is more so in the Foreign Office I do not know—there is a tendency, if an officer falls down on his job or is guilty of an offence which is somewhat serious, to say, \"He is an old colleague. Can we not do something about it to prevent him from being fired?\" Often what happens is that he may be transferred to other work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "on of the Prime Minister and the Government—I was involved in earlier arguments about it—is based on the fact that the Foreign Service is separate from the home Civil Service. It is separately recruited, it maintains its own life and, I think my right hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) will agree, it is not as much subject to Treasury co-ordination as is the home Civil Service", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " serious misconduct and suffered a form of breakdown which was attributed to overwork and excessive drinking. Surely it is clear that the excessive drinking was the result and not the cause? Anybody looking at this can see that the man was suffering from a terrible psychological strain, the strain of being a traitor. He had those two loyalties which drove him into drink and drove him into treason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wise after the event.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "t and suffered a form of breakdown which was attributed to overwork and excessive drinking. Surely it is clear that the excessive drinking was the result and not the cause? Anybody looking at this can see that the man was suffering from a terrible psychological strain, the strain of being a traitor. He had those two loyalties which drove him into drink and drove him into treason. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or 'C' or 'D'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "llow, wonderful at languages. The deficiencies in Burgess were moral. Are we to be told that \"A\" class means that people are moral, but that \"B\" class people are immoral? What is even queerer is that when Hector McNeil asked whether Burgess could be put up into the \"A\" class the request was resisted. Why? If the grounds were failings of personal character he should not have been either \"A\" or \"B\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And grilled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": ". My first question is this: is it or is it not the fact that, on the first day when Maclean entered the Foreign Office, he declared to a colleague that he was a member of the Communist Party? My second question is this: why have M.I.5 not yet interviewed members of the Washington staff of the Foreign Office who were directly associated with Burgess and Maclean? Why have they not been interviewed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "The very simple answer to that is this. While it is true that the name of an hon. Member is mentioned in this particular article, that hon. Member is not myself, and I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "ared to forward that information to a judicial member of the Privy Council—a High Court judge—who, as has been suggested from this side of the House, should carry out an investigation into the operations of the Secret Service and who should report to the Prime Minister in a private report. Surely that is not an unreasonable offer to make. All I want to say, and I must rapidly draw to a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it outside.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "an investigation into the operations of the Secret Service and who should report to the Prime Minister in a private report. Surely that is not an unreasonable offer to make. All I want to say, and I must rapidly draw to a conclusion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Before I draw to a conclusion, I want to say that I will not be gagged by anybody in this House or outside in the performance of my duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but if that is not the case how can it be that a couple of drunks, a couple of homosexuals well-known in the City, could for so long occupy important posts in the Foreign Office? There is no commercial organisation anywhere that would not have fired them years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-07", "file": "debates1955-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "79b9a44f532543e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1609.1", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "FORMER FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS (DISAPPEARANCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ance, it has been suggested that Burgess and Maclean should not have been allowed to escape. All right. Under the law as it stands today they could not have been prevented from escaping, unless a charge could have been preferred. No charge could be preferred. Now, would the House like that law altered? Would the House agree that the law should allow any British subject to be detained on suspicion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-07a.1609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1655.4", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARTY POLITICAL CONFERENCES (CIVIL SERVANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "This has nothing to do with cars, has it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1655.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1655.4", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARTY POLITICAL CONFERENCES (CIVIL SERVANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "This has nothing to do with cars, has it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] We are dealing with Question No. 52, are we not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1655.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1655.5", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARTY POLITICAL CONFERENCES (CIVIL SERVANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "This has nothing to do with cars, has it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] We are dealing with Question No. 52, are we not? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"] But Question No. 52 asks the Prime Minister— if he is aware of the growing practice of Ministers taking their civil servants to party political conferences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1655.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1668.0", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary has just estimated £30 million as the amount which will be produced by motor cars in the middle range.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "t. The question of initial allowances, and so on, can quite properly be raised in our debates, but I cannot help thinking that, at present. I shall be helping the House best by expounding what is in the Bill rather than wandering over what is not in the Bill. I quite recognise that the Financial Secretary's speech when moving a Second Reading of the Finance Bill is liable to be a dry and dull one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1669.4", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is too simple.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "e wondering whether this extra tax will really stop the public buying. We shall see, but surely the answer is that it will stop some of the public from buying things that they do not really need, and that if they do buy, some of the money they spend will be drawn off as tax revenue into the Exchequer and purchasing power will be cut back to that extent. There will be less to spend on other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "nsive electric toasters or costly dinner services, both of which, up to now, have been bearing no tax at all. Furthermore, many of these goods that have been exempt are made of metal, and metal is scarce and needs to be used sparingly if the factories which require metal for making up into exports are not to go short. There was also the need to clear up the mess left by the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "urchase Tax. He will get back 120 per cent. in tax relief on the additional Purchase Tax that he pays. Therefore, he will make money out of the Purchase Tax and beat the Chancellor at his own game. I hope that the Chancellor will make some drastic changes in his Purchase Tax proposals in Committee. I now turn to the large and ominous question mark overhanging the Bill: will it achieve its purpose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1688.1", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "preceding_text": "er the loss to every retailer in the country should the Purchase Tax be reduced. The Purchase Tax is a shocking tax. I hope that we shall be able to get rid of it as soon as possible. However, in the special circumstances in which we find ourselves, I accept the increases which have been provided for, from 25 per cent. to 30 per cent., from 50 to 60 per cent., and from 75 per cent. to 90 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1736.2", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slave conditions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "We must talk in simple terms which the people will understand, and we must convince them that what we are doing is absolutely necessary and just. Recently I had the privilege of spending a few weeks in Russia and Poland. I saw there with my own eyes—and that is the best witness—men and women working as I would like to see our people working at home because then there would be no problem like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am saying that the United Nations statistics show that the average standard of life in this country was the equivalent of 773 dollars per annum; in Russia it is 308 and in Poland 300. To maintain our standard of life we must be prepared to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " Government can get a firm price, but if the delivery date is more than two months, this escalator clause is included, which makes the contract really a cost-plus contract. While it is not reasonable to expect the great engineering firms to give a firm price for an article which will take two or three years to deliver, I think that we could insist on a firm price for delivery within twelve months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1740.2", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " extend this system. Little as I like the system, to no group would I say it quicker, harder and with more purpose than to the favoured and pampered motor car industry of Coventry. It is high time that the 33 per cent. duty was looked at again. I think that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor was unjustly and bitterly attacked by the right hon. Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) ten days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1740.2", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ng up again. Therefore, it is no use pretending that the Budget is just… This is what the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale was saying about the Budget of the right hon. Member for Leeds, South for which hon. Members opposite voted. How dare they say that my right hon. Friend was dishonest. The right hon. Member for Leeds, South also said that this Finance Bill lacks proper economic planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Baldwin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "ort. I hope that the unions will consider this question with much more wisdom than has appeared on the other side of the House. Financially and politically, I feel that the country today faces the same problem as it faced over re-armament politically before the war. In the 'thirties the Opposition was largely to blame, in my view, for the failure to get over to the country the truth about Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1765.2", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": " just the sort of measures required to put the country's finances straight. They will convince people outside this House who look dispassionately at the nation's financial situation that we are determined to see that we do not live beyond our means. More important than this Finance Bill are the measures that go with it; the making of local authorities submit to the cold wind of economic realities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1765.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1766.4", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "right hon. Member for Leeds, South. The National Health charges were imposed on spectacles and false teeth and Entertainments Duty on cinemas and racing was also increased. That is the record of the right hon. Gentleman who had the presumption to criticise my right hon. Friend the Chancellor. The main burden of criticism from the benches opposite suggests that this Budget will lead to wage claims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1766.4", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "ments Duty on cinemas and racing was also increased. That is the record of the right hon. Gentleman who had the presumption to criticise my right hon. Friend the Chancellor. The main burden of criticism from the benches opposite suggests that this Budget will lead to wage claims. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It will.\"] Hon. Gentlemen opposite confirm that that is their view. I do not believe it for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1766.4", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An Election Budget.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": " with that introduced by my right hon. Friend in April, in which he took 6d. off Income Tax. The only exception to this view was that of the hon. Member for Cheetham (Mr. H. Lever), who agreed with us that that was the right action to take at the time. To suggest that this Budget is inconsistent with the Budget produced in April is just not true. The April Budget was the right Budget at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the hon. and gallant Gentleman voted for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "rchase Tax as \"anomalous, clumsy and tyrannical.\" He said that it was supposed to check inflation, but that it did nothing of the sort. He went on to say: Finally, I say to the Chancellor 'For heaven's sake, forget about Purchase Tax, and away with this odious weapon'. The predicament in which I find myself is the fact that I was the speaker, and four days later the Chancellor produced his Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": " a sales tax, then I am with the Chancellor there: too, because I think the Purchase Tax should be spread rather than imposed arbitrarily upon certain commodities selected at the whim of the Government. But in so far as my right hon. Friend has raised the total burden of Purchase Tax, I am afraid that I must there part company with him, unless he can show me that it is genuinely anti-inflationary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "s necessary, but, broadly speaking, every one of them is wrong economically and they are all inflationary. I beseech my right hon. Friend to address himself to this point. If he can convince me that the increase in Purchase Tax is genuinely anti-inflationary—and anything anti-inflationary must be supported at this time, because inflation is our worst evil—then he will get me out of my predicament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1790.1", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "rt controls without making the inflationary position worse. The right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) referred to building controls. It would, of course, be impossible to restore building controls for work such as cinemas and public houses—incidentally, as my right hon. Friend has pointed out, only three new cinemas are now being built—without restoring controls for office building as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1791.0", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "1955; Vol. 545, c. 625.] If we want our credit policy to work as it should this reform of local authority borrowing is essential. The hon. Gentleman also made some very interesting remarks about inflation, and suggested that we needed some new kind of inquiry. My view is that it would be a mistake to think that inflation is, as it were, purely a monetary phenomenon. It is a very complicated thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1793.0", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": " part, I make no apology at all for the fact that this is a Budget to moderate consumer demand. I think that those who criticise my right hon. Friend ought honestly to ask themselves this question: in view of the present state of the British economy would it have been either right or wise for my right hon. Friend to try to correct the position without affecting the level of consumer demand at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I must say that that really is an extraordinarily naive question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "I have listened to this debate with interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1799.3", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "tries in Britain. What would be the influence of the Purchase Tax on this craft industry? It would create a position where there would be a loss on the home market and we should lose skilled workers whose families have been connected with the industry for generations. If we lose our decorators and skilled print workers in this transitional period, it will be difficult to win back that workmanship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1799.3", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "s been taken off them—the tax should not be imposed on this industry which is earning money for Britain. I apologise to the House for speaking when it is getting late, but I consider that the future of this industry is more important than the fact that we should spend another hour sitting in the House of Commons. We have had a Budget which has attacked the kitchen and undermined the crêche—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1799.3", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " facts published by the Economist. That statement showed that there was a tendency towards a flight from sterling. I think that the sterling crisis was caused by what occurred at the Paris conference as much as anything; and the Chancellor had to rectify the situation at Istanbul, when he did give a definite statement to the world. One other point, and then I have made the points I wanted to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-08", "file": "debates1955-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ee614ae58c1d267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1799.3", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ing a new source from which to get feeding stuffs for agriculture. The small farmer is experiencing the squeeze under this Budget. The British farmer has been sacrificed to the City of London and to the moneylenders. He is paying high prices for feeding stuffs. I have just returned from China, and I know that we could get cheap soya beans and animal feedings stuffs. It would not solve the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-08a.1799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-09", "file": "debates1955-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "845a74ff805ac0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1830.4", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "I take it that this question of improving the parcel service —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-09", "file": "debates1955-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "845a74ff805ac0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1830.4", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "I take it that this question of improving the parcel service —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] I am asking a Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1830.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-09", "file": "debates1955-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "845a74ff805ac0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for his answer, might I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-09", "file": "debates1955-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "845a74ff805ac0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "I agree. We do all we can to help National Service men when they are starting in college but they must have taken the trouble themselves to try to get themselves into the Service in time to complete their two years beforehand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-09", "file": "debates1955-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "845a74ff805ac0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Astronomer Royal for Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "ble in Northern Ireland? I cannot help but notice the list of offices which involve no qualification. The Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been mentioned—and I welcome the fact that the Historiographer Royal for Scotland can join us at any time. I am only sorry that the Hydrographer, whom I once have had the pleasure of meeting, is barred by Clause 1 because he is a serving naval officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-09a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-10", "file": "debates1955-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c901e907fe66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2009.0", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "entleman, but I would like to put this to him. It is not too convenient to interrupt the Second Reading of the Housing Subsidies Bill. It is not a tidy Parliamentary procedure. As there are to be two days for the Committee stage of the Finance Bill, the interruption of which really does not matter anywhere near as much as the interruption of the Second Reading of what really is a first-class Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-10", "file": "debates1955-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c901e907fe66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2012.2", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We thank the right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I do not deny that the Government have a perfect right to organise their business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2012.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-10", "file": "debates1955-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c901e907fe66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2028.3", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "SUGAR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is private enterprise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be glad to go into that at a later stage. I will do so now if the hon. Gentleman wishes it. I do not think that it alters the position. This agreement regulates the margin that all the refiners take on the refining processes that they carry out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-10", "file": "debates1955-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c901e907fe66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2040.5", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "SUGAR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " as some of those made by the right hon. Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his speech on the Budget. It seems to me that if hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have nothing better to say than that, they might just as well leave it out because it does not increase the respect for this place outside, and, heaven knows, it has sunk low from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2040.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-10", "file": "debates1955-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c901e907fe66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2041.3", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "SUGAR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " Although now and again there may be disputes about how the sugar content is arrived at, I think that on the whole the Corporation has rendered valuable service. Hon. Members opposite try to pull our legs about having introduced a semi-nationalised industry, but let them not forget that their own policy was to do nothing at all for agriculture unless and until they had first nationalised the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-10", "file": "debates1955-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c901e907fe66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2090.0", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "SUGAR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"412,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ugar beet growers, and the leader of the band was the hon. Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Holt). It is true that the sugar beet growers and the Sugar Corporation are left exactly as they were before the Bill was introduced. I confirm that the price for sugar beet is settled at the Annual Price Review. The Minister also settles the national acreage. At present the national acreage is about 412 acres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-10a.2090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-11", "file": "debates1955-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "91fbcfde0d55e6d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-11a.2142.1", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "least a three-year Money Bill. But no. Although it is imperative, according to the White Paper, that the capital development of the Post Office, if it is to be properly carried out, should be on a three-year basis, we have a two-year financial provision. What we shall get in the third year of the development plan no one knows. The right hon. Gentleman must go to the Treasury and ask for the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-11a.2142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-11", "file": "debates1955-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "91fbcfde0d55e6d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-11a.2153.1", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite a lot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "ything that is to be expected. I think that the reason for that is that Members can ask Questions of the Postmaster-General. I intend to go on asking Questions about the telephone service until he brings it up to that state of efficiency to which we are accustomed in the postal services. I support the Bill, and I end by saying what I said when I started, that there is not enough money being spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-11a.2153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-14", "file": "debates1955-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "22639fdf937e03bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "POST OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There cannot be an average rate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Some people in every service attached to the Post Office are being subsidised by those who are paying more. After all, the Post Office has a common rate and, as it has a common rate, some are getting the service at a rate cheaper than the cost while others are paying more than the cost, but, on an average—according to the White Paper—the telephone services as a whole made £1 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-14", "file": "debates1955-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "22639fdf937e03bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.72.5", "colnum": "72", "heading": "POST OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not taxation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Under the White Paper the right hon. Gentleman proposes to make the Post Office liable to taxation. He will make it pay £5 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.72.