{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-20", "file": "debates1959-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "f32dd50bfa5e5fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.114.3", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not sit there saying \"Nonsense\". I have had these figures checked by some of the largest hire-purchase companies in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-20", "file": "debates1959-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "f32dd50bfa5e5fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "n of his speech was a paean of praise for the nationalised industry: everything it had done since the days of nationalisation was perfect. Not a single note of criticism was to be found in his speech, notwithstanding the fact that every independent observer of the affairs of this immensely expensive nationalised industry has had a great deal of legitimate complaint to level against its operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-20", "file": "debates1959-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "f32dd50bfa5e5fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ifty-five million pounds annually is the aggregation of what the electricity boards must find from their own internal resources and from new borrowing. I am perfectly prepared to concede that what we debated on the Coal Board Statutory Instrument was new borrowing, whereas now I am talking about the total investment in respect of electricity and I am not therefore comparing exactly like with like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-20", "file": "debates1959-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "f32dd50bfa5e5fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Trebly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ard. The new borrowing of electricity boards, on his own confession, is £1,150 million over six years. Again if my arithmetic is correct, that to the nearest £1 million is £192 million per annum. That is roughly twice as much as the Coal Board's new borrowing. Therefore, if it is necessary to have a Statutory Instrument every year in the instance of the National Coal Board, it is doubly necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-20", "file": "debates1959-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "f32dd50bfa5e5fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "excellent memory. It must be at least six years ago that I intervened—and he kindly gave way as he generally does—in one of his speeches. I said that raising the load factor by 1 per cent. would yield approximately £21 million economy in capital investment in the year that the load factor went up by 1 per cent. That was a rough and ready calculation, but accurate enough for Parliamentary purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-20a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member's question is designed to confine this discussion to the accusations which have been made in detail, such as that dealt with in the Question, the fact of the matter is that they number very few indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "Had I thought the script very highly controversial or criticising a Government or Air Force decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.188.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "Had I thought the script very highly controversial or criticising a Government or Air Force decision— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—I would certainly have asked Lord Tedder to reconsider making it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "I have no knowledge of those facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "his scheme. As I understand the statement which he has made, he is to continue the scheme for an additional year for farms of 150 acres and over, but at a reduced scale. He said that it would be restricted. I will come to the farms of under 150 acres in a moment, but the right hon. Gentleman said that for those of 150 acres and over, the scheme is to be continued for a year but on a reduced scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "cheme is to be continued for a year but on a reduced scale. [ Interruption .]That is precisely what he said, and after that it ends. In any case, the death penalty comes into force there, as one hon. Member said, in about eight months' time, so that all that we have got is a concession for eight months. In respect of the farms under 150 acres, the right hon. Gentleman has given an additional year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes) called the concession made by my right hon. Friend \"flashy political window dressing,\" but we on this side of the Committee regard it as political realism, which we welcome. I think its value now lies in the opportunity which this one year's stay of execution gives the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.270.2", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is always right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "reat deal, particularly in the remote area where transport charges mean an increased burden on those benefiting from M.A.P. I hope my right hon. Friend will not only assess, but review the situation, certainly in the Highland areas, in respect of hill farmers who have benefited. For social reasons alone we must make up our minds. I think that the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser) was right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "n the Bill came before the House in 1952, and on every occasion when we have had a scheme since, I have said that ploughing-up grants in many parts of the country were a plain waste of public money. Of course money could be taken from the ploughing grants and devoted to this purpose at no cost to the Exchequer. What I principally want to say is that the Secretary of State has misled the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"To the marginal farmer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman ought to have a better memory. Has he never heard of the Livestock Rearing Act, 1951? Was not that Act calculated to help the marginal farmers of Scotland? Of course it was. If I said that no hill farmer ever received the calf subsidy, then I was misleading the Committee. I hope, however, that I did not say that. The N.F.U. told us that the subsidy was not going to the hill farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " nothing more nor less than that. That £6 million can only be said to be found from the pockets of other farmers if the Government of the day decide to make the maximum cut that is possible. Only in those circumstances can it be said that they are in fact contributing directly. No one can say what the outcome of the Price Review will be. I am certainly not going to announce it at this Box tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Clause 2.—(EXTENSION OF POWERS TO COMMISSION TO BORROW, AND OF MINISTER TO LEND, TO MEET DEFICITS ON REVENUE ACCOUNT OF BRITISH RAILWAYS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "It is nearly thirty years since I left the railways. When one joined that great service—and although it is thirty years since I left there is always a niche in one's heart for one's first love —one always understood that one was joining a service in which one was liable to be moved here and there. I do not think there is any more shifting around than there was in those days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-21", "file": "debates1959-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "0aa98701f88021cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Clause 2.—(EXTENSION OF POWERS TO COMMISSION TO BORROW, AND OF MINISTER TO LEND, TO MEET DEFICITS ON REVENUE ACCOUNT OF BRITISH RAILWAYS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Egg bound, or milk bound?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ting traffic. My objection is that the Transport Commission does not try to tell the public what is happening. The best thing that the Minister could do is to hand this part of transport over to the Milk Marketing Board. If it goes on much longer with its advertisements with the little lions and has film stars to advertise for it, we shall soon be egg-bound, as the railways are becoming fog-bound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-21a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.395.5", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not an agreement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "In my view, representatives of the Cotton Board are to be congratulated on having concluded an agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.395.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the then Chancellor of the Exchequer had a real responsibility for the strength of the £? By leading the Suez group in the Cabinet he gravely endangered the £—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who has?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "By contrast, the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Education celebrated this year the fiftieth anniversary of the medical service—in itself a very important anniversary—and emphasised that in this country we have virtually abolished malnutrition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.419.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What book is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "026; the White Paper fails to remove the admitted evils of segregating children at the age of eleven. I should have thought that a White Paper could not have done anything except present itself to be read. I should not have thought that of itself it could fail or otherwise to remove admitted evils. However, I am willing to stand corrected by the great teacher. In this glossy book, I see it stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "ned in the Circular. I am not clear whether special schools are to take part in the general advance of education. If they are, I hope that special consideration will be given to schools for the educationally sub-normal. I suppose that it is inevitable that the debate and the Division afterwards, if it takes place, will be between the grammar school and the secondary modern school, on the one hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why muted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "satisfying secondary school system unless we have a highly efficient infants' and primary school system as well. Therefore, I say to the House and particularly to my right, hon. Friend the Minister that we cannot afford to neglect the primary and infants' schools in the matter of the supply and calibre of teachers, in their buildings, in their equipment, and, may I say in muted tones, in salaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The N.U.T.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Yes, I was against it and I say quite frankly that the vehemence, hysteria and exaggeration of the campaign by many of my friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": " is a fair description of what is meant by comprehensive education. As the right hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) said, we also have a multiplicity of other descriptions, such as bilateral and multilateral. It is as well that we should get clear in our minds what we mean by bilateral and multilateral schools. The definition which I have read is not my own; it is one which I found elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.473.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "ve that it is possible to provide secondary education for all children in accordance with their abilities without sacrificing those schools that have done such fine work in educating the ablest of our children. We on this side simply do not believe that the way to advance to the Britain that we wish to see in the future is to penalise successful individuals and level down established institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.531.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-22", "file": "debates1959-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0e682d4a7fb152bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.539.3", "colnum": "539", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "n case of a school which, we all agree, has made a highly promising start —Kidbrooke School, Eltham, a large comprehensive school; in that case the Kidbrooke School and Eltham Grammar School still exist side by side—the academic results from Kidbrooke are certainly very good. And yet I do not believe that either school has suffered from the fact that freedom of choice for the parents still exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-22a.539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-23", "file": "debates1959-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "69d5927fe09fd4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-23a.559.6", "colnum": "559", "heading": "NEEDS OF THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "rnment for the last Measure. One of the conditions, of course, of State aid to these historic houses is that the public shall have access to them. Many of the houses are now museums and art galleries which are accessible to provincial populations. Of course, they are more than museums, too, because in many cases they are homes, and, as such, something which are essentially unique and very English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-23a.559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-26", "file": "debates1959-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a70a3c9d729bf1e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-26a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman does a little multiplication sum, I think he will see how this works out. Two-and-a-half times £ 300,000 comes to £900,000—or is my multiplication wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-26a.732.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.877.6", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that with the £7½ million bribe given to horticultural interests yesterday in the House it is also being considered, in view of what the Minister has said today, that something more might be done for the small farmer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.877.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grey", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the vast majority of the people in the North-East took a very dim view of the fact that he showed no practical concern over the unemployment in the area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grey", "preceding_text": "e showed no practical concern over the unemployment in the area? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"] It is quite true. It might have served a much more useful purpose if at least the right hon. Gentleman had made some contact with the employment exchanges and also had some talks with the people who were unemployed. It might have saddened his heart a little and made his visit less flippant than it appeared to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.902.7", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "butions have been increased. That I understood to be the monotonous point he was making. It is understandable in an insurance scheme—and there is no party issue on this because all parties have followed the same line—that if benefits are increased, so are contributions. I did not give way to the hon. Member, although I heard his intervention, because I did not think it would facilitate the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.902.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.902.9", "colnum": "902", "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": "nto operation a year ago, I explained that we were considering changes in the machinery, but that we were not prepared to delay helping the existing pensioners while the necessarily lengthy process of dealing with the machinery took effect, and that this Bill is now the machinery Bill following the rates Bill. When I was asked why, I explained that this was not the sort of Bill to deal with rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.902.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.902.9", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "should have thought, for any further advance, and I should have thought that to compare our record with that of the right hon. Gentlemen opposite should satisfy those outside of the value of our assurance. I would say this to right hon. Gentlemen opposite: those outside are more inclined to judge people and parties in this matter from what they did in office than from what they said in Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.902.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "o the trade unions in Scotland, I was, quite rightly, I think, emphasising the need for self-restraint and emphasising how they could wreck our scheme if they chose to increase wages to pay contributions. For a Minister of the Government who should be concerned with saving and with paying all old-age pensioners deliberately to misinterpret this into two statements instead of one, is a dirty trick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In accordance with the courtesy and traditions of the House, when a quotation is made by a Minister of what an hon. Member is alleged to have said, which is denied by that hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I made no statement that there was a full stop, and indeed, hon. Members will remember, if they followed the grammar, that I read out the word \"and\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I made no statement that there was a full stop, and indeed, hon. Members will remember, if they followed the grammar, that I read out the word \"and\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I hope that the House will accept the ordinary construction of an English sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "preceding_text": "uild its fortune is orders from abroad. In 1946 and during the following five years there poured into every type of business in the country orders galore. The present Government and the Conservative Party, in the seven years or so of their administration, have faced an entirely different situation. More than that, we have been paying our way in exports and have not been living on borrowed dollars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "ssued a circular to all of us mentioning the two points stressed by my right hon. Friend. These are important criticisms by an important confederation. It is our business to find the simplest way administratively of putting the Bill on the Statute Book. I do not say this unkindly, but if we have an important mission on this side of the House it is because of our wider experience in administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-27", "file": "debates1959-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "378c8ef7ba12bc71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "at the appropriate stage of the Bill; but I am not sure that the pensioners would, in fact, benefit—that, after all, is what we want—from such a provision. It would be tempting to leave them where they are on an automatic review and not to give them the increase in real standards which we want to see, and which has happened to them over the years. A good way of looking at this was in a point made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-27a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "These were markings adopted by the Royal Air Force without reference to anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1050.6", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The information that I am quoting is from an announcement made in the journal called the Aeroplane of 21st November, quoting United States statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1050.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "We have not reached precise figures, but the indication that we have of the probable cost is that the amount involved would be more than we consider this particular scheme would justify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1065.6", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister seen the report in Reynolds News of 18th January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1065.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "PRESTON BY-PASS (CLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": " look after, and he is in no sense the agent for building the road. As to the general issue, hon. Members had better study the extremely factual report, which has been seen by all concerned, and is a factual record of the position. If they will judge it impartially they will see that what I have said about it is absolutely correct, that no blame imputes to anybody, except, perhaps, to the weather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "That is quite a different thing from saying that a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "g to give relief to the consumer and housewife in reducing Purchase Tax? No. According to the Economist the right hon. Gentleman has to think of foreign opinion, of speculative opinion. This is what it says: Many foreigners…envisage the English as a people whose sense of initiative and responsibility is hopelessly downtrodden by some of the highest marginal rates of Income Tax in the world;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Toby Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Toby Low", "preceding_text": "g to be able to say in support of his Amendment. When the right hon. Gentleman sat down I really could not see that he had spoken strictly to his Amendment. I expected him to explain to us exactly how the Bill and the policies behind it made more difficult the achievement and maintenance in Great Britain and Western Europe of industrial expansion and full employment. That is the great point of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "th. That has immeasurably strengthened our position in a way which is not reflected directly in the reserves. That, of course—and I must make this comment, although hon. Members opposite will not like it—is a very different position from that reigning in the years between 1946 and 1951, when, far from earning more than we spent, we spent £800 million more than we earned. There were reasons for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "is that they are constantly knocking the economy about, yet, when they lay off doing that, they come to the House with fatuous smiles of self-congratulation, saying that they are actually making things a little better, after having half strangled the economy. The Prime Minister, to his eternal credit, extruded the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft) from his Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "ling. What did it avail? Nothing whatever. A great devaluation took place. In 1951, when there was another run on sterling, was the Leader of the Opposition short of controls or debased forms of currency? Not a bit of it. What he lacked was the courage and resolution to do unpopular things and, very rightly, threw in his hand and went. We got in, took some resolute action and the thing came right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is on the by-pass.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ement, we were facing a sharp run on sterling. Within six months we had the autumn Budget. Within three years we lost 2,300 million dollars from our gold and dollar reserves. Whatever complacency the Lord Privy Seal may have shown in recent months, this complacency and fecklessness have grown beyond all bounds. The extreme case is that of the Prime Minister. I am sorry that he is not here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ave provided the basis for these recent essays in re-expansion. Does the Chancellor agree with the Prime Minister's statement? Does he agree with the statement that it was Government policy which produced this situation, or will he not acknowledge, as, in an honest moment, he once did, that the fall in commodity prices has been responsible? Will the Chancellor tell us? This is an important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "y exist among people who do not agree with us politically. They share our anxieties about the convertibility movement. The main thing is that it makes us more vulnerable to a speculative crisis. The £ in London will be converted, as of right, into dollars, or other currencies without even the cushion of a drooping transferable rate. The Chancellor may say that we were following the rest of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "wanted to hold some other currency, dollars, Swiss francs or German marks, sterling will have to bear the brunt which most other countries would not have to do. What happens if another run occurs? What this Government will do is to say, \"Confidence is in danger and can only be met by deflationary methods in this country, involving restriction of production and an attack upon employment standards\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "mber for Cheetham (Mr. H. Lever) said this afternoon that all these financial manœuvres were just a charade if we did not mobilise the full production power of the nation. The decision of the Government of September, 1957, to sacrifice production and employment to the obsolete financial shibboleths urged by the right hon. Member for Flint, West (Mr. Birch) has gravely weakened this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "int, West (Mr. Birch) has gravely weakened this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We have often said, and we said at the time, that this was like the old eighteenth century quack doctor whose only remedy for any kind of disease was blood-letting, which was ultimately weakening. What is the position in Britain? Production in Britain today is lower than in 1955 at the time of the last General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nder the Government we have stagnated for four years. We need expansion—does anyone deny that?