{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-22", "file": "debates1957-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "bf3e4ccac9153142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.12.5", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept my assurance that on the North-East Coast generally housing conditions are not such as to warrant the introduction of the full implications of the new Rent Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.12.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-22", "file": "debates1957-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "bf3e4ccac9153142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "Quite apart from petrol rationing and the credit squeeze, there is a deep malaise in the motor industry. Will the right hon. Gentleman not now commend to the Government that the industry should be nationalized—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-22", "file": "debates1957-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "bf3e4ccac9153142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Ledger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Ledger", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that hon. Members may be a little weary of these complaints—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-22", "file": "debates1957-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "bf3e4ccac9153142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is not the matter which is now to be referred to the Committee of Privileges more or less sub judice ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.44.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-22", "file": "debates1957-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "bf3e4ccac9153142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your allocation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "preceding_text": "that it should also request the Government or the responsible Minister to publish a detailed list of the allocations of petrol which have been made to Members of Parliament. I am not the slightest bit ashamed to say what has been allocated to me. I think that it would be far better if my constituents and everybody else knew what I got. I believe that that is the right way to deal with this affair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-22", "file": "debates1957-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "bf3e4ccac9153142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS DUTIES (DUMPING AND SUBSIDIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Holt", "preceding_text": "ading. Of course, that is not so. At the extreme, all that the free trader is asking for is that Herr Schmidt in Germany be allowed to trade freely and without let or hinderance with Mr. Smith in England. If one thinks for a moment, this anti-dumping and subsidies Bill would be quite unnecessary, would serve no purpose and would not need to be brought in if there were free trade between countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-22", "file": "debates1957-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "bf3e4ccac9153142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS DUTIES (DUMPING AND SUBSIDIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ding it. If the hon. Member really thinks that it is difficult to define the national interest, I am astonished that nevertheless his party and those who believe in his philosophy think that they can impose a system of universal free trade on the whole world. I think that all Governments have made a big enough mess of their own country without taking time off to try to teach the rest of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-22a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.167.7", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman knows the situation far better than I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.167.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Has any suggestion been received from Archbishop Makarios that the new Government should dissociate themselves from the use of violence in the Eastern Mediterranean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.186.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.187.7", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "None.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "My Question asks, … what steps the Government have taken since the beginning of the Parliamentary Recess to invite Archbishop Makarios to Cyprus or to London to discuss the Cyprus problems …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I quite agree, but will the Government reconsider their attitude about keeping Archbishop Makarios in the Seychelles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SECOND REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "hat there is no notice of it today will not prejudice hon. Members in their desire to speak. In answer to the right hon. Gentleman's second point, I have already acquainted the Ministers concerned, and especially the Minister principally concerned, with the wishes of the House. I cannot undertake to give Government time for such a debate. That we must discuss through the usual channels, if we may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.204.6", "colnum": "204", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SECOND REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ond question is this, and I think it even more important. In this Report we are informed that the Committee came to a considered conclusion. It was that Mr. John Junor should be \"severely reprimanded\"—I am reading from the Report. If the Committee so decided—if it came to the conclusion that the culprit should be severely reprimanded—then it seems to me that it has disposed of the matter entirely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.204.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SECOND REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "about M.P.s. As so often happens in journalism, one can say a good thing and thereby reveal a bad thing. Mr. Junor called attention to this matter. I did not know, and I doubt whether many hon. Members here knew, about this scandal concerning petrol until it was thus revealed. I would remind hon. Members, with great respect, that outrageous attacks, suitably answered, are the essence of democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SECOND REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Irresponsible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "fence which may or may not appeal to hon. Members opposite and to my hon. Friends. An editor is on the receiving end of every kind of news from everywhere and, after a time, almost anything seems possible and seems probable. I do not at all defend what I think was a disgraceful publication in the Sunday Express. The only question in my mind is this: to bring from Fleet Street a responsible editor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SECOND REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "preceding_text": "t all, but I believe that he may have been badly advised and confused in his judgment. To bring an editor from Fleet Street to stand in the place where he has no right to stand because he is not an elected Member of this House is, to my mind, to make something of an absurdity of the House itself. Surely, it is enough that the comments already made have censured him. He feels it very deeply indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SECOND REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I should like to be clear about this. The Leader of the House has said that Mr. John Junor would come here tomorrow, and that it would be your duty, Mr. Speaker, to reprimand him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.234.6", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "It would be entirely irrelevant to this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.234.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-23", "file": "debates1957-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c1d223c858e21516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ye-witness, not the witness in court, the person who happened to see a crime being committed, when the violent criminal, to avoid his arrest, destroys that one witness of the Crown to avoid evidence of identity. It could not be said that it was a murder for the purpose of preventing lawful arrest, though it might be argued. What is certain is that by including both words, this position is covered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-23a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-24", "file": "debates1957-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cfa97def7570236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Bell", "preceding_text": "May I ask my hon. Friend two questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-24", "file": "debates1957-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cfa97def7570236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, I think it is a very good arrangement, and I think it will be very valuable in the realm of information. It has no connection with any party propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-24", "file": "debates1957-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cfa97def7570236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.394.5", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I think hon. Members in all parts of the House will agree that what we are trying to do is to facilitate their work in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.394.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-24", "file": "debates1957-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cfa97def7570236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF DEFENCE (FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "While welcoming the fact that the advice which we gave on 28th February last has now sunk in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-24", "file": "debates1957-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cfa97def7570236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Attorney General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiley", "preceding_text": " the people who come within a special category or occupy a special position in the maintenance of law and order. Yet that is not done in this case as there is no special protection for the Home Secretary. Indeed, I should have thought that the first step to be taken for that to be an argument for the provision that is being made, would be to provide special protection for the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.425.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-24", "file": "debates1957-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cfa97def7570236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I thought they had accepted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-24", "file": "debates1957-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cfa97def7570236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "An ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, and let me say at once, the best Chancellor we have had for the last three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-24", "file": "debates1957-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cfa97def7570236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And Armstrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "fore, the law recognises that, whilst it is essentially undesirable, it is inevitable in these circumstances that the cases should be tried together. 10.0 p.m. My hon. Friend referred to the question of system. We must not comment upon contemporary events, but this is a difficult principle on which there has been some widening. There was the case of George Joseph Smith, which was the classic case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-24", "file": "debates1957-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cfa97def7570236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "comes the moment in the course of the trial when your cross-examination clearly indicates that that defence is part of it, then you must face the question of evidence which tends to show not merely that Mrs. Jones died in the bath, which you say was an accident, but that your second wife, Mrs. Smith, did also and so did your third wife, Mrs. Brown, and that the whole lot perished in the same way.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-24a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-25", "file": "debates1957-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "3117a9224758f950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-25a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": "ople go to the Dominions, how can they go otherwise than by assistance? There is only one other way. Italy did it. It is to subsidise heavily and to take people out to work in the Dominions as Italy did in Northern Africa. Our people will not do it. They are too well off here because of the Welfare State. People are quite happy to stay in Newcastle or in Essex because they never had a better time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-25a.600.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-28", "file": "debates1957-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4c67ab6f8ff62d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.652.8", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "May I have a reply to my supplementary question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.652.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-28", "file": "debates1957-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4c67ab6f8ff62d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.666.4", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "At least will my right hon. Friend consider the express exclusion from the benefits of the National Health Service in this country of those people who, like the right hon. Member for Warrington (Dr. Summerskill), have recently stated that they do not wish to accept British nationality and say that they are ashamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-28", "file": "debates1957-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4c67ab6f8ff62d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I beg my right hon. Friend's pardon; my right hon. Friend was Leader of the House while he was at the Home Office—and a very distinguished Leader of the House. I apologise for that error of recollection, but the present Home Secretary is Leader of the House for the first time for some years; and he is also Lord Privy Seal and is charged with responsibility for Welsh Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-28", "file": "debates1957-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4c67ab6f8ff62d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "her distinct. We have had a good deal of argument on the Scottish section of the Bill in which various hon. and learned Members have gone into great detail about specific cases which they have used for the sake of argument. I wonder if the Lord Advocate would explain, for the benefit of English Members of this Committee, all the various legal matters connected with the famous case of Oscar Slater.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-28", "file": "debates1957-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4c67ab6f8ff62d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 6, line 27, to leave out from \"subjects),\" to the end of line 29 and insert \"is hereby repealed\". The point is a comparatively simple one. The Amendment seeks to repeal the Criminal Law (Scotland) Act, 1829, and it does so for the reason that, as I understand the position, this Act is, in fact, obsolete in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-28", "file": "debates1957-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4c67ab6f8ff62d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.793.7", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "n considering these matters, but I cannot see that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has any good principles, because in one minute he is on one side of the fence and in another minute he is on the other side. It is purely a matter of what happens to be for the convenience of the Government, and I would ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman to treat his profession in a more dignified manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.793.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-28", "file": "debates1957-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4c67ab6f8ff62d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "again that if the case proceeds under this Act, the only penalty will be imprisonment for life, unless the Lord Advocate invokes Section 5. There is a very dangerous principle here. Indeed it is an attempt to submit the whole case to the judgment of one man—the Lord Advocate—who is to prejudge it, and it is only if he intervenes at all that a sentence less than imprisonment for life can be passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-28a.794.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-29", "file": "debates1957-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "433d6104699a9a82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (WRITTEN ANSWER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say who is the Minister responsible to this House in the absence of the Minister of Defence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-29", "file": "debates1957-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "433d6104699a9a82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.858.6", "colnum": "858", "heading": "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (WRITTEN ANSWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think we ought to pass from this matter if the House agrees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.858.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-29", "file": "debates1957-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "433d6104699a9a82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (WRITTEN ANSWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I have already said that the Minister himself takes the responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.859.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-29", "file": "debates1957-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "433d6104699a9a82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (WRITTEN ANSWER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "May I remind you, Mr. Speaker, that I actually quoted the letter to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred? I do not think that it is quite fair for him to suggest that I have withheld it from the House. I quoted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.859.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-29", "file": "debates1957-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "433d6104699a9a82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.859.4", "colnum": "859", "heading": "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (WRITTEN ANSWER)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the people of this country could not care less who initialled what? Have we not already wasted enough of our time and of the taxpayers' money? Has not a full apology been made already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.859.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-29", "file": "debates1957-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "433d6104699a9a82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.859.5", "colnum": "859", "heading": "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (WRITTEN ANSWER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the people of this country could not care less who initialled what? Have we not already wasted enough of our time and of the taxpayers' money? Has not a full apology been made already—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and can we not now get on with the Orders of the Day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-29a.859.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-30", "file": "debates1957-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "47fca00830af63bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Are there not already far too many acres outside the Dockyard for the number of ships they have to serve?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.971.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-30", "file": "debates1957-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "47fca00830af63bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.973.4", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Is there not room for many of them to be now inside the Dockyard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-30", "file": "debates1957-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "47fca00830af63bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.975.4", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot help the hon. Member. Sometimes Ministers do not act quite up to the expectations of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.975.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-30", "file": "debates1957-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "47fca00830af63bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.986.6", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A scapegoat.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that remark. There has been a question about the girl. She has been reprimanded—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"1—but the profit that she has made she has handed to charity. She was reprimanded because she disobeyed Post Office instructions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.986.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-30", "file": "debates1957-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "47fca00830af63bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS DUTIES (DUMPING AND SUBSIDIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Then it is not dumping.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "Of course it will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-30", "file": "debates1957-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "47fca00830af63bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why suggest it\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "ic of the Scottish race. I say this also to those hon. Members. Supposing things were getting out of balance, would they propose to this House that Scotland should be treated differently from the rest of the United Kingdom? Should we apply restrictions to the movements of our Scottish friends which we would not apply to the English or Welsh or anyone else? I am certain that is not their intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-30a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of this unsatisfactory reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1160.4", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put a copy in the Library.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1160.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give us any reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give us any reason—[ Interruption. ] —why he will not publish this report other than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT (MILITARY OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the previous Administration gave us a different excuse and a different reason every day for the reasons for declaring, or rather having an undeclared, war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1166.5", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT (MILITARY OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I shall have to repeat that, Mr. Speaker. because hon. Gentlemen opposite were shouting, and I am sure that my hon. Friends did not hear it. Can I therefore repeat myself and say, in view of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1169.8", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Since the Leader of the House has not been able to say what precisely are the duties of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1169.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1171.8", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. The business for next week will be as follows: MONDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY—We find it necessary to ask the House to consider a Time-table Motion for the Rent Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1171.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The Government have given very careful consideration to the matter. It is always our wish to get this sort of Measure through by agreement if we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1172.2", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "is always our wish to get this sort of Measure through by agreement if we can. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreement?\"] I mean by agreement on procedure. It is clear that without this recourse to a time-table the proceedings on the Bill will be unduly protracted. It will be in the interests of everybody concerned if we accept the fact that we are putting down a Time-table Motion and pass it through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t reached a compromise, for a number of reasons which, no doubt, seemed very good at the time, by which half of the additional cost of compensation falling on the Coal Board would be borne by the Exchequer, leaving the Board to carry the other half itself. After considerable thought on this matter, we do not consider that the Exchequer should make any contribution at all to this particular burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"New?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "is matter from the compensation payments made to the previous colliery owners. I would suggest that that is not a conclusive argument, for several reasons. First, I do not think it is practicable at this stage. That is not a particularly good reason, but I think it should be stated. Secondly, the damage covered under the Bill is new damage taking place from the date when the Bill comes into being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, that is the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "nd so forth. The reasons for not including indirect damage are really three. The first is that the extra cost of including it might be very considerable. Secondly, to draw the line is very difficult and once one moves outside the realm of direct damage and starts including, for example, damage to furniture from flooding or the cost of removal from one house to another while repairs are being done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "t like either, and I do not mind whether the industry is private industry or a nationalised industry. On principle, the accounts of the industry should be kept straight and it should not be charged twice over for something which ought only to be charged once. I hope that the Government will have second thoughts and make a grant to cover the estimated amount already paid by the National Coal Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-01-31", "file": "debates1957-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "7da62bb41004805f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "preceding_text": "re in terms of opencast mining than of deep mining, with which the Bill deals. I am deeply concerned about the aims of the Bill because I come from a country which claims to have one of the oldest records, if not the very oldest record, in the history of mining. I can testify to the fact that there are more seams in our part of the country than in any other coalfield in Britain, plus a great many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-01-31a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-01", "file": "debates1957-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d3a35b7ccae380c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1371.2", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS (HIRE-PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "gence. should be able to enter into these agreements knowing full well what are his liabilities and to what he is committed when signing on the dotted line. He says that it is all too easy to sign these things and to be bamboozled by slick talk and clever salesmanship Of course that is easy in any walk of life. If the would-be purchaser does not take sufficient trouble to investigate these things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-01", "file": "debates1957-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d3a35b7ccae380c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS (HIRE-PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ilverman) is very expert in the art of tedious repetition. We have heard him on other subjects almost to the degree of nausea. He manages on every possible opportunity to get to his feet and make his voice heard, and when his voice is heard it is by no means acceptable to this side of the House. Indeed, more often than not it is in a particularly objectionable manner that he makes his voice heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-01", "file": "debates1957-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d3a35b7ccae380c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS (HIRE-PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " shopkeeper himself and of whatever retail trade association he may belong to, but I suggest that there is not nearly so much danger from the advertisement at the point of sale as there may be from newspaper and periodical advertisements. Where the advertisement is displayed in the shop window, or on the shop counter, the customer immediately finds the true facts from discussion with the salesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-01", "file": "debates1957-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d3a35b7ccae380c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS (HIRE-PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ffairs. I recollect a cartoon in an evening newspaper, not many weeks ago, which showed this extremely well. It illustrated the husband reading his paper in a chair beside the fire, and in the doorway was the wife festooned with those peculiar shaped brushes—clothes brushes, hair brushes, brushes that went round bends and other brushes. The caption was, \"He said that I looked like Marilyn Monroe.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-01", "file": "debates1957-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d3a35b7ccae380c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1390.4", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS (HIRE-PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": " there is really no desire to continue the discussion on the Bill at all. It is a most unusual thing, in a Private Member's Bill Second Reading debate, on a Friday, for the Minister in charge to wait so long as this before offering any advice whatever to the House. One cannot help suspecting that his object in that is to encourage talk but not discussion, for other purposes which seem good to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-01", "file": "debates1957-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d3a35b7ccae380c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS (HIRE-PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "tagonistic attitude towards hire purchase, although we realise that hire-purchase credit is an important factor in the economy and that, therefore, it is necessary at times to place temporary restrictions on hire purchase as one, and one only, of the Government's anti-inflationary Measures. So far as the social aspects are concerned, the Government supported Sir Wavell Wakefield's Measure in 1954.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-01", "file": "debates1957-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d3a35b7ccae380c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1410.4", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS (HIRE-PURCHASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "is worthy of very close examination. Incidentally, hon. Members opposite have been talking about some of the agreements as if they were simple matters. I have looked at some of the agreements. Believe me, people who are not educated reasonably well would find great difficulty, on the spur of the moment, in being able to assess what they are up against or how much they have to pay. I want to close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-01a.1410.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.30.7", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CANAL USERS' ASSOCIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "There are very considerable technical difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.30.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ad been made. Therefore, from the point of view of reasonable despatch of business, which must be at the heart of all parliamentarians, I think that the case for this Motion is abundantly clear. It will no doubt be said that there is no urgency for this Bill. Hon. Members opposite may feel that there is no reason at all why the present procedure in Committee should not continue for months to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"February\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "good progress today and next Tuesday.\"—[OFFICIAL RFPORT, Standing Committee A, 6th December, 1956; c. 9.] There was that sitting, there was another sitting and then came the fateful Thursday. I must not call it the ides of anything, because I notice that the North Lewisham by-election—it may be more in point than some hon. Members at first sight might think—is on the Ides of March or very near it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame on them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": " months' notice. It would be very interesting to hear whether the right hon. Gentleman is to make any concessions and, if so, whether those concessions will be made before or after 14th February. Let us leave that aside for the moment and look at the position. My own letter bag is packed full with letters from these people. Very many of them are Tory supporters who have voted Tory all their lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There has not been a breakdown.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "tion side of the House, I have become more and more embarrassed and ashamed each time such a Motion had to be moved. I am embarrassed and ashamed whenever the procedure of this House tends to lack reality. To my mind, debates of this kind lack reality. I am embarrassed and ashamed when the House has to recognise, implicitly or explicitly, that there has been a breakdown of Parliamentary procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "cedure of this House tends to lack reality. To my mind, debates of this kind lack reality. I am embarrassed and ashamed when the House has to recognise, implicitly or explicitly, that there has been a breakdown of Parliamentary procedure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"There has not been a breakdown.\"] It is a sign of a breakdown of the Parliamentary system of this House when a time-table Motion has to be moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "n like this marks a breakdown in our procedure, and I think that sooner or later—I hope sooner—the House will be well advised to consider how the problem should be dealt with in the future. I do not believe that the country is impressed by the sort of debate we are having today. The country would much prefer that the time given to these debates should be given to the study of the Bill in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "What I have quoted bears out my view that there is a determination by hon. Members opposite to oppose the progress of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "What I have quoted bears out my view that there is a determination by hon. Members opposite to oppose the progress of the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is perfectly reasonable and proper, therefore, for the Government to take the steps in their power to the contrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "one to the Scottish Standing Committee, by this time it might have been out of that Committee. It does not give me any satisfaction to make this point, but the right hon. Gentleman then misled the House of Commons—on 30th October—because he knew that it was not …a matter of a couple of application Clauses. I feel sorry for the right hon. Gentleman who is now Secretary of State for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that we are getting a little away from the Guillotine Motion now, are we not?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.79.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.83.6", "colnum": "83", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "een supply and demand, if we were to deal with the problem of control or decontrol, increase in rents or no increase in rents, in Scotland, we should have been allowed to deal with it in our own way. We ought not to have been wrapped up in this English legislation, but, having been wrapped up in it, we ought not to be guillotined because it is alleged that our English friends have talked too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.83.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "en mentioned several times. If hon. Members will look at it they will find that Part I is of Scottish application. As far as that Part goes, it is a Housing Act. It provided: Additional powers in respect of clearance areas and other houses liable to demolition. and included Amendments to the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950—as distinct from Rent Acts. I admit that part of that Act dealt wth Rent Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unvarnish'd?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "but he has one or two of them. He is so hard up for them that he used this one on two occasions. He said that hon. Members on the Government side—and this, of course, is applicable to the Members on his own side today— will all … qualify for being described as 'yet unvarnish'd brides of quietness.'\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd March, 1947; Vol. 434, c. 175–6.] Those were the words he used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"And two others, also.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "The first Division was on the Closure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.102.4", "colnum": "102", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "I said that that kind of conduct indicates either irresponsibility or a deliberate intention to delay the proceedings of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.102.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "—and if there are three sittings a week the Committee will still be sitting at the end of next November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Vickers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Vickers", "preceding_text": "ers will not wish to disturb them. My anxiety is to settle the uncertainty which exists in the country. Our constituents are extremely worried about what is to happen to them, and that position has been intensified by speculation in the newspapers, especially over the weekend. Hon. Members opposite make it appear that it is only they who have any interest in what happens to the lower-income group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.118.2", "colnum": "118", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "but we have had only nine effective sittings and in those sittings we have handled a great many Amendments. Are the Government justified in bringing this Motion? Have we delayed proceedings on the Bill? May I direct the attention of the Minister to the fact that even since he has occupied a position on the Front Bench in that Committee we have had a debate which dealt with two Amendments together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, it is signed \"Sidney Bossom,\" which is a rather familiar name, but I hope it has no connection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "if the hon. Gentleman will allow me to make my own speech I will be able to tell him what his own Leader said when we sat on that side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I must refer to what was said by—I nearly said my hon. Friend—the hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross), who is my hon. Friend outside the Chamber. He complained that the Guillotine was being imposed because hon. Members on this side of the House were half-timers, and were earning money outside and, therefore, would not give their full time to their work here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.144.5", "colnum": "144", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Sir Anthony Eden, then Mr. Eden, then replied to Mr. Greenwood, and I give this to hon. Members opposite— I am absolutely amazed that it should be a Socialist Government which comes down to tell us that we must use the Guillotine … There was the same farcical, synthetic 'shock which he did not feel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.144.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "nt which can flow from the Bill. Surely we must discuss this very fully in Committee, for this is a Committee point. We must discuss it in very great detail. I noticed an article in the Daily Telegraph on 17th January by the hon. Member for the Isle of Thanet (Mr. Rees-Davies). In it he talked about a group of people, the professional, technical classes, who are worried and anxious about the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "t true? Is that the message we are to give to miners and factory workers? Do the Government realise what dynamite this is? Should there be one case of such a widow being evicted in those circumstances, not the Bill but the Government will be guillotined. Here we are discussing this evening a Bill which affects everyone. We are allowing the moneylenders to enter the temple of the people's hearths —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the right hon. Gentleman's own supporters? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "This debate has hardly fulfilled the expectations which the Press had raised of furious, bitter, relentless parliamentary battle. It may be that the Opposition did not call up its troops until the peroration at twenty-six minutes past nine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.158.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Two hundred Tory Members are missing now.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "twenty-six minutes past nine. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the right hon. Gentleman's own supporters? \"] For most of this debate, hardly 30 Members of the Opposition have been present. At the end of the speech of the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) 200 Members of the Opposition were absent from the Chamber, no doubt because they felt that they would be better employed elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Has the Minister tried?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "recipice with my head in the sand. I suppose that one gets one's neck stretched either way. My right hon. Friend and other of my hon. Friends have said that they supported a Motion of this kind with great reluctance. That is, I think, the feeling of all of us who have any connection with a time-table Motion, but in this case it was only too clear that there was no chance of a voluntary time-table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "o have any connection with a time-table Motion, but in this case it was only too clear that there was no chance of a voluntary time-table. [HON. MEMBERS \"Has the Minister tried?\"] Both my right hon. Friend the present Minister of Defence and I inquired whether there was any chance of it. It was quite clear to us that there was not. If there was, I will certainly sit down and stand to be corrected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "In those circumstances, why does the right hon. Gentleman want a Guillotine at all? He knows perfectly well that there has been no obstruction in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.161.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Try it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " in a sensible and systematic way, Clause by Clause and Schedule by Schedule. There has been no word of criticism during this debate of the period of six weeks mentioned in the Motion. I remember that one hon. Member, speaking for the Opposition, said that they would be willing to sit in perpetuity for these six weeks. I wonder exactly what would happen if the Government were to accept that offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "s that we are seeking to rush this Bill through under the Guillotine without adequate consideration. The hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East asked why the public need demanded this time-table, and the right hon. Member for Llanelly repeated that question in more flowery language. I will give the House two reasons. The first is that people throughout the country want to know where they stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "it will emerge from Committee. It is particularly the tenants who want to know precisely what their position will be under this Bill, and who are wondering what form our Committee discussions will take and what Amendments will be accepted. As the right hon. Gentleman said, this Bill affects millions of people. We in this House have to shape it so that it will be to the best advantage of everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "f the nation. It does not help to keep millions of people in suspense and anxiety as to the form which the Bill is eventually to take. I know that because I receive, I imagine, more letters than most hon. Members about the Bill, and I read everything in the Press about the Bill. People want to know whether the Bill is going through as it stands, and they also need to know the facts about the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But the right hon. Gentleman knows better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "The resolution I quoted was a resolution passed by a meeting of miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am in a difficulty. I should be out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am in a difficulty. I should be out of order—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—if I discussed the Clauses of the Bill, but I have already given an absolutely straightforward statement on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We are not discussing the Bill now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.6", "colnum": "164", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) said that certain people were thinking that the Bill would do this to them. It was quite in order for him to do so in his argument that anxiety should be relieved, and so on, and that the Bill should be fully discussed. It is also quite in order for the Minister to deny that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.7", "colnum": "164", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ould do this to them. It was quite in order for him to do so in his argument that anxiety should be relieved, and so on, and that the Bill should be fully discussed. It is also quite in order for the Minister to deny that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not.\"] That is his opinion. I could not, however, allow on either side references to the Clauses of the Bill. That would be discussing the Bill in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.9", "colnum": "164", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I gave an unqualified denial of the allegation by the right hon. Member for Llanelly, and now I will go on to the second reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.164.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "They are completely unfounded, and I hope that I can rely on the right hon. Gentleman to help to allay them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ee. Yesterday, determined Labour opposition prevented the progress of Clause 1. That was in the Daily Herald, so it must be true, and the Opposition newspaper has now demolished the whole case that has been made by hon. Members opposite during the course of this debate. I have one further piece of evidence. I received this morning a letter from a complete stranger. He is not a constituent of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": ", bearing in mind what they have said today, resolutely set their face against any Guillotine Motion. To that the Socialist Government are tied because, as the right hon. Gentleman said, \"This is a responsibility we owe to the people.\" Last Saturday morning a lady went out shopping in my constituency and was stopped by a group of people who urged her to sign a petition to me against the Rent Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.166.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.167.2", "colnum": "167", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"He said\"—", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "She said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "RENT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "She said, \"Are you getting many people \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "MILK (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "the previous Order and the present Order—is falling. The Government must accept some responsibility for what is happening about milk. In the February White Paper on the Price Review the Government anticipated this year a change-over from milk to beef, but, as usual, they are 100 per cent. wrong. What has happened during recent months has been a switch from beef to milk caused by Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "MILK (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the House for more than a few minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "MILK (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": ". I regretted to hear the complaint of the hon. and gallant Members for Knutsford (Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport) and Macclesfield (Air Commodore Harvey) against the Milk Marketing Board, which is an excellent organisation. They were scratching each other's backs, but they should be careful, as the Chairman of the Board lives in their area. They had better watch out or they might hear from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "MILK (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Norway\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " in any way she chooses. That is very important, and particularly so with regard to high-protein foods which were so short at that time. In those circumstances, it is remarkable indeed in my view that milk consumption has remained relatively near the peak which was then achieved when many foods were rationed or unobtainable. The hon. Gentleman mentioned that people still drink more milk in Sweden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.196.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. and gallant Member has no right to suggest that another hon. Member is masquerading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.205.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member seems to have joined the Swedish Army or the Norwegian Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-04", "file": "debates1957-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f17bb993d904bc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.205.4", "colnum": "205", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ignore him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On that point, I have never masqueraded, as the hon. and gallant Gentleman suggests. If I had to be proud of any rank where the hon. Gentleman is a brigadier, I should be quite content as a private. I have never used my rank in this House from the day I left the Army. Therefore, it is quite false for him to have made that statement.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-04a.205.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.237.7", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman take this opportunity of expressing also, on behalf of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.237.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has so little to occupy his time and to justify his salary, would the Prime Minister consider appointing him in charge of the fishing industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "The difficulty is that in Vote 5 we had assumed that there would be a saving of £2·3 million on the original Estimate. That cannot be shown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.262.6", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "ighting troops could be quickly deployed. It must also be remembered that the L.S.T.s were required to carry the tanks and their crews. On the administrative side, we have to remember that Port Said has very inadequate unloading facilities and that the operation might well have involved landing over open beaches. Nor could we count on finding local labour or resources available once we had landed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.262.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In August?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the final dates. They were all loaded in August.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor had your hon. Friends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "When I came here this afternoon I had no intention of intervening in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "en a very substantial change of plan at one stage or another between the initial call-up and the action actually being taken. How are we to know that that change of plan did not make it even more difficult to carry out the type of operation eventually carried out? If I am any judge of the matter, I would say that the original conception was a far bigger conception than the one finally carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Irresponsible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "s action. Certainly, we associate ourselves with the remark he made about the self-sacrifice and gallantry of the soldiers who had to carry out orders. I would not associate myself with those German critics who wanted British generals in Egypt tried as war criminals, but I think that there would be a good precedent for trying as war criminals some of the more responsible members of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Alan Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We did not find it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Alan Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": " enemy that they can manage. Never was I more proud of my country than when that order was issued, and I think that the world at large is beginning to see the bravery and the courage of it. What some right hon. and hon. Members opposite seem to have neglected to mention so far in this debate, and I have heard most of it, is the evidence of the Russian menace that was found when we went into Egypt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.345.5", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "The evidence has been in the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.345.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.346.6", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Quote it.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I can only quote the Press. It is no good the right hon. Gentleman shaking his hands and head at me; I can only quote the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.346.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.346.8", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I have quoted the Press and if I have wronged the right hon. Lady in not speaking the truth, I will, naturally, apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.346.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "ked whether we were able to dispense with National Service. I agree with him that it is very difficult to recruit men into the Regular Army in sufficient numbers today to be able to dispense with National Service and to depend entirely upon a Regular Army. It might remain difficult all the time the present Government are in power, because our policies will maintain the fullest possible employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, in the furniture industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": ". I agree with him that it is very difficult to recruit men into the Regular Army in sufficient numbers today to be able to dispense with National Service and to depend entirely upon a Regular Army. It might remain difficult all the time the present Government are in power, because our policies will maintain the fullest possible employment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We have not a pool of unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "t efficiency from the Front Benches opposite, but when a back-bencher comes to occupy the Front Bench we expect to have at least one speech from him consistent with what he has been saying as a back-bencher. Because we on this side of the Committee attack the Government on the subject of Suez, we have been described by the Press as an unpatriotic party and as anxious to kick our own people around.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.366.4", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. and gallant Gentleman one question? If he looks at all the answers given to me by Sir Edwin Herbert he will find that he has not denied one of my allegations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not so gallant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is entitled to have her own row with the hon. and gallant Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.367.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.368.8", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will be a little patient, I will tell him afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.368.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who is now calling out \"What about Warrington?\" has any evidence that his hon. Friends did not possess, I will give way for him to produce it. It appears that he has none, either. If he has no evidence, he should keep quiet. I repeat, we do not in any way do other than praise the competence, the courage, the humanity and the chivalry of our troops over there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "duce it. It appears that he has none, either. If he has no evidence, he should keep quiet. I repeat, we do not in any way do other than praise the competence, the courage, the humanity and the chivalry of our troops over there—[ Interruption. ] Our troops are our friends, our relatives. This kind of smear is so easy to utter. I hope that what I have said will be accepted as honest, coming from me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "eally went in and bombed in order to bring about the downfall of Nasser and only put the sea-borne landing in when that did not come about. That is the only meaning which one can attach to those words. No hon. Member opposite has admitted that. It is that miscalculation, I think, that in large measure sent the whole thing as wrong as it did go. One cannot avoid the impression that the politicians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ration was not mounted till October. They had ample time for that. They did, in fact, fall down on all the things that they said a year ago they would do. They interfered with the operation at every stage. The operation itself was ill-conceived. It was for a morally insupportable cause, was badly mounted, badly carried out, was a fiasco and a failure, and it is that which the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.385.6", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": "While, therefore, I shall try to give the Committee as much information as I can about the course of Operation \"Musketeer\", I cannot speak with the same Departmental competence about that as perhaps I can on those subjects which fall more exclusively within the competence of the Army Council. I think the Committee will also appreciate that I shall not be able to reply to the more political points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.385.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.385.6", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Supplementary Estimate, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Army alone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": " reputations.\" The right hon. Member for Belper and, I think, the hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. M. Stewart), at an earlier stage of the debate, asked what was the total number of men used in the operation. Of British forces, 77,000 is about the nearest figure that I can get. This is not merely soldiers who were serving in Port Said, but goes back to the administrative build-up in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.385.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-05", "file": "debates1957-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "d09f2d87fab3096a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "HOUSING, MANCHESTER (LAND)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Let us consider Lymm, the area referred to by the hon. Member. This contains, without exception, the finest agricultural land in Cheshire and, probably, the whole of the country. Why does Manchester want it? Why will they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-05a.407.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.439.4", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "My general impression is that Scotland has done rather better than England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. Gentleman must still depend upon the volunteer, particularly in the Territorial Army, and is not this continued delay of the Government in making known their intentions a direct discouragement to volunteer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Defence Policy (Minister's Visit to Washington and Ottawa)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "In general, what the Minister had to say seemed very much the sort of thing that we on these benches were urging a year ago. I recognised one of the paragraphs of his Answer as being word for word my own, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.447.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Defence Policy (Minister's Visit to Washington and Ottawa)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "[ That this House congratulates the Foreign Secretary on his efforts to secure international control of the Suez Canal, and deplores both the Resolution of the General Assembly calling for immediate and unconditional withdrawal of British and French troops from Egypt, and the attitude of the United States of America which is gravely endangering the Atlantic alliance. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Let us take his figure as an example. If I believe and if, as I think, the vast majority of people outside this House believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.526.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.529.2", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who said it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "urse I would not, and I say it frankly—but there are many jobs I would not care to accept. The hon. Member and his colleagues must face their alternative, the one they want to impose, for I have heard it said in this House time after time by hon. Members on both sides that the alternative to hanging was life imprisonment; and by \"life\" they have said not ten or fifteen years but for ever and ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I have heard one hon. Member say that he would allow them to rot and rot and rot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.532.7", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Royle", "preceding_text": "t the debates and Divisions upon the Bill of my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne to abolish the death penalty. We have held on to it until this moment. I think there are three of us who are sitting on this side of the House at the moment—certainly my hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale (Mr. Anthony Greenwood) and I, and, I think, my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale).—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.532.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The First World War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "e my observations when he is present, I will, with the leave of the House, postpone them for a moment. 1 thought that the right hon. and learned Member for Chertsey was a little less felicitous than he usually is in his speeches, to which we often listen with sympathy and admiration. He talked about the last war as a curious example of the theory of homicide. I was a lad when the last war started—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A large branch.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ncements is there to be a little private flash from the Front Bench to the Front Bench there, giving it the all-clear? If that be so, then, anxious though I am to speak of one of the three estates of the realm with every possible respect and in Parliamentary language, it is really a public declaration that another place has constituted itself a small branch of the Conservative Party. It really is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-06", "file": "debates1957-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "9e532aff0e3d4dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "r of some of the great experiments which are being conducted. I believe, under the joint auspices of the Home Office and the Ministry of Labour at Belmont. Some of the experiments which are taking place in Her Majesty's prisons are great experiments which may very well bring us substantially along the road. I myself have no illusions about criminals. I spent my life among them, until I came here.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-06a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that there is a shortage of forms for these claims? At the same time, may I assure him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.600.5", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask your guidance about Question No. 36?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.602.5", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "As the Answer contains a table of figures, I will, with permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Since the right hon. Gentleman seeks to make that smart reply, may I remind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "That was not the purpose of my point of order, Mr. Speaker. Since the right hon. Gentleman wishes to score a cheap point by misrepresenting what I said, may I ask whether he is aware that I never said anything of the kind, and that the only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.603.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.603.6", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since this is based on a misrepresentation, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he is aware that the only Tory paper that attributed that remark to me has since apologised and agreed that I never made it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.603.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.607.4", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that this represents a deterioration in the standard of living of about 40 per cent.? How is this process to be ended?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TOBACCO REVENUE (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not known.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "In view of the known connection between smoking and lung cancer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. J. R. Bevins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. J. R. Bevins)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. As the House knows, my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.621.5", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "ution of the total of the rateable values among the various classes of hereditaments will be very much the same, although not exactly, as that shown in the White Paper, \"Distribution of Rateable Values between different classes of property in England and Wales,\" which was published in March of last year. As hon. Members know, the largest increase of rateable values has fallen upon industry itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.621.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "Yes, that may very well be so, and I have no doubt that the hon. Member's hon. Friends could give examples far more blood-curdling than that. Rateable values and rate poundages are the swings and roundabouts of local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I have spent a few years in local government and I should have thought that it was very difficult indeed for the leader of any large local authority, at the beginning of February, to estimate with any precision what would be the rate poundage at the end of March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.627.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.634.6", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why a soft spot?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I think that the figure I gave for Caernarvon, £24,900, is accurate, but I have a soft spot for Bangor, so I shall be very happy to look at the matter again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.634.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "Certain provisions of the Bill were discussed with the local authority associations. The House knows, or will be informed from what hon. Members may have read in the newspapers and by what has been said here this afternoon, that Clause 1 has not been discussed with the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.635.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.635.5", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman knows my right hon. Friend and myself well enough to be aware that that is not the case. There are circumstances, as the House well knows, when, reforms have to be put to this House and carried through, and where there is simply not the requisite time to discuss the matter with the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.635.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is developing a most interesting argument and I recognise from what she says that St. Pancras is a rather special case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.658.5", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the Lobby?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "House—that there is no justification for industrial derating under present conditions. It is fatuous for business houses to have a derating allowance of 5 per cent.—and I speak as one with business interests and who, would, therefore, be affected. The hon. Member for Acton (Mr. Sparks) will agree that I was the only Conservative Member who supported his Private Bill to abolish industrial derating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.658.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not wait for them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "own to the extent of 25 per cent. Of course, I would prefer to see it go completely, because that is the right way to tackle it; but if that is not possible, why cannot it be done in part? The Minister has already said that industrial derating has to be, and will be, considered with the Government's new proposals for reform of local government finance, details of which will be given to us shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thanks\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "Never having served on any local authorities, although I have been a ratepayer and have paid rent during nearly all my lifetime, I very seldom venture into a debate where there are so many experts on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "nd to find out the effect of that upon the households there, where he was born, where he was brought up, and whose people he represented on the Liverpool Council in his early days upon it. Leaving Liverpool, the effect on Manchester is that 2s. extra will be added to the rates there. The present rateable value will be reduced from £1,265,881 to about £10,090,066, a reduction of £1¼ million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, give us the right ones", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " brought up, and whose people he represented on the Liverpool Council in his early days upon it. Leaving Liverpool, the effect on Manchester is that 2s. extra will be added to the rates there. The present rateable value will be reduced from £1,265,881 to about £10,090,066, a reduction of £1¼ million. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I seem to have given the wrong figures. I had better give them again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.696.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "cent. reduction which Clause 1 provides for the shops and those other hereditaments which are valued by reference to the figure of gross valuation, and as it had the burden of last year's Act and will not get the benefit of this Act it will also, of course, have to pay its share of the increased rates in order to make a contribution to many of those who are probably better able to bear the burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.715.5", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Whether it is true or not, it is a matter of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.715.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "rom ratepayers within the year the money that they will spend during the year. They accumulate a working balance, it is true, but they do not have vast reserves. They have simply not known what to do or how to do it. Contrast that with the opportunities for local government during the time of the Labour Administration. For councillors and local government officials, it was a paradise of stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They inherit it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman for Wimbledon is the great financial wizard and property owner. Really, I wonder how such people ever get there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you expect your Member to do so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "mber for Hertford (Lord Balniel) sitting opposite. He has the distinction of representing me in this House, though he is not here with my support. I live in his constituency, in Welwyn Garden City. I have had a copy of a letter from the Clerk to the Urban District Council which asks the noble Lord to vote against the Bill. Although I am not the Member for the constituency, I shall vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the breweries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "hem; but there is no misrepresentation in telling the truth. I shall go out in the town where I live, in the constituency of the hon. Member for Hertford, and say bluntly that, as a result of the Government's action, the rates there will go up by 1s. 7d. in the £ and that this has been done deliberately so that relief can be given to Woolworth's and Marks and Spencer and other big multiple stores.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "rates will go up by 1s., 1s. 6d. or 2s. 6d. I would remind them that we cannot isolate Clause 1 from all the other causes that affect rateable value. The total rateable value is not going to be 7 per cent. lower but more like 2½ per cent. lower. Then there were criticisms that the Bill was unfair to householders. I paid special attention to it because we are anxious to be fair to everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-07", "file": "debates1957-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fed8f84a7b57b433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ower but more like 2½ per cent. lower. Then there were criticisms that the Bill was unfair to householders. I paid special attention to it because we are anxious to be fair to everybody. [ Interruption. ] Yes, and we are extremely anxious to be fair to householders. In fact, I am very happy that in the last year or so householders have had so large a part of the rate burden lifted off them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-07a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-11", "file": "debates1957-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a01d8ebcc2aebce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-11a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER (TALKS WITH PRESIDENT EISENHOWER AND MR. ST. LAURENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the first point, I have no doubt that the scope will be a very wide one, because there are very large questions, covering many parts of the world, which we ought to discuss. With regard to Ministers who will be accompanying me, my intention is that the Foreign Secretary should go with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-11a.918.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-11", "file": "debates1957-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a01d8ebcc2aebce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-11a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "I am very interested in what the hon. Gentleman has said about his own change of views on tolls. The matter might be of importance to me. Is the hon. Gentleman speaking for all his colleagues when he says that he accepts tolls?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-11a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-11", "file": "debates1957-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a01d8ebcc2aebce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-11a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "tances of it have come at a time when many people are thinking deeply about the bigger questions ventilated in this important Report from the Council for Wales. I should like to express my appreciation to the chairman and members of the Council for Wales and particularly to its Government Administration Panel for the many hours of devoted work that they have put into the preparation of the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-11a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Horrible word.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Then will the Minister deal in particular with Army pay offices, where in many hundreds of cases teams of five young and fit National Service men are doing the work of three girls or older workers? Could not the right hon. Gentleman, by civilianisation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1072.7", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "No, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1072.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Instead of the hon. Member trying to cook up some more figures, will he inform my right hon. Friend that the increase this year over last year so far—in ten months—is £285 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1084.4", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE (GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "It would be quite impossible to make so large a change by means of the present Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1084.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1087.5", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A boomerang.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e can ensure that we stick to the types of aircraft that were used in the last war. This should have made economies not too difficult to achieve, but even with these aids to economy what has happened? The economy campaign has utterly failed. The £100 million cuts have given place to more than £100 million in the Supplementary Estimates. \"Mac the Knife\" has turned out to be a very blunt instrument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1087.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is Charlie Hill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "f the right hon. Gentleman and his reshuffled colleagues. We have pressed in vain for a statement of policy. It is true that the Prime Minister told us that his defence policy will be one of trial and error, but has not that policy cost enough already? He was more forthcoming in his speech to his constituents. The right hon. Gentleman promised them power, authority and a real sense of inspiration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Donnelly", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is his subject.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Donnelly", "preceding_text": "There were really three Economic Secretaries to the Treasury speaking this afternoon. First, we had the right hon. Gentleman reading us lectures on monetary policy. That, I felt, was part of the correspondence course which the right hon. Gentleman is now in the process of receiving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "n the fuel reserves of the Middle East, and how narrow is the balance between disaster and success for the British nation in the next ten or fifteen years. After having inherited a preponderance of power in the last thirty or forty years, the Conservative Party has brought us to the situation where the British Empire as we knew it is now dead. The fact is that the British Tory Party has killed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": "e honest trade union leader to negotiate with a large firm if he knows that the negotiations and agreements at which he arrives will not be honoured because of the influence of those who are not authorised officials of the union. That is a very serious matter indeed. The trade unions realise that there will be a complete breakdown of their authority if they allow that state of affairs to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1146.9", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": " is a question which I had hoped would be asked. I will tell hon. Gentlemen opposite one thing which no doubt will bring a roar of laughter from the ignorant. The reason why they come out is that such is the state of affairs in Briggs that it is extremely dangerous not to come out when they ring the bell. It is extremely dangerous to go back if they think a man has not supported the shop stewards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1146.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ths and years ahead. My right hon. Friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury referred to that matter in his speech today. The previous Minister of Education announced an ambitious plan, the aim of which was to provide the scientific and technical brains which we are going to need. But how can we provide them when the families which produce this type of brains are being more and more depressed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "to try and earn a little money towards his keep. There are others who cannot even afford to buy themselves a midday meal. I think you will agree this is a sad state of affairs. Many students last term had to give up owing to lack of funds, and it really does seem a loss to the community, quite apart from the disappointment to the boy concerned. I suggest that this is an important national problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": ". MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"] It is almost entirely a middle-class problem. The country needs more and more scientists and technicians, and we must have them if we are to hold our own in this new scientific world which is developing around us. The Government must see to it that the parents who are willing to make sacrifices in order that their sons can play their part in this field are not so burdened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "eople who produce the wealth. I am not referring only to the group mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. H. A. Price), but to all the people who actually produce the wealth. I know that my right hon. Friends have not had a chance, since going to the Treasury, to work out the details of their reappraisal of defence and the changes in the structure of Government expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "row 560 million dollars from the International Monetary Fund. And in order to get these dollars—they never told us this—they were compelled to give pledges to the Fund about British credit and fiscal policies such as had never been given since the war. If the Minister denies that, I can read out statements by the Chairman of the International Monetary Fund in which he says that that has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1197.2", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "who I am sure is no Communist, supports this point of view. The Korean armistice was signed as long ago as July, 1953, and it really is imbecile to be continuing this embargo in 1957. Finally, and this in my view is among the most urgent tasks confronting the Government today, the Government must this winter radically relieve the present deplorable plight of the old-age pensioners in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ny of the cases which have caused all of us much anxiety and will reduce the amount of correspondence between hon. Members and myself, which is something we can all bear with fortitude. I should like to come straight away to the problems of the motor car industry, which have been a recurring theme in economic debates ever since I became Minister of Labour. I do not suggest there is any connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us of some which have come down?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "at it is much easier to find families whose spending differs from the average than to find those whose spending conforms to it. In addition, we have had something like ten years or more now of general, steady pressure on prices, and it is inevitable, as we all know, that people remember the prices, food prices in particular, which go up and never remember or take any notice of those which go down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1206.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Of course I do not, but the monthly averages are not the rise in the cost over the year, which is the figure I have been giving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ll soared under the Labour Government, the standard of living of our old people went down and they were cheated even of the modest slice of the national cake which they had been promised. That term \"cheated\" has been used by a Member of his own party about the conduct of his own Government in relation to their treatment of old-age pensioners. I say that I myself think that it is too strong a term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Lewisham.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "nly a few minutes left. As I say, it is a Motion of censure. We have had a very good debate, really, in spite of the Motion that had been put on the Order Paper because, if this is a Motion of censure—and I suppose it is —I must say that, like the weather in the Thames Estuary last week, it is the windiest and wettest since records have been kept. We are to have another Motion of censure tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-12", "file": "debates1957-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "24f8e56946ec96c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "SUGAR (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I think that the House is far from satisfied. I think that hon. Members on both sides are thoroughly dissatisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-12a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1264.7", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": " are we, therefore, to conclude from that that there was no discussion in Washington about that Agreement? Further, is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that the Agreement specifies that equipment supplied by the United States may be used only for purposes approved by the United States Government and N.A.T.O., and as that Agreement was violated when Her Majesty's Government chose to invade Egypt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1264.