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-14", "file": "debates1955-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "22639fdf937e03bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "POST OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "hich the Post Office will make to the Exchequer. I could not follow the argument of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Caerphilly and I do not think anybody else did. I believe that my right hon. Friend has a surprisingly good bargain from the Treasury. I only hope that his bargain lasts. It may be too good to last. It may be that another Chancellor, more avaricious than my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-14", "file": "debates1955-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "22639fdf937e03bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "POST OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "seems to have come to an end. I would also point out that up to two months ago I had my morning letters delivered at 7 a.m. They came in a motor-van. Now they are delivered by a man on a push-bike and I do not receive them until I reach the House of Commons. I am not grumbling about that, but we are not getting any improvement in the postal services and yet we are being asked to pay more for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-14", "file": "debates1955-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "22639fdf937e03bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "POST OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "unds. I suggested to the Postmaster-General that he might use the postage stamps to celebrate anniversaries and centenaries and to celebrate distinguished scientists, literati and artists, but the right hon. Gentleman refused. I put it pointedly in the case of Rabbie Burns, the poet, asking the Minister whether he would celebrate the bi-centenary of the poet Burns. His answer was a categorical no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.123.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-14", "file": "debates1955-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "22639fdf937e03bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "POST OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "which my Question suggests? ( d ) Do you appreciate the advantage that such commemorative stamps might be in a cultural way to the public in general and to the Post Office in particular by encouraging the sale of stamps to collectors and others? ( e ) What specific objections are there to stamps commemorating distinguished literary, historic and scientific persons?\" That letter remains unanswered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-14", "file": "debates1955-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "22639fdf937e03bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "POST OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "It may be true that the fund does not exist, but one must also bear in mind that even though it does not exist it might have to be drawn upon in some circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-14", "file": "debates1955-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "22639fdf937e03bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.144.4", "colnum": "144", "heading": "POST OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And on football pools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "deal with the question of the printed paper rate. Both hon. Gentlemen regretted that the rate has had to go up. We also regret it. The fact is that we are losing £2 million per year on it, and when one is looking around for sources of additional revenue that is one of the items which must be tackled. My hon. Friend the Member for Essex, South-East said that we were also losing money on newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-14a.144.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "This man is learning to be a D.R. at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I would point out to the House that below the rank of corporal the wearing of civilian clothes is a privilege given by commanding officers. It would be perfectly easy for us to withdraw the privilege throughout the Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "preceding_text": "ndment, because I cannot see why persons wishing to buy these hitherto cheaper fur garments should be penalised in this very drastic way. There was a time when it was said that no self-respecting woman would be seen dead in rabbit, but in the last few years immense improvements have been made in the rabbit fur industry. It is a home industry. We rely to a considerable degree upon domestic rabbits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "eap articles. I accept at once that this is bound to be an unpleasant blow to the cheaper end of the trade, but I cannot accept the suggestion that it will render those goods unsaleable. They are not what are called \"fixed-price\" goods. People do not go along to the shops expecting to see fur coats at a particular price. The public will soon accustom itself to the adjusted prices that will follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.218.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Sir B. Baxter rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "preceding_text": "In spite of encouragement from the wrong side of the Committee and discouragement from the right side, including a recent rebel in our ranks, I intend to speak for only a few minutes, and I am sure that that will be appreciated even by the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "preceding_text": " Friend has dealt with bootees, and we have heard a lot about fur coats and so forth. It was always our custom to exempt a very considerable number of goods from the Purchase Tax, because we believe that in social justice it would be wrong to charge a large number of people who can ill afford it any Purchase Tax on goods which they consider to be necessary. This Government introduced the D Scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": " cover the springs with hessian, because the furniture will not last anyway? The springs should be covered with hessian and lashed in, the springs having been nailed in. The experienced craftsman ties a piece of string at each corner and nails the string to the back of the frame so that the springs cannot shift. What will happen to the apprentices in the industry if this deterioration takes place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the House for more than a moment or two. Whatever may be one's individual feelings about other parts of the Finance Bill, this is one part that fair-minded people can wholeheartedly support. It is a fact that the furniture industry as a whole supports this particular alteration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What the percentage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "The furniture manufacturers to whom I have spoken all say that this is one of the finest things that could have happened to the industry. It may not generally be realised that in this country we have a fair export trade in furniture of very high quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "rises from that is knowing what the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) will do in the Lobby tonight. He will be doing something quite contrary to what he did three years ago. The hon. Member was very much in favour of the Utility scheme and did not want to end it. We introduced the D Scheme which we thought was better. The difference is that the Utility scheme was itself of very low standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": " naturally, imposed upon them as the result of war-time restrictions and postwar conditions. But the position now is that three years afterwards we have seen the D Scheme in operation and we can see its many weaknesses. Whatever the hon. Member for Oldham, West may think about the advantages of the D Scheme, or overriding Purchase Tax and so on, a simple low level of what is in effect a sales tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "t the position now is that three years afterwards we have seen the D Scheme in operation and we can see its many weaknesses. Whatever the hon. Member for Oldham, West may think about the advantages of the D Scheme, or overriding Purchase Tax and so on, a simple low level of what is in effect a sales tax—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am very pleased indeed to hear so much support for a sales tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.297.4", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "pect of the furniture which should be there and which will not be there. We have heard the arguments which have been put forward in relation to the furniture trade itself. I do not think that hon. Members opposite realise what the people think about this type of tax. They will find it out soon enough, when people are unable to buy the furniture they need out of the scanty means which they possess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Take him outside.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "They certainly bear out the fact that retail prices had been running at about 10 per cent. higher than the general average of the year. That is the figure which was given to me by the various organisations which are concerned, and I would be prepared to discuss it with the Chancellor outside the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": " that everything in this section was being put in which should go into the butler's pantry, and I think that is fairly true. If we look at the list, we find that we are now including not only the things which would normally be included in the butler's pantry. Tomorrow, I shall be speaking to a demonstration by an organisation of women whose banner bears upon it the emblem of a woman with a basket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "is spent by the Government and local authorities. If the family to which I have referred could be persuaded to save even £1 a week out of the wages coming into it, it would help, but such families are not those to which I particularly wish to refer. I want to talk about the man with two children who is earning £8 a week. I should like the Chancellor to see the weekly budget of such a man's family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "hat the Chancellor wants to do is to reduce consumption in the home market, because he thinks that by doing so he will increase exports, and I wish to discuss whether the Chancellor will in fact achieve what he is setting out to achieve, whether he is likely to increase exports by these taxes. What is the position? At the present moment this industry is able to carry on a certain amount of export.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "t it might be of convenience to the Committee if I rose now. I should like to say first that the Chancellor has asked me to say that he hopes the Committee will come to a conclusion on this Amendment tonight before we end our proceedings. He also hopes it may not be necessary to sit to an unreasonably late hour to do so. I shall do my best not to take an unreasonably fair share of the time myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-15", "file": "debates1955-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "07e329dd6fdae18b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Soft soap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "an buy more of these goods and then in the following year increases the Purchase Tax on them. Lord Chandos referred, in another place, to soap when dealing with luxuries, and said he did not consider that soap, or toothbrushes, razor blades, dusters or face cloths fell within the luxury class; he regarded soap as an essential. We have yet to hear whether the Government regard soap as an essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-15a.355.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "ditions by the dockers in Liverpool, and is he not aware that adequate transportation is always a part of those demands? Is he not aware that eventually there will be greater mechanisation on the docks and that this in itself will lead to a further weight of traffic on the existing roads? I hope he will agree that a quicker turn-round of ships is essential to the industry of this country. Further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "Can that situation be cleared up, Sir Charles? Last night, during the discussion upon the first of this important group of Amendments, I asked whether the debate could go wide. That was agreed to by both sides of the Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.442.6", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "preceding_text": "arket, we inevitably get the sort of balance of payments difficulty that we have been experiencing this year. I cannot think that anybody can disagree with that very simple analysis. If that is true, the point I wished to bring out was that the figures for the first seven months—the first nine months in the case of motor cars—are inevitably distorted by the effects of the dock and railway strikes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.442.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.453.4", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I think that, in general, it is fair to say that this section does not consist of basic necessities, and I am not sure, quite honestly, that I would look on vacuum cleaners or washing machines as absolutely in that class of goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.453.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.461.4", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (RIGHT OF ACCESS TO MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ousewives' League members—arranged to come here to see me and other hon. Members to produce tangible evidence of how this iniquitous Budget is interfering with their standard of living. I suggest that my right hon. Friend is quite in order in moving that the debate be adjourned. We ask permission to report Progress so that we can obtain evidence from these women who know what this Budget is doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.463.5", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (RIGHT OF ACCESS TO MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How soon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Committee understands the fairness of that reply, but I asked whether you could give an assurance that as soon as the facts are established the information will be placed before hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (RIGHT OF ACCESS TO MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I have declined to accept the Motion to report Progress. That is a separate thing. The other is a matter that can be raised at the appropriate moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (RIGHT OF ACCESS TO MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Surely there must be some way out of this difficulty. The ordinary opportunity of raising such a point, of course, is with Mr. Speaker, when the House is sitting. We all know that the House will be concerned all day today with a Committee stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "it said that about 112,000 vehicles were sold on the home market in the first nine months of this year. If we look particularly at the small delivery vans weighing under 15 cwt., those dreadful little vehicles which contribute far more than anything else to the congestion in our big cities, and which are generally responsible for most of the bad driving, and, particularly, most of the bad parking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "e given statistics to indicate that I am basing my policy upon ascertainable facts and ascertainable needs. As for the needs of defence, it so happens that, as Sir Stafford Cripps used to say, the nexus of our economic problem is in the metal-using sector, because it is precisely within that sector that one has the terrible pull of defence; the needs of the housewife for all these new appliances —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "preceding_text": "n I looked at the articles included in the group, I was astonished to find that, far from being articles of major expenditure and great luxury, they are a very small group of curiously-assorted things. I can only conclude that, not content with an attack on the home which he has been conducting with some ferocity in the earlier parts of the Bill, the Chancellor has now turned his attack to beauty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Tax-free?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "preceding_text": "uld have made a very much better job of it and therefore, with more or less skill, we endeavour to make up for Nature's deficiency. Although this reference to cosmetics may seem a very trivial matter, they are regarded by psychologists as of very great importance—so much so that even the women convicts in Holloway Gaol, as part of their corrective treatment, are now permitted the use of cosmetics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "One of the answers is that the Labour Party likes the Purchase Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " Members opposite prefer indirect taxation, selective taxation which impinges on different sections of the community, whenever possible, and they are opposed traditionally and doctrinally to direct taxation. Therefore, when it comes to a position in which a Conservative Chancellor is increasing the Purchase Tax, it goes against the grain for the Labour Party to produce any Amendments to reduce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "t reflecting the real grief and hardship in the community, put in a light, gay, bantering way before hon. Members opposite depart for the Dining Room. The second reason why the Labour Party has failed to reflect the anxiety, if there is any anxiety in the country, is because it is convinced, as I am myself convinced, that the increase in the Purchase Tax will have no effect whatever on the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "their best. It helped my attitude towards my job. It gave me a feeling of having something worth living for and I went back to work happier among people of the same mind, and we were able to increase production a little. I say that very seriously. If the Chancellor, with all the other evils he has committed, is to de-pretty the womanhood of our nation he ought to be damned well ashamed of himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lady Docker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "l tax of 90 per cent. As long as there is Purchase Tax, none of us on this side would claim special consideration for cosmetics and this class of goods, but we are asking that the tax should stay at 75 per cent. I should have thought that that would have been enough to satisfy the tax collectors. I am very puzzled about the source of the feminine advice on which the Treasury acts in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "uling our proposals for this very thing in the case of Christmas cards—unfortunately, I have been unable to find a copy of HANSARD for that day, but I recall it well—I think that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have an awful nerve to come here with a proposal like this. How they hope to defend their position in the country on this issue I just do not know. May I beg the Financial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " men or to women. She agreed that the shaving requisites of men were included. We heard earlier in our debates that these increased taxes are specially attacked by the Opposition on the ground that they are forcing up the cost of living. I have been examining the cost-of-living schedules. I found it extremely hard to discover a single item in this highest category which affects the cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the right hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " would be 10 per cent. lower than that which was existent on these very articles when the Labour Government fell. We have heard it said that the tax will be cruel to the daughters and wives of some hon. Members, and to many other ladies. In fact, a number of these cosmetics that are taxed are of a character that are more highly valued by the purchaser the higher the price that is charged for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " fell. We have heard it said that the tax will be cruel to the daughters and wives of some hon. Members, and to many other ladies. In fact, a number of these cosmetics that are taxed are of a character that are more highly valued by the purchaser the higher the price that is charged for them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the right hon. Gentleman know?\"] I am asked how I know—I, too, have lady friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the Committee has had the privilege of listening to a speech from the Treasury Bench similar to the one which we heard a few moments ago from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury since \"Hellfire\" Dashwood ceased to be Chancellor in 1762.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged and I will keep myself strictly to Christmas cards for the moment, or perhaps, if I may change my mind, try to deal with one small technical point on which I should be grateful for the assistance of the Financial Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "the tax will be 5 per cent. and some think it will be 30 per cent. Then we have industrial brushes. The difficulty of the definition arises in this way. In the first instance—I hope the Economic Secretary is trying to follow me, because I should like to have my mind clear on this before we move on—I understand that a toilet brush is a brush which is normally used on a human being—roughly speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A lower rate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " ferae naturae. I understand that the definition of animals ferae naturae includes some domestic animals. For this purpose a horse has an industrial brush, a dog has a household brush and a man has a toilet brush. That is as I understand it. If the brush has some processed metal on the back, it comes under the goldsmiths and silversmiths or some other section and attracts some higher rate of duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spastics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ause the Chancellor is taking a higher rake-off. There has been a very notable and important change in the use of Christmas cards in the last few years. Organisations which have the great respect of everyone in the Committee, organisations like the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund; organisations like the Movement for Colonial Freedom, in which I have some interest to declare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What the corn?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "stensibly introduced, but which is not being implemented at the moment on anything like the scale that it should. Many aged people find difficulty in walking, and a simple operation would help them a great deal. But the necessities to this end are taxed at 90 per cent. I have no doubt that the Economic Secretary, for whom I have a great admiration, will say that if it is a corn cure, it comes out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Holman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Holman", "preceding_text": "t is where our opportunity lies for developing further the export trade in multi-coloured printing. I appeal to the Treasury Bench to reduce the tax, if not now, then next April, on an essentially artistic side of printing. I remind them that they are going back on every promise they made, including promises to the trade. I am sorry that the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.549.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.583.2", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "I am not usually reluctant to give way, but I had begun a short speech, after listening to a series of long speeches from hon. Members opposite which were not interrupted, and in those circumstances, since it is reciprocation that hon. Members opposite are anxious to have, I should have thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.583.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.583.5", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "I usually give way as frequently as I can. The reason I have not given way tonight is, as I indicated, because I wished to speak for only three minutes, but my speech has now already lasted for five minutes because of interruptions from hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.583.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.583.7", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, I do not think hon. Members opposite are really doing justice to their case, and I was trying to answer the hon. Member for Rossendale", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.583.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which party was the hon. Gentleman in then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite mistaken. At the time of the last budget I said unless the D Scheme was abolished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.584.2", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": " not to favour of a flat rate but that the Utility Scheme was much better. But the Utility Scheme was something which penalised quality far more than the D Scheme. That is what hon. Members opposite were advocating and the repeal of it they were much regretting. It is now no good to say, \"We were always against this tax on quality,\" because, in fact, the Utility Scheme taxed quality much higher.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.584.