—but that expansion must be controlled, because without controls and purposive planning a free-for-all expansion will mean inflation, just as it did under the Lord Privy Seal. The slack incompetence of an unplanned economy must give place to the disciplined efficiency of rational organisation and control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " manœvurings or tactics. I know that I need not make this appeal to the Chancellor, but we need to make it to Lord Hailsham and certainly the President of the Board of Trade, if anyone were ever in danger of taking him seriously. I want to make it plain that even over Suez, when we fundamentally disagreed with the Government's policy, we rallied round the Government to the support of the £.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ake it plain that even over Suez, when we fundamentally disagreed with the Government's policy, we rallied round the Government to the support of the £. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I challenge any hon. Member to produce any evidence to the contrary. In September, 1957, my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition went on record with a speech strongly calculated to maintain the strength of sterling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "hink that it added anything to the argument. I should like to sumarise what seemed to be the main point made by the Leader of the Opposition. He said that the Government are taking a risk with sterling and are placing new restrictions upon the economy in order to create more profitable business for the City of London and in order to hamper a Labour Government. I think that that was the accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "he achievement and maintenance in Great Britain and Western Europe of industrial expansion and full employment. This seems to be not so much a declaration of war as a declaration of surrender in the economic field, because in effect it amounts to saying that in the view of the Opposition we cannot have industrial expansion, we cannot have full employment if at the same time we have convertibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " of the £, and I think even the Opposition would not seriously maintain that proposition. The only other possibility is the effect upon employment of short-term fluctuations. I think this is very much what the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition had in mind, but here again the £ is not made more vulnerable to speculation; it is made less vulnerable by the measures we have just taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-28", "file": "debates1959-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d9c9068c8ca3887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1219.3", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "FLOODING, LINCOLNSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "Well, I am sure that, with the high standard of representation which Lincoln enjoys, they will be able to hold their own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-28a.1219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister would bring his researches a bit further forward than Lord Melbourne, and if I hand him a cutting, and some others if he wishes, will he undertake an inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1260.5", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1262.0", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that in this case we should hear what the Government have to say about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not necessary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "In view of what has been said by the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) I ought to say this. So far as I am aware, no notice whatever has been given by my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin (Mr. W. Yates) to any of my colleagues that he was proposing to raise this matter. I, as Leader of the House, had not heard about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has done that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": " that I should. I am not questioning whether or not that is necessary. I am asked what action the Government are taking about a matter of which as Leader of the House I had no knowledge. As the question of Government action has been raised, in particular by the hon. Member for Coventry, East, I suggest that my hon. Friend put himself immediately in touch either with the Secretary of State for War—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The figures I gave from the West End Central Division indicate that there is fairly good accuracy in being able to tell whether a woman is a common prostitute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. That gives me an opportunity to make the situation clearer to the hon. Member. It depends entirely upon whether the court accepts the evidence put before it. I cannot take the place of the magistrates or of the courts, but I am satisfied that the magistrates and the courts will know a common prostitute when they see one on the evidence put forward to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Before or after?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "E9; which happened to be opposite a door which was being used by two girls. I was so interested in what I saw that I watched for over two hours. During that period I saw eleven men go up the stairs with those two girls. The longest visit was under a quarter of an hour and the average time of the visits was under ten minutes. A common factor in those men surprised me the most. It was their sadness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " tells us that she had an experience of a girl saying to her, \"Get off my beat,\" to which, I understand, she replied, \"Don't be saucy\",—and honours were about even. As to serious interference, I would ask the right hon. Gentleman this: are there any cases at all known to the police where prostitutes have beaten up a respectable woman in the mistaken belief that she was poaching on their territory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1307.4", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "My information is quite different from that of my hon. Friend. By and large, I am told that the Messina organisation has been broken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1343.3", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "rying about the women and children in my constituency? Maybe the hon. Lady has not prostitutes in her constituency—I do not know. If she wants them, we will transport them there. If a case has been made for voting for the Bill, I am sure that it was in the speech of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) tonight. He is a responsible Member and he has moved the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They never are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " the third of the three grounds I summarised, the ground of criticism that men should be dealt with in the same way as women and that they are not. My answer in the first place is that it is not the customers, however much one may deplore their conduct who create the scandal with which this Bill is seeking to deal. Secondly, male importuners can be satisfactorily dealt with under the existing law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1387.4", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Exercise\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. He makes it clear, does he not, that the present operation in Cyprus is patrol activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1387.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-01-29", "file": "debates1959-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1351a97c52e5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1387.4", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Exercise\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "preceding_text": "the present operation in Cyprus is patrol activity—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Exercise\".]—an exercise, but a number of reports have been received tonight, according to the evening papers, that 300 vehicles, a dozen helicopters, and light aircraft are taking part in one of the biggest sweeps ever made in the region. May I ask my right hon. Friend whether it is necessary for this operation to be carried out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-01-29a.1387.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-02", "file": "debates1959-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "28af09ee567f3b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (LETTERS PATENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "es on Malta's eventual position in the Commonwealth than I was in a position to give. As the delegation was under a mandate from its party not to enter into discussion of interim arrangements in the absence of such an assurance, there could be no substantial discussion of Her Majesty's Government's proposal. I also had useful exchanges of views with the Progressive Constitutional Party delegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-02", "file": "debates1959-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "28af09ee567f3b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (LETTERS PATENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "cident of Conservative financial policies. We have just been told that, at the very moment when these negotiations were taking place about the economic future of Malta, owing to the pressure of the Treasury the right hon. Gentleman was compelled to tell the Colonies that there would have to be a reduction in capital investments from here and that, of course, Malta had to face £1 million reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-02", "file": "debates1959-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "28af09ee567f3b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (LETTERS PATENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And to Cyprus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "osed to Malta. It is closed by the right hon. Gentleman's speech today. He has emphasised today that owing to the peculiar relations between the Imperial Government and the fortress and island of Malta, we cannot envisage independence for Malta. He is nodding. Therefore, we must start off on the assumption that the road to progress which every Colony is entitled to march along is blocked to Malta.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-02", "file": "debates1959-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "28af09ee567f3b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (LETTERS PATENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is rapidly losing his innocence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "st Administration in Malta, there is a lot to be said for it. But it certainly was an absurd statement to make, and hon. Members must have realised, when they listened to the right hon. Gentleman making that statement this afternoon, that he was putting up the major obstacles to an agreement. I am not entirely blaming him. He is the innocent victim of the pressure, but it was the unfortunate fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-02", "file": "debates1959-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "28af09ee567f3b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (LETTERS PATENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " the mistakes that were made by Her Majesty's Government between the acceptance of inte- gration and some date, I do not quite know when, but at any rate before today. That is the period to which almost everything he said has been addressed. With respect to the right hon. Gentleman and to his rhetorical capacities, that is I think very largely irrelevant to the question of what must be done today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-02", "file": "debates1959-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "28af09ee567f3b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (LETTERS PATENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Far too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "No, they were conditional upon it. Did we take too long over these negotiations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-02a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.199.5", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "loyment of women in Fife, and the recent closure of textile mills there has aggravated the problem? Further, is he aware that when we approached the Board of Trade in connection with the matter mentioned in Question No. 37 and suggested that British Nylon Spinners be offered Donibristle, which is one of the only sites in the country fulfilling all the conditions required by British Nylon Spinners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.199.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member has got a little muddled about the way traps are used. His fear is that people would be wrongly prosecuted for breaking the law. In fact, I understand it would be a perfectly good defence to say that the trap was set for foxes or otters, as the case may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must know that a great number of the people who shoot deer are expert shots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House is glad to see the hon. Baronet the Member for Fife, East (Sir J. Henderson-Stewart) back in his place after what must have been a long and painful illness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "n hon. Member in this House. I remember the case quoted by the hon. and learned Member. I remember the Carradale poisoning case, in which the prosecution was not taken up by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison)—who was here at the time—but by the police. I can assure the hon. Member that my hon. and learned Friend did everything possible to get clemency in that case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sporting interests.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I quite agree, and I shall hope to show why I oppose this Bill in principle, because my view is that it is a Bill to preserve the interests of the landlords and the sportsmen in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "recognise that there are many objections to a course of that sort. I do not pretend to have any other solution to this problem, but I hope that my right hon. Friend will bear it in mind. Then there is the point made by the hon. Member for Ayr (Sir T. Moore) that deer may, under the Bill, be killed with shot guns. I rather object to that. Rifles are humane and painless, in the hands of a good shot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Rankin), who found it in a very long and fairly acid quotation from Carlyle. I am not at all sure that that did not betray the seeds of the determination of the Opposition to take this course. Nobody has tried to argue that the House is in any way bound by the fact that there has been a very remarkable agreement on the part of all the vital interests concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "DEER (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "e remainder of the estimated annual expenditure is attributable to the additional expenses that may be incurred by the Secretary of State, for example, in holding public inquiries into control schemes, and by the Nature Conservancy, which will provide the Commission with scientific advice and with stalking assistance in the field. In arriving at the estimate of the Commission's annual expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Clause 1.—(USE OF EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT FOR PURPOSES OF EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "per prior to his interesting but provocative speech on Second Reading. It is a very different story if there do not happen to be copies of a three-year-old White Paper in the Vote Office for subsequent stages of the Bill, because there was full opportunity for Members who were interested to obtain copies, either before Second Reading or, if they did not think of it then, in the intervening period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Clause 1.—(USE OF EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT FOR PURPOSES OF EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "opies of a three-year-old White Paper in the Vote Office for subsequent stages of the Bill, because there was full opportunity for Members who were interested to obtain copies, either before Second Reading or, if they did not think of it then, in the intervening period. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"] From the Vote Office, which points out in a circular issued to all hon. Members in September, 1956—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-03", "file": "debates1959-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb8f33fc02f3ef45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Clause 1.—(USE OF EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT FOR PURPOSES OF EUROPEAN MONETARY AGREEMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "matter about other hon. Members. I should certainly be prepared, without the White Paper, to enter into a debate with the Economic Secretary, the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Paymaster-General at any time on the issue of the European Monetary Agreement and the European Payments Union, but our debates are not a matter of a duel between the Front Benches. They are a matter for the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-03a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-04", "file": "debates1959-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b29c22f0dc507ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "What my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Mr. Gresham Cooke) has said is perfectly true. On the whole, bearing in mind that Lancashire County Council is certainly not controlled by my party—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-04", "file": "debates1959-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b29c22f0dc507ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(APPROVAL OF BUILDING SOCIETIES FOR INVESTMENT BY TRUSTEES AND GOVERNMENT LOANS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is public money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "preceding_text": " trustee status to a building society dependent on certain practices which it followed or did not follow in making advances; practices which I think, in the eyes of all sensible people are irrelevant to the question whether it is a suitable depository for trust funds. I have made the position of the Government clear. This is not a Socialist State, where the Government can give orders to everybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-04", "file": "debates1959-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b29c22f0dc507ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(EXCHEQUER ADVANCES TO BUILDING SOCIETIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ociety has already a higher proportion of its business in that class of house than any other society in England. From my limited knowledge of the Society, I do not think that it is likely to be seriously affected one way or the other. 9.45 p.m. I must confess I am disappointed in some ways at the Minister's reply, but I am not suggesting that the Committee should press the Amendment to a Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.509.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-04", "file": "debates1959-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b29c22f0dc507ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(EXCHEQUER ADVANCES TO BUILDING SOCIETIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ferential, so to speak, of one-half of 1 per cent. Although I am in no way briefed to defend building societies' interests I am sufficiently concerned with them not to try to force the Minister to a Division. Moreover, it is, incidentally, quite illogical that we should make this part alone of the Bill alterable only by amending legislation. Therefore, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.509.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-04", "file": "debates1959-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b29c22f0dc507ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "BRITISH MARKETING RESEARCH BUREAU", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Champion", "preceding_text": "Quite clearly, I must accept your very wise suggestion in this matter, Mr. Speaker. I am bound to say that I can understand the Government and the Ministers not wishing to accept responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-04a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.566.6", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and learned Gentleman aware that company accounts covering the period of this campaign must now have been submitted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.566.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.567.6", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If it is in order to refer to this particular market survey in a supplementary question, is the hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the man who at great expense sponsored the survey himself stated at the weekend that he was holding on to the names for whatever purposes he considered fit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.567.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even from The Times? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I should have thought the right hon. Gentleman would have realised that it is always a rather hazardous occupation to copy out one's Questions from columns in the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "e the Committee with the argument in detail. In the other two Amendments in Clause 6, to which I have referred, account is taken of an additional £10 cost for this purpose, that is to say of an additional £5 grant. In a dirty place like London, baths are no doubt desirable and wash-hand basins are a very standard amenity indeed. If I may say so, I know of no place in London dirtier than the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chance your arm.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "kind can be purchased. In order to secure that only the proper sum is paid for the installation of a wash-hand basin, I am advised that a wash-hand basin would have to be added as the fifth standard amenity and a separate sum provided for it under Clause 6 (2) to which the hon. and learned Member's later Amendments relate. I am not absolutely sure what view my right hon. Friend has on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.674.5", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Council houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "be withdrawn or not. What I wanted to say was that I hope this question will not be dismissed summarily. It is important that wash-basins should be provided in houses which have not got them. I should have thought that as a general proposition it is also desirable that if a bathroom is being added to a house, it should have a washbasin in it. It is the general experience that of all modern houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.674.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.674.5", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "e adaptation of old houses to modern requirements. In most cases it may no doubt be possible to put a wash-basin in the bathroom but there will be some cases in which, either for lack of space or because of drainage arrangements or otherwise, it is not physically possible to put the wash-basin in the bathroom. Hence, as I understand it, the introduction into the Amendment of the word \"preferable\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.674.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Something which supplies hot water.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Yes, except the draftsmen. But what is a hot water supply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "One agrees with the hon. Member that if a hot water supply which starts in the basement of a house is not kept up, there cannot be an effective hot water supply in the upper floors unless they have an independent hot water supply. One agrees with that and it seems unnecessary to state it. I should have thought that all this was covered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "I support the Amendment, although I am not entirely in agreement with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) in one respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-05", "file": "debates1959-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "7f745429770e169b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " Bill as it is now drawn, the local authority must give its consent to one of the family's two rooms being taken to be turned into a bathroom. Surely the right hon. Gentleman cannot contemplate that kind of thing happening. What the right hon. Gentleman is saying is that local authorities must hand out public money so that overcrowding in same of the worst areas of London shall be made even worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-05a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-06", "file": "debates1959-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aecacf4990357fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "That is a very early intervention by the right hon. Member. I am delighted that I have been able to stimulate him so soon in my speech, and I have no doubt that I shall stimulate him considerably more as times goes on. The Coal Board may not have been short of money, but consumers were very short of coal, whereas today they are not short of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-06", "file": "debates1959-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aecacf4990357fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member said, 'Both spokesmen'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I said the spokesman opposite, the hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-06", "file": "debates1959-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aecacf4990357fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I will send the right hon. Gentleman's comments to the Coal Merchants' Federation and test the veracity of what he says. I would remind him that 25 per cent. of the distribution of domestic solid fuel is in the hands of the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-06", "file": "debates1959-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aecacf4990357fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reflection on the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The other day, Mr. Speaker, you ruled that we could not put down Parliamentary Questions on domestic coal distribution, which is a sad state of affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-06", "file": "debates1959-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aecacf4990357fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Goldsmith.