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1274.7", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " have before it, but before we sanction the voting of this £39 million, which is a huge sum of money, hard-earned by our people, we are entitled to a more satisfactory explanation than we have had up to now. My first question is: does any right hon. or hon. Member know why we are voting this £39 million? Will a representative of the Government get up and tell us why we are voting this £39 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1274.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What Committee stage?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I have already quoted from page 725 of Erskine May, and it is clear that subjects involving expenditure cannot be discussed during the Committee stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1277.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What subjects?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Subjects involving expenditure cannot be discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1277.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "anation has been given. If anyone is in doubt about that, I refer him to the OFFICIAL REPORT of 5th February. Many hon. Friends of mine asked for an explanation on that date, and up to now we have not had one. If we are not to get an explanation, it will force me to prolong these proceedings and to inquire why we are being asked to vote this sum of money. Is anyone prepared to give an explanation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1277.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "em…\". Many hon. Members seem to be prepared to vote this £39 million today, but it is admitted that no one in the House understands the figures. My hon. Friend went on: How can we argue about figures that are not real? Then my hon. Friend said to you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker—you were then in the Chair, because we were in Committee: Do you understand them, Sir Charles? The Chairman replied, \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "se of the grievances they feel? They have much to complain of, and that despite the fact that since the end of the war they have worked hard to help the country to recover from the war, and have even had to do some more fighting, too. It does not look as though the House will be given an explanation today of what this £39 million is for. I see that the Secretary of State for War has turned up now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "lion is for. I see that the Secretary of State for War has turned up now. [ Interruption. ] It seems as though I have made a mistake. My hon. Friends say that he has been sitting there all the time, with his head hung down. Since he has been here and has heard what has been said, will he now go to that Box and explain why we are being asked to give the Government authority to use this £39 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "ting there all the time, with his head hung down. Since he has been here and has heard what has been said, will he now go to that Box and explain why we are being asked to give the Government authority to use this £39 million? [HON.MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Some of my hon. Friends say—I cannot believe this —that the Chief Whip, who is now sitting beside him, will not let the right hon. Gentleman get up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " if I had not been in order. I have had experience of this kind of thing, and I know how far I can go. It is only because I have kept myself strictly within the rules of order that I have been able to go as far as I have. Despite that, despite the time we have spent upon this matter, we have not had yet a satisfactory explanation of why we are being asked to vote the £39 million. Are we to get it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1281.3", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Speidel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " reason for the success of British democracy up to now is that it is the elected representatives of the people who determine policy, whereas in Germany it was the military cliques and the officer corps who determined policy. Slowly, but surely, a change is creeping into this country; slowly, but surely, it is the military who are determining policy. We have men like Lord Montgomery, in particular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1281.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Armed conflict.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "I understand, Mr. Speaker, that we are discussing the £39 million which was, in the main, applied to the Suez war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1283.8", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "rociously and abusively as they had Lord Haldane, earlier—with a considerable injection of the radical section of our community, came to power, in 1940, that we began to put that right. The Tories always talk big about national defence, but their repeated record on these things is as poor as the right hon. Member for Streatham declares it to be today; and he ought to know better than anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1283.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1290.3", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "This is now following the pattern of the last occasion. The right hon. Gentleman says that I am purposely misrepresenting him. Even my motives are impugned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1306.2", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "on. If the programme as planned a year ago were allowed to roll on unchanged, the defence bill during the coming year would be over £1,700 million. I mention that merely to show that we should need savings of the order of £100 million just to keep level. That is one of the reasons why I have given—the right hon. Gentleman referred to this—several warnings against expecting vast and immediate cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Certainly, it would cut both ways. We should then put forward our own proposals for a settlement. I have been in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union recently, and I am completely convinced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I believe that fundamentally Britain and her immediately close Allies must now create room for manoeuvre in the councils of the world. Throughout history Britain has never been involved in the balance of power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-13", "file": "debates1957-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "51c2773e2b17cdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Air (Mr. George Ward)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Air (Mr. George Ward)", "preceding_text": "o be equipped with the latest, highly complicated types of equipment and to have all the facilities for using them, for example, Class I airfields, without spending a fairly large sum of money. The cost of developing and producing these weapons is enormous but it is, I quite agree, perfectly fair to ask whether we have been getting value for the money we spend. I think that, on the whole, we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-13a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-14", "file": "debates1957-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "1af508ff50cba378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1431.5", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "similar circumstances, the borough of Shrewsbury was allowed to retain some of the coins found? Is he further aware that Congleton received its Charter in 1272 and that there is a public library with similar coins where these could be shown? Will he bear in mind that, unless he reconsiders this matter, Congleton will present a petition to this House and I shall raise the matter on the Adjournment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1431.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-14", "file": "debates1957-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "1af508ff50cba378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir. It is an insult to Congleton to be offered copies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-14", "file": "debates1957-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "1af508ff50cba378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1458.4", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RATEABLE VALUE OF SHOPS, OFFICES, ETC., FOR PURPOSES OF EXISTING VALUATION LISTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I went into this matter very carefully with my advisers and we came to the conclusion that they could be discussed together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-14", "file": "debates1957-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "1af508ff50cba378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RATEABLE VALUE OF SHOPS, OFFICES, ETC., FOR PURPOSES OF EXISTING VALUATION LISTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "While supporting my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, Central (Mr. Bishop) I wish to speak particularly about the Amendment in my name, which refers to the question of piers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-14", "file": "debates1957-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "1af508ff50cba378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1479.1", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RATEABLE VALUE OF SHOPS, OFFICES, ETC., FOR PURPOSES OF EXISTING VALUATION LISTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "If I may be allowed to conclude my sentence, I was saying that it would be a serious thing for local authorities suddenly to suffer exactly at a period when their finance committees, if not the councils themselves, are meeting to make their rates for the ensuing year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-14", "file": "debates1957-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "1af508ff50cba378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RATEABLE VALUE OF SHOPS, OFFICES, ETC., FOR PURPOSES OF EXISTING VALUATION LISTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " offices and miscellaneous properties. The hon. Gentleman is saying that his party made a serious mistake in the 1948 Act. It should have selected public houses at that time for special punitive rating treatment and it failed to do so. Having discovered the error that it made, it is now seeking to correct it by wishing to persuade the Government to discriminate against public houses on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-14", "file": "debates1957-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "1af508ff50cba378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1561.0", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RATEABLE VALUE OF SHOPS, OFFICES, ETC., FOR PURPOSES OF EXISTING VALUATION LISTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": " protest against the acceptance of Clause 1. Sitting through the debate, I thought I was living in two Englands, one for the rich and another for the poor—because Clause 1 removes some of the burden that should be left on the shopkeepers' and business premises and passes it on to the poorer people, the domestic ratepayers. The Ministry of Housing and Local Government performs many useful functions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-14", "file": "debates1957-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "1af508ff50cba378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RATEABLE VALUE OF SHOPS, OFFICES, ETC., FOR PURPOSES OF EXISTING VALUATION LISTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "hat aspect of the matter constitutes one of our objections to the Bill. In my own borough there are many appeals to be heard and it is impossible to say when they will all have been heard. Taking all these factors into account, I can assure my hon. Friend that I do not agree with the assessment made in my case. When the local authority was responsible for the assessment I could talk to \"the boys\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-14", "file": "debates1957-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "1af508ff50cba378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RATEABLE VALUE OF SHOPS, OFFICES, ETC., FOR PURPOSES OF EXISTING VALUATION LISTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The wolves.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "ct of strong drink upon the people, and now we are being asked to make a further concession to the brewers in this Clause. The small shopkeepers will be also-rans among those who benefit from the Bill. They will be the least of those in the community who derive any benefit from the Clause. Woolworth's, Marks and Spencer's, British Home Stores, Wolfson—we know that he is Great Universal Stores Ltd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-14a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-15", "file": "debates1957-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2b6b39fe9fcdc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1605.4", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANIMAL BOARDING ESTABLISHMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "preceding_text": "ddressing this House. I fundamentally disagree with almost every word of this Bill, and I cannot congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich (Mr. Ridsdale), who ordinarily speaking is so sensible in everything he does, on having sponsored this Measure. When they look at the Bill with a little more care, I am sure that hon. Members will treat it with the ridicule which it so richly deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1605.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-15", "file": "debates1957-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2b6b39fe9fcdc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1661.4", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PROMOTION OF BILLS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "This Bill promoted by the Grimsby Corporation did not raise deep feeling. I will not read out the whole Bill, though I would be willing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-15", "file": "debates1957-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2b6b39fe9fcdc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1661.4", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PROMOTION OF BILLS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "This Bill promoted by the Grimsby Corporation did not raise deep feeling. I will not read out the whole Bill, though I would be willing—[ Interruption .] Nothing could be further from my mind than the idea that I should occupy the House for the whole afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1661.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-15", "file": "debates1957-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2b6b39fe9fcdc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1662.2", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PROMOTION OF BILLS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I think that is a most unkind remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-15", "file": "debates1957-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2b6b39fe9fcdc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PROMOTION OF BILLS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Proctor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Change the rules of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Proctor", "preceding_text": ", which indicates a need for a reform in the system of local government procedure. It also indicates the need for a reform in the procedure in the House of Commons. I very much regret that Bills are talked out on Fridays. We ought to come here and decide on the principles put in front of us, and not use the procedure as a means of preventing the opinions of other hon. Members from being expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-15", "file": "debates1957-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2b6b39fe9fcdc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1682.2", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PROMOTION OF BILLS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "act that we have been discussing the Bill today, for only two and a half hours, is not the full story upon which we should base our decision. We know that for the past thirty years three committees have gone into this matter and that all have reported in favour of abolishing town polls, including the last committee, which took considerable evidence two years ago and, by a unanimous recommendation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-15a.1682.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "Whilst congratulating all concerned on the splendid results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " least equal to the number provided by the Association. Neither the exporting authority nor the receiving authority will have to pay towards overspill houses built by the Association. The selection of tenants for them will be regulated by arrangement between the Association and the exporting authority on the same lines as the arrangement between the receiving authority and the exporting authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Ultimately, of course, subsidies come out of production and, therefore, they come out of the fruits of industry. If production is not the fruits of industry, what is production?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who produces the fruits?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Ultimately, of course, subsidies come out of production and, therefore, they come out of the fruits of industry. If production is not the fruits of industry, what is production? [ Laughter. ] Nobody who understands economics would laugh at that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " Scotland, the late Joseph Westwood, who, during the passage of various subsidies, said in the House that they thought subsidies ought not to be high and that, when a subsidy was fixed, the first thing which should be done was to ascertain how soon it would be possible to reduce it. Hon. Gentlemen opposite may be horrified to think that other Socialists believe it a good thing to reduce a subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "dy and will take the place of the present three-tier subsidy for different houses. This is a reduced subsidy on new houses only. The subsidy on existing houses will continue, but that has been overlooked by hon. Members opposite. For houses needed to accommodate overspill population—a matter which has been touched upon by the hon. Member for Glasgow, Central—there will be a special subsidy of £30—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": " unfortunately, right hon. Gentlemen opposite get back into power they will be delighted that we had the courage to put that Measure on the Statute Book. They will be delighted about the Rent Bill, too. They will be delighted that it has been done for them. They know perfectly well that the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) had already said that he would have to tackle the rent position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are pre-war houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "o them all through the years, but they have consistently neglected it, so much so that, when one goes into the figures in order to see what has been taking place regarding rents since the beginning of the war, one is astonished to find that six authorities which own 120,000 houses in Scotland have not touched the rents since 1938. That represents 29 per cent. of local authority houses in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I do not think for one moment that the local authorities, as the right hon. Gentleman suggests, are unduly depressed by what the rate of interest is at any given time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.97.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "ic reductions in Scottish housing subsidies, from an average of £42 to £24, with a corresponding reduction in the local rate of contribution, will entail an average increase in rental of £25 to £30 a year for 500,000 municipal tenants in Scotland?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 31st July, 1956; Vol. 557, c. 1165.] That is quite untrue. Such a thought could never have crossed the hon. Member's mind in honesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "As I have been challenged, perhaps I may say that that is a very old charge. It has followed me at every Election. It was a misprint in HANSARD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.142.7", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "was that local authorities kept down council rents because of the politics in the matter, because they were afraid to increase rents of people whose votes they would be looking for. Does the hon. and gallant Member ask for the votes of the farmers of East Renfrew and tell them that he supports subsidies for them whether they need them or not, or does he say that he would like a means test applied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.142.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "No, not factories. The income side would show the proceeds from the disposal of land and a figure representing the income which the receiving authority would have earned from the new valuation on water and sewerage account if that valuation had borne rates at the level which would have obtained in their district if there had been no town development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.156.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-18", "file": "debates1957-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "dbc44944bcc5d663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does it mean.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "ot factories. The income side would show the proceeds from the disposal of land and a figure representing the income which the receiving authority would have earned from the new valuation on water and sewerage account if that valuation had borne rates at the level which would have obtained in their district if there had been no town development. [ Interruption. ] It will read very well in HANSARD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-18a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "That would involve a great number of figures", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.182.6", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "No blanco has been bought since 1951—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.182.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.200.6", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I know that the House will join with me in expressing sympathy with this virile and enterprising company in the blow which has befallen it. I cannot assess the effects on exports, but I am confident that the company will do all it can to minimise them. I am informed there have been no cancellations of export orders for Jaguar cars and that production has already started again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.200.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "DEFENCE AND CIVIL EXPENDITURE (ESTIMATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "preceding_text": "es. The price of welfare milk will be increased to 4d. a pint—that is, roughly half-price. This will leave the subsidy at about the amount per pint at which it was first introduced in 1940. With a corresponding increase in the price of National dried milk, the saving in 1957–58 will be £14 million. Next, the charge for school meals will be increased by 2d. to 1s., saving £3½ million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.209.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "DEFENCE AND CIVIL EXPENDITURE (ESTIMATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that the House should hear the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.210.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "DEFENCE AND CIVIL EXPENDITURE (ESTIMATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ion for the Exchequer in a full year. In the meantime, no credit has been taken in the Estimates for the relief to the Exchequer next year, which, we hope, will be about £20 million. The total savings to the Exchequer represented by these measures, excluding, of course, anything which can be achieved in the field of defence, will be about £57 million in a full year and about £37 million this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.211.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "DEFENCE AND CIVIL EXPENDITURE (ESTIMATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Peter Agnew", "preceding_text": "Commander Sir Peter Agnew rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.214.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.214.6", "colnum": "214", "heading": "DEFENCE AND CIVIL EXPENDITURE (ESTIMATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. It is that unless the right hon. Member for Middlesbrough, East (Mr. Marquand) speaks louder it will be quite impossible to hear the trend that the debate is taking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.214.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.215.2", "colnum": "215", "heading": "DEFENCE AND CIVIL EXPENDITURE (ESTIMATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Eden", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I was a little alarmed at the implications which might be drawn from my hon. Friend's words. He and I see eye to eye on this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I think it would be wise if my right hon. Friend dealt with any specific cases which hon. Members may bring forward during the course of the debate. The hon. Member for Thurrock (Mr. Delargy), by his intervention, has really made a point which demonstrates that the rule of law does obtain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profnmo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profnmo", "preceding_text": " have no doubt that if he is fortunate enough to catch your eye later, Mr. Williams, he will elaborate his case. I have already said that my right hon. Friend will be glad to deal with it in more detail when he winds up. However, I do not wish to let this matter pass without saying that, as I have said, I know of no case yet which has been substantiated, and I do not admit that this case has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "rson who speaks for the Cypriot community. But have hon. Members opposite considered why no one else will speak? It is because they have been terrorised. Have hon. Members opposite considered where we should be likely to get with Archbishop Makarios in present circumstances? He is the man who has made it his aim to unite Cyprus with Greece. He is the man who supported Grivas and gave instructions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Believed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "preceding_text": "Therefore, from now on one can rule out that underlying problem of the adamant demands of the Chiefs of Staff that the island must remain a British base under British sovereignty. Therefore, there is hope now that the Government can possibly reopen negotiations. There was a most unfortunate occurrence last year when it became known that Archbishop Makarios was believed to be involved in terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman should withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I must ask the Secretary of State to withdraw that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "rights in their country. It was within my lifetime that a similar policy to that which we now pursue in Cyprus was being pursued in Ireland. For military and strategic reasons, we made such enemies of the Irish people that all over the world there are people who today speak bitterly of us as a result of the misguided policy of the party opposite, who had power at that time. We ruined the prospect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "r future is to be. Having said that, if the Under-Secretary of State is to be accepted at his full face value when he makes the speech that he made this afternoon; when the hon. Gentleman says that if the British leave the Greeks and the Turks will be at each other's throats, is that not another way of saying that although the principle of self-determination is accepted, it is never to be granted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "d come to Turkey in the event of an armed conflict if, after experience of Cyprus, he really believed that the Turks would be prepared to allow self-determination for the island as a whole in these difficult circumstances, then I suggest that he ought to think again. I am rather reassured by the knowledge that the right hon. and learned Gentleman said that his knowledge of Cyprus was very limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Lord Advocate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ld houses at all.\" That is one of the most important burghs in the constituency of the Secretary of State. The start to the hard new housing drive the right hon. Gentleman was talking about yesterday is a sit-down strike. I hope that the Secretary of State will give re- assurances to our small burghs even if he cannot reassure his own. I am very glad to see the Solicitor-General for Scotland here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.364.4", "colnum": "364", "heading": "HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": ". Emrys Hughes) that perorations are always in order, provided that there are not too many in one speech. I want, first, to protest against the inordinate length of this Financial Resolution. It is so long that it could have been referred to the Scottish Grand Committee for Second Reading. I am most disappointed that the Secretary of State did not see fit to explain the Resolution to us in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.364.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.370.7", "colnum": "370", "heading": "HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Chips.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "That is a very nice question. Should the man who produces the ships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.370.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Chip builders—potato growers.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "That is all right on the Bill, but not on the Financial Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member will be out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": "d—and, I suppose, most in England and Wales, too—the small burghs, the town clerks and provosts receive from the Scottish Office in Edinburgh regulations and other documents which very often cause them a good deal of confusion. Indeed, some of them do not understand them and give up in despair trying to act upon them. I will tell a story, not directly related to this matter, but which illustrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": "om the Scottish Office in Edinburgh regulations and other documents which very often cause them a good deal of confusion. Indeed, some of them do not understand them and give up in despair trying to act upon them. I will tell a story, not directly related to this matter, but which illustrates—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member will be out of order.\"] The relevance of the story is that it illustrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ng two-thirds of the additional estimated cost over that of ordinary houses. Paragraph A ( c ) deals with the additional subsidy payable in remote areas, and, as the Committee knows, no change has been made in this respect. The general considerations underlying the new subsidy structure were explained fully yesterday by my hon Friend and myself, and I do not think I need add anything at this stage", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-19", "file": "debates1957-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f5fa4ec98208db4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "That comes under the 50 per cent. grant. I think we are becoming rather confused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-19a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-20", "file": "debates1957-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd642318a193538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-20", "file": "debates1957-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd642318a193538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the right hon. Gentleman's reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.424.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-20", "file": "debates1957-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd642318a193538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.424.4", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the right hon. Gentleman's reply—[ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-20", "file": "debates1957-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd642318a193538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.424.6", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker, may I be allowed to make by own submission to you? In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.424.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-20", "file": "debates1957-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd642318a193538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James MacColl", "preceding_text": "dings on the Bill, so I approach the discussion with a freshness of outlook which appeals to me, though it may not necessarily appeal to my hon. Friends. I was particularly moved and stimulated by the speech of the hon. Member for Selly Oak (Mr. Gurden). The hon. Member was fortunate enough to catch the eye of the Chair. From among all the Conservative hon. Members who have been bursting to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-20", "file": "debates1957-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd642318a193538d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. W. Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. W. Gibson", "preceding_text": "piled on top of all the other burdens which the Government are putting on the people. 5.45 p.m. All the local authorities have protested. We are entitled to protest that no one representing the Tory interests in this Committee has been present this afternoon from the London area except the Minister, who had this Bill fathered on him. I do not believe that he would have brought it to birth himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-20a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.595.3", "colnum": "595", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Sir. Since this matter is to be looked into by you, Mr. Speaker, and as we now know that the former Chancellor of the Exchequer repudiated his predecessor on this question, and since the present Chancellor seems to have repudiated his predecessor, is it not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.596.6", "colnum": "596", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.596.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "TRANSPORT, NORTH-EAST AREA (ADJOURNMENT DEBATE)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where was the hon. Lady last night?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "he fact that hon. Members from the North-East, with the hon. Members who have spoken here tonight, represent very nearly 500,000 electors, and that hon. Members on both sides of the House are unanimous in their opposition to a bridge?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th February, 1957; Vol. 565, c. 556.] The hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central had no authority to make any such statement on my behalf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "TRANSPORT, NORTH-EAST AREA (ADJOURNMENT DEBATE)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "plain to my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport and to my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary. I do not know the opinion of other Conservative Members from the North-East Coast, but I am sure that it is not in accordance with the traditions of the House that hon. Members opposite should impute views to hon. Members on this side of the House. I do not want to make heavy weather of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "TRANSPORT, NORTH-EAST AREA (ADJOURNMENT DEBATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the bridge or in the tunnel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I am the Member referred to by the hon. Lady the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward), Mr. Speaker. The hon. Lady was kind enough to send me a letter telling me that she would raise this matter today, and ended her letter by saying that she was going to enjoy herself when she raised it. Far be it from me to deprive the hon. Lady of any enjoyment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "MOTOR VEHICLES (VARIATION OF SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The right moment, unfortunately, gets further and further away, because the congestion on the roads gets greater, and the road programme is not carried out. We question the wisdom of the Minister in rushing these Regulations through at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.621.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "MOTOR VEHICLES (VARIATION OF SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will not accept the Minister's present interpolation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "MOTOR VEHICLES (VARIATION OF SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Ernest Davies) will forgive me if I do not follow him into this labyrinth of negotiations and agreements between the two sides of the industry. With all respect to the hon. Gentleman, they seem entirely irrelevant to the point at issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.629.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "MOTOR VEHICLES (VARIATION OF SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ence. I have made careful note of the fact that he gave way to me on two occasions, and I will reciprocate by giving way to him on two occasions—but on no more than two occasions, because I know his habits so well. To finish my sentence, I say that one would suppose, having listened to such a vicious attack, that in his eyes not only is the Road Haulage Association the paymaster of the Tory Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-21", "file": "debates1957-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0f9020e37fe151af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.643.0", "colnum": "643", "heading": "MOTOR VEHICLES (VARIATION OF SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are willing to agree\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "are in no difficulty in this matter. They are prepared to adjust their wage rates and their schedules and fall in with reasonable union demands. There would be no difficulty whatever in their case. The difficulty arises in connection with the A-and B-licence holders. They are made up of the Road Haulage Association representation in part measure, the British Road Services interest in part measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-21a.643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-22", "file": "debates1957-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "a713eb8ccbb66fd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-22a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "MOTOR CAR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "get it produced at that time. Later it was taken up by Dr. Porsche and developed as the car we know today. The Volkswagen is a very old-fashioned motor car, designed very long ago. I do not think it is a very distinguished car. The steering is bad and the back seat accommodation is much more uncomfortable than the Jaguar, to which reference has been made. It is hot and uncomfortable in the summer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-22a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-22", "file": "debates1957-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "a713eb8ccbb66fd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-22a.794.8", "colnum": "794", "heading": "MOTOR CAR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "s fire at Jaguar's has distressed everyone, but the firm's efforts to get things going again surely serve as a symbol of the spirit of the industry. Management and men are determined to restore production as rapidly as possible and to fulfil their dollar and other export orders with the least possible delay. The latest news is that Jaguar's hope to be back on full production in three or four week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-22a.794.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.853.7", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Of course, the first part of that supplementary question was wholly hypothetical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.853.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.886.5", "colnum": "886", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A year later.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": " rate was 26s. for a single person. A year later, by October, 1947, the purchasing power had dropped to 25s. 8d. A year later, by October, 1948—that was the year when the other benefits came into effect—the purchasing power had dropped to 24s. A year later, by October, 1949, the purchasing power had dropped to 23s. 2d. A year later, in October, 1950, the purchasing power had dropped to 22s. 7d. a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": " that year. That created an anomaly which was unfair and unjust to many pensioners. In those days, as a welfare worker, I was frequently in difficulty when trying to explain to a bewildered elderly man who had reached the age of 65 in, perhaps, November, 1951. why he got only 26s., when his friend, \"Bill Brown,\" who was 65 a couple months earlier, got 30s. I think that that anomaly was very wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "e Conservative Government again increased the main rates to the present figure of 40s. to 65s. respectively. This was, I think, a generous increase. It not only restored the purchasing power which had depreciated to such an extent over the preceding years, but provided a margin above it. If I may, I should like to quote to the House my own father's remark at the time he received his first payment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady must not put words into my mouth. My father has £2 a week and no other income from any other source, save that he has a family which is very fond of him and looks after him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.889.5", "colnum": "889", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": ", 1955—and this is the important point, and the point at which I take up the right hon. Gentleman's argument—prices have gone up by 9 per cent., as he mentioned. Food prices have gone up slightly less than that, but the fact remains that the present-day value of the pension is higher than it was in 1948—or in 1946. It has a better purchasing power today than it has had at any time for seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.889.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.890.3", "colnum": "890", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "e would put it, perhaps the hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North (Miss Herbison) will tell us later. It is not just a question of an increase to one individual pension. A responsible Government must, as this Government are doing, watch carefully the movement of prices as they affect National Insurance benefits. They must make every endeavour to stabilise prices, as the Government are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.890.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheaper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "ast survey show either these increases or decreases to which I have just referred. The survey is available to the hon. Lady. They are consuming the same amount of bread, but consumption of potatoes has decreased. That confirms that the majority of pensioners are doing reasonably well, because surely if they were unable to buy the better foods they would fill up with the cheaper bread and potatoes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "rence perhaps to your milk bill\". The woman's comment was \"No, we can manage. I reckon that one £2 pays the rent, the coal and lighting, and the other £2 pays for food and the odds and ends that we need\". When I pressed her yet again, she said, \"No, we have no children. What is the good of getting a bit of extra money which we do not really need, in order to leave it to somebody else when we die?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.896.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "mebody else when we die?\" [ Laughter. ] That really is true. I wish to make one other comment on whether people can be persuaded to apply for National Assistance. Some time ago I had a letter from a man in Clapham. Unknown to me, he had read a comment on a speech that I had made on the subject of pensions. He wrote in not a very pleasant fashion saying that I did not know what I was talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.896.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.902.5", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1946.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "No, that is not true. In 1955, the rates were increased not only to make good a reduction in purchasing power but to improve on it. Though it is perfectly true that there has been a 9 per cent. increase in prices since those rates were increased in 1955, the pension still provides a better purchasing power than at any time since 1948.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.902.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.902.5", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1946.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "rue. In 1955, the rates were increased not only to make good a reduction in purchasing power but to improve on it. Though it is perfectly true that there has been a 9 per cent. increase in prices since those rates were increased in 1955, the pension still provides a better purchasing power than at any time since 1948. [HON. MEMBERS: \"1946.\"] It is 1948. The hon. Gentleman also made some reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.902.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": "s were spoken by the late Lloyd George when he was pleading for some relief and improvement in the economic and social conditions of the people. He gave expression to those thoughts as the result of having applied his mind to this question and with the firm conviction at that time, in 1908 or 1909, that the nation was not doing all that it should have been doing for the old people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Hubbard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Hubbard", "preceding_text": "his afternoon, when Suez is forgotten, when even the Rent Bill is forgotten, the old-age pensioners will give the Minister his answer. He may speak with all the flowery language which can be printed on a piece of paper, but he will really say nothing about what we see happening around us. In Edinburgh, responsible doctors—not the Socialist Medical Federation, but responsible general practitioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nairn", "preceding_text": "I have not said very much; I think the hon. Gentleman had better wait a bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three years after the war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "ion meant in office what they say they mean by the Motion in Opposition, that is, that after less than two years and a variation in the cost of living of 9 per cent., the main rates and benefits of National Insurance should have been put up, they should themselves have put them up, not in October, 1951, but in 1948 at the very time when the main National Insurance Scheme was being put into effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.982.6", "colnum": "982", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You claimed it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must in fairness now allow me to ask a question. If the situation is now so much better, as he claims—and as I knew he would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.982.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-25", "file": "debates1957-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0740d911ffcb136f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " cost-of-living index was not, perhaps, a very accurate barometer, and that food was what mattered. I would not quarrel with her on that, but I would remind her that since the increase that came into effect in 1955—which her right hon. Friend hailed as an announcement of a new standard—whereas the main index has moved 9·1 per cent., food has actually moved a little less 8·8 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-25a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The best thing that these people can do is to deal with a merchant whom they can trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Still up the garden path.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " support of the Rent Bill that it is not fair to allow the landlords to subsidise other members of the community and that it was asked yesterday whether those on National Assistance would receive money in respect of the increased rents which they would have to pay when rents are increased under the Bill? Am I to understand that this matter has not yet had the consideration of my right hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1027.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order. If I understood the exchanges aright, I think that by \"anyone else\" the Minister meant anyone outside the House. Is that what he meant?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Clause 15.—(REPEALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "'clock. It would mean my remaining here throughout that business before I could continue my remarks, or, during the three minutes and fifty-nine seconds which remain, concluding what I have to say. It is the latter which I propose to do. My hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) takes a much more rosy view of Mr. Horne Tooke than I do. This man, whom he describes as having guts in his belly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "ps ironic, coincidence that the first Bill in his Prime Ministership asking for county borough status should be promoted by the right hon. Gentleman's former constituency. I hope that he will not go back on the words which he used in 1954. If he does, I am sure that it will cause grevious disappointment to many of the people in my constituency who still look to him for guidance and for assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "All I am saying is that the people in Stockton-on-Tees, who are making such a good job of running their own services, can surely be entrusted with the task of running their schools and all the other services now being run by the county council. Hon. Members from the County Durham constituencies outside the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees are opposing this Bill from purely selfish motives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is about time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "the people of Stockton any stronger than it is. Now I come to the final consideration. The Minister was told by some of my hon. Friends and hon. Friends on the opposite side of the House—I call them friends—that he must, here and now—mark you, here and now, no time is to be lost, in the course of a debate on a Private Bill—tell us what are the Government's intentions about local government reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Richard Pilkington", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend include Poole, which has a case stronger than any other?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " period. I was undecided whether the best thing would not be to get this Bill before a Select Committee so that the Government would have to face the issue about what is to happen. I assume that when the right hon. Gentleman tells us that he hopes to introduce a Measure during the next Session of Parliament, a general local government Measure, he has the assent of his colleagues in the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "re correspondence in which the medical officer of health for the County of Durham actually objected—and so did the county architect—because the medical officer of health for Stockton placed an order with a firm in Stockton for the replacement of a cistern in the staff lavatory of the nursing school within the borough of Stockton. That kind of thing is bound to cause difficulty, by its very nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "f Stockton-on-Tees. There are two county boroughs within the County of Durham with a smaller population than that of Stockton-on-Tees. Therefore, to deny to Stockton-on-Tees the right to become a county borough now that it has promoted a Parliamentary Bill is tantamount to saying that we ought to take county borough status from those 22 authorities. That seems to be the argument which is advanced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "at of Stockton-on-Tees. Therefore, to deny to Stockton-on-Tees the right to become a county borough now that it has promoted a Parliamentary Bill is tantamount to saying that we ought to take county borough status from those 22 authorities. That seems to be the argument which is advanced. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"] My hon. Friend says, \"Hear, hear.\" Naturally, that is what the county desires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. A. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. A. Pargiter", "preceding_text": "ger than Stockton-on-Tees feel that the present time is inopportune to do so. I want to draw the attention of the House to what the result would be if the Bill received a Second Reading, quite apart from what happened to it in Committee upstairs. I should be interested to know at this stage whether any hon. Members have received a brief from the Association of Municipal Corporations on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "STOCKTON-ON-TEES CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "couple of years. Therefore, I want to know whether it is the Government's intention to embody the financial reforms in their legislation next Session or whether they intend to introduce the financial reforms during the present Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-26", "file": "debates1957-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "3943192b171eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1177.5", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Clause 15.—(REPEALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "I may be skating on thin ice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-26a.1177.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1209.6", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The cost of living\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "From that it would appear that there has been a reduction in staff, and yet an increase in the salary bill. Can we understand why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1209.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1209.7", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "It is almost entirely due to increases in the pay of civil servants which were awarded during that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1209.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1214.5", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alleged.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The Question dealt with Communist subversion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1214.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Do not the Minister's answers to Questions today make it perfectly clear that he is neither bighead nor fathead, but just simply blockhead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1215.9", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is a purely hypothetical question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1215.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1215.10", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. May I submit, Mr. Speaker, that it has occurred to many of us, and, I suggest, it may have occurred to you, that the Minister has used every Answer today, on a subject that should be outside the ordinary frivolities of this House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1215.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "etition of television has forced large and, I think successful, changes in the making and showing of American films. Nevertheless, one quarter of all the cinemas in the United States have closed. British cinemas are also hard-hit by television. Some picture houses have gone out of business and some are hanging on with great difficulty, but I hope that tomorrow morning they will feel more cheerful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "preceding_text": "we have to take all the remaining stages of the Bill between Monday and Thursday next week—Friday being private Members' time—or the powers of the National Film Finance Corporation expire. I understand that we may get the answer at the end of the debate, but we are entitled at the opening of the debate to the courtesy of being told why the Government have failed to obtain this legislation in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1298.3", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " I should like to suggest one or two things that might be done. First, I think that we must get more breadth to our films. We are a small country, leading a rather quiet life in many ways, with no great drama in our society, and the cinema suffers to that extent. If we were a great country like America, with vast drama, vast progress, corruptions and all the kind of things which can be dramatised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "and curious to know that. Why cannot the Government drop Part III altogether? That would both allow more time to examine Parts I and II adequately and also, later, to have a proper discussion upon the quota legislation. As a protest against the muddled fashion in which the Measure has been presented to the House, some of my hon. Friends may feel inclined to vote against the Second Reading tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1323.2", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ken pains to approach the Corporation rather earlier than they otherwise would have done so that legal arrangements can be made and money advanced before the lapse of the Corporation's loan-making powers. This is not a happy position; it is a position of slight difficulty. Obviously, the longer the time taken in the passage of the Bill, the greater will be the difficulty which producers will face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "Because my right hon. Friend, recognising the difficulties which beset Parliamentary Secretaries in making winding up speeches, very kindly left me some material.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "entary Secretaries in making winding up speeches, very kindly left me some material. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members on both sides have referred to the desirability of making Amendments to the quota provisions. It would have been fortunate if Amendments could have been agreed upon in time for inclusion in the Bill, but owing to lack of time, because of the necessity of getting on with the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1325.2", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why in the autumn?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "d of ten years written into a Bill, than to know it is only for a period of twelve months and to be left wondering what is to happen after that. At the same time, we do realise that some amendments are necessary, and as my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Barkston Ash said, we have undertaken to discuss the whole question of amendments with all sections of the industry in this coming autumn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-27", "file": "debates1957-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2ffab51d6eba8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1325.2", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " quote it; it is already in the Act—allows films featuring foreign nationals and films made wholly by Commonwealth subjects to participate in the protective Measures provided by the quota. I come now to the question of whether a British quota film could be made in Jamaica by an American company with American stars. The short answer to that is \"No\". A British film must be made by a British company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-27a.1325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1397.5", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As you know, Mr. Speaker, I tried to raise a Private Notice Question about the matter raised by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition. I think it is only right that we should have a further explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1397.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1398.2", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "On a similar embarrassing future occasion will the Prime Minister see that the Minister in the dock occupies a position with him on the Front Bench opposite, instead of skulking and hiding himself at the end of the Front Bench?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "While I agree with my right hon. Friend that there has been no leakage of Budget secrets on this occasion, are not hon. Members opposite the last people to criticise, when two previous Socialist Chancellors had to resign for doing that very thing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1402.4", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "er pressure of debate, or personal anxiety, or fatigue, or anything else, make a mistake. But to suggest that a hint given by a Minister which appreciates the property of people in the country is not a serious thing to do, is a most frivolous way of treating a question of this sort. if the right hon. Gentleman goes on like that, the reputation of his Government will fall even lower than it now is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1402.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1403.9", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. May I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker? Is the suggestion of the hon. Lady who seeks the Adjournment of the House that she is raising a point of order? I raised previously, as a point of order, since business questions have been asked, that the Opposition were receiving disproportionately good treatment from the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1403.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1405.0", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have listened to what right hon. Gentlemen have said and taken that into account. But it seems to me that the matter we are discussing certainly involves a statement as to future legislative intentions and I do not think that a discussion today rather than on Monday will do anything to alter the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I could not accept the last part of the hon. Member's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "w I want to give my own views. Frankly, I feel that we are perhaps on the threshold of a new era in coal mining. I feel that with great sincerity. Whether it is due to the effect of the new chairman of the National Coal Board, with his great influence upon the unions and men, I do not know. Whether it is real, I do not know, but I feel that we may be on the threshold of justifying nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Because they are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "first is the destructive type of criticism, which we have heard fairly widely and which has caused a great deal of resentment and done very little good. The other kind has come from the \"soft-soapers\". Right hon. and hon. Members opposite are not free from that. The National Coal Board is far from free from telling miners that they are doing a wonderful job and carrying the country on their backs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1446.2", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": " job. All the miners I had working for me tried to get away with doing as little as they could, and, of course, they were quite right. Do we have in the engineering industry, the shipbuilding industry and the like, workers tearing away at their jobs morning, noon and night? Not a bit. In every industry in the country, it is a battle between the guile of the workmen and the skill of the management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1446.2", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "mount of money to publish, for it is beautifully done. In it the Board talks about the mechanisation of coal mines and the amount of coal cut by machines. Here is the passage that I am referring to, in page 17 of the pamphlet: Mechanisation had already been begun at the coal face by replacing the pick with the coal cutter. But 75 per cent. of the output was cut by machine when the Board took over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1446.2", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": " to, in page 17 of the pamphlet: Mechanisation had already been begun at the coal face by replacing the pick with the coal cutter. But 75 per cent. of the output was cut by machine when the Board took over. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We are here dealing with the actual figures, and there is an increase of only 11 per cent. in the amount of coal cut by coal cutters since the National Coal Board started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "ng-term plan, and indeed the duty of the Board. Secondly, it is to get the maximum output under existing conditions at the lowest cost. I was listening to the right hon. Member for Blyth telling the old story, that old bogy, about the 4 million tons which the National Coal Board must plan for and spend for every year in development. We have done that throughout the, long history of the coal mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": " stages in sinking new shafts. The first year is regarded as the planning stage; the second year as that of the laying of water, power and electricity; the third year that of the erection of the headgear and the winding engines, and the sinking of the shaft begins at the end of the third year. We used to complete our shafts in the third year—actually finish them in the third year and produce coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1487.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mountains of the moon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "That may be. Last year I had the opportunity of seeing coal recovered by this method in Wales, not in Lancashire, but in Yorkshire, and in Scotland. I know that it makes a horrible mess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Mr. David Renton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And other industries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Mr. David Renton)", "preceding_text": " the National Coal Board and the miners today.\" That is certainly our wish and our intention. Having lived with this problem—the fascinating problem of coal mining—inside the Ministry for the last fourteen months, three impressions have been formed vividly in my mind. The first is of the remarkable extent of the microscopic examination to which this industry and those who work in it are subjected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-02-28", "file": "debates1957-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "41bc879ff1bc7f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Mr. David Renton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Mr. David Renton)", "preceding_text": "f the proportion of salaried officials to other people in the industry was too small by modern standards and smaller than is found in other industries. The hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring complained that we had not fully debated the Fleck Report in this House. I do not think that there has ever been a debate confined to the Report, but the Report has been discussed in coal debates a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-02-28a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-01", "file": "debates1957-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "d47004e44ed0ccf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-01a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAINTENANCE ORDERS (ATTACHMENT OF INCOME) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "preceding_text": "I offer my support to this Bill. Perhaps I have more day-to-day experience of this problem than any other hon. Member, though not practical experience, being a bachelor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-01a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.35.6", "colnum": "35", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT (DEFENCE SUPPORT COSTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I am not sure about the question of notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.35.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " Uxbridge (Mr. Beswick) then asked: Will the right hon. Gentleman repeat his last few words?, but the President of the Board of Trade did not do so. He dodged back on to safer ground, and he said: I said that the Chancellor said that he would take account of that. That was not, of course, what he had just said. He went on: The hon. Gentleman can wait for the Budget, when he will see what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.40.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "f newspapers which were friendly to themselves. Nor was there any doubt about the Stock Exchange reaction to this statement. The main heading, the next day, on Thursday, 28th February in the Evening Standard City column was: Tax Hint Gives Cinema Shares a Boost. The main heading in the Star was: Cinemas Cheered by Eccles Trailer. Share values, as I think everybody knows, moved upwards on Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "llected from the men who exhibit films and is handed over to those who produce the films in Britain. The person to whom goes much of the credit—and I think it is credit—for inventing that levy is the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson), who invented it when he was President of the Board of Trade. He introduced the levy in 1950. It has been very much attacked as a system from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like the right hon. Gentleman's argument now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " the levy were all changed. Since then, discussions have continued between the Treasury and the film industry almost every year, the industry claiming that the duty was linked with the levy and the Treasury not concurring. The right hon. Gentleman is as familiar with those matters as I was when I was President of the Board of Trade. Whether they are linked or not is, perhaps, a fruitless argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "end was asked by the hon. Member for Govan (Mr. Rankin) whether he would reduce Entertainments Duty in the Budget, and my right hon. Friend said: There is no other way that he can do it.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 27th February, 1957; Vol. 565, c. 1238.] To me, in the context of those words, that simply meant that the £1¼ million will be thrown into the balance to the credit of the cinema industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.53.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "isfied that there is no leak; none, I think, could be suggested. As to the propriety of the statement, I believe it to be right. These things should be weighed with all the other pros and cons among the pluses and the minuses which go to making up a Budget. The method adopted differs little, if at all, from the policy pursued upon this matter for many years, and I believe it to be the correct one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": "st, when this matter was first ventilated, an hon. Member on the other side of the House seemed to make a reference to myself, and, that being so, I should not wish to remain wholly silent, though I shall speak only very briefly now, since that reference may be misunderstood or misinterpreted. As is known to the House, in November, 1947, I was concerned in an incident somewhat similar to this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did he offer it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "n. Friend had apologised for a sin which he had not committed the first to have torn him to pieces would have been the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the milk of human kindness. My judgment is that my right hon. Friend was quite right not to apologise for an offence he did not commit and that the Prime Minister was quite right not to accept his resignation, which he ought not to have offered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "he first to have torn him to pieces would have been the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the milk of human kindness. My judgment is that my right hon. Friend was quite right not to apologise for an offence he did not commit and that the Prime Minister was quite right not to accept his resignation, which he ought not to have offered. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Did he offer it?\"] So the Prime Minister said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the whole point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "ve the Entertainments Duty. There are scares on the Stock Exchange, etc. My conclusion is that these things should not be let out piecemeal from time to time and then become matters of acrimonious debate in the House, but that when necessary there should be firm statements by the Government. The Government should say that they intend to deal with points which will also be dealt with in the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "it matter if there was speculation in shares following the speech of my right hon. Friend? It does not even matter that there was no speculation some years ago following the speech of the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton). After every Chancellor has declared his Budget the Stock Exchange goes haywire. If it can go haywire on the day after the Budget day, why not at any other time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was not in Jamaica anyway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "cks of sheep and tilting at windmills, while Sancho Panza sits grinning on his donkey. First we had the right hon. Gentleman's dire, shocking and, to my mind, un-English pronouncements at the time of Suez. Secondly, we had his foolish absence in the United States of America when Ministers on our Front Bench here were being accused of putting an unconstitutional choice before Her Majesty the Queen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "preceding_text": "241 and 1317.] I ask hon. Members in all parts of the House whether, if they had been in the position of the President of the Board of Trade and had made an indiscretion, they would have tried to get out of it by making insulting remarks about a Member of the Opposition. Speaking as a woman, I can only call that contemptible conduct in a man—cowardly, but I am not allowed to say that in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.71.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "We have had one denial from the right hon. Gentleman. I do not know what value we can place on this other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think we should pursue this any further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.76.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.78.7", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.78.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.89.2", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From the Chancellor of the Exchequer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "he content of the Budget the day before; and then we can all gain some advantage from it. We have had from the noble Lord a statement that this debate is unnecessary and a waste of the time of the House, and the noble Lord took a rather long time to say it. From the President of the Board of Trade we have had a statement which suggests that this was really a serious statement of Government policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.89.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"His uncle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "t the moment—and desire of the right hon. Gentleman to bring himself a little more into prominence. Reputations rise and reputations fall in these circumstances. In the same Evening Standard article, last Thursday, we were told by Mr. Randolph Churchill that even the noble Lord the Prime Minister's uncle has been going down a little since the appointment and has been wandering round the corridors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.92.5", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "eat combine who adorns the Opposition benches, the hon. Member for Islington, East (Mr. E. Fletcher), is not present to hear what happened to his own shares. Associated British were called at 10s. 6d. to 11s. on the Wednesday and 11s. to 11 s. 3d. on the Thursday, again a rise of 6d. On the Friday they were back to 10s. 6d. to 11s., the exact quotation that held good before the statement was made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.92.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is well-informed enough to understand. It is his back benchers who do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is well-informed enough to understand. It is his back benchers who do not know. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes. I am trying to show that the amount of speculation which some Members of the Opposition fear took place is exaggerated in their minds. I am trying to put before the House the actual facts, which the right hon. Gentleman Will agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.95.3", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "al amount that can be dealt with would be less than £1,000, even if the maximum were taken from the jobbers' offices. All I am saying to the Opposition is that their fears—I admit legitimate fears—that somebody has gained by this so-called leakage, are highly exaggerated and would not bear investigation. I would like somebody on this side of the House to ask for all the jobbers' books to be shown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.95.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "gs at all. Whatever the rights or wrongs of what my right hon. Friend may have said, I am trying to show that what has been alleged as the great share-out behind it is wholly imaginary and part of the campaign of hon. Members opposite to throw discredit at my right hon. Friend. This debate seems to have been a complete waste of a day's Parliamentary time in order to have a petty little witch hunt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "d endeavour to come to the Government's assistance. The hon. Member for Louth seems to be under a misapprehension about the scope of the debate. It deals partly with matters which are concerned with money making on the Stock Exchange and partly with matters of honour and the standards of the House. The hon. Member for Louth confined himself to the part which was no doubt within his own experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.105.3", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ns a week or so ago. Apparently, just as Ministers in the present Government who commit indiscretions need not apologise for them, so other Ministers in the Gov- ernment, if they are asked Questions, need not trouble to answer them but need only attempt to score off the Members who have asked them. I said that no Government had observed these low standards since about a hundred years ago, bat the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman be in favour of a Select Committee of inquiry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leonard Ropner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leonard Ropner", "preceding_text": "The remarks which I made had no reference whatever to what the President of the Board of Trade had said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Arrogance", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. If I may finish this part of what I have to say, I will then give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nd of the debate, but he did it immediately. I have the OFFICIAL REPORT here, and these are the very next words of my right hon. Friend: I said that the Chancellor said that he would take account of that. The hon. Gentleman can wait for the Budget, when he will see what it means. He made the correction immediately, if it was a correction—what the right hon. Gentleman wrongly said was a correction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-04", "file": "debates1957-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "36921f207a4ac220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET INTENTION (SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Why?'", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall try to explain to the right hon. Gentleman the answer to both his questions. If he will read column 1238, he will see that my right hon. Friend said, I hope that tomorrow morning they will feel more cheerful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-04a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-05", "file": "debates1957-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25ed76d9aa972491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GHANA (MEMBERSHIP OF COMMONWEALTH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Although the Prime Minister has drawn attention to the fact that this is not the first Colony to emerge to independent status, does he not realise that there is a particular feature on this occasion, namely, that this is the first coloured Colony to emerge to Dominion status?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-05", "file": "debates1957-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25ed76d9aa972491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "NUCLEAR POWER (REVISED PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carmarthen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "If a suitable site can be found, at least one of these stations will be in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-05", "file": "debates1957-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25ed76d9aa972491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.189.2", "colnum": "189", "heading": "NUCLEAR POWER (REVISED PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "As far as I know, my hon. Friend's statistics are about as accurate as his Latin pronunciation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-05", "file": "debates1957-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25ed76d9aa972491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.204.4", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Navy Estimates, 1957–58; Navy Estimates, 1957–58, Vote on Account", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Battleships.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " shall we again find ourselves doing all this only to make it available for others to build up on our experience and become much more efficient than we are? We congratulate ourselves on doing all this, but we ought to complete it and make sure that we have the aircraft to match the carrier. I should like, if I may, to go on with the ships. I am in no doubt at all that we should scrap the warships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-05", "file": "debates1957-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25ed76d9aa972491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Navy Estimates, 1957–58; Navy Estimates, 1957–58, Vote on Account", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "us trouble here. Although the Marines have throughout their history been admirable in the form of work that they have had to do, which has been to go in first and come out last in the conventional attack, I am told that during the war when efforts were made to build them up as Commandos they were less good than people who were brought in from other Services. The Marines were less flexible in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-05", "file": "debates1957-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25ed76d9aa972491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Navy Estimates, 1957–58; Navy Estimates, 1957–58, Vote on Account", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": "I should like to say something about that, but time prevents me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-05", "file": "debates1957-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25ed76d9aa972491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.298.5", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Navy Estimates, 1957–58; Navy Estimates, 1957–58, Vote on Account", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ernment are considering at the moment in their current review of defence policy, and I am afraid that I cannot say anything about it. I assure the Committee, however, that the Admiralty's policy is not to hold on to anything that is unnecessary, but to keep ahead with what is new and to be in the van of development at all cost. If necessary, old ships in reserve will be allowed to get older still—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-05a.298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-06", "file": "debates1957-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f7499a96f2a19d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ules, about ordinary hon. Members and ordinary Departments of State, I ask that the same rules and the same standard shall apply to the legal profession. This, of course, is a matter of history. There was a time, and I think that there are still survivors of it, when the House of Commons was organised, and the times of its meetings arranged to meet the convenience of hon. Members who were lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-06", "file": "debates1957-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f7499a96f2a19d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "With respect, I did not raise it. It is the hon. Member for Dudley who raised it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-06", "file": "debates1957-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f7499a96f2a19d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A joke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, he did, by what he said. Let me explain it for a moment or two. The hon. Member suggested that only barristers or, I think he said, ex-Law Officers, should be expected to, and would, if asked, do their professional work, that is to say, handle briefs in the courts, for nothing once they had earned £100. I was suggesting that that struck me as rather a novel suggestion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-06", "file": "debates1957-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f7499a96f2a19d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "ition, and it is a serious matter. Until the recent by-election at Lewisham, North not a single member of the Bar has become a Member of the House on our side. Members of the House who are also members of the Bar have left the House to go back to the Bar. I understand from businessmen that the House of Commons is not getting from among businessmen people it would be desirable to have in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-06", "file": "debates1957-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f7499a96f2a19d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£24,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " of his predecessor there was no reticence. The figures are in HANSARD. The total fees paid to members of the Bar attending Nuremberg were £52,396. The largest or second largest fee was paid to Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, as he then was, the present Lord Chancellor, who was one of the most distinguished opponents of the Labour Government of the day. His fees, I believe, were either £14,000 or £24,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-06a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-07", "file": "debates1957-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bccda52fb6daf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-07a.530.5", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I will bear all these matters in mind. I am sorry if I misunderstood the hon. Gentleman's Question. I thought he was suggesting, not that we should meet at eight o'clock, but later in the day, in order to leave more of the day open. I will only add that I think that hon. Members as a whole have always taken a fair share of the Committee work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-07a.530.