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.587.2", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Member need not be so surprised. I made an exactly similar objection on the introduction of the D Scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "I am in a difficulty, because I have been unable to bring along any quotations. I have been given a lot of quotations which refer to the Chancellor, but they are couched in unparliamentary language and I cannot repeat them here. Last night I told the right hon. Gentleman something privately which I dare not repeat in this Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "an ordinary person who has a limited amount of money. Is that the sort of expenditure that the Chancellor wants to restrict? Does he want the people to go back to using the jam pots which they used in the years when they had no money to buy cups and saucers? I believe that that is what he does want, and what his party wants. It is the kind of thing that they have been doing in the last four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "ear and he was completely dishonest. What some people are saying about him is, \"Deceitful and dishonest, because he wanted power to get the people whom he represents to go on exploiting the working class and making as much profit as possible.\" It is time that that was said in straightforward English in this House of Commons. Besides making my old constituent perhaps use a jam jar instead of a cup—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which way will the hon. Member vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "I do not happen to find myself on this occasion very much in line with the Chancellor about Purchase Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Double-talk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "preceding_text": "uel Butler said that the advantage of praising oneself was that one could always put it on thick and in exactly the right places. The hon. Gentleman objected to the plain speaking of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock). The ordinary elector would much prefer the honesty of my hon. Friend to the kind of performance that we are having tonight from hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": "I do not think that higher taxation will mean wage rises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "We have had a very considerable debate, and I think it may be convenient if I intervene at this stage. I would remind the Committee that, although the night may be young, there is still a great deal of work to do and that the sooner we can come to a decision on this Clause the better it will be for our business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government have?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "he social services programme, with its improvements, which we intend to maintain, and a system of full employment, we have to have moderation in spending and to get the right relationship between the manpower available and the resources available and the money to meet it. It is because we want to achieve that position and maintain the undoubted benefits which we have brought to the working people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " which can be said to be a luxury. He knows that, however much any Government might want to restrict the tax to luxury goods, it is impossible to do so and obtain the result from the tax which he described in his own words on the 1951 Budget, which I have quoted. What we have done—the right hon. Gentleman must himself face up to the problem—is to try to share the burden of Purchase Tax as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I think both right hon. Gentlemen are now about equal. I do not want unduly to interrupt the interchange, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "of the goods to anything, like the same degree as Purchase Tax, and it does not have the retailer-wholesaler disadvantages of Purchase Tax. I come now to something said by my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary and by my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary. We glory in the fact that both of them are honest men. They showed that yesterday by being unable to erect a proper defence for this tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.637.6", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not agree with that. The Government can do it for the public sector for which they are responsible; they are beginning to do it in many ways, and I support all that part of the extra-budgetary measures that are being taken. The private economy can be made to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.637.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did the right hon. Gentleman mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "preceding_text": "No, I did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.642.2", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) does not like that, but it is a Gilbert and Sullivan method of expression and a fairly common phrase. I think it comes in a chorus to \"Iolanthe\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "s a crisis or there is not a crisis.\" Quite obviously, if there is not a crisis the Budget of April is justified, and if there is a crisis this Budget would be justified if it were sensible, which it is not. The Chancellor is in a happy position now. This is a position which he should consolidate and this is his opportunity of going forward to the eventual leadership of the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "d over the Opposition. The right hon. Gentleman may succeed in doing it here, but he will damage both himself and his party in the country, because such bullying tactics are not popular among the people. I remember the indignation of hon. and right hon. Members opposite when my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for St. Helens (Sir H. Shawcross) once said jocularly, \"We are the masters now.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.669.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "e first Welshman to take part in this debate, and I am the first Scottish Member, although I have been sitting here non-stop since eleven o'clock. It is obvious that the Chancellor has insensed hon. Members on this side of the Committee. Speaking for myself, it is positively nauseating to see him getting up at that Box and parading his honesty like a prostitute parading her morality in Piccadilly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.670.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Mr. Malcolm MacPherson)", "preceding_text": "There is a limit to the phraseology which should be used, even at this time of night, and I hope that the hon. Gentleman will continue without using phrases of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.670.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.670.5", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I think that the picture I painted is an accurate one, and that while the language may have been a bit more colourful than hon. Members opposite would like, it is, nevertheless, effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.670.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "think, is why he caused the Closure to be moved. But when he gets up and says, in his superior tone, that he estimated that there would be a two-hour debate and that we wicked Members took four hours, I would point out to him that the Creator is up above and not in the Treasury. I wish the Chancellor would realise that; he has really got on the nerves of hon. Members on this side of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "preceding_text": "aken it in my stride and accepted the basis of democracy, which is that only one hon. Member at a time can speak. By his attitude tonight the Chancellor is attempting to destroy what we preserved in fighting the Hitler régime, the right of social democracy to prevail in Britain. Whatever he may attempt to do, he will not stifle discussion. I ask him to be more conciliatory and co-operative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Swingler", "preceding_text": "lly denied. It has clearly emerged in the course of our discussion. The Chancellor promised an ample opportunity for hon. Members on both sides of the Committee to discuss the Question, \"That the Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill.\" The Clause covers a very wide range of subjects. We now learn that when the Chancellor says that he wants to have ample discussion, he means a couple of hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "ocratic discussion because of the failure of the party opposite to be able to control their supporters? That is the position—a position which we may see again on discussions to come on this Finance Bill, because no doubt there will be more like the noble Lord the Member for Dorset. South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke), who will enter disclaimers—in speeches in Committee, not, of course, in the Lobbies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Williams", "preceding_text": "d not be unreasonable to say that each one would take 15 minutes. I should have thought that quite a conservative estimate. Therefore, the Chancellor must have known that at least an hour would be taken by the two Front Benches. For all the back benchers there would be sixty minutes left in the whole debate in which hon. Members could air grievances of their constituents. In a debate of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.687.4", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "alled. I think it better that the Committee should consider this matter on the hypothesis that some or all of the new Clauses may be called. Therefore, what the Committee will have to consider as a matter of convenience is whether we should embark on a consideration of these new Clauses, and I have no doubt that the hon. Member for Wimbledon (Mr. Black) is ready to move the new Clause in his name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.687.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "That is really discussing the new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ne or other of those perfectly intelligible courses. But under the Amendment which my hon. Friend has moved, and which, most surprisingly, the Chancellor has indicated his readiness to accept, if we were to do that we would then be in an extremely queer situation, because it would result in our getting the worst of both worlds. We would not deal with Clauses 2, 3, 4 or 5 until it had been covered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The Bill applies to Scotland, which is part of Great Britain and there is not a Member from Scotland on the Government Front Bench. There is not a Scot on the back benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.705.7", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Rhys. I stand by the traditions of the House, which are well understood and accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.705.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Grammar!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "call the refreshment argument—for this Amendment, and, I regret to say, finding that also unsatisfactory for this reason—a reason which has troubled us previously. How can we suppose that we should, if we accepted this Amendment, find ourselves refreshed before returning to the subject of Purchase Tax when we do not know what new Clause, if any, this Amendment would land us into the discussion of?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "no such course. It would be a very terrible thing to do without considering the merits of all the various cases. What is the case for the Amendment? It is a very serious one, and much of the confusion which has arisen has occurred not because of some inherent difficulty in its wording—complex and difficult though it be—but because there has been a changed situation during the course of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.719.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "m, West (Mr. Hale). I said, \"Before my hon. Friend too readily accepts what my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West said.\" If the result of the matter is that both my hon. Friends, both distinguished lawyers, cannot agree on the point, that supports the view which I have developed three times that we should have the benefit of guidance from the Law Officers of the Crown to get the matter clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I did not hear the hon. Member", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.733.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The three new Clauses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.737.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.737.5", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.737.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.737.7", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The three new Clauses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.737.9", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In the ten years or so that I have been a Member of this House I have never known a Chairman of Ways and Means, at this hour of the morning, after we had sat all night, and four hours or more since the last Motion of this kind was moved, refuse to accept a Motion of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.737.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I refuse it under Standing Order No. 26.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.738.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "peat my argument that in previous Finance Bill debates, when we have gone through the night, the Motion to report Progress has been repeatedly moved. When we were in power it was repeatedly moved from these benches and was always accepted by the Chair. I cannot see how you can possibly rule, in view of the time that has elapsed since the last Motion of this kind was moved, that it can be an abuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I canot reply unless I get a little bit of peace. The words which are used in the Standing Order are the old words, which have been prolonged. The modern meaning is not what the right hon. Gentleman says", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.739.3", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am not, and I happen to be in the Chair for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.739.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) feels? If we proceeded so that there was a Question before the Committee, some progress would have been made, technically at any rate, since the right hon. Gentleman moved the Motion which you did not find it possible to accept, Sir Charles. If some progress were made and a Question were before the Committee, perhaps it might be possible for that Motion to be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-16", "file": "debates1955-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "340427c1ef6f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": " invitation. It is the intention of the Government, now that we have reached the Schedule, that is, the beginning of the Schedule on the Purchase Tax, that we should not ask the Committee to sit any longer this morning. I think that anybody who has been brought up in the House of Commons can see perfectly well that this is not the atmosphere in which we are likely to make a great deal of progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-16a.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.781.10", "colnum": "781", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The Government were not caught napping at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.781.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.782.5", "colnum": "782", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "May I ask what the Leader of the House meant by his extraordinary statement, just now, that agreements have to be kept? What agreement is he referring to? What is he charging us with? Perhaps he will give us an explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.785.4", "colnum": "785", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that the course I am suggesting has a quite recent precedent, that the House gave leave to introduce a Bill and the Government subsequently not merely provided time to debate it, though it was a Private Member's Bill, but adopted it. This is a case in which the House has been completely unanimous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.785.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " wrong—when the records of the House show that the House gave a First Reading to a Bill for the abolition of the death penalty, it is in accordance with the dignity of the Government and the House that he should have allowed it to receive a First Reading without dissent and then suggest that it is no concern of his, as Leader of the House, to provide an opportunity for the Bill to proceed further?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "There is no particular reason why this procedural Motion should take very long, because, after all, it arises out of something which was decided with the co-operation of both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some hope!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I hope that the speech that I shall be making may perhaps lower the temperature from what it has been during the last few minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Incentive?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "pt the alternative method of financial incentive. It is with this object that we are introducing in this Bill the principle of a differential in the subsidy rates in favour of houses for slum clearance. We propose to create this differential by maintaining at the present level of £22 the subsidy for houses built to replace slums, while reducing to £10 the subsidy on houses built for general needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I understand that the right hon. Gentleman is hoping to catch your eye, Mr. Speaker, to make a speech in this debate, and I think it would be better if be deployed this point then, and we shall answer him. I thought I had made it quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well, well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "because it necessarily costs more to build houses in replacement of a slum, but because we want to give a definite incentive to local authorities to get on with slum clearance. We intend at a later stage—we have not decided exactly when it will be—to do away with the basic subsidy on houses for general needs. I am not prepared at this stage to say exactly what the arrangement will be at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "e same way, and on the same basis, to provide additional accommodation for a very large influx of population which would involve a building effort entirely out of proportion to their normal building programmes. Some very alarmist statements have been made about the effect on rents of the reduction in the subsidies proposed in the Bill, combined with the rise in interest rates during the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "s have been made about the effect on rents of the reduction in the subsidies proposed in the Bill, combined with the rise in interest rates during the past year. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] They have been very alarmist statements, and I am glad that hon. Gentlemen opposite agree. Leading Labour members of various local authorities have asserted that rents will have to go up by about 15s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "glad that hon. Gentlemen opposite agree. Leading Labour members of various local authorities have asserted that rents will have to go up by about 15s. a week. [HON. MEMBERS: \"More than that.\"] In the House the other day, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) quoted a figure of 16s. 3d. a week. These statements have undoubtedly given a most misleading impression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "rs ahead a greatly increased number of houses will be built for slum clearance and overspill. These houses will continue to attract the present subsidy or a higher subsidy. The second fact is that local authorities will continue to receive large amounts of subsidy on their existing houses, and they are free to use some of this money to subsidise the rents of any further houses that they may build.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " know what the future rate of building will be. I am assuming for the purpose of this argument—and I am making this assumption because it is favourable to the arguments of hon. Members opposite in their calculations about rents, and they have been saying that the result of this Bill will be a great drop in house building—that local authorities will continue to build at the same rate as at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "s a year will be built for slum clearance. They will attract the same subsidy, £22, as they do today. I am assuming that we will keep the rate of building in new towns and expanded towns for overspill purposes at 20,000 houses a year, and I think that that is a reasonable forecast. That makes a total of 80,000. The total now being built is 160,000 and if we take 80,000 from 160,000, we get 80,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I do not recall having used that expression. I have not finished what I wanted to say about these calculations. I wish to emphasise—because I have no doubt that if I do not do so, I shall be misrepresented—that these figures are, of course, overall averages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I want to make myself clear. I will give way in a moment. These figures are averages for the whole country; but let there be no misunderstanding on the point. I am not for one moment suggesting that nobody's rent will be increased by more than these amounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " local authorities may well decide in the coming year or so that this is the right moment to introduce some system of differential rents. This can take various forms, but I have no doubt that the simplest and fairest is the one which is generally known as the rent rebate scheme. I believe that there is agreement on both sides of the House about the soundness of the principle of differential rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We were fighting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Under the Wheatley Act of 1924 we built the best council houses of all those built during the interwar years, and to the best subsidy standards. When the Tories came to power after the defeat of the minority Labour Government of 1923 and 1924 they reduced the Wheatley standards in 1927 and abolished them altogether under the 1933 Act. I will state what the Tories did during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "n be said that the best local authority houses built in this country were those put up between 1945 and 1951. They are a credit to the local authorities, to the builders, to the building-trade workers and to the tenants living in them. What has happened since 1951? Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on the Government Benches talk about clearing away the slums that they themselves created 100 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "1. They are a credit to the local authorities, to the builders, to the building-trade workers and to the tenants living in them. What has happened since 1951? Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on the Government Benches talk about clearing away the slums that they themselves created 100 years ago. [ Laughter. ] It is true that they were not here then, but they are still living on the profits from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "preceding_text": "rents within the reach of the lower paid workers; and, secondly, to encourage the local authorities to build. In my view, the first of the objects, to build houses for the lower-paid workers, has become quite out of perspective. I should say that more than half the council houses are now occupied by people whose incomes are far beyond the incomes of those for whom the houses were originally built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is silly. These houses were built for the poorer people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lucas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Excessive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lucas", "preceding_text": "I am not talking about a racket. This was a case of people who tried to help themselves after the war and bought on mortgage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.875.2", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " refrained from mentioning our housing policy on its electoral platforms. I should have thought that our sins would have deserved greater recognition before. I should like to say a word about the whole question of differential rates. Ilford Borough Council is just starting to operate a rent rebate scheme. It would be most helpful that it should come from the House that on both sides we are agreed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.875.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "be most helpful that it should come from the House that on both sides we are agreed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members are saying \"No.\" I have no doubt that some of them may still wish to say \"No\" when they have heard what I have to say. I was about to say it would be most helpful if both sides would agree in principle that the idea of differential rents is both morally right and socially healthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.875.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "An entirely different matter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " fact that the local authorities have decided to raise rents. I mention that merely to put the next sentence in its context. He went on: As these people are living in subsidised houses, it is reasonable that they should pay a slight increase in rent rather than the other people should pay an increase in rates in order to keep those rents down.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th July, 1949; Vol. 466, c. 1822.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " this field, and who are successfully operating differential rent schemes and rent rebate schemes. It would be in the public interest that we should recognise, whatever the difficulties may be—and these matters can only be sorted out in the light of experience in each area, according to its particular peculiarities—that we accept the idea of differential rents in principle. I hope that I am right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " am right—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I believe that that will be acceptable, but if I am wrong I submit that it is a great pity. The third thing I wish to say concerns the wider financial implications of this Bill. The carrying out of the policies initiated in the Bill will shift the emphasis of house building on to the clearance of slums and the rehousing elsewhere of the occupants of slum properties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "e of the occupants of slum properties—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] That is a fascinating question, but it is not the one to which I am addressing myself at the moment. The criticism which I wish to make, and I think it a serious criticism which must be made about this Bill, is that it entirely ignores a major grievance which will be aggravated by the fulfilment of the policy advocated in this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-17", "file": "debates1955-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "590f38eaee464732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "n, £40 million? What figure would hon. Gentlemen opposite suggest? When they put on one side of the balance sheet how much they think they will save by their cuts in the subsidies, have they thought of the other side of the balance sheet? Have they thought how much they will lose? One thing is clear in this debate; not one hon. Member has said that he spoke with the backing of his local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-17a.880.