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ds. Compare those so well-balanced speeches with the succession of irrelevancies which we heard from the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro). Whenever the hon. Member for Kidderminster speaks, he reminds me of those lines of a poet, long passed away, to the effect that one wonders that such a small head could carry all he knew. That is a paraphrase of the lines which I read many years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-06", "file": "debates1959-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aecacf4990357fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The noble Lord is, at any rate, presenting the case of men who believe that by reverting to private ownership there would be a hope of resolving the problem. As to the closure of pits in County Durham by the Lambton family and the Joicey family and the rest of the coal owners, it is surprising that the noble Lords seeks in any way to refute the allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-06", "file": "debates1959-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aecacf4990357fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "h. Therefore, I do not want to give the impression that these things are fixed once and for all. They are not. The general principle which the Government commend to the House is that the final person who must decide is the consumer, and that the only way of discovering what is a national fuel policy is to give the nation the opportunity to say what it wants. I want to refer to a particular matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-06a.817.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-09", "file": "debates1959-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a32d072925765c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-09a.837.8", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend explain to the dunderheads concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-09a.837.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-09", "file": "debates1959-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a32d072925765c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-09a.846.6", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "It is bought by and on behalf of the Government. How it is ultimately used I do not think arises. It is oil which will remain the property of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-09a.846.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-09", "file": "debates1959-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a32d072925765c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-09a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What enemy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member, and all hon. Members, have a right to know a great many things, but, on the other hand, one has to balance that against the desirability of not allowing the enemy to know certain things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-09a.851.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-09", "file": "debates1959-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a32d072925765c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-09a.851.6", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister say whether this will prove a fruitful line of research and will be worth while?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-09a.851.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.983.4", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "I have already stated the responsibilities of the Secretary of State in my reply. The only power that could be used to hold such an inquiry is, as I said, in the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act, 1921, under which a tribunal may be established in pursuance of a Resolution of both Houses of Parliament on matters of urgent public importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.983.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.983.4", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "the responsibilities of the Secretary of State in my reply. The only power that could be used to hold such an inquiry is, as I said, in the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act, 1921, under which a tribunal may be established in pursuance of a Resolution of both Houses of Parliament on matters of urgent public importance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] This procedure has never been used in such a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.983.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.984.4", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "the course of the Adjournment debate last Tuesday, said that if he received an unsatisfactory answer from my right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Advocate—and I gather he considers he did get an unsatisfactory answer because he has put down this Question—the parents intended to bring a civil action. Therefore, I do not think it would be right to develop the argument as to guilt or otherwise now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.986.6", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "I fully understand the point of view which the right hon. Gentleman has put, but I am bound to say that the question of whether or not to prosecute is bound to rest and does rest with the Lord Advocate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.986.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1002.9", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance and Family Allowances", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "preceding_text": "ere is, therefore, some reduction in the amount we estimated we should have to pay out. I do not for one moment minimise the serious effect that unemployment has on the life of the individual, and even more so in the case of the family man. I have had experience of this, but it is not for me to deal with the vigorous measures which the Government have taken and are taking to deal with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1002.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance and Family Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is there, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Surely I should be in order in moving the Adjournment of the debate, to call attention to the absence of any Minister responsible for unemployment. I am usually told that the Minister of Labour is responsible only for the administration of the employment exchanges. The President of the Board of Trade is the Minister concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance and Family Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": " the Minister will not form some of the bad habits of the Prime Minister in this respect, but will treat these figures as something to which the House is entitled to have access at a time when we are discussing such important matters as the one we are discussing today. I have offered to give way if these figures can be given, but apparently no one on the Government Front Bench wishes to interrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1008.3", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance and Family Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I am greatly obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for those figures, as I am sure all Members of the Committee will be. They confirm the figures which have been given in the Press during the past few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1008.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance and Family Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It sounds like the Preston by-pass.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "g that it was better to provide any work for the unemployed than to leave them in idleness. He said that rather than leave them to do nothing it would be better to set half the unemployed on digging holes and the other half to work on filling them in again. It is clear to anyone who looks at the social problems of this country that there are far more constructive things that we could do than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance and Family Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The majority of modern firms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1040.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance and Family Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The majority of modern firms—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am speaking, as I hope the House will agree, with some experience, and I say that the majority of modern firms treat their work-people as fairly as their finances will allow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1040.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance and Family Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "y fellow businessmen—I talk now as a businessman rather than as a politician—to have people unemployed who cannot buy the things I am importing. Therefore, to say that we as Tory businessmen want unemployment is arrant nonsense and I hope that hon. Members opposite will not say it again. The hon. Lady said that we were deliberately creating unemployment. We are jolly bad businessmen if we do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance and Family Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "—but I have heard little all afternoon about the Votes that were put down for discussion. In fact, the whole debate seems to have been upon the effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-10", "file": "debates1959-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "732d7a6818a90eba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR AND MOLASSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Motion. Twelve months ago we had a similar discussion—I will not say pantomime. My hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey) made the same kind of thoughtful protest and advanced cogent arguments to which the Minister made an unsatisfactory reply. I do not propose to argue the merits or demerits of this Order, but I wish to comment on sugar prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-10a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1157.4", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I will not comment on the right hon. Gentleman's clarity of mind as revealed in his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "If it is a policy of lunacy, that lunacy is widely spread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1161.7", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": " authorities, for example, General James Gavin, former chief of the United States Army Research and Development, and Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, have pointed out that it is no longer the case? Does he not think that the safety of this country would be better served by facing these facts in a spirit of realism and drawing the appropriate military and political conclusions for our defence policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1161.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1171.4", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why is it there then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "se this is about the same as the people of Swaffham feel. If the hon. Gentleman will study the reply I gave earlier, it might be helpful. He will find that I made it clear that the site of this unit near Dortmund is purely a temporary site, or, rather, I should say it is what we might call a non-operational site. If there were an emergency there is no question of the unit operating from that site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1189.5", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I would not like to say whether or not he is a member. He can tell us that if he chooses. The point is that this non-elected body can now direct the Corporation of Glasgow what to do. That is completely undemocratic. I am surprised that enlightened Tories like the hon. Member for Glasgow, Pollok (Mr. George) and the hon. Member for Cathcart —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1189.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1195.0", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "preceding_text": "I will try to answer, if I can remember them, all the points that have been raised. This is only a drafting Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1213.2", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " the Government. The hon. and gallant Member has spoken of old traditions. I feel sure that when he was talking about 1832 he remembered also 1835 when a Royal Commission made the recommendation that the dean of guild court in Glasgow should be wiped out. Not a single Scotsman who has any respect for democracy is prepared to justify the continuing existence of that situation and set-up in Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1213.2", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "27th November, 1958; c. 45.] In a city election in Glasgow there was a completely even balance on the local authority; in fact I believe there was a majority of one on the Labour side, elected by the people. A member of the dean of guild travelled back from Paris to elect a Lord Provost. I think it was the late Lord Inverclyde. I do not know whether he was a \"napper\" a \"hammer-man\" or what he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1272.5", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A wangle\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "preceding_text": "t refer to Glasgow as being covered by a corresponding provision of a local Act because Glasgow does not depend on any local Act for the existence of its dean of guild court. The Second Schedule refers to the counties and Aberdeen and Dundee and as under the Second Schedule the counties pay all the expenses of the authority so under this subsection the authorities pay all the fees to the counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1272.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO BUILDINGS AUTHORITIES WHICH ARE NOT DEAN OF GUILD COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "he way in which Scotsmen use the English language. That is a matter for them. My hon. Friend has said that there was some strong personality in the Government who had prevailed in this matter. After listening to the Scottish Ministers tonight, and remembering their appalling exhibition yesterday at Question Time, I would inquire from him who of them could possibly have been the strong personality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-11", "file": "debates1959-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "146584a3ad0e833c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sixth Schedule.—(RECOVERY OF EXPENSES BY CHARGING ORDER.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Secretary of State for Scotland, who has been listening to this debate, will think over the arguments which have been presented I hope that he has observed the display of temper on the part of his right hon. and learned Friend and has made duo note of it as something not very becoming in a Law Officer of the Crown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-11a.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-12", "file": "debates1959-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f6e741ec1d8807a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1335.10", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, Question No. 34.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I have answered Question No. 35.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1335.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-12", "file": "debates1959-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f6e741ec1d8807a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "It is not satisfactory for the Under-Secretary to say that he will seek further information. The hon. Gentleman has had this case before him, or the Colonial Secretary has had it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-12", "file": "debates1959-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f6e741ec1d8807a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": " for the Under-Secretary to say that he will seek further information. The hon. Gentleman has had this case before him, or the Colonial Secretary has had it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"] Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Colonial Secretary has had information about this case for the last six weeks, which is a rather long period to elapse before information is obtained? This man was advised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-12", "file": "debates1959-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f6e741ec1d8807a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "tion.\"] Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Colonial Secretary has had information about this case for the last six weeks, which is a rather long period to elapse before information is obtained? This man was advised—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"] Is the Under-Secretary aware that Captain Law was advised to go to the police for assistance? The police, without making any charge against this man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-12", "file": "debates1959-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f6e741ec1d8807a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the third question?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I certainly understand the point which the right hon. Gentleman made in his first supplementary question and I will, as I have promised, make a statement as soon as possible. The second matter to which he referred is precisely one of those matters which need a good deal of further consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-12", "file": "debates1959-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f6e741ec1d8807a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE AREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Edwards", "preceding_text": "tandards. He stressed the need for more automatic credits and not less, and when I wound up the debate I insisted that competition and the single system of natural liberty was not enough; that, indeed, success would depend on how far we were able to depart from ordinary free trade principles. I said we wanted free trade, but free trade with such a difference that a new name would be needed for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-12", "file": "debates1959-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f6e741ec1d8807a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE AREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No progress.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "e of me believe that there was any justification for the acrimony of the final stages of these negotiations. I believe that it did nobody any good. and it has made life difficult for a number of people. I disagree with the Paymaster-General on one point, as regards the timing of his negotiations. He told us very frankly that he had toyed with the idea last summer of reporting progress so to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-12", "file": "debates1959-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f6e741ec1d8807a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE AREA", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "hich the Labour Government led us, has cemented the level of preference of 1932 between the Commonwealth countries unless we can get a sufficient majority of people who have nothing to do with the Commonwealth to allow us to alter it. I am convinced, and the more I study this matter the more convinced I become, that there is now only one course the Government can take if they really mean business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-12", "file": "debates1959-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f6e741ec1d8807a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE AREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "preceding_text": "the complete mishandling of the Suez affair. At the same time it was a complete disregard of our association with Europe and with doing things in common. It was, as it were, the last flash of imperialism, of \"going it alone\". It was wrong to go into Suez in the first instance, and clearly we left the French in a difficult position when, having gone there, we stopped in the middle of the operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-12a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Barter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Barter", "preceding_text": "e began by saying that this issue was one of those most likely to raise the temperature, but I think it will be widely accepted that during the course of his speech he showed restraint and managed to keep the temperature reasonably moderate. I hope to follow the example which he set. I should like to express my appreciation to him for the privilege which he has afforded me of seconding the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw the Bil1.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barter", "preceding_text": "Because I am sure the right hon. Gentleman wishes to see a settlement of this issue satisfactory to both sides of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1530.3", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "preceding_text": "I did not refer specifically to the talks because I did not want to support my argument by suggesting that the introduction of the Bill was the outcome of talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1530.3", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "preceding_text": "ument by suggesting that the introduction of the Bill was the outcome of talks. [ Interruption. ] I thought that to refer to the talks would put the union leaders in an invidious position. I thought that it would be unfair in support of the Bill to use the argument that the union leaders had attended the talks. The union leaders pointed out that they were not in a position to make definite offers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1530.3", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "preceding_text": "the Bill was the outcome of talks. [ Interruption. ] I thought that to refer to the talks would put the union leaders in an invidious position. I thought that it would be unfair in support of the Bill to use the argument that the union leaders had attended the talks. The union leaders pointed out that they were not in a position to make definite offers. [ Interruption. ] They could hardly do more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1531.2", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The upshot of what I say is not in dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1531.2", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "very evidence that the unions have sought a settlement and that the employers have refused to negotiate. If the hon. Gentleman today acquiesces in the passage of a Bill which penalises the trade union in circumstances where the trade union has been the body seeking to co-operate and use existing legislation in the process, he will sacrifice a tremendous amount of good will among many trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1545.0", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Act was a compromise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": " Opposition and by other parties, which gave the industry a chance to settle down for three or four years and to get this business disposed of. When I first looked at this matter I was told by people who were competent to express an opinion that it would take at least two years for the union to adapt itself to the change, but the time for making that adaptation has been very considerably extended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1545.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1565.3", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Butler", "preceding_text": " must ask ourselves why it was that the parent Act, the Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act, 1954, was passed. I speak as a Member whose father worked in the baking industry for very many years. He worked about 100 hours a week when I was a child, and his wages were £1 a week. His working hours were very, very long. He managed, in spite of all that hard work, to be the father of about 14 children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1571.0", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": " interjections of that nature. Hon. Members opposite have complained of the apparent inoperation of Section 9 of the parent Act, but there is nothing new there. Paragraph 207 of the Rees Report says: It is extraordinary that three independent Committees have had to be appointed in little more than 30 years to solve a problem which a well organised industry would long since have settled for itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1570.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-13", "file": "debates1959-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "1cd55b26c7a5e220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1579.7", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS AND SEASONAL RESORTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The 1954 Act\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "f the small bakery industry in Scotland has for fourteen years worked under an agreement limiting continuous night work—and there are many districts in England and Wales which are working under similar agreements—seems to me to make it quite unnecessary for a Bill of this description to be introduced, unless, and this, I suspect, is the crux of the matter, the employers want to smash the 1947 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-13a.1579.