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-07", "file": "debates1957-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bccda52fb6daf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-07a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1957–58; Air Estimates, 1957–58, Vote on Account", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Air (Mr. George Ward)", "preceding_text": "hould not like to leave the subject of the fighter force without paying a tribute to the auxiliary fighter squadrons. It is very sad indeed to have to disband units which had such a great record in the last war and have kept up such a fine spirit and standard of efficiency in peace. They go in the knowledge of their own high efficiency and the country's lasting appreciation of their loyal service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-07a.539.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-07", "file": "debates1957-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bccda52fb6daf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-07a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1957–58; Air Estimates, 1957–58, Vote on Account", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "on a community that does not want it, that constitutes invasion. The Western Isles have their own ideas about the Sabbath, although to some people they may be antiquated and out of date, and their way of life will be interfered with. The hon. Member for the Western Isles talked about the possibility of the Government treating this popular uprising severely and sending its leader to the Seychelles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-07a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-07", "file": "debates1957-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1bccda52fb6daf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-07a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1957–58; Air Estimates, 1957–58, Vote on Account", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A united front.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " Isles talked about the possibility of the Government treating this popular uprising severely and sending its leader to the Seychelles. [ Laughter. ] Of course the Government are used to handling clerics in this way. It is another part of the Western way of life. Imagine the position if Father John Morrison of South Uist were sent to the Seychelles. What an interesting conversation there would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-07a.627.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-08", "file": "debates1957-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "a9b564a6ccac06f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-08a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "DENTISTS (SHORTAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "nd all about manufacturing and fitting dentures, things which the dentist will not use in, for example, the school dental service. All the dentist requires for the school dental service is a knowledge of children's dentistry covering the filling of deciduous and permanent teeth. In a sense, the school dentist is, in relation to the extent of the knowledge which he has in other regards, frustrated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-08a.694.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-11", "file": "debates1957-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "09a4eae123f648c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "tive Committee for Devonshire also strongly supports the hunting of deer; and, thirdly, that this is necessary to protect crops on Exmoor? Is the Minister aware that the Devon and Somerset Staghounds in their season ending 1956–57 paid out for crop damage by deer about £24 10s. for the whole season, thus showing that the damage is negligible? Will the Minister now take the necessary steps——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-11", "file": "debates1957-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "09a4eae123f648c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.789.5", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "There are very great practical difficulties to shooting in the conditions in the big woodland areas in which these deer spend most of their time. I would refer the hon. Member to the Report of the Scott Henderson Committee of 1951 which looked into this whole matter and which reported that hunting was a necessary and useful method of controlling red deer on Exmoor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.789.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-11", "file": "debates1957-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "09a4eae123f648c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.796.7", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I agree with what the hon. Gentleman says. I do not think that we have reached the ceiling of our desirable milk consumption. I should like to see it go higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.796.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-11", "file": "debates1957-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "09a4eae123f648c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.797.5", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman not forgotten that he has repeatedly admitted here that the consumption of milk has fallen each time he has put up the price?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-11", "file": "debates1957-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "09a4eae123f648c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Estimates, 1957–58; Army Estimates, 1957–58, Vote on Account", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is still a vested interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "t one moment this afternoon—to men working in a Department who know only too well the awful price they have had to pay and this country has had to pay for being over-pared and cheese-pared in days gone by. I believe that the professional Service man, whether soldier, sailor or airman, is the sort of person who tries to do his best by his own lights to serve his country to the best of his capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-11", "file": "debates1957-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "09a4eae123f648c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Estimates, 1957–58; Army Estimates, 1957–58, Vote on Account", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Home Defence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Islington, North made some interesting suggestions about a kind of civil defence function, and there is something to be said for that, though I am bound to say that I agree with part of the criticism of my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) that, in the case of a real nuclear attack on this country. It is very difficult to take any such civil functions seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-11a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-12", "file": "debates1957-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "16bfa0e68d81138c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-12a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that that is a very unsatisfactory Answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-12a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-12", "file": "debates1957-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "16bfa0e68d81138c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-12a.960.6", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the Minister know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Of course there are thousands, many thousands,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-12a.960.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-12", "file": "debates1957-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "16bfa0e68d81138c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-12a.965.8", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Dr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Minister of Education is wisely and eloquently urging the need for greater expenditure on education, and that educationists of all political parties in local government are very alarmed at the fact that the proposed block grant will either mean new heavy financial burdens on local education committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-12a.965.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-12", "file": "debates1957-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "16bfa0e68d81138c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-12a.970.15", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "the tremendous increase in the cost of interest, details of which he has avoided giving us here today by putting the Answer in HANSARD for tomorrow? Further, is it not a fact that such an authority as the London County Council, which is still building a fair number of houses but less than half of what it was building eight or nine years ago, is finding it impossible to house from the housing list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-12a.970.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-13", "file": "debates1957-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb9c8c911dc8c3b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-13a.1118.5", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I recognise that the numbers are very large, but I think they also represent the degree of normality which is returning", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-13a.1118.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-13", "file": "debates1957-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fb9c8c911dc8c3b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-13a.1261.3", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY (LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the President of the Board of Trade?", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Draft Cotton Industry Development Council (Amendment No. 3) Order. 1957, a copy of which was laid before this House on 22nd February, be approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-13a.1261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his acknowledgement of the interest of my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgwater and myself, which is rather more immediate than is that of the hon. Member for Bristol, South (Mr. Wilkins) who raised the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1303.8", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that I am not surprised by that Answer, because when Mr. Moremoholo applied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1303.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary has repeated what he has said before, that the major part of the blame for the delay in opening the Canal is due to the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I do not want to return to this matter in my speech; I would rather have it cleared up now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1330.2", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": " was that the Arabs were entitled to be guaranteed against any territorial ambitions by Israel—and I make no comment upon that. But his second point was that Israel was entitled to be guaranteed against extermination. Is that really all? Is it not to be guaranteed in its territorial integrity, subject to frontier rectification? Is it not to be guaranteed recognition as a State upon the same basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1330.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": " Interruption. ] It is extremely difficult to make myself heard. It takes very much longer when there is this childish background of catcalls going on. Is Israel not to be guaranteed, further, that there shall be no continuance of the economic blockade, which is bound to lead to further unrest, and the interference with the passage, across neighbouring territories, of people who happen to be Jews?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1330.4", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House is getting a little impatient with the length of the intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1334.0", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The answer is what I said in my speech. I have answered the question of the right hon. Gentleman about four times. If he will study HANSARD he will see that the answer is quite clear. There is nothing sinister about this, and those who suggest it do their country a very ill service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1334.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": ". There is nothing sinister about this, and those who suggest it do their country a very ill service. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Once again, what we want is a settlement between the two sides. I still take the view that there must be a compromise on frontiers if there is to be that settlement. I have never been so foolish as to say how much territory one side or the other would have to give up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1334.2", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Government supporters ought not to cheer a Minister whenever he suggests that what has been said on this side is deleterious to the welfare of the country when, of course, the Suez maniacs were the patriots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1334.2", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "fore, and the right hon. and learned Gentleman should take an early opportunity of putting it right. If he does not, what does he once more do? This is why we are anxious about it. He arouses Arab expectations and stimulates Israeli fears. He once more helps to create the impression, wittingly or unwittingly, that the Arabs can still gain substantially at the expense of existing Israeli territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman dodged it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had said that. I thought that I had made it quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had said that. I thought that I had made it quite clear. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman dodged it.\"] No. If hon. Members would do me the honour of reading what I have said, I said precisely that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "ded to the United Nations, or as the question of Hungary was handed over? If that were the threat of the right hon. Member it was a very poor one, and he knows it was a very poor one. All this bombast, all this fine stuff, this rhetoric—which I much admire and wish I had a fraction of it—was really eye-wash when it ended with the declaration that he would hand the issue back to the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "ot lead and Egypt is in a plight that does not enable her to go to war with anybody face-to-face. She can fight a back-stairs dagger war, and do it very well by long and horrid experience. I take the position in Gaza today to be a terribly serious one. It seems to me a fearful thing that an encouragement or implied assurances should have been given to Israel and should have proved to be worthless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1366.6", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Supposing it did?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "We would be testing whether the Government of Egypt intended to interfere with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1366.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What violence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "terhouse) was present in the Chamber now because I should like to say something to him as well. I think that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman should go back to school. I do not wish to be offensive, but I think it disastrous that a person of his standing should for a single moment contemplate carrying out the violence which he contemplated over the Canal. It seems absolutely fantastic in 1957—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1373.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "arguing about it, and the situation then might have been quite different. As I suppose most hon. Members know, I have just been for one of my many trips as far east as Teheran—not to see Dr. Mossadegh—and back as far west as Rabat. I was received in a very friendly fashion and was astonished that nobody spat at me. I wish that the right hon. and gallant Member for Leicester, South-East were here——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if the hon. Member for Farnham (Mr. Nicholson) did not listen to what I said. I was very interested in what he said, and with which I largely agree, but I felt it was unwise to say it at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "t will be quite possible to start to work for a solution. Whether we shall get a decision or not, I do not know, but I am quite sure that we should begin to pay a little more attention to the fourth arm— the blare of the wireless. Those of us who have been to these territories realise that, unfortunately, about 95 per cent, of the population do not read, but they all listen. And they do not drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1432.2", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Did the right hon. and gallant Gentleman hear it?", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "t I have mentioned. The United Nations now stands at the bar of world opinion and will be judged by the success of the action which it is now taking in settling these problems. Several hon. Members have said that. It is now deeds and not resolutions that will count. My right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Leicester, South-East (Captain Waterhouse) in, if I may say so, an admirable speech——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-14", "file": "debates1957-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffdd5e2f5c60c184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1433.8", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard all that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members may be interested to have the latest news from the Canal. If I may read that out, perhaps the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale will not object. General Wheeler has reported to the Secretary-General that the Canal proper with its ports, harbourages and by-passes is cleared of wrecks, with the exception of two in the south—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-14a.1433.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-15", "file": "debates1957-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f6f574fc1c9288c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-15a.1520.2", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH OF SCOTLAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "get the advantage of fresh air and a much better type of life than that in a great city. It has been suggested that the Government might give a tax-free holiday to these industries, that an industry and its workers which went to the Highlands would pay no Income Tax for ten years. That might promote a few experiments in moving industry out to the Highlands. It would cause a lot of interest anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-15a.1520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-15", "file": "debates1957-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f6f574fc1c9288c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-15a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH OF SCOTLAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "I quite agree that it could be amended, if that were thought desirable, at a later stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-15a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-15", "file": "debates1957-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f6f574fc1c9288c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-15a.1553.1", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH OF SCOTLAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. N. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. N. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Sir D. Robertson) will feel after the debate that it has not been worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-15a.1553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-18", "file": "debates1957-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "28b062d8cc1074b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.22.5", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "The report to which I referred was, of course, a report dealing only with the security arrangements at Rampton. Since that date, my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary has visited Rampton and expressed himself more than satisfied both with conditions there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.22.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-18", "file": "debates1957-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "28b062d8cc1074b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And more arbitration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "e employers would agree to negotiate? In these circumstances, would not the Minister stop being the man who is holding the ring, and go into the ring to advise and use all the influence and authority which he possesses as Minister of Labour to urge the employers to begin negotiations? Is it not the case that, no matter how long this strike lasts, the end of it will be negotiations round the table?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-18", "file": "debates1957-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "28b062d8cc1074b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "utes ending in strikes? The whole purpose of negotiation and conciliation is to try to reach an accommodation. If an application is made and it is wholly rejected and then, at the very end of a long series of acrimonious discussions, the employers agree to arbitration, they have themselves committed a sin against the spirit of the relationship between the unions and the employers of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-18", "file": "debates1957-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "28b062d8cc1074b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "PETROL AND FUEL OIL (INCREASED RATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I should like to reject entirely what the right hon. Gentleman says about the way that this scheme has been administered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-18", "file": "debates1957-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "28b062d8cc1074b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "PETROL AND FUEL OIL (INCREASED RATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is in error in the matter. The increase in the retail cost was not designed to enable proprietors of garages or other distributors to maintain their profits at any particular level, but to enable them to maintain roughly the same profit per gallon sold, which is an entirely different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.47.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-18", "file": "debates1957-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "28b062d8cc1074b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Member has said that. He knows, and he has been told more than once, that the London County Council started slum clearance programmes four years before the present Government came into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.92.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-18", "file": "debates1957-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "28b062d8cc1074b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (TREATMENT OF FOREIGNERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "ent of my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster, but that I was grateful to him for raising this matter because it allowed me to ventilate what I believe to be a truly shocking personal case. It enables me to ask if it is possible—and we can all agree, I know, that we have the good will of the Parliamentary Secretary—to see if we can increase the degree of reciprocity, and that is all we want.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-18a.171.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman reflects very carefully, he will realise that a comparison between housing and agriculture in this matter is not appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.195.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman has so much sympathy with these ex-Service men, why is he increasing their rent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.196.7", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend not agree with me in saying that the fact that we in Scotland will be 100 per cent. T. T. in two years' time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.196.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "marks—if not the others—of the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman), who said that one wants to achieve an honourable settlement. I could bring the two sides together at the Ministry if they were merely to discuss the weather or something like that, but the position is that the employers are perfectly ready to meet the unions but do not want to discuss a wage claim or make an offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "g to proclaim that after the Government have announced that they are to increase the price of welfare milk. Last week an hon. Member suggested that there should be a milk bar in the House of Commons for hon. Members. With due respect, I would say that it is not the stomachs of Members of Parliament or of Ministers of Agriculture which need the milk; indeed, some of them would be better without it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "become true drug addicts, the World Health Organisation warned yesterday. Meeting in Geneva, the organisation condemned the drugs as potentially habit-forming and said the rapidly increasing' use of them in a number of countries was causing concern. Last night, when I got home, wondering what my sample of drugs should be, it was perhaps appropriate that I should find a packet of 25 tranquillisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.221.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hand them over.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ngs with the most responsible people. I would not be so silly as not to. The World Health Organisation has told the world. Last night, waiting for me, were the usual advertisements: Dear Doctor: Tranquillisers. You could name a dozen of them\". It goes on to boost this one, saying: … it is safe and has no contra-indications. It is the ideal tranquilliser for the management of anxiety states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ctors came away having been given no further information, and they decided forthwith to prepare a plan for withdrawal from the Service. This is a most remarkable incident because, politically, the doctors are 90 per cent. Conservative. Doctors form a most conservative profession, yet the Conservative Government could not have handled them more clumsily if they had been an implacable Communist bloc", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " politically, the doctors are 90 per cent. Conservative. Doctors form a most conservative profession, yet the Conservative Government could not have handled them more clumsily if they had been an implacable Communist bloc [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If hon. Members think that that comment is too strong, I ask them to consider what the Daily Telegraph says. It is the mouthpiece of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "withdrawal", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "nt at the best. This week, the doctors are meeting to arrange the final details of their withdrawal from the Service. There is no question of the British Medical Association wanting to withdraw its doctors. The Medical Practitioners' Union does not want to withdraw the doctors. It wants to support the Service. The British Medical Journal said, on 19th March: If politicians say that such an action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.232.3", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It can.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "The amount for the year starting next April will be £18 million, almost exactly double that for the year when we came into office. It cannot be alleged that costs have doubled during that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "n, and I can only hope that it will throw some light on what is a difficult subject. I do not know whether the right hon. Lady was suggesting that proprietary medicines should be banned from the National Health Service altogether or whether she thought that we should only give the right to the doctor to prescribe them subject to certain limitations. I have not so far been asked about welfare milk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "ren in social habits and good manners. Together, in a rather different sense, with the morning assembly, it is a vital part of school life, and I wish that more parents would allow their children to make use of it. From my own experience and that of teachers to whom I have talked, I am quite sure that price is not generally a deterrent. At 10d., and soon at Is., it represents extremely good value—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "t. It goes on to say: The truth is that at the moment wages have never been so high, yet the high wage-earners are receiving massive free benefits of various sorts which are met out of taxation. The Conservatives have been trying to bring sense to this situation. We are taxed to death to provide free benefits for people who are quite well paid. Subsidies should he for the needy, not for everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "ax is that in respect of the retirement pension, for the good reason that the retirement pension is taxable when it is paid. The extra 10d.—or, indeed, the present 10d.—for the stamp is not an allowable expense for tax. Therefore, it is wrong to suggest, as the right hon. Gentleman undoubtedly did, that the 10d. will be paid less tax by those who are better off and therefore subject to Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are hatched.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member had better not count his chickens before they are hatched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister leaves that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-19", "file": "debates1957-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e40249a869295956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have earned it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "n the old, the sick, the large families and those who need it most—and not to spread social benefits, in the form of general subsidies, whether they be on food or rent, over the population, the great majority of whom do not need them. I do not think that right hon. Gentlemen opposite deny the high standard which the great mass of wage earners now enjoy. Certainly, the Daily Herald acknowledges it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-19a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-20", "file": "debates1957-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "82f4615b1f44d529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA (LIMITATIONS ON TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "he Minister ensure that when this matter is raised at Bermuda, which we all welcome, it will be borne in mind that it stems from action taken in 1951 under the United Nations Resolution of 18th May, and that various predecessors of his have given as the excuse for the continuance of these restrictions first, that fighting was going on in Korea and, second, that fighting was going on in Indo China—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-20", "file": "debates1957-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "82f4615b1f44d529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA (LIMITATIONS ON TRADE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is an excuse which has ever been used in this House for the procedure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.387.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-20", "file": "debates1957-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "82f4615b1f44d529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept any of the conclusions of the hon. Member, which are based upon an inaccurate and light-hearted approach to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-20", "file": "debates1957-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "82f4615b1f44d529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member knows, there still can be communications with the Archbishop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-20", "file": "debates1957-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "82f4615b1f44d529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ind the cessation of operations in Cyprus, or the question of the suspension of the death penalty, and matters of that kind—I hope that the House will bear with me if I answer fully but as briefly as I can upon these two points. I would ask everybody to bear in mind that the E.O.K.A. statement was merely an offer of a suspension, and that there was last night another very brutal murder by E.O.K.A.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.397.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-20", "file": "debates1957-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "82f4615b1f44d529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the conclusion which the right hon. Gentleman has reached will be shared by the family of the man who was murdered yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-20", "file": "debates1957-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "82f4615b1f44d529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "PEOPLE'S DISPENSARY FOR SICK ANIMALS BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "I have not started to deal with the 1953 point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-20", "file": "debates1957-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "82f4615b1f44d529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "PEOPLE'S DISPENSARY FOR SICK ANIMALS BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "preceding_text": "sarily right that the officers of the P.D.S.A. should carry out the work themselves, under supervision. That is a thing that we are not prepared to agree to and is quite a different point from the one raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford, North. The matter has now been pretty adequately dealt with by hon. Members, and I do not think it is necessary for me to go into the matter in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-20", "file": "debates1957-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "82f4615b1f44d529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "PEOPLE'S DISPENSARY FOR SICK ANIMALS BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " not alter the argument I have used. There is, as I have said, the time factor and the fact that more full-time veterinary surgeons were becoming available all the time, added to the fact that the P.D.S.A. still found it impossible to use part-time men. That made it almost impossible for the Minister to grant any more of these licences. That is all that it is necessary for me to say on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-20a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-21", "file": "debates1957-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f3e13b654c5f78f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-21a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Potash.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I hope that horticulture will benefit directly from the increase in the nitrogenous fertiliser subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-21a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-22", "file": "debates1957-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e66d4be535e35ceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-22a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "There is no criticism whatever of the Chair, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I would not dream of putting such a criticism. I meant only that I was hoping, in the normal way, to be called at about 2.20 or half-past two, thinking that the speaker from the Opposition Front Bench would rise at three o'clock and that my hon. Friend would have replied at half-past three. That is the normal practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-22a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-22", "file": "debates1957-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e66d4be535e35ceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-22a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "e and trying to see whether we can compete with it. We go to Russia for figures and we get anxious about our applied scientists. We go to the United States for a figure and get anxious about our motor car production and civil aviation. We go to Denmark for a figure and get anxious about the state of our agricultural production. We go to Germany for a figure and start an immense new road programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-22a.732.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-22", "file": "debates1957-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e66d4be535e35ceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-22a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why curious?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "der the chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary, to consider that aspect of apprenticeship, including age of entry, the relationship with secondary education, with part-time education and the technical colleges, and the whole nature of the training. I am told that this Committee, of which. curiously, Ted Hill is a member, has already obtained an impressive amount of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-22a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-25", "file": "debates1957-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "e3bd868dab56b566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask my hon. Friend", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-25", "file": "debates1957-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "e3bd868dab56b566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was in the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Williams", "preceding_text": "d and proper. This denotes a complete somersault on the part of the Conservative Party, who, in Standing Committee, voted solidly against Clause 1 of the 1947 Bill. To a man, they were against any limitation of production of any sort or kind. I could quote many hon. Members opposite. I exclude the Minister from all this, since he was not in the House. He is, therefore, utterly blameless, as usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-25", "file": "debates1957-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "e3bd868dab56b566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "he cost of economic efficiency. In other words, we want from agriculture not merely an industry but a public service. That was the essential conception of the 1947 Act. The Bill has been described as a logical development of that Act. It is nothing of the sort. The 1947 Act was the charter of a developing countryside and of an increased prodution. The Bill is the sentence of a declining industry.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-25", "file": "debates1957-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "e3bd868dab56b566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. J. B. Godber)", "preceding_text": " forward in the Tory Party. As I have said, we have had a very useful debate, and I believe that generally there has been a fairly warm welcome for the Bill. Some of it has perhaps been a little grudging from the other side of the House, but we understand that. Hon. Members opposite know that they could not have produced anything so good, and we do not mind if they feel a little grudging about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-25", "file": "debates1957-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "e3bd868dab56b566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "for Don Valley, and I feel I must be allowed to make my speech. I shall be very happy to discuss the matter further in Committee. The hon. and learned Member for Brigg (Mr. E. L. Mallalieu) seemed very perturbed and talked particularly of the tariffs on farmers' requirements. I was not at all clear whether he did not want to see all tariffs taken off and a return to the free trade system entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-25a.921.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "While there was no stated time limit, my right hon. Friend did wait from June to November before taking the action he did. He considers, and I am sure the House will consider, that he waited a reasonable time. With that point in view, my right hon. Friend did not feel that a Motion signed by 168 Members would constitute an objection of substance within the time limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.940.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read what was said.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "That is quite untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "preceding_text": " societies engaged in property management. In the same way as the Minister of Labour and National Service would consult the T.U.C. on labour problems, so, in a major operation of this kind affecting about 860,000 families, consultation might have gone on with the professional bodies to get advice other than that given in their memoranda. Completely supporting the Bill, as my hon. Friends and I do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "preceding_text": "essive rents being charged in built-up areas like London and the big cities, grave hardship and damage may ensue. Principally for that reason my hon. Friends and I have put down the proposed new Clause. If my right hon. Friend could have taken powers under Clause 10 (3) not only to increase the number of properties to be decontrolled but to deal with such chaos as might ensue after fifteen months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "e period of three years ahead a house or flat which comes out of control shall have its rent limited to an amount not more than two-and-a-half times the gross value. I presume that my hon. Friend realises that his Clause would render illegal even mutual agreements reached within the period of fifteen months, if those agreements provided for a rent in excess of two-and-a-half times the gross value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.999.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "at some machinery was desirable for mitigating that. The Labour Government of the time, which had a special love for the rent tribunal idea, decided that the rent tribunal would be an appropriate machine or device for deciding what a reasonable rent should be. In the first instance, until 1954, rent tribunals only had power to reduce rents. Of course, under this Bill, a quite new situation arises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1057.7", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "hat a little over 2 per cent. of our Scottish houses had been repaired under the 1954 Act. The hon. Gentleman is unlikely to put himself in the position of being corrected by his hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson), but the hon. Member for Motherwell knows the correct figure at the latest convenient date, which is 27,000 out of 700,000, not 2 per cent., but between 3 and 4 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1057.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1058.6", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "—but most of the money has been spent—we have all done this—on minor repairs and improvements for the tenant's own comfort and convenience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1058.8", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "In a typical, well-maintained Scottish property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1058.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1059.2", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "I credit the hon. Member for Glasgow, Central, who is a constituent of mine, with knowing far more about housing conditions in Scotland than one would imagine after reading his speech. In typical well-maintained Scottish houses, the landlord regularly carries out the more costly repairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1060.5", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "t of a later Amendment, and if I can get on we might be able to reach that Amendment. One of the main reasons for the Bill is that if we are to have houses put into repair, and, what is more, kept in repair, the rent must be reasonably adequate, In spite of everything that has been said, I do not believe that the average Scottish tenant is opposed to paying a slightly higher rent for a good house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1060.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "preceding_text": "o me to be at all likely to penalise the man who was just out for a quick profit, whereas they would certainly have damaged and damnified ordinary people who in the course of perfectly normal business, winding up estates and the like, would have entered into property transactions after 7th February, 1956. I say here and now that I am grateful to my hon. Friends for having raised this in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1079.5", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By crook.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "e Minister, do not like, may find themselves either on the street or subject to a long lease which they have signed, under misapprehension, at too high a price. How can anyone seriously balance the two damages that will be done, on the one side and on the other? I have taken some time, but I believe that this matter of speculation is important. Of course, if the Government, by hook or by \"Brooke\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1079.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1079.5", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "er of speculation is important. Of course, if the Government, by hook or by \"Brooke\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"By crook.\"]—are deterinmed to get this, nobody, at this late stage, can stop them. I know that we shall be jeered at by the hon. and learned Gentleman. We have carried this against the Government upstairs, but there is no point at all on our part to try to force it by voting against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1079.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "ect one against any speculation, and against excessive rents and which would have the desired effect we all have in mind. However that may be, I think it is important to define what is a speculator. May I suggest that a definition of a speculator is as follows? A speculator is a person who engages in transactions—more than one—for the purpose of gaining unjust enrichment at the expense of tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "nt was unsatisfactory. To be frank, so did all the hon. Gentlemen on those 'benches opposite know it was unsatisfactory. They knew very well that it was not the way to do it. Therefore, we have to find another way. I can see that in the light of what has been said this afternoon we must find a way. I hope that in another place, where there are men with considerable knowledge of the property world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are agreeing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "osite know it was unsatisfactory. They knew very well that it was not the way to do it. Therefore, we have to find another way. I can see that in the light of what has been said this afternoon we must find a way. I hope that in another place, where there are men with considerable knowledge of the property world—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is all very well for hon. Gentlemen opposite to laugh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " after all, some landlords and their professional advisers are not averse to safeguards and Amendments. For a very good reason, too. We often talk here about the bad landlord. He represents less than 10 per cent. of all the landlords, and about 90 per cent. of the property of this country is in the hands of the great companies, such as the Prudential and others, whose standards are of the highest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-26", "file": "debates1957-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "bc280ad782e26aeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": "Having listened to my right hon. Friend the Minister, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-26a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "t the days when he was in conflict with the Government ended when he came to the Front Bench, will he have another look at himself and see if he cannot enter into conflict once more with his colleagues on behalf of this common justice claim by the people of the North-East? Very high frequency transmission is not the answer in this area. Will he again consider the question of a separate wavelength?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1146.4", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that that is a somewhat different question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1146.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1147.4", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend realise that there is some difference in what he says now and what he told me in an Answer just before Sir John Cockcroft spoke to the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee upstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1147.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Clause 10.—(RELEASE FROM CONTROL UNDER RENT ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "d by my right hon. Friend the present Prime Minister. The hon. and learned Gentleman, although commending the principle of transfers, was, I thought, a little reluctant to admit what has been the principal impediment to exchanges taking place in the past. I think that in their hearts all hon. Members realise now that rent control has been the principal impediment to the free exchange of tenancies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Clause 10.—(RELEASE FROM CONTROL UNDER RENT ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the landlords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt, but this system of rent control, which the hon. Gentleman says has done so much good, has also caused millions of houses to fall into decay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Clause 10.—(RELEASE FROM CONTROL UNDER RENT ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "al. The hon. Member for Lewisham, North referred specifically to the Report of the Donoughmore Committee. That Committee certainly gave a great deal of attention to this subject, and it recommended that this form of legislation should be abandoned in all but the most exceptional cases. I myself entirely agree with that conclusion, and I believe that we should deal with this as an exceptional case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Clause 10.—(RELEASE FROM CONTROL UNDER RENT ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chosen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "f the facility and ruthlessness with which he flung the Prime Minister overboard. He flung him out, as it were, with the bath water. He just chucked him aside like that. Is a party infallible that introduces a Bill which has none of the effects which it predicts, and then makes the man who introduced the Bill and prophesied what was to happen their chosen leader and, therefore, the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Clause 10.—(RELEASE FROM CONTROL UNDER RENT ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "e sooner we can revert to the normal relationship of landlord and tenant in a situation where there are houses available for letting, the better for the country as a whole. I appreciate, as does my right hon. Friend and hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on the benches opposite, that the two sides of the House are divided on that issue, but I assert, speaking for hon. Members on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1194.3", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Clause 10.—(RELEASE FROM CONTROL UNDER RENT ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "It seems to me to be implicit in the whole of the case which has been deployed from the benches opposite this afternoon. In spite of what has been happening in the country in recent by-elections, it certainly seems to be assumed by hon. Members opposite that the party on this side of the House will be successful at the next General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1195.8", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Clause 10.—(RELEASE FROM CONTROL UNDER RENT ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I said nothing of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1195.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "First Schedule.—(ADJUSTMENT OF RENT IN RESPECT OF REPAIRS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Decoration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "Yes, they did; I have seen them. But that is not the point I was on. What the Amendment seeks to do, as I understand it, is to make clear that if the tenant refuses to let the landlord make such an election, then he must bear what I should have thought was the perfectly fair consequence: if the house falls into such a state of disrepair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Fourth Schedule.—(TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS ON DECONTROL.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "preceding_text": "n Committee that it was proper to extend the six months' standstill to fifteen months in the light of the present circumstances. Those are the words that I stress, because it would not necessarily be right when the time comes to make an Order under subsection (3) to keep this standstill period at fifteen months. Ex hypothesi by that time the housing situation throughout the country will be better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1278.3", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Fourth Schedule.—(TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS ON DECONTROL.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " a built-up area myself. I think the hon. Member for Acton will agree with me that we cannot look at a national problem of this kind on the basis of individual local authorities alone. I will go further than that, however, and remind the hon. Gentleman that one of the effects of the Bill will be to make more housing accommodation available in all areas, as I have repeatedly explained to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1284.8", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "These Amendments are linked with previous Amendments which passed under the Guillotine and which I have not had an opportunity to explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1284.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "graph 5 of the Amendment provides for the application of this part of the Schedule to Scotland. It contains provisions equivalent to those contained in Part I for England and Wales, but it does not contain the provision for aggregation as in paragraph 1 ( c ) of the English provisions because the case dealt with in that provision does not arise in Scotland. I hope that with that brief explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1285.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "preceding_text": "The Question is, \"That those words be there inserted in the Bill.\" Those that are of that opinion say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1286.3", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "To the contrary, \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have all been deceived.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Gurden", "preceding_text": "e why dwelling accommodation consisting of a flat over a shop should not continue to be controlled if it is below the £30 limit. I should be grateful if my right hon. Friend would clarify that point. If, even with the Amendments which have been made, the provisions of this Bill will result in taking out of control dwelling accommodation below a rateable value of £30, some of us have been deceived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "preceding_text": "A dwelling-house with a rateable value below £30 will certainly remain controlled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-27", "file": "debates1957-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4dcb36b20a622782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "PART II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Talk to the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "preceding_text": "A dwelling-house with a rateable value below £30 will certainly remain controlled. [HON. MEMBERS: \"For how long?\"] I think that my hon. Friend has at the back of his mind certain difficult questions about mixed tenancies, and I shall be glad to have a talk with him about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-27a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "My information is that the latest figures show that there were 188 females on the books of the local employment exchange and that unemployment for the area was 2·6 per cent, which, although it might not content us, is not much above the average.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1339.4", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into the detailed answer today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1339.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1346.2", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "te Members to transfer a Question from the Prime Minister, in whose competence the Question obviously lies, to a Departmental Minister who, plainly, had nothing whatever to do with the matter, and that the only possible purpose of transferring a Question in that way was to prevent the Question from being asked at all. To a less degree the same considerations would apply to the other two Questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1348.2", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The general theory upon which it works is that Ministers themselves have a more accurate idea of the limits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1349.0", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "aving said that, will the right hon. Gentleman allow me to say that it ought to have been obvious to him, when the three Questions appeared on the Order Paper, that they had a common theme, though no doubt they dealt with different aspects of it? The common theme concerned the right, or absence of right, of this country to impede or make dangerous the passage of the high seas to peaceful shipping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1349.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "n allow me to say that it ought to have been obvious to him, when the three Questions appeared on the Order Paper, that they had a common theme, though no doubt they dealt with different aspects of it? The common theme concerned the right, or absence of right, of this country to impede or make dangerous the passage of the high seas to peaceful shipping— [ Interruption .] I am not developing this——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "All three Questions were obviously connected with that, and were most conveniently to be answered together by the really responsible Minister. The effect of transferring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " attended a committee upstairs of Tories, where he was alleged to have said that to quell a revolt on the part of some backbench Tories he would introduce certain Amendments on Report? In view of similar happenings in the past, particularly over the notorious Clause 10 of the Rent Bill, will the Leader of the House give an assurance that Ministers will not go to private meetings of the Tory Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "lly not too bad, after all.\" And the party in opposition always says, \"It is shocking \". Among all the glorious uncertainties of the political sphere in which we live there is always the one cast-iron certainty that no one likes the price of anything to go up unless he happens to be selling it, including his own labour, and that is why, in the short run, this Measure cannot be universally popular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "ant effort, and with some success, to make the best case he can for the Bill. If we are to give congratulations, I should like on behalf of hon. Members on this side of the House to say to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) that we congratulate him and appreciate the work he has done in connection with the Bill and the mass of Amendments which have been dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "ightier document. The party opposite have sought to justify the use of the Guillotine procedure on the Bill by saying that a Labour Government used the Guillotine on the nationalisation of the transport, the mines, gas, electricity, steel and town and country planning. It is true that we did it, but on those occasions the Conservative Party, then the Opposition, was defying the will of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Town and country planning?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "e Guillotine on the nationalisation of the transport, the mines, gas, electricity, steel and town and country planning. It is true that we did it, but on those occasions the Conservative Party, then the Opposition, was defying the will of the people. [ Interruption .] The Labour Government of 1945 were elected on a mandate which included the nationalisation of the mines and of transport and steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "day, therefore, were faced by an Opposition which was seeking to cause delay in giving effect to election pledges. On this occasion, we as an Opposition are trying to stop the Government in their attempt to put over something for which they have no mandate. At Question Time, at least, we could judge from the talk about the \"blower\" that races were on, and we know something about three-card tricks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South-West (Mr. A. Evans) for his intervention, which was relevant to my reference a moment ago to why these old folk are likely to be forced out of their houses. It means that they have either got to go into rooms or to the workhouse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1389.5", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "d it is not very long before disrepair has spread throughout the entire house. If landlords were not spending the 40 per cent., as the hon. Member for Leicester, North-West frequently alleges, houses would have fallen into a terrible state of disrepair by the beginning of the war. But, in fact they did not. Throughout the debates on the Bill, the Opposition have regarded this as a landlords' Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "g felt it right that, making full allowance for different Scottish conditions, their general policy of working towards a gradual abolition of rent restriction should apply to Scotland as well as to England and Wales. We are satisfied that the time has come to make a beginning with this policy. At the same time, we can claim that we have had full regard to the current housing situation in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ery well what happens every morning in great areas of Scotland? People leave their homes and have to catch trains in order to get to work at a distance. What is the cause of that? It is the complete rigidity which exists over this question. I am not saying that the measures we propose will do a great deal to change that, but this is a modest beginning. If we can get people to go to smaller houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1429.3", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And factories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " in order. Another factor left out of public consideration so far has been the long-term advantages of the Bill. There is no doubt in my mind that the long-term advantages will accrue despite the misgivings that I have about the operation of Clause 10 (1). We have only to look at the history of the past ten years. For five years hon. Members opposite were struggling to build 200,000 houses a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1429.5", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "We have been building 300,000 houses a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1429.5", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The local authorities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "We have been building 300,000 houses a year. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'we'?\"] The nation under a Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1429.7", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "— and it seems that we are no nearer a solution to our housing problem than we were when we started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1429.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1443.5", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finlay", "preceding_text": " alternative proposed by hon. Members opposite which is higher rents, more inflation and more subsidies, which would come out of the pockets of the taxpayers. The Government are entitled to inquire why hon. Members opposite have been so diffident in proffering a constructive alternative in this serious matter of setting the nation's stock of houses in proper order. I have spoken quite long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1443.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1467.11", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": " Bill as being not universally popular in the short run— rather an understatement I think— that its succesful operation would depend not only on the Bill but on the attitude of the people. Is there any reasonable chance that with the beginning that this Bill has had in this House, and from both sides, with the feeling that has already been aroused in the country— and not by any vicious propaganda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1467.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1467.11", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "rstatement I think— that its succesful operation would depend not only on the Bill but on the attitude of the people. Is there any reasonable chance that with the beginning that this Bill has had in this House, and from both sides, with the feeling that has already been aroused in the country— and not by any vicious propaganda— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]— but just by telling people what,is in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1467.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " cases in either direction, and I told the House very frankly a couple of days ago that in places with scarcity attraction, such as for some reason or another in the immediate neighbourhood of this House, we may find rents going to very high figures. But that is my judgment, and I think we shall find it working out like that. As a result of the Bill, additional accommodation will become available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1473.2", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand why the hon. and learned Member for Kettering says that the Bill will make matters worse. It will withdraw no accommodation. It will provide extra accommodation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1473.2", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "se better off, so often forget that this someone else must be leaving somewhere else and that that somewhere else will become vacant. All the time, through these long discussions on the Bill, I have kept in mind its two main purposes— first, to stop the disrepair and decay of millions of houses, and, second, to bring into better use the enormous amount of under-occupied accommodation which exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "am quite certain that there is not a single hon. Member on either side of the House who believes it would be right for the country if things were to remain indefinitely as they are at present. As I see it, we have either the plan in the Rent Bill or, alternatively, we have to make 5 million tenants into council tenants who do not want to be council tenants, taking away from them security of tenure", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "rity of tenure [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] and rent control alike. The hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Lindgren) and the hon. Member for Itchen (Dr. King) earlier in the debate spoke of anxieties and fears. As the Minister in charge of the Bill, I well know that there are genuine anxieties. I also know that there are false fears that have been fanned by the Opposition and by their Communist friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-28", "file": "debates1957-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "ae43eb49a43b8b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1475.6", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He gave way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Bell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May my right hon. Friend have a moment or two in which to reconsider the courtesy of giving way, as the hon. and learned Gentleman did?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-28a.1475.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-03-29", "file": "debates1957-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "a29633ae53288d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-29a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think that I can give any such undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-03-29a.1580.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I must correct the Minister. I did not use that expression. I am absolutely responsible in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.7.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "difficulties, and further detailed consultations will, I hope, bring us nearer together. We discussed very frankly the present position and the future of the United Nations. I explained to the President our anxieties about its recent developments which spring, of course, from the distortion of the structure originally intended. This is due to the persistent use of the veto in the Security Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.37.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.50.13", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ost primitive to the most modern, have, during the course of their ordinary lives, been exposed to what are called cosmic rays, and also the radiation from soil and rocks and substances within their own bodies. This has been going on during all our lives and during all the lives of our fathers and grandfathers back to Adam himself. According to the Medical Research Committee's Report, cosmic rays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.50.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then the Daily Herald is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " be in the control of the United States— which is the law of the United States— and to that extent the Americans have a negative control; but it is absolutely untrue to say that the President and not the British Government will decide when these missiles will be launched and at whom. So long as we rely upon the American warheads, and only so long, that will remain a matter for the two Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.58.4", "colnum": "58", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "tional control of the Suez Canal, and deplores both the Resolution of the General Assembly calling for immediate and unconditional withdrawal of British and French troops from Egypt, and the attitude of the United States of America which is gravely endangering the Atlantic alliance. ] Perhaps after the Prime Minister's speech, or that part of it, they will now be sensible and withdraw their names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.58.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.58.4", "colnum": "58", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: What would the right hon. Gentleman do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " must say that when one reads every day in the papers about the black represssion which is now descending on Hungary and hears news of execution squads at work, and one learns that one by one or dozen by dozen the leaders of the Hungarian revolt, whom we were praising so recently, are being dragged from their homes and shot, and hundreds and thousands of men and women are being deported to Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.58.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.70.2", "colnum": "70", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "edge that the Government have, that I would not commit myself to going ahead with these tests in all circumstances and whatever the position may be. After all, the choice might be this. If we went ahead with the tests, then there might be an endless succession of tests by other countries with the prospect of very grave damage to the human race as a whole. If we stop the tests, that all disappears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.70.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.70.2", "colnum": "70", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ssue. I would ask hon. Members on the back benches opposite who, if I may say so, are no better informed than I am in this matter, to search their own hearts. Suppose they were in a position where they had to make a decision and where, if they allowed the tests to go on, there was this fearful prospect ahead, and, on the other hand, if they stopped them they knew they could get genuine agreement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.70.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": ". It is in the recollection of all of us that Sir Anthony Eden on 20th December said: I want to say this on the question of foreknowledge, and say it quite bluntly to the House, that there was not foreknowledge that Israel would attack Egypt— there was not.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th December, 1956; Vol. 562, c. 1518.] How do we reconcile what has now been said in this apparently truthful document —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because of the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "That shows how unfitted this House is to discuss industrial problems. Every word that the hon. Member has said is inaccurate. We have only to look in this morning's issue of The Times to see the downward curve in the value of the £ We can see how it has sagged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.84.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "sion, and therefore self-defence is armed intervention in the internal affairs of other countries to prop up the defenders of the old order and put down those who may threaten the old order. That is putting it very simply and crudely, but that is the way it works; and it effectively inhibits the Government from taking any serious steps to make peace. This side of the House knows how to make peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "We have never suggested that. I am coming to it in a minute. My right hon. Friend dealt with it in detail. We want an international agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "Taking the debate as a whole, I think that most speakers have welcomed the results of the Bermuda Conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": " my view, that would mean the end of N.A.T.O. Does the right hon. Gentleman envisage N.A.T.O. surviving under those circumstances? It means the end of the Paris Agreements. In a lecture which the right hon. Gentleman delivered in Germany, he said, rather boldly, that it would not mean the withdrawal of United States troops from Europe. Has he the slightest justification for making that assumption?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Hear, hear.[ Laughter. ] The Foreign Secretary cannot have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS' \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "se questions were to the following effect: the Labour Party support the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb because it thinks it right that we should be independent of the United States. I infer from what the right hon. Gentleman said that until the United States give us freely their nuclear weapons he is in favour of our continuing the independent manufacture of our own hydrogen weapons. Is that so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "May I intervene before the right hon. and learned Gentleman leaves that point? I feel very strongly about this. Is he aware that the Bermuda communiqué says: …a test limitation agreement could not today be effectively enforced for technical reasons, nor could breaches of it be surely detected. The Prime Minister was very vague on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.162.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "inister referred. The right hon. Gentleman said: We all revolt against the horrors of nuclear war, but nuclear war will never happen unless some nation is guilty of aggression. No one need fear our H-bomb unless he commits that crime. Mr. Bevan's policy would be an open invitation to the Communists to commit it—to conquer Europe, sweep forward to the Channel ports and then destroy our cities by \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not accept for one moment what the right hon. Gentleman has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not accept for one moment what the right hon. Gentleman has said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] I would welcome a chance of debating this matter more fully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-01", "file": "debates1957-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ea6aae0f17e1b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.167.4", "colnum": "167", "heading": "BERMUDA TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "muda of the declarations by both our Governments with regard to freedom of passage through the Straits of Tiran. We adhere to that position. We hope that there will be no difficulties. We think that the continued presence of the United Nations force will help. We made a decision as to consultation with other maritime Powers, and there is broad agreement between us as to what our position would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-01a.167.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-02", "file": "debates1957-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "dae0a83d402d0a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Prime Minister's statement yesterday seemed to indicate that he would be prepared to acknowledge any initiative from somebody else, but that he was not prepared to take steps to do this himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-02", "file": "debates1957-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "dae0a83d402d0a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The advice which the Prime Minister, and indeed the House generally, receives on these matters is from the Medical Research Council's Report. In principle, that was what the Prime Minister was basing his case on yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-02", "file": "debates1957-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "dae0a83d402d0a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GUIDED MISSILES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I know that the right hon. Gentleman is very expert in these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-02", "file": "debates1957-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "dae0a83d402d0a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Clause 12.—(POWER TO GIVE EFFECT TO ARRANGEMENTS FOR TRANSFER OF CORPORATION'S ASSETS AND LIABILITIES TO PERSON PROVIDING ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF FINANCE.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "That is not in the Clause, but it is quite clear that one will not get anybody to buy the Corporation if it is making a loss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-02", "file": "debates1957-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "dae0a83d402d0a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "CROYDON CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "ration is not the complete answer to this problem. To begin with, it is costly. Very often it is difficult to find suitable sites in built-up urban areas, and even then there are residues of refuse to be disposed of somehow or other. Of course, in the long run the refuse from our big cities can be valuable in restoring landscapes, in providing infilling for new promenades, and things of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-02", "file": "debates1957-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "dae0a83d402d0a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "AYLESBURY GRAMMAR SCHOOL (FUTURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Sir Edward Boyle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Sir Edward Boyle)", "preceding_text": " in a town the size of Aylesbury. It would be more expensive to build and to maintain than two single-sex schools of similar size. The hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. M. Stewart) asked me about cost. It is not an easy thing to dogmatise about. Obviously, two single-sex schools must be more economical than two mixed schools because certain provision has to be made separately for one sex in each school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-02a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-03", "file": "debates1957-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "60c113854b249852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.375.5", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Oh, but it does. Whilst I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his explanation, may I ask whether, in view of the dislocation that the withdrawal of these aircraft causes to the supply of newspapers, he could give some assurance that if a similar delay occurs in future steps might be taken to ensure an emergency airlift of newspapers to the area affected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.375.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-03", "file": "debates1957-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "60c113854b249852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chaos.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I certainly will. It is fair to say that we have learned a good deal in the last few months. The police, London Transport and all concerned have learned a lot and will now gradually start to apply it as the traffic, as the hon. Member rightly says, begins to come back. Therefore, I hope we shall not return to quite the state of congestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-03", "file": "debates1957-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "60c113854b249852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "New Clause. —(DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AND EFFICIENT UTILISATION OF ALL FORMS OF ENERGY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "on of these different forms of energy and what resources one is to put at the disposal of the various industries concerned for expansion and development. Is the Minister prepared to include in his picture, for example, a consideration of what allocation of manpower and materials is to be made not merely in 1965, but also in 1975, between the nuclear energy industry and the coal and oil industries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-03", "file": "debates1957-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "60c113854b249852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Clause 2.—(ESTABLISHMENT, CONSTITUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "n trade. Constantly, in private industry, we see big companies making their own capital equipment and setting up their own workshops for the purpose. Then he said: I think it will be very difficult, in principle and on a proper approach to the nationalised industries, to take away from them in all circumstances all power to manufacture their own plant. Then, in order that there should be no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-03", "file": "debates1957-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "60c113854b249852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Clause 2.—(ESTABLISHMENT, CONSTITUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": " in control of the party opposite— We must give them the maximum degree of commercial freedom in order that they may work as efficiently as possible, and it is very difficult to see how we are to give the proper commercial freedom if we do not leave the Board free to manufacture its own equipment.\" —[OFFICIAL REPORT, Standing Committee D , 7th February, 1957; c. 76–7.] Those were his words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-03", "file": "debates1957-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "60c113854b249852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Clause 2.—(ESTABLISHMENT, CONSTITUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the Leader of the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "this question to the Minister. With all the high reputation that he bears in the House—and, may I add in perfect sincerity, on both sides—does he really think that he can properly occupy the Government Front Bench in view of what he has done? Who are the Government today? Are they the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) and his friends, or are they the Paymaster-General and his colleagues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-03", "file": "debates1957-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "60c113854b249852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Clause 2.—(ESTABLISHMENT, CONSTITUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "The answer is that we wanted the Bill to be framed in the way in which the 1947 Act was framed in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-03", "file": "debates1957-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "60c113854b249852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Clause 2.—(ESTABLISHMENT, CONSTITUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "The answer is that we wanted the Bill to be framed in the way in which the 1947 Act was framed in this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] We are arguing that this change is not in any sense fair to those in the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-03", "file": "debates1957-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "60c113854b249852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Clause 2.