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-18", "file": "debates1955-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fde973e5fb9c60cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.914.3", "colnum": "914", "heading": "METROPOLITAN POLICE (COMMISSIONER'S STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "Has the newspaper in question been asked either to substantiate or to apologise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.914.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-18", "file": "debates1955-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fde973e5fb9c60cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "EXPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "er of coal apart from the steel and railway industries. The big problem facing our exports is how to bring prices down in order that they may compete in world markets. We must bring prices down at home in order to expand home consumption and so provide a, surplus for export. The most important factor in bringing down prices, and in stabilising them, is that provided by our nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-18", "file": "debates1955-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fde973e5fb9c60cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "EXPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "] Do hon. Gentlemen doubt it? The price of coal is much less in relation to the price of food, clothing, boots and shoes and all the other products manufactured by the privately-owned sector of industry. The price of electricity has increased by only half as much as the price of goods and services controlled by the private sector. Productivity in the nationalised industries is considerably higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-18", "file": "debates1955-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fde973e5fb9c60cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "EXPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "We do not always agree with the hon. Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr. Dodds), because we agree to differ on such questions. Shall I give hon. Gentlemen the facts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-18", "file": "debates1955-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fde973e5fb9c60cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.948.7", "colnum": "948", "heading": "EXPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Productivity is a big problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-18a.948.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman agree that the 50,000 pensioners who are suffering some reduction from their pensions because of the earnings rule are in a position worse than that of a Cabinet Minister who, if he were to retire—I believe I am right in saying—could have a pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "ree that the 50,000 pensioners who are suffering some reduction from their pensions because of the earnings rule are in a position worse than that of a Cabinet Minister who, if he were to retire—I believe I am right in saying—could have a pension—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I was about to specify before the Minister shook his head the case of the Prime Minister, or a Chancellor, who are able to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "some reduction from their pensions because of the earnings rule are in a position worse than that of a Cabinet Minister who, if he were to retire—I believe I am right in saying—could have a pension—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I was about to specify before the Minister shook his head the case of the Prime Minister, or a Chancellor, who are able to do that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] They would be able to earn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "er aware that almost all hon. Members can give him endless examples of people who come to them, at constituency \"clinics\" and on other occasions, with stories of very real hardship? Is the Minister also aware that, when questioned, many of those people say that when it comes to occasions of real hardship the officers of the Board exercise their discretion with extreme strictness, if not harshness?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "preceding_text": "er not aware that in 1948 old people were specifically asked to continue in industry owing to the shortage of manpower and that, as a consequence, they were to receive added increments? Many old people continued in industry for three or four years beyond the retirement age, and now when, because of the difference in the cost of living today, they make application for National Assistance they find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1043.4", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that the minds of these people are seriously disturbed, especially when they read Press reports to the effect that they are now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1043.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House will Tomorrow resolve itself into a Committee on the Finance Bill. This Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House will Tomorrow resolve itself into a Committee on the Finance Bill. This Motion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign\"]—arises from the rather unusual circumstances of Thursday morning when, at about 8 o'clock, a Committee of the whole House unanimously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "t about 8 o'clock, a Committee of the whole House unanimously—[ Laughter .] Hon. Members who were not in the Committee at that stage are probably more amused than those who were and whose one thought was that by accepting the Motion the Committee would suspend its sitting and they could all go home, having spent a long night here. The Committee accepted that Motion, which itself, as is well known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "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": "suming more knowledge in the House than, it apparently thinks it has. The Motion which was passed by the Committee is an alternative to that for reporting Progress. On this particular occasion the Chairman of Ways and Means had declined, in his discretion, to accept the Progress Motion, so it seemed clear that only by the Motion which was then proposed could we bring the sitting to a close at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "s discretion, to accept the Progress Motion, so it seemed clear that only by the Motion which was then proposed could we bring the sitting to a close at all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, the Progress Motion was not acceptable and neither side of the Committee wished to continue the debate. Therefore, there was an impasse, which resulted in the other Motion being moved, which had the desired effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.4", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is very effervescent today. All that the Motion does is to revive the Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.4", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An apology.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "this House desires it. The unanimous decision was to bring that sitting to an end, but I quite realise that some hon. Members are not so anxious to see it continued. Be that as it may, the Motion seeks to make it possible for the Committee to meet and to continue its business at the point where it was interrupted on Thursday morning. That is as clear an explanation as I can give and is apparently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1047.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "of the Finance Bill in any detail, and another equally important reason is that many of my hon. Friends wish to discuss the Housing Subsidies Bill. Nevertheless, it is right that before we decide this matter of the corpse two questions must first be asked about the situation. The first is: how did the deceased come to his regrettable end? The second is: should the corpse be restored to life again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or suicide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ropose to give reasons in my speech, and they will be to the effect that the corpse should not be revived again. There are three possible answers to the question of how the death occurred. It certainly was not a natural death. We can all agree that the Bill did not die of old age. It might have been the result of justifiable homicide. It might have been murder. It might have been accidental death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "h of the Bill. I should like to ask this question of the Government. In the light of all that has happened and of the really disastrous failure of the intervention by the Patronage Secretary the other night, can we have an assurance that the Closure will not be used again during the passage of the Bill? I am quite willing to give way if the Leader of the House would like to give us that assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two words.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "complete lack of support for the Chancellor from his Cabinet colleagues. Hardly any senior member of the Government was present during any part of these important discussions on the Finance Bill. The Chancellor was left with the tenuous assistance, for what it was worth, of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Neither the Law Officers for England nor the Law Officers for Scotland were present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. and gallant Member was not there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " the Chancellor that during the remaining stages of the Bill we shall be allowed to discuss every Amendment adequately and that he will resist any attempt by the Leader of the House or the Patronage Secretary to impose the Closure. He knows perfectly well that neither this year nor on any previous occasion when we have discussed these financial Measures have the Opposition resorted to obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t there should be no attempt to canalise building materials and labour into the public housing, but that anybody should build a house—where he liked, what he liked and as much as he liked. But, thank goodness, the right hon. Gentleman was not in office. Fortunately, he was not permitted to have his way. In those years we had an ordered building programme. It was not as fast as we would have liked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fair?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ears? Have they realised that in July, 1945, there were 204,000 building workers on war damage repairs alone? Have they realised that one of the great difficulties of bringing the building industry back to a more wholesome state of health after the war was the right hon. Gentleman's policy of cost-plus on all war damage repairs? I am not suggesting for one moment—I want to be entirely fair to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ne of the scandals of Great Britain. The rents in London are so high that they are an outrageous burden on people's shoulders. The pallid faces of hundreds of thousands of men and women workers who crowd into London every morning and try to empty themselves from London every evening, spending weary hours in travelling, is a monument to the misbehaviour of the party opposite in the inter-war years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, but not subsidised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ords, we wanted to mix them up as much as possible. When hon. Members opposite now tell us one of the justifications of this Measure is that they can see people with motor cars on the municipal estates, I answer that that is what we wanted, that is what we set out to ensure. We set out to try to get the doctor and the lawyer and the banker and all kinds of people mixed up on the municipal estates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "this Measure now before us bears on that matter. As I say, we did bring about a certain amount of mixing up of the people; we had some success. As hon. Members know, the best villages in England in which to live are the villages where, walking down the main street, one finds the doctor's house next door to the grocer's house next door to the \"vet's\" house next door to the country labourer's house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am trying to put the facts. My right hon. Friend informed the local authorities of the existence of the house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I know it from my experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I know it from my experience. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] I did not attribute those words to anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " raise a loan at all without first getting loan sanction. It is not as though the Government are discouraging local authorities from borrowing by forcing them to borrow at disadvantageous rates, because local authorities have first to jump that hurdle before they can borrow at all. Why, then, are the Government doing this? We should like to know. Is it to put money in the pockets of their friends?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "thing that I want to say. The next thing that the country will have to bear in mind is the extent to which the Government failed to take the country into their confidence about their proposals at the last General Election. The authority of Parliament has already been undermined by the Conservative Party. It was undermined just before the General Election, when it rigged some of the constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "hich altered the conditions of borrowing by local authorities; but of the essential decision which is before the House the right hon. Gentleman said little or nothing. The fact is—it is acknowledged on both sides of the House and widely throughout the country—that the present situation, resulting from the combined operation of rent restriction and housing subsidies as we have them, is intolerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1081.4", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Brought into State ownership, or under State control, in some form or other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1081.6", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Brought under public control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1081.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. A. Sparks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nineteen thirty-five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. A. Sparks", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman then explain to the House why the 1936 Act was necessary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Astor", "preceding_text": " argument seemed to appeal to hon. Gentlemen opposite. The fair way of looking at the last General Election is that the electorate, which by and large likes to judge performance and not promises, found itself better served by the performance of the present Government in the field of housing than by the performance of the party opposite, because of our more realistic approach to housing conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": " less and less. I have intervened in the debate to draw the attention of the Minister to one aspect of this subject. I am not very impressed by the reactions of hon. Gentlemen opposite about the result of the last General Election in relation to housing. They are sensitive to the result of the Election, which was largely brought about by the performance of the present Government in house building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1141.5", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": " houses—will be able to pay the higher rents which will be demanded. I know that there will be individual cases of hardship. Some people will say that they are faced with a bill that they simply cannot meet. If that is so, and if those people are living on such a low rate of income or earnings that they cannot pay an increased rent, that is the very purpose for which we set up National Assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1143.8", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I suspected that that might be your Ruling, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. As I understand it, if people are in need and their means are insufficient to enable them to pay their way, they can go to the National Assistance Board and obtain National Assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1143.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1143.8", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "d the Bill to the House and strongly support the proposals of my right hon. Friend. Let us remember that we have before us some very difficult problems, and that they will raise a great many human difficulties. The sooner we tackle this problem with realism and energy, the sooner we grasp this nettle, as my hon. Friend has called it, the sooner we shall be in a position to house our people better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1143.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Ince (Mr. T. Brown) has obviously not understood the whole point of my speech. It was not that one should reward this person or that for what they have or have not done. I say that we should try to get back to an economically realistic system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Edith Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Edith Pitt", "preceding_text": "oney in the pockets of unnamed people; that the Government have yielded to pressure from people, again unnamed, and now that the Government intend to destroy the social services. Those arguments might have had some point twenty or thirty years ago, but I suggest that the hon. Members opposite have still a lot of thinking to do about present-day conditions. This Bill is part of a deliberate policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Force?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "al services and full employment. The principle of the Bill is to restore realism to housing finance. We have gone a long way since 1919 when the duty of providing houses for the working classes was placed upon local authorities. It was the deliberate policy of the party opposite, when they were in power from 1945 to 1951, to force almost everyone on to the lists of the council housing departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "o give an instance to prove my point that there are people living in municipal houses at the moment who can afford to pay more rent. In Birmingham, the Socialist-controlled Council recently announced—as hon. Members representing Birmingham constituencies will know—that applications for permission to erect garages on municipal housing estates were coming in at the rate of ten a week, or 500 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "f the Government's policy to simulate the premature scrapping of those dwellings. Temporary hutments, on the other hand, are thoroughly sub-standard—I think that we can all agree upon that—and we want to see them replaced by proper houses as soon as possible. Therefore, dwellings built to replace those temporary hutments, as distinct from the Portal houses, will attract the slum clearance subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1167.5", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lewis rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1167.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1167.8", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lewis rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1168.4", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The remark about the 204,000 came immediately after.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1169.3", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I quite understand. I was told that he had gone to Peru. The hon. Member for Wellingborough, the right hon. and learned Member for Rowley Regis and Tipton (Mr. A. Henderson), the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Poplar (Mr. Key) and the hon. Member for Aston (Mr. J. Silverman), and I think others also, alleged that the Bill will drive local authorities out of house building altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1169.5", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Relatively small?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "efore very long about half the local authority house building effort will be going into new towns, overspill and slum clearance. And those houses will all be attracting either the same subsidy or a higher one. Local authorities will continue to receive nearly £50 million a year in Exchequer subsidies for houses already built which they can spread over the relatively small proportion of new houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1170.3", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is 950 feet super.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Let us be clear. We are accused by the hon. Member for Wellingborough of departing from the Dudley standard. I think that the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale said the same thing. The Dudley standard lays down that there should be 900 feet super, as they are called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I think everybody who listened to that speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "mpression that it amounted to little short of incitement to industrial action to frustrate the will of Parliament. As such, I believe it will be resented and repudiated by all responsible Members of the House. If the people of this country misunderstand the effects and purposes of the Bill, it will be due to the distortions and misrepresentations of the party opposite and their Communist comrades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "te the will of Parliament. As such, I believe it will be resented and repudiated by all responsible Members of the House. If the people of this country misunderstand the effects and purposes of the Bill, it will be due to the distortions and misrepresentations of the party opposite and their Communist comrades. [ Laughter .] I am glad the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale is enjoying it. I come now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1176.5", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " of case, and I shall make a further statement about this as soon as possible. The right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale criticised my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West for relating the level of rents to the level of earnings. He seemed to think it was improper to consider earnings which include overtime, and suggested that only the basic level of wages ought to be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1176.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-21", "file": "debates1955-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "ec86c86062061be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1177.2", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman accepts that earnings are a reasonable basis for any of these personal calculations in respect of rent and not the basic level of wages, then I will not pursue that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-21a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-22", "file": "debates1955-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd17565b6863006e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1233.9", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "My information is that the soldier in question first applied for compassionate leave and compassionate discharge on 11th November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1233.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-22", "file": "debates1955-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd17565b6863006e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this measly result has cost the country nearly £3 million? Does not he think it is about time that he resigned. in view of the abject failure of yet another aspect of his policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1245.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-22", "file": "debates1955-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd17565b6863006e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ainly to that effect. Does he know that I have made inquiries of two other Oldham soldiers who served at that camp, and that they told me that the conditions were absolutely deplorable; that the blankets came out of earth and muck and straw, and that the men had only a blanket to sleep on on unprotected canvas as a result? One of them said that they were conditions in which he would not put a dog—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-22", "file": "debates1955-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd17565b6863006e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah, well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought the right hon. Member would be aware that General Burns is working under the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-22", "file": "debates1955-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd17565b6863006e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF PURCHASE TAX RATES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " an opportunity for discussion of the changes that are being made, or of proposed changes which are likely to be made, as can be done within the ambit of that arrangement. In conclusion, I say seriously and advisedly that I feel that while many of us might plead guilty to having from time to time indulged in verbosity which, on mature reflection, might have been considered needless or unnecessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-22", "file": "debates1955-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd17565b6863006e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Fraser", "preceding_text": "tem is selling for £3 today and an equivalent, or near-equivalent imported item, with some difference in quality, sells at £2, the imposition of a 30 per cent. tax means that the foreign item costs 12s. more and the British one 18s. more. That is the precise problem with which we are here faced. I therefore suggest that far from restraining imports this weight of tax may do precisely the opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-22", "file": "debates1955-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd17565b6863006e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1378.0", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "ealise that the industry has learnt its trade the hard way. If we apply this taxation today, I am certain we shall do damage for which we shall be sorry some years later. I ask the Chancellor to give special consideration to helping this industry, which is getting very little help. Pottery manufacturers wrote to the Board of Trade. The President of the Board of Trade should have been here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-22", "file": "debates1955-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd17565b6863006e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not success.