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-16", "file": "debates1959-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ff2a168d2a4bd8d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "JOHN WATERS (TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": " Minister has just given us, may I ask the Prime Minister whether he does not realise that it really overlooks what has caused all the difficulty in this case, namely, the refusal of the Lord Advocate and of the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland to give the grounds upon which the prosecution was turned down? This House is, of course, entitled to know the grounds upon which that was done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-16", "file": "debates1959-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ff2a168d2a4bd8d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL BANK AND MONETARY FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " this respect in the Chairman of Lloyds Bank who, at the yearly meeting, said: The most disappointing feature of our situation has been the failure of production to expand. It is not accidental. It is not due to world causes. It is the failure of the Government to make full employment their first objective. The Government, now frightened by depression, say that we must have production at any cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-16", "file": "debates1959-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ff2a168d2a4bd8d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.108.5", "colnum": "108", "heading": "MALTA (LETTERS PATENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": " for that very purpose more than 300 years ago. The period from 1629 to 1640 was one of the most prosperous that this country has had. But Parliament preferred not to turn our Constitution into an imitation of the French monarchy, but to run the risks of remaining a democratic institution. That makes it all the more strange that the right hon. Member should divide the House on such flimsy grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-16", "file": "debates1959-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ff2a168d2a4bd8d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "MALTA (LETTERS PATENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": " no party is willing to form a Government? If no party is willing to play, neither Mr. Mintoff, Dr. Borg Olivier, nor anyone else, what is the good of calling the Maltese Parliament together? It would be sheer chaos, and the state of Malta would be worse than it is now. I cannot avoid the conclusion that there have been ulterior political motives in the opposition of the Labour Party to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-16", "file": "debates1959-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ff2a168d2a4bd8d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "MALTA (LETTERS PATENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not an island.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": " people are to enjoy freedom. At this moment a new hope is being awakened for three islands in the Mediterranean who are now claiming their right to freedom. One is Cyprus—and we all pray that the negotiations now proceeding may bring peace and freedom to Cyprus—the second is Malta the Constitution of which is now being destroyed, and the third is the little island of Monaco, where Prince Rainier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-16a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-17", "file": "debates1959-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "52d967de6c674e5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "entleman aware that we welcome the Prime Minister's new-found enthusiasm for trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries and that despite the disappointments we have had over five or six years in his capacity both as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, when we have sought repeatedly to get some of these embargoes lifted, I very much welcome the fact that he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-17", "file": "debates1959-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "52d967de6c674e5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.192.6", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "I ought to say that I appear in this field only by kind permission of my hon. Friend the Member for Nabarro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.192.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-17", "file": "debates1959-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "52d967de6c674e5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.199.7", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Without justifying this unilateral action, may I ask whether it is not a fact that the Soviet Government have proposed to keep the communications open, merely replacing Soviet officials with East German officials? Could not the threat be overcome by merely treating these East German officials as Soviet agents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.199.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-17", "file": "debates1959-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "52d967de6c674e5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.240.5", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(EXTENSION OF BORROWING POWERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Inside.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I conclude that if they borrow on the open market without Treasury guarantee such sums of money are outside the ambit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-17", "file": "debates1959-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "52d967de6c674e5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(EXTENSION OF BORROWING POWERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "icit from the right hon. Gentleman the true motives of his Amendments. I am perfectly satisfied that we have them now. He has not gone back on his Second Reading speech at all. He still believes in the seven-year programme. He still believes in Parliamentary accountability. This is really a bit of eyewash to placate the hon. Member for Kidderminster. I suppose that we can really take it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-17", "file": "debates1959-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "52d967de6c674e5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(EXTENSION OF BORROWING POWERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "dole out these moneys. I would regard that as very bad indeed, and I hope that the Parliamentary Secretary, who really does stand up to people, will tell us what it means. I cannot help but think of the Parliamentary Secretary making a speech in which he referred to the customers of electricity undertakings as \"hordes and droves\". What businessman could possibly describe his customers in that way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-17", "file": "debates1959-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "52d967de6c674e5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am sure it agreed in principle with the recommendations of the Transport and General Workers' Union, but it has done nothing about it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-17", "file": "debates1959-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "52d967de6c674e5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "vilege of creaming the market must inherently be wrong, and that the onus of proof is on it to show that it is the right way of doing it, and not the other way round. Secondly, I would say that one thing that has come out clearly is that these consultative committees are eyewash. They are there to justify that which is administratively convenient for the boards, or whatever it is, that are put up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-17", "file": "debates1959-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "52d967de6c674e5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "iends will not take their objections too far—certainly not into the Division Lobbies, because the Bill is designed primarily to set in motion many of the important works for which some of us have been pressing for some time. It will deal not only with the electrification about which an hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Deedes) spoke, but with works at Colchester, Holyhead and other places in Yorkshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-17a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-18", "file": "debates1959-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "37ecac7dda041243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-18a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 19.—(DUTY OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO MAKE GRANTS TOWARDS CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ouraging people to break the law. My hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) is quite correct in saying that a notice can be served on a man to provide a water closet in a house, he can refuse to do the work and can apply to the Minister for the money with which to do it. As has been said, the local authority may not decide to serve such a notice if the man could not afford to provide it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-18a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-18", "file": "debates1959-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "37ecac7dda041243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-18a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 19.—(DUTY OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO MAKE GRANTS TOWARDS CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison", "preceding_text": "I note that my hon. Friend the Joint Under-Secretary proposes in the Amendment to limit the grant to a dwelling house built before 1944.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-18a.436.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-18", "file": "debates1959-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "37ecac7dda041243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-18a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 19.—(DUTY OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO MAKE GRANTS TOWARDS CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison", "preceding_text": "publication of the Bill, which I think was in November, 1958. I beg my hon. Friend to do this and not to worry about what may be happening in England. We want to improve the Bill in relation to Scotland. If it is any help to my hon. Friend, I am quite prepared to take counsel with my Unionist colleagues to see whether we can get enough pressure brought to bear to ensure that this point is covered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-18a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-18", "file": "debates1959-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "37ecac7dda041243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-18a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 24.—(AMENDMENT OF PROVISIONS OF ACT OF 1950 RELATING TO IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "preceding_text": "I must answer the hon. Lady. I am quite unashamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-18a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-19", "file": "debates1959-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d6d040c277de616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.548.2", "colnum": "548", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Since the Budget is likely to be early this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.548.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-19", "file": "debates1959-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d6d040c277de616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.549.4", "colnum": "549", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "orough medical examination, and my advisers, in whom I have full confidence, tell me that I would be unwise to undertake the work of another Parliament. From what they say, however, I appear to be as sound in wind and limb as a man of my age has any right to expect. I am very thankful to recall that I have not hitherto missed a day in your service through illness since I was first elected Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-19", "file": "debates1959-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d6d040c277de616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e in the world. Germany, under such an arrangement, would not be asked to do more than to keep out of the regional groups. Do we get anything in return? True, we must lose West Germany out of N.A.T.O. It is a lot to lose. Do we get anything in return? The Warsaw Pact loses not merely East Germany, on our proposals, but Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. Is it not a deal, an equitable arrangement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.603.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-19", "file": "debates1959-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d6d040c277de616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "CYPRUS (AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "I think that the Committee would wish me to give, at this, the first possible moment for me, the latest position about Cyprus. I am glad to inform the House that in the Cyprus Conference agreement has now been reached between the three Governments of Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom and the representatives of the two main communities in the island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-19", "file": "debates1959-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d6d040c277de616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.618.4", "colnum": "618", "heading": "CYPRUS (AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he period of the emergency, which has lasted nearly four years, men and women in the security forces and the public service in Cyprus have persevered with courage in the face of danger in the performance of often thankless but essential tasks. I am sure that the Committee will wish to pay tribute to them and to the devotion to duty of the Governor, Sir Hugh Foot, and his predecessor, Lord Harding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.618.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-19", "file": "debates1959-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d6d040c277de616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell", "preceding_text": "I agree. The answer given by General Norstad was the answer to the question: if a demilitarised zone—the Rapacki Plan or whatever else it might be—came into being. I think that that is a clear answer against a demilitarised zone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.653.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-19", "file": "debates1959-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d6d040c277de616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.659.2", "colnum": "659", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I will begin with two preliminary observations. I believe that the whole Committee will wish to join with my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition in expressing to Mr. Dulles our warm regard, our recognition of his great devotion to his task and of the services he has rendered to us all, and our ardent hopes for his recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-19a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-20", "file": "debates1959-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "555c0bcecc8fa977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-20a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "COMMON LAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Baldwin", "preceding_text": " could be the subject of a full debate on a day other than a Friday, in which views could be expressed by people who know something about common land, and following which the Government could produce an enabling Bill as the machinery to start the ball rolling. I know that time is on the wing, but I suggest that such a Bill would be a little monument erected to the memory of the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-20a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-24", "file": "debates1959-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d8cc72e8d7488bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ince 1940, it has never been applied to second-hand articles? Having regard to the precedent, which I am very grieved that a Conservative Chancellor should establish, will not it provide the means in the future for another Chancellor, for example, to put Purchase Tax on second-hand motor-cars, or second-hand fur coats, and second-hand furniture, finishing up with the wares of the rag-and-bone man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-24", "file": "debates1959-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d8cc72e8d7488bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "The Agency holds the prior charges and the investment public holds the ordinary shares, which seems a satisfactory arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-24", "file": "debates1959-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d8cc72e8d7488bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "TELEVISION (COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Camay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "the country find some parts of the advertising industry not only offensive but dangerous. Toothpaste advertising, for instance, has aroused the strongest comments from dentists and the British Dental Association. Some aspects of medical advertising, about tranquillisers, for instance—drugs such as Persomnia and P.R.—have aroused widespread anxiety among doctors and the British Medical Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-24", "file": "debates1959-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d8cc72e8d7488bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "LEGAL AID", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member cannot get away with that. I will deal with the recommendations in due course, if the hon. Gentleman will let me carry on with my speech. I was saying that I am not making any complaint of the four years' delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-24", "file": "debates1959-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d8cc72e8d7488bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "PRISONS AND DETENTION CAMPS, KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "from what I have said there is sufficient evidence for an independent investigation. I have put the case without referring to names, but if hon. Members want them I can give them literally scores of names in respect of the accusations and the statements which have been made and the affidavits which have been sworn. The evidence is concrete enough, with names, times and places of actual happenings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-24", "file": "debates1959-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d8cc72e8d7488bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "PRISONS AND DETENTION CAMPS, KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "ly difficult to get rid of those powers quickly. I do not wish to adopt a partisan attitude over this matter, but hon. Members will remember that the right hon. Member for Wakefield was for a short time a member of the Government Charged with the responsibility of governing this country after the war. After six years of peace time there remained in being in this country 215 Emergency Regulations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-24", "file": "debates1959-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d8cc72e8d7488bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "PRISONS AND DETENTION CAMPS, KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has not told the House that the ex-prison officer of Kenya whose allegations are now the subject of inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-24", "file": "debates1959-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "6d8cc72e8d7488bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "PRISONS AND DETENTION CAMPS, KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "I dismiss that, as I dismiss some of the earlier contemptible emotional stuff that we have heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-24a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "While I wish success to the negotiations, might I ask my right hon. Friend whether he can take steps to bring home to the workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "NYASALAND (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "We must await the return of my noble Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "NYASALAND (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is not the hon. Gentleman treating this matter somewhat lightly? Without entering into the merits of the question, of which I confess frankly that I know little or nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": " may be interested to know that the carrying capacity of the Royal Air Force — and I do not think that we should underrate the position today— is today about equal to that of British European Airways. The 20 Britannias which will begin to come into service in April will add half as much again. The Argosies and the Britannics— the long-range freighters— will add another 50 per cent. on top of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1131.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where will they go?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "eat relief to us on the military side. We have at present a force of over 25,000 soldiers in Cyprus, apart from the R.A.F. We are planning to reduce this to a permanent garrison of 5,000 or 6,000. Until the establishment of the new State, we shall continue to be responsible for internal security. Nevertheless, we expect to be able to withdraw a number of units in the course of the next few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to be joining the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1137.7", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "—and he does not wish to correct a misstatement or a misrepresentation about himself, so I think that perhaps he should wait until he has an opportunity of catching your eye, Mr. Speaker. So much for cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1137.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1137.7", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " present putting their main effort into liquid-fuel intercontinental land-based missiles. We believe that they are quite right, however, if they can afford it, also to develop alternative methods. If we could afford to have an assortment of deterrents, if we could afford to have several clubs in the bag, we should certainly like to have a proportion of Polaris and Minuteman missiles in our quiver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1137.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "y points out. I must say that I am interested to see every year, when we have our defence debate, that The Times leading article on the morning of the debate is full of the speeches made from this side of the House the year before but with no acknowledgments. However, we are not very fussy. May I give some examples which \"top people\" follow? These are the people who are supposed to read The Times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ill be equipped with the new rifle in the next twelve months. I only hope that the other half can manage. On another page it is stated that half the Army's radio set needs have been or will be met. One is tempted to ask whether the half getting the new rifles is the half getting the radio sets, or if the man without a rifle is to get a radio set by way of compensation? It is a half-and-half thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " and I wish he would face that fact. The only success the right hon. Gentleman can claim is the abolition of conscription and the raising of the figure for the Regular forces. The right hon. Gentleman said—it was not quite worthy of him—that this was a result of the policy of the present Government. Well, we proposed that in the House two years and we could not persuade the Government to adopt it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ies himself to land-based static launchers of the nuclear deterrent in the future, and why he rules out seaborne solid fuel rockets. The continuance of the V-bombers with their standoff bomb will carry us a long way ahead, probably quite long enough to reach out to when the seaborne solid fuel invulnerable mobile rocket arrives. Why does the right hon. Gentleman rule them out as firmly as he does?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ble mobile rocket arrives. Why does the right hon. Gentleman rule them out as firmly as he does? [HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not.\"] Listening to the right hon. Gentleman today, I thought he did. I think that he ought to be a good deal more open in his answers to the questions I have just put to him on Blue Streak. I will leave the matter with those questions and see what the right hon. Gentleman says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "tories. That is the central theme. That is what they have been doing, and, what is more, are doing, today. Hon. Members may well say, \"Why do you suddently come out with that view in a defence debate?