—(ESTABLISHMENT, CONSTITUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "l be argued that nationalised industries should not be allowed to do anything out of which private industry can make satisfactory profit. That is the philosophy of hon. Members opposite. It is the philosophy which lies behind the Minister's Amendment. In our view, therefore, it is an Amendment which should be most decisively rejected by the House. I hope we shall be supported by the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-03a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-04", "file": "debates1957-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "e329d9ab774ae320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.550.4", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is not it deplorable that it has taken all this time, and Questions in the House, before the Treasury received a union deputation and made a miserable offer of 5s. a week to these lowest paid of our public servants? Why is the Treasury treating them in this dilatory and damnably off-hand sort of way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-04", "file": "debates1957-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "e329d9ab774ae320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.578.7", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BERMUDA (RACIAL DISCRIMINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.578.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-04", "file": "debates1957-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "e329d9ab774ae320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "We are very much obliged to you, Mr. Speaker, for the careful attention that you have given to the points which were raised by my hon. Friends and myself last Thursday. May I, with respect, put this to you? I gather from your Ruling that if an hon. Member objects to his Question being answered in conjunction with others he would then be entitled to put that Question down for further answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-04", "file": "debates1957-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "e329d9ab774ae320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.596.5", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Clause 13.—(BORROWING POWERS OF ELECTRICITY COUNCIL, GENERATING BOARD AND AREA BOARDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nchingbrooke) and myself. It is also the tenor of my right hon. Friend's Amendment that we will be discussing later. The tenor of my right hon. Friend's Amendment is that permissive power shall be granted to the area boards to go direct to the money market. I am delighted, therefore, to find that my right hon. Friend and myself are exactly in agreement with one another on this important principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-04", "file": "debates1957-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "e329d9ab774ae320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Clause 13.—(BORROWING POWERS OF ELECTRICITY COUNCIL, GENERATING BOARD AND AREA BOARDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is Herbert?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "May I make a further endearing intervention? All I did during the course of my speech, Mr. DeputySpeaker—and I was absolutely purist in my approach—was to follow precisely the line of the recommendations of the Herbert Committee. While I know that my right hon. Friend is quarrelling with many of those recommendations, I believe that Herbert is right in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-04", "file": "debates1957-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "e329d9ab774ae320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Clause 28.—(ENTRY ON LAND FOR PURPOSES OF EXPLORATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. H. Hayman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. H. Hayman", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Honiton (Mr. Mathew), with seven of their hon. Friends, voted against it. They did so even though the Minister, just before the end of the discussion, said: I said that I would extend the period of notice, but that I would have to consider how far I should extend it.\"—[OFFICIAL. REPORT, Standing Committee D, 14th March, 1957; c. 600.] They so disregarded the Minister's integrity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-04", "file": "debates1957-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "e329d9ab774ae320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Clause 28.—(ENTRY ON LAND FOR PURPOSES OF EXPLORATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. H. Hayman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. H. Hayman", "preceding_text": ". Friends, voted against it. They did so even though the Minister, just before the end of the discussion, said: I said that I would extend the period of notice, but that I would have to consider how far I should extend it.\"—[OFFICIAL. REPORT, Standing Committee D, 14th March, 1957; c. 600.] They so disregarded the Minister's integrity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that they were not prepared to trust him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-04a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-05", "file": "debates1957-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "34e9947da39183a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-05a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "EDUCATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "preceding_text": "hing must be done to bring that to an end. It is sometimes argued that comprehensive schools will keep back the bright children, but the examination results of a school like Holyhead, where the comprehensive system has been in operation for some time, do not indicate that. Rather do they show the opposite. Again, watching television—I hope that my hon. Friends do not think I am a television \"fan\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-05a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-05", "file": "debates1957-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "34e9947da39183a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-05a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "EDUCATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "ple whether to go to a grammar school or to join the Civil Service, or anything else, as can be devised. I know that one can have very silly examinations on occasions, but that is not the fault of the system but of the people who are applying them. I would certainly hold no brief for many of the intelligence tests. In fact, I failed one myself during the war. I have a great prejudice against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-05a.725.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-08", "file": "debates1957-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "811ba6b0851122ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.801.10", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "That is a hypothetical question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.801.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-08", "file": "debates1957-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "811ba6b0851122ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.812.7", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Further to that last answer from the right hon. Gentleman, may I ask whether it is not the case that there has been only one murder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.812.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-08", "file": "debates1957-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "811ba6b0851122ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.813.6", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The same as you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "He has the right to ask supplementary questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-08", "file": "debates1957-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "811ba6b0851122ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "On the Motion moved by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House, I have nothing to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-08", "file": "debates1957-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "811ba6b0851122ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Clause 1.—(RAISING OF LIMIT ON GUARANTEES UNDER S. 2 OF EXPORT GUARANTEES ACT, 1949.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "hich he has cited that my right hon. Friend put the possibility both of the split of the risks which is the subject of this Amendment, and the split of the market, which is the subject of the other Amendment, in a temperate, constructive and more or less interrogatory way. The difference arises from the fact that time has answered the interrogatory approach of my right hon. Friend in the negative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-08", "file": "debates1957-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "811ba6b0851122ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "warned and not be prosecuted for such an offence. I should like an assurance from the Minister that it is intended that that system of warning should continue. I am puzzled about the procedure relating to the adjournment of the court before the court orders disqualification or imprisonment. There does not appear to be in the Bill any provision for service of notice of the adjournment of the court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-08", "file": "debates1957-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "811ba6b0851122ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.926.5", "colnum": "926", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "f over 2,000 men. Many of those men have personal problems of their own—individual problems, quite apart from the collective problems which give rise to disputes. They have their individual problems relating to pay, conditions of service, welfare, travelling to and from work and a host of other things, and it has been traditional for them to discuss those problems direct with the colliery manager.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-08a.926.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.935.7", "colnum": "935", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Before the Clerk reads this Petition, I wonder whether, as a member of the Petitions Committee— although I do not profess to speak for the Committee as a whole—I may ask whether the use of this part of our procedure in the way which is now apparently becoming the practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.935.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hare", "preceding_text": "Three soldiers, who are mess waiters, spent about an hour serving refreshments and four soldiers controlled the traffic. Four horses are kept in a privately-owned hut at the camp. They are looked after by three soldiers who volunteered for the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF LORDS (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is not this Answer the real reason for the resignation of Lord Salisbury, who evidently was more concerned with the preservation of the Cecils than the preservation of Cyprus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.962.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF LORDS (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must ask the hon. Gentleman to remember the courtesy which is due from Members of this House to Members of another House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF LORDS (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman not agree that this promise, or threat—however one looks at it—:o reform the House of Lords has been in two or three Gracious Speeches, and will he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.962.8", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF LORDS (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister, will, however, recall that in the Queen's Speech this Session it was definitely stated that the Government intended to produce proposals during the Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.962.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ded, but I want to see it rewarded at the expense of idleness, not at the expense of the poor. I want concessions made to provide an opportunity for those who bring to their country their knowledge, skill and experience in industry, in the professions and in administration, but I want them provided at the expense of those who derive so much wealth from the country and give so little service to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " the expense of the poor. I want concessions made to provide an opportunity for those who bring to their country their knowledge, skill and experience in industry, in the professions and in administration, but I want them provided at the expense of those who derive so much wealth from the country and give so little service to it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"] Who are they? Indeed, they are there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "preceding_text": "veries of the modern age? As I say, she is first taxed at Surtax level from the word \"Go.\" Then, when she leaves her factory, her laboratory, at this time of high endeavour and great discovery, as soon as she gets home she is expected to use a hand-operated sewing machine—because, if she uses an electric one, the Chancellor refuses to reduce the Purchase Tax on it from 30 per cent. to 15 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The unfaithful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "elieve that the Government are completely on the wrong lines in the way they are going. Of course, we all know why the Chancellor has done this. The cheer which he received at the end of his speech from the Tory Party is the measure of the pressure which has been put upon him as a result of the falling-off in Conservative votes in recent by-elections. This Budget is designed to rally the faithful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-09", "file": "debates1957-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ed5f920657a7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "nd over a number of years and I always felt that when the time came for him to take up high office he would meet his responsibilities and take his duties as seriously as any of his predecessors have done. It does not surprise me in the least that there have been criticisms from hon. Members opposite. If they have not had much confidence in the Government during the last 12 months, the country has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-09a.1059.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S.S.R. (BRITISH INFORMATION PERIODICAL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Scots and Welsh?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "May I press my right hon. Friend to get on with this, since it is obviously important that the Russians should be able to see the way in which we live as well as the way the Americans live?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": ", for the state of industrial relations from which the nation has been suffering over the past few months. Time and time again we warned the Government that a policy which, on the one hand, forces prices up and, on the other, seeks to make it impossible for industry to pay more wages could lead only to industrial strife. In November, I quoted the menacing words of the Deputy Chief Government Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "rseas. This movement abroad is bad for our trade. Once the control has left the country a company is less likely to look to Britain for its personnel, its capital equipment and its current supplies. I could name a number of well-known mining concerns which have gone abroad for these reasons. The advantage of keeping the sources of supply of metals in British hands is too clear to require argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I think the slighted technicians and managers, if we asked them, would say that this provision in the Budget is of very great assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "ittee for its clarity and brilliance, what astonished me was how much better the figures were than any of us could have expected two months ago. It seems to me that that was no accident, but was part of the result of steady planning over the years and the restraint of the predecessors of my right hon. Friend. Yesterday, in the unfolding; of these figures, we were able to see Tory planning working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "d in agriculture; and I would, therefore, put just this one point for consideration. It is admitted that one serious limiting factor to new productive investment is the physical shortage of steel. Home-produced steel is relatively cheap, and is in short supply. We have become accustomed to relatively cheap steel in this country, just as we became accustomed for long years to relatively cheap coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get to the Budget.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "eased in 1945, but the war did not end until the peace treaties were signed. But that is not good enough for me. How much longer will the Government refuse to pay post-war credits because they were not paid in 1945? It is no use telling people that they are not being paid in 1957 because the Labour Government did not pay them in 1946. That is absolute nonsense and the matter should be settled now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "ecay, because they are destroying the ambitions and confidence of the scientific, engineering and commercial men in the lower and middle income groups and causing frustration among them. The quicker the Government get out and make way for another Government who really understand the problem, the better. By methods and techniques of controls and planning, we could gain the confidence of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ble, brilliant young men who at present want to go to Canada, America and other places now be tempted to stay at home and take advantage of the opportunities the Chancellor is providing? I am glad that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has now come to the Front Bench as I want to make this personal plea to him. Having given these incentives to the industrial leaders, I want him to stump the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " do still more and in 1959 even more, on one condition. The condition is that they produce the national wealth for him to give to them. I would commend to my right hon. Friend what is said at the end of the editorial in this morning's Manchester Guardian. The Manchester Guardian summed up the first point I make by saying: The Conservative party will only live it down…\"— that is, the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-10", "file": "debates1957-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "aedda98759c9897e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1248.5", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "official statistics, we are eating more, drinking more and smoking more. We are spending more on entertainment, sport and gambling than ever before in our long history. To say that the Tory Government are deliberately trying to make the poor poorer is to do a grave injustice to the nation as a whole. British people have never had it so good as they have in the last few years under Tory government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-10a.1248.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1270.9", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, with your permission and that of the House, I beg leave to present a Petition from a large number of persons in the Boroughs of Edmonton, Southgate and Finchley, in the county of Middlesex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1270.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1278.2", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Water.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. Of course, there are other costs, apart from flour, in bread-making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "I realise that many such shelters are unsightly and inconveniently placed but I am satisfied that the balance of advantage lies in retaining them for the present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Lord Salisbury.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I was not thinking of any immediate difficulties that might face the Opposition. I was thinking, perhaps, of some of our very experienced colleagues on both sides of the House, who, from a detached position and because of their long service, might give us some help in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1295.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1302.7", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. J. Enoch Powell)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. J. Enoch Powell)", "preceding_text": " oils special duty. To begin with the Entertainments Duty, there has so far in the course of this debate been very little criticism of my right hon. Friend's decisions in respect of reducing and reforming the duty. It has been said, it is true, that the benefit of the reductions in duty will not be passed on to the patron of the cinema, the theatre and the football ground. That remains to be seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1302.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "e Surtax range between£2,000 and£10,000. In fact, if the entire relief were stopped at£4,000, the cost would still be 80 per cent. of the cost of my right hon. Friend's proposals. Approximately 80 per cent. of the persons now affected by the full proposals are in the£2,000–£4,000 income band. This relief will go, to an overwhelming extent, to those earning incomes between those two amounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "been withdrawn from the public; that to hold back personal consumption more purchasing power should be held back from the public, presumably by higher still taxation? If so, I was really understating the case. It is not merely the view of hon. Members opposite that there should have been no relief of taxation, but there should have been an actual withdrawal of purchasing power by further taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " the party opposite, and they were associated with reserves slumping, first, to a convertability crisis, then to a devaluation crisis and, finally, to a runaway-from-Government crisis. We had a balance of payments which fluctuated wildly year by year under that party of control and planning: and, to make it all the more palatable, we had a roaring inflation accompanied by a soaring cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " half the taxation that was put on by his own Government. If he uses that argument, he must stick to it throughout. We knew from the Budget speech that \"Boyle's\" law had now been repealed with the departure of the hon. Member for Handsworth (Sir E. Boyle) from the Treasury office; but we now have a new law, \"Powell's\" law, which is: the bigger the share of income kept by anyone the better for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "are in this sacrifice, and I noticed that at that moment the faces of the back bench Members behind the Chancellor were pretty glum because they took him momentarily at his ward. He called for sacrifice by all, but what sacrifice is he calling on the Surtax payer to make? He is asking for sacrifices by all in order that the workers shall make the sacrifice. What does he mean by sacrifices for all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Lord Woolton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ncellor's own economic analysis. There was no economic logic which I could detect on the Chancellor's own premise in the concessions he decided to make to the larger Surtax payers. Of course, the Budget was not really framed in terms of economic logic but of party political logic. We all know the pressure there has been on the Chancellor from his own back benchers and the alarms of the Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-11", "file": "debates1957-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "b16e8a1e9dbdf2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "ve away, for such a vast amount to be considered. I personally will accept—I do not think they will—that what has been done this year is, within this framework, substantial, but none the less it is only an instalment towards the solution of that problem. Now about Purchase Tax. Of course. I am grateful that something has been done to retrace the step taken in the emergency Budget of October, 1955.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-11a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DR. ADAMS (TRIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Is the Attorney-General quite unaware that, throughout the length and breadth of the British Isles, the recent case of Dr. Adams has evoked discussion in terms which bring discredit upon the law and upon his office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1536.3", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "t only those pay the penalty who are actually involved in the strike? Is he aware that the men who were signing on were told at the employment exchange that they could not get benefit because they were connected with the strike, and that the trade unions to which they belonged, because they had not called them out and because they were not part and parcel of the strike, denied them strike benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "Indeed, no. The question of the profits during the whole of the year 1956 has not very much to do with the surcharge— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1543.3", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Would not my hon. and learned Friend agree that the major part of this surcharge is to be attributed to the cause which he gave, bringing the oil round the Cape? In order to put a stop to much of this pernicious propaganda from hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1543.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1543.6", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The company which has been mentioned is one which has international connections far exceeding its activities in this country. It is surely familiar to the House by now that it is rightly part of its policy to build up for future expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1543.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where the Labour Party went out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "d by the steel industry that the steel industry would be unable to meet its demands for sheet steel in the autumn. Is that a ground for comfort? Is not this exactly what happened in 1955? Was it not followed by an enormous increase in imports of sheet steel, and was that not one of the major reasons for the balance of payments crisis later in the year? It seems to me that this is where we came in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": ", I will mention four. The National Trust has become the owner of more than 40,000 acres of the old Penrhyn estate in North Wales, containing some of the finest mountain scenery in Snowdonia and some of the best walking and climbing country in this island. I will mention a few places which will be familiar to those who know the area: Tryfan, the Glyders, Carnedd Llewelyn, Llyn Ogwen and Llyn Idwal", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": "dly large amount, how much better it would be to seek for new socially beneficial uses to which part of this fortunate wind fall, due to my prudent budgeting years ago, could be diverted. I shall make two particular proposals, hoping that the Chancellor will think them over between now and the appearance of the Finance Bill. I do not know whether any hon. Members from Northern Ireland are present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1611.1", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ve done exceedingly well in the last fifteen years. I turn for a moment to one or two comments upon the out-turn of last year. I want to add one or two things to what I said in my speech in the last economic debate. Despite the gloom of hon. Members opposite, in many respects last year was the best year we have had since the end of the war. It was the best year in terms of the balance of payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "alloping ahead. That happened under Sir Stafford Cripps. In another year we had an overall deficit of £300 million or £400 million but so far from inflation receiving an impetus the price level evened out. The budgetary figures no longer have any relevance. The people who are controlling the economy today and are producing inflation year by year are the trade unions, with their massive wage claims", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " power by Order in Council to reduce, not only Purchase Tax, but Income Tax and other forms of taxation according to the needs of the time? I cannot bear the thought that I have to wait another twelve months before I hear my right hon. Friend speak again. This brings me to the final thing I want to say—this question of the Treasury citadel, its impregnability, its slow tempo, its lack of thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": " see a revolutionary approach. Revolutions do not suit this country. Things are done by stages, very properly, in this temperate climate, but one can see signs of a new approach already. Above all, I hope that we shall avoid any suggestion of a national wages policy from any interested party. It has been tried elsewhere and it has never really succeeded. I do not believe that it will succeed here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "oing so should borrow their money upon the open market, in the same way as the larger municipalities do with considerable success. No difficulty is experienced by, for example, the City of Birmingham, the City of Glasgow or by any of the other larger authorities in raising the money they require for essential development in the open money market instead of resorting to the Public Works Loan Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "n only come about if we have co-operation between Government, workers and employers. Indeed, I believe that if we had the right climate in industry it would he possible, even with our present equipment, to produce from 5 per cent. to 7½ per cent. more, without any increased investments in plant and machinery. Other people have made other calculations. I make a very conservative calculation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "e ask them to remain on the same wage rates. If their wage rates are constant, even if the cost of living is constant, there will be no increase in their standard of life. As a result of any contribution which they are prepared to make by giving up restrictive practices and by co-operating with industry, they are entitled to share in the increased profits which ensue from the greater productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ildren's allowances, and given some help to the elderly. The right hon. Gentleman increased Purchase Tax by £30 million; I have reduced it by £24 million. The right hon. Gentleman increased Entertainments Duty by £10 million I have reduced it, allowing for the television tax, by £4 million. The right hon. Gentleman put on an extra £36 million on petrol; I have brought it down to last year's level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-15", "file": "debates1957-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d2931a9ded5bdf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "WELFARE FOODS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Lady ought to give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I said I should say only a few words. I shall not be long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-15a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1728.1", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he is about the only person who is not aware of it? Will he ask his wife or any housewife? He will be told that, almost immediately the Is. tax was imposed, every type of distributor increased the cost, and every type of article that a housewife buys went up in price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1728.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1730.2", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Of course he does.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman expect this percentage to go on falling?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1744.4", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Sir; I will do my best to answer any technical questions that are put to me, but I must ask the House to forgive me if I do not try to do so on supplementary questions. In a prepared speech, or to Questions which are put down, I try to give an answer based on the advice given to me by my advisers. Since I am not a scientist, indeed, I am almost the only person in the House who is not a scientist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1744.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1757.0", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' REMUNERATION (INTERIM ADJUSTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "In view of the businesslike way in which the Commission is proceeding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1758.2", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "bandon all efforts to minimise the consequences should the deterrent fail to prevent war. That is why the White Paper makes it clear that Civil Defence must remain an essential part of the defence plan. There will be no real safety in the world until there is disarmament. I think we are all agreed about that, but I think that most of us agree that nuclear disarmament by itself would be disastrous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1758.2", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "eir power to promote universal and comprehensive disarmament. We do not despair of reaching agreement. During my visit to Rusia last summer I saw something of the vast programme of social and industrial work upon which the Soviet Government are engaged. With those immense schemes of domestic reconstruction on hand, it is hard to see how the Russians, any more than we, can have any interest in war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "One of the basic principles of our defence policy is, therefore, that Britain must manufacture the hydrogen bomb. Again, I say I am glad that there is agreement on both sides of the House about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1765.3", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult to give a clear answer. I was saying before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1768.5", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I can pursue that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1768.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1768.5", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I can pursue that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I will answer the point, but I do not want to go on any further about it. What the hon. and learned Member is referring to is the strategy of N.A.T.O., and N.A.T.O. exists primarily to deal with just that head-on collision between the Communist world and the free world", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1768.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1786.3", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "What is the position on warheads?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1786.3", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ars to have said exactly the opposite. According to The Times of 28th March, President Eisenhower … noted that Britain was producing certain types of atomic weapons but, if equipment were secured by any nation from the United States, atomic warheads would always remain under American control. If that means anything, it must mean that we are not free to fit our own warheads which we control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1788.1", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "national control, limitation and abolition of continuing peacetime explosions. For unless we do that, we run the risk of claiming more victims for these wretched weapons in peace time than might ever be claimed in a war in which they dare not be used. In doing that, get the whole impasse, the whole log-jam of international disarmament discussions moving again. I will come back to that in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1802.5", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Hutchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Hutchison", "preceding_text": " for that. In the meantime we have to pin our faith on the deterrent, and upon close co-operation and integration of the forces supplied by our other partners and allies in N.A.T.O. and the Western Union. We must continue to work for a world disarmament agreement. It is interesting to note that we have now reduced our forces to the figure which the Russians suggested for us in their last proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1802.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1835.3", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "mporting steel from Australia to go into machines to work in Northampton, at about 50 per cent. above the price I pay for steel here? All these great atomic towers, 150 ft. high and 70 ft. in diameter, are lined with 3-in. plate. Of course, industry cannot get enough! The Government should buy some of the steel from Australia and let me have the home steel. At any rate, that is what I want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1837.3", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " the House saying anything more about it at all. Quite obviously, manned aircraft will always be wanted for conventional forces, and it would be a terrible thing if it went out from this House or by way of the White Paper that young fighter pilots are not wanted. I was going to say a great number of things about the whole business of the Royal Air Force, but I think that I had better reserve that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1841.0", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think it would be better to get the Foreign Secretaries in every country to try to take away the causes that compel us to defend ourselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are not allowed to do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "hing. People talk about it. What steps are the Government going to take? It is no use telling us that something happened at Bermuda. All that happened was that we arranged that we should have bodies costing £3 million and we then have to put heads on them costing £2 million. They will then have the bodies in their store, and if we want to control our own heads we have to make them and put them on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1860.1", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman. Either he played the wrong card in July or he has played the wrong card now. He is an experienced bridge player. I understand that the technical term is \"To revoke\". The penalty for revoking too often is social ostracism, being thrown out of the bridge club and being drummed down the drive from the club. The right hon. Gentleman is certainly in danger of it on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Anstruther-Gray", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank God for that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": " of the deterrent. The Amendment moved by the Labour Party does harm in two ways. Postponing the tests leaves everyone in doubt as to whether the H-bomb really is as formidable as we are told. By showing that on this serious matter the alternative Government of Britain is unhappy and divided, they leave our enemies in doubt as to whether hon. Gentlemen opposite would really use it in an emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1872.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-16", "file": "debates1957-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "106cd467a21832df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1874.3", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "Mr. Michael Stewart (Fulham) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-16a.1874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1897.7", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "—what the hon. Gentleman means by \"nuclear base\". The White Paper says that there will be bomber squadrons based on Cyprus which will be capable of delivering nuclear weapons. That does not mean that they will not be equipped with conventional weapons as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1897.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1898.7", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "None of the Chiefs of Staff will be attending the tests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1898.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1898.9", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I really think that they have more pressing duties elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1898.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1927.7", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "I wish to make a suggestion which, I hope, will find favour with the Leader of the House. It is a job that he might find it possible to do before we rise for the Easter Recess. I think it is one which will have the approval of all hon. Members. It is that on our behalf he should send a good will message to Sir Anthony Eden, expressing our hope for his speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1927.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1973.3", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "I have no suggestion to make for abolishing the chaplains, although I think that the Minister of Defence made a mention in his speech, or some other hon. Member did, about amalgamating the chaplain's services of the three Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1975.3", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "per mainly on the ground of economy. I want to deal with economy later and now I only register that the second argument in favour of nuclear weapons is that they are cheap. We can get out of spending so much on defence by adopting nuclear weapons and getting rid of conscription and winding up overseas bases we can have defence on the cheap if we concentrate on weapons which we cannot possibly use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": ". This announcement has not had the effect of making every German feel loyal to N. A. T. O. On the contrary, the announcement, if it is prosecuted, will make it impossible to have Germany as a loyal ally, for it says, in effect, that several hundred of these weapons are to go off in any local European war since these are the only weapons available against the conventional forces on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1982.3", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " to prove that we are a big Power we must have some of these weapons. Can we blame the French and the Germans if they get together and produce a European H-bomb? They are bound to. Once we get out of the two-Power stalemate with the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., the only nuclear Powers, H-bombs will be produced by Frenchmen, Germans and Swedes. Yes, and Colonel Nasser will be given one by the Russians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.1982.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.1", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the hon. Member's point and will come to it a little later. The terrible thing about the H-bomb is that this evil thing is in the hands of evil people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.3", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "One of the oddest things about the debate has been this. For five or six years the Labour Party has been begging the Government on every possible occasion to abolish National Service or reduce it substantially.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.3", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "One of the oddest things about the debate has been this. For five or six years the Labour Party has been begging the Government on every possible occasion to abolish National Service or reduce it substantially. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] For several years the Labour Party has been asking the Government to slash defence programme expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.5", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that correction. For a long time the Labour Party has been asking that we should reduce our garrison in Germany, or even withdraw from Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.5", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that correction. For a long time the Labour Party has been asking that we should reduce our garrison in Germany, or even withdraw from Germany. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The Labour Party has for a long been asking that we should abolish or substantially reduce our overseas bases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.5", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "ice to hon. Members opposite, because when I have described each of the things that they have been advocating I have been greeted with \"Hear, hear,\" from the Opposition. The extraordinary thing is that although hon. Members opposite have pressed for these things for five or six years, now that we are taking some very modest steps in those directions we are apparently criticised for doing too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ous, island should be quite helpless? That is what it would be. Those are the long-term reasons which seem to me decisive in the end, because what a tragedy it would be if this country, in this year, 1957, lacked the will and the nerve to preserve itself and its enormous influence for good in the world by taking that step of rendering itself negligible by unilateral nuclear disarmament by example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2036.1", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "erefore, if this country is really to be what it claims to be—the most mature political country in the world—I say that it must go for the only objectively realistic position of seeking all-round nuclear disarmament, because that is the only thing that actually makes sense, however psychologically difficult it is to sustain. At bottom, that is the real reason why we shall divide the House tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2038.1", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "moted by definitely hostile forces. People try to make it impossible for us to hold the tests, but I ask hon. Members opposite to search their hearts. Is this really a practical proposition to postpone it? Do lion. Members think that if the Government made this tremendous decision to postpone the tests for six months or a year it would be possible to put them on again like a dish at a restaurant`?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will leave it at that. With a growing pressure from different quarters, all kinds of pressure, brought upon us to abandon them, it is my view that if they are postponed they will never be held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-17", "file": "debates1957-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d26d44bbf2c60d3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Suez?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n favour of general disarmament. We have worked for it, as did our predecessors, and we shall continue to work for it. We are not in favour of the abolition of the unconventional, that is the nuclear, weapon without such corresponding reductions in conventional forces as will make Europe secure from Soviet aggression. Nor, may I say in passing, are we in favour of war even by conventional weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-17a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-18", "file": "debates1957-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "65b16c1290ee65a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-18a.2135.1", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "TRADE WITH CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "preceding_text": "stralia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa not only did not then but have not since recognised Red China. Chiang Kai-shek moved into Formosa, where there are today about ten million people with about 300 million dollars a year from the United States, but the hon. Gentleman did not even refer to the possibility of trade with them or to the fact that in Hong Kong nobody seems to think about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-18a.2135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-18", "file": "debates1957-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "65b16c1290ee65a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-18a.2141.3", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "TRADE WITH CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": " line as possible. That is our position. If we are to go along with another country in a policy of this sort it is desirable to have the fullest consultations with them, and that we have promised to do. We have to balance, as the hon. Member for Govan does not seem prepared to do, our export trade against political considerations. He was prepared only to consider the interests of commercial trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-18a.2141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-30", "file": "debates1957-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "baf99fc0a8af43e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that his figures are not my figures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-30", "file": "debates1957-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "baf99fc0a8af43e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR POWER AND OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "r has been very appreciatively received. It is an interesting document and well written. It gives all the information for which we have asked. We appreciate the ready acceptance of the right hon. Gentleman and his noble Friend of our request, both in another place and here, for such a White Paper to be produced. It is very valuable indeed. The size of the investment programme is really prodigious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-30", "file": "debates1957-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "baf99fc0a8af43e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR POWER AND OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the anxiety of my hon. Friend about other industries, but oil is a very special case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-30", "file": "debates1957-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "baf99fc0a8af43e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR POWER AND OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neal", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neal", "preceding_text": "re, let me add a warning. We must avoid the appearance of creating the impression that the full impact of the atomic age will be here in a year or two. It is not just around the corner. Furthermore— and here I speak for myself only— we must avoid becoming too deeply entangled in treaties on the Continent. Perhaps it is a rather selfish view, but I think that we have much more to gain commercially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-04-30", "file": "debates1957-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "baf99fc0a8af43e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR POWER AND OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": " garage was breaking the law. It was equally untrue to say that the Gov- ernment had decided, before the Jordan trouble, to abolish petrol rationing. There is not the slightest evidence of that, except in newspaper rumours. Really, he should have known better. The truth is that the garages up and down the country, generally speaking, have been very conscientious about this petrol rationing scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.149.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-04-30", "file": "debates1957-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "baf99fc0a8af43e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR POWER AND OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, water.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Why, then, are the stations not being sited in industrial areas? Is it not because there is danger of a leak?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-04-30a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-01", "file": "debates1957-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "b1f598288fc8778f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.181.4", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the widespread feeling that it would be quite unwise to rush any policy of using Kenya as a strategic base—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.181.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-01", "file": "debates1957-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "b1f598288fc8778f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CONTRIBUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£40 million\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "a week. The greater the sum total of the insurance contribution increases, and it has been increasing very substantially, the greater the burden on the poorer people. It imposes a much greater burden and it is much more serious to increase the burden on poorer people by 8d. or a 1s. than to increase the burden on the wealthy people. I do not know what sum the hon. Gentleman expects to get by this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-01", "file": "debates1957-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "b1f598288fc8778f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DR. ADAMS (TRIAL)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "he committal proceedings, when I had decided not to call the Mullett evidence at the trial, and there were the usual interviews between counsel which take place in trials of this kind, sometimes at the request of counsel for the defence. There was nothing of the sort suggested by the hon. Gentleman, on information he says he received, but the source of which he carefully refrained from disclosing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.323.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-01", "file": "debates1957-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "b1f598288fc8778f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DR. ADAMS (TRIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He cannot produce it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "nduct of the police in making inquiries into matters of this sort, but I do know that if the hon. Gentleman has any information in his possession which is worthy of any credence at all. or if it is even a justifiable basis for the wild allegations which he has thought fit to make, I am quite certain that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will be only too glad to investigate that information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-01", "file": "debates1957-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "b1f598288fc8778f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DR. ADAMS (TRIAL)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ugh the hon. Gentleman may not know it, that those who are accused of serious charges such as murder do get, often at great sacrifice, experienced counsel to act for them, and, in fact, the counsel who defended Evans and who is, if I may say so, a very able and competent junior, was my junior in the prosecution of Dr. Adams. I really do not think that that comment was worthy of the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-01a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-02", "file": "debates1957-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3c732fae0ccc0724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Could the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-02", "file": "debates1957-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3c732fae0ccc0724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give a clear answer to the question put by the Member for Huddersfield, West (Mr. Wade)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-02", "file": "debates1957-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3c732fae0ccc0724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN SECRETARY'S BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "With all respect, Sir, I looked round. Only one supplementary question had been asked, following the statement by the Prime Minister that he approved of the statement made by the Foreign Secretary on the radio, which is quite a serious thing to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-02", "file": "debates1957-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3c732fae0ccc0724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN SECRETARY'S BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, I have been trying to follow the proceedings, and I should be pleased if you would clarify the position so far as my interest is concerned with regard to Questions. Do I understand that you called my name and that I did not rise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-02", "file": "debates1957-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3c732fae0ccc0724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN SECRETARY'S BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, I have been trying to follow the proceedings, and I should be pleased if you would clarify the position so far as my interest is concerned with regard to Questions. Do I understand that you called my name and that I did not rise? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I cannot rise if someone else is on his feet, and I was waiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-02", "file": "debates1957-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3c732fae0ccc0724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.374.5", "colnum": "374", "heading": "VIKING AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT, BLACKBUSHE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ent, which is reported in the evening newspapers as made on behalf of the company concerned, that the proper lesson from this dreadful disaster is that still more contracts should be given to the private operators? We really cannot but believe that this grave accident, which affects a number of soldiers particularly, must have a grave effect on recruiting for the Services if these accidents go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-02", "file": "debates1957-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3c732fae0ccc0724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL DISCIPLINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "arents, take the view that it is wrong to enforce on one's child one's own views in regard to so important a matter as religion. I have not heard anything, either from the right hon. and learned Member for Kensington, South (Sir P. Spens), whose views on this matter I hold in very high esteem and whose work on this type of problem has placed every hon. Member under a deep debt of gratitude to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-02", "file": "debates1957-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3c732fae0ccc0724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL DISCIPLINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " would be detrimental. I would ask about the way in which this fine is to be administered. I accept the objection made by my hon. Friend the Member for Dunbartonshire, West (Mr. Steele) to the fine being included, and on the assumption that the Minister will thank my hon. Friend for the courteous and able way in which he has presented his case but will regret that he cannot include it in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-02a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-06", "file": "debates1957-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "03f761f635da8a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it confidential?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "At the moment this matter is under discussion at the Disarmament Sub-Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.635.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-06", "file": "debates1957-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "03f761f635da8a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES SIXTH FLEET (MOVEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "There is no necessity for Her Majesty's Government to tender such obvious information to anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-06", "file": "debates1957-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "03f761f635da8a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.636.7", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES SIXTH FLEET (MOVEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it confidential?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "That is another question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.636.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-06", "file": "debates1957-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "03f761f635da8a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "COLONIAL TERRITORIES AND SOUTH AFRICAN PROTECTORATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was at the Post Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Office are increasing. The Commonwealth Relations Office is not one of my favourites. It never seems to me to be much more than a post office, and it seems to have a purely negative conception of its relationship to the Commonwealth as a whole. I am sorry to say this, but the hon. Gentleman who is at present Under-Secretary of State has not been there long enough to bear any responsibility for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-06", "file": "debates1957-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "03f761f635da8a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.677.4", "colnum": "677", "heading": "COLONIAL TERRITORIES AND SOUTH AFRICAN PROTECTORATES", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "As you have called me to speak, Sir Leonard, I will not raise the point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-06a.677.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.778.3", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I have a certain amount of information, but I think perhaps the best thing would be for me to write to the hon. Member and send him the information which I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.779.4", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. As I said, the one being withdrawn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to do this. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, we must allow discretion to commanding officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.801.4", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "In view of the disturbing statement made yesterday by the Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food about the rate of strontium radiation found in the Welsh mountains and in that district—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.823.5", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will reread the Report of the Royal Commission on the Taxation of Profits and Income, in which all these points are extremely well and completely answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.823.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.823.5", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " bread, milk, school meals and so forth. But for those increases, there would not have been a surplus with which to do it. The Chancellor said that he could only just squeeze enough money out of his surplus to give this relief, but he would not have had the surplus out of which to squeeze it if he had not saved Government expenditure in the previous twelve months in the ways that I have described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.823.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan McKibbin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is a very good answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan McKibbin", "preceding_text": " which befell a flute that was burned at the stake in days gone by, and which is part of the mythology of my country. A few other items quoted were, side drums, from £15 to £25; base drums, from £20 to £36; cornets, from £31 to £46; horns, from £54 to £81; and bagpipes, from £20 up to any price. The prices of euphoniums ranged from £86 to £138, and I asked the man in the shop what a euphonium was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates (Birmingham, Lady-wood)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Accidents in the home.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates (Birmingham, Lady-wood)", "preceding_text": "d-age pensioners. There are far too many old people today in mental hospitals. There are far too many lonely old people who need to be cared for in smaller institutions and in homes. I recently visited the accident hospital, in Birmingham, which has a world-wide repute, and I discovered that in the 200 beds there, the vast majority of the people occupying them were women over the ages of 70 or 80—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": " people who are disgruntled and discouraged, as, in my opinion, they have every justification to be, because they cannot reap the fruits of their own labours. Instead of encouraging young men to follow in their footsteps, they are saying, \"I cannot think why you stay here. Why do you not go to Canada, or to the United States, where you can get more money?\" That is happening throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "t of monetary policy. As I understood him, his idea was that we should return to the cheap money policy advocated by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton). If I did that, there might be some justice in the taunt that I had an assignment with inflation, and I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will consider a little carefully before advocating cheap money at a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-07", "file": "debates1957-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0412aeca85e88104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "gdom Income Tax. Such companies are outside the scope of the Bill. I am only seeking to make clear the position. I am prepared to look into the arguments for an alternative, but it would alter in quite a substantial manner the present conception of the Bill. I have tried to answer many of the points which have been put forward. We can be satisfied with the reception which the Finance Bill has had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-07a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "BOROUGH OF HORNSEY (NEW WRIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": " David Gammans, the Member for Hornsey, died on 8th February this year, and nearly three months have elapsed without the Government's having moved the issue of a Writ to fill the vacancy. It is clear from the Press, I think, that Sir David's widow has been adopted as the prospective Conservative Parliamentary candidate. We know that at about that time the Government had a bad time in by-elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "BOROUGH OF HORNSEY (NEW WRIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "Hornsey, died on 8th February this year, and nearly three months have elapsed without the Government's having moved the issue of a Writ to fill the vacancy. It is clear from the Press, I think, that Sir David's widow has been adopted as the prospective Conservative Parliamentary candidate. We know that at about that time the Government had a bad time in by-elections. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "BOROUGH OF HORNSEY (NEW WRIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "rliamentary candidate. We know that at about that time the Government had a bad time in by-elections. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] Oh, yes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"]. This is a point of order. We know that the Government had a bad time in by-elections at about that time, and no doubt the delay in issuing the Writ had something to do with lulling their supporters. I would ask you this question, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend a question? He said a moment ago that the employers' contribution would rank for relief as a business expense for Income Tax purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "es that three-quarters of the cost of the Health Service— more than was originally envisaged— will still be found out of general taxation. Those categories which do contribute will find that for their contributions they will be getting extremely good value for their money in the Health Service. I am convinced, therefore, that this Measure, which, I can say, has been received with general approval—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "ons? Surely they are, first of all, that the proportion of the cost of the National Health Service which is being paid for by contributions is substantially less, even with this increased charge, than in 1948, when the party opposite were in power and when they introduced the charges on the Service. Under their Government the contributions were one-fifth of the cost of the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is wicked.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "site do not believe in the Health Service. They want to make people who use it feel that they are second-class citizens. One has only to go into hospitals these days to find much that is saddening to hon. Members on this side of the House. It is most improper to generalise about hospitals or doctors. Some are doing a magnificent job, sometimes against great discouragement by hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman allow me? I am following his argument, and I hope to deal with it if I have the good fortune to catch Mr. Speaker's eye. I must protest against the constant misuse of statistics. Of course a smaller proportion of the gross national income is being devoted to the National Health Service because the gross National income has grown by so very much since those days in new resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman I think it is a wretched phrase. I have always objected to it, because it conjures up a concept of people living in the lap of luxury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "it going up right away if we could do away with the prescription charges, to which I am completely opposed. I hope that my right hon. Friend will regard the reception given to the Bill today as a very favourable one. I believe that hon. Members opposite, in their hearts, really know that this is the right step to take. The trouble is that the progressive Socialist is so much of a stick in the mud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-08", "file": "debates1957-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "bcb122c24b5d5adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "contribution, and that is significant. Nor was it the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance. It was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and announced by him as part of the savings that he wanted to accumulate in order to present his Budget. What happened? Here is an increased poll tax to reduce the Surtax—10d. on the lowest-paid worker in the land to make gifts to the Surtax payer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-08a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1170.8", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that unless these appeals have some material effect, and unless the Government encourage policies which will have some effect, it is no use asking any body of workers for a wage freeze until they have that kind of stabilisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1170.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1171.3", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "In that case, surely the House of Commons should be informed. Are we to understand that the Minister of Power has given a direction to the nationalised industries and that this has not been made public?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1171.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1171.11", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman at least tell us whether it is still Government policy that there should be restraint in the payment of dividends?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1171.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1174.4", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EARL MARSHAL AND CHIEF BUTLER OF ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has no right to use that language about a Bill which is coming to us, I understand, from another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "onference, telling this country something which is clearly untrue, because the Prime Minister has told us that the American missiles are several years ahead of ours whilst the Americans are saying, on oath, before a Congressional Committee, that the Russians are ahead in this field. When the hon. Gentleman replies tonight at that Box will he put his hand on his heart and say on his word of honour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"A poor analogy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "sition can be compared with that of a man who is nervous of burglars and calls in a neighbour. Under the the Attlee agreement the neighbour has the gun but promises not to use it unless his friend gets really worried, but under this Agreement the neighbour not only has a gun of his own but controls the other man's gun as well and says, \"You cannot shoot the burglar unless I think he is dangerous.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " against us a deterrent of their own. For example, take the Suez operation. The right hon. Gentleman may argue that the Suez operation proves that one can have a limited war. But how long did it last? Five days. What happened in the meanwhile? We got a rocket threat from Mr. Bulganin, which, whether genuine or not, had an influence, I warrant, on the Cabinet decision as to whether to go on or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1318.3", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With draw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Let me read the Article of the Treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1318.3", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With draw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Let me read the Article of the Treaty—[HON. MEMBERS: \"With draw.\"]—which still binds this country and still binds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-09", "file": "debates1957-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "1a9c7a00d6fa27b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1319.3", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ely and solemnly swear to relinquish all claim to the salary granted by the … Governor-General of India and declare myself perjured before all men. Articles 1 and 2 say that he undertakes in every respect to act honestly and amicably towards the British and to lend his utmost aid to support the interests of the British flag. That is still valid. It was signed in 1844, but it is still valid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-09a.1319.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-10", "file": "debates1957-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "2baefbad0c1ed3ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-10a.1434.4", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, and further to my point of order. I realise the difficulty in which this situation places you, and I wish in no way to be discourteous. May I point out that I rose to my feet, that you did me the honour to call me and that I started to address the House. The hon. Member for Deptford (Sir L. Plummer) rose to his feet after I had opened my mouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-10a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-10", "file": "debates1957-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "2baefbad0c1ed3ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-10a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Member has a look at HANSARD tomorrow and that the whole purpose of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-10a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-13", "file": "debates1957-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "d518b09dcb5f22e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pre-war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s- ferable sterling are able, under ordinary rules, to use that Account. Therefore, we shall consider whether it would be to our advantage to extend the use of the Account to current transactions. which may be freely used by external owners of transferable sterling—whether it may he thought an advantage to extend it to residents. With regard to the \"pre-crisis contracts\", if I may use that phrase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-13", "file": "debates1957-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "d518b09dcb5f22e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.49.5", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Let me turn from naval to civilian personnel. Since the consequence of the new defence plan is that the Navy will be smaller—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.49.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-13", "file": "debates1957-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "d518b09dcb5f22e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Government are doing that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Let me turn from naval to civilian personnel. Since the consequence of the new defence plan is that the Navy will be smaller—[ Interruption. ] The recruiting figures for the Navy at the moment are excellent and I see no cause for any falling off, unless many people go round spreading alarm and despondency, which is quite unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.49.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-13", "file": "debates1957-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "d518b09dcb5f22e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Never \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "t of the day, and I intend to do so. If it disturbs some hon. Members opposite so early in my speech. I am very pleased indeed. I am talking of the language which the men use about the conditions of the officers, when they think of the wardrooms, the ante-rooms, the baths, the white-coated stewards and the officers' cooks. Why are not some of those amenities available to the men on the lower deck?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-13", "file": "debates1957-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "d518b09dcb5f22e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": " by 9 in. The men may have to go down one or two decks to the bathroom to get the water, making several journeys in the process. There is an answer to this. It is not so long ago that the British Navy had conditions better than any other navy, but that is not so today. The American sailors do not have to rough it and pig it in the way that our boys have to do. The Americans have cafeteria messing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-13", "file": "debates1957-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "d518b09dcb5f22e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": " laundry, but anybody who knows anything about sailors knows that they much prefer to do their own washing. Why must this sort of thing go on? Why can we put things right at \"Dolphin\" but not on the two depot ships to which I have referred? An improvement would be of considerable advantage to the men. There is a further criticism of those two depot ships. Bad as they are, they are not always there", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-13", "file": "debates1957-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "d518b09dcb5f22e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "de is looked at more leniently than another when size is under review. In fact, of course, as I am sure the Committee realises, both sides of the Navy form part of one integrated interdependent body, and both sides are treated in exactly the same way. The existence of the sea side creates the need for the land side, and without the help of the land side the sea side could not function efficiently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-13a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-14", "file": "debates1957-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f3d051db679de7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Ask a Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ry of Supply and the Ministry of Labour? Is it not the case that it would be very much better to try to find work where facilities exist for that work than to put the Government and the country to the expense of finding employment for these people away from their homes under the new scales which the Ministry of Labour has recently announced? Does he not think, therefore, that it would be a useful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-14", "file": "debates1957-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f3d051db679de7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "We regard this as important, Mr. Speaker, because it affects the livelihood of many thousands of men and women in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.187.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-14", "file": "debates1957-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f3d051db679de7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.200.8", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the figures for Perth constitute not only a record for the British Isles, but for every city in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.200.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-14", "file": "debates1957-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f3d051db679de7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman take account of the fact that the purchasing power of the £ has fallen considerably in the post-war years since the system of post-war credits was introduced, and that they are now worth roughly only 55 per cent. of what they were during the war period?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-14", "file": "debates1957-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f3d051db679de7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.214.4", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the right hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether, when considering this matter, he will look at the discussion which took place in this House at Question Time on 23rd June, 1954, and whether he will bear in mind that the root cause of all the trouble was the fact that Admiral North was never told of the Dakar expedition, and that is what led to all the difficulties into which he got?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-14", "file": "debates1957-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f3d051db679de7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-14", "file": "debates1957-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f3d051db679de7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Army Estimates, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Bermondsey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "Should not the first ordnance factory to be closed down be one in Birmingham?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-14", "file": "debates1957-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f3d051db679de7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Army Estimates, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "in the War Office. The result was that the barracks intended for the tropics was duly built in the United Kingdom while the barracks erected in India was of English design. I do not know whether the barracks in India still exists, but I know that the one in the United Kingdom still does. It is a source of perpetual surprise and discomfort to the soldiers who have to live with those open verandahs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-14", "file": "debates1957-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f3d051db679de7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Army Estimates, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Craddock", "preceding_text": "ny. It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to talk; most of them belong to the officer class. After all, the backbone of the Army will be the non-commissioned officers and those in the ranks. A suggestion which I should like to pass to the Minister is that before a man becomes an officer he should serve for a number of months as a private and for a year or two as a non-commissioned officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-14a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.380.12", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "It is not really preferential treatment, and it was agreed to by the party opposite when they were in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.380.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer fully recognises the honourable obligation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ons was that it could not do things in a hurry and that, therefore, we must use other action to get things done more quickly. How much better it would have been if we had exercised a little patience when time was on our side and we were in sight of a reasonable settlement. I turn to the question of what next can be done, for I am far from wishing this debate or my own speech to be purely critical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If only the Opposition had behaved differently.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ostered during the previous ten years. Some of those consequences are now past, but others still remain. I know there are those who would say—there are no doubt many of them on the Government benches—\" If only we had been allowed to go through with it, if only the United States had behaved differently, if only the United Nations had behaved differently, and if only Russia had behaved differently.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did he resign?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "w that Sir Anthony Eden was actuated by the highest patriotic motives, based upon a longer experience and fuller understanding of world affairs than almost any man in this country. They have the deepest sympathy for him in the cruel illness which struck him down at the critical moment. They believe that if the decisions that he took, with the full, complete and unanimous support of his Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "nd fuller understanding of world affairs than almost any man in this country. They have the deepest sympathy for him in the cruel illness which struck him down at the critical moment. They believe that if the decisions that he took, with the full, complete and unanimous support of his Government—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did he resign?