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": " to tell the Committee that we are at difference on this, and therefore I am afraid that the only course that we can take is to divide against each other upon it. I am sorry that I can make no concession, but I think it is more important that I should be clear than that I should give any doubt to the pottery trade at the present time. The hon. Members who put the case with great skill and success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-22a.1387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get the facts right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a similar delay occured on 1st November at Bovingdon Airport, when only one immigration officer was present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The other facts were not correct.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a similar delay occured on 1st November at Bovingdon Airport, when only one immigration officer was present—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Get the facts right.\"] I want the facts to be correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I understand that generally speaking the system is working quite satisfactorily—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—with the charge collected, for reasons that the hon. Member will understand, not in the price of the ticket, but at the same time as the ticket—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1475.0", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tax free.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": " represent here. Only a few days ago, at an advice bureau in my constituency, I was visited by a lady who had got herself into extraordinary difficulty by showing kindness to her neighbours who could not afford clothes posts. In her backyard she has a tree, and first one and then another of her neighbours asked that they might be allowed to carry their clothes lines from their windows to the tree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1486.5", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "o motor cars and I will come back to washtubs. There might be certain categories of goods which could be left out. For example, supposing it was proposed to put a tax on poppies which are sold on Remembrance Day, there might be such a strong sentiment against this that it would be overwhelming. Also, there might be a case for removing tax from baskets made by blind people or for not putting it on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1486.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1487.3", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ndment, or for the next or the one after that. I should like to deal with a political point. In this country we have a custom whereby General Elections are held as a rule every four or five years. Members of Parliament are sent here to do what, on broad principles enunciated at the Election, seem to them to be right in all the circumstances of the time. We have had our politics for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: I bet that he has never been hit with one\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " on behalf of old-age pensioners. We are in a sorry plight that the country's financial position should be such that we have to tax smoothing iron holders. Again, those are a relic of the past. In homes without electricity or gas, people must depend on what is known as a flat iron. Perhaps the Economic Secretary has never heard of a flat iron. I wonder whether he can tell me how many are in a set.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Law Officers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " difficulties over that matter. I can understand the difficulties about gipsies. The hon. Gentleman said that he would consult the Financial Secretary. Why cannot he do so now? The Financial Secretary is present. Indeed, we are very honoured to have the Financial Secretary, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade here as well as the Economic Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "in producing all these items can be diverted to industries which do make a contribution to the export trade? That might be a perfectly respectable and logical argument, and no doubt the Economic Secretary would have used it if he thought it was relevant, but in fact that was the argument advanced by the hon. Member for Kidderminster. We all paid particular attention to the hon. Gentleman's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I overlooked that because I have developed a practically infallible technique of boiling an egg to exactly the point to which an egg should be boile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1551.3", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has taken them off.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "s and beautiful gremlins and kind gremlins. I do not think that the Financial Secretary is at all an unkind gremlin —but something must have got under the Chancellor's skin. I do not know how taxes on pots, pans, brooms, brushes, scourers and things of that sort ever got into this Bill. I have no objection whatsoever to taxes on luxuries, and my right hon. Friend was courageous in putting them on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1557.0", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "Tax, I think that we stand a reasonable chance of getting rid of it altogether in the near future, which would remove one element which leads to squabbling across the Floor of the Chamber. I wish to be fair in my criticism of Purchase Tax. In my view, it is inflationary in the long-run, but that does not mean that it is inflationary in the short-run. In the short-run, Purchase Tax is deflationary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1568.4", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "d, neither is it a major contribution to the total national Budget. Hon. Members who have exercised their mathematical faculties on the figure which I have just given will be able to calculate from it that, by imposing tax on this small group of articles, it is likely that the cost of living will rise by one-fifteenth of a penny per week. Having said that, I hope I have demolished the suggestions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1568.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1590.3", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "rchase Tax is being lifted?\" If the Government's purpose is to reduce inflation, they would have done better to have accepted the proposal from this side of the Committee that we cut the period of National Service. That would have gone much further towards reducing inflation. I do not know whether the Chancellor considers that a relevant point, but I know that the general public does. To conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1596.3", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bookits?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "gham are already too high and they are to be forced higher because of this direct tax. Replying to the last debate, the Economic Secretary said that it was absolutely essential to impose the tax to reduce inflation. It is difficult to relate a number of the things that we are discussing to the general position, but I have no doubt that he will tell us that again. After dustbins we come to buckets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1596.3", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the Oxford dialect\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "as absolutely essential to impose the tax to reduce inflation. It is difficult to relate a number of the things that we are discussing to the general position, but I have no doubt that he will tell us that again. After dustbins we come to buckets—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Bookits?\"] I am not apologising for my Birmingham dialect. It may not be so pleasing to the ear as the Celtic or the Lancashire dialect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-23", "file": "debates1955-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "238814305103cc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1597.4", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "What is the good of having cows if there are no buckets to milk them into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-23a.1597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-24", "file": "debates1955-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0b5cd37026985fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister not aware that, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) has said, his speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet has undoubtedly caused very great alarm and apprehension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-24", "file": "debates1955-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0b5cd37026985fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1651.2", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister what was the real purpose of his Guildhall speech? If it was to act as mediator, surely notes to the Governments concerned would have done that. Instead of that, the Prime Minister threw into the arena a concession on territory which applied to one side only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-24", "file": "debates1955-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0b5cd37026985fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1651.3", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r concessions from one side only. It is only necessary to read my speech to see quite clearly that I asked for concessions from both. The right hon. Gentleman can argue that the territorial concession, to his mind, asks more of Israel than of the Arabs. He may think that, but that does not alter the fact that other people will have to make very considerable concessions if there is to be agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-24", "file": "debates1955-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0b5cd37026985fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1737.3", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In London.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "the debate and referred to this point. The fact is that the Government are retaining a power over the local authorities which is not extended to any other enterprise in the country. Building controls are relevant to this discussion and an answer given in the House today shows that £20 million worth of building is going on at the present time in this country of offices, cinemas, public houses, etc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-24", "file": "debates1955-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0b5cd37026985fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1765.11", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "LEEWARD ISLANDS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurry up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": " that in future each of the four Presidencies of the Colony shall become a separate Colony. Many hon. Members will have visited these romantic islands. I am afraid that as Secretary of State I must confess that it has only been my pleasure to go, so far, to Antigua and St. Kitts. I trust that before my term of office is over, I shall be able to repair that omission and visit the other territories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1765.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-24", "file": "debates1955-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0b5cd37026985fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1789.2", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RECIPROCAL WITHDRAWAL OF PERSONAL IMMUNITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "ised at the brief supplied to the right hon. Gentleman. Surely the Foreign Office is aware that from the people serving here from other countries as members of the Diplomatic Corps we expect a very much higher standard of conduct than from the population of the country as a whole. These people are specially selected and trained, and have a special education and special advantages, and 4 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-24", "file": "debates1955-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0b5cd37026985fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1790.1", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RECIPROCAL WITHDRAWAL OF PERSONAL IMMUNITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stupid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I thought I was being called to order, Sir Rhys. It is wrong of the right hon. Gentleman to come here time after time, trying to prove that if someone does something wrong in the Diplomatic Corps it is somehow all right. It is a little more of the cover-up. It is not all right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-24a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-25", "file": "debates1955-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "a568ddb357dad73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-25a.1803.13", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LOTTERIES AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All games?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "ith the bow and arrow so that English prowess in war would be that much diminished. Consequently, in framing this Bill I have endeavoured to take sufficient care to ensure that in somewhat extending lotteries, and permitting small card games such as whist drives, I have not gone to such an extent that we will be in danger of being defeated in the next atomic war. Henry VIII made all games illegal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-25a.1803.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-25", "file": "debates1955-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "a568ddb357dad73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-25a.1815.3", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LOTTERIES AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": "rting and other purposes. I should like to have a clear definition of \"societies.\" The Bill further says that advertisements can be exhibited on the premises of the organisation. I may be wrong, because I am not too good at understanding legal jargon, but I know a very active parent-teacher association which is attached to a school, and which does a very good job. Would that be called a \"society\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-25a.1815.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-25", "file": "debates1955-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "a568ddb357dad73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-25a.1827.0", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LOTTERIES AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Black", "preceding_text": "he country. It read as follows: Reports having been made to the Council that a practice was growing of clubs and their supporters launching schemes for raising funds by sweepstakes, lotteries, or other means which are not only illegal but are also calculated to bring the game into disrepute, notice is hereby given that clubs must satisfy themselves before adopting any scheme that it is in order \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-25a.1824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-28", "file": "debates1955-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "573c576348b87470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.1905.8", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY AND GAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Does not my hon. Friend realise that this Question relates to promotional advertising? Why is it necessary for the State electricity authority, which is a monopoly any way, to advertise its wares, since all advertising practice should be based on competitive conditions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.1905.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-28", "file": "debates1955-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "573c576348b87470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2024.0", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF PURCHASE TAX RATES.)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "uly because of what is being done. There is, however, one thing that has not been said but which ought to be said. I think it is rather rash for hon. Members opposite to assume that some of these people whom they have been trying to champion throughout these debates are not sometimes rather pleased to be able to make some contribution towards trying to put the country's economy on a sound footing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-28", "file": "debates1955-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "573c576348b87470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2033.1", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF PURCHASE TAX RATES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "s the equability of his temper, but on this occasion the Prime Minister seemed to show irritation. There was a slight shade of pink on his cheeks and his voice rose to a falsetto. Even the crease in his trousers seemed on the point of disintegration. He rose and said, \"Do you suggest that we are the sort of people who would say one thing before a General Election and do something else afterwards?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-28", "file": "debates1955-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "573c576348b87470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2039.5", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF PURCHASE TAX RATES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are bitter medicine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "I will call them short-term medicine, if that expression is preferable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2039.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-28", "file": "debates1955-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "573c576348b87470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2065.1", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF PURCHASE TAX RATES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "de by the Chancellor in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Shoreditch and Finsbury (Mr. Collins), who dealt with brushes and brooms. There is a very special case for a concession on those articles comparable to that given to the basket industry this evening. We shall certainly seek to follow up that question. As I say, I do not propose to go into all the detailed points which have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-28", "file": "debates1955-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "573c576348b87470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF PURCHASE TAX RATES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "hat Boyle's Law was. I had to ask my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede), a distinguished scientist, and he had forgotten, too. Urgent inquiries were made and we were informed that apparently Boyle's Law says that the volume of gas varies inversely with the pressure. I believe that I am right in saying that this law was originally introduced by a kinsman of the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-28", "file": "debates1955-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "573c576348b87470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF PURCHASE TAX RATES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " ceteris do not remain paribus. It assumes no change in the level of incomes, but higher prices mean higher wage demands. Here, we must press the Chancellor. My hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton) made a most important contribution on this subject, and we must ask the Chancellor frankly whether he feels, or does not feel, that wage claims will be justified as a result of this Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-28", "file": "debates1955-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "573c576348b87470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF PURCHASE TAX RATES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Transport House?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ehold essentials in the Schedule, we are told, is being taxed to yield £250,000, or at most £500,000, in Revenue, and the purpose is to reduce the call on the physical resources of the community. Yet in the very middle of a debate in which the Chancellor refuses to deal with the inessential use of resources the Conservative Party announces the building of a new Tory Central Office in Smith Square.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-28a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2119.6", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH RAILWAYS SUPER ANNUITANTS (LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Whilst thanking my right hon. Friend for answering that Question himself and not transferring it to some other Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2119.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2121.5", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED KINGDOM AND CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not realise that if he decided to go on a good will visit to China and took the Chancellor of the Exchequer with him the House would be pleased to give leave of absence? Is he not also aware of what seems to be the highly successful visit of Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khruschev to I ndia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2121.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2121.5", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED KINGDOM AND CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not realise that if he decided to go on a good will visit to China and took the Chancellor of the Exchequer with him the House would be pleased to give leave of absence? Is he not also aware of what seems to be the highly successful visit of Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khruschev to I ndia—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and why should all the imagination and all the initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2121.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2121.5", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED KINGDOM AND CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "cided to go on a good will visit to China and took the Chancellor of the Exchequer with him the House would be pleased to give leave of absence? Is he not also aware of what seems to be the highly successful visit of Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khruschev to I ndia—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and why should all the imagination and all the initiative—[ Interruption. ] All this interruption does not worry me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2121.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2121.5", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED KINGDOM AND CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " what seems to be the highly successful visit of Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khruschev to I ndia—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and why should all the imagination and all the initiative—[ Interruption. ] All this interruption does not worry me. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"] Is the Prime Minister aware that the visit of Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khruschev to India appears to have been successful in promoting better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2121.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2140.0", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postponed Clause 2.—(RATES OF PROFITS TAX, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only in theory?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "preceding_text": "n which too high a tax on distributed profits naturally tends to encourage monopolistic tendencies in industry. After all, it is not necessarily axiomatic that profits which are retained by the company which earned them could not be put to more fruitful use elsewhere; and I would suggest that while we on this side of the Committee, in theory, at any rate, believe in free enterprise and capitalism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2140.0", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postponed Clause 2.—(RATES OF PROFITS TAX, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "preceding_text": "that to a very large degree this tax takes back the concessions which were given in April. 4.30 p.m. I am well aware, as the hon. Member for Stechford said, that there is a slight gain on the credit side to companies by the reduction in Income Tax and the increase in distributed Profits Tax, but the effect of this can be very unequal. I was talking the other day to a director of a brewing company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2140.0", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postponed Clause 2.—(RATES OF PROFITS TAX, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "preceding_text": "d, like most breweries, its profits had not risen in line with the growth of profits in large industry. But the increase in distributed Profits Tax which the Budget is taking away from that company is £14,400. The company, therefore, finds itself slightly worse off. I do not quite see that it is beneficial to industry in general that within six months money can be given to it and taken away again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postponed Clause 2.—(RATES OF PROFITS TAX, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should they be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " unreal mould, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer began to release the pressures on industry, with the result that events occurred which showed all too clearly the falsity of the previous position. The hon. Member for Sowerby said that dividends have increased very sharply in recent months. That is so, but they are not back to the ratio to wages at which they were before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2156.1", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postponed Clause 2.—(RATES OF PROFITS TAX, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Devaluation was nothing to do in the direct sense with the question of restraint at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2252.2", "colnum": "2252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postponed Clause 4.