\" I have had the advantage, through circumstances, that during the last two years I have not had very much to do, and I have had time to think, which I know is extremely difficult for the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "f the Americans. I do not need to spend much time on this. It is a misunderstanding of the position because we are willing to make a contribution to a joint programme. It might well be that the Americans would refuse to take our contribution. In these circum-I would still give up our deterrent and rely on theirs. We have after all sheltered under the American deterrent for a great number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-25", "file": "debates1959-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "b38436af2fbf36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "d certainly at present we may have to use tactical atomic weapons in N.A.T.O. But every war up to date has been totally different from what anyone thought that it would be beforehand. If we are at the moment in the position in which it seems we are, then we have very few troops indeed and very few weapons indeed. I am told that the troops in Germany are 40 per cent. equipped with post-war weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-25a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-26", "file": "debates1959-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4af57bf544305b41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " service, and other items of which I have strong hopes that they will come into service. Indeed, I would not be so bold as to mention them if my hopes were not substantial. The question which right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are really seeking to ask is: why has this happened now and not before? The answer is that the prompting factor is the change from National Service to a volunteer force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-02-26", "file": "debates1959-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4af57bf544305b41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Labour Party and, by implication, at the Labour Government. Perhaps I had better quote what the hon. and gallant Gentleman said. It would be most interesting if only it were accurate. He cannot get away from it; it is on the record. There may be an extenuation for his conduct, but here is what he said in a reference to the Opposition Amendment: That is a piece of effrontery if ever there was one\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-26", "file": "debates1959-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4af57bf544305b41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "th of his right hon. colleagues in the Air Ministry, and of the air chiefs. There is no chance at all of streamlining our forces or having unified commands if we have a Minister of Defence who is not strong enough to resist the pressure of his right hon. Friends in debate, and the pressure exerted by the Service chiefs themselves. There is bickering, snarling and wrangling among them all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-26", "file": "debates1959-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4af57bf544305b41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "and mixed metaphors, he referred to horse racing. I realise that it is very difficult to back winners in a horse race. My sporting friends tell me that there is just one way of being absolutely sure of losing in a horse race, and that is to back every horse in the race for an equal amount of money. One is bound to lose then. That is really what the Minister of Defence is doing in this White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-26", "file": "debates1959-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4af57bf544305b41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Eton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "t that is right, but I am told that the bookies arrange their books in such a way that if one does that one must lose. However, I yield to their superior knowledge in these matters. To sum up our argument, last year's doctrine seemed wrong to us. It has been replaced by nothing this year. The conduct of the Minister of Defence reminds me of something that my old Latin master used to say at school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-26", "file": "debates1959-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4af57bf544305b41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Well, the right hon. Gentleman is on the record. As I was saying, N.A.T.O. relies not only on the shield forces but also—and these are the words of the N.A.T.O. resolution— on the manifest will to use nuclear retaliatory forces to repel aggression. It is no good imagining that the shield by itself could be made sufficient to deal with all forms of attack which may be made upon us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-02-26", "file": "debates1959-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4af57bf544305b41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why waste time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "r in preventing war by miscalculation. However, I do not propose to pursue this last point, since it might lead me on to delicate ground. At a time when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is having talks in Russia, I am naturally anxious not to make a controversial speech. The House will, I am sure, understand. I come now to say a word about the defence policy of the Liberal Party as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-02-26a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-02", "file": "debates1959-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "44a3f91dd2c72fb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "estion of privilege, that is not, of course, a matter for me. As to representations, the Federal Government have agreed that the hon. Member for Wednesbury should complete his tour of Northern Rhodesia as he has done in Southern Rhodesia. Since my noble Friend the Minister of State for the Colonies will not be visiting Nyasaland at present, it would not be practicable for the hon. Member to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-02", "file": "debates1959-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "44a3f91dd2c72fb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I should like to say at once that we do not, for a single moment, claim that a British Member of Parliament has any more rights than any other British subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-02", "file": "debates1959-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "44a3f91dd2c72fb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ", and Her Majesty's Government's failure to protest to the Federal Government about their action in issuing an order against the hon. Member for Wednesbury. May I say, in continuation of this point, that it is clearly definite. It is obviously urgent because the hon. Member is due to leave for Nyasaland tomorrow. I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that it is obviously of the greatest public importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.52.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-02", "file": "debates1959-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "44a3f91dd2c72fb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "This is not a point of order. May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-02", "file": "debates1959-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "44a3f91dd2c72fb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.56.6", "colnum": "56", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the most serious aspect of the matter is that so much of Africa is under emergency regulations, but surely this is a specific instance of an hon. Member being denied access to Nyasaland, first, because he is a Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.56.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-02", "file": "debates1959-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "44a3f91dd2c72fb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "his House who are able to avail themselves of the opportunity to find out what is happening there now, so as to be able to decide later whether those powers should be enlarged or reduced. An hon. Member is, therefore, in an entirely different position from that of the ordinary subject. The urgency of the matter resides in the fact that if the news goes out to the people of Nyasaland that although—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-02", "file": "debates1959-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "44a3f91dd2c72fb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ruption .] I hope that hon. Members opposite will regard this matter as slightly more serious than they appear to be doing. I suppose they want more bloodshed there before they can make up their minds. If the news were to go out that Members of Parliament who still have obligations to the people there, who have not relinquished all their rights to the Government of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-02", "file": "debates1959-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "44a3f91dd2c72fb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I think I am right in saying that while the national income of the Colonies is rising 4 per cent. annually, the population is rising by 2 per cent., taking the whole field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-02a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "At his Press conference yesterday the Governor said he was not prepared to make any statement about the state of emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.217.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " in line with the whole attitude of the Governor of Nyasaland throughout the past week? Have not all his expressions of opinion, as they have came here in the Press, been against the state of emergency which has now been declared, and is not the Colonial Secretary aware that we shall need far more than his assurance before we believe that the Federal authorities have not been responsible for this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Hon MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "ey have become more serious it has been since the Federal Government have sent troops into the territory? Is it not also the fact that the Governor of Nyasaland has resisted up to the last moment the extreme courses which have been pressed upon him by the Federal Government? Is this not a disgraceful surrender on the part of our Government to the conspiracy of the Prime Minister of the Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.219.5", "colnum": "219", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Colonial Secretary for a reply to the question put to him by my hon. Friend: why the Governor of Nyasaland changed his mind within 24 hours, between making a state- ment in which he said that, in his opinion, there was no need for a state of emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The Governor certainly did not change his mind. Up to almost the last moment he hoped, as we all did, that the state of emergency could be avoided. He came to the conclusion yesterday that it could not be avoided and it was imposed early this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "preceding_text": " better for the political atmosphere in the island as well as from the point of view of expenditure by the United Kingdom. When will that reduction take place and how will it be phased? Where will the troops go to from Cyprus? I understand that the bulk may be going to Germany. If that is so, will we be asking for a further contribution from the German Federal Government towards their maintenance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seventeen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House do now adjourn. Since our exchanges earlier this afternoon, and the declaration of a state of emergency in Nyasaland, it has become abundantly clear that the powers which the Governor of Nyasaland asked for are necessary. Since the declaration of the state of emergency, but not before, rioting has broken out, tear gas has been used and three Africans killed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.279.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "to use them during the next few months. He will have plenty of opportunity to convince the British electorate that what we are faced with in Nyasaland is a group of power-drunk, mad African leaders desiring only their own power and willing to murder Europeans in the course of achieving it. If he dares to try that explanation once during the next few months he will be convicted of the grossest lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.279.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": " Hon. Gentlemen opposite have shown, in making this grave charge, an indifference to the truth and an utter disregard of the serious consequences of their words on their own future relations, whether in Opposition or in the unlikely event of their being in Government, with the Federal Government. The right hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths), whom I do not see here. and I am not surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.288.4", "colnum": "288", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "y are determined to try to break up the Federation by any means they can find, despite the assurances that Lord Attlee gave when he was Leader of the Socialist Party that, once federation came, the word of the Federation would become law and the Government of the day would try to help to make it work. The Socialist Party—and in this matter it is not their lunatic fringe but the Front Bench itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.288.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.288.4", "colnum": "288", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "came quite clear that he was determined to reject any constitutional proposals which did not meet the maximum demands of the Nyasaland Congress and then to create disturbances and to court arrest. As I said earlier today, some days ago information came to the notice of the Government of Nyasaland which was of a very serious kind. I have seen this information. I am not in a position to disclose it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.288.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " may well have meant that a state of emergency might not be necessary before he could take certain action against certain individuals. I said there were, however, other things for which the declaration of a state of emergency might be necessary. Half an hour ago I managed to get through on the telephone and spoke personally to Sir Robert Armitage, who assures me that that is exactly what he meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "preceding_text": " it has been clear to anyone interested in that country that only the most exceptional imagination and statesmanship, not only by Her Majesty's Government but also by the Government of the Federation, could possibly avoid trouble arising in Nyasaland. Only a few months ago I had the privilege of going to the United States and meeting a number of people there who were interested in African affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Not at all. A few hundred determined Malayan Communists kept their country in a state of terror for a number of years, pinning down vast numbers of troops. Cyprus is another example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Baldwin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Started, not stopped.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "d the local people had little to say. That has been going on ever since, and if the Nyasaland natives had been left alone and brought on quietly, as we had been bringing them on, there would be no trouble there today. The trouble is entirely due to rabble rousers, and I am glad that the Governor, supported by my right hon. Friend, has taken immediate steps to stop, if possible, any more bloodshed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.317.4", "colnum": "317", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Baldwin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not let it go then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "King's African Rifles, who are there now helping to keep peace, are in the main African natives, including many African warrant officers, and they are helping, as far as possible, to keep down attempts at bloodshed. Therefore, I do not want it said that Sir Roy Welensky wants to dominate Nyasaland. He has not the slightest desire to do so. Why should he? Nyasaland is a liability to the Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I find it very strange that the hon. Member for Leominster (Sir A. Baldwin) should feel that this is not a subject which the House of Commons should debate. It now seems that emergency laws of one sort and another are in force throughout Central Africa and Kenya, and yet, apparently, this is a matter about which Parliament should not feel deeply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He can speak for himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "preceding_text": "Surely the point made by my hon. Friend so eloquently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Macdonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As servants.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Macdonald", "preceding_text": " a long time. I have known these territories for thirty years, and I was over there last year. In Southern Rhodesia is the finest type of British settler that any country has ever had. Some of them have been there for generations and intend to make their homes there. Their children have been brought up there. They have always been on the friendliest and best terms possible with the African people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Macdonald", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Macdonald", "preceding_text": "s provided for them in the way of educational facilities, hospitals and schools. I have not seen any sign of discontent among them. It is all nonsense to say that these people are discontented. The same applies to Northern Rhodesia, as far as I could see. I have been seeing it for more than thirty years. I was in Nyasaland quite recently. Why has the emergency occurred? It is because of Dr. Banda,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite right that, when Sir Roy Welensky is over here, he makes those sort of speeches. When he is back in Central Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "the younger Members of the House I look forward to the end of this century, not just as a period for our children and grandchildren to enjoy, but as a period of my own working life, and I deeply resent the fact that the name of Britain should be associated, because of the policy of the right hon. Gentleman and his right hon. and hon. Friends, with repression, force and violence—all over the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ption .] When I read the announcement that we are to spend another £1½ million on propaganda to convince the uncommitted areas of the world that we stand for freedom, I thought of a much cheaper way of convincing them. If we do stand for freedom, let us reverse our policy on this and similar issues. The Opposition tonight, not for the first time, are speaking with the true voice of Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Carshalton (Mr. Head) has not thought Nyasaland important enough to attend the debate upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "lony, and secondly, that the people there should decide their own affairs. We support that view. But I shall come to the right hon. Gentleman, because he typifies everything about which I wish to speak tonight. If there is to be friendship between Britain and the Arab countries and the uncommitted countries of the world and in the Commonwealth and in Africa, it will be because we spoke up on Suez—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Dr. Banda?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) said that the issue was not whether Africans should gain power in Africa, but how Africans should gain power in Africa. That will have been agreed on all sides of the House, but I feel that, if we start making attacks upon Sir Roy Welensky or anybody else, we shall not really help the attainment of power by Africans in Africa, which we all want to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.329.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Under-Secretary, can tell us whether we still stand firmly behind the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which says that Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland should continue under the special protection of Her Majesty with separate Governments for so long as their respective peoples so desire. It is obvious by their action in the last day or two that the peoples do not desire it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ituation has been well contained. On 26th February a Government spokesman said: There is no question of a state of emergency. That is within the last few days. Why is there now a state of emergency? There is a state of emergency because, as my hon. Friend has said, pressure has been put upon the Secretary of State and the Governor of Nyasaland by the Federation Prime Minister to do precisely this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "o go out at once to Nyasaland. If the right hon. Gentleman accepts that suggestion, he should make clear that whoever went would not be treated as prohibited immigrants. As I have said, we shall vote against the Government tonight because this is the same Government which has continually followed a policy which led to the Suez incident; that has caused great troubles in Kenya, in Cyprus, in Malta—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Working classes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ly followed a policy which led to the Suez incident; that has caused great troubles in Kenya, in Cyprus, in Malta—[HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"]—and now in Nyasaland. It is one emergency after another. The speeches which we have heard from right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite have told the same story over and over again. When I was in Ghana last week I said that we of the working classes in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.332.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " story over and over again. When I was in Ghana last week I said that we of the working classes in this country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Working classes.\"]—we of the working classes had the same experience as the Africans. We had to fight for our freedom. We had to fight for the right of association. From the freedom of association stem the other freedoms—freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, and I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.332.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.335.9", "colnum": "335", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Julian Amery)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have heard this before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Julian Amery)", "preceding_text": "nt on that basis. That is why the Minister of State was to go out. The truth is that Dr. Banda did not want it. There was a still more sinister feature which the House must have in mind. Not only were the African Congress and its leaders aiming at a policy of disturbance and civil disobedience after the failure of constitutional talks which they anticipated, but there was the conspiracy of murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.335.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Believe me, it was on this scale. Indeed, some of the worst troubles were on the 24th and the 26th.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "There have been riots in which people have been killed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.7", "colnum": "338", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "That is not the question that the hon. Member asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.7", "colnum": "338", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "That is not the question that the hon. Member asked. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] It is hard to tell, in riots, how people are killed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.7", "colnum": "338", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "That is not the question that the hon. Member asked. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] It is hard to tell, in riots, how people are killed. [HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There have been deaths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.8", "colnum": "338", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "That is not the question that the hon. Member asked. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] It is hard to tell, in riots, how people are killed. [HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There have been deaths. [ Interruption .] The hon. Member seems to take pleasure in this matter and to find humour in it. There is not very much humour in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.338.