\"]—with the full, complete and unanimous support of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ust give some attention. For the maintenance of the Canal as an Egyptian asset depends ultimately upon the good will and confidence of the users. Meanwhile, we shall continue to use every method we can to secure our purpose. We have made it clear—and I must now repeat it—that the use of the Canal by British shipping will not prejudice the existing legal rights or the terms of the final settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "day? I distinguish quite definitely between Egypt and Colonel Nasser. With Egypt we have had long ties and associations, generally friendly and generally helpful. We have done a very great deal for Egypt, and there are many Egyptians who realise that just as much as anybody does in this House. We have an inveterate foe in Colonel Nasser. We ought to chase him like a pest officer would chase a rat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "preceding_text": " and associations, generally friendly and generally helpful. We have done a very great deal for Egypt, and there are many Egyptians who realise that just as much as anybody does in this House. We have an inveterate foe in Colonel Nasser. We ought to chase him like a pest officer would chase a rat. [HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We should chivvy him. We should harry him wherever he goes and whatever he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": " Prime Minister's indictment today was that the Opposition was not sufficiently loyal to the Government. Listening to the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, one would have imagined that the Government could not have known what the Labour Party's attitude would be to the invasion of Port Said. What was the difficulty? The whole world knows what the Labour Party's attitude is to matters of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "on. Friend said that all has not been lost. Thanks not to what we did in Port Said, but thanks to the pressure of British and international opinion, our Government were prevented from going on with the adventure. All is not lost. British prestige still stands high in a great part of the world, specifically because of the attitude taken by Her Majesty's Opposition and by the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.463.5", "colnum": "463", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "preceding_text": "out the use of force. While, therefore, I completely sympathise with the attitude of my hon. Friends, I cannot bring myself to refrain from voting against a Motion in the terms of that brought forward by the Leader of the Opposition, with his record in this matter, which, certainly to the whole of the Conservative Party and, I believe, to a good many of his own supporters, is utterly contemptible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.500.5", "colnum": "500", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "d be in breach of international law or, indeed, contrary to the public opinion of the world. We must not, therefore, allow ourselves to get into a position where we might be denounced in the Security Council as aggressors, or where the majority of the Assembly were against us.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd August, 1956; Vol. 557. c. 1616–7.] There could be no more clear warning for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "The Daily Mail , the Daily Sketch and the Daily Express in September last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Korea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "The Charter says that there shall not be resort to force except with the authorisation of the Security Council or in self-defence against an armed attack, and any other form of resorting to force is a violation of the Charter and constitutes the crime of aggression. I thought that that was plain enough and well known enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "I have always regarded Korea as a Korean civil war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "I have never changed my views, and the reason I am back is, thank God, that the Labour Party has stopped following hon. and right hon. Gentlemen in foreign affairs. We have at last realised, as I have realised for a long time—because I saw hon. Members opposite at work at Geneva—that the basis of their foreign policy is a class basis, just as much as the basis of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "uture. I do not like the decision that the Government have had to take, and I do not think anybody in the country likes it. I would much prefer to have boycotted the Suez Canal. If the users of the Canal had agreed to work together I believe that a boycott would have been effective. At least, it would have been effective in present circumstances. It would he completely disastrous to \"go it alone\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.529.2", "colnum": "529", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": " lacking in faith as the critics on both sides of the House seem to be. I would advise my hon. Friends who do not find it in their consciences to accompany us into the Division Lobby tomorrow night, to re-read the history of the reign of Elizabeth I. Then, this country was relatively poor and weak compared with the great military powers, France and Spain, yet as a result of subtlety in statecraft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.529.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Armed conflict.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": ", did Sir Anthony Eden have the courtesy and the decency to inform the Opposition? Did he tell them? He came to that Front Bench and announced a fait accompli . That is not the sort of way to get unity in a country like ours. It is on the record that that is what he did. He went to that Box and said, \"In a few hours' time we shall be at war with Egypt.\" Of course we opposed; of course we objected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"After.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Let us get this quite clear. Within a fairly short time after the decision was taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-15", "file": "debates1957-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "3e47621f85791b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Let us get this quite clear. Within a fairly short time after the decision was taken—[HON. MEMBERS \"After.\"]—certainly, the responsibility is that of the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-15a.534.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.546.4", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "It would not be in the public interest to disclose the number of such cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.567.5", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Is not the Prime Minister well aware of the widespread concern which has been caused at the prospect of an unspecified number of explosions taking place? Now that the Government have had their one bang, will he not undertake to halt all further tests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.567.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.581.16", "colnum": "581", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Port Said?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "ing. First, there was the deterioration in relations between Israel and the Arab States. An hon. Member opposite suggests that this is an Aesop's Fable. Does he think that this steady deterioration was an Aesop's Fable? I have spoken before of 160 men, women and children killed on the borders of Jordan and Israel alone in the months of September and October without any active hostilities going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.581.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "preceding_text": "rned Gentleman suggested, towards the end of his speech, that there was something wrong in the Opposition having opposed them. I would only say this to him. Surely it is a fundamental principle of our parliamentary system that the Government take the responsibility for what they do, and, as he knows, we have not complained because the Opposition were not consulted on the actions of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Make it effective.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "any other Government. No one would deny that, but what is now the use of talking about Israeli ships going through the Canal and negotiating a settlement? If Egypt declines, where are we?\" Send it to the United Nations\"—that is the constant cry and plea. \"Send everything to the United Nations.\" I am all in favour of that if there is any hope not only of a decision, but of firm and resolute action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He might become a Governor-General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ez affair which have continued ever since October last. I honestly believe that. It does not mean that we should not criticise the Government. Of course, criticise the Government. I do not know whether it means that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should resign. In any event, that means very little. If he does resign, he will probably get another post, and that will not do us any good either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.615.3", "colnum": "615", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Without bloodshed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ikes by military or diplomatic action, must tell all its citizens what it is doing, and must run the risk at the same time of telling the major part of the world. The deficiency in that respect showed up terribly over Suez. A bad compromise was achieved. We avoided rousing the country so as not to rouse the world. We tried a surgical operation on a small enemy without notice and without bloodshed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.615.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Idwal Jones", "preceding_text": "hods of conciliation. It is sound Tory doctrine, although perhaps it is not sound Tory practice; because we read that on 8th February, 1876, on the Floor of this House, and on that side of the Chamber, Benjamin Disraeli made this statement: The world is governed by conciliation, compromise, influence, varied interests, the recognition of the rights of others coupled with the assertion of our own\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "e noble Lord quite certain that that could not be used in reference to himself? When I listened to his speech and studied the speeches of my hon. Friends the Members for Garston and Ealing, South I asked myself: what are they trying to do? What do they want us to do? What are they now proposing which would undo anything which has been done? There is nothing in anything they say which will undo it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"International shipping does not use it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "urface water. We say that it is wrong that any one man or any one nation should have the power to control and to close this international waterway, but if we take that line I think that it is really just a little arrogant of us to go into the Pacific and close, not 100, but 75,000 square miles of surface water to international shipping for five or six months without getting any agreement about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "ns' policy as distinct from the policy of the Suez Group. It would be remarkably interesting to be able to read now the history which will be written in, say, twenty years' time. I should like to know whether it was his very indifferent support of the Suez campaign which cost the Lord Privy Seal the Premiership. I believe that had the Lord Privy Seal been in the market-place. standing four-square—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.666.7", "colnum": "666", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman. It is the Security Council Resolution of 1st September, 1951. I am sorry if I was discourteous to the hon. Gentleman. Then it goes on —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.666.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am anxious not—if I can avoid it—to be unnecessarily controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "e at one time. If I remember right, it was the phrase of the Leader of the Opposition. They were so pleased with it that when the Daily Herald published the account of the great meeting at the Albert Hall on 6th November they used the same phrase—only, of course, with their usual modesty and, not having yet joined the News Chronicle, they said it was the British people who had won the first round—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "d faith. That is exactly what he said. We might have found out by further negotiation whether they were going to negotiate in good faith. At least, whether the Egyptians were going to negotiate in good faith had to be established. What is established is that Her Majesty's Government did not negotiate in good faith with the Security Council; because, by 23rd October, 16th October had come and gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Non sense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t face this fact, that we went to war at that time because, although we had obtained the six principles by the unanimous decision of the Security Council, there still remained between us and Egypt two points; and we have been seriously told by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite that they regarded those two points as of such importance as to risk plunging the whole world into a third world war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "on to the next stage in these negotiations? Of course, we shall be told that the real reason was because we wanted to stop a third world war, that because Israel had made war on Egypt we went into a war with Egypt to stop the war between Israel and Egypt from spreading; and that in face of the fact that we had already been warned that that very intervention by us might result in a third world war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.689.5", "colnum": "689", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed to him, and sometimes he reverts to his older nature and the demagogue takes charge of him. Characteristically enough, in the whole of this Suez story the right hon. Gentleman has played both roles, and he has played both again tonight. He has been Jekyll and Hyde. At one moment in this period he was addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square and marching down Whitehall in quite an alarming manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.689.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.689.5", "colnum": "689", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and Hyde. At one moment in this period he was addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square and marching down Whitehall in quite an alarming manner. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] Hon. Members had better wait for it. It is coming to them. At another moment the right hon. Gentleman was rather carefully dissociating himself from the more rancorous and hysterical speeches of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.689.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "But the only way of making them effective was. The trouble is that I have a great deal of advice from both right hon. Gentlemen and I find it difficult to reconcile it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "He tried to say that I had argued that we had launched these operations because we wanted to get better terms than those available to us. I argued nothing of the kind, and made no reference to anything except the following argument. There had been put up the case that if these events had not happened in November we could have got better terms. I was trying to argue and, I hope, argue successfully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nitude put considerable pressure upon it. But I am persuaded that the Commonwealth will emerge all the stronger, and that in spite of the efforts of the Opposition. I look forward to the meeting of Prime Ministers which will take place in a few weeks' time, and I feel confident that that meeting will be constructive and fruitful. Therefore, I have tried to cast up the balance sheet, I hope fairly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were made worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tion to these problems before us.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 1st November, 1956; Vol. 558, c. 1710.] There is a good deal of sense in that and, indeed, I think that, if the right hon. Gentleman follows his better intincts, if anyone abstains in the Division it ought to be the right hon. Gentleman. He called them, and rightly called them, intractable problems. But they were not created by the intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-16", "file": "debates1957-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "8657053dde6ce429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is better intincts, if anyone abstains in the Division it ought to be the right hon. Gentleman. He called them, and rightly called them, intractable problems. But they were not created by the intervention. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They were made worse.\"] These problems had been growing all these years in the Middle East. Colonel Nasser's threats to Israel last year were clear threats of aggression to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-16a.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-17", "file": "debates1957-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "16e6aad308219e3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-17a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "STATE OF THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "ll Aitken, in the four years when Divisions really mattered, that is, between 1910 and 1914, his Division record was that he voted 500 times out of a possible 1,500. So the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne, as he then was, committed an even worse sin of omission than the hon. Members he is now attacking, because they voted in only half of the Divisions which took place. I hope that \"Beachcomber\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-17a.799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-20", "file": "debates1957-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "84905e42b287eba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-20a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Cascades.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ks differently, but it is a genuine matter of difference. I regret very much that it should be suggested that our attitude is dictated by anything except a difference in weighing up what is better for the Health Service. It was once pointed out by a distinguished right hon. Gentleman opposite, in a phrase which most of us remember, that torrents of medicine were being poured down people's throats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-20a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-20", "file": "debates1957-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "84905e42b287eba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-20a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Sehedule.—(RATES OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I want to emphasise the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Willis) about the absence of Scottish Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-20a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-20", "file": "debates1957-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "84905e42b287eba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-20a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Sehedule.—(RATES OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " people in Scotland as for people in England and Wales, but we have not had a word of justification. This is a poll tax. More than that, in respect of people whose earnings are lower than the average level, there is injustice and unfairness even within the poll tax. What is happening is that by this Schedule we are laying down the actual contributions by which the Ministers concerned are prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-20a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-20", "file": "debates1957-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "84905e42b287eba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-20a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Sehedule.—(RATES OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ng is that by this Schedule we are laying down the actual contributions by which the Ministers concerned are prepared—[ Interruption. ] I do not wish, and I am sure that you, Sir Charles, do not wish me to repeat the earlier part of my speech now that the Joint Under-Secretary has arrived. We shall probably have ample opportunity tomorrow, and probably all day tomorrow in Scottish Grand Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-20a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-21", "file": "debates1957-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "d47ef28b25097573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-21a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "f following him very closely and with very deep sympathy. This problem of entertainments tax is a very old one politically. I remember it as a very vexed question in the first Parliamentary Election which I fought, now, for my sins, twenty-eight years ago, and I was asked whether I was in favour of the abolition of entertainments tax. May I interrupt myself and say that before discussing Clause 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-21a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-21", "file": "debates1957-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "d47ef28b25097573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-21a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "preceding_text": "ng the small man everywhere—the small farmer is being attacked; the small trader is being attacked, and in this case the small exhibitor is being attacked. The Chancellor of the Exchequer smiles, but in a similar debate twelve months ago I quoted a letter that I had received from the owner of a small cinema. Today that man is dead. The exhibitor of another small cinema, not far away, is also dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-21a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that 1948 is almost as ancient as the hon. Lady opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1227.7", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "WATER UNDERTAKINGS (REGROUPING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "takings should be and how regrouping should be effected. I believe that the answers to both of these questions must to a large extent depend on local circumstances and local conditions. Obviously, there can be no hard-and-fast rule about size, but it seems very generally accepted that the existing number of 1,000 undertakings in England and Wales might well be cut down to approximately 200 or 300—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1227.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1268.3", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "WATER UNDERTAKINGS (REGROUPING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all along.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I am happy to tell the hon. Member, who represents a Welsh constituency, that we do this. Along the whole length of our pipeline from the Elan and Claerwyn valleys to Birmingham we sell water at cost prices or without making a great profit to inhabitants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To take it over?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": " after its own people first. What we think should happen is something on these lines. First, after a given period, which can be determined by negotiation—say, seven, fourteen or even twenty years after the establishment of a housing estate—provision should be made for the local authority to have the power to acquire that housing estate and to assume all the financial obligations of administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1297.4", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": " Member for Barking (Mr. Hastings) has just agreed is a real one. It would be unfortunate if the debate led to criticism, or one were recommended not to give the Bill a Second Reading when this Measure is essential to the day-to-day work of the London County Council. The debate has called attention to the fact that the financial administration of the London County Council is very efficient indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1308.7", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "In that case hon. Members disagreed with the district auditor, which was a pity. There may have been a difference of opinion as to what the level should be, but the case which my right hon. Friend and I argued at County Hall year after year was completely vindicated by the district auditor himself, who bore out our criticisms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1308.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "It is the Instruction to which I am addressing myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "It is the Instruction to which I am addressing myself—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is not.\"]—but it is a specific item—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1321.3", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not hear the hon. Member say that. He should not say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1323.4", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "oint that it is not really necessary for the L.C.C. to ask for more money for open spaces when there are plenty available, if only they would get busy and clear them of the rubbish left over from the prefabricated houses which they nearly demolished, but left on the open spaces, which are thus not fit for the people to use. It is for that reason, and for various other reasons that I could advance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1323.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hay", "preceding_text": "l asks Parliament to approve capital expenditure amounting to £26·2 million. The Council's total overall expenditure this year will be over £100 million, and I think it is true to say that this is the first time in history that the London County Council has ever spent or proposed to spend as much money as that. It is not far short, may I remind the House, of the total Budget of New Zealand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "n the forthcoming year; but at the same time it already had in the \"kitty\" £3·2 million and this year it does not intend to raise so much from its reserves to pay for its capital expenditure on housing, schools and the rest, as has been done in former years. We believe—I think it is true—that this is done largely because next year, as has been said, is a London County Council election year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "due to the very fact that the right hon. Gentleman mentioned, that so many premises have been derated to the extent of 20 per cent, that, if in any particular year, it was in this year that the L.C.C. should have done its utmost to keep its rate level as low as it could. When we have the derating of commercial property, it follows that other ratepayers have to bear a consequently increased burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-22", "file": "debates1957-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d5213f403309c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1328.4", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "nistry but should come to Parliament. If that is the case, is it not right that we should make a searching investigation of what it does? Some of us though not unanimously, as this debate has shown, feel that these are matters which require investigation, and I think that the effect of the debate will be to turn a searchlight on some of those murky corners of the London County Council's financing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-22a.1328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1378.9", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "Without going into the matter concerning the Conservative women's conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1378.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the employment of foreigners in the mines is governed by the 1947 agreement, and that Questions like that asked by the hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Remnant) are making it more difficult for the N.U.M. and the Coal Board to get over these difficulties? Could the Minister tell us how many Hungarians have been employed in the breweries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1399.4", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Has the Leader of the House consulted the Secretary of State for Scotland about the question of an extended Whitsun Recess? The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that it was, I think, only yesterday forenoon, but also at various times during the preceding night, that the Secretary of State for Scotland kept the Scottish Grand Committee sitting for 26 hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Financial Secretary \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "of consistency. It was this sentence, which he uttered on 7th May, which brought me early into the Chamber today. Then the hon. Gentleman said: The larger the outlay which the owner of a television set is called upon to pay, the smaller will be the proportion of his annual outlay represented by this duty.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 7th May, 1957; Vol. 569, c. 809.] I wonder whether the Economic Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He shook his head; he does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": "e, register our protest. The Government brought along the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Solicitor-General, but when he is called upon to give an explanation or interpretation of the particular part of the Bill now under consideration, he shakes his head. Surely, that is not treating the Committee as it ought to be treated. We are entitled to an explanation from the Law Officer of the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "sition to go through on the nod. As the Chancellor said in his Budget speech, it is an extra £1 on the receiving licence—a licence for receiving both sound and television. Like my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields, I represent a constituency in the North-East. I represent 55,000 people in Newcastle, the great metropolis of the North-East, the greatest county borough in the North-East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1513.5", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ll. This has become a political issue in the North-East. We are being discriminated against in every matter which arises. We have had all the trouble about the Tyne tunnel and only years of protestations have got it restored. We cannot go on being treated like this in the North-East. I should have thought that the independent Member for Sunderland, South would have been here to support me tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1513.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1516.6", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": " money somewhere. I object to the right hon. Gentleman taking it from Scotland. That is why I have an Amendment on the Order Paper to provide that the extra charge of £1 shall not apply to areas not yet covered by commercial television. I object to his taking it from Scotland because Scotland is not receiving the full service that most of England receives. We have no alternative viewing programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1516.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " will not pass the Clause because to impose this tax, operating as it does upon this industry, financed as it is, is an absolutely lunatic thing to do, because it will be a permament tax. No doubt when I am an old man people will say of me, \"He remembered a time before the television tax came into operation,\" just like those old people who boast that they knew the days when there was no Income Tax", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-23", "file": "debates1957-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f57b002d1645af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Rev. LI. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Rev. LI. Williams", "preceding_text": "n taken from us, and the only Welsh television now being received in Wales is at the very awkward time of 1 p.m. to 1.45 p.m. on a Sunday. We are very much concerned, because during that period we are having our dinner or luncheon. This is a real injustice. We also suffer from a tremendous amount of poor sound reception which occurs in those regions of Wales where the language is at its strongest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-23a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-24", "file": "debates1957-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9639aa6b0506a44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-24a.1597.1", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (REGISTERED CLUBS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": ", like the British Legion clubs—the hon. Member for Brierley Hill (Mr. Simmons) will know them very well, and I know that my hon. Friends recognise the problem—where one has one clubroom with a bar at the end, and it is a very general social club. Many times I have seen a father and mother bring quite young children into such premises, and nobody would say that it was offensive in any sort of way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-24a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-27", "file": "debates1957-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "f91af50d61bdaec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-27a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Although this report will be a big blow to the tobacco companies and the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-27a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-27", "file": "debates1957-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "f91af50d61bdaec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-27a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I accept that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-27a.67.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-27", "file": "debates1957-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "f91af50d61bdaec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-27a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "y'. It might well be, however, that in the future pattern of British farming there would be fewer small units than there were today. The Minister went on to say that so far as it legitimately could, the Government had tried to design the farm improvements grants scheme to help the smaller man, although it should be borne in mind that the object of the grant was to secure more efficient production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-27a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-27", "file": "debates1957-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "f91af50d61bdaec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-27a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Third Schedule.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PIG INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "cts. These people are concerned that the Government's policy is one of what they call under-recoupments. Therefore, if I am a critic, I am not alone. There are twenty-six others to be gathered from the select of the Tory Party in the Eastern counties—and that after a really impressive speech by the Minister himself. It is no wonder, therefore, that the benches opposite have been rather thin today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-27a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALACE OF WESTMINSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Gentleman agree that in both design and execution, this is the greatest monument to English craftsmanship that we possess, and should not it be made continually available to view, particularly by visitors, to give them some idea of the beauty of this piece of English craftsmanship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "he pottery industry? It is no longer a Purchase Tax in the usually accepted interpretation of the term for restricting consumption, but remains for the purpose of raising revenue and no other purpose. If we go into the West End we see the standard of living of people there. We have to increase our exports so as to increase our output to increase our exports so that they can go on living like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "We are asking for the Purchase Tax to be removed. Those engaged in industry are working to increase exports and they could be increased much more if Purchase Tax were taken off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " home is run, except as it affects their own comfort. That is really the most exasperating thing in the world. The medical service is composed both of men and women, but the nursing service in the main is provided by my own sex. It is more than one can bear to have to use this kind of pressure in order to get a little bit of common sense knocked into the heads of those on the Treasury Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.246.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Lady should read the letter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. Lady was complaining that the Minister's letter did not refer to the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " of so many articles—my right hon. Friend reduces the Purchase Tax under this class to 15 per cent. but for the electric smoothing iron, the appliance which every progressive and modern housewife needs in her home and is anxious to have for labour-saving purposes, my right hon. Friend keeps the Purchase Tax at 30 per cent. I have said enough in this context to demonstrate the point I have in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "arles, the hard manual labour entailed in using a hand-operated washing machine, a hand wringer or mangle, the machine which one laboriously turns round without any sort of electric power behind the elbow at all. That is an antediluvian appliance. It is the sort of thing which was generally used prior to the First World War. I would have hoped it had long since disappeared from the domestic scene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " the Economic Secretary, in rejecting an earlier Amendment in connection with sewing machines, let slip the comment that the words are included in Clause 6 (1, a, iii) not designed for operation by electricity or gas because, in his words, a great deal of money would be entailed, were those words deleted. I propose to support my right hon. Friend the Chancellor in the Lobby on this Clause tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "arcely the metal to provide baths. We had to cut out central heating because the metal was not available, the factories were not there, and the possibilities did not exist; but it was certainly always intended that central heating was a necessity in the modern house, and would help to save coal and enforce a sane planning policy on the part of the Government. To come to the details of the Clause —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "e to say that this cannot happen. Even those who are reluctantly following the Government at the moment are having a very uneasy time. We have seen wrestling with conscience going on almost in public and rather painfully during the last few months. The hon. and gallant Member for Down, South (Captain Orr) laughs, but Northern Ireland is, perhaps, not so active politically as some parts of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "quences of being a member of a Tory Government that he gets placed in these fantastic dilemmas, through the operation of Toryism. He comes along and says, \"I have sinned. Will you say to me, 'Go thou, and sin no more'?\" We say, \"But your very proposal is rather a worse sin. It is impossible to give you Parliamentary absolution while you are contemplating even worse crimes in the immediate future.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "by the House within four days. It becomes inoperative if the Second Reading of the Bill does not take place within ten days. It becomes inoperative if the Third Reading does not take place—well, originally the date was fixed at 31st August, but I am not sure whether that date still stands. In any event, the threat the Fairy Queen made to the Peers on behalf of Strephon has rarely been implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-28", "file": "debates1957-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e6602086179f579", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.358.2", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I was waiting, and on these occasions one knows that if one waits too long the Chairman rises and puts the Question and then one is hindered by one's own modesty. Who discovered this? Was it discovered in the Treasury? Was is discovered by the Law Officers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-28a.358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.380.9", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "My own view and the view of some of the experts is that traffic in London at the moment is moving rather more freely than before rationing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.380.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.391.5", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "While I am aware that the hon. Gentleman was trying to give a whimsical answer to the supplementary question put by my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South-West (Mr. Dye), this is a very serious matter, and the hon. Gentleman really should not answer a matter affecting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.391.5", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "While I am aware that the hon. Gentleman was trying to give a whimsical answer to the supplementary question put by my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South-West (Mr. Dye), this is a very serious matter, and the hon. Gentleman really should not answer a matter affecting—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] Might I put it like this? That sort of answer is resented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I think that the last part of that supplementary question referred to an earlier Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked for examples of people doing that. What about the example of Mr. Noel Coward, which is exactly on that basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "£10 or more a week? Is their economic position such as to necessitate that? I do not know how other people look upon it. Perhaps there is something in the statement that the more you get, the more you want, and that honour, loyalty to one's fellow men and country have no influence—\"I have a big income. I have a special ability, but I am not prepared to use it unless you hand me another £1 or two.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "w how other people look upon it. Perhaps there is something in the statement that the more you get, the more you want, and that honour, loyalty to one's fellow men and country have no influence—\"I have a big income. I have a special ability, but I am not prepared to use it unless you hand me another £1 or two.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] I did not mean that literally. I referred to Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The vampire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "With great respect to my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede), I would not call the noble Lord the umpire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not giving back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "mething taken away from the taxpayer. The taxpayer had been making too big a contribution, which was now being remitted. The Chancellor made the same point in rather different words. This is one of the big differences between the two parties. The Conservative Party thinks of any tax remission as simply giving back to the taxpayer something which is truly his own and which the State has taken away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ill take our very best wishes with him. However, I am sorry, because I recall now that it was the hon. Member for Torquay (Mr. F. M. Bennett) who used the argument—as, I think, the Chancellor did, also. There are very many of these young executives, designers, scientists, draughtsmen and the rest who are already frustrated; fed up because of Suez, and fed up with six years of Tory administration —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-29", "file": "debates1957-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "f7de3fe869321536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.546.0", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ty and the honest views held by us on this side of the Committee. I cannot see on any moral or philosophical grounds any possible reason or right for a concession of this sort while that wrong, among others, remains unremitted. I will go even further. We know perfectly well that in one way after another the Chancellor has in recent months and years cut every possible social service in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-29a.546.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-30", "file": "debates1957-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "d46e790c56c94b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.579.5", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that at the present time there are, in Manchester Corporation buses, advertisements for money at 12⅝ per cent. and that the money is going into the hire-purchase world at about 20 per cent.? As that must be inflationary. will he not take steps to stop it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.579.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-30", "file": "debates1957-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "d46e790c56c94b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.598.5", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "May I reply to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.598.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-30", "file": "debates1957-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "d46e790c56c94b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.605.2", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P, Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.605.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-05-30", "file": "debates1957-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "d46e790c56c94b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.617.6", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House whether, in view of his statement just now that the falling off in the number of Questions addressed to the Minister of Labour is due to the Minister of Labour's efficiency, he applies the same reasoning to the increase in the number of Questions directed to the Colonial Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.617.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-30", "file": "debates1957-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "d46e790c56c94b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WINFRITH HEATH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I thought that the right hon. Gentleman said 1792, but we will put the date back by twenty years. A grant of the eighteenth century is not a relevant document. These rights exist by prescription. In point of fact, the whole of this problem arose in the thirteenth chapter of Genesis, verse 6—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-30", "file": "debates1957-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "d46e790c56c94b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "res stated in that Survey are worth reading. I do not see how we will stop this trend by giving shipowners a 40 per cent. investment allowance, If we give them 40 per cent. they will be coming back for a further 10 per cent., 20 per cent. or 30 per cent. I feel rather gloomy about the whole matter. If we are to have any ships at all sailing under the Red Ensign they will have to be publicly owned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-30", "file": "debates1957-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "d46e790c56c94b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall MacDermot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall MacDermot", "preceding_text": "made and all the leases in existence at the time when the law was changed, means that the burden is being transferred, quite arbitrarily, from the landlord to the tenant in cases where a bargain was made on the basis that the landlord would have to bear the burden. I should have thought that the anxiety of this Government to make uncovenanted gifts to landlords had been satiated by the Rent Bill.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.731.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-30", "file": "debates1957-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "d46e790c56c94b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The lawyers have had their go, and I think the Committee is grateful for the very clear exposition of both points of view which have been put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-30", "file": "debates1957-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "d46e790c56c94b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " where they stand, and Clause 16 underlines the knowledge of both the owner and the occupier. It is important for them to know from year to year the basis of assessment. That basis was fixed explicitly by Sections 15 and 16 of the 1956 Act. This Bill undermines that basis of assessment by enacting that it may run on until a time to which the memory of man runneth not to the contrary in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-30a.741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-31", "file": "debates1957-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "c0933335c90e3810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-31a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "EAST AFRICAN COMMISSION (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are the aristocrats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "a permanent settlement for Europeans because it is essentially a black African territory. One danger of a too-rapid constitutional advance in Uganda would be the following. The Protectorate could not be treated as a whole because the Baganda, that is to say, the inhabitants of the Buganda Province, are very far advanced compared with the other tribes in the Eastern, Western and Northern Provinces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-31a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-05-31", "file": "debates1957-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "c0933335c90e3810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-31a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "EAST AFRICAN COMMISSION (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "They may be on the surface, but it is not a question of getting a few of the leaders together. We still have to overcome the tense feelings of the ordinary peasants in the remote parts of the country. As I understand it, when we talk about the constitutional advance of Uganda, we mean that the Baganda are saying that they should rule the whole of the Territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-05-31a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-03", "file": "debates1957-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b2365474e46965f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To stay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "As I am going to Rampton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-03", "file": "debates1957-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b2365474e46965f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.891.2", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-03", "file": "debates1957-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b2365474e46965f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "When I am wrong, I always admit it, which is more than I can say for the hon. Member. The power probably exists already. I will not go further than that. We want—and the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Willis) has frequently made the point—to make the Bill self-contained, so that somebody looking at it will know what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-03", "file": "debates1957-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b2365474e46965f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed that the Joint Under-Secretary of State has not risen to accept this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-03", "file": "debates1957-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b2365474e46965f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "This Government faces facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-03a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-04", "file": "debates1957-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "4596e5acb06c17f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I understand that there was a bad smell when the hon. Member was in his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-04", "file": "debates1957-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "4596e5acb06c17f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "NUCLEAR DEVICE (EXPLOSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that Her Majesty's Government's proposals concern themselves with registration of tests and not with the cessation of tests? As it is now universally agreed that, however many deaths may be caused by these tests, some deaths will be caused, and, indeed, an increasing number of deaths—no one in any part of the House can deny that—is it not, therefore, desirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-04", "file": "debates1957-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "4596e5acb06c17f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1082.7", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "NUCLEAR DEVICE (EXPLOSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would say from the knowledge that we have that it is an impossible hypothesis. The right hon. Gentleman says that I am running away. I shall not run away from my duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1082.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-04", "file": "debates1957-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "4596e5acb06c17f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1110.3", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION, KENYA AND TANGANYIKA (RACIAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend says, we do not much mind what we are called as long as we go on winning by-elections as we are doing, while the party opposite is losing votes to the extent which it is. However, I do not think that this is very germane to the debate, and I have a feeling that we shall be interrupted soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-04", "file": "debates1957-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "4596e5acb06c17f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1111.3", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION, KENYA AND TANGANYIKA (RACIAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "the Europeans set a certain standard or level, and that the Africans must attain to that level before they can be admitted as full partners. That is what I think he means by it. The Colonial Secretary, in using the word partnership, did not define what he meant, but it becomes quite clear more and more as we talk to people from these territories that this is not the only conception of partnership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-04", "file": "debates1957-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "4596e5acb06c17f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION, KENYA AND TANGANYIKA (RACIAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "(Sir W. Churchill) was very typical of anybody in the land, but he could express in the summer of 1940 the thoughts and aspirations of a whole nation. It really is absurd to dismiss the inarticulate masses of Africans as not in agreement with the views of the so-called handful of hot-headed agitators, when this handful of people are expressing the unspoken aspirations of the people whom they lead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-04", "file": "debates1957-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "4596e5acb06c17f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION, KENYA AND TANGANYIKA (RACIAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is Hornsey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": " they would have to say about it in this House would be completely different. With regard to the question of universal franchise, this is art extremely difficult matter. It is quite obvious that universal franchise must be long-distance. I am not one of those who say that there should not be qualified franchise. I very often think that there is room for a little more qualification in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-04", "file": "debates1957-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "4596e5acb06c17f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION, KENYA AND TANGANYIKA (RACIAL POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I have the very greatest respect for the Colonial Secretary. I look upon him as a kind of St. George who is defending a poor African maiden from the white dragon which might swallow her, if it had its way. What I am a little afraid of is that St. George might drop his sword and go and have a drink, and forget about the whole business and the fate of the African maiden might be very serious indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-04a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1237.3", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "id, as he has done on former occasions, that the cost of this scheme appears to be the obstacle, would it not be wise to give the public at large the opportunity of showing their confidence in such a project, which would be of great benefit to Wales and south-west England? Secondly, is it not a fact that this scheme until a few years ago ranked in priority well above the Forth and Tyne crossings —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why grumble?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I think that he gave a very satisfactory answer to my Question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BULL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Henderson-Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Henderson-Stewart", "preceding_text": "they would receive some assistance in order to enable them to play their part in development schemes under Part II. The inroduction of an organisation of that kind—non-Governmental, but strong and powerful, and with all the influence of Scotland behind it—might achieve this end. In Part II of the Bill we have opened the door to a very great and new advance in the development of Scotland's economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1299.3", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BULL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I hope that when next the Scottish Standing Committee meets it will be streamlined. The silence about which hon. Members opposite have spoken made us feel futile and frustrated, and when next we meet I hope that there will be a timetable giving generous time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BULL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "I understand the right hon. Gentleman's problem, but it is not rents that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1326.3", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BULL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "Because we want the local authority to stand on its own feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1326.3", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND TOWN DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BULL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "Because we want the local authority to stand on its own feet—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and to run its own show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1326.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1360.0", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "New Clause B.—(PROVIS1ONS TO FACILITATE EXCHANGE OF CONTROLLED DWELLINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "That, I think, is what I was just saying to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "New Clause B.—(PROVIS1ONS TO FACILITATE EXCHANGE OF CONTROLLED DWELLINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Were that the case it might be commendable, but I do not think it does even that. It is so absurd that no lawyer would dream of going to court with a case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1371.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1384.0", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "New Clause B.—(PROVIS1ONS TO FACILITATE EXCHANGE OF CONTROLLED DWELLINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, the question of rent would arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "New Clause B.—(PROVIS1ONS TO FACILITATE EXCHANGE OF CONTROLLED DWELLINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "The Minister has given a very weak answer to the Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-05", "file": "debates1957-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "e82ffb2a6e13e3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1391.3", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "New Clause B.—(PROVIS1ONS TO FACILITATE EXCHANGE OF CONTROLLED DWELLINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I disagree with the hon. and learned Gentleman. In the view of my right hon. Friend this Clause implements the undertaking given to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-05a.1391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-06", "file": "debates1957-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0403bc7b39399a9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The point is not that no association has been recognised but that an association has been recognised which does not happen to be convenient to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-06", "file": "debates1957-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0403bc7b39399a9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1458.3", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give the further assurance that he accepts that universities are in a rather special position, fortunately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1458.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-06-06", "file": "debates1957-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0403bc7b39399a9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I am not prepared to go into detail in this matter, which derives from the Prerogative, and which is a power that I should exercise at my discretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1462.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-06-06", "file": "debates1957-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0403bc7b39399a9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1462.4", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is correct. I was referring to his first point. On the second point, the circumstances of this case made this action desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-06", "file": "debates1957-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0403bc7b39399a9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "ent the investigation which the Governor of Cyprus is making in Cyprus by sending an independent committee to Wormwood Scrubs this afternoon to examine certain Cypriots who are there? It is alleged that these Cypriots, if they are examined now, will be important witnesses, as they claim that they have been very badly treated. If we wait until the House meets after Whitsun, this important evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1467.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-06-06", "file": "debates1957-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0403bc7b39399a9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1514.3", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "SUPERANNUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. J. Enoch Powell)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-06a.1514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-07", "file": "debates1957-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "992e5fd89baa5989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-07a.1584.3", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "SECURITY SERVICES (UNIVERSITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "nd that academic life as we know it could hardly continue to exist if it were thought that a spy was planted in every common room. I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that there is no justification for any such apprehension, no justification for the belief that university teachers are encouraged to spy upon their colleagues or their students. As I have said, I will investigate any case which is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-07a.1584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-25", "file": "debates1957-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "242830410cbc69b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member cannot get away with that. It is not fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-25", "file": "debates1957-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "242830410cbc69b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "SHOPS AND NON-INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (GOWERS REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ght an Election, they would lose it. In reply to the hon. Member for Ayr (Sir T. Moore), may I say that the bulk of the work on the Mines and Quarries Bill was done at the Ministry of Fuel and Power, when my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) was the Minister and I myself was the Parliamentary Secretary. All that the Government had to do with the Mines and Quarries Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-25", "file": "debates1957-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "242830410cbc69b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "SHOPS AND NON-INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (GOWERS REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "this debate. We certainly have no complaint at the tone or content of the speech which the right hon. Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) has made. The right hon. Gentleman is quite right in saying that many of these matters are not essentially political, although it so happens that throughout our political history no party has done more for social reform for the workers than has the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-25", "file": "debates1957-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "242830410cbc69b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "SHOPS AND NON-INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (GOWERS REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Against the Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Padley", "preceding_text": "ade Union engaged mainly in the fight to stop shops opening all day and half the night. So it went on to the eighties and nineties, when, long before the sons of shop workers were in this House and long before Jim Seddon came here as the first shop workers' M.P. to represent the constituency now represented by the hon. Member for Newton (Mr. Lee), Sir Charles Dilke fought our battle in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-25", "file": "debates1957-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "242830410cbc69b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "SHOPS AND NON-INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (GOWERS REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have been reading Cross Bencher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "I wonder who is to deliver the newspapers when all these little shops are done away with? I wonder who will deliver the Sunday newspapers. Our Sundays would be ruined without the Sunday Express —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-25", "file": "debates1957-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "242830410cbc69b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SHOPS AND NON-INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (GOWERS REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " get a little further. I am justified in pointing out once again to the House the record, not of the past hundred years—my right hon. Friend has dealt with that—but the record of the Conservative Party since it was returned to power in 1951. Almost the first Act to be put on the Statute Book by the Conservative Government when elected in that year was the Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-25", "file": "debates1957-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "242830410cbc69b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "SHOPS AND NON-INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (GOWERS REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "There can be few, if any, Governments who have put on the Statute Book more legislation dealing with this subject in the period of only six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-25", "file": "debates1957-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "242830410cbc69b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "SHOPS AND NON-INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (GOWERS REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "All I can say, in conclusion, is that the Government will pay heed to all that has been said in today's debate. Further, before this debate blew up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-25a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "We do not accept responsibility for this loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.198.8", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CANAL (DAMAGE TO PROPERTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Times.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "I do not know on what grounds my hon. Friend says that the figure that he mentioned is reliable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.198.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I think probably only to the extent that they have been distributing——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Panama.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "at, although I seldom say little on the telephone nowadays except that I cannot pay until the rise comes through. But if there is any question about that, I would like to say that I am on a party line with a well-known London physician. So if anyone hears a reference to a canal, he should realise before notices are circulated that it is not a reference to the Suez Canal, but to a part of the body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Most of them are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "e party opposite alone understands high finance and stock market manipulations and that those stupid people in the City cannot compare with it. The hon. Member for Northfield says that when it comes to tax evasion the party opposite is the absolute \"cat's whiskers\". It knows more about it than anybody else in the country. Why hon. Members opposite are not all millionaires I shall never understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.285.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "preceding_text": "e had a long debate. I am still not hopeless about the prospect of convincing the Chancellor and a great number of hon. Gentlemen opposite that an advance in this direction must be made in the interests of our overseas business as a whole. I look forward to having another try next year, and I shall continue to try until I succeed. In the circumstances, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "e that the Amendment to be produced on Report will be very clear and will avoid the abuses which will arise in attempting to assist individual cases. I know that individual cases make bad law and so it is important to see that such legislation is tightly drawn. 8.0 p.m. It is quite obvious that the whole of Part IV of the Bill will make possible very widespread and massive attempts at tax evasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "so multitudinous that one has some embarrassment in selecting them for the purpose of speaking, and one must make a selection or one would seriously tax the patience of one's listeners. The objection that comes first to my mind is that Part IV will be seriously to the disadvantage of British workers. If an overseas trade corporation is set up, it is obvious that its labour will be largely foreign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "It is possible to set up a company abroad, but it would not be very sensible if a firm has a factory in this country already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ould not have done that, because when they were written the exact nature of the present scheme was not known. Can the Economic Secretary assure the Committee that the objections of the Inland Revenue to these other schemes all disappeared when the nature of the Government scheme was known and that the present scheme was prepared entirely with the support of and on the advice of the Inland Revenue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "estern Germany is a country which, at present, is generally thought to be pretty experienced and pretty successful in international trade, although I freely admit that it is not quite so dependent on international trade as are we. Western Germany, of all highly-developed industrial countries, is the one that has done least of all to help its overseas trade corporations. It has done nothing at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.346.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-26", "file": "debates1957-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd54c3590b2216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.349.2", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I rise for a moment to uphold the supremacy of parliamentary government and to put the Board of Inland Revenue in its place. We shall make a mistake if we elevate unduly either the wisdom or the authority of a body of civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-26a.349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-27", "file": "debates1957-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "48646a676ba28b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": " aware that it would be quite improper for Cypriot prisoners who are making allegations of maltreatment to be judge and jury in their own case? Is he also aware that the logic which applies to these Cypriot prisoners applies to himself and to the Governor of Cyprus? Is he further aware that, if the situation remains as it now is, in the eyes of the world the British Government have pleaded guilty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-27", "file": "debates1957-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "48646a676ba28b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.390.9", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.390.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-27", "file": "debates1957-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "48646a676ba28b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Question 16.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The case might have been different if the hon. Lady had not asked a supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-27", "file": "debates1957-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "48646a676ba28b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.396.6", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is not suggesting that the police or any other responsible authority would do that in Kenya—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.396.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-27", "file": "debates1957-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "48646a676ba28b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary, I thought, suggested earlier that this information was given at the request of the chairman of the Bar Council specifically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-27", "file": "debates1957-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "48646a676ba28b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are being.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "—telephone communications of hon. Members can be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-27", "file": "debates1957-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "48646a676ba28b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I am very glad we have an answer at last. We might perhaps have had it when the point was raised, but there it is. Does not it illustrate the fantastic character of this part of the Bill? Suppose a company which does a little bit of whaling, sometimes inside and sometimes outside territorial waters, or two companies, one of which fishes inside territorial waters and the other outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-27", "file": "debates1957-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "48646a676ba28b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "ompanies. They invest in British companies precisely because of the security, stability and protection of our laws and the way in which our tax system and our political system protects any investment that is properly made. There is no likelihood of unjustifiable and arbitrary confiscation of their assets. All these benefits are British assets which we are to some extent conferring on these people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-06-27", "file": "debates1957-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "48646a676ba28b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.569.5", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "f the Board of Trade, but I wonder if he would tell us whether or not there is a \"recognised market\" in copper, and if it is a sort of open market of the kind he wishes to recognise here, or if it is a matter that is largely regulated by a few large copper producers. What about diamonds? I am not in the habit of buying them myself, because I cannot afford to do so, but the right hon. Gentleman is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-06-27a.569.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-01", "file": "debates1957-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae90e7aa0b2389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that juggling about with figures and arguing the merits of the Opposition's policy and ours—and I think our policy is far better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-01", "file": "debates1957-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae90e7aa0b2389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Minister for his reply, may I ask whether he is not aware that material worth about £1,040 was stolen—not stolen, but taken away?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-01", "file": "debates1957-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae90e7aa0b2389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "nt months to such an extent that most people were convinced that sooner or later, and probably sooner, the Chancellor would have to stop it. I think, therefore, that the real answer to objections to retrospective legislation of this kind is that people must not merely be taken to know the law as it stands but also must be taken to understand the possibilities of its being changed at an early date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-01", "file": "debates1957-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae90e7aa0b2389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": " and I think there is no controversy about them in the Committee. In the past, they have been raised from both sides of the Committee, and I am sure that they will be raised on both sides again. One of the needs is for electric transmission lines to run underground in areas of special beauty. That is the sort of work which we believe is properly a national charge and which ought to be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-01", "file": "debates1957-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae90e7aa0b2389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Nobody ever objects to money for the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-01", "file": "debates1957-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae90e7aa0b2389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not Oxford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "ts of £3,000 or £4,000 a year. It may be that we should not give any grants at all, but to give such derisory grants is to achieve neither one thing nor the other: we get neither good pictures nor economy. We read about the gigantic bill for the restoration of Oxford, and that might be the sort of further purpose which the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland had in mind when he set up this Fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-01", "file": "debates1957-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae90e7aa0b2389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " right thing to do. So many speeches have been made in the past on this subject by so many Chancellors that every possible argument has been adduced and they are all well known. Over the years they have been regarded by successive committees which have considered this matter as irresistible arguments against this reform. But I am not satisfied that that should necessarily be the end of the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-01", "file": "debates1957-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae90e7aa0b2389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede), but I think it is only fair to point out that in this island of Great Britain there are two Established Churches, the Church of England and the Church of Scotland. One represents only 5 million people, but has 1 million communicants. The Church of England cannot claim any number of communicants, because it has no communion roll whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-01", "file": "debates1957-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "3ae90e7aa0b2389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.850.7", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": " He was also supported in a speech which I was privileged to contribute on that date to an Amendment of the Finance Bill which was lost on that occasion by the meagre margin of ten votes—295 to 285. The right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay), the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said in column 581: particularly when it is remembered that this tax is not intended to be permanent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-01a.850.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.869.4", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "In view of the doubts which have been expressed about the Government's wholeheartedness in the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.878.4", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister have yet another look at this? While one does not want in any way to reduce the powers of the London County Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.878.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.879.5", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I do not call that anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.887.2", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Since the prospects of the disarmament talks are far poorer than the general public have been led to believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.887.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Sir Norman Hulbert)", "preceding_text": "Is it your pleasure that the Motion be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": "an investor in a building society. It is not really a financial interest because, even if my hon. Friend accepted the Clause, I cannot imagine that it would have any effect at all on the remuneration of directors, and certainly it would have no effect at all upon the rate of interest paid to investors. Its only effect would be to put this money into reserve for investment in the gilt-edged market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.961.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lancelot Joynson - Hicks", "preceding_text": "nst the Government. The hon. Member for Brixton (Mr. Lipton) may say that building societies have had their day, and that we need a different sort of organisation, and the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) may praise the building society system and say that he wants to see its principles extended in other spheres; nevertheless, we are all united in the one view that we want this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "debate, he would have heard some powerful arguments advanced not only on economic but on social grounds, and I think in one or two respects even the word \"moral\" would have been appropriate. But the right hon. Gentleman can judge that when he reads the debate tomorrow. We welcome the fact that so quickly after he entered the Chamber the right hon. Gentleman has thrown over the Financial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Victor Raikes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Gentleman attend them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Victor Raikes", "preceding_text": " private cocktail party, because it is much better for the girls at six o'clock than spirits are. Nevertheless, I challenge the Economic Secretary, if he produces any figures, to prove that sherry drinking in the ordinary public house has kept up since the increase of duty. It is drunk much more in other forms of society, particularly at vicars' parties. I have noticed it on a number of occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.1026.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-02", "file": "debates1957-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4558e1c9071ab24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Eden", "preceding_text": "I wish to support the Motion and, as a representative of the principal holiday resort in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-02a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "Whilst expressing satisfaction that after all the hesitations and excuses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "preceding_text": "thers the 90 per cent. tax. What are luxuries and what are necessities? For instance, snuff boxes are taxed at 60 per cent. Is snuff more desirable than powder? The anomalies in Purchase Tax ought to be considered seriously. On several occasions in this House I have spoken for unpopular causes. It seems that the case for the lady's flapjack or the powder bowl is unpopular in present circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "At any rate it has been an interesting innovation in recent times for cosmetics to be allowed in our prisons. I think there is a case to be made out for the women of the country, and I think that this continued policy of a tax upon women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear from these facts that the additional supply is really needed for industrial purposes. So Liverpool is in this adventure, I am going to suggest, for the sake of profit out of the sale of water for industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The other day, the Minister for Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs went to that valley. I will quote what he said: This is a lovely part of the world. I am glad that he went there and saw this lovely part of the world—he might not see the next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Victor Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Victor Raikes", "preceding_text": "r Caernarvon (Mr. G. Roberts) with a debating skill and a courtesy which the House as a whole must appreciate. I, too, shall endeavour to use a completely temperate voice in dealing with our case, which, by Private Bill procedure, is very properly brought before the House. It is a little difficulty for me now, after speaking in this Chamber last night on port, to find myself brought down to water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not use the Mersey?