—(PURCHASES OF SHARES BY FINANCIAL CONCERNS AND PERSONS EXEMPTED FROM TAX.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "mple. However, I will leave that point, because I think it does represent a substantial difference of approach. To be fair, however, we must add this. On this side we are so far removed from these activities that we have not come to accept them. We do not practise them. We are not in this at all. It is something which is not only foreign to our nature, but we are quite removed from any temptation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-29", "file": "debates1955-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "46976b3975f6757b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2252.2", "colnum": "2252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postponed Clause 4.—(PURCHASES OF SHARES BY FINANCIAL CONCERNS AND PERSONS EXEMPTED FROM TAX.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " we have not come to accept them. We do not practise them. We are not in this at all. It is something which is not only foreign to our nature, but we are quite removed from any temptation. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Gentlemen opposite laugh. It is an indication of the levity with which this social evil is treated by them, and there is no doubt that it is a social and a moral evil. I will moralise no more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-29a.2252.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2293.8", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Because I do not think that the moment has yet arrived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2293.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2302.5", "colnum": "2302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BAGDAD PACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I listened to what was said and, as I understood it, the question was whether the point of view expressed in the supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2302.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2309.2", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUBERCULOUS PATIENTS, SCOTLAND (SWISS SANATORIA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They were longer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not the case that today some of the Foreign Secretary's replies were just as long?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2311.1", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "HYDROGEN BOMB EXPERIMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are perfectly ready to consider this at any time and in any place. I have seen it suggested, for instance, that there might be some such limitation as to agree, say, to one explosion a year, but I do not think the House ought lightly to take for granted, immediately the Russians have set off the biggest explosion in their power, that that is exactly the moment when we should forgo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2311.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2318.4", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ridiculous.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": " debated in either House or while it is being so debated. Secondly, that when legislation is introduced in Parliament on any subject, the Corporation shall not, on such subject, arrange broadcasts by any Member of Parliament which are to be made during the period between the introduction of the legislation and the time when it either receives the Royal Assent or is previously withdrawn or dropped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2322.3", "colnum": "2322", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "cognise that this argument of influence is not the complete case for the rule, I do suggest that it is a factor which should be taken into account. The third proposition—indeed, it is less a proposition than a statement of fact—is that in this, as in other activities, the people to do it are selected, as they should be, for their capacity to do the job—in this instance, for broadcasting qualities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2322.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2323.0", "colnum": "2323", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": " a real danger that if a few selected persons are free to broadcast on matters shortly to come up for discussion in this House, if they are to broadcast free of restraint and responsibility before Ministers have come to this Box and speakers for the Opposition to that Box to deploy the facts and the arguments, Parliamentary discussion will be prejudiced and the authority of Parliament will suffer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2329.3", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " and, secondly, that it should become an instrument of the Government. I propose to take the Government point of view for the moment—which is kind of me, because I am in opposition. Broadly speaking, a Minister would not appear in these debates, and therefore it would, so to speak, handicap the Government side to be represented more often than not by someone, shall we say, from the \"Third Eleven\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2329.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2345.0", "colnum": "2345", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He would be good on T.V.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hyde", "preceding_text": "eful to Sir Robert Walpole and to other Members of the Government Front Bench at that time. This is what Lord Hervey had to say about Sir William Yonge in his Memoirs of the time: He had no wit in private conversation, but was remarkably quick in taking hints to harangue upon in Parliament; he had a knack of words there that was surprising considering how little use they were to him anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2351.1", "colnum": "2351", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There have been cases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ot. If we abandoned the 14-day rule but stopped Members of Parliament from broadcasting we would create a new and profitable profession of defeated or even resigned Members of Parliament. There would be a very great demand for them. We might even find a Member of Parliament in due course deciding that it would pay him politically to resign and build up a reputation through the broadcasting medium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2354.1", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "m Ministers who were queueing up for the microphone in order to make a lot of rather irrelevant statements about things that did not matter very much. There was such a jostling and a queueing of Ministers that, if the B.B.C. had not protected itself, the whole country would have been subject to a deluge of state- ments about Spam and all the rest of it, in which no one was particularly interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2356.1", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, that was one of the causes of the trouble—it was one of the causes of the pressure. If the hon. Lady will cast her memory back, she will remember that those speakers gradually faded from the air, and were replaced by representatives of the official point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2357.1", "colnum": "2357", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where was the hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": " back benchers, some of which I would say were incomparably better than the speeches of front benchers. We are an assembly of elected representatives of the people, called together to pass legislation and grant supply to the Queen. That is our job. As such, I think we should take a restrained view of our own importance. I read the OFFICIAL REPORT of the first all-night sitting on the Finance Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2357.1", "colnum": "2357", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor has the hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": "r. I do not think that the Editor of The Times can know a great deal about the practice of this House of Commons if he thinks that every Member of Parliament has a right to speak in this House on any subject that interests him. The Editor of The Times has not sat here for hours and hours and days and days—in fact, all night—and gone home sadly with that brilliant, undelivered speech in his pocket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2364.0", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "In case the hon. Gentleman thinks that I am being particularly unkind, let us examine his model panel, the panel which he suggested as the best in the world. I believe that it consists of Michael Foot, W. J. Brown, Professor Taylor and, of course, himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2364.0", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "examine his model panel, the panel which he suggested as the best in the world. I believe that it consists of Michael Foot, W. J. Brown, Professor Taylor and, of course, himself. [ Interruption. ] I am informed that I should have said Doctor Taylor, not Professor Taylor. Will anybody suggest to me that that panel could be considered as representative of either of the two main parties of the State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2418.1", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "arty. It is beside the point whether I agreed or disagreed with that point of view. That was certainly an influence of this medium of broadcasting which was dangerous. Why were these people chosen? I am really trying to be helpful. If the B.B.C. would think about it, it would realise why there has been so much opposition in the House. Obviously one cannot put 630 people on the air on the same day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2420.1", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "t mind some limitation upon broadcasting. I do not think it would really be necessary, because I believe that the B.B.C. and the other organisations would themselves have the necessary sense of responsibility in the event of such an emergency. On the other hand, I believe that the country would be willing to accept a right of veto on the part of the Prime Minister himself as his personal decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "n today, in supporting one or other case, quoted leading articles from newspapers, particularly The Times. The Times has intervened in this discussion within twenty-four hours of the debate, and it has been quoted over and over again. Not a single word has been quoted from any B.B.C comment, either within or outside the 14 days, although the issue has been under discussion for a considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "I do not know of any instance. That is rather like the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow, West (Mr. Attlee) when he said something to the effect that the rule has worked satisfactorily for years and that nobody has noticed it. Nobody has noticed it because nobody was aware of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The B.B.C. could not discuss it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "n affairs, gave an answer which was lifted almost entirely from the leading article of The Times of this morning. One could recognise the phraseology in the terms which he used. That is another example of how newspapers, as compared with the B.B.C., have an influence on discussions in this House. I have never yet heard the Prime Minister quoting the B.B.C. as the basis for an answer in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2434.1", "colnum": "2434", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "t mind my saying it, is this. I think all of us, certainly those of us who sit on this bench, and, I imagine, on the Front Opposition Bench as well, must have rather resented seeing how in the last few weeks the bitter attack on this rule has been centred by the Press upon the person of my right hon. Friend. It should have been quite obvious to anyone who knows anything about anything at all that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-11-30", "file": "debates1955-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "d3cdd6c509f3f3a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2437.1", "colnum": "2437", "heading": "BROADCASTING (ANTICIPATION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "lking about are viewing and listening deliberately, whereas the 17 million readers are not necessarily buying the newspaper to read an article by my hon. Friend the Member for East Aberdeenshire (Sir R. Boothby). They may be buying it for the sake of some of the other interesting material that appears. My hon. Friend is no longer here, because he said he was not going to take part in the division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-11-30a.2437.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2484.4", "colnum": "2484", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the real answer to this problem is that these attendants, who are doing unproductive work, should transfer to productive industry, in which the wages are more than double?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2491.0", "colnum": "2491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the unsatisfactory Answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2514.1", "colnum": "2514", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": "Since the Leader of the House owes a debt to the teaching profession, but for whose ministrations neither he nor any other Member of the House would be here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2539.0", "colnum": "2539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly true that there were a lot in 1939, but a very great deal was done between the wars to get rid of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2539.0", "colnum": "2539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly true that there were a lot in 1939, but a very great deal was done between the wars to get rid of them. [ Interruption. ] Well, 365,000 houses have been built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2539.1", "colnum": "2539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "First of all, I assume that the hon. and gallant Member for Ilford, South (Squadron Leader Cooper) was speaking on behalf of the Tory council of Ilford, and I take it that there are no property owners or estate agents on that council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2541.0", "colnum": "2541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "preceding_text": " financial aspect of clearing 700 houses from a slum clearance area. If the council is doing slum clearance, the Minister has provided for that on page 1 of the Bill by promising to give not £10 but £22 1s. in respect of the clearance of slums. I therefore remind the hon. Gentleman that the County Borough of Leicester should not have any problem in this regard because it will get the full subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2556.0", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Edwards", "preceding_text": "having to decide whether, because of this Bill, we ought to suspend or even terminate the operation of the scheme—and that after having gone to so much trouble and cost. I ask the Minister very earnestly to bear these facts in mind. If the Amend- ment were accepted it would enable Stepney Borough Council, and many other local authorities in similar circumstances, to go forward with their schemes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2571.4", "colnum": "2571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "asion. If we were to agree to a twelve months' warning period on the same basis as the Bill is now drafted, local authorities would have on this occasion an almost irresistible temptation to approve tenders for an enormous number of houses, a sufficient number to keep them going for a number of years. In this way the purpose of the Bill and the intention of Parliament would be entirely frustrated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2571.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2572.7", "colnum": "2572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I was not claiming that I had given a month's notice, that is all. I think that the point which I have made about 1,000 tenders approved in a day during that week shows the sort of situation with which we should have found ourselves faced if they had had twelve months in which to regulate the position. We might as well have with- drawn the Bill altogether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2572.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2582.1", "colnum": "2582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Coalition Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " which the present Minister of Housing at one time had responsibility, never believed that local authorities could be inspired into such activity so quickly. The right hon. Gentleman started with his usual sneer about my remark that the housing problem would be solved by ten years ago. But he knows very well the answer to that. The answer was that I took his figure; it was his figure and not mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A mouldy turnip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "\"Operation Rescue,\" but it did not even rescue landlords. It was one of the clumsiest efforts that has ever been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "cheme was announced. They were going to build 75,000 a year but now he says they are to build 60,000 a year. This is a Bill to prevent at least 15,000 slum clearance houses being built, yet it is put forward as a slum clearance Bill. Of all the dishonesty—it is really dishonest. I have a few other things in pickle for the right hon. Gentleman later. He is going down as a very bad housing Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2611.3", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very serious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "May I make an appeal to the Committee. This discussion is getting beyond the Amendment. The Amendment is a serious Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-01", "file": "debates1955-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e2b836d31fa3030e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2619.2", "colnum": "2619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I am being so unsuccessful in assisting you. Sir Rhys, but I am very concerned about hundreds and hundreds of families in Holborn and I maintain that it is my right to come here and say so. I am sorry if the Committee is bored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-01a.2619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-02", "file": "debates1955-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ea702b1f48527b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-02a.2683.1", "colnum": "2683", "heading": "NOISE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "in this House on Fridays, it is impossible to raise the question of the enforcement of the existing law. Thirdly, I advocate that we should face up to the definition of noise, and that we should get away from the words \"reasonable and practicable\", and come down to the actual units of noise. I know that there is a slight reluctance to do that, and I am also aware that the unit of noise is the bel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-02a.2683.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-05", "file": "debates1955-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3372f4dcfbc39496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.30.6", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO U.S.A. AND CANADA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "The House welcomes this announcement, and I am sure I shall express the views of all of us when I say that we are very glad that the health of the President of the United States has so improved that he is able to receive distinguished visitors from overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.30.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-05", "file": "debates1955-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3372f4dcfbc39496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "s a question in relation to Africa, but it is important indeed, not only in its relation to Africa, but in those relations between Her Majesty's Government, this Parliament and all the Dependencies. The Question asked was who was responsible for deciding whether or not to grant responsible Government—and I take responsible government to be equivalent to self-determination—to Dependent Territories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-05", "file": "debates1955-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3372f4dcfbc39496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Turkish minority?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "cked for putting forward these proposals, and has risked his position as a leader by doing so. If no settlement takes place, and Archbishop Makarios is discredited because of his proposals, with whom shall we discuss the matter? What will then take place? I believe that we have now reached the stage in Cyprus where we must either settle now with Archbishop Makarios or allow the situation to drift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-05", "file": "debates1955-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3372f4dcfbc39496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Communist plots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "nd sensible moment for them to turn on the heat with us. They turned it on, by the usual methods. The right hon. Member for Llanelly spoke of the movement in Cyprus as a spontaneous movement. I do not believe that it was a spontaneous movement at all. I will deal with that point in more detail later on. These affairs are what they have been for the last 130 or 140 years, plots in bishops' palaces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-05", "file": "debates1955-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3372f4dcfbc39496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Member for Llanelly spoke of the movement in Cyprus as a spontaneous movement. I do not believe that it was a spontaneous movement at all. I will deal with that point in more detail later on. These affairs are what they have been for the last 130 or 140 years, plots in bishops' palaces. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Communist plots.\"] Not Communist then, but possibly Communist in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-05", "file": "debates1955-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3372f4dcfbc39496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Malta?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "ernment not rashly to move their position. I do not believe that to do so is likely to resolve present difficulties, and I believe that it might prove to be a long-term blunder. I should like to ask my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies this question. If we do agree that Cyprus is some time to have the right of self-determination, how can we conceivably deny it to Gibraltar?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-05", "file": "debates1955-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3372f4dcfbc39496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the position may be now, but before we make a change of this great and irrevocable nature we ought for a period of years to try a new approach in Cyprus. We ought definitely to curb violence, whether it comes from bishops or anybody else. Free speech is one thing, but the right to stir up backward, uneducated boys and girls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-05", "file": "debates1955-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3372f4dcfbc39496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "st entirely of maiden speeches of the kind we have just heard, I suspect it might do a great deal less damage to the delicate negotiations that are now in progress in Athens and Nicosia than may, perhaps, be the case if subsequent speakers talk with less discretion and less unprovocatively than the noble Lord. I find myself very puzzled to understand why this debate is taking place at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-05a.71.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.175.4", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "What point does the Chancellor expect the value of the £ to have reached by November, 1956?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pay them more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "t is the anxiety of a large section of the middle class about their standards of life which lies behind the opposition to this Bill. Professional dignity and an insolvent pensions account go ill together. If one desires, as I hope and believe the whole House does, to reverse the decline in the fortunes of the teachers, then one of the things we must do is to put their superannuation account right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What better things?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "and I do not in the least resent their criticism, because I know that we share the same objective. We are after the same thing, which is to improve the position of their profession. The difference between us is that the Government are more optimistic about the teachers' prospects than they are themselves. For them, the 1 per cent. is the last straw; for us, it is a necessary step to better things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Woodford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "se in the basic scales of teachers' pay. All this is taking place in an improving climate of opinion. In a way, the teachers are fortunate. Events are on their side. The shortage of scientists, technologists and technicians is providing a very useful lesson to the public in the value of education. My right hon. Friend—the greatest of my right hon. Friends—addressing his constituents at Wood Green—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": ". The shortage of scientists, technologists and technicians is providing a very useful lesson to the public in the value of education. My right hon. Friend—the greatest of my right hon. Friends—addressing his constituents at Wood Green—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Woodford.\"] I am referring to my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill). I think that the place where he spoke was Wood Green.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.219.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Decreasing money value.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. R. H. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member seems to be giving a lecture on actuarial calculation. If he were an actuary he would surely have to take into consideration the trend, which has been going on all through history, of rising money value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " you. As the poet says: What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. I am sure that it would be good for teachers and perhaps for all of us to have more education, more culture, more travel, and even more \"what have you,\" but it is hardly the best way of helping us, the teachers, or anyone to get more of these desirable things to invite us to part with 1 per cent. of our incomes for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "osal to visit deficiencies arising from inflationary or real salary changes upon the teaching profession or the teachers' employers. There remains to be considered the third group of factors. Here we come on to very different ground. Over the past 20 or 30 years those factors have changed substantially. The expectation of life of a teacher entering the profession today is appreciably greater than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "s together in one group, they represent the value of an additional 1½ per cent. contribution which, if it be divided upon the principle underlying the 1925 Act—which, after all, both sides of the House have accepted both in and out of office; whatever be the history—and I agree that, in some ways, it is a deplorable history—of the 1925 Act, the fact remains that both sides have accepted it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why buy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "subject. I want to refer briefly to four matters which require clearing up. Due to equal pay, the young man who enters the teaching service today will draw a smaller pension than the young woman who enters today, because he is denied his two years for military service. The teaching profession asks the Minister whether, in Committee, he will make it possible for these young men to buy their way in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman looks well on it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "t, and I have thought carefully and hard as to what should be my attitude on such an occasion when my loyalty to my party clashes with my loyalty to my colleagues in the teaching profession. For many years, as long as I can remember thinking politically, I have been a loyal supporter of my party, and I have been proud of my party. In my own way I have suffered for that loyalty. I may suffer again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over to this side of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "h an occasion when my loyalty to my party clashes with my loyalty to my colleagues in the teaching profession. For many years, as long as I can remember thinking politically, I have been a loyal supporter of my party, and I have been proud of my party. In my own way I have suffered for that loyalty. I may suffer again. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman looks well on it.\"] Yes, I do fairly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "re is an idea of giving the teachers a non-contributory scheme at some time in the future, why should their contributions be increased now? After teachers had enjoyed a non-contributory scheme for four years, a compulsory levy was imposed, and, finally, a 5 per cent. contribution was written into the Act. The result of successive attacks by Governments of all shades upon the standards of teachers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "ributions be increased now? After teachers had enjoyed a non-contributory scheme for four years, a compulsory levy was imposed, and, finally, a 5 per cent. contribution was written into the Act. The result of successive attacks by Governments of all shades upon the standards of teachers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, in saying, \"Governments of all shades,\" I do not forget 1931 when the Labour Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": " a compulsory levy was imposed, and, finally, a 5 per cent. contribution was written into the Act. The result of successive attacks by Governments of all shades upon the standards of teachers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, in saying, \"Governments of all shades,\" I do not forget 1931 when the Labour Cabinet—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—it is on record—decided to reduce the salaries of teachers by 15 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "I am here to do a job of work, if hon. Members opposite will let me get on with it. Teachers have been in the vanguard for cuts, but they have been in the rearguard for the disbursement of largesse. I say very sincerely that the feeling among teachers today is not political but professional. Tory teachers, who tell me that they have voted Tory for years and will do so again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "sse. I say very sincerely that the feeling among teachers today is not political but professional. Tory teachers, who tell me that they have voted Tory for years and will do so again—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"]—are full of resentment at this Measure. Our teachers have a record of steadiness and stability second to none in the professions or industry. They are an example to the rest of the country in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that a threat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "s who are discontented, who seethe with anger, and who feel resentment, they will not be national assets. Is it worth while losing this valuable asset for a measly 1 per cent.? It is like selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage. I say that the accumulated effects of all that has happened over the last 30 years have led teachers into a situation in which they are becoming dangerously minded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "y that the accumulated effects of all that has happened over the last 30 years have led teachers into a situation in which they are becoming dangerously minded. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that a threat?\"] It is not a threat. Teachers see other people in the country holding a pistol at the Government's head and getting what they want. The teachers have never done that, but I warn the House that the temper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "opposite must not be facetious. It is no good the hon. Member for Barrow-in-Furness (Mr. Monslow) talking about the National Union of Railwaymen, for it has held a pistol at the Government's head and got away with it. I am not going to have hon. Members scoffing like that when they are guilty of the very thing of which I am saying the teachers have never been guilty. I now turn to the Bill itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "t. The Minister denied that and said that other professions were worse off. He instanced the clergy and junior Ministers. In salary conditions we cannot compare ourselves with the clergy, nor with junior Ministers. I wish we could compare with the latter. If successive Governments have successfully depressed the value of junior Ministers, that is no argument why schoolteachers should be depressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "ovements in benefits and salaries and because of increased earlier retirement and increased longevity. Are we the only people who satisfy all those conditions? Why are not all the other schemes treated in this way, or—and this is an important point—are we the first to be treated like this and are others to follow? This is a cut in salary at a time when everybody else is receiving salary increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go to Burton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "? Why are not all the other schemes treated in this way, or—and this is an important point—are we the first to be treated like this and are others to follow? This is a cut in salary at a time when everybody else is receiving salary increases. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not.\"] They have hope. The argument is that it is all right to pay the extra 1 per cent., because we can go to Burnham and ask for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "on credit accounts. The point is that teachers are at a considerable disadvantage when they compare their schemes with others. Much of the ground I had intended to cover about widows and orphans has already been dealt with. I will come to the alternative. It is no use criticising unless one is prepared to put something else in the place of that which one criticises. I have been led for some years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Ministerial reshuffle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "s and the local education authorities, and that is a breach of faith to which the teachers are quite justified in reacting strongly. I am really surprised at the tame rebels on the other side of the House, who took speedy action against the right hon. Lady the Member for Moss Side, and today are allowing the present Minister of Education and the Secretary of State for Scotland to get away with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "No, there was no need to inform the hon. Member of such a remark as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman talked about this £259 million as if it were some hard cash that the Chancellor has to find. Even on Lord Eustace Percy's calculation, the trouble was not going to arise until 1970, and I understand that the recent actuarial return indicates that the money actually to be found will have to be found at a far later date than that. Of course, actuaries are only respectable bookmakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " Chamber, because it was a remarkable piece of prescience on his part, speaking only on the spur of the moment, that he happened to have the relevant copy of the Economist in his possession to make the quotations on which he based his speech. I hope that he will not bring the whole of the Library into the House on future occasions when he wishes to speak. Jeremiah was a very dismal sort of person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Central Ayrshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "ss a non-contributory scheme for teachers. I have never heard such nonsense in my life. The suggestion of an non-contributory scheme came from several Members, including the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West. I always listen to his speeches with the greatest attention, but I think that today his did himself less than justice. Then we had a statement from the hon. Member for South Ayrshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the last Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Lady realise that the problem of the responsibility for future deficiencies is the great obstacle to converting a contributory into a non-contributory scheme, and that once that is disposed of the way is open?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "ssion when it was considered a good one—a profession that had better pension rights and conditions than most other professions. That is not the case today, and when those men and women leave the profession there will not be a sufficient number of others to take their places. Have the Government given no thought at all to these matters? I want finally to make the point, in this very hurried speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, to double it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "cently. In introducing equal pay he lowered the scales of new entrants to the profession. Now we have this Bill. What a sorry mess the Scottish Tory Ministers have made of education. What a record of incompetence. What a record of a Government that do not realise that if we are to raise the standard of living, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer boasted in that pre-Election speech, by 25 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, 100 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "les of new entrants to the profession. Now we have this Bill. What a sorry mess the Scottish Tory Ministers have made of education. What a record of incompetence. What a record of a Government that do not realise that if we are to raise the standard of living, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer boasted in that pre-Election speech, by 25 per cent.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, to double it.\"] By 50 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the hon. Member also said they were Committee points. We shall examine them all in Committee. If he and his hon. Friends have any other points which they would like to raise, those points will be very carefully considered as Amendments. The hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North complained that we did not have a special Scottish Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "arkshire, North complained that we did not have a special Scottish Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I grant that there is always a case for asking for a separate Bill, but most of us are agreed that since this matter affects both countries in more or less the same way, and the changes proposed in the Bill affect both countries in more or less the same way, there was not a case on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " have been dealing with a topic of considerable interest to many hon. Members. Indeed, I have not listened to so much impressive oratory from the other side of the House, all on the same theme, for quite a long time, and that in itself is quite impressive. It almost seemed that on this relatively limited topic of teachers' superannuation, the Opposition have at last discovered a talisman to unity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "whether the teachers' contributions to their pensions should be increased by an average of £5 per year, hon. Members are, for some strange reason, instantaneously absolutely and unanimously decided upon action. That is a very odd thing. I have heard a lot of complaint about what we have done and what we have not done, but hon. and right hon. Members opposite were themselves in power for six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ey had no plan. As in every other major proposition, they funked constructive action. Let me now pass from the Opposition to the teachers. Of course, this is an important matter for the teachers, and if anybody had any doubt about that, our mail in the last few days has proved the contrary. Not all the letters that we have had have been hostile, although most of them have been—but by no means all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "contrary. Not all the letters that we have had have been hostile, although most of them have been—but by no means all. [ Interruption. ] Oh, no; I must tell the House that I have been struck by the attitude of the older experienced men in the profession whom I have recently met, and I should like to read the House just a paragraph or two from a letter which I had yesterday from a Scottish teacher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.316.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "preceding_text": "Will the Joint Under-Secretary allow me, for one moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.319.8", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give the name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I think the best answer I can give the right hon. Member is to give him the letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.319.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.319.8", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "im the letter—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Give the name.\"]—of course with the name and address—and the right hon. Member can address his rather pointed questions to the gentleman himself. The objection to the Bill has been stated over and over again. It is largely, if not entirely, an objection to the rise in the rate of contribution. Let us face that particular issue. Why do we want to raise contributions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.319.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.319.8", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ouse. If local authorities are to accept responsibility for meeting deficiencies, then it is only fair and prudent not to start with a contribution rate cut to the bare minimum so that a deficiency is bound to arise almost at once. The Government chose to raise the contributions to 12 per cent. for Scotland as well as for England and Wales and I am quite sure that wisdom will support our decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.319.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "ter performed in his speech. I listened carefully to his speech, and I can certify that, I think on two occasions, he mentioned the word \"Scotland\" but here was no guidance at all about the effects of the Bill on Scotland. Then we came to the summing up by the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and that, as far as Scotland was concerned, was not only a summing up but also an introduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-06", "file": "debates1955-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "419bd35e90ad3567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ns of Part II which apply to Scotland. I suggest that either the Minister on whom I depended today—he failed me; he never said a word about Scotland—or the Joint Under-Secretary, who surely should know something about Scotland, should tell us what part of the money which we are now in the process of voting will be used to carry out the provisions of the Bill which apply to Scotland. Does he know?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-06a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-07", "file": "debates1955-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e3208b32352db61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.356.7", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "That is a hypothetical question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.356.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-07", "file": "debates1955-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e3208b32352db61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.358.6", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is not that a disingenuous reply? Is not the meaning of these two amendments moved by the Indian representatives to the effect that the advantages of the information collected by this new scientific committee on radiation should be spread over all the nations in the world and not merely limited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.358.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-07", "file": "debates1955-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e3208b32352db61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.358.6", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "of these two amendments moved by the Indian representatives to the effect that the advantages of the information collected by this new scientific committee on radiation should be spread over all the nations in the world and not merely limited—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—to members of the United Nations; but, in the desire to exclude China from the benefits of the scheme, the British Government have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.358.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-07", "file": "debates1955-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e3208b32352db61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.362.7", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": "e eve of the day of the patron saint of vineyards all over the world, St. Martin? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that from the wide publicity that was given to the matter it would appear that the Ambassador was a stooge for the sale of wine, at a time when the Chancellor of the Exchequer wanted to reduce imports and when France had been shocked by the heavy increase in the number of alcoholics?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.362.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-07", "file": "debates1955-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e3208b32352db61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "If it was condonation and if it was appeasement, it was entered into in July, 1951, when right hon. and hon. Gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-07", "file": "debates1955-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e3208b32352db61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "We are grateful for that tribute from the hon. Gentleman to the wise government of this country which has increased our national cake by so much since our party came into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-07", "file": "debates1955-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e3208b32352db61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£1,200.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "preceding_text": "issued, the permanent officials of the Civil Service have got it into their heads that they should receive salary increases ranging from £1,500 to £2,000 a year. My economics may be a bit cockeyed, but I fail to see how certain persons can be expected to live comfortably on 40s. a week when other members of the community, who are already receiving salaries of £12,000 and upwards as civil servants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-07", "file": "debates1955-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e3208b32352db61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Osbert Peake)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take all night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. Osbert Peake)", "preceding_text": "t for a maiden speaker, as I know from experience, but I thought that his speech was one of great interest and great value, and his future contributions will be looked forward to in all quarters of the House. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Middlesbrough, East (Mr. Marquand) anticipated that I would not be able to reply, in the time at my disposal, to all the points which have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-07", "file": "debates1955-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e3208b32352db61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way. I should never come to the end if I give way to every interjection, and in any case I must reply to one interjection before I give way for another. In 1948, the draft was laid in the House of Commons on 3rd May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-07a.493.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-08", "file": "debates1955-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ddd3af97240016c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-08a.561.7", "colnum": "561", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " refuse a number of legitimate requests by my hon. Friends for debates on very important subjects, could the right hon. Gentleman arrange for the House to reassemble one week earlier after Christmas and to have debates on the Adjournment on those various matters and on various Private Members' Motions which are on the Order Paper? Everyone would welcome the opportunity to come back a week earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-08a.561.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-08", "file": "debates1955-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ddd3af97240016c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-08a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "FORMER LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "try and the world, too, to the best of his ability. It would be the sincere desire of all the House that both he and Mrs. Attlee, whom we knew well, will enjoy health and happiness in the years to come. They may both be sure that we shall remember with respect and pride the association of all of us, in all quarters of the House, with a mart who served Parliament with great distinction and ability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-08a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-08", "file": "debates1955-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ddd3af97240016c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-08a.683.5", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VICKERS V-1000 AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I put a perfectly straightforward question to the hon. Gentleman and I fail to see that that is dishonourable, Sir. If it is not dishonourable to make profits, I should like to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-08a.683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "No, again I am afraid that I cannot agree with the hon. Member. The producer is fully protected by the guaranteed standard price of the Government,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.802.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.815.7", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman seen a report in the Star newspaper of 7th December, which says that his experts have now reported that the fault lies with the extended use of fishmeal by farmers, and that The herring breeding grounds are being exhausted by the overfishing of young herring for the meal factories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.815.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.819.7", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman take it from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.819.