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member misrepresents me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not the Governor declare one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "y. It has been happening for ten days. It is complete nonsense to believe that it is incidents of today or of yesterday, since the incident with the hon. Member for Wednesbury took place, that have sparked off the emergency. The situation has been building up over the last ten days and it is a situation which at any stage in the last week would amply have justified the declaration of an emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Colonial Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " were in ignorance of the very serious problem confronting the Governor while he gathered the necessary forces to make it possible to bring the situation under control. There has been the closest consultation throughout between the Governor of Nyasaland, the other Governors, and the Federal authority. There has been consultation, as I told the House on 20th February, with the Colonial Office, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "NYASALAND (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We are satisfield that a solution can be found to the problem of Nyasaland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "ll it an operation—a nice operation. Another corps which might be pruned is the Military Provost Staff Corps, which is responsible, according to the Memorandum, for guarding, training and rehabilitating soldiers under sentence\". How many, including officers, does this service swallow, and how effective are they? Does the \"glasshouse\" still exist? I would love to know that. I never quite got there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-03", "file": "debates1959-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6fbb220071d9dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It may be a draw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": "told nothing about it in the Committee. What is the position? Does the reason that we have not been informed lie in the fact that the type of command out there is different from that which used to exist and that the War Office is not receiving the information which it might have received? Our troops are out there, and if fighting is going on, it would not be a bad thing to find out who is winning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-03a.395.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "It was always intended that it should be averaged over the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I have repeatedly warned the right hon. Gentleman against vague generalisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e at some length what he took down of what my hon. Friend said. He says: The burden of Mr. Stonehouse's speech was that the British Labour Party had won for the working man his rights after a century's struggle, and was therefore concerned that other peoples should also win their rights to human standards of living … I leave out some other adulatory references to the programme of our party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " of Mr. Stonehouse's speech was that the British Labour Party had won for the working man his rights after a century's struggle, and was therefore concerned that other peoples should also win their rights to human standards of living … I leave out some other adulatory references to the programme of our party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am quite ready to read them if hon. Members opposite wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheer that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "will read them. Mr. Sanger goes on to say that my hon. Friend said that: the next Labour Government was pledged to put £160 million towards fighting ignorance and poverty in the colonies every year, but Congress and other Nationalist organisations would forfeit the sympathy of the Labour Party if they used violence—and over and over again with considerable courage he condemned the use of violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.519.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is wrong with that?", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. C. J. M. Alport)", "preceding_text": "tical meetings in Southern Rhodesia organised by the African Congress. It was only at a later stage that my attention was drawn to an announcement in Reynolds News of 15th February, which ran: John Stonehouse Investigates. John Stonehouse, M.P. flew to Nairobi yesterday to make an on-the-spot investigation for Reynolds News . His reports on conditions in Africa will be exclusive to Reynolds News .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is Russian.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "that if somebody went on something like an official visit the necessary facilities would be granted. This is the distinction which the Under-Secretary sought to draw on Monday, when he said that my hon. Friend the Member for Wednesbury was merely on a private visit. I am bound to say that this is a distinction which I, for one, entirely fail to understand. It would be an extremely dangerous thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.534.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "em with them. Let us stop all this hypocrisy. A Member of Parliament, because he is also engaged in some other activity, cannot divorce himself of his rights of a Member of Parliament. He does not divest himself of them like a piece of clothing. All that this boils down to is that the rights of this House are to be guaranteed by the Government only to Members of whose political views they approve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.551.2", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ves with a sense of responsibility when he is there. Dealing with the last point first, the hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn said that it was for Members of Parliament, when they went abroad, to have exactly the same freedom as they have in this country to say what they liked even if it offended the local authorities. That is not a doctrine which we can, with any sense of responsibility, accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But this is a Protectorate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "id. Recently I raised the case of Mr. Shawcross who was excluded from Ghana under rights no greater and no less than those which the Federal Government utilised on this occasion. I am not speaking about the wisdom of the action, but legally the Federal authority had as much right to exclude the hon. Member for Wednesbury as a British citizen as the Government of Ghana had to exclude Mr. Shawcross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.560.7", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What charges?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " debate. Those are the facts which have been given to me through the airline company's time-table. They are not a matter for dispute, and if I am wrong I will apologise on my behalf and that of the company. I have given the times and numbers of the aeroplanes. If what I have said is correct, it is obvious that the hon. Member could have been here in time to answer the charges, as was said earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.560.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give him a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot. [ Interruption .] I cannot hear everyone at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Reynolds News .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "l adequate. This is merely an assurance between the present Federal Government and the present Government of this country. It is given today for the first time, apparently, under pressure of this debate. It does not apply to Members of Parliament going independently into the Federation, even though they are paying for themselves and going purely to find out the position for Parliamentary purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "\"And Reynolds News .\"] This merely provides that those who go with the sanction of the Government shall be exempt from prohibition. What is valuable to Parliament on these occasions is not the official delegation from the Government. The Government have their own contacts. What is of value to Parliament is to have the independent view of the independent Member, who speaks up in an independent way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way to him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "They obviously have not met my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "ssador gave to the Americans over the English Electric contract: \"Tell it to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.\" By this device, of course, the hon. Member is not to be there at the very moment when his presence would be most valuable to this House. It is precisely on such an occasion as this that it is valuable to this House to have an independent view from a Member of this House about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": "ber for Cardiff. South-East (Mr. Callaghan). I would say, at the outset, that that question was put without notice of any kind whatsoever. I am not complaining about my position, but I think that it is very unfair to criticise my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations for not having answered immediately, when he made his speech, a question which was put without notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.575.3", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that got to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "he United Kingdom Parliament are not among that list, he is right in saying that Ministers are not among that list, but it is almost unbelievable that we would require persons to legislate in such a way as to exempt particularly Ministers from the operation of this Section. We have the statement, of which I would remind the House, from Sir Roy Welensky giving that undertaking, that there would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that he is the Statute. I think that it has quite a lot to do with it, because it makes it clear that there is no risk whatsoever of any Minister or Member of Parliament on official duty being prohibited from going there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.578.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.578.6", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (HON. MEMBER FOR WEDNESBURY)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " being designated as a prohibited immigrant. I would say to the House that if self-government is to mean anything practically it must mean that the country which is governing itself must have power to exclude persons who want to enter that country. Having given power to the Federal Government to exclude visitors to a British Protectorate, we cannot turn round and attack the exercise of that power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.578.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-04", "file": "debates1959-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e518db4481c82353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "JODRELL BANK RADIO TELESCOPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except the Attorney-General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "Jodrell Bank telescope is unique in the world. I wish my voice had the penetrating powers which that telescope has. Hon. Members would be able to hear me then. There is nothing to compare with this telescope in all the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-04a.585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-05", "file": "debates1959-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f07360a5ef8ebbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "a authorities under Emergency Regulations of Southern Rhodesia. Although Mr. Glutton Brock is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, he is also a citizen of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, having previously become a Southern Rhodesia citizen in 1951. It would be contrary to normal practice for the United Kingdom Government to intervene on behalf of a person with dual citizenship —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.601.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-05", "file": "debates1959-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f07360a5ef8ebbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Before the Under-Secretary replies, may I ask if the House of Commons is really coming to the stage when we cannot protest about the arrest, on political grounds, of a man whose record is above dispute, and who is known to thousands of people in this country, without being accused of conducting a vendetta against a Government that has arrested him for political reasons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.603.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-05", "file": "debates1959-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f07360a5ef8ebbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.604.9", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister consider advising local education authorities not to send children on tour to Southern Rhodesia, because the Government will not be able to protect them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.604.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-05", "file": "debates1959-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f07360a5ef8ebbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "d the Member for Lincoln (Mr. de Freitas) suggested that if we were to bring more women into the Air Force they should be allowed to choose the fashion in dress which they would like to wear. I agree with that. Now that airmen are to have raincoats, will they too he allowed to choose the style of raincoat which they would like to wear? Young men are just as sensitive to fashion as are young women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.661.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-05", "file": "debates1959-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f07360a5ef8ebbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It did not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " the Royal Air Force. He seemed to think that, in some respects, it could be brought still more into keeping with modern needs. However, taking what the right hon. Gentleman said about all the weapons, machines, and so forth, which it now has, it seems strange to me, if the Air Force was so highly equipped as he told us today it was, how they managed to make such a mess at Suez just two years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-05", "file": "debates1959-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "9f07360a5ef8ebbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.701.3", "colnum": "701", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I hope that they never go off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "eless offensive weapon in the middle of our territory rather than a very noisy one. I spend my summer holidays in the county of Norfolk, and the noise of the bombers, both American and British, flying over by day or night is extremely disturbing to the population. It would be rather a restful encouragement to have rather fewer bombers, and have noiseless weapons, even if they are on a static site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-05a.701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-06", "file": "debates1959-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7800fc582216b43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-06a.814.6", "colnum": "814", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (OLDER MEN AND WOMEN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "e Service at the age of 45. Many will be coming out at an even earlier age under the Government's new retirement scheme for officers, and they will want to get other employment. Very often they find it difficult to settle down and to obtain a position commensurate with their intelligence. If a man has been a colonel in the Army, he is highly intelligent and has had a tremendous amount of training—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-06a.814.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-06", "file": "debates1959-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7800fc582216b43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-06a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (OLDER MEN AND WOMEN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "onomic aim. There is a lot to be done in industry to strengthen the desire to carry on at work. There is a great deal in our conditions, in methods, in accommodation, in amenities, in hours of work, and so on. If we are to encourage people to stay on, and if it is to the general good that all those who can do so should do so, we have to decide the conditions under which they will carry on at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-06a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-09", "file": "debates1959-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "7544f4781fa713f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-09a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": " not alone here, and many of my hon. Friends will agree —that we were entirely unconvinced by the arguments he used for this decision. My right hon. Friend said that only Blue Streak would be large enough to carry the anti-anti-missile devices which might be needed. Really, that is the sort of argument which I should expect to find in an annex to the Liberal Party's statement of policy on defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-09a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-09", "file": "debates1959-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "7544f4781fa713f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-09a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "s been tackled in the most lively, imaginative and vigorous fashion, but I am not satisfied that as much attention has been given to it on the civilian side. It is a difficult problem, with no ready solution, but the Admiralty must play its part. How the Royal Dockyards manage to turn out the quality of work which they do, I do not know, except for the quality of the men who find employment there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-09a.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-10", "file": "debates1959-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "90cdf983d317aaa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-10a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "On that point, I think it would be unreasonable for the hon. Lady not to accept what I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-10a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-10", "file": "debates1959-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "90cdf983d317aaa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-10a.1076.3", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "Would not the Colonial Secretary agree that, in conformity with usual Tory policy on this matter, we ought to have Grivas staying at the Dorchester Hotel at £25 a day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-10a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-10", "file": "debates1959-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "90cdf983d317aaa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-10a.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I made no accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-10a.1084.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-11", "file": "debates1959-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "aae9af8173377f68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "GHANA (GIFT OF SPEAKER'S CHAIR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "preceding_text": ": We, the Speaker and Members of the National Assembly of Ghana in Parliament assembled, express our most sincere thanks to the Commons House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the Speaker's Chair which it has presented to this House. I hope that you, Mr. Speaker, in accordance with precedent, will give the necessary instructions for this Resolution to appear in the Journals of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-11", "file": "debates1959-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "aae9af8173377f68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 5.—(APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS FOR STANDARD GRANT.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "nt. I shall deal with it perhaps from a slightly legal point of view. It seems that, however well-intentioned the Amendment is, it would drive a carriage and four through the whole provisions of the Bill. Under Clause 20 (2), before any grant is approved: The local authority must be satisfied that … and then, in the terms of the Amendment, that the house concerned will \"not be overcrowded\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-11", "file": "debates1959-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "aae9af8173377f68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1359.3", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 20.—(APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS FOR STANDARD GRANT.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "\"Sanitary defects\" includes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-11", "file": "debates1959-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "aae9af8173377f68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1359.5", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 20.—(APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS FOR STANDARD GRANT.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman rather gives the whole thing away because this is not a Bill about landlords entirely. It will benefit tenants as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1359.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-11", "file": "debates1959-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "aae9af8173377f68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 24.—(AMENDMENT OF PROVISIONS OF ACT OF 1950 RELATING TO IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is so impatient; it is quite unnecessary. This Bill is probably the greatest single Measure to help home ownership that has ever been introduced by a British Government, and it is, I think, a great tribute both to the motives and the industry of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-11", "file": "debates1959-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "aae9af8173377f68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 24.—(AMENDMENT OF PROVISIONS OF ACT OF 1950 RELATING TO IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "immense organisation and experience, Part I of the Bill will have the effect of spreading owner-occupation and Part II of improving old houses. I certainly admired the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Kettering when he talked about his party favouring home ownership. But really when the party opposite were in office they did nothing whatever to favour it; they discouraged it all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-11a.1391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-12", "file": "debates1959-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6e545ffa20a2122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1435.5", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Breach of promise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "There has been no complete breach of faith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-12", "file": "debates1959-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6e545ffa20a2122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1446.5", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "While welcoming any source of revenue to the trustees of the National Gallery, however disreputable, may I ask the hon. Gentleman if he does not think that the advertising which appeared for Messrs. Harvey's sherry in which a very famous picture of Goya was used as part of a rather vulgar advertisement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1446.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-12", "file": "debates1959-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6e545ffa20a2122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1450.7", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. -Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. -Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Are not the present figures of unemployment a mere bagatelle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1450.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-12", "file": "debates1959-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6e545ffa20a2122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it not usual to be allowed to draw attention to the terms of a Motion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-12", "file": "debates1959-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6e545ffa20a2122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to hear that, but it did not happen within my experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-12", "file": "debates1959-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6e545ffa20a2122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "mphasised by the Caine Committee Report—and provision for and encouragement of co-operation. We have not had a word about credit or about the encouragement of co-operation in these Schemes which we are now discussing. The party which is dominated by bankers and middlemen naturally finds it very difficult to do anything for the agricultural community so far as credit and co-operation are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-12", "file": "debates1959-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6e545ffa20a2122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1591.3", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "e to be introduced. The farming community has to get used to finding new terms such as \"standard labour\", \"standard man-days\", \"farm business plans\", \"farm business grants\" and \"field husbandry grants\". I suppose that in time we shall get the usual set of contractions such as, S.L., S.M.D., F.B.P., F.B.G., and F.H.G. If I know the farmers of Scotland, they will apply another term to the whole lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-12a.1591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-13", "file": "debates1959-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7d80986b0f7adf1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-13a.1670.2", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten times as many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "It is a highly interesting suggestion. The bookmakers certainly take twice as many bets as the Tote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-13a.1670.