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "preceding_text": "during the past few years. Various other smaller schemes in Wales have been considered before this one, but the trouble with each one of these is that either it involved the flooding of a good deal more good agricultural land than does the present scheme, or the supplies which we were going to get were so small and so comparatively costly that the scheme was really not worth while proceeding with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about water from the Dee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "preceding_text": "examine that possibility, and that evidence was given before the Committee in another place a short time ago, when the Bill was considered in another place. Incidentally, the Bill was passed through Committee. It is useless to expend enormous sums of money in order to try to turn the River Mersey in its present state into a water supply for the City of Liverpool. I only wish that it could he done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Rev. LI. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The only one\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Rev. LI. Williams", "preceding_text": "t that area, which I know so well, has been denuded increasingly every year by the migration of its people from that type of community to the industrial centres in the Midlands, Liverpool, and elsewhere. I want to redress that grievance. I want to lend my support to any effort which will mean the bringing of industry to that area. Beyond dispute, that area has one economic asset and that is water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "and I believe it will be of great value. At present there is no lack of water in Wales generally, and in this area there is a great exportable surplus. I considered very carefully and sympathetically the plea made by the hon. Lady the Member for Flint, East and others, that the sensible thing to do would be to postpone action by Liverpool for two years until the result of the survey was available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1211.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-03", "file": "debates1957-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c624f248da47b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1254.6", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "rhead charges and eventually to compete more keenly in the export market. I make a point of that because the country is very concerned with exports. In the last eighteen months these machines have been exported to Trinidad, Southern Rhodesia, Abadan, Belgium, Malaya, Sweden, Spain, France, Switzerland, Nigeria, Norway, the Persian Gulf, India, Australia, New Zealand, Christmas Island and Bulawayo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-03a.1254.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-04", "file": "debates1957-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "900c58f254c98758", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-04a.1279.3", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that there is an alarming increase in the rate of drinking and drunkenness among young people, is it not, whatever the difficulty, the Secretary of State's responsibility", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-04a.1279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-04", "file": "debates1957-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "900c58f254c98758", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-04a.1291.7", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary aware that the public is beginning to get a bit uneasy about this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-04a.1291.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-04", "file": "debates1957-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "900c58f254c98758", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-04a.1315.4", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If they are passed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "On the question of the announcement of the Prime Minister today on Members' and Ministers' remuneration, having regard to the fact that all the changes proposed will take effect as from 1st July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-04a.1315.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-04", "file": "debates1957-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "900c58f254c98758", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-04a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(DUTY OF NATIONAL COAL BOARD IN RESPECT OF SUBSIDENCE DAMAGF.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy - Speaker (Sir W. Anstruther-Gray)", "preceding_text": "Is that convenient to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-04a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-08", "file": "debates1957-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "04a0b5b5062a359e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is evidently deliberately neglecting the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.15.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-08", "file": "debates1957-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "04a0b5b5062a359e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "—that he fixes the price for the consumer. Will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-08", "file": "debates1957-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "04a0b5b5062a359e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.124.3", "colnum": "124", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "preceding_text": "t I did not find myself quite in agreement with my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Gloucestershire, South (Captain Corfield) and my hon. Friend the Member for Down. North (Mr. Currie). My experience of the London County Council has evidently not been as happy as theirs. I regard the London County Council as a rather hard-hearted body, very often dictatorial, sometimes a little unscrupulous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-08", "file": "debates1957-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "04a0b5b5062a359e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.124.3", "colnum": "124", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "preceding_text": "quite wrong for the London County Council to bring about a position such as has been outlined by my two hon. Friends, where they are seeking to take possession of land and buildings now but in respect of which the notice to treat was served many years ago, and to pay only the price that was ascertainable in 1939. The London County Council says that if this is wrong, it is not wrong only in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-08", "file": "debates1957-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "04a0b5b5062a359e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "MENTAL ILLNESS AND MENTAL DEFICIENCY (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Dodds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Dodds", "preceding_text": "s that persons of 89, 90 and, in one case 100 years old have been certified and taken into mental hospitals as insane. There are cases of those who are being detained unnecessarily in mental hospitals. There is also testimony by the Federation of Hospital Employees that 20 per cent. of the people in mental institutions today could be allowed out at once if There were places to which they could go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-08a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-09", "file": "debates1957-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "987d5d29279fb182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Donnelly", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Danger money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Donnelly", "preceding_text": "thority of a nationalised industry who was promoted to the deputy-chairmanship of his board. Thereby he had to lose £2,000 per annum— because of the promotion he received. I think that we have to get our priorities right as they affect our senior public servants. In the Communist countries they have this sense of priority aright, and they are prepared much more readily to pay the rate for the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-09", "file": "debates1957-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "987d5d29279fb182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "pting the Select Committee on that or any other question as Holy Writ. I am not less willing than anyone that I should be given more money, and I hope that I am less willing than most, certainly than many hon. Gentlemen opposite seem to indicate when they are on platforms, to grudge other men getting more. The more they can get, so long as it is fairly honestly done, the better I shall be pleased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-09", "file": "debates1957-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "987d5d29279fb182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member is succeeding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "er question as Holy Writ. I am not less willing than anyone that I should be given more money, and I hope that I am less willing than most, certainly than many hon. Gentlemen opposite seem to indicate when they are on platforms, to grudge other men getting more. The more they can get, so long as it is fairly honestly done, the better I shall be pleased. [ Laughter .] I am doing my best to be dull.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-09", "file": "debates1957-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "987d5d29279fb182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am sure, is certain —and I believe that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition would agree with me—51 per cent. of it must consist, first, in convincing oneself unshakably that it is the most important consideration and, secondly, in convincing everyone else that one means it. The belief that the Socialists really ever had their heart in it was never very strong and died long ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-09", "file": "debates1957-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "987d5d29279fb182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "I quite agree, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but if we were not to pay this increase of salary of £750, then in truth we should have to increase the pensions so as to balance somehow or other the means by which Members of Parliament live. However, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, if you think that I should not refer to pensions at all, I shall, of course, have very much to curtail my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-09", "file": "debates1957-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "987d5d29279fb182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "ns of salary or of pensions—I am now keeping pensions well in the background—I think that the conditions of life have much changed in the last few years since this matter was first raised in 1939. The tempo of life and the material composition of the House of Commons has altered. Even today hon. Members are accustomed—and rightly so—to living on a rather higher scale of life than they did in 1939.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-09", "file": "debates1957-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "987d5d29279fb182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.250.7", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY (CONDITIONS OF ENLISTMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ake from any serving soldier any rights that he now has. Although I move an Amendment to antedate the Bill to 1st May, 1952, at the same time I propose a provision that soldiers now serving, or any soldiers in the future, shall have rights removed—either statutory rights or rights which the Secretary of State for War may lay down—only on the basis of the written agreement of the soldier concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-09a.250.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-10", "file": "debates1957-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ceeeb41831eb7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has put forward with crude bluntness the case of the Vietminh in this matter. That is the Vietminh's case. The position of South Vietnam is that it is not possible at present to have free elections in North Vietnam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-10", "file": "debates1957-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ceeeb41831eb7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend has mentioned, this R.E.M.E. workshop is in my constituency. The matter came to public light some five weeks ago, and I have had much correspondence and discussion both with my right hon. Friend and my hon. Friend. There are on the Order Paper, Questions 53 and 54 in the name of the hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. M. Stewart). As far as I am aware he has no connection with this workshop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.379.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-10", "file": "debates1957-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ceeeb41831eb7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "mitted—it is certainly admitted by my hon. Friends, but, of course, hon. Members opposite will disagree—that we have struck now a fairly happy balance as between the two industries of road and rail, having in mind the measure that the Commission has been allowed to retain. After all, if we had been really doctrinaire in the policy of denationalisation, we could have gone on selling those vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-10", "file": "debates1957-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ceeeb41831eb7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry. My hon. Friend had his back to me and I did not recognise that there was a Member for Manchester here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-10", "file": "debates1957-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ceeeb41831eb7f78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Limited licensing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "I will not press the point, but I understood that the British Transport Commission was pursuing a policy of licensing taxi cabs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-10a.446.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-11", "file": "debates1957-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "dfa463b53162879e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-11a.536.5", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the House?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "I do not think the right hon. Gentleman can have studied with attention my right hon. Friend's speech yesterday. He is also making an important speech tomorrow to the National Production Advisory Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-11a.536.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-11", "file": "debates1957-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "dfa463b53162879e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-11a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend why he has decided to give a whole day, Thursday, to a debate on Scottish industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-11a.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-11", "file": "debates1957-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "dfa463b53162879e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-11a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERIAL SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "I associate myself with the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South (Mr. Wilkins). Is it really necessary that the Vice-Chamberlain should have the enormous responsibility of sending a communication to Her Majesty which Her Majesty probably will not read?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-11a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-11", "file": "debates1957-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "dfa463b53162879e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-11a.584.9", "colnum": "584", "heading": "SECOND SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. 5.0 p.m. During the discussions in another place their Lordships showed themselves to have a passionate interest in beauty and physiography and especially flora and, of course, fauna.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-11a.584.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.729.6", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "Does not this illustrate how costs in the coal industry have gone up compared with other prices? Is it not a fact that costs in the coal industry have gone up by five times compared with the industry's pre-war costs? Is not this the largest increase of any industry? Surely the coal industry should try to absorb these increased costs, as have agriculture and other industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.745.9", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "As every time the price of coal goes up the miners are, in effect, getting an increase in wages—that is, the miners who have free coal—and in view of the public feeling on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.745.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Further to that point, Sir, can you therefore advise me and the people of the country what remedy they have?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ause the right hon. Gentleman will make his base in a different area. I challenge the Minister of Defence, when the statement is made, to try to deny it then. He knows the conclusion to which he is coming. Look at the folly of it. The Government, in three years, have brought Greece and Turkey to the edge of war. They have strained our relationship in N.A.T.O. and they have strained the Bagdad Pact", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Profumo)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is there a policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Profumo)", "preceding_text": "on to report any progress he would most certainly come to the House. It was against the background of that information that the Opposition still decided to have a debate this afternoon. I make no complaint; it is the time of the Opposition; but I am sure that the Committee will not expect this afternoon, so soon after what I said last week, to have a policy statement from Her Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Profumo)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Profumo)", "preceding_text": "me of the Opposition; but I am sure that the Committee will not expect this afternoon, so soon after what I said last week, to have a policy statement from Her Majesty's Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Is there a policy?\"] If hon. Gentlemen opposite would listen a little more to what we say from these benches they would not fall into the error of believing that Her Majesty's Government have no policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Profumo)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Profumo)", "preceding_text": "sible statesman deliberately to promote a smear campaign is serious enough, but for a leading figure of the Church to do so without assuring himself first of all of the facts is to throw all responsibility to the winds. How can the Archbishop do other than rely on second-hand information? He has had no opportunity of testing the information simply because he has not been to Cyprus for over a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": " been told of accusations by certain Cypriot prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs. I know that some hon. Members have taken a personal interest in this matter, but I ask hon. Members to put themselves in the position of anybody who really had been through maltreatment, and torture. When entering a prison would not the first thing he to complain to the prison authorities, to show the marks on their bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.809.6", "colnum": "809", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "glish jail they were being sent to a place where they would be worse treated, not better treated. It is one of the sweetening factors in this whole miserable business that those prisoners who have been sent to this country speak so highly of the treatment they are now receiving in Wormwood Scrubs. I therefore beg the Government not to allow this kind of statement to go around the world unanswered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.809.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.809.6", "colnum": "809", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": " treated, not better treated. It is one of the sweetening factors in this whole miserable business that those prisoners who have been sent to this country speak so highly of the treatment they are now receiving in Wormwood Scrubs. I therefore beg the Government not to allow this kind of statement to go around the world unanswered. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is going round the world. It is there now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.809.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member will agree that we asked the chief medical officer and the doctors present if these scars and bruises could have been caused by improper treatment and they said that they could have been caused by that or any other means. They could not rule it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.823.4", "colnum": "823", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A change of Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East that one very necessary action before any satisfactory solution can be reached in the Cyprus problem is a change of Governor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.823.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.823.4", "colnum": "823", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "cessary action before any satisfactory solution can be reached in the Cyprus problem is a change of Governor. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A change of Government?\"] A change of Government would be another very healthy move towards a solution, but I regard that as a little more remote. A change of Governor has become necessary because the personality of Sir John Harding is in itself an obstacle to a solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.823.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "en enhanced during the last few years. It was recognised what had to be done in India, Pakistan. Ceylon and Burma, and there is the right hon. Gentleman's own record with regard to Ghana, Nigeria and Malaya. Whenever we mention those matters and we ask also that freedom should be restored to certain satellite States in Europe, the finger of scorn is pointed at us and people say, \"Look at Cyprus.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Major Patrick Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": "t has been made in this Committee today will be noted in Cyprus and that this belief will be somewhat shaken by today's statement made from the Opposition Front Bench. This is why the the Cypriots refuse to consider the Radcliffe proposals with any degree of reasonableness. I hope that the idea of immediate Enosis has been rebutted by the statement made twice today from the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Major Wall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Wall", "preceding_text": "ed by some hon. Members on both sides of the Committee. If we come to such a solution, let there be a division three ways—one part to the Greeks, one part to the Turks and a British enclave covering British bases and under British sovereignty. I think that would meet the stated desires of the three motherlands, Britain, Turkey and Greece, even though it might be disastrous to the people of Cyprus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.862.5", "colnum": "862", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I have already given way twice on this point. The hon. Member will have an opportunity to speak later. He speaks quite frequently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.862.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He could not care less.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I have already given way twice on this point. The hon. Member will have an opportunity to speak later. He speaks quite frequently. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) may not like what is being said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.862.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "t know whether to believe what they said four years ago or what they are saying now. In my few remarks I have deliberately tried not to make matters more difficult. I must ask hon. Members opposite to believe that if, even unwittingly, they give the impression in Athens, or to Archbishop Makarios, that somehow or other the Greek Cypriots and Greece will get a better deal under a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.865.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.892.7", "colnum": "892", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Mr. Brockway rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.892.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-15", "file": "debates1957-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "84e84d9ee1395fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.892.8", "colnum": "892", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "The point of order I raise is a serious one, and is according to the Standing Orders of this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-15a.892.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "; I have followed the practice which, I think, has been universal under all Governments, that whereas the Stationery Office prints the regulations and shows what forms are prescribed, it is left to printers of all kinds or private people who wish to do so to produce the law forms. What has gone wrong on this occasion, I consider, is that there has been an underestimate of the rate at which demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.950.2", "colnum": "950", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "lers in the country but was unable to get the form, and that as recently as yesterday my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, North (Mr. MacDermot) telephoned six stationers all of whom said that they had not got the form and that, if they could get it, it would not only cost 6d. but that there would be an additional 25 per cent. Purchase Tax? Does not the right hon. Gentleman think it disgusting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.950.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I think that the action which I have already taken will very quickly secure that the forms will be available practically everywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.951.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.952.4", "colnum": "952", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "Could the right hon. Gentleman say why the forms are costing as much as 6d., even without Purchase Tax? Is he aware that this morning the Labour Party Publications Department, because of the shortage of these forms, decided to go ahead and print a quantity, that they will be ready in two days' time and the cost in bulk supply will be under Id., including Purchase Tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.953.2", "colnum": "953", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "In my original statement, I endeavoured to inform the House that I was extremely anxious to do everything in my power to facilitate and expedite the distribution. It is perfectly possible, as far as I am aware, for local authorities to handle these forms, though I doubt whether they would have power to incur net expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.953.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "It was certainly possible last week to obtain copies of the form much nearer than Charing Cross Road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I am in no muddle, and I underestimated nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I am in no muddle, and I underestimated nothing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] What I think was underrated was the speed at which the demand for these forms would build up, bearing in mind that none of them need actually to be returned for a good many weeks ahead. I am giving the House an undertaking that these forms will be available to everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.954.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.955.7", "colnum": "955", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Because I think that the steps I have taken already will make any printing by the Stationery Office quite unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.955.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "RENT ACT (PRESCRIBED FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am quite sure that within a very short time, thanks to the steps which I have taken, supplies of these forms will be available to anybody who wants them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "New Clause.—(REBATES OF CUSTOMS DUTY AND EXCISE DUTY ON HYDROCARBON OILS FOR USE IN PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES DRIVEN BY DIESEL FUEL.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ho expressed their views, There was the Minister of Supply. There was the present Minister of Pensions and National Insurance. There was, in fact, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, who was one of the most powerful advocates of a reduction in petrol taxation in 1950 and 1951, but I will not embarrass him by quoting the hyperbole with which he treated the Finance Bill Committee in those years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "New Clause.—(DEPLETION ALLOWANCE FOR UNITED KINGDOM MINERALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "on. Member may say, but I think that between us we have proved the case, which is incontrovertible. I agree that possibly the Treasury might find it difficult to grant this request on this occasion as a certain amount of legislation would be inevitable, but the Treasury could give us hope that next year, when, no doubt, we shall be in a much more favourable financial position than we are in today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "New Clause.—(DEPLETION ALLOWANCE FOR UNITED KINGDOM MINERALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the virgins.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "f ambiguity in this debate that I am extremely doubtful as to whether when the hon. Member for Ayr goes into the Division Lobby I should accept him as my leader. All I wish to know—perhaps the hon. Member can tell me—is where this quarry is located, whether it is in South Ayrshire, Ayr Burghs or whatever other location, and what exactly would be the advantage which would accrue to my constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "New Clause.—(PROFITS TAX ON BUILDING SOCIETIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"It was out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "erlain had to go into reverse quickly and produce another form of national defence contribution, which subsequently became the Profits Tax. We have not heard half enough tonight about the evils of Profits Tax; we have only heard one aspect. 8.30 p.m. We have heard about the evils of the two differential rates of Profits Tax, but nothing about the Sword of Damocles in the shape of non-distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "New Clause.—(PROFITS TAX ON BUILDING SOCIETIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not make a profit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": " considering this one small point, to the fact that we shall be losing our sense of justice and perspective if we do not bear in mind the much wider scope of the tax as a whole. Profits Tax is a thoroughly bad tax, and there is not the slightest doubt that it affects building societies adversely, but building societies are not alone, and I am puzzled why they should be singled out in this fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1080.2", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Clause 11.—(INCREASE OF PERSONAL RELIEFS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": " in this country. He did not make sufficient allowance for the relative insecurity of employment in the top executive positions in the Soviet Union. Nor do I think that the right hon. Gentleman has paid sufficient attention to another point to which we have drawn his attention, which is that in the Soviet Union they do not have the same tax provisions in respect of compensation for loss of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1080.2", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Clause 11.—(INCREASE OF PERSONAL RELIEFS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Hornsey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "t concerned with the economic or the social position of the country. It was a direct appeal to the wavering Tory abstainers who had let him down in a long succession of by-elections. That was why we said, as early as 10th April, that this was directed not towards the economic position of the country but to the wilds of Warwick and Leamington, the backwoods of Beckenham, and all those other places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Clause 11.—(INCREASE OF PERSONAL RELIEFS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "The noble Lord knows perfectly well that as soon as the concessions are granted in the law Surtax payers spend more freely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1090.6", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Clause 11.—(INCREASE OF PERSONAL RELIEFS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Earned income reliefs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is exactly wrong. These Surtax reliefs cannot come into effect and be felt by the Surtax payer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1090.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-16", "file": "debates1957-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10d5f97867758209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Clause 11.—(INCREASE OF PERSONAL RELIEFS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Schedule D.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "he earned income relief affecting Surtax-payers would operate—whether by re-coding or by abatement of Surtax on the 1st January following, which would be, of course, the payment of Surtax in respect of assessment of the earned income of the individual for the year but one preceding. A ruling was given to me by the Inland Revenue that the earliest effects would be felt on the 1st January following.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-16a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1119.2", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "From one to two?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "As I explained in the debate on 3rd July, we have doubled the rate of compassionate release by comparison with last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1140.4", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "In view of the persistent propaganda on behalf of the nonsmokers, will the hon. Gentleman occasionally listen to a plea by a smoker and so arrange with the Transport Commission that, while protecting the interests of non-smokers, it should not permit them to clutter up compartments where smoking is permitted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "preceding_text": "Since few hon. Members could hear and nobody could understand the question put by the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford (Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport), may I ask whether the Minister, in view of the fact that there are far more people who do not wish to smoke in trains than there are who do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (CONVICTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Clearly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ourt who heard the case, I assembled a full Court of five members and I am happy to say that there is now complete unanimity in the Court and the judgment I am now about to deliver is the judgment of the Court and agreed to by all the members of it. So that there was no dissent among the members of the Court, and the member of the Court who felt doubt originally presumably had that doubt resolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (CONVICTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Just as well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "by all the members of it. So that there was no dissent among the members of the Court, and the member of the Court who felt doubt originally presumably had that doubt resolved. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Clearly?\"] Clearly, presumably, because he joined in the decision. Counsel for the Crown was really not called upon to argue at all. I said a few words, but did not speak for more than a couple of minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (CONVICTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "there was no dissent among the members of the Court, and the member of the Court who felt doubt originally presumably had that doubt resolved. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Clearly?\"] Clearly, presumably, because he joined in the decision. Counsel for the Crown was really not called upon to argue at all. I said a few words, but did not speak for more than a couple of minutes. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Just as well.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (CONVICTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The exact opposite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I really cannot reconcile the hon. Gentleman's remarks with the observations of the Lord Chief Justice in giving the judgment of the Court. He made it clear that the doctrine of constructive malice was removed by the Section as was announced to be the intention in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1163.4", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ent Amendment. If it were not, it would not be in order. It raises a different point, and, in any case, both my hon. Friends have pointed out that there have been very serious developments in our internal position and in Commonwealth economic affairs since the Committee. During the debate today there have been about five Government supporters on the benches opposite, and one of them is now asleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "r within the near future. Another objection has been that no private gift of this sort ought to be made while retaining some private interest. Many hon. Members have felt that and have argued that it was wrong to seek to reserve some interest. Indeed, that was the point of the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) when he rose to interrupt me. We all know that an Englishman's home is his castle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "rivate gift of this sort ought to be made while retaining some private interest. Many hon. Members have felt that and have argued that it was wrong to seek to reserve some interest. Indeed, that was the point of the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) when he rose to interrupt me. We all know that an Englishman's home is his castle. [HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh.\"] We all certainly wish that that was So.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "I am in this difficulty that I am not in charge of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1225.3", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell (Easington)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell (Easington)", "preceding_text": "pproached by some hon. Members opposite to ascertain our intentions, and among them was the hon. Member for Hendon, South. So far as I can understand it, their intention was to ask the House to agree to the disentailment provision, but to nothing more than that. It was on that assumption that some of us agreed to offer no objection, although some of my hon. Friends were not in support of our view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "a body of three trustees. I think it is right to say that if the hon. Member for Hendon, South aims to proceed with the original provisions of the Bill, then we shall have to discuss the whole of the proceedings which were before the Lords Committee. I think that they would surprise hon. Members and I advise them to get a copy of the proceedings. For the purpose of greater accuracy I obtained one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "l with it. If I had said nothing about it, his speech would have been delivered on the basis that it was surprising that I had not mentioned it. I do not want to be controversial, but I think it is right to refer to these matters. I tried to explain these provisions because I thought the House would wish to hear them, and I think that what the right hon. Gentleman is saying now is a little unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman came back to the issue by saying that he accepted the main principles and raised absolutely no objection to them but that, because of a small technical point, he intends to divide the House against the Second Reading. If the right hon. Gentleman regards that as the responsible act of a Privy Councillor, and of an hon. Member with thirty-two years' experience in this House, I do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman regards that as the responsible act of a Privy Councillor, and of an hon. Member with thirty-two years' experience in this House, I do not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This provision was contained in the Marquess of Abergavenny's Bill, in Lord Willoughby De Broke's Bill, and in the Earl of Shrewsbury's Bill. I do not recall, I was not in the House during the passage of any of those Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "to exercise such powers as they have in order to sanction the alteration of a settlement where the object is merely to defeat the Revenue. What the House is being asked to do now is to pass by special Act of Parliament what is an alteration to a settlement voluntarily made by the settler, and to make that alteration when the whole purpose and advantage of it is to avoid the payment of Estate Duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1262.4", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman has the leave of the House, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "ers will, therefore, not know where they are until the last moment. What I am trying to do is to arrive at a suitable way of dealing with this matter, and the suggestion that I make to the House is this. If the House thought fit, it might perhaps accept the Motion on Clause 7 and the related Schedule without prejudice to the insertion in the Bill in Committee of provisions which would give effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "That illustrates the kind of difficulty that I feel we are in. The hon. and learned Member for Leicester, North-East made some points which, as I understand them, could quite easily be attended to in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "That illustrates the kind of difficulty that I feel we are in. The hon. and learned Member for Leicester, North-East made some points which, as I understand them, could quite easily be attended to in Committee. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] They could. The Clause could be amended in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1263.3", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "S: \"No.\"] The right hon. Member for Lewisham, South has been pressing me, but, as he pointed out and as I am bound to point out, I have no power. I am not the Government; I am merely a private Member. I think that the suggestion I have made is a possible way of dealing with the matter, and that if the House is not willing to deal with it in that way there is no alternative but to divide the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "tances, I do not think there is any good in con- tinuing the argument on these lines any more. There are two alternatives before us. One is that the Bill should be withdrawn and that the promoters should think again, but if the promoters of the Bill ask for a Second Reading, I must inform hon. Members who have taken a certain line that, as far as I am personally concerned, I shall vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Agnew), which would leave out all Clauses other than those which free the property from the present statutory restrictions upon its disposal. We have got into a rather unfortunate muddle because the Instruction in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesend (Mr. Kirk) That it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Bill to leave out Clauses 3 to 5 and 10, and Schedule 3 was called first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1266.2", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "ARUNDEL ESTATE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to speak for more than a few minutes, but if anyone starts yapping \"divide\" while I am speaking, I shall speak a good deal longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "FINSBURY SQUARE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member said that before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I do not want to detain the House longer than necessary, but many hon. Members have told me that they have not had the opportunity of reading the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-17", "file": "debates1957-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ac4028d228924587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1281.3", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "FINSBURY SQUARE BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Fienburgh", "preceding_text": "rything that the hon. Baronet is now doing can strictly be fitted within the brackets of Erskine May or Standing Orders, but it still leaves you some latitude to preserve the decencies and proper conduct of debate in this House. When a speaker is reading a Bill, and reading it badly in a mumbled way and repeating himself over and over again, that is surely an abuse of the good sense of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-17a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1348.0", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "POST OFFICE FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "uld like to draw his attention to the fact that this is an addition to the £68 million increase in charges already imposed by the previous Tory Government and the present Government, and that with the increased charges now provided for, the figure will amount to over £110 million. I am sure that these charges will cause consternation throughout the country when the full effect of them is realized—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " is what led to the great exodus from Lanarkshire, when Stewart and Lloyd's found it better to transfer to Northamptonshire to be on top of the ore beds. They need coal too, do they not? The right hon. Gentleman is now saying—or, at least implying—that since we are to use some home ore and some imported ore, it would be better not to build a steel mill in Scotland, because we do not have any hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Ask him now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "not to build a steel mill in Scotland, because we do not have any hope—[ Interruption .] Oh, he is not saying that at all? I do not know with whom he is arguing. What I was trying to make out was that any addition to the demand for ore in this country must be met by an increase in the importation of iron ore. When I asked the right hon. Gentleman, he denied saying \"No\" and said that he said \"Yes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Jedburgh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "st Midlands where a special recruiting drive is proceeding. There is, too, the very remarkable position in the Borders where not only is there full employment, but an acute shortage of labour in the area, which is an important centre for one kind of tweed and the main centre for knitwear. In the whole of the Border area last month there were only 176 unemployed people and only 700 unfilled places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "f time it could make provision for and produce the quantities of coal needed both for the Colville expansion and also for a steel strip mill in Scotland. Until we have a categorical answer from the Board that both cannot be done, I think that the whole position should be examined. I wish now to turn to a somewhat lighter subject compared with that of heavy industry, the question of whisky exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "w more time and motion study or work study to take place and be applied, the effect on the export trade could be substantial, but I will say no more about that at present, because the matter is now under discussion. I next went to a steelworks, and here I should like to say that Sir Andrew McCance has been subjected to the most unfair attack from the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser) today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1438.0", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Capital expenditure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I think it is an impertinence of the right hon. Gentleman to say that I am misleading the House when I am quoting figures produced by the Coal Board itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "rd's accounts, that every area in Scotland is in the red—every single area in Scotland. One area, which I am sad to talk about in this connection, an area in which I spent so many years, has lost in the last six years £6½ million and somehow or another last year managed to lose 21s. on every ton it produced. These are facts. We need to raise output in Scotland by 10 per cent. to break even.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1440.2", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "Let me finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1440.2", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "rden of cost will be 30s. a ton for depreciation and service of the capital. In my view these collieries will never pay, if the coal from them is to be sold at reasonable prices, and the steel industry and shipbuilding industry of Scotland have to depend upon the Scottish coal mining industry's giving them coal at reasonable prices. Bearing that in mind the future outlook for them is indeed black.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1472.3", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "with normal production rather than with defence production, quite apart from the implications of war and other things, it should build up into a much more stable flow of production. That is better than depending on the changing defence policies from time to time according to the international situation. I think we are all extremely glad that Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox are taking over in principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1472.3", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does it mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "the implications of war and other things, it should build up into a much more stable flow of production. That is better than depending on the changing defence policies from time to time according to the international situation. I think we are all extremely glad that Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox are taking over in principle. [ Laughter .] I must use that phrase because it has been used once or twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1475.0", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "to some of the details raised by hon. Members on both sides of the House in this debate. First, as to the future. The position will be kept under very close review and in that review representations which have been made to the President and myself about the consequences of the reduction in the mark up will be firmly kept in mind. Of course there will be continuing consultations with all concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-18", "file": "debates1957-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "4e9dabf965c78ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1478.4", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "nt. We believe that if we go on leaving things as they are, we should generally hurt the industry. That is why we have acted. There is no question at all about being doctrinaire. The hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. G. M. Thomson) asked: \"Why choose this moment when unemployment figures are high?\" The very fact that unemployment figures have been rising in Dundee is proof that something is wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-18a.1478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-19", "file": "debates1957-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "87f008a413c495af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-19a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "tions. The Government claim, and they have repeated it today, that the Bill represents another step in the progressive reduction of taxation. Has the Financial Secretary forgotten, however, that only yesterday from the Treasury Bench his colleague the Postmaster-General announced a further piece of taxation? The increase in postal charges is taxation. It is no good giving reliefs in one direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-19a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-19", "file": "debates1957-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "87f008a413c495af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-19a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I know that it is not considered traditional to make speeches on the Third Reading of the Finance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-19a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-22", "file": "debates1957-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "61ad2d28d4dc87b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that the Board is selling such things as currant buns, biscuits and cheese sandwiches, which have nothing to do with milk products? Can he not do something about it? Is he aware that, as a result of a Question I put to him last week, half these items have been withdrawn from these bars?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.13.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-22", "file": "debates1957-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "61ad2d28d4dc87b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "CENTRAL OMAN (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It was not so specific as that. What the right hon. and learned Gentleman said—and I have just seen his statement—is this: The local British authorities are considering with him the best form which this might take— that is, the aid: They have been given discretion within certain limits to take military action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-22", "file": "debates1957-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "61ad2d28d4dc87b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "CENTRAL OMAN (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. In my view, unless we know something more about this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-22", "file": "debates1957-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "61ad2d28d4dc87b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROADS PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": " road. Dual carriageway lengths were opened for half a mile or so, and then there were half mile lengths, and other distances, of single carriageway. But since last January hardly any progress has been made along the Cromwell Road extension beyond Hammersmith. Indeed, because of the work to be done at Hammersmith the traffic congestion there at present is considerably worse than it was a year ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-22", "file": "debates1957-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "61ad2d28d4dc87b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "CLASS IX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "In the last few months the right hon. Gentleman has become so hypersensitive to criticism that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-22", "file": "debates1957-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "61ad2d28d4dc87b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "CLASS IX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "In the last few months the right hon. Gentleman has become so hypersensitive to criticism that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Just a moment. I do not propose to withdraw it. Since the right hon. Gentleman made that muddle over petrol rationing he has become ridiculously hypersensitive. He knows perfectly well that a Minister is responsible for his Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-22a.116.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why is that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "These school meals still represent extremely good value for money, and the vast majority of parents recognise that. Moreover, the percentage of those taking school meals in Glasgow who get them free, comparing September, 1956 with May, 1957, shows an increase from 19·1 per cent, to 24·7 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "But is not the Secretary of State aware that one of his Under-Secretaries had a meeting with the directors of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard, at which he made it clear that the editor had been writing editorials criticising Her Majesty's Government, and that, as a result of that meeting, he editor was sacked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.216.7", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the implications of what the hon. Gen leman has been saying, but I am satisfied that the meeting referred to was not fended by my hon. Friend in his capacity as a Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.216.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Really, Mr. Speaker, we all go to our constituencies and conduct our own operations as Members of Parliament. I would not begin to think that a Secretary of State can have a proper knowledge of what an hon. Member does in his own constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.217.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman divests himself of responsibility, may I ask the Prime Minister? I am sure that he will appreciate that the behaviour of Ministers in a matter of this kind is something which concerns the whole Government, and himself as Prime Minister. May I ask the Prime Minister to look into this and report to the House in due course?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRANCE (RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As regards the general question, as my hon. Friend no doubt knows, the recent deterioration in the French balance of payments has led them to make a decision to deliberalise a number of imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "DEFENCE (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the very long statement made by the right hon. Gentleman—and it was a very long statement, about which I make no complain t—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "CENTRAL OMAN (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "It would be an example of military futility to seek to employ ground forces in those temperatures in desert areas. What has to be done is to seal off this area of disaffection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ful difficulties of these grave political issues which, we know, exist, which poison the international atmosphere and which, sooner or later, must be settled. I do not believe it would be helpful to try—I am certainly not attempting it tonight—to lay down in advance precisely at what stage in the process of disarmament we feel that it will be necessary to bring up these difficult political issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-23", "file": "debates1957-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "aa8ee96df7c738f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " other hand, the plants which make fissile materials are comparatively few in number and it should be possible, within reasonable limits, to check the quantity of fissile material which they produce and the use to which it is put. That is why we have thought it more realistic to propose the banning of the production not of completed weapons but of the fissile material required for weapon purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-23a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-24", "file": "debates1957-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "667dd2f363ed74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-24a.397.7", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I have taken the three years together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-24a.397.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.604.6", "colnum": "604", "heading": "PROVINCIAL BUS AND LONDON FOOD MARKETS DISPUTES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Undue?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that undue publicity has been given to these incidents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.604.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "CENTRAL OMAN (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rockets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That is a wholly unfair insinuation. To begin with, no bombing has taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.608.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.608.2", "colnum": "608", "heading": "CENTRAL OMAN (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That is a wholly unfair insinuation. To begin with, no bombing has taken place. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rockets.\"] The hon. Member talked about bombing. No bombing has taken place and, as far as we know there have been no casualties, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.608.5", "colnum": "608", "heading": "CENTRAL OMAN (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The question is the maintenance of the authority of someone who is the legitimate sovereign of these areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.608.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "JOINT UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not the local Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "further inquiries? I know that he has not had much time since Tuesday. Would he find out whether the Joint Under-Secretary approached the editor of this paper many times over a long period, and put pressure on the editor to change his editorial policy? The complaint of the Joint Under-Secretary of State was that this editor was writing editorials criticising the policy of Her Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.630.5", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "and do more, give justice to old-age pensioners at the same time—not by raising tax rates so much as by widening the tax base, such as the methods we have suggested, making an attack on evasion and avoidance, supplemented, in time, by the savings accruing from the national superannuation scheme. It is not, however, enough merely to have the right global budget strategy within that budget strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " support of our colleagues, to keep the level of Government expenditure under control.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 9th April, 1957; Vol. 568, c. 977.] These efforts are painful, but they are also necessary, and they will continue. If we go on holding back Government expenditure while production rises we can give great benefit to the economy. We can do something more. We can continue safely to reduce taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "May I first, as the House would wish, congratulate the hon. and learned Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. John Hobson)on an excellent and encouraging maiden speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It really was. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson)said, at a time when world prices were in the process of doubling we kept them moderate. They did go up. That is true, and we have never denied it, but the increases were relatively small. Under this Government prices have gone up to about the same extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "be taken in by that. The Labour Party broke its back on inflation. Its claim that it was deliberately planning economic expansion was belied by recurrent exchange crises; prices rose continuously and taxes had to be kept at a level which angered the middle class and even the skilled workers. I hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite agreed with that. It comes from Mr. Thomas Balogh in the New Statesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "uilibrium and break the vicious circle. The real wealth of the country is increasing. We have only to stop for a very little time mortgaging the future, as we are doing, to achieve an equilibrium which would, for a reasonable period, remain stable. If once we did that for a reasonable period, then, with a little good will on both sides, we could, I think, keep it, However—and this is my last word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "hieve an equilibrium which would, for a reasonable period, remain stable. If once we did that for a reasonable period, then, with a little good will on both sides, we could, I think, keep it, However—and this is my last word. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, I have listened to the whole of this debate and I think that some of the speeches have been less directed to the real problem than my own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "itories become independent and wish to develop themselves and wish to use their resources, when we face that as well as the needs of investment in the Commonwealth, the blunt and rather terrifying fact is that if we are to avoid all danger of crisis, meet all our obligations, accumulate gold and repay debts, we need a surplus of about £500 million a year. That may be an appallingly difficult task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At the end of the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "simple tests. Let us take, first, the balance of trade and the balance of payments. I suppose the right hon. Gentleman would admit that was an important test. During the six years of the Socialist Administration the trade balance reached a cumulative deficit of £800 million. In spite of all the cuts in imports, the controls and all the allocations and rationing and methods of limiting consumption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "did not keep up. Now, although prices have risen by 20 per cent., the means of paying them have risen, too, for the great mass of the people, because wages and salaries have risen by 40 per cent. Indeed, the trouble is, perhaps, that they have gone up too far and outstripped production. There are now two radically opposed policies put forward to deal with this problem. There is the Socialist plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "cally opposed policies put forward to deal with this problem. There is the Socialist plan—[ Interruption. ] Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen get very excited, I notice. They like to \"give it\", but they cannot \"take it\". What is the Socialist plan? It is the same medicine which has failed us so dismally before. Higher taxation—we are told that. More taxes, more State expenditure, a return to controls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "me medicine which has failed us so dismally before. Higher taxation—we are told that. More taxes, more State expenditure, a return to controls—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, it was suggested to us that there were to be fresh taxes. Presumably there will be a return to price control, and if we have price control no doubt there will be a system of subsidies—or perhaps we are not to go back to subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Production.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I come now to the last point which the right hon. Gentleman made. He rather attacked me for having said that, in the long run, additional productivity by hand and brain and skill was our solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " any rate, it was not at such a price as we nearly paid in 1951, when the right hon. Gentleman was in charge and took himself and his party out of office and brought the country nearly to perdition. I do not claim that a Government—any Government—can solve these problems by themselves, but since this matter is to be voted on tonight by a party Division, I ask hon. Members, as I have a right to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nt—any Government—can solve these problems by themselves, but since this matter is to be voted on tonight by a party Division, I ask hon. Members, as I have a right to do—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the country.\"]—to make their decision. If they consider the two approaches put before them, they will know which is the most serviceable to the nation. We have only to ask right hon. and hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "to those responsible, for a period of perhaps eighteen months, in order to stabilise prices, which are causing despair to large sections of the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard", "preceding_text": "At this late hour I do not wish to detain the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-25", "file": "debates1957-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "892fd09fbf943ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.774.2", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": ", although costs had gone up, nothing had been done to recognise that in coming to our decision about the new subsidies. That is not so. These increases have been taken into consideration, but so has the expectation that earnings will go up at the same time. My hon. Friend and other hon. Members on both sides felt strongly about whether there should be one or two authorities. We must wait and see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-25a.774.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.878.2", "colnum": "878", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 9 (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "all its aspects. That is, in itself, sufficient ground, as has been ruled by all my predecessors, for my refusing to receive a Motion of this sort.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd July. 1957; Vol. 574, c. 32–7.] I believe that there are two answers to your Ruling. The first is that if the matter were urgent under the Standing Order, then it was so urgent that it could not wait as long as next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 9 (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "cular, the right of Government back benchers that is guarded in Standing Order No. 9, and it is, therefore, highly important for them that they should not see it whittled away. I say that to them in considerable seriousness because, according to the Press—I hope that it is untrue—in this highly House of Commons matter, a matter which has nothing to do with party, a three-line Whip has been issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 9 (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "My difficulty is that, as Leader of the House, I am not, so to speak, taking sides upon the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 9 (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "er to have long lists of names, because that will empty the Chamber if Members know that certain of them may speak freely and openly. If we do not keep liberty alive in this Chamber, it will be lost outside. If hon. Members on both sides know that there is a list of twenty names to be called, they will say, \"What good is it for us to sit in the Chamber?\" So when the Rules Committee considers this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I was trying to deal with this matter in an orderly way. I have been speaking so far of the commissions' duties. I was coming on to the next stage in a moment, but before reaching that I should like to deal with the conurbations. I want to try to avoid calling them \"conurbations,\" because I dislike the word so much. I shall call them \"special review areas,\" because that is what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "get other people to pay the remainder, without their knowing that they are doing so. The Government now propose that the cornerstone of the structure of Exchequer aid should, in future, be a general grant. Percentage grants will only be retained when the general grant cannot be made to fit the needs. It is a big step towards increasing the financial freedom of local authorities, and it is welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "early£300 million a year. Their absorption into the general grant will mean that, in future, Exchequer assistance to local authorities will consist only as to one-third of specific grants instead of about seven eighths as at present. The Opposition will find themselves on weak ground if they try to argue that a general grant will hamper the development of social services like health and education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "There is more to this change than a mere change of name", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ne real object, to limit expenditure on some necessary services, particularly education, and to put the blame for it on to the local authorities, doing it in such a way that most of the trouble will come after the next General Election, the result of which—I was going to say the certain result, but the gods might be angry at that—the probable result of which every hon. Member knows perfectly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. C. Redhead", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. C. Redhead", "preceding_text": "We thought that the hon. Gentleman had confidence in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ster for putting over in a remarkable manner such a bad case. His predecessor said that his predecessor on 8th May, 1946, had promised a thorough investigation of local government. Apparently, that has been carried out. I have looked through the White Papers and I submit that these proposals are almost the most pernicious proposals that have been laid before this House since the 1929 Derating Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "preceding_text": "l in the first place? Is it not the case that the Government Departments have been the watchdogs in all matters and have granted permission for limited expenditure? Why attempt to be mealy-mouthed about this when we know full well that this expenditure has been controlled? The Government intend to cut down expenditure and also to check the progressiveness of some Socialist monopolised authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "I am trying to follow the argument of the hon. Member, but in one case he says that it is a national service, locally administered, that he wants; and it seems that the Post Office or telephones are a national service that is locally administered and that is what he wants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-29", "file": "debates1957-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "ecc5d2f8324bd3f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Salaries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "If the block grant is so irrelevant why is it likely to cut expenditure? It will, because, at the moment, of course, if there is an increase in teachers' wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-29a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JOINT UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the whole House will have noted that he himself has rather changed his ground? Last week he said that the Joint Under-Secretary had done what he had done as a Member of Parliament and not as a Minister. Now he is saying that he did not even do it as a Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister say whether the Joint Under-Secretary of State in question could be spared for a few weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure that that is so. I thought the right hon. Gentleman was referring to Question No. 52 which deals with reducing the number of Under-Secretaries of State for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (DEMOCRATIC ELECTION OF OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "r wrongly, have lost faith in trade union leadership, and in the responsibility, patriotism and integrity of the entire trade union movement. This is a very ominous and unhealthy state of affairs and must for all our sakes be remedied. The best remedy, I suggest, is to see that trade union leadership is representative and is seen by the public to be so. I want a trade union movement that deserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (DEMOCRATIC ELECTION OF OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "tire trade union movement. This is a very ominous and unhealthy state of affairs and must for all our sakes be remedied. The best remedy, I suggest, is to see that trade union leadership is representative and is seen by the public to be so. I want a trade union movement that deserves—[ Interruption .] I repeat that I want a trade union movement that deserves and commands the respect of the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (DEMOCRATIC ELECTION OF OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "solute freedom of both sides in industry to negotiate in trade disputes is of fundamental importance, but those negotiations affect others besides those who are actually taking part. If this absolute freedom is to remain acceptable to the general public, those taking part in negotiations must command the respect of all those affected directly and indirectly. If we get trade union leadership right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (DEMOCRATIC ELECTION OF OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very much so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " say election—or if one dared to take advantage of our liberties to probe into the multifarious transactions of public companies, I imagine that that would be hotly resented by hon. Members on the Government benches. There will be general approval of that observation, at any rate on the Government side of the House. The hon. Member for Ilford, North is unacquainted with the facts of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (DEMOCRATIC ELECTION OF OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " so much against the trade unions, but against the country itself. Hon. Members must be very careful indeed. It is perfectly true that recently one of the principal trade union officers of one of the largest unions in the country, one of the most powerful and influential unions, has expressed himself in a somewhat militant fashion. And why not, having regard to the social conditions of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (DEMOCRATIC ELECTION OF OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "d beg right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite to be very careful indeed. After all, by attacks of this kind, by the use of specious arguments of the kind which we have just heard, we may create resentment among trade union membership in the country which will perhaps cause much more trouble than exists at the present time. We must be very careful. I do not propose to proceed any further about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (DEMOCRATIC ELECTION OF OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "views expressed by some correspondents of the hon. Member opposite. We all receive a vast number of letters from people in the country. I would be quite willing to produce some of the vast number of anonymous letters which I receive, in which I am described in all kinds of terms. I should be delighted, but one does not take any notice of them. It is all part of the day. It is what we are paid for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. I. J. Pitman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. J. Pitman", "preceding_text": "t is that the Minister can claim, and the Treasurer at Edinburgh can agree with him, that this scheme will give the local authority greater freedom in its expenditure. It is perfectly clear that, in so far as it raises rates for itself, the local authority will have 100 per cent. control over the expenditure of that which it raises. It can say, \"It is our money and we can do what we like with it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "pparently does not recognise, as some of us do, the amount of control and checking involved, the number of civil servants who have to be employed after the grant has been passed because of central control. The cases which are examined whether the claim is granted or not involve work at the centre. The moment this White Paper is accepted that necessity for central control and for checking vanishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1113.5", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "such services should be adequate for the local population but, subject to that, it will have full freedom to spend the sum of money which it will have in its treasury. That leads me to the main point as to whether or not this is a fraud and a deception, as the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser)said, or a Geddes axe, as I think the hon. Member for Kidderminster said—I have it right this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1113.5", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "r one should dig that garden with a spade or with a fork. Similarly, it is misleading the country and the House to argue whether it should be a block grant or a percentage grant, when the real issue is the question of whether it will mean more money or less money. Hon. Gentlemen opposite think it will mean less money although the Minister has given us clear assurances that it will mean more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "If the Answer in HANSARD had been framed in a different way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Smithers", "preceding_text": "uency, the City of Winchester and the Borough of Romsey, both of which are threatened under any conceivable reorganisation with some kind of amalgamation. I find that the councils or both those authorities, and I believe their electors, are perfectly prepared to face that fact. They do not mind, I am sure. They do, I believe, accept the necessity for reorganisation and, if necessary, amalgamation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except on finance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": " and, indeed, the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. Skeffington), both of whom put forward very clearly certain guiding principles. If the Government had been bolder, they might have got stronger opposition in certain quarters, but at least they could have relied on having somebody to get up and say that they had done a really good job. So far, they have got nobody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL LOSS ALLOWANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": "ster in the Labour Government when the Lindsay Committee was set up and when the 1948 Act was passed. I had never regarded the words of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan)as so sacrosanct, as being so equal to the words on the Tablets, as the right hon. Gentleman seems to do. He must not think that anything and everything that the Labour Government did was supreme perfection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-30", "file": "debates1957-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b6907a52e6a31ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1217.7", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL LOSS ALLOWANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Member. I have not read the Report for, I suppose, ten years, but I remember that the Lindsay Committee thought there should be sacrifice, but not hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-30a.1217.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1240.4", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "What I should like to know from the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1240.4", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "What I should like to know from the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—a whole series of Questions put down on the Order Paper by a previous Postmaster-General have been against the principle of providing for depreciation at current cost. Does the right hon. Gentleman object then to the principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister first of all why, if the Post Office is paying for this investigation, the results of it should not be revealed to the House of Commons; and secondly, may I ask the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State look again at this matter and consult with his colleagues? It is quite ridiculous that because they are long-term, and, therefore, profitable, these contracts should be given entirely to private companies. Why cannot we have the best that can be produced in British aviation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1255.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1260.5", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Confirm.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has asked me to confer with my right hon. Friend, which I will willingly do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1268.2", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "ST. JAMES'S THEATRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get back over the Border.