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "eclaration and with our Treaty commitments to Iraq and Jordan, what real hope have we of believing that the Soviet bloc would respond to the call for an embargo? What is surely needed—urgently needed—and what everyone must really be wanting now to see, is a final settlement. For this purpose, I think that the speech of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at Guildhall was singularly well timed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.840.2", "colnum": "840", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has held very high office in Governments which had much the same problem, and he knows that we are following exactly the practice of our predecessors. I am afraid that I have kept the House very long, and I must now sum up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said she might be tempted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " course, eagerly accepted by the Egyptians. They want the Negev for strategic reasons. They have got enough deserts of their own to play about with. The southern Negev is still largely desert. The Israelis hope that some day it may be cultivated and that it may be found to contain rich minerals, but at the moment it is as deserted as the mountains of the moon. I have been there and I have seen it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at the present time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Saudi-Arabia and in Iran. Iraq, and so on, that would influence the minds of the Government. If there were an abundance of oil in Israel, would there be any difficulty about a pact? Of course not. So we come to the conclusion that it is because Israel seems to be without the resources that the West requires, because Israel appears to be defenceless in the face of overwhelming military superiority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disagreement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ult of the injection of arms by the Soviet into Egypt? We have to consider that situation. Trouble may occur at any time. I want to know what the Government will do about it. Why should there not be a pact with Israel? We have one with Iraq and with Jordan and an Agreement with Egypt. We have some kind of agreement—heaven knows what—with Saudi-Arabia that does not seem to be working out very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "than any other country, and they even conscript their women in order to defend what they regard as their own land, which they have certainly won without any help whatsoever from us. That was the position. What has since been happening? We are getting incidents which certainly Israel does not want; the threat does not come from her; she has not taken one inch of land outside the mandated territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nine hundred thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ar back into history but I go to the fact that we gave hundreds of thousands—I have forgotten how many—of Arabs, who had been guaranteed by the Mandate, and the guarantee had presumably been taken over by the United Nations, assurance that their rights should not be disturbed by the setting up of a national home in Palestine. How many hundreds of thousands of such persons fled from that territory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "an there be agreement between two opposing interests unless there is compromise? What I consider most unfortunate is the reference made by the Prime Minister in his Guildhall speech to the basis upon which a compromise could be made. That is not the way to mediate. Mediation depends upon private talks and not talks before the world, such as the Prime Minister was guilty of in his Guildhall speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.940.4", "colnum": "940", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "thing away from the words of the Tripartite Declaration that I have read out? Does it really mean that we would go physically to the aid of Israel if, in fact, it was attacked? Conversely, does it mean that we would go physically to the aid of any Arab States if the Israelis attacked them? The right hon. Gentleman owes it to us and the country and, indeed, to the world outside to be very specific.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.940.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dodging the issue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "if I were to answer that question I should have to measure what the right hon. Gentleman regards as a substantial contribution and what somebody else might regard as not so substantial. I should have to try to measure exactly what in his mind would be a big concession by one side or the other. That is precisely why I most carefully did not enter into the nature of what it should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-12", "file": "debates1955-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "e07a11556f81de88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ore than one level to see whether we could get some response from the Russians in what I might call the Geneva spirit. The answer we got was not at all in the Geneva spirit. And so, judging by the experience of my right hon. Friend recently at Geneva, I do not think we should be serving any useful purpose, unless, of course, there is some change at any time in the Russian attitude in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-12a.963.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.978.4", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lucas", "preceding_text": "May I be allowed to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.978.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.981.4", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap and childish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I have always gathered that the hon. Member for Clapham (Mr. Gibson) was the fellow who knew most about housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Housing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The social services have been fully maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.999.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The social services have been fully maintained. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Housing?\"] Production continues to improve. The Government's present fiscal and monetary policies are designed to create conditions in which price stability can be achieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.999.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1000.3", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "While appreciating that the Question may have been arranged for propaganda purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1000.8", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman should know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "May I assure you, Mr. Speaker, and the hon. and gallant Gentleman that I was not imputing any corrupt or improper motive. It is well known that Questions are sometimes arranged between back benchers and Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1000.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1006.7", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNICAL EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister thought of sacking the Minister of Education and putting in his place the right hon. Member for Woodford?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1006.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "DEBATES (PRIVY COUNCILLORS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": " those who was disappointed through not catching your eye. Yesterday, seven out of the first ten speakers were Privy Councillors, and there were nine altogether, and the House had the dubious advantage of 282 minutes of their wisdom. I am not making any criticism of you, and I am not accusing you of being a radio producer, nor am I making any criticism of any of the right hon. Gentlemen concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "DEBATES (PRIVY COUNCILLORS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " because of the number of my hon. Friends who did want to speak, will you allow me, Mr. Speaker, to put a point? Is it not correct that even Privy Councillors are Members of this House? Even if there are so many of them sitting on back benches now and in competition with other private Members, on the whole do they not speak far less often than some of my hon. Friends who are not Privy Councillors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "preceding_text": "se facts again. It has been made perfectly clear from the beginning of our debates that the additional revenue to be derived from the extension of tax on household goods is not £30 million, but £15 million. If the hon. Gentleman makes the calculation, he will find that he need not have interrupted. I may say that no one has ever heard such a squealing over cinder sifters as we heard in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "hich I used at an earlier stage—the \"yawning gap.\" It has almost become the Financial Secretary's signature tune. The only yawning gap that I have been able to detect is the yawning gap indicated by the complete lack of an alternative policy on the part of Her Majesty's Opposition. The Government have taken action by this Purchase Tax and other measures to make people more and more pause to think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only two?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "because, if he does not, the burden will fall exclusively on investments, and I do not think that anyone can maintain that that would be a good thing. Having said that, I suggest that we are entitled to recognise that the Bill is the result of an emergency Budget and that it is, therefore, right that we should have in our minds and should voice most seriously our reservations, of which I have two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1091.6", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "At least, I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1091.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1092.4", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your hon. Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The last thing I want to say about the Bill is that I thought that my hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne really stated the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1092.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "et our country out of its present economic difficulty. While dealing with the question of housewives, I wish to say a word about something else. Although we have complaints from housewives, they do not necessarily relate to the wages paid to the men. I believe that one of the reasons we have complaints about Purchase Tax is that men do not give sufficient to their wives out of the wages they earn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-13", "file": "debates1955-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "14c6bbd36bb8a522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "that the Chancellor is now feeling very happy about what has happened in that connection since his Budget—and let him not say to me that any hon. Members on this side of the House had anything to do with this. Let him repeat his approval of what I said during the Committee stage, namely, that the trade unions would make up their own minds upon these matters without being influenced by politicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-13a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1178.2", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The Colonial Secretary has accused me in my articles in the Daily Mirror of spreading slanders against the Attorney-General which justified his reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1178.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1178.5", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Colonial Secretary for a reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1178.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1180.2", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1180.4", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "I am rising to a point of order, Mr. Speaker. This is a matter which relates very closely to a previous Question which has been referred to as one which is to be raised in an Adjournment Motion before Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1180.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1192.5", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "—to prevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "HEROIN (MINISTERIAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman, and I would add, heaven forbid that everything said in another place should be repeated in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1265.4", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "at\" by somebody else on the Front Bench opposite. I hope that the Minister, who is being charged with carrying through some of the most unpleasant aspects of legislation of the present Government, will not, during the course of his career as a Minister, mistake stubbornness for strength. It would be a most unhappy rôle for him to perform. I believe that he is capable of human understanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Incentive?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "We are not working to a precise ceiling. We are seeking to give an additional incentive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What incentive?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "We are not working to a precise ceiling. We are seeking to give an additional incentive. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Incentive?\"] \"Additional\" was perhaps the wrong expression; I should say a definite incentive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1281.6", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I just do not believe that that is correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1281.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "The statements of the Minister reveal his complete lack of knowledge, not only of the housing problem of this country, but of the operations of local authorities as a whole. He has completely overlooked the callous manner in which the Tory Government has, since 1951, dealt with the problem of housing the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For all of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "t we want to restore the open spaces in our towns as soon as we reasonably can, and, therefore, we have—and I think it is right—to encourage the local authorities to remove those houses, certainly in preference to other temporary houses. Extensions of time have been given. There was a statutory time limit—speaking from memory, I think it was ten years—to the existence of the houses on open spaces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I really must interrupt the hon. Member. He is talking an awful lot of nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " matter for the local authority to decide. It was a matter for the local authority's decision before the Requisitioned Houses and Housing (Amendment) Act was passed, and it still remains their decision. Even if the Act had not been passed they would have been in exactly the same position so far as any subsidy is concerned in regard to those houses. I do not know whether the hon. Member follows me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "s concerned in regard to those houses. I do not know whether the hon. Member follows me. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Before the Act was passed local authorities were releasing a certain number of requisitioned houses and were building new houses to accommodate those people, and the subsidy they received was whatever was the subsidy of the day. It varied at different times. The position remains the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "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": "Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) has pointed out that in his view we have dealt with three matters of considerable importance, and with that the Government agree. But it is also the fact that it is after the normal time of rising on the second day of the discussions on this Bill, and we have dealt with only about half the Amendments to Clause 1; so, taking the larger view, we have not made much progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-14", "file": "debates1955-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5293747e86a6e8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1349.0", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A long spoon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says he is coming to these talks with a very large spoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-14a.1349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-15", "file": "debates1955-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "dda5de1acab821e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1382.8", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Parliament are not prepared to accept that stupid reply? Is he further aware that his policy runs counter to the advertised policy of the Minister of Housing and Local Government for a drive on slum clearance? What is the use of a drive on slum clearance if we prevent authorities from providing the furniture and the bedding for the needy tenants? Is he aware that this is a nonprofit-making affair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1382.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-15", "file": "debates1955-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "dda5de1acab821e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1384.9", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I have had it since 24th June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1384.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-15", "file": "debates1955-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "dda5de1acab821e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And will occur.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "any consequences that flow from the Bill, but on various other circumstances that can arise in any case and in the perfectly normal course of events; that is to say, the negotiation of a new lease, or a future alteration in the Rent Restriction Acts or, in the case of local authority houses, on the determination of new rents by the local authority. These are all events which might and could occur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-15", "file": "debates1955-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "dda5de1acab821e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "rs. The Bill is based on the recommendations of an able and efficient Committee. These gentlemen were unanimous in their views. It is of vital importance to Scotland, as has been stressed over a period of years, that this problem should be handled. I hope that the House and the Standing Committee—when and if the Bill reaches Standing Committee—will consider it with great care. I am sure they will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-15", "file": "debates1955-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "dda5de1acab821e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "Obviously, a number of individuals are non-party. Probably Lord Sorn was a Conservative—I do not know—but that is not the point. There were representatives on the Committee who adhered to the principles of the party opposite and were members of the party. The party opposite are now prepared to throw overboard the opinions of those people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-15", "file": "debates1955-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "dda5de1acab821e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "the basis of this Measure. The truth is that none of the reasons given in the Amendment are valid. The fact is that hon. Members opposite were determined to oppose the Bill. The effect of the words \"property owner\" on most hon. Members opposite, except, I think, the right hon. Member for East Stirling-shire (Mr. Woodburn) who is more reasonable, is that of a red rag to a bull. They have to charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1955-12-15", "file": "debates1955-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "dda5de1acab821e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1503.2", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ic rent—by that I mean the maximum possible rent—will be asked by most landlords of most tenants. That, of course, will give the landlord an ample sum to pay for any repairs which are required, but will there be a compulsitor on the landlord to do any repairs? Can the Secretary of State tell me if there will be any compulsitor to carry out repairs in the five or six years ahead which he envisaged?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-15", "file": "debates1955-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "dda5de1acab821e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long will it take?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "n. and learned Member that they will do so. However, they are considering all aspects, and if they deem that subject relevant, no doubt they will consider it. I can give no guarantee. I will be frank about it and say that I do not know what particular aspects of taxation they will consider, but I can assure the hon. and learned Member that they will make a very broad review of the whole situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-15a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-19", "file": "debates1955-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e8597b36d4cf288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-19a.1683.3", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "WHITE FISH INDUSTRY (SUBSIDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Larger mesh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "n motor vessels fishing from southern ports, of which my own port of Lowestoft is one. The Government must remember that not long ago British vessels fishing in the near and middle waters—I wonder whether this point has been taken into account by the Government—were compelled by regulation to acquire new nets of smaller mesh to comply with the terms of the International Convention on Over-fishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-19a.1683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-20", "file": "debates1955-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "fdd3cb459046b4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-20a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "preceding_text": "The Clyde Valley Planning Committee and the Corporation of Glasgow have represented to me that a new town should be established at Houston.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-20a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-20", "file": "debates1955-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "fdd3cb459046b4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-20a.1859.0", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "While I regret, Mr. Speaker, that on a purely technical point unconnected with the merits of the case at all, you have decided that no prima facie case of breach of Privilege has been made out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-20a.1859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-20", "file": "debates1955-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "fdd3cb459046b4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-20a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "preceding_text": " were to be paid out of capital we would all justly complain that some criminal process was taking place, but in the aircraft industry the fact is that year after year the major aircraft firms are paying considerable dividends and a great part of those dividends must come out of direct subsidies, or concealed subsidies which are paid into the aircraft industry in the form of development contracts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-20a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-20", "file": "debates1955-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "fdd3cb459046b4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-20a.1974.0", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "profession who undertook this duty. I will not enter into the details which the hon. Member for Reading says support his view that there has been no saving. I must be guided by the Commercial judgment of B.E.A. in the matter. I do not find from the hon. Member's argument anything which I could accept as being any clear evidence that, in fact, savings had not been achieved as a result of this move.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-20a.1974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many more have there been?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Lady that I quite honestly assumed that it was another incident which she had in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "It is for the United States Government to answer about their own actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2027.5", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that we have the very greatest confidence in the way in which he has been handling these extremely difficult negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2027.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2029.0", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman this time has asked a different question: whether there is any possibility of talks between the Governor and the Archbishop. To that I can certainly give the answer that I very much hope there will be talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "JORDAN (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "I must say I think it is regrettable that the right hon. Gentleman has made these deductions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2031.0", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "JORDAN (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Does not the Joint Under-Secretary feel that it is wild and extravagant language to accuse a responsible Member of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2032.0", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "JORDAN (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anything that has been done was inadvisable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2038.0", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "KENYA (POLICE ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "appen again, why no action has been taken against the district officer whose professional conduct he rushed to defend last week? Why is it that on 24th October, two months after these events had been revealed at the trial, it was published in the Government Gazette—and I have seen it for myself—that this district officer had been transferred to South Nyanza, with the same rank and the same status?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2044.1", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "KENYA (POLICE ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "I, too, am sorry that this should be a short debate. I should have been interested to hear further observations from the hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) and other hon. Members, and to have had the opportunity of making a longer speech of my own, but circumstances do not enable that to happen. Other opportunities will, no doubt, arise in the new year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2050.0", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "KENYA (POLICE ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " in Kenya and elsewhere. This incident in Kenya had nothing to do with their work. We are in touch with the T.U.C. and will keep it informed and keep the House informed if hon. Members ask about the matter. We are anxious to strengthen and enhance a strong trade union movement. But one of the things which has caused anxiety has been the way in which Mau Mau had penetrated the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1955-12-21", "file": "debates1955-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ddf46affce0b878f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "PIG MARKETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "ho then pay it to the producers either in whole or in part, as they think best. I have given the Corporation's published weekly quotations which will have taken into account not only the price it receives from the bacon curers, but also what it expects to receive by way of these dead-weight and other guarantee payments. I think I have been able to throw some light upon this rather complex subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1955-12-21a.2077.1"}