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not admit to any lack of enthusiasm in this direction, but I think the House will agree that schools are, of their very nature, more appropriate than hospitals for the inducement of an appreciation of the arts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "son) that we have abandoned installations and equipment worth more than £50 million in return for a promise by the Egyptians that they would not press their claim for war damage. I think that he was referring to a statement in the House, some time ago, about the book value of the installations and equipment, which was, in fact, a little over £60 million in total—I think £63 million or £64 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I was not talking about replacement value, which would be utterly inappropriate and irrelevant in a situation like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.39.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "uring the negotiations, or how more favourable arrangements could have emerged. I am confident that the House will conclude, as I do, that this Agreement represents a practical settlement on sensible lines—a settlement of a number of frustrating difficulties which, on a balance of all considerations, it was very much in the interests of this country to reach, and that the House will approve of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "me compensation. Throughout the whole business one of the queer features has been that the individuals concerned, who were, I think, organised for this purpose, do not appear to have been consulted by the Government or in any way to have been parties to the Agreement—at least, not if I am to judge by what they themselves say. If this is not the case, perhaps the Chancellor will clear the point up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nyasaland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "hat Egypt planned to establish a hegemony over her neighbours. But Egypt was no longer herself a free agent. The domination of the area would have fallen, in practice, into the hands of the Soviet Union. But what a contrast between that point of view and our desire to resume diplomatic relations with Colonel Nasser because we regard him as the most powerful anti-Communist force in the Middle East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "g in secret, could commit this country to war when it was deeply divided, when the House of Commons had not been consulted. when the Opposition had not been consulted and, apparently, without the Cabinet itself being allowed to pronounce until it was too late. It is this issue which an inquiry would clear up. No doubt, it is convenient to place the blame and the responsibility on Sir Anthony Eden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.55.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend to be unfair and to misrepresent my point of view. I would not accept what he has described as my attitude as being in fact my attitude. I have tried to make clear that there is a special case here for taking unusual action by Her Majesty's Government, because so much of the need for compensation has arisen from the action of Her Majesty's Government rather than that of a third party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.95.2", "colnum": "95", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the point I am making. It is the point made by the hon. Member for Torrington and echoed by hon. Members opposite when they say \"Hear, hear\". There is no evidence whatsoever, in my view, that any other course of policy adopted by some other Government in the circumstances would have resulted in lesser loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.95.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "preceding_text": "f time and I shall not do it again. There may also be some facts about the Suez episode which people in this country will recall and which hon. Gentlemen opposite may not have thought about. The whole operation has not been an unqualified misfortune by any means. It is well to remember that we were in an exceedingly dangerous position then and that we have extricated ourselves from it without war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.100.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is because of the White Paper.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "preceding_text": "ouse listening to them. The public have not forgotten that. If a man is to be Prime Minister of this country he must seek to carry behind him a large part of the opinion of all political parties. These people may not agree with him politically, but they must support him as a man. However able the right hon. Gentleman may be as a party leader, it was a mistake to bring this debate before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.134.4", "colnum": "134", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": " duty to find anything which would be of electoral value or which it seriously believes to be of importance, but of all the re-hashed, re-heated dishes, Suez is the worst, and the average person in this country is absolutely fed up with it. I believe that the Leader of the Opposition has made a bad psychological mistake. The right hon. Gentleman does not realise how much people wish to forget Suez", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.134.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "in those circumstances there is a case for additional compensation if the £27 million proves to be inadequate, as we all assume it will. I hope that our position in this matter is quite clear and I hope that the position of hon. Members opposite is also quite clear and that they will not try to ride these two horses once more. The Prime Minister has had a bad time today. I am rather sorry for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.139.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ess has got behind him. If he comes home with a squint eye or crick of the neck, we will understand that. If one has something like that behind one, one must constantly look out to see what is about to happen to one. From now on, his career will run on the rocks. The Daily Express's smile is practically fatal. When I listened to the Chancellor of the Exchequer today—I am sorry that he is not here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.145.5", "colnum": "145", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ure of the Canal he was asked to consider an operation mounted against the Canal; that a great deal of consideration was given to this military operation, and that the favourable psychological moment occurred, so the Government then believed, when the Israeli attack was mounted. It is, of course, believed all over the world—and privately believed on those benches opposite—that there was collusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.145.5", "colnum": "145", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No trouble in the Middle East.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "d have happened had the Government not intervened to stop the war. Let me ask them another question: what would have happened had they succeeded? Have they ever thought about that? Have they ever thought, if they had not been so inept, if they had planned more wisely, if their surprises had succeeded and Great Britain and France had been along the banks of the Canal, what would have happened then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "se for the Opposition to talk about. All their gloomy prophecies of the last eight years have been left unfulfilled. The economy is strong, the balance of payments is good, sterling is sound, and I believe that we are about to enter a period of increasing expansion, this time without inflation. Taxation has been steadily reduced year by year, and without anticipating my right hon. Friend's Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An inquiry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yet there is sometimes a duty to try to secure that purpose, and circumstances may sometimes arise which demand prompt action. The purpose for which we went in had been achieved before. At this moment we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Suez?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—Berlin, the future of Germany and the like—and if we do so, these will open up the ways for a better relationship between the free world and the Communist world. If this is to be achieved, believe me it can be done only by a combination of two approaches. First, there must be an open and frank attempt to meet the Soviet views where they are reasonable and to oppose them where they are oppressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ist world. If this is to be achieved, believe me it can be done only by a combination of two approaches. First, there must be an open and frank attempt to meet the Soviet views where they are reasonable and to oppose them where they are oppressive. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Suez?\"] To do this, we must work in full harmony with all our Allies—the French, the Germans, and, above all, the Americans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "stration, and would undo the work of reconciliation which, I think, has been one of the most constructive results of British Government policy during the last two years. To the rest of the world he would try in his mixture of denigration and suspicion to hold up British Ministers to misrepresentation. At the same time he would try to embitter our relations with every Middle East and Arab country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-16", "file": "debates1959-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "bd43c109e5abcce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "by an extraordinary feat of ingenuity, embroil us also with Israel. That is the right hon. Gentleman's contribution to the problems of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-16a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-17", "file": "debates1959-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1878162c3a0ca321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RENT ACT, 1957 (COURT HEARINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for those particulars. Do not the figures show that, despite the amending Act, the Rent Act is causing very considerable hardship?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-17", "file": "debates1959-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1878162c3a0ca321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say whether the Socialist Government, who were responsible in 1931 for getting unemployment to the highest figure ever known in this country, ever made any attempt to extend the employment exchange of this town at that time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-17", "file": "debates1959-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1878162c3a0ca321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.179.5", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the lie\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "May I ask a question, Mr. Speaker? As the hon. Member for Exeter made a complete misstatement of fact, and as that has been repeated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.179.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-17", "file": "debates1959-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1878162c3a0ca321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.179.7", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is just making things worse. He ought to withdraw if he accused another hon. Member of telling a lie. He ought to withdraw the word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-17", "file": "debates1959-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1878162c3a0ca321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.215.5", "colnum": "215", "heading": "ROADS PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "e economy is being exercised. Although the incident of the Preston by-pass is now a matter of history its closing would not have caused such a stir if this mere eight miles of motorway had not been hailed, as it was on its opening by the Prime Minister, as a far greater achievement than it was. It was blown up out of all proportion to its merits and this ballyhoo boomeranged, and quite rightly so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.215.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-17", "file": "debates1959-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1878162c3a0ca321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "ROADS PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For the election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": " hope to start work on the Doncaster by-pass, again a motor road, at a cost of about £6 million. We also hope to start work at the same time on the Stamford by-pass and the Stevenage by-pass. This is part of the work of bringing the Great North Road up to modern standards, and the total cost will he more than £40 million. Those are only some examples of new schemes which will be started this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-17", "file": "debates1959-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1878162c3a0ca321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.291.9", "colnum": "291", "heading": "TORQUAY CORPORATION (WATER) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Studholme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Studholme", "preceding_text": " water. There may be other very good schemes. I am not competent to judge of them, but they should certainly be considered. I repeat, as I began, that of course I do not want to stop Torquay getting the extra water it needs. None of us does. I have always had a great admiration for Torquay. I think it a beautiful place, indeed, the most beautiful seaside resort on the whole south coast of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-17a.291.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "pner)? Are these the methods we are now allied with the Americans to support? In view of the fact that the right hon. Gentleman's own colleagues, including the President of the Board of Trade, have stated that free enterprise is dead in America and it is dead in Russia, does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that, unless the Government wake up to what is going on outside, we shall fall between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "he Americans to support? In view of the fact that the right hon. Gentleman's own colleagues, including the President of the Board of Trade, have stated that free enterprise is dead in America and it is dead in Russia, does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that, unless the Government wake up to what is going on outside, we shall fall between—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—the devil and the deep sea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I was quite prepared to make what I have to say very brief, Sir, but I was surprised when the hon. and gallant Gentleman talked about his influenza. I really felt that I should tell the House that, immediately I made my statement, the hon. and gallant Gentleman seemed to be very fit and well in the Inner Lobby. I think that, as a doctor, I should say this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.413.4", "colnum": "413", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBLR: \"What about the hon. Member for Wednesbury?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact, Mr. Speaker, that a personal statement is also supposed to be completely non-controversial?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.413.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.413.4", "colnum": "413", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Wednesbury (Mr. Stonehouse) was regarded generally as being a pure and simple statement of the facts, which, I think I am right in saying, was approved by you, Sir. In view of the statment made by the hon. and gallant Member for Lewes (Colonel Beamish) just now, which certainly included a quite severe attack upon my right hon. Friend the Member for Warrington (Dr. Summerskill)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.413.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I am quite prepared to accept the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And lose exports.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ave a Government-financed extension because it ought to be able to build out of its own resources. By this time it was too late for the factory to be ready when the firm wanted it. What a story this is! To save £300,000 invested in a new productive asset leased to a first-class firm, the Government prefers to spend almost as much on paying the dole to 430 people to do nothing for two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "sed in London. I presume that he also means—and we have said this in the House—in Greater Birmingham and in other areas which are relatively highly prosperous. He says—and this is his key sentence—that any new factory or extension which could reasonably go elsewhere should be steered away from the congested areas. I accept that exactly as an outline, very clearly put, of what in fact we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "No. The history of that falls into many parts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "preceding_text": " Leith (Mr. Hoy) will expect me to debate them with him. His analysis was interesting. In many respects some of his difficulties and problems are the same as ours. I listened with particular interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. Wolridge-Gordon) who made his maiden speech. It was a very fine maiden speech, and a very able first contribution to the debates of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "n helped in all this by the British Government in recognising that ours is a special and difficult problem. The Board of Trade has helped us considerably. It has treated us not only as a Development Area, but as a Development Area of a special character. On this occasion, when the Government are faced with a Motion of censure, it would be churlish and ungenerous if we did not acknowledge the fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "f we use controls to prevent expansion in London or in one of the areas which already have too much employment and if, at the same time, we do not ensure that expansion elsewhere will ultimately and in the long term be profitable, we shall either produce stagnation and prevent expansion altogether or we shall set up factories which will ultimately close down again at the first sign of a recession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Ulster was in 1951–52, at the time of the textile crisis. Unemployment figures rose in Ulster. Those of us who represented Northern Ireland in this House drew the attention of both the House and the Government to the problem at the time. What did we get from the party opposite? We got nothing but the taunts and the jeers and the jibes of Mr. Geoffrey Bing, the former Member for Horn-church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Yes, but what help have we had from the Labour Party? We have not had a word from the right hon. Member for Blyth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": " means that nearly thirty hours have so far been devoted to 100,000 red deer, with probably another thirty hours debate yet to come. We have almost precisely the same number of unemployed in Scotland as we have red deer, but we will be very lucky if, in the twelve months, we get more than six hours to debate that problem. As I say, we shall probably give sixty hours to debates on 100,000 red deer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at air.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. George", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Fife. West (Mr. Hamilton) has enjoyed himself among the red deer and unemployment. He regretted the small number of speeches that we have had on unemployment. After the figures given by my right hon. Friend today, the party opposite must be quite glad that the debate is nearing its end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.503.5", "colnum": "503", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "To use unemployment as propaganda is a heartless exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.503.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "cent. The figures bear no comparison whatever. There is no relevance today in discussing the question of the 'thirties, or of giving any hint that that is what the people expect. We have heard continual cries about the Tory failure in the unemployment market. Let us consider the extent of the Tory failure with which we are challenged. The party opposite had the crisis of 1951 and ran away from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After six years of Tory Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "00B7;6 or 1 per cent. in that one year. There is also a significant difference between the two periods. After the 1951 crisis, it was relatively easy to get into the world market again. We could sell anything, anywhere, at any time, and Germany and Japan were not strong competitors. In 1957, however, it was not easy to fight our way back into the world market, because that market was slowing down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "as proved so valuable. But in spite of all we have done and all the other extensions which we have made, Scotland's unemployment is still double that of England in good times and in bad. It has been pointed out, rightly, that through the years we have been losing our workers because of emigration. The figure, however, is not 20,000 a year, as the hon. Member for Fife, West said, but 11,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "My figures are 11,500 people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member opposed it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "rovide its own money for the development of its own industries. That is the first thing that we have to see is done. We have to look forward to the marvellous picture of the future which has been created by the provision of the strip mill in Scotland. I believe that the strip mill at Colvilles can play a tremendous part in building the long-term future in Scotland, and this is an important change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about State Money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "rsistence in the Cabinet that brought it to Scotland. There will be a strip mill there producing 100,000 tons of strip in four years' time, and it will be up to Scotland and its industrialists to see that the new industries are there to consume that strip, and to make possible the further extension of the strip mill and thereby ensure greater diversification. But I believe that that is not enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": " that next month, irrespective of party, the unemployment figure will be less by 100,000. We want to see men back at work. I want to put to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) one or two practical trade points. The Motion calls upon the Government …by a policy of planned economic expansion…to restore full employment… In a free society that is impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "year? The amount that we spent on oil last yea' was £440 million. If, therefore, 10 per cent. of that could be imported either from Rumania or from Russia, it would enable them to buy our goods and thus provide employment in hon. Gentlemen's constituencies, which would be an extraordinarily good thing to do. I understand that the Board of Trade has given licences for only a limited period of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "o listen to the figures carefully. In the seven years from 1945 to 1951, 26·3 million sq. ft. were approved as against 27·9 million sq. ft. in the seven years from 1952 to 1958. That is to say there was an annual average of 500,000 sq. ft. more than in the preceding years under the Socialists. Is it, therefore, fair to say that Scotland has been treated badly in the last seven years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "through the Jay Report paragraph by paragraph because that would weary the House, but I will take the three sections into which it is divided. First, there is what he humorously calls \"The Facts\". If I had time I could show that these are full of inaccuracies. The right hon. Gentleman accused me of inaccuracies today, but I could point out an enormous number of inaccuracies in the so-called facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-18", "file": "debates1959-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "04a6596e6b4447ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (MR. CLUTTON-BROCK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": " on behalf of his party on the Front Bench. He knows perfectly well that one of the most important things which the United Kingdom Government should do is this, Having devolved responsibilities from the United Kingdom to a country of the Commonwealth they should not seek to draw those responsibilities and powers back but should have faith in the common sense and good judgment and sense of justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-18a.598.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.621.6", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.621.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (GUARANTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (GUARANTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is it not nevertheless true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.639.4", "colnum": "639", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "ave played a large part in bringing about the Paris and Zurich talks which, throughout, he and all his colleagues welcomed and encouraged and which led to the London Conference itself. I do not believe that any party feeling in the House will be allowed to obscure the fact that among world statesmen who meet and deal with him my right hon. Friend is regarded as a foremost leader of the free world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.639.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "No. Hon. Members there not only put those lives in jeopardy, but persisted in keeping them in jeopardy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.653.