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend not aware that that piece of rank bureaucratic complacency which we have just heard from the right hon. Gentleman opposite is exactly the sort of thing which makes us distrustful of the judgment which has been arrived at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ractical issue. What does a private firm do in similar difficulties with its surplus manufacturing capacity? Clearly, it looks round to see whether it can find a new product, and it may find one, but the right hon. Gentleman never suggested one to me today. As a matter of fact, the Government are in great difficulty in hitting on a new product which has been totally neglected by the outside world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "This direction is used with great rarity, and so far as commercial matters are concerned the nationalised industries are free agents. I doubt whether any Government would, even in the public interest, instruct a nationalised industry to place an order where, on purely commercial grounds that industry would not otherwise have placed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1297.3", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "partments and made the Ministry of Supply the source of its contracts. I do not want to develop that theme, because there may be Members representing deck-yard constituencies who know the whole story, but I hope that the Government will note that it really is time that the Admiralty fell into line and placed its contracts through the Ministry of Supply. I have pledged myself not to speak too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did they make it under licence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "preceding_text": "ork. They went to private firms which were already over-employed when Woolwich Arsenal is under employed. How does this square with the principle laid down by the Minister at the Box this afternoon, that where a ractory develops something, it gets the production contract? I would like this specific case looked into, and I urge the Minister to reconsider the matter in the light of what I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Anything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am not quite sure what it is we are allowed to debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1366.2", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is certainly in order to refer to the previous subject. I understood that we had turned for the time being on to the subject brought up by the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg), and it was on that understanding that I called the hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey), who has the Floor; but if he chooses another topic he is not out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1371.4", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " by the opportunity to make profits running into £10 million, £50 million or £100 million? I believe that the facts I have unearthed are only typical of what must be happening throughout the range of foreign arms contracts in the Ministry of Supply. Although I am well aware that some of my hon. Friends have been slightly impatient at my apparent reversion to a subject which was dealt with earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is an air base\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": " using troops of all arms in a limited war breaking out in any part of the world for which we must have our tanks, our guns, our workshops and our supporting units of every kind. Suppose they are to be stationed in England, and suppose we give up all our forward bases. I am not referring to Cyprus. It is not a base; it is a headquarters. It has been proved not to be a base. It is no use as a base.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1450.4", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "preceding_text": "y ways this reorganisation of English radio transmissions reffects the illusion—a very widespread one in Great Britain—that European countries are 'necessarily' friends, and that it would be superfluous to give these countries a clearer idea of the attitude of the British Government. I wonder whether my hon. Friend saw the Portuguese Diario Popular of 16th July. I will not quote the whole of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-07-31", "file": "debates1957-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "1026a65adc06f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AFRICAN TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "to the African Affairs Board, and particularly to the statement by the chairman. I hope that, before we disperse for the Summer Recess, the Under-Secretary will tell us what he thinks of this forthright statement. The chairman asks this Government, here, to veto these proposals because he believes—and let us remember that he is on the spot—that they will seriously undermine the Africans' position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-07-31a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "FEDERATION OF MALAYA (GIFTS TO PARLIAMENT AND GOV- ERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may say that I will gladly make this offer on behalf of the House of Commons—on the assumption, of course, that I shall have the warm approval of hon. Members in all parts of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the old-age pensioners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has said that it is, perhaps, a little worrying that we should be going into Recess at a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "preceding_text": "ith my hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East (Mr. McAdden)and my right hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton). Whatever duties hon. Members have in their constituencies can be attended to in less than three months. We Members of the House were returned to work here. What we do in the constituencies is for our own political benefit, or for the political benefit of our parties", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "preceding_text": "r the Act. Hon. Members representing the Highlands, from all parties, a few weeks ago had to seek the assistance of the statutory Committee on nationalised industries, to get their support for a debate in the House, the very place to which we are returned to do our public duty. Another example is that a week ago we had a debate on one of the oldest industries in Great Britain or even in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sack the editor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": " concrete example of how, at the wrong time of night and ending in the early morning, a debate was held on the fishing industry at a time when the pressure that should be exercised by a free Press in supporting speeches in the House was entirely missing. My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South (Lady Tweedsmuir)made an outstanding speech. It received one inch in the Highland daily newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "papers. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Sack the editor.\"] The speeches of the Opposition did not get even an inch, none of them. I regard that as a very unsatisfactory state of affairs, and I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition must so regard it, and so should other Members of Parliament, because it is entirely wrong. If we rise for three months, who will run the country? Not us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed at the holiday mood reflected on both sides of the House. On this day forty years ago was fought one of the bloodiest battles in the history of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Grouse-shooting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton and by the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Sir D. Robertson). My right hon. Friend referred to the possibility of behaving like the German Parliament and adjourning in the middle of July. We have usually behaved in a different manner and have adjourned at a little later date. In fact, in earlier days, we went on to the 10th or 12th August.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1539.2", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": "cumstances, is being asked to form a judgment. It may easily be said that the facts are still in dispute and, accordingly, I appeal to the Prime Minister to appoint an independent person of standing to conduct an inquiry and to report the facts to him and, through him, to the House before we reach a decision. I do not want any stigma to attach to the Under-Secretary if he is the complete innocent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does not appreciate that I am counsel for the prosecution. I am putting one side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does not appreciate that I am counsel for the prosecution. I am putting one side. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course. I am giving evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hearsay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does not appreciate that I am counsel for the prosecution. I am putting one side. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course. I am giving evidence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I have been giving evidence since I rose to speak and surely no hon. Member with all that evidence in his possession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "lse may not express views about a paper's policy. On the contrary, I think that newspapers on the whole are well able to look after themselves, and if anyone feels that he is wronged or aggrieved by a paper, he can try to get the editor to change his methods. However, for a Minister, or even a Member, to do even that may very often be unwise and he should be extremely careful about how he does it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I have seldom heard a speech which interested me more than the one to which I have just listened. Apparently it is all right for the Prime Minister to go to the editor or the board of directors of a great national newspaper and make a complaint or a fuss, but it is quite wrong for a junior Minister or a Member of Parliament to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1550.5", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "It is within the recollection of the House that the hon. Member said that it would be all right for the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1550.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Daily Worker? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I do not represent the Daily Herald —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "The Dumfries and Galloway Standard has been committed to Liberal Radical policies. It has received letters from the former Leader of the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR DUMFRIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Manchester Guardian. \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "—the Press seemed to be wholly unmoved by this incident. I have not heard that one single article has been published about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1595.2", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Because no person who has a sense of responsibility, and certainly no one who has sat on a Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1595.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1600.7", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ch was added to our spending power in the shape of wages and profits last year. Another comparison is this. What I and many others want done for the ex-Service men would, in terms of earnings, cost four weeks' work a year for each of our adult earners. That shows what a very small effort is required to put this thing right somehow, but how it is to be put right in the long run is not for me to say", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1600.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1600.7", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eight o'clock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "he ex-Service men would, in terms of earnings, cost four weeks' work a year for each of our adult earners. That shows what a very small effort is required to put this thing right somehow, but how it is to be put right in the long run is not for me to say [ Interruption. ] There is plenty of time. I can go on for another hour or two, and the next hour will be the most interesting and controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1600.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have done so.''", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "gure—and he seemed rather surprised that I should want to know what his figure meant. The reason is perfectly simple. It is the duty of anyone who speaks from this Box upon this sort of issue to remind the House of the cost of any proposal put forward. Unless the right hon. Gentleman will give me clear figures I cannot give him the cost of his proposals. I shall, in fact, proceed to do so shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "estion of rents. I am informed that except in cases where accommodation is shared by a son or daughter or other person in employment, and in a position to meet some of the increased rent, it is the intention of the Board to provide in an Assistance grant for the full amount of any permitted increase in a controlled rent; and for any reasonable increase where the rent is not controlled. Even where—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is plenty of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry, I cannot give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1622.3", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will have a little patience with me, he will appreciate that it is exactly that question I am endeavouring to answer, but it takes a little time. One cannot say \"Yes\" or \"No\" without argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "pproaching the use of a deadly weapon; but unhappily, the kick, though it was not intended to kill, did kill a police officer\". The man was rightly convicted of murder because it was a police officer. If it had not been a police officer, the Lord Chief Justice, supported by Mr. Justice Brett, was telling the jury that it would not have been murder at all. So we are all now quite clear, are we not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1629.1", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "lict between the interpretation put on the law by the Lord Chief Justice and the interpretation put on the law by the Royal Commission, accepted by the Attorney-General, accepted by the Home Secretary then who moved it, and accepted by the House of Commons on the basis that it was already the law of the land. Now I come to my final point. I think that I will have carried with me most hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "tes in this House the many anomalies and there were various reasons given for them, but I have no desire to go over all that again now. The defences raised in these two cases were quite different. In the case of Dunbar there was really no defence except a possible medical defence, and the new defence of diminished responsibility was raised. A psychopath was called to give evidence for the defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget)that if a man intends to do grievous bodily harm of such a nature that death might easily result, then it is quite right to say that what he intends to do is to kill or to take the risk of killing.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 27th November, 1957; Vol. 561, c. 255.] Here was evidence before the jury, which they no doubt accepted, that death resulted from a series of blows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1641.5", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I was rising to a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1641.5", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I was rising to a point of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat.\"] What I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, as a point of order is that a Member is entitled to interrupt to protect himself from deliberate misrepresentation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-01", "file": "debates1957-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8bc6937e6968a00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "JOHN WILLSON VICKERS (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "e, that to constitute grievous bodily harm it must be \"serious and grievous.\" There was a great deal of emphasis on that. There was certainly, I should have thought, ample evidence here from which the jury could conclude, from the number of blows struck, from the kicking of her in the face, if they were satisfied by the evidence that that happened, that there was intent to do grievous bodily harm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-01a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-02", "file": "debates1957-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "43ad660937d7be9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-02a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY (EXPORT ARMS CONTRACTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I am not going to say the price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-02a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-08-02", "file": "debates1957-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "43ad660937d7be9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-02a.1737.6", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY (EXPORT ARMS CONTRACTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I am sympathetic to the plea that the Royal Ordnance factories should endeavour to secure more export order, but I can only hope that the loose way in which the hon. Member has bandied about these figures of prices and profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-08-02a.1737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY ESTABLISHMENT, WINDSCALE (ACCIDENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Do we take it that the Prime Minister has not made up his mind yet about the question of an independent inquiry? Is he aware that the constitution of this investigation committee lacks the confidence of the people generally in the West Cumberland area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "usewife has seen prices going up and the pensioner and the saver have seen the value of their money fall. That is over a twelve-year period. This, then, is what inflation means: a decline in the internal and external value of our money. It is clear that we have got to beat it and it is clear that we must sacrifice other ends of policy to secure that aim. This objective is not a party issue at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "t record, which is a good one and one for satisfaction in all quarters, there has been constant anxiety about the position of sterling. What are the fundamental reasons for this? The first is the one that the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ellis Smith) mentioned just now. It is that we came out of the war with large debts and diminished reserves. There is no need to apologise for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Slave labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "hought that the mark might appreciate in value and the £ decline. In three months, we lost £189 million from our reserves, or a little less than one-quarter of our holdings at the end of June. In part, of course, it was due to the German situation. Prudent finance, the influx of young workers from the East and the lighter burden of defence expenditure all combined to strengthen the German economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A free-for-all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "eges, the charities and the churches are all scrambling on to the band wagon of the equity market, closely followed by Lloyd's and the Labour Party pension scheme; when gilt-edged and equities change hands; when there is in this country and among our own people a disorderly scramble from a foreseen and tolerated spoilation—it is at this stage that the whole machinery of public finance breaks down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Open war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " who ask for wage increases, those who grant wage increases and those who adjudicate about wages should have this fact firmly in the forefront of their minds. Any large mistake at this stage by any of them could do grievous damage to the nation as a whole. It is our duty as a Government to see that, and it is the duty of the Government as employers to act upon it. The measures which we have taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "reserves caused by the Suez policy, which we bitterly opposed, announced a massive programme of borrowing and of mobilising of reserves from abroad. On that occasion we immediately pledged the full support of the Opposition and of the Labour movement for any measures properly directed to strengthening sterling. That would have been a very easy occasion for making party capital. We did not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ibility or leadership. We all remember what the Prime Minister did. He seized upon an announcement made by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition a minute before that we should divide the House. Seizing upon that, the Prime Minister said he regretted that he was now forced to regard the debate as a party political occasion, so he took from his pocket a carefully typed political oration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dollar loss.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "hon. Members opposite. In the last three years the real loss of gold and dollar reserves was over 2,200 million dollars. In the last three years of the Labour Government, including both 1949 and 1951, about which we hear so much, the reserves net rose by 261 million dollars, compared with a fall of 2,200 million dollars under this Government over the last three years. These are comparable figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ny speeches he has made—a little dose of unemployment is not the way to bring down prices. If we get unemployment, factory overheads are spread over lower output; firms hoard labour; there is work-spreading; restrictive practices develop on both sides of industry and production investment is cut. A little unemployment, a little retardation of production, is the one certain way of increasing costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "serves to sustain such an impact as it gets from the difference between the leads and lags. During the last year or so we have had a fairly favourable turn in our balance of trade. I do not want to boast, but when hon. Members opposite were in power this country had a deficit of £800 million in balance of payments, and since we have been in power we have gained £800 million in balance of payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Controls.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ed. We have to keep a close watch upon every section of the economy, and we must not be wedded to any dogmas. If we find in three or four months' time that the economy is again tending to get out of hand there will be a case for further restrictions upon expenditure, and even a case for putting some sort of restriction upon the spate of office building which one sees when one walks through London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not yet right hon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "One would be very happy to hear some constructive proposals from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kidderminster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-29", "file": "debates1957-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1514c5889a4d3fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT (CAP BADGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "For my part. I cannot understand why it is necessary to abolish the cap badge in favour of a brigade cap badge while saying that some form of regimental patch or regimental shoulder flash or mark of that kind may be embodied on the regimental soldier's uniform elsewhere. It seems to me that that is exactly the reverse of what all of us wish to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-29a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister insist that the new jet air liners, irrespective of nationality, use silencers to deaden noise before they are allowed to land at London Airport in view of the large population living round the area? Regarding damage, I should like to point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but the right hon. Gentleman is very confused on this. If he will study the Chancellor's statement he will find no difficulty at all. We do not intend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.236.4", "colnum": "236", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The Minister has slightly altered his phraseology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.236.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even turning down the arbitrators.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "tain it; but if, after the processes of bargaining have been completed and a reference to arbitration has been made, if that is appropriate, serious industrial trouble still comes, the Government would not hesitate to meet that situation, because the decisions that we have taken are, we believe, in the interests of all our people. If that is so, we will not fail in what we conceive to be our duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": " that was told to me by a high Treasury official thirty years ago, just after I first got into the House. He said to me, \"There is something which you, as a young promising politician\"—that is what I was then—\"ought to know. There is only one man who has ever made the Treasury do what it did not want to do, and that was Lloyd George. And let me give you one assurance: there will never be another.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dozens.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "How many on the hon. Member's side have that knowledge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many industrialists? How many employers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "Far more than half of the hon. Members on these benches are members of trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": " I shall be glad to give the hon. Member some of the facts. I have been doing this sort of costing professionally for only about twenty-five years. The hon. Gentleman ought not to cast a slur on the excellent companies who use these costing methods. I shall be glad to show him that in the upshot and over the average, where the interest rates go up by 2 per cent., the cost of the equipment goes up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "e Transport Commission is the first to be met with wage applications since the announcement of this policy—that if the Commission grant a wage increase, no money will be available to finance it; or, alternatively, it must either refuse the wage increase or must finance it out of money that was intended for investment, so that it must cut back the investment. These are the answers to the questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ission grant a wage increase, no money will be available to finance it; or, alternatively, it must either refuse the wage increase or must finance it out of money that was intended for investment, so that it must cut back the investment. These are the answers to the questions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Certainly. The right hon. Gentleman's supporters are in the same position of bewilderment as we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I hope not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "re being issued on the basis of this request to the bank managers? Is the freezing of the advances a global one for the banks as a whole? Is it a global one for a bank as a whole, to determine for itself what the allocation of the advances shall be at each of its branches? Does each branch decide for itself? Is the overdraft position at each branch of a bank at a given date to be the frozen level?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)", "preceding_text": " found. I accept from the right hon. Gentleman that it is the desire of the trade union movement to do that, as its members have shown by their full work on the British Productivity Council and elsewhere. The key lies in the hands of the management and the unions in that matter. The right hon. Gentleman talked about the Rent Act and how if rents went up that might incite a demand for higher wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-30", "file": "debates1957-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bce66359593d7fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.339.4", "colnum": "339", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the railways?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "is the right place to give it, where it may be heard and publicly criticised by people democratically elected for the purpose. We do not intervene in individual wage claims nor seek to demolish the machinery of collective bargaining, but wages have been running ahead of the nation's ability to pay them or to find the goods to match them and that is what needs to be kept firmly in everybody's mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-30a.339.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-31", "file": "debates1957-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5c641b96be46020f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are getting it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that, as the additional charges are going up by £14½ million, unless we get an increase in production in the forthcoming year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-31", "file": "debates1957-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5c641b96be46020f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Further to that answer, has not this officer made comments of a derogatory nature upon speakers from this side of the House on this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-31", "file": "debates1957-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5c641b96be46020f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Further to that answer, has not this officer made comments of a derogatory nature upon speakers from this side of the House on this question? [ Interruption .] Whether those comments are deserved or not, will not it make it very difficult for this officer to serve a future Labour Government if he has committed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-31", "file": "debates1957-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5c641b96be46020f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Threat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rogatory nature upon speakers from this side of the House on this question? [ Interruption .] Whether those comments are deserved or not, will not it make it very difficult for this officer to serve a future Labour Government if he has committed—[ Laughter .] This is a very serious point which concerns not only this gentleman but many others. Will not it be extremely difficult for a civil servant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-31", "file": "debates1957-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5c641b96be46020f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS AND ENQUIRIES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " this afternoon. The Government cannot go so far as the Committee in agreeing that the officials of the Department should be prepared, if required, to appear in cases where no view has been expressed. That, I think, would be going a little too far. Recommendations (76) to (79) concern costs, and the Committee recommends that in general costs should be awarded to successful objectors or appellants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-10-31", "file": "debates1957-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5c641b96be46020f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS AND ENQUIRIES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "hat the balance of the composition of these tribunals is right. We have had allegations tonight of some members of these tribunals being far too old for the performance of their duties. The Council on Tribunals, as I see it, will be able to keep a general eye upon them and draw the Minister's attention to the position. It may say that a particular tribunal in Wales is getting a little bit too old.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-10-31a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-05", "file": "debates1957-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e67756a10c63add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "tary democracy in this country with which the Gracious Speech concluded. It may be of interest to note that the first reported use of the ballot box in England, and probably in the world, was in Norwich in 1415. I am bound to say that there is another side to the picture. During the last century, eight Members from Norwich were unseated upon election petitions—three Conservative and five Liberals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-05", "file": "debates1957-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e67756a10c63add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ste its resources in skill and money but should somehow find means to make its joint effort truly co-operative; secondly, the President accepted wholeheartedly what he and I called the doctrine of interdependence and he was as anxious as I was to give this concept practical meaning. Of course, it is true that when the United States and the United Kingdom work together, things are apt to go better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-05", "file": "debates1957-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e67756a10c63add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " they have to find it by taxation, or by levying larger contributions. In the case of the transport and other nationalised industries, deficits are met from the Exchequer. All this has introduced a new complication and new responsibilities for every Government. I want to make it clear that the Government, in this new responsibility, will continue to act in accordance with the traditions laid down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.36.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-05", "file": "debates1957-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e67756a10c63add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Collick", "preceding_text": "Mr. Percy Collick (Birkenhead) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-05", "file": "debates1957-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e67756a10c63add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "h its policy to the point of causing unemployment if this is necessary to save the pound? Mr. Thorneycroft did not actually say that it is in so many words in Washington yesterday, but the things he did say seem to bear no other meaning. So the proposal is that if more unemployment is created, and people become unemployed through the policy of the Government, unemployment benefit is to be reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-05", "file": "debates1957-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e67756a10c63add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member may not remember the East Fulham by-election. Does he remember that a vast Tory majority turned over to a Socialist majority on disarmament and pacifism—or has he forgotten?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.74.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-05", "file": "debates1957-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e67756a10c63add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Twelve pounds a week?", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "ise that, except that when the hon. Gentleman speaks of millions of workers I think he is a little wide of the mark. I do not think that he can use the word \"millions\" in that sense. I fully realise the point he made. I also realise that, according to the latest statistics, the average wages throughout the country are £12 per week. That is not earnings, because earnings can be much more than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-05", "file": "debates1957-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e67756a10c63add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "e that they will not fall into the temptation of kicking back. It is not for me to offer advice because I have never been in industry in this country, except agriculture, which I think is perhaps the greatest of all industries. I can see that if people had that sort of idea they might accuse the party opposite of having ulterior motives in making their attack on the political leaders on this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-05a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "ll agree that it is at least two years since we had a debate on war pensions, and it is time that the House had another. As for what the right on. Gentleman said about the proposed increases in National Insurance—and, of course, we are glad that Industrial Injury benefits are correspondingly increased, as has always been the custom—we are glad that the pressure we brought to bear in February last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": " and August? Is he also aware that our old people will consider the proposed increases completely inadequate? Since the Prime Minister is continually telling the nation that we have \"never had it so good\", does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that our old people are sick to death of his continual harking back to the real value of the previous increases and what the new values are going to be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "May I put a question?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "sion, and the relative failure of Bills then? The principal architect of the destruction of a very useful Bill was the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Dudley Williams), who seems to have a vested interest in this destroying of Private Members' Bills. I speak as Vice-President of the Association of Municipal Corporations. All municipal corporations have wanted a Bill called the Promotion of Bills Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "t. At present, local authorities have to promote a great many Bills by means of very expensive procedures. The Promotion of Bills Bill was aimed at saving public money, by streamlining public procedure, and all the local authorities in the country wanted it. It was destroyed by the vested interest of bookmakers and all sorts of people who got working on hon. Gentlemen opposite in the last Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.174.6", "colnum": "174", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "of the Committee was that, in all the circumstances, such a Closure of 20 was quite ridiculous. I believe, though I speak subject to correction, that 20 Members are necessary for the Closure whether the Committees are of relatively small or large size, which makes the position quite ridiculous. All I will now say is that the Bill to which I refer was one that local government itself really wanted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.174.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks if we have to give way to every wage claim?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Wykehamists?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ome the prey of all those who have other interests to serve. The Government are really failing to face this situation in the way they should. When I look at the Front Bench opposite, I am not surprised. It is about time that this bunch of old Etonians was replaced by a few people from board schools, grammar schools and technical schools, who would tell them what the scientific age is really about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " or withhold approval; or they may take the course which we took in this case, which was to withhold approval in present circumstances, coupled with an undertaking to review at an appropriate time. It is not, as has sometimes been represented, an outright rejection for all time, but it is a withholding of approval now in the context of the present economic situation, with an undertaking to review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I am certainly not superseding the negotiating machinery of the Whitley Councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ee that it has been said that we could have prevented the error made by the Leader of the Opposition at the weekend if we had made clear from the start that it was not an arbitration proceeding; but it is novel doctrine that Ministers should have to explain, for the benefit of the Leader of the Opposition, that Whitley Council procedure is what it has always been and is not what it never has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lawyers\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "not directly productive is very important. It was raised earlier by the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East and it has been raised in newspaper comment. It was referred to in a leading article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday, for example. The general test of productivity with which I am concerned for this purpose is the overall test that money incomes should not increase faster than productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.240.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ier point and say that there is no direct antithesis here between the interest of these people and the general interest, because it is in their interest as well as in that of the community as a whole that inflation should be held. It was with this consideration in mind that we had to take the decision to withhold aproval from this agreement, with an undertaking to review it at an appropriate time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-06", "file": "debates1957-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "d32409262cbf07a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Miss Elaine Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Elaine Burton", "preceding_text": "I wish to deal with three matters referred to in the Gracious Speech, not—as my hon. Friends will be glad to learn—at any length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-06a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-07", "file": "debates1957-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "186f1d9680900988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.314.6", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "newspapers which suggest that the Prime Minister had committed us to a super-cabinet in N.A.T.O. In one it is suggested that this control is passed to the Ministerial Council of N.A.T.O. and that the whole thing has become a real political Europe. I was, of course, worried, although I did not really believe it, but I understand that yesterday the Minister in charge of co-ordination of information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.314.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-07", "file": "debates1957-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "186f1d9680900988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.333.3", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It takes a long trip to decide that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "example, with regard to the Middle East Command, about which I should like to say a word or two. Last July, I informed the House that the Government were reviewing the command structure in the Middle East. It is clear that in the present situation the British forces in Arabia and in East Africa can be better controlled from London than from Cyprus. We have, therefore, decided to create a separate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-07", "file": "debates1957-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "186f1d9680900988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "If they went to the Far East, we do not need a new base in East Africa—but I do not wish to pursue the matter at this stage. I shall explain later. Vehicles, heavy equipment and items of that kind for any reinforcements which go out to these overseas theatres will be kept on the spot overseas and, therefore, it will not be necessary to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-07", "file": "debates1957-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "186f1d9680900988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I think I made myself quite clear. As I said, I do not wish to pursue the detail of this. I have, however, made it clear that the vehicles and heavy equipment for these troops would be kept in Aden and in Singapore so that they could be quickly transported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-07", "file": "debates1957-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "186f1d9680900988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I think I made myself quite clear. As I said, I do not wish to pursue the detail of this. I have, however, made it clear that the vehicles and heavy equipment for these troops would be kept in Aden and in Singapore so that they could be quickly transported—[ Interruption. ] I explained that the purpose of those troops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-07", "file": "debates1957-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "186f1d9680900988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "preceding_text": "te of recruiting to get us the 375,000 men. The Minister of Defence said that he did not share the pessimism of my right hon. Friend on this matter, but I cannot say that he gave us very much reason for not sharing it. He told us that the September figures were better; they are a little better, but they are far worse than the figures of a year ago. I do not minimise for a moment their seriousness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-07", "file": "debates1957-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "186f1d9680900988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aden.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "answering other questions asked in this debate. There seemed to be some confusion about the question of the base in Kenya. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Belper raised this matter and asked whether there was to be a base in Kenya. What my right hon. Friend made quite clear was that the Command Headquarters in Kenya—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-07a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-08", "file": "debates1957-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "ca16348e0a6a90a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-08a.469.6", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "diction only a comparatively short time before bringing the matter before the Court, namely, if the acceptance was made less than twelve months before the matter is brought before the Court. I do not seek to shirk any point upon this, but an example which comes to one's mind is a matter like nuclear tests. I think that it is agreed between us that there should not be unilateral cessation of tests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-08a.469.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-08", "file": "debates1957-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "ca16348e0a6a90a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-08a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So he was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "t April—a most appropriate day. The Lord President—the new Messiah of the Tory Party—has thought it right to join the Prime Minister in his reproof. Has the Prime Minister forgotten that a year ago the Lord President said that he was ashamed that he was half American? Has he forgotten that he insulted an eminent American, General Wheeler, and said that he was talking nonsense about the Suez Canal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-08a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-08", "file": "debates1957-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "ca16348e0a6a90a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-08a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "ep sincerity of the views held by the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Mr. P. Noel-Baker) or would doubt his great knowledge of foreign affairs, but, if he will allow me to say this to him with great respect, I think it was a pity he turned this foreign affairs debate into a kind of political dogfight. I have always thought foreign affairs should be something rather above the mere calculations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-08a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-08", "file": "debates1957-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "ca16348e0a6a90a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-08a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"He stopped?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "t thing that he said really gave me a jolt. He told me: \"We possess them in such great numbers that if they were not such dangerous things, we could sell them commercially to any nation in the world.\" True or not, that was his statement. He added that his scientists could drop these missiles with great accuracy over immense distances. I told him to stop for a moment because I had something to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-08a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "While I do not dispute the point as regards health, I ask the Minister whether he is aware that public confidence has been shattered since the Windscale accident, and that the immediate priority should be to restore that confidence. Is he aware that at least three things should be done? First of all, it should be announced that we are willing to install a public alarm system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.590.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, there is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "There is no question of our cutting down demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.609.6", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "But that reply is absolute nonsense. Of course the Minister must know that there are very grave and serious difficulties. Every hospital management committee is facing serious shortage of administrative and clerical staff. His veto of the 3 per cent. award has made the position very much worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.609.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.609.6", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "cing serious shortage of administrative and clerical staff. His veto of the 3 per cent. award has made the position very much worse. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that under these circumstances we can attract any more staff—with the knowledge that the Minister we have at the moment is likely to curtail any increases that they may justifiably be awarded?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.609.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not know, Mr. Speaker, whether the hon. Gentleman is in order in concluding a long and rather infelicitously phrased speech by commanding me to answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not know, Mr. Speaker, whether the hon. Gentleman is in order in concluding a long and rather infelicitously phrased speech by commanding me to answer? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Certainly. The procedure is perfectly clear. Sir Noel Hall has made his report, which contains his recommendations. The report is before the Whitley Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For your veto.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "whether the hon. Gentleman is in order in concluding a long and rather infelicitously phrased speech by commanding me to answer? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Certainly. The procedure is perfectly clear. Sir Noel Hall has made his report, which contains his recommendations. The report is before the Whitley Council. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Certainly, and in due course its recommendations will come to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.612.6", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "lords. The intention was to get repairs done, and the Act proved to be a complete failure and has been over-ridden and superseded by the Rent Act, introduced this year. While we are dealing with inflation I want to get rid of one point, because it seems to me to have been the subject of gross misrepresentation. We propose—and, being an honest party, we publish our intentions and we carry them out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.612.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ht hon. and hon. Members opposite, just as the increase in the small dwellings acquisition facilities was also a Labour move. What is to happen? I can tell right hon. and hon. Members opposite. Those facilities are to be withdrawn. Take an area such as that around London, an area for which this purpose is exceedingly important—I am referring to Middlesex. It has already suspended these facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "id enough to make clear that there are financial hardships at present, and that because of the rise in the Bank Rate, in view of the difficulties of local authorities, on which I have a word or two to say in a moment, it is perfectly clear that these rents are going to increase further, not through any fault of the local authorities, but because of the Government's own policy. I must deal shortly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James McInnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James McInnes", "preceding_text": "#x2026;total investment which I have outlined.\"—[OFFICINC REPORT, 29th October, 1957; Vol. 575, c. 54.] The implication, clearly, is that there is to be a cut of 20 per cent. in local authority house building, including, of course, house building by the Scottish Special Housing Association, and the new town development corporations in Scotland. I wonder whether the Secretary Of State is Conscious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Yes, of the valuation. I accept the hon. Member's correction. For my part—I say this because some people seem to take a contrary view—I think it desirable that anybody who is committing himself to house purchase should show that he has been able beforehand to save at least 5 or 10 per cent. of the amount that he will ultimately have to pay. People can buy their houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.644.4", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Can you guide me, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, as to the action that a Member may take when a Minister is deliberately misleading the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.644.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I certainly saw a case referred to in the papers the other day of an old lady of 99 who, it was said, received notice to quit. What happened, in fact, was that the house stood in the name, not of the old lady, but of her son. The landlord had no idea that an old lady was living in the house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.645.4", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Minister for that information and thanking him for agreeing with me that that was a terrible case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.646.5", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "s not to take fright. The one thing that is known for certain about Socialist pledges is that they are seldom fulfilled. Taking the country as a whole, the evidence so far available suggests that the number of decontrolled tenants who will definitely be obliged to find a new home by October of next year will be quite a small percentage of the whole. Meanwhile conversions are going on all the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.646.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "it came into power, would give tenants security of tenure and would throw the whole problem of rents upon rent tribunals. What the members of the Labour Party Conference were told the resolution meant and what the resolution would really mean are entirely different. I have no doubt that in the minds of those who proposed the resolution was the idea that rents will go back to what they were before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.666.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "The whole point is that what the conference expected was that repeal of the Rent Act would mean that rents would go back to what they were before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is still true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "uction—the new financial policy. I now turn to the speech of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Central (Mr. McInnes). We have had very many housing debates. We had one recently. The result is that hon. Members who have spoken today made the same speeches that they made a month or two ago. We have heard them over and over again. We have heard all about the lavatories and the outside stairs falling down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because of the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "early 32,000, and we are building at the rate of nearly 32,000 this year. If the 20 per cent. reduction were applied to Scotland we should still be building at a rate nearly equal to the best which occurred under the Socialist Government. Let us look at the record and see whether there is anything in it for which to revile ourselves. In six years of Socialism local authorities built 89,000 houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.699.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Smaller houses.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "89,000 houses in those six years the Scottish Special Housing Association built 15,000, and private owners, 6,500. I admit that there were difficulties in the early years. They were not normal years, and we could not expect a normal output. What have we done in six years? As compared with 89,000 built by local authorities under the Socialists, the figure under a Conservative Government is 145,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "he moment having to change their places of abode. Three or four years ago I was worried about everybody, especially about younger people with families, who came to see me, but now the building of 300,000 houses a year, on average, has really had an effect and I no longer find that young people and people with families come to me with housing problems. Their numbers have fallen off almost entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Old-age pensioners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "e of thought. I believe that the social philosophy behind the 1919 and those other Rent Acts is now wrong. We ought to face the actual economic and social realities of today and recognise that the poor and depressed are no longer the same people that were poor and depressed in 1919. Others have taken their place, but they are not being helped enough. I say that they should have £25 million a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "t to which this very large sum of public money, taxpayers' money should be diverted, instead of to the totally unnecessary and quite morally and socially unjustifiable Exchequer contribution for general housing needs. It might not be inconvenient for the House if I now made one or two very brief comments—very brief, as, I believe, the right hon. Gentleman opposite is planning to rise at 9 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irewonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irewonger", "preceding_text": "urn a Conservative Member. The fact is that they are fellow countrymen of hon. Members opposite as they are fellow countrymen of mine. That is their view and I represent it to the House. If hon. Members opposite do not like it, I can only say that I cannot please everyone. With regard to decontrolled property, the hon. Lady asked me how many people had come to see me. I should say about one dozen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irewonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irewonger", "preceding_text": "see me and they have had notice that they must quit next October. They are anxious and frightened at the prospect. The advice that I give them is that they should not panic now. Of course, it is a shock to get notice to quit and, naturally, it looks as if they will not get anywhere to go; but if they are to get anywhere to go, and we have staked our political reputation on the fact that they will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.713.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.714.5", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.714.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "other building projects. The right hon. Gentleman then talks about houses since 1951 and compares them with houses built before 1951 as if he were discussing the same thing, but he is not. He completely ignores the whole of the temporary housing programme and the war damage. He talks about houses since 1951 as if they were the same as houses before 1951, whereas they have been about half the size.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now laugh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ks about houses since 1951 as if they were the same as houses before 1951, whereas they have been about half the size. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I have the Scottish Housing Return before me and I find that 81·8 per cent. of the houses built between 1945 and 1950 were four-five apartment houses whereas in 1956 four-five apartment houses accounted for only 28·3 per cent. of all the houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They might get the sack if they did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "rities to follow the example of Dumfriesshire? We should know. This is the only example we have of a Scottish differential rent scheme since the Government's new policy was introduced, and if the Government want that let them say so. I can say that if this policy were adopted elsewhere in Scotland there would be such an awful row that the Government would have to step in and do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "Gentlement opposite that there was an occasion in 1951 when their party had not the courage to do what was necessary for the country, and they ran away. I will leave that point now. I said that the hon. Member for Hamilton has been unwise in his opening remarks, because I am sorry that he chose to accuse my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government with dishonesty in a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "It was a slip of the tongue. The fact is that 1¼ million new permanent houses have been built in that period and, as my right hon. Friend indicated, a very great deal has been done over and above that to improve the condition of existing properties and to increase the total pool of housing accommodation. We are not suggesting that there is no housing problem left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must consider the figures as he likes. What I have made clear is that because of specific conditions which hon. Members have seen coming, because I have been questioned about them often enough—the run-down—we are not making any specific cut at this particular time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-11", "file": "debates1957-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "979e07aaf9f946d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ant. I will have a go at the figures about which we were having such trouble with the hon. Member for Hamilton. I will give the Scottish ones and my right hon. Friend may give the English ones. But let us remember in consideration of all these housing problems that the best pre-war figure was 26,500. The best figure that was produced in the Labour Party's days post-war was 25,850 permanent houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-11a.731.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.758.10", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is a great similarity between Estate Duty and post-war credits? Is he aware that Estate Duty is a legalised confiscation and destruction of savings and that post-war credits are compulsory savings which are being fast destroyed by inflation? Would it not be fair to set the one against the other?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.758.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.761.4", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants to take any of the ordinary opportunities for debate, there is nothing to prevent him doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.766.2", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does not the Chancellor's refusal to answer this Question in the way it is put throw the most surprising light—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will reflect a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will reflect a moment—[HON. MEMBERS \"Answer the question.\"] This is a serious matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "This matter was fully dealt with in the letter which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister sent to the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "But, Mr. Speaker, since the right hon. Gentleman said it was fully dealt with, is he aware that that letter dealt with only one or two specific and very minor pieces of evidence which we put before the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.767.5", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "May I repeat the question to the Chancellor, Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.767.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.767.6", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I have already given a full answer to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.767.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "But could not the Chancellor clear up the whole of this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.768.9", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, I did not understand whether you had called Question 32. If you had not, I was going to submit, with the greatest respect, that in view of the interests of hon. Members who have a great many Questions down on the Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.768.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.783.9", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "his action is all the more intolerable after the last Budget of the right hon. Gentleman, when he gave substantial reliefs in direct taxation. He really cannot be surprised, first, if prices go up as a result of this, because the employers will pass on the cost of their contribution, and although I am not making prophecies—and I hope that I will not be accused of encouraging anybody to do anything", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.783.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t of savings, and there is a growing demand for capital throughout the world. That does not make sense. Investment is not to be cut, but held back at its present level. I think the right hon. Gentleman said something about the level of investment. May I remind him that in his Budget in 1951 one of his major proposals was for abolishing initial allowances in order to reduce the level of investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Communist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "r declared aim have nothing to do with politics. Their professed and proper aim is to safeguard and improve conditions of work of their members, and more power to their elbow and success in doing that. In my opinion, our economic health will never be fully secured until the unions and their leadership are completely divorced from any political affiliations, whether Liberal, Labour or Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Japan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "I am much afraid they will be, using their economic strength as a weapon to create disruption in countries in order to try to force mass unemployment and bring the creed of Communism into lands in which they could never get it in any other way, I could understand and sympathise. I do not quarrel about the United States or Japan or Germany and their production. It is all on an equal and fair basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.850.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.903.0", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear. Investment such as this is, indeed, vital to the economy of our country.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th April, 1957; vol. 568, c. 982 and 981.]", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " transport, are large. The problem posed by investment plans for the basic and in part publicly-owned sector of the economy is not, in the main, whether we contemplate too little, but how we can manage to do so much. Yet we are right to do it. Ask any industrialist. Few would say that in this section we are guilty of being over-bold. We need more power, more steel, and more transport facilities.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.901.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear. I am glad that Government supporters can cheer those remarks more than six months later. They are very different from what the right hon. Gentleman and his friends have been saying in last week's economic debate. The real truth about the great economic problems is not something that happened last week or last year. We are suffering from the lack of policy on the part of the Government,", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Hear, hear. Investment such as this is, indeed, vital to the economy of our country.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th April, 1957; vol. 568, c. 982 and 981.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.903.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " the 5½ million municipalised council houses. We shall have to account for the abolition of the National Health Service charges. We shall have to pay the services compensation for nationalisation and take-over shares. According to a remark of the Leader of the Opposition, his view in 1951 was that we should restore the food subsidies. I should like to ask him whether that is his view today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-12", "file": "debates1957-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "60ae098400ef4b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "occasion. The right hon. Gentleman made reference to one of the leaders of our national life, namely, Mr. Jim Campbell who, together with Mr. Hollywood, was, to our great regret, killed in an accident in a far-off country, and I immediately take up the right hon. Gentleman's reference to these leaders of the trade union movement and express our own sympathy with their relatives in this great loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-12a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The position is that, as there is no arbitrable issue at present, arbitration does not arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.960.2", "colnum": "960", "heading": "TELEPHONE CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ch is directly responsible to this House. Oliver Cromwell started it off by the Post Office Act. Unlike hon. Members opposite, he thought that a nationalised industry should be run in a democratic way. These proposals constitute the most sweeping and radical reform since the Post Office took over the telephones in 1912. I thought it only right that the first statement should be made in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.960.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will be good enough to wait until I have given him a copy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e or to any other gentlemen not Ministers or in the public employ. When an imputation is made, as it was made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) yesterday which is, in effect, an accusation not only that the truth was not told but that a most disgraceful act of corruption was committed by Mr. Poole—for that is the only point in saying that he had vast City interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By-elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that he is trying to put words in my mouth which I did not say. It was not my argument. I said that it was his. I was quoting what the right hon. Gentleman had said. I shall not bore the House by repeating what I said. But what accounts for the difference in his view now? Why this change? What has happened between February and now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "nity to explain it to the House later. The question of the extra contribution is, of course, a serious matter. These are the highest contributions that have ever been paid and the highest increase in contributions ever to have been paid, as the right hon. Member for Middlesbrough, East said. He might, in fairness, have added that it is also the highest increase that has ever been made in pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": ". Such supports are unnecessary. It is quite possible to devise a graded scheme which will not have them. In the first place, I hope that any such scheme will be funded, so that it will be safe from the depredations of any future Chancellor of the Exchequer. Secondly, it is obvious that the contributions will have to be graded to some extent, and I hope also to see the transferability of pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "spend another two years thinking about the long-term policy. We cannot accept it as inevitable that meanwhile we have to have another makeshift Bill, with all these evils going on and becoming worse than ever under the provisions of this Bill. Now, what about the contributions? I hope that I shall have my figures right. My skiffle-group of professors has worked out all four sets of figures for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then have an Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "osite to tell the country that this pensions increase is niggardly and that they would have done more when they know in their hearts that if they had been the Government of the country at present they would have done no more. This is nothing more or less than political vote catching, but, make no mistake about it, it will rebound against the Labour Party in a big way. The people are not so stupid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"2s. 8d.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "preceding_text": "essed, and rightly so, that food is very important to the pensioner. To restore the pension to the purchasing power of 1955—when, as I say, we gave the last increase—would need an increase, at present, of 4s. 4d. for the single rate and 7s. 1d. for the married rate. In this Bill we propose increases of 10s. and 15s., respectively, which will more than compensate for the rise in the cost of living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "preceding_text": "ase represents a real improvement to all pensioners. We in this House should not forget that by no means all pensioners apply for the tobacco tokens. The figures show that about 54 per cent. do, so nearly half of the pensioners will get the full benefit of the increase which is now proposed, and I would suggest that all pensioners would much prefer to have the cash in hand to spend as they choose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-13", "file": "debates1957-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "01ee1534b8909594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "But this is one operation. We are discussing improvements together. In particular, we are at the moment discussing what contribution the taxpayer is to make to the improvements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-13a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "While thanking the right hon. Gentleman for an answer that one hopes will serve to put this matter into proper perspective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1141.3", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS (STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is a squib.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Johnson", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that there is much wisdom in the saying that \"People who live in glasshouses should not throw stones\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1147.3", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rned and involve disclosure of the nature and sources of information which led to the dealings. What we had in mind was the possibility that although there had been no leak about the Bank Rate itself, nevertheless the other statements made might directly or indirectly have led to sales of gilt-edged and, therefore, to private gain being obtained as a result of information of this kind being given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1147.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1156.2", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which other matters?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1156.7", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The indiscretions of the President of the Board of Trade, of course. We are all familiar with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1156.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has, on this the second occasion, made reference to supplementary questions that were asked in the House on Tuesday of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and he has denounced them as being imputations against the honour both of Mr. Poole and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I was responsible for one of those supplementary questions. I made no imputations against the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the hon. Member know he said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "e \"long wink\", which is well known in the City—the \"tip-off\". What right has the Chancellor of the Exchequer to call a selected few newspaper men together and to give them information, which they are not entitled to have, to their advantage and to the disadvantage of any other newspaper, and say, \"I will tell you some of the things that we are doing. Of course, you must draw your own conclusions\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": " so on. Why did he choose the papers he did choose? Is the judicial tribunal to have power to make an examination of that? Look at the result. The next morning, the morning of the day on which the increase in the Bank Rate was announced, the Daily Telegraph forecast an increase in the Bank Rate. The City Editor of the Daily Telegraph went so far in his column. I do not want to do him a disservice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The old firm.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "teurish efforts of hon. Gentlemen on the other side can be compared in any way to the professional venom and vice that really well-trained executants in these matters can produce, but I am suggesting most seriously to hon. Members of this House that it is unbelievable that what, yesterday, was an imputation against the honour and probity of respectable, honest people connected with a banking firm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "that at the inquiry his function was to protect the Government, and most certainly he did so. Have a look at that inquiry and see how the Government were shielded, and how, alone, a single back bench Member was left to conduct the prosecution, if that is the right word, to make good the allegations, which were resisted with the full power and strength of the Government. When Sir Hartley Shawcross—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-14", "file": "debates1957-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac98b1efaa224280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "BANK RATE INCREASE (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Selling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "d, if one looks down the columns one can see that there was one stock which had fallen by one-sixteenth, whereas every other gilt-edged stock had risen between one-sixteenth and three-eights that day. This seems somewhat inconsistent with the explanation of intelligent anticipation. What happened after 3.30 which provided the intelligent anticipation that led to wholesale buying up to £10 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-14a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "TUNISIA (ARMS DELIVERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not try?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I must say quite frankly that I do not think that discussions with the Soviet Union of this particular matter would have any fruitful results at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "preceding_text": "proposal is to give him a supplement of 45s., making his benefit equivalent to the 100 per cent. Industrial Injuries rate proposed under this Bill, of 85s. I wonder if the proposers realise that if that were accepted it would mean that the supplement, which is a charge on the Industrial Injuries Fund, would be greater than the basic benefit which such a man now enjoys under workmen's compensation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So say all of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " very modest sum having regard to the heavy rise in the cost of living. If I remember rightly, it was 4s., raising the original basic pension from 26s. to 30s. On the other hand, all old people who would become due for retirement pensions after 1st October, 1951, had to remain on the old basic pension. I want a definite guarantee from the Front Bench opposite. I am not interested in back benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "next General Election comes along. I may not be back here. Yet if I am back here, and if by any unfortunate chance those on the Front Opposition Bench were sitting on the Treasury Bench, I would not have any faith either in their ability or in their promises to implement the kind of argument they are putting forward today. I have never thought it fair to play politics with the lives of old people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "preceding_text": "s in the National Insurance Scheme. We have done it by introducing Bills, altering the purchasing value from the old 1948 standard, which was adopted by our predecessors in 1951, first to the 1946 standard and now to a standard higher than that of 1946. The Opposition now ask us to put the clock back and take away the power of Parliament to amend any proposal made by the Government in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ill continue to improve the purchasing power of benefits as it has done in the Measures of 1951, 1955 and the present Bill. We must also have the opportunity of improving the National Insurance scheme. I am not at all convinced that everything that we accepted from Lord Beveridge will be all right for all time. We are asked in the Amendment to put the National Insurance scheme into a straitjacket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I rely on the hon. Member's clear and concise power of reading to form his own view. It is, of course, a procedure which, whatever other effect it had, would restrict the power of Parliament to deal legislatively with this problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sack the Minister\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "A new White Paper on Civil Defence has just been published and we are told in it that in certain circumstances we should evacuate 12 million people. What a situation when we can move 12 million people, in a matter of hours presumably, but cannot print 4 million pension books under three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "count when thinking of increments. One, I hope I have made clear, is the shorter steps, and another is that as at present placed women enjoy a better return than men. Whatever the problem in increments, it is tied with the structure of the National Insurance Scheme. I think it inappropriate in a Bill which proposes to increase benefit rates to suggest that we should amend the amount of increments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.151.4", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "that need to be put, which have been raised on this matter generally. This Clause is virtually the effective Clause of the Bill, and I suggested when I intervened before that it is based entirely on faked figures—figures faked quite deliberately and quite improperly by the Government. It is supported by an actuarial report in which pressure has been put upon the actuary not to put his own figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-18", "file": "debates1957-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "58568dc8d65c3636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.153.6", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "are now at the end of 1957. This Government comes with a Report which they have instructed the Actuary to make, which the Actuary did not want to make. I challenge the right hon. Gentleman to deny that. I say he did that on instructions from the Government, who said, \"You must take our estimate of unemployment and say that this Fund will become insolvent.\" Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-18a.153.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Is not the Rent Act already bringing forward a large number of houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that, if he waits much longer, he will be too late to prevent the very hard bargains which are being driven at present by the landlords of decontrolled houses? Those leases are being negotiated, and landlords have the whip hand; tenants, with eviction threatened, are having to accept what are really grossly unfair terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.191.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE EMPLOYEES (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is raising a lot of hypothetical questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.211.7", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "preceding_text": "uld have the effect that a very considerable part of the £16 million that the right hon. Gentleman intends to save in the first year must continue to be paid. We all know, however, that it would be a rapidly diminishing sum. In the natural course of things old-age pensioners die. Therefore, from the day that the proposal became law, the amount of money having to be provided for the tobacco tokens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.211.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "I was saying that if the Minister considers that that is too ambitious a project, I have an alternative which will meet the worst of the need. It is that if my suggestion cannot be applied to all old-age pensioners in receipt of tobacco tokens, it should be applied to the much smaller number in receipt of National Assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.214.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ood phrase in its right context. What I said was—and I was dealing with the areas which had been intolerably distressed under Tory rule—that when I succeeded in getting provisions to steer new industry into those areas, very early in my career as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I would meet every demand for finance to establish new industries and new employment in those areas with a song in my heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.220.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, yes.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "preceding_text": "indicated dissent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A little fuehrer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Insurance Bill went through without a single adjustment and this Bill will go through without a single Amendment from the Opposition being properly treated. That is not Parliamentary democracy: it is dictatorship. If the Minister is being kept longer on the Bill than he intended, it is precisely because he is acting more like a fuehrer than a leader of a Government or of a Parliamentary democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Yes, but it affects over 1 million people on National Assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.261.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure whether the hon. Member is making a point of order or a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "I merely wanted to say that they should stop this double-talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-19", "file": "debates1957-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "611b149acc292aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.267.5", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"2s. 8d. a week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "We were told by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Ince (Mr. T. Brown) that pensioners do not want concessions. I accept that. The fact remains, however, that we are giving to the pensioners, themselves the greatest sufferers from inflation, a better deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-19a.267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-20", "file": "debates1957-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d1b5fb6c6b55585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.366.4", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend's Answer mean that the commitment undertaken earlier this year to invest a certain amount of money in a deep-water port has now been changed altogether?