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. Hon. Members have accepted democracy only as a political expedient. In their hearts they are authoritarian, and no one is more authoritarian than the present Colonial Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.653.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I did not say that that was the cause of the breakdown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am exceedingly anxious to say nothing today, in this hot controversy, which would cause trouble outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Makarios?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "For the same reason that if the Egyptians could have dropped bombs on London the Government would never have bombed Port Said. In 1956, from this Box, I made a very earnest and special appeal to E.O.K.A. to give up violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Of the possibility of partition, the right hon. and gallant Member said that although his Government did not favour it, it had to be recognised that partition was one of the possible solutions envisaged. That was last November, and then it became obvious to the Greeks and Turks and to N.A.T.O. that the whole alliance was put in jeopardy, in the main through the behaviour of the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then they shot each other.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t the end of the story we had reached what we had warned and prophesied at the beginning of the story. The history of this sort of struggle has now assumed a classic form. It never departs from it. First, we put people in gaol and attack them in the bitterest language, as we did with the Indian and the Irish leaders. We said that we could not \"shake hands with murder\", and then we did shake hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "aders. We said that we could not \"shake hands with murder\", and then we did shake hands. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Then they shot each other.\"] I do not wish to make a retort to that, because the fact is that, very largely through Tory behaviour, we have brought about a state of affairs of which hon. Members opposite ought to be ashamed. We did the same with Nkrumah. Hon. Members opposite put him in gaol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "murder\", and then we did shake hands. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Then they shot each other.\"] I do not wish to make a retort to that, because the fact is that, very largely through Tory behaviour, we have brought about a state of affairs of which hon. Members opposite ought to be ashamed. We did the same with Nkrumah. Hon. Members opposite put him in gaol. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, we shoved him in gaol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "y behaviour, we have brought about a state of affairs of which hon. Members opposite ought to be ashamed. We did the same with Nkrumah. Hon. Members opposite put him in gaol. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, we shoved him in gaol. [ Laughter. ] If hon. Members opposite will restrain their hilarity for a moment, I said that this is a part of the classic story of these struggles. If we, by our behaviour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or a watch, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "preceding_text": "ge of what they have done, let us be generous to them in every way. If any political crimes have arisen through over-exuberance while they have been in Cyprus, let them be forgiven along with the Greeks and Turks. At the same time, however, when they come home let us be more warmhearted in our generosity, too. What does it matter if our troops in Cyprus come back with 400 instead of 200 cigarettes", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the police.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "preceding_text": " troubles that they would face. The whole of those women have what, to use a good British word, we call guts, and we can honestly say that we are proud of the part they have played. I have spoken of the troops. I welcomed particularly in the speech of my right hon. Friend his remarks about looking after the administrators and civil servants who have stuck with us throughout our troubles in Cyprus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "en many quotations from speeches in the course of the debate. I wish to make one from what my right hon. Friend the Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) said in the debate of 14th May, 1956: He said: The Ethnarchy Council should be invited to send representatives to London for discussions and Archbishop Makarios should be brought to London for consultation and participation in those discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "preceding_text": "condition known to the Commonwealth, of which there are now ten or eleven precedents well established. It was that concept of freedom to opt out of the Commonwealth which Mr. Hopkinson said there could not be. My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West very rightly pointed out that, in the intervening period, there has been much rethinking by everybody, including Members on this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " of what the Prime Minister did to him when Sir Anthony Eden resigned, he might care to pass it on to the Prime Minister who showed himself a very handy and slippery customer with the flick knife when he had the opportunity. Now I come to the Government's misjudgments over E.O.K.A. On 3rd June, 1956, an official announcement was made that the E.O.K.A. gangs had been broken up following operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "and slippery customer with the flick knife when he had the opportunity. Now I come to the Government's misjudgments over E.O.K.A. On 3rd June, 1956, an official announcement was made that the E.O.K.A. gangs had been broken up following operations. [ Interruption. ] The continual talk will not put me off quoting these things. It is a well-known trick, but it will still get into HANSARD and be read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"General Grivas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " it. We have been told more than once that it was practically at an end. Now, in the last few days, tons of arms have been handed in. They include five British mortars. Can the Minister of Defence tell us where E.O.K.A. got them from or when they were used? Hundreds of guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been handed in and the only revolver left on the island was that which Mr. Grivas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": " that we all regret the absence of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary. The Opposition have been good enough to indicate their understanding of the reasons for the absence of my right hon. Friends whom, I am sure, we all wish well in their task in North America. In their absence, I can but say that the solution of the Cyprus problem owes a great deal to their patience and their hard work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "point made by both of them, and especially stressed by the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East, was that there is a certain dualism in Conservative policy, and that we do not have to our credit a creditable or progressive colonial or overseas record. All I can tell him is that the great continent of India today owes its well-being and Constitution to the initiative taken by the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "nd we did our utmost in N.A.T.O. During the autumn we persevered with our efforts in the United Nations Assembly. Before Christmas the Greek and Turkish Foreign Ministers explained to the Foreign Secretary in Paris the lines of the settlement which they were discussing, and directly the Foreign Minister agreed their agreement at Zurich Her Majesty's Government at once called the London Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-19", "file": "debates1959-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "af64e55aa081f28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I think that point was answered by my right hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary, who made it perfectly plain that the conditions preliminary to a cession of sovereignty over parts of the island not wanted for the bases from which we could conduct our international obligations were not precedent to any particular situation which has arisen before now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-19a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-20", "file": "debates1959-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5f2cb3d78deb6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.796.3", "colnum": "796", "heading": "TOWN MEETINGS AND TOWNS' POLLS, BIRMINGHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "is a sincere one, but in the other instance there is no case at all. The hon. Member for Yardley has said that he objects to such Bills and intends to object to my Bill today so that he may put his point of view. He had a perfectly good opportunity to put his point of view during the Second Reading debate a few weeks ago. He was notified of the debate by the Order Paper and also by the town clerk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-20", "file": "debates1959-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5f2cb3d78deb6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.797.10", "colnum": "797", "heading": "TOWN MEETINGS AND TOWNS' POLLS, BIRMINGHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "pulations of towns are now even bigger. However, since 1945 something has happened which has been of extreme importance, and if we throw away the procedure of town meetings and towns' polls, we must replace it with something to protect the public against the sort of Bill which has been brought forward since 1945. Since 1945, for the first time, Bills of this kind have contained Socialist doctrine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.797.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-20", "file": "debates1959-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5f2cb3d78deb6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "TOWN MEETINGS AND TOWNS' POLLS, BIRMINGHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving me that point. I was about to show that this is, in fact, just Socialist doctrine. It is Socialist legislation which hon. Gentlemen opposite would like to have so that corporations and municipalities could have power to run garage businesses. This is precisely what Birmingham corporation said it wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-20", "file": "debates1959-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5f2cb3d78deb6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "TOWN MEETINGS AND TOWNS' POLLS, BIRMINGHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "t to the House and to the hon. Member for Selly Oak is this. I concede the point about meetings, but I am disappointed that he should argue the idea that if we reject the suggestion of a meeting deciding whether a Clause should go in a Bill or not, nevertheless, 100 or even 1,000 people have the right to prevent Parliament, which is the most democratic assembly of all, from considering the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-20", "file": "debates1959-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5f2cb3d78deb6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "CONSUMERS (PROTECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the additional expense?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": " speech. It has become conventional to make an amusing speech on this subject. It is in fact rather a prosaic subject. I am precluded from taking such a course, because, as I have previously confessed, I enjoy flamboyant advertising and do not object to my children getting plastic space ships with breakfast cereals provided that there is no risk of their consuming the space ships with the cereals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-20a.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-23", "file": "debates1959-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "dda9a203dd58bed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-23a.909.4", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "This has happened so often. We all welcome these increases in charges to these people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-23a.909.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-23", "file": "debates1959-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "dda9a203dd58bed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-23a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to see that the Scottish Ministers are apparently gagged —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-23a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-23", "file": "debates1959-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "dda9a203dd58bed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-23a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "That was one of the most painful explanations I have listened to for some time. The Joint Under-Secretary was at great pains to tell us what the Amendment meant. He ended up by telling us or suggesting to us what the new proposed subsection would achieve, which was that the land superior of the adjacent land would not suffer any loss in value of his feu.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-23a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-23", "file": "debates1959-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "dda9a203dd58bed8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-23a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman must realise that in one case the seller is willing. He is prepared, and may be anxious, to sell, and may agree to sell because the price is sufficiently attractive. In the other case it is compulsory acquisition, in which the owner from whom the land is being acquired has no option but to sell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-23a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-24", "file": "debates1959-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "36342c82032ba6ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-24a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "NYASALAND (COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "terday, will be very much before the Commission of Inquiry. Exactly who the Commission will see will be for the Commission itself to consider and I do not want at this stage to prejudge that. The right hon. Gentleman asked me about people being entitled to be represented by counsel. I do not think that that would be appropriate, because it is not a judicial inquiry in the strict sense of the word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-24a.1136.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-24", "file": "debates1959-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "36342c82032ba6ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-24a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ibility to the local authorities, it would seem strange now, by this Amendment, to withdraw from them a power which in the Government's view they ought to have and which they have been allowed to look forward to by the provisions of this Bill. I outlined the case against this Amendment in Standing Committee. It is quite clear that the hon. Member read what I said. Indeed, he was there at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-24a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-25", "file": "debates1959-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1759369bc45a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1297.6", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER'S ABSENCE (COUNCIL OF EUROPE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ll the Member States of the Council of Europe, to a ceremonial sitting of the Consultative Assembly which will take place at 6 p.m. on Monday, 20th April, in Strasbourg, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the signature of the Statute setting up the Council of Europe. I am advised that I should be present on this occasion, and so, if the House grants me leave. I propose to accept the invitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-25", "file": "debates1959-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1759369bc45a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has given me the opportunity to say that no charges were made at any time against Captain Hankin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-25", "file": "debates1959-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1759369bc45a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "May I deal with that point straight away? As I told the House, there was a conflict of testimony about that. I told the House that I was in touch with the Governor, so that the two stories could be presented to Parliament. Those inquiries will continue and, I hope, be completed during the Easter Recess. May I venture to say that it is rather an abuse of the privileges of the House to suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1347.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-03-25", "file": "debates1959-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1759369bc45a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1347.5", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1347.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-25", "file": "debates1959-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1759369bc45a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "aking note of the continued anxiety of the House about them. There is a very important Bill which we wish to discuss today—the Colonial Development and Welfare Bill—and a number of other very important considerations which we should like to get on to, and we understand that there is other business. But I would ask the Colonial Secretary to consider this, if he will. He has already made one speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-25", "file": "debates1959-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1759369bc45a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "can, by permission, on a Motion for the Adjournment. I am not asking him to do that now, because I am not sure what answers we should get. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to consider very seriously the questions posed here this afternoon about the right of access to the detainees and the nature of the inquiry and to make a statement as soon as possible after tomorrow, or make it tomorrow if he can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-25", "file": "debates1959-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1759369bc45a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1356.2", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"African judges.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "preceding_text": "act he is to make a statement tomorrow. It went out from Parliament yesterday that all Africans, until they are very much advanced, are all liars. This observation was made by a Parliamentarian of some very considerable distinction and very close association with the party opposite. If we were to adjourn now, leaving the impression among African policemen, African soldiers, African civil servants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-03-25", "file": "debates1959-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "b1759369bc45a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 2, line 30, to leave out from \"if\" to \"he\" in line 31. The Clause as it stands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-03-25a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-07", "file": "debates1959-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fe900b1f2ae9d071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-07a.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ries simply could not happen. What we must recognise is that this country above all others is the one which cannot afford industrial difficulties. We must work as a team if we are to survive in the difficult years which lie ahead. What do hon. Members opposite intend to do about the sort of thing which is happening? Let me refer to a conference of the Communist Party held at St. Pancras Town Hall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-07a.85.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-07", "file": "debates1959-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fe900b1f2ae9d071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-07a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "There is one thought which evidently is in the minds of many hon. Members. It has been expressed by speakers from both sides of the Committee and I hope that it will be expressed even more vigorously as the debate goes on. While the Tories were cheering the Chancellor, till many of them must have been dry and looking for more than milk to \" slochen \" their thirst — is that the proper expression? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-07a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-07", "file": "debates1959-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fe900b1f2ae9d071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-07a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Markham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Markham", "preceding_text": "their taxes. The Treasury should be challenged to say how many people there are M this category and whether there is any point in including these fantastic figures in Table XTI as is done every year. Finally, may I make a comment on a point which is made time after time? The hon. Member for Govan made a plea on behalf of old-age pensioners. We could all make that same plea with the same sincerity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-07a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.184.5", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put a Question down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that I have not had the opportunity to put a supplementary question, as a Member representing Bristol, may I also give notice that I should like to raise this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "a bad year for industrial workers, especially for those vulnerable to unemployment and short-time working. In many areas, it was a bad year for new school-leavers. It was a bad year for tenants of privately-owned property and, to a less extent, for tenants of council houses. It was a bad year for those engaged in the production of steel, coal, basic materials and machine tools as well as textiles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "lcome what the Chancellor has done. My right hon. Friend, four years ago, pledged this party, had we become the Government, to reduce the age of repayment by one year every year. Had that been done we should now be down to the 60-year-olds by this time. However, we very much welcome the Chancellor's acceptance of what we have long urged on him, that he should do something about the hardship cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " That is why we must, in all honesty, question the sincerity of the Government's new-found faith in expansion. Is it genuine expansion, or just a process of taking up excessive slack'? The 1954 to 1955 boom and the years of crisis which followed are sufficient justification for saying that under Tory freedom expansion is followed as night follows day by inflation internally and by external crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e they will be redirected— only if we have a Government determined to pursue the policies which are necessary for expansion without inflation. In conclusion, this Budget is almost certainly the last Budget of this Parlia- ment. Soon the electorate will be called upon to judge the record of this Government, re-elected in 1955 with such high-sounding promises— as events have proved, fraudulent ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ur exports year by year have failed to expand. In exports of manufactured goods we fell last year to third place, behind the United States and Germany. We have seen Japan and Germany, both without a shipyard to their name eight years ago, surpass our stagnant shipbuilding output. In both the pace and the direction of our industrial advance we have been tragically left standing by the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudlin", "preceding_text": "ce 1st January this year. So where some beers went up by 1d. recently it is likely that they will now fall by 3d. What are the main reasons why my right hon. Friend chose to reduce the Beer Duty? It is sometimes suggested by hon. Members opposite that this was an electoral idea. I think that reveals a very old-fashioned view of the considerations on which the modern electorate makes its decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ture, and by the manipulation of budgetary deficits, can be only temporary and ancillary, compared with those real and underlying forces upon which, in the last resort, we must rely. That is where the gulf exists between this side of the Committee and the Opposition side. My right hon. Friend the Paymaster-General has quoted passages from the central part— I might almost call it the \"dead heart\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: How many are there?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Income Tax, it seems to me that the effect of the reduction is curiously small seen against the incidence of the tax as a whole. Secondly, the present rates of Income Tax and Surtax are extremely difficult to defend. If we look at the salaries and emoluments paid to directors of great companies we see that they appear astronomical. The directors of one company share £447,000 annually between them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-08", "file": "debates1959-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "b9345363a804d694", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" The hon. Member should know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "performance today was infinitely more agreeable than the performance of a