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-20", "file": "debates1957-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d1b5fb6c6b55585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.387.6", "colnum": "387", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE EMPLOYEES (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman and the House are aware of the complexities of the particular Whitley Council composition on the management side in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.387.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-20", "file": "debates1957-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d1b5fb6c6b55585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.389.6", "colnum": "389", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE EMPLOYEES (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "ecause the Minister has broken down the good will which has always existed between the management side and the employees' side of Whitley. The point is that the management side was unanimous on this matter; it represents the employers in the service. What the Minister has done is to overthrow the decision which it made in the light of the facts as it saw them. Secondly, I want to ask the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.389.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-20", "file": "debates1957-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d1b5fb6c6b55585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE EMPLOYEES (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "There are more than 1 million public servants in this country who, for the last thirty years, have always regarded arbitration proceedings as the head and front of Whitley procedure when there has been a dispute which has not been resolved. As, in this case, merely a technicality is involved, there is no dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-20", "file": "debates1957-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d1b5fb6c6b55585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE EMPLOYEES (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You started it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that unless some sense of abstinence and moderation is exercised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-20", "file": "debates1957-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d1b5fb6c6b55585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": " their weekly stamp. But the higher-paid worker not only makes a very substantial contribution to all of these things through direct taxation—and the higher his income the greater the contribution—but he also contributes through his weekly stamp. Therefore, it seems to me that under our taxation system and the way in which we are operating today the lowest-paid worker gets a fair deal out of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-20", "file": "debates1957-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d1b5fb6c6b55585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "illion per annum. I hope that the Minister will convey to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that I, and I think most of my hon. Friends, would prefer that the £34 million should be paid into the Insurance Fund, rather than that it should be paid to people who are in the higher-income groups, and that the money should be used to reduce the contributions for those who are in the lower-income brackets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-20", "file": "debates1957-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d1b5fb6c6b55585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "That is hardly a valid interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-20a.435.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-21", "file": "debates1957-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "0db95702c55646a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "It is the tradition that the Lord Mayor's Show is held on the day when he goes to take the oath at the Law Courts, namely, 9th November, which this year fell on a Saturday. I am certainly ready to discuss this matter, but I think that it would be rather difficult to depart from tradition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.543.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-21", "file": "debates1957-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "0db95702c55646a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.564.4", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL WAR HISTORY (COMBINED OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister deplore the combined operation which the ex-military chiefs appear to be undertaking against the reputation of the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-21", "file": "debates1957-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "0db95702c55646a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "hospitals and can speak with personal knowledge over many years of the type of work done by hospital clerical stalls. I hope that he catches your eye, Sir Charles, although I do not suggest that he has any influence in that respect. He is a well-respected hon. Member who usually catches the eye of the Chair. If I were to argue about the recent wage claim I should immediately be ruled out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-21", "file": "debates1957-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "0db95702c55646a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "t by 1949 there should have been the usual power given to local authorities to grant or to refuse as they thought fit in accordance with their own estimate of the needs of the children or of agriculture in relation to exemptions. But it has gone on all this time, and year after year a variety of Joint Under-Secretaries of State have told us that they hoped that next year would see the last of it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-21", "file": "debates1957-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "0db95702c55646a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "I sincerely hope that at some time whichever party is in power will give its time and attention to this overwhelming problem of local government finance. There is not the slightest doubt that the entire system needs overhauling. I do not intend to make a party point out of the matter, but I do want to say that to bring in an important Bill like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-21a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "pected to do, and has done, its job impartially, if it ruled that a Measure was discriminatory, Her Majesty's Government would not try to find legal sophistries to get round it. I say, Mr. Speaker, that the Government have a heavy onus on them in this matter, also. How will they defend this breaking of what seems to be a clear pledge, if words are to have any significance? How fast the clock goes!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "e past. For instance, the hon. Gentleman said that the Federal Assembly has passed this piece of legislation by one vote over the two-thirds majority. Put that way, it seems as though it was a very narrow issue. What were the facts? The fact is that it was passed by a majority of 25 to 8. Surely that is an adequate majority for any Government in an Assembly of that size to put through legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "an at present as they will be elected by an electorate which contains not, as at present, 1,000 Africans but up to 30,000—possibly in the neighbourhood of 20,000. I confess that that is merely an estimate, but it seems a reasonable estimate in the circumstances. The fact is that in Southern Rhodesia the ratio will be approximately two or three to one in favour of the Europeans on the special roll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Member the figures, but I would prefer to do so after I have spoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "We are considering the choice of the additional African members. They are being chosen to balance the additional white members, and, therefore, it is of the utmost importance that the additional African members should adequately represent the Africans in the same way as, we hope, the additional white members will adequately represent the white people", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "a genuine multi-racial society. I think that the time is ripe to act now. Indeed, it is arguable that it may have been left far too late, not only in Rhodesia but elsewhere in Africa. There is a further point. The Board asserted that in Parliament it is the size of the majority that counts. I differ strongly from it on that point. In Parliament, it is the will to make the system work that matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.877.3", "colnum": "877", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nairn", "preceding_text": "I may be wrong, and if I am the Secretary of State will probably correct me when he replies, but as I understand it, a new Franchise Bill would have to come before this House even if it were not referred by the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.877.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How long?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": "fricans could dominate in Southern Rhodesia? If so, she must be living in cloud-cuckoo-land. I believe in the partnership between the races in the Federation as much as the hon. Lady does, but I believe that for the good of all races the European in Southern Rhodesia—and, indeed, in the Federation—must be the senior partner, at least for the immediate future and probably for a considerable period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "happy. As some hon. Members know, this is a fear which I express in every debate of this type, and I do so unrepentantly again tonight. I am deeply afraid that the impression will again spread through our Dependent Territories overseas that the Opposition are the party to look after non-Europeans and that Conservatives are those who look after Europeans. I am not attributing blame for this at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-25", "file": "debates1957-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c39cda8e3dd1595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "authority of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom) for, in particular, the control of land in those Territories, and for the local and Territorial political advancement of the peoples thereof;\". I should like to remind the House that my predecessor Lord Chandos made it clear that \"peoples\" in this context meant all The inhabitants of those Territories, including, naturally, the Africans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-25a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-26", "file": "debates1957-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "3909adb71484769e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " detriment of indigenous fuels and, secondly, it encourages the burning of coal by the most inefficient means, in open grates, instead of by the most efficient means, as a refined fuel in gas and electricity appliances. Will my hon. and learned Friend rise to the heights this evening of explaining his right hon. Friend's fiscal policy and the reasoning behind these economics of the lunatic asylum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-26", "file": "debates1957-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "3909adb71484769e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "preceding_text": "g, I felt certain that many hon. Members on both sides of the House would have been able to say, as he did, that in our great, progressive, industrial cities there were many of us who felt that the nationalisation of electricity and gas had been a deterrent to our local progress. I believe, however, that over the years most of us have seen that the country generally has benefited from the Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-26", "file": "debates1957-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "3909adb71484769e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lovely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "f I can. It is rather important to us, because of future legislation which is likely to follow the legislation now under consideration. The revenue accounts of the gas industry show, in page 119, that last year sales totalled £207 million, and the surplus was £3,800,000. Item 16 is Profits Tax and item 17 is Income Tax. Against both those items there are dots. No contribution at all has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-26", "file": "debates1957-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "3909adb71484769e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forty-four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "this revenue must come. I should be most interested to know from what source they propose to raise their revenue if it is not from industry. The hon. Member for Nelson and Colne reminded us of the bitter debates we had in this House in 1945–50 over the nationalisation of these industries. I remember the Standing Committee on the Gas Bill sitting continuously for, I think, fifty-seven hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-26", "file": "debates1957-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "3909adb71484769e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "es for exciting debates on the Floor of this Chamber, when someone is trying to pin responsibility and blame upon people who have failed the public. The very fact that there is no fire in this debate, and that spite has not revealed itself, is a measure of the success of these basic fuel industries. I am glad that Government supporters are as great nationalisers as we are for the basic industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-26a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-27", "file": "debates1957-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "bbef9a798a93b893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1129.12", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "Surely the Minister realises that that answer is completely unsatisfactory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1129.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-27", "file": "debates1957-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "bbef9a798a93b893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1130.8", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "nal Coal Board, the number of men suffering from pneumoconiosis increases in our pits year by year? Would not the Minister further agree that, although the fatal accident figures for 1956 were the lowest on record—for which we are all very grateful—they still mean that for every working day more than one miner was killed last year? In addition, would not the Minister further agree that there were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1130.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-27", "file": "debates1957-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "bbef9a798a93b893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with a great deal of what the hon. Member has said. I still believe in the power of the deterrent. I think that the deterrent has prevented war in the last ten years, and the fact that it is a deterrent to both sides does not affect us, because we have no intention of committing an act of aggression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-27", "file": "debates1957-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "bbef9a798a93b893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES BASES, UNITED KINGDOM (NUCLEAR WEAPONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Allaun) was referring to a statement by some United States general. I should prefer to examine that statement myself to see its precise terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-27", "file": "debates1957-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "bbef9a798a93b893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES BASES, UNITED KINGDOM (NUCLEAR WEAPONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I said I was prepared to assume that they had for the purpose of answering this Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-27", "file": "debates1957-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "bbef9a798a93b893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (DETERMINATION OF NEED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "he can get comparable accommodation will not indefinitely remain and pay it. Nor would it be right to expect that the Board should finance him if he so desires to remain. But there would certainly be no immediate action by the Board any more than there would be immediate action by the individual. The Board would behave just as a reasonable individual would in dealing with his own personal affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-27a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-28", "file": "debates1957-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "aab14443f9893805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1264.6", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will welcome that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1264.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-11-28", "file": "debates1957-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "aab14443f9893805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1265.9", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "entleman the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) when an earlier attack was launched by this Government on adult education, when he said: There is perhaps no branch of our vast educational system which should more attract within its particular sphere the aid and encouragement of the State than adult education…. The appetite of adults to be shown the foundations and processes of thought\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1265.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-28", "file": "debates1957-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "aab14443f9893805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1347.0", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gough", "preceding_text": "nt as such. Of course, the local government will be in the hands of the local authorities, but this is a question of who is the landlord? The hon. Member for Small Heath was saying that Birmingham should not be the landlord, it would be most unfair for Birmingham to be the landlord, and the nation should be the landlord. In other words we are all together over this and are going to nationalise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-28", "file": "debates1957-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "aab14443f9893805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1381.2", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which the Minister has refused.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "se terms. What I said to the Council was that I could not undertake that money from the Public Works Loan Board would necessarily be available at P.W.L.B. rates for an L.C.C. new town, but it is definitely the desire of the Council to go ahead, as it also appears to be the desire of the Socialist-controlled Manchester City Council to go ahead because that Council has put in a planning application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-28", "file": "debates1957-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "aab14443f9893805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "If we go back over the centuries we might have quite a number of things to say to each other. Let us now concentrate upon the present and the future, and let us be profoundly thankful that the men and women, and particularly the children, are having the opportunity to grow up in conditions that we want to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-28", "file": "debates1957-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "aab14443f9893805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member know the time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "preceding_text": "upport they ask? They could do something in this direction. When putting forward a proposition I always try to analyse the matter and get to know the cost, because I think there is an obligation on anyone making a proposition to say how much it will cost. I was told that there was to be a Division tonight. I understand that the Standing Order is suspended and we may have a Division at ten o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-28", "file": "debates1957-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "aab14443f9893805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1429.3", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "rity lending money for house purchase when faced with repayment by the mortgagor in the event of interest rates changing. Let me take the two cases. Suppose the local authority has borrowed the money which it has advanced in that way from the Public Works Loan Board. If the borrower wishes to repay the capital prematurely then the Board will accept premature repayment without charging any premium—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-28a.1429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-11-29", "file": "debates1957-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "78d6b7cb57c0b14c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-29a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "CHRONIC SICK AND ELDERLY (SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "ed mental cases can be looked after in such circumstances with very little trouble and at a comparatively small expense. One of the objections to the extension of local authority schemes, half-way houses, and so on, is that they will drain the hospitals of their nursing staffs. They do nothing of the kind. It has been found that a home for 30 people can be run by one trained nurse on the premises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-11-29a.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-02", "file": "debates1957-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "ab9eb9a371e9edfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister comment on the suggestion which has been sent to me that sulphuric acid should be used as an alternative? Is it correct to say that up to the present sulphuric acid has proved satisfactory and less dangerous to all concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-02", "file": "debates1957-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "ab9eb9a371e9edfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not anticipate that it will be I who will open this discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-02", "file": "debates1957-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "ab9eb9a371e9edfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "her jobs which are specified in later Clauses, to make recommendations as well as to issue findings on fact? That is what the Bill appears to say. If that is so, can the Board then only make recommendations where the Bill specifically says that it can and not elsewhere? Are these recommendations by the Board to the Board of Trade and the Treasury to be made public? If so, shall we then have cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-02", "file": "debates1957-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "ab9eb9a371e9edfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "lature\"— I cannot pronounce the word— has long been recognised. Can anyone say which is the greater inconvenience, the tariff, or all the jungle around it? This is why I say that protectionists cannot possibly support the Measure. The Bill will slightly improve the situation for importers, making it slightly easier for people to import because they will know the hurdles that they have to get over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-02", "file": "debates1957-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "ab9eb9a371e9edfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "s why I say that protectionists cannot possibly support the Measure. The Bill will slightly improve the situation for importers, making it slightly easier for people to import because they will know the hurdles that they have to get over. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Exactly. It is a marginal advantage to importers. Protectionists cannot possibly support this, because they want to keep goods Out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-02", "file": "debates1957-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "ab9eb9a371e9edfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "mber for Islington, East (Mr. E. Fletcher), who seemed to suspect many hidden perils, but when I reflected that the hon. Member is a very skilful maker of mountains out of molehills I realised that my initial judgment was right and that this Measure was not very controversial. I do not like the proviso in Clause 3 (5, b ) whereby information supplied to the Board may be used for criminal purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-02a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-03", "file": "debates1957-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "723d3b08f03d4ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-03a.186.6", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "My reason—and I think that on reflection most hon. Members would agree with me—is that civil servants in Cyprus and elsewhere should be able to express themselves quite freely and frankly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-03a.186.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-03", "file": "debates1957-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "723d3b08f03d4ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-03a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT, UNITED KINGDOM (HYDROGEN BOMBS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. It is clearly necessary for all the forces concerned, whether American or British, for patrol and training purposes to operate with their weapons on board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-03a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-03", "file": "debates1957-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "723d3b08f03d4ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-03a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE WITH CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "world. I have seen them in action, not only in the Far East, but all over Europe and also in the United States of America. The Russian engineer and the Chinese engineer devote their lives to their work because they believe in something. Unfortunately, the West does not believe in anything; we are becoming completely cynical. We do not believe in Christianity and we do not believe in Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-03a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that a large part of our population will be ashamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "No, certainly not. This is a matter which must remain within the responsibility of Her Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The major reason.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "With regard to the last part of the supplementary question, that was not the sole reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.366.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask your guidance, Mr. Speaker. This is a cheap way of twisting a Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.378.12", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I think the House knows me well enough to believe that I do not wish to restrict freedom of speech in any way, but a good many Questions have been put on the Order Paper which I suggest to you are open to the suspicion that they are not put down with a view to representing the interests of constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.378.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "ROCKET RANGE, THE HEBRIDES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member knows that I have for a long time had very much at heart the need to try to bring industry and constructive activity to the Highlands and to remote parts such as the Western Isles; but that, of course, is rather outside the scope of this particular Question. I do not accept that there has been a great deal of waste here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "ROCKET RANGE, THE HEBRIDES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Saved?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ws that I have for a long time had very much at heart the need to try to bring industry and constructive activity to the Highlands and to remote parts such as the Western Isles; but that, of course, is rather outside the scope of this particular Question. I do not accept that there has been a great deal of waste here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well. £15 million has been saved as a result of the change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.387.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "ROCKET RANGE, THE HEBRIDES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Saving?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that, provided defence considerations are not prejudiced, this saving of £15 million is very welcome indeed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.387.4", "colnum": "387", "heading": "ROCKET RANGE, THE HEBRIDES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "A reduction in expenditure which would otherwise have been incurred I regard as being a saving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.387.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "ROCKET RANGE, THE HEBRIDES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I can only imagine that the hon. Gentleman did not hear what I said in reply to an earlier question, when I explained that as a result of the changes in defence policy, announced in the Defence White Paper last, April, the development programme of the Ministry of Supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE ACT, 1770", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman saying that if we accept the Motion and receive the advice of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, that advice will be binding on us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.394.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE ACT, 1770", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Clarified by us.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the Motion. The Motion suggests that if it requires to be clarified, it should be clarified. It is precisely and exactly that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE ACT, 1770", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "If I intervene in the debate after so many hours, I can assure the House to begin with that I do not do so for the purpose of covering all the ground that has been covered. I would deal only with the practical aspect of the Motion. I would appeal to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House even now to withdraw the Motion he moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacPherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sputniks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacPherson", "preceding_text": "e two things exist together in the Scottish Committees that we have the concentration of interest and the real Parliamentary sense about what is being done. A Welsh Committee, I should think, would have that interest, but the difference is that it would have only half a Minister, whereas we have two Ministers—the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Lord Advocate, plus their various satellites.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "preceding_text": "by the amateurs. For instance, we have never resorted to the filibuster, and if we have sometimes taken what is termed a long time to do anything it has been simply to carry out our duties to our constituents. The Scottish Committee is different from almost every other Committee in the House. It is elected by the electors in the constituencies in Scotland to come here and represent their interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We were under a Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "preceding_text": " For instance, we were told that we were gathered here tonight because the Scottish Committee was overworked. Then the right hon. Gentleman proceeded to give us another couple of mornings to aggravate the position. If that were the reason, why should we get another couple of days? Is it not true to say that it was quite simple for Scottish Members to be on two Committees upstairs at the same time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "use by anyone. It was on 9th November, 1956, that the terms of reference were made public. What about the Scottish Grand Committee? The Session started, as usual, in October. The Scottish Grand Committee did not meet. It did not meet in November, or December, or January or February. It did not meet until late in the month of March. Where is the overburdening, the lack of time for meditation there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.552.5", "colnum": "552", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "asonable faithfulness. The talk about the disability of Scottish Members who serve the Grand Committee is, in my view, a completely distorted account of what happens in fact. This problem will not be solved, as I have said, by juggling with numbers. It demands far more wholehearted treatment than that. We shall only solve it when we have a Scottish Parliament which will deal with Scottish affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.552.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.556.5", "colnum": "556", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "year here, and I have, on the whole, attended with considerable regularity in the Scottish Grand Committee. I think my right hon. Friend the Member for Moray and Nairn (Mr. J. Stuart), who was Scottish Whip for many years, and who used to whip me on on those mornings and say that I must attend, would agree. Indeed, I was a Member of this House with him long before he attained that exalted station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.556.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-04", "file": "debates1957-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "adbebd9588ce382f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "I believe that if we have any more debates of this kind, there will be a strong demand from the English for Scottish home rule in sheer self-defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-04a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.582.7", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "One has to remember that the fall in numbers is, in part, the result of fewer children being present at school as a result of the 'flu epidemic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.582.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is not that a very insignificant sum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICAL TRADES UNION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not use them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "an aware that no matter how undesirable we may feel the appointment of Communist officials to be, when all is said and done it is a matter for the members of the union concerned? Is he further aware that we do not believe that the machinery of the 1921 Act, or, indeed, legislation of any type, can be appropriate to this type of case, that the Trades Union Congress already has the necessary powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "RAILWAY ACCIDENT, LEWISHAM", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "ning. I am sure that the House will understand that I cannot make any further statement on this matter at present. I should like to take this opportunity of paying a tribute to the outstanding work done not only by the emergency services and the voluntary organisations, but also by those living near the scene who so unselfishly put their houses and their belongings at the disposal of the rescuers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "RAILWAY ACCIDENT, LEWISHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I speak for all my right hon. and hon. Friends in saying that we would wish to be associated with the expression of sympathy for the relatives of the bereaved and injured in this terrible disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "here are envelopes sent by the tax inspectors, who are asking for far too large sums of money, in which they put a sticky label to be put on another envelope. There are large envelopes sent by lawyers to justify their extravagant fees, with thick, bulky documents inside. We have not a standard code. Addresses written by people in strange lands far away are generally indecipherable and often wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "That is perfectly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "of the four points, which is about the forms which the Post Office sends out. Matters like automation, standardisation and mechanisation should not mean lack of the human touch. The forms which the Post Office send out—this applies to a lot of other Government Departments—are very rigidly phrased and sometimes give offence. We have set ourselves to reword all the forms sent out by the Post Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. N. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. N. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "al cause or interest—it may be a constituency interest and one of the most worthy causes—which would make him dearly love to come down to the House of Commons and make an impassioned speech for the special consideration of that interest, and to urge that because it was such a worthy cause and one which was doing something in the national interest, it should be enabled to borrow money more cheaply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "All the new towns around London are having the same trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ol education may rob a freight car but it takes a man with a university education to steal the entire railroad. I wonder whether hon. Members opposite, in tabling the Amendment, consulted the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) and the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay). If we approve the Amendment we are writing in permanently 3½ per cent. as the maximum in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.721.5", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "that that must be the case in other new towns. I am very pleased once again to be able to agree with him and to say that in Basildon there is a large turnover of tenancies. Many people seek to live elsewhere after having stayed for only a comparatively short time. Indeed, Basildon has been called a transit camp, but that is an exaggeration, because although there are many people who wish to leave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.721.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.723.5", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "The first statistic which the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Lindgren) thought fit to introduce was a fantastic exaggeration and one which does not apply to all the dwellings of Basildon, although it may apply to some of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.723.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.725.2", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "That point is valid if it is a fact. It is perfectly true that a large number of rents in the new towns are in excess of the average council house rents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.725.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "e, Sir Charles, and I want to ask for the protection of the Chair in order that proceedings in this Committee shall be dealt with according to the ordinary practice of the House of Commons. If you were to ask me, Sir Charles, what my greatest desire at this stage is, I should say that it would be that the disgraceful proceedings of tonight should be televised so that all the nation could see them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": " First, I want to thank those hon. Members opposite who, with such distinction, represent for the moment these new towns, for the speeches that they have made tonight. I can assure them that we shall study those speeches with care and will take the greatest trouble to bring them to the notice of the persons they represent in the new towns. Their contributions to the debate have been very valuable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "prevalent for other purposes. So much for Aycliffe, but before I leave the question entirely I should like to take the next development corporation in this book, which is Basildon, and look for a moment at the figures. I am sure that right hon. and hon. Members opposite who treated us to such interesting speeches, collectively at some length, will not grudge me an hour or so to develop the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I am much indebted to the hon. Member. I appreciate that. I trust that his hon. Friend will be able to resist what is, no doubt, an almost overpowering temptation. I do not think that we need go through the reports in very great detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.742.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-05", "file": "debates1957-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f48b2ceac5b7b9fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I would not for the world allow any element of unreality to creep into our discussion. It would be a pity to lower the standard after the reality apparent when hon. Members opposite were addressing us. At the same time, I cannot run the risk of boring the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-05a.742.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "The Minister will have to do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.901.3", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": " not, therefore, purport to mark out an entirely new pattern for local government. It does not lay down a detailed and comprehensive set of principles which must govern all the revisions and alterations to be made. What the Bill does do is to contain basic provisions which are of fundamental importance. The theme of the financial provisions is to strengthen the local character of local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "The Minister has just said, if I understood him aright, that these proposals have met with general acceptance. According to information that I received today from the Lancashire County Council—which is one of the largest and most important county authorities in the country—general acceptance has not been given in the manner the Minister is suggesting. Here, in a memorandum, the Council says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Brighton?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "de what can be done with the local police force. As one who served for many years on the Birmingham Watch Committee, I am glad that the arguments which are applied to services like education and health are not applied to the police. The Government cannot allow a local authority to decide to reduce the size of the police force, or to sack one or two of its assistant-chief constables. Of course not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " so far as I can see, that there could be any saving or room for flexibility in this matter. Town and country planning is next on the list. This department is completely hedged in by controls from Whitehall. The hon. Member for Westbury (Sir R. Grimston) referred in rather disparaging terms to control from Whitehall. Hon. Members on this side of the House do not believe control for the sake of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubert Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubert Ashton", "preceding_text": "cond Reading debate is not the occasion to raise such matters. In the administrative County of Essex, we have a vast area of 1 million acres, a population of 1¾ million and 43 authorities on whom we precept. Although I am a member of a two-tier authority—a county council—I incline to think that the best form of local government is, perhaps, a fairly compact county borough of the right size.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "r, which says: While rerating increases the product of rates it has the direct effect of reducing the product of income tax, profits tax and surtax. It is plain, therefore, that some reduction of grants must accompany the rerating.… I do not feel that this attitude is justified. In April this year, the product of the rates was decreased by 20 per cent. when we derated commercial properties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": " local authorities throughout the country. I find it difficult to understand and to accept the definition of the Greater London area. It is defined as all those areas which are wholly or partly within the Metropolitan Police area. This seems to me to be going rather a long way, for it brings in the whole of Essex, the whole of Kent down to Dover, the whole of Hertfordshire and the whole of Surrey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.959.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "oo glad if they had been able to include the police grant in the general grant, but it was not possible—quite apart from the Metropolitan area difficulty, which is another matter again—to devise a formula which would work in respect of the keeping of public order in a number of different areas, in the way that they could for the education of a certain number of children in different types of area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percivall Pott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We still shall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percivall Pott", "preceding_text": "s. We know that it does not. Why should it, as long as the people on local authorities are only rubber stamps of the central Government? Who decides whether a grant shall be paid or not? What causes the delays which so often spoil the whole programme which a local authority has planned for the years ahead? The fact that in local government we have to get in each case the consent of the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pott", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for that explanation. It is not what I had understood him to say. I agree that they received benefit for the original property which was derated, but they did not do so for the new rating. Local government as a whole is receiving benefit now because the Government are not demanding the whole of the benefit from rerating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pott", "preceding_text": "efit from rerating. [ Laughter. ] It is all very well for hon. Gentlemen opposite to laugh, but it is a fact that if compensation is given when property is taken over, compensation is payable on its return. The Government have wisely decided to leave the local authorities with a net gain. We are told that no local authorities approve of this Bill. I can assure hon. Gentlemen opposite that some do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "ommittees and they are slowly going to bring them to an end. We consider that that would be very undesirable and we intend to resist the Government. I have often said that it is becoming far too obvious that we have very few political decisions from the Government. Time after time, the Government's decisions are taken by bureaucrats. Of course, the bureaucrats want to get rid of county committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-09", "file": "debates1957-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac11ab02d11b2765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1025.5", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Back to Whitehall.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "It will be on the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-09a.1025.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1051.7", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "How is it determined whether these owners need a grant of this kind? I do not want to mention names—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1051.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRCRAFT (NUCLEAR BOMBS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members on both sides of the House are still quite puzzled about the present situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRCRAFT (NUCLEAR BOMBS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s on several occasions that these bombs are not live in the sense that they are capable of immediate detonation. Nevertheless, they have been carried in the air in these bombers for training purposes. I cannot quite understand why they should be carried for training purposes. Is it because of the weight involved? if so, cannot they put some ballast on board the planes to the same amount of weight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "May I ask one further question? Will the Prime Minister note that the whole of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "May I ask one further question? Will the Prime Minister note that the whole of the country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] On a point of order, Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "May I ask one further question? Will the Prime Minister note that the whole of the country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] On a point of order, Will the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is all right, you will get it one day. Will the right hon. Gentleman note the refusal of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1080.2", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If any Government proposed that, I suppose there would be a great deal of argument and dispute about it, but I have not got any definite facts before me that would justify me in applying the Standing Order. I understand that there will be a debate some time after the conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "preceding_text": " my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government, who is sitting beside me, or by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the hon. Gentleman must know that under the system of Cabinet Government this is a matter of Government policy and, therefore, it must be settled by the Government as a whole and by the Cabinet. It is not of the slightest importance who is actually named in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "n in regard to children over eight that there is a duty on the local authority to provide transport if they live more than three miles from the school. Also in the Act there is discretion to provide transport over shorter distances, but in fact successive Governments—not merely this Government—have refused to provide grants in respect of any distance less than the three miles laid down in the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The could do it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "other matters of a kind in which the hon. Member for Fulham is particularly interested. He said that if only the Minister would do something, for example, about the minimum scale of fees for further education that would be really worthwhile. That is exactly one of the things which I propose to do at once. If the general grant comes into operation this is a control which will immediately disappear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hornby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, we are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hornby", "preceding_text": "from the Minister in detail his view of how he understands Clause 2 of the Bill, and my right hon. Friend also mentioned Clause 3, which contains the ultimate safeguards and penalties. If we look at this in detail, of course there will be detailed discussion in the council chamber of the expenditure of the education committee. Are hon. Gentlemen opposite really telling me that this is a bad thing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "preceding_text": "ernment, or of the Cabinet as a whole or of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to cut down this service which we regard as a basic one of the country? I truly believe that hon. Members opposite have placed themselves in a quandary. They do not really believe in this Amendment. They do not really dislike this Bill as much as they say they do. In six months' time they will have forgotten all about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "have the same effect, and rates are a tax which comes down hard on the small householders and the comparatively poor people. Income Tax is a far more progressive tax and therefore a much better one—and that goes for taxation generally as against rates. Now I come to the position of local authorities in relation to the whole Bill. The Bill, and the way it has been treated, verges on the fraudulent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-10", "file": "debates1957-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4a7ec1f0f520409e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "ses in costs are unfounded and that on this, as on other scores, the opposition to the general grant is misconceived. It has been implicit in practically every speech of the Opposition today—it was stated specifically by the hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. M. Stewart)—that the working of the general grant must cause local authorities to behave parsimoniously. There is no evidence to support that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-10a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1246.3", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I very deeply resent what my hon. Friend has just said about the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. I will certainly not follow that remark. I think it was most improper of him to have said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1266.7", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "CYPRUS (DOCUMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ary of State did the same in reply to another Question from the same hon. Lady. That seems to me to conclude the matter and to bring these documents outside the rule of the House which enjoins that certain quoted documents should be laid on the Table. Had these documents been quoted by Ministers it would have been necessary to consider the nature of the documents. On 10th August, 1893—my birthday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1266.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "ll also have to pay for drugs. That of itself, may have a chastening effect as time goes by. When individuals find that, having become private patients, they not only have to pay the doctor himself, but have to pay the chemist's bills as well, and as that knowledge grows, it may be that the area of private practice will progressively diminish.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th July, 1948; Vol. 454, c. 197.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1271.4", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "anner already determined by the House, which does not include any such purpose as the hon. Member says, and as it is clearly and manifestly inappropriate in any case to use funds of that kind for so different a purpose as is involved in this Bill, does not it become clear that to seek to obtain leave to bring in a Bill on that basis is sheer impertinence and an abuse of the procedure of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1274.2", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "opose public expenditure except a Minister of the Crown. That doctrine is of importance from the point of view of responsible control of public finance. Therefore, I suggest that, on grounds of constitutional tradition of Parliament and on grounds of common sense, the hon. Member, whether on this occasion or on any other one, ought not to be allowed to go in for a little bit of clever foolishness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1278.4", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is quite clear that there is a great deal of disquiet—probably on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "In view of the discussion that has taken place on points of order and without any wish to offend the proprieties of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1296.4", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARK LANE IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " and there is a limit both to the physical improvements which can be made and to the finance that can be provided. Traffic has increased, is increasing and will continue to increase, and it must be catered for in some way. One cannot hold back this stream of traffic, as it were. It is a baffling problem because the position is never static. One might almost say that the traffic never stands still—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1296.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARK LANE IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": ", considerable further improvements may be made. It is against that background that we now consider the situation in relation to the rest of the country. I admit that some people can make a case, although I do not altogether accept it—but I do not have time to go fully into it now—that the situation at Marble Arch should be treated as one of extreme urgency. The same may apply to Hyde Park Corner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1313.3", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARK LANE IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Dr. Stross), introduced a Prayer whose object was to oppose a Government proposal to economise on children's welfare foods. The only point I have against my hon. Friend is that he ought to have taken it to a Division in order to put our views on record. This Bill will involve the expenditure of fell million by the same people who steal the babies' orange juice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-11", "file": "debates1957-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "b34a079a6df93289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARK LANE IMPROVEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Well said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. At the outset, I want to make it clear that I am second to no one in this House in appreciating the great city of London. There is something about London which one does not find anywhere else in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-11a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "DEFENCE (ANGLO-AMERICAN DISCUSSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "While negotiations of any kind are going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "DEFENCE (ANGLO-AMERICAN DISCUSSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " I can say is that it would be an extremely inefficient way of conducting affairs if, when the United States Secretary of Defence was here for a very short time, passing through London, and we had a large number of subjects to discuss, we attempted to negotiate—negotiate; I am not talking about discussions—agreements about these matters. These matters are extremely involved. We have had two teams—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1450.5", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE CONTRACTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": " that kind in the interests of national defence. This we must do, but since it means interfering with ordinary commercial arrangements the Government have a duty to see that stringent safeguards are provided for the parties to these arrangements. The House will know that an Inventions and Designs (Crown Use) Bill was introduced in another place in 1953 and was subsequently withdrawn during debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1450.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1459.0", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE CONTRACTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "all those things? I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman can give an answer now. Is it the intention of the Government that those words should include the Health Service and the production of that sort of thing for the Health Service? If the President of the Board of Trade feels able to tell us what are the intentions of the Government to which he belongs, I will willingly give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE CONTRACTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "It is a mischievous Bill. I am prepared to give way to the Parliamentary Secretary if he wants to interrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE CONTRACTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "preceding_text": " military aircraft. We are all clear on the point that the Bill would deal with the cases which arise from Government military contracts. It is the opinion of people in the aircraft industry that the civil side of the industry has been able to carry on and develop only as a result of the military contracts. There have been suggestions from leading people in the industry that there will have to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE CONTRACTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "preceding_text": "ernment military contracts. It is the opinion of people in the aircraft industry that the civil side of the industry has been able to carry on and develop only as a result of the military contracts. There have been suggestions from leading people in the industry that there will have to be—[ Interruption. ] This is a serious point on which we might have the attention of the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE CONTRACTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "bach) has raised an interesting point, to which I should like to reply, about the National Health Service. I am informed—and I will check this information because of the interest shown by the House—that at present there is no difficulty in getting hold of the \"know-how\" about drugs. I understand that the Minister of Health feels that the ordinary commercial arrangements which can be used are best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1538.3", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE CONTRACTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I will give the reason to the best of my knowledge. The wartime controls and all the experience of the war were still very much in the mind of people when they first considered the matter. Now we have moved further into peace-time conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAINTENANCE ORDERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "cy which used to be represented so illustriously by the father of my hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale (Mr. Anthony Greenwood). That figure of 709 in the one gaol can be set against the daily average in that prison, according to the last figures I can obtain, of 810. I have been round Armley Gaol, and I have noted the number of men, three, in a cell. Nobody entering that gaol will be elevated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-12", "file": "debates1957-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40bd3a13284376d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAINTENANCE ORDERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": " put forward, such as painting the cells in different colours and all that sort of thing, I cannot really say that Armley Gaol is the sort of place I should want to go to. A man must hate his wife pretty much if he is prepared to go there. I would like to add a provision to the Bill to the effect that anyone before the courts should be taken round on a visit to the place and told—\"Or else…\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-12a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-16", "file": "debates1957-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c90544886117d6d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.5.0", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will appreciate, the Management Side has to consider this claim in the context of the difficult economic situation of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-16", "file": "debates1957-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c90544886117d6d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Member is right; I think these are all agreed recommendations in respect of which I have given my answer today. As for my having peace from the other side of the House, I always welcome peace, but I could not buy it at the price of doing other than that which I thought was my duty in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-16", "file": "debates1957-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c90544886117d6d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "I know that my hon. Friend is anxious to bring his speech to as speedy an end as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-16", "file": "debates1957-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c90544886117d6d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ted to find that the hon. Gentleman, in his distress, looks for allies in another place. This is surely the most astonishing appointment in this Parliament. An unoffending, unobtrusive county councillor has been catapulted like a Russian Sputnik from the recesses of Breconshire past the aldermanic bench to the outer space of another place, where he will be a satellite for the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-16", "file": "debates1957-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c90544886117d6d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Llewellyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Come on, tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Llewellyn", "preceding_text": "ed policy among hon. Gentlemen opposite, and they know it. When it comes to an agreed policy for Wales, the Labour Party has only caught up with King Lear: …—I will do such things,— What they are yet I know not,—but they shall be The terrors of the earth. I congratulate the Government on creating this new post and on the choice of Mr. Vivian Lewis to fill it. I shall not list his qualities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-16", "file": "debates1957-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c90544886117d6d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garner Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in mid-Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garner Evans", "preceding_text": "ing feature in the Report on Developments and Government Action in Wales and Monmouthshire to which I wish to draw attention. I have great sympathy with the hon. Members for Caernarvon (Mr. G. Roberts) and Anglesey (Mr. C. Hughes) who have tremendous employment problems in their divisions. What is encouraging is that the smaller market towns of Wales are now attracting light and modern industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-16", "file": "debates1957-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c90544886117d6d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Morris", "preceding_text": " the Government would do their best, but they had to be very careful because they did not want to be involved in the direction of labour as that might mean, in turn, the direction of employees, which would not go down very well with hon. Members on this side of the House. That position need not arise at all. Under the Distribution of Industry Act, 1945, my right hon. Friend the Bishop of Auckland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-16a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.187.6", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or half open?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that the Secretary of State still has an open mind on this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.205.6", "colnum": "205", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Longer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend consider whether it would be possible to carry on the debate on Friday until six o'clock rather than five o'clock?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison)? We all appreciate, Mr. Speaker, the very careful consideration which you have given to this problem, but I should like to put to you a further thought. I know you appreciate the danger that your Ruling may mean for the procedure of the House. I do not think it is right that an hon. Member should try to abuse the rules in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Acts. The present fees are long out-of-date. I think that hon. Members will agree that a number of these small matters that I have mentioned are welcome to local authorities. The remaining clauses are formal and the House may agree that they need not he considered in detail at this stage. I return now to my original theme. We propose, by the Bill, to increase the independence of local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": " of the House all our political life and on which we were elected. As far as possible we shall give local authorities discretion over their own affairs. I am not worried about that. Local electors will see that local authorities discharge their functions properly. I am worried because I suspect that, Aberdeen, the third largest local authority in Scotland, will not get enough money under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "hancellor of the Exchequer certainly did not say year to year that there was a proportion of industry's income that was sacrosanct because of rating. Not a bit of it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has long since consumed the benefit of derating. Industry has been taxed, and overtaxed, and I deplore the light-hearted approach to the taxation of industry which is made by some hon Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.252.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.283.9", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "If that is so, will the hon. Baronet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.283.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": " that we ought to think again about local government, giving back some powers to local authorities. This from the spokesman of the party of centralisers. This from the spokesman of the party which took away the powers of local authorities in electricity and gas undertakings and all sorts of other ways. This from the party which has consistently maintained that the gentlemen in Whitehall know best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "I can answer briefly. This provision is necessary as a consequence of the abolition of the Education (Scotland) Fund. I am advised that the sum involved is relatively small from year to year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-17", "file": "debates1957-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3aa64427590a11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "INDIA (FAMILY PENSION FUNDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"In the morning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "preceding_text": "r a national superannuation scheme. I should have thought it very odd that this debate should conclude this evening without a contribution from the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, who again has been extremely severe both in the country and in this House. I am glad to see that the right hon. Gentleman has just arrived, and we shall look forward to hearing from him later in the evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-17a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-18", "file": "debates1957-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9064b120cac4b950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "PRIVATE NOTICE QUESTIONS (LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ll know the sort of examples to which I am referring. I have been through these precedents, but one does not need to go back any further than 1945, and before and since then a convention seems to have grown that the Leader of the Opposition, speaking on behalf of half of the House, has a status different from that of any other Member of the House. This has grown by custom, practice and convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-18", "file": "debates1957-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9064b120cac4b950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Clause 1.—(NEW POWER TO CHARGE PROTECTIVE DUTIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "the growers themselves to say \"As far as I am concerned, I do not know whether the tariff is there or not\", but they might have a very different opinion if it were suddenly taken away. Tariff support is often concealed to the home producer until an alteration to it is made and then he feels the change. It is then that he realises that the tariff was perhaps giving him more support than he thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-18", "file": "debates1957-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9064b120cac4b950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Clause 1.—(NEW POWER TO CHARGE PROTECTIVE DUTIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "d of Trade might find itself compelled to raise tariffs in order to maintain employment in some area or industry, but that would not be the effect of these words at all. All that the insertion of these words would do would be to give the President of the Board of Trade the power to act on these grounds if he wanted to. As the Bill stands the Board is precluded from raising tariffs for that object—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-18", "file": "debates1957-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9064b120cac4b950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " Scottish Standing Committee, and it is only custom and usage that has preserved the name. The old Grand Committee system is finished for all practical purposes if the Lord Privy Seal's Motion is passed unamended. I am very glad to see the Deputy-Leader of the Opposition present. He will be glad to know that the only Grand Committee left with a Committee function will be the Welsh Grand Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-18", "file": "debates1957-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9064b120cac4b950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "y accept that it is a Standing Committee when it does not stand. It has, in fact, no existence. I want to know exactly what the administrative machinery will be. We have a nucleus in relation to every other Standing Committee, but there is not a nucleus for the Scottish Standing Committee. I know that the effect of my Amendment is to propose a nucleus of 30 Members, but frankly I do not want that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-18", "file": "debates1957-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9064b120cac4b950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "n\". The proposed Scottish Standing Committee will be like that bridge; as soon as it has completed its work it will be broken, and then it will fall down. The Secretary of State expects us to go on saying to ourselves. \"The Committee is still standing\". Some other Bill later on will be committed to this non-Standing, notional, falling-down Committee. This is one of the greatest pieces of codology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-18", "file": "debates1957-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9064b120cac4b950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ill be broken, and then it will fall down. The Secretary of State expects us to go on saying to ourselves. \"The Committee is still standing\". Some other Bill later on will be committed to this non-Standing, notional, falling-down Committee. This is one of the greatest pieces of codology—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What is that?\"] It is a new science, which the Secretary of State has been expounding tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-18a.560.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-19", "file": "debates1957-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "86e292ca9211b94e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the business of injecting new money into the market, or about the business of \"stagging\" new issues, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred last week, both of which remind one of conversations on the grouse moors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.581.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-19", "file": "debates1957-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "86e292ca9211b94e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " figure so low that it has not been equalled in the last 20 years? Does he realise that the policy that is being pursued in connection with the cinema industry will rapidly drive the exhibitor out of business and also affect production and make us still more dependent on American film production? Is that what the hon. Gentleman wants to achieve? If not, will he say what he proposes to do about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.583.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-19", "file": "debates1957-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "86e292ca9211b94e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister whether, in the event of it being discovered that some members of the Government were at fault, they will be surcharged for this expenditure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.591.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-19", "file": "debates1957-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "86e292ca9211b94e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "If the Minister says it takes time for falls to work through the system, can he say when this is likely to happen, because we have had this Government since 1951, prices have been falling ever since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.593.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-19", "file": "debates1957-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "86e292ca9211b94e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.593.2", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "e have had this Government since 1951, prices have been falling ever since—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—world import prices have been dropping ever since 1951; I am glad to hear that hon. Gentlemen opposite agree—and yet at home we have reached the highest cost of living ever. Can we be assured that at some time, if not in the next few months or years, the Government will implement their promise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-19a.593.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We all know this.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I have indicated before to the House that the actions of the Soviet Union in the Middle East and elsewhere are completely inconsistent with their professed desire not to interfere with the internal affairs of other nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.741.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We know all this.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": "Suez.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "g is concerned, we have stated our position. A Summit Meeting which is an abject failure would increase tension rather than diminish it. But if there has been adequate preparation and if there seems to be any chance that such a meeting would produce results, then we are very ready to be a party to it. We do not believe that the building up of armaments of either side will produce the final answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "to consider approaches to the Soviet Union to find out how far the Soviet Union is prepared to go in any particular matter. That conclusion did not match with the opening sentences of the Minister's speech. On the contrary, I have never listened to a more amateurish denunciation of another country. The right hon. and learned Gentleman even had to go back to the Soviet declarations of 1st November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.750.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Like Hungary?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "ts this way. After having said a lot of other things with which we are also familiar—in fact, the whole document is almost as platitudinous as the one issued from Paris—it says: In the event of the ruling classes resorting to violence against the people, the possibility of the non-peaceful transition to socialism should be borne in mind. So far as I can see, that is a statement of historical fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.750.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ch he takes up an almost religious position. That is what I find so distasteful about so many of these speeches. They are all attitudinising and moralising about it. So we have an atmosphere charged with irrationality in which we cannot discuss the realities of the situation at all. Mr. Dulles said: This materialistic, atheistic despotism, aimed at dominating the world, is a formidable challenge\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " is imported into it. When this language is read by people in the Communist world, it is, of course, deeply resented, as hon. Members resent the language of the Communist Party. This is precisely what I am trying to point out, and what we must strive to avoid is getting the world polarised by these two irrational attitudes. The Government have responded to the Communist challenge in its own terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I have said that there have been continuous changes in the techniques of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.756.2", "colnum": "756", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": "As I am the only Member of the House who can answer that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.756.2", "colnum": "756", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": "As I am the only Member of the House who can answer that question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I did have the responsibility to Parliament, as the Prime Minister would agree—may I be allowed to say that so far as I was informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No weapon is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "angements with us under conditions which do not humiliate either of us. That seems to me to be a fair proposition. One other reason why we consider that this state of affairs should be brought to an end, one of the things which frightens us about these weapons, is that if they go off there is no return at all, the war is on. It is a weapon of instantaneous action, it is not a weapon of reflection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nd to see whether we can deal with them. The two parts of the world where it is universally admitted such situations might arise are in Central Europe and in the Middle East, and on neither of those has the statement of the Government given any hope whatsoever. There is a flat rejection of every tentative overture, either from this side of the House or from the representatives of the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "All those terms are ceasing to be meaningful in this relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am extremely sorry, but the words I have mentioned were taken down immediately my right hon. Friend uttered them. At any rate, if he disputes the accuracy of what I took down, that was the implication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your own?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "at is the test, and if we can get that, many other things could easily become possible which now seem so difficult. The right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale wound up his speech by saying that his party was in favour of N.A.T.O. I am bound to say, from some of the questions which are asked me week by week from some parts of the House, that I would not say that his party is violently partisan on N.A.T.O.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "y to keep full employment and expansion throughout the free world. To confirm and strengthen the military forces of N.A.T.O., the fifteen countries took some important decisions. The right hon. Gentleman said that we had taken them too far ahead and he asked why we had to deal with the question of nuclear warheads or the plan for rockets. As he said, it takes a long time before they will be ready.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They were flown into the country and flown by machines based—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.2", "colnum": "856", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that question. That is another question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheating.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that question. That is another question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am saying that this agreement was made in 1951, and before 1951 the A-bombs were here and were used off the bases on patrol or armed training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.5", "colnum": "856", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have very little time left. I must really, therefore, ask the House to accept these facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.5", "colnum": "856", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have very little time left. I must really, therefore, ask the House to accept these facts. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] As to the use here, there is no special alert. There has been no state of emergency. What happens—and I have made special inquiries again of the President last week—is this: they have decided to bring their aircraft at the highest possible state of readiness and we are doing the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.5", "colnum": "856", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "state of emergency. What happens—and I have made special inquiries again of the President last week—is this: they have decided to bring their aircraft at the highest possible state of readiness and we are doing the same. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] And the date by which this particular exercise was to be ready was 1st October. It was planned some time ago, and we are planning the same. It was planned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.856.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ernments. The right hon. Gentleman knows enough about aircraft to know that orders can be given and would be given to the aircraft, whether they were British or American, only after the agreement of the two Governments. As for the idea which has been put about that there are a lot of these aeroplanes flying about England all the time, that is not so. I have made special inquiries of the President.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " sea and return, of course, to their bases in this country. And the only possible risk, as I have explained to the House many times, would be a possible risk of crash on landing. But such a crash could not result in an explosion. It could result only in the tiniest and really most limited danger arising from the breaking of the uranium of the bomb. I should like to answer one further point raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not been answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "any times, would be a possible risk of crash on landing. But such a crash could not result in an explosion. It could result only in the tiniest and really most limited danger arising from the breaking of the uranium of the bomb. I should like to answer one further point raised. [ Interruption. ] Right hon. Gentlemen asked a lot of questions, but they do not seem very anxious for me to answer them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1957-12-20", "file": "debates1957-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "ac64725b5a7bcc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bring those bombers down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "these operations are concerned. I want to go back from the questions of air readiness and the strength of N.A.T.O. to the other question which has so much interested the House. Although I believe that there is a general desire to maintain our readiness, there is an equal desire to find as many ways as we can of getting back to discussion and to reduce the tension by partial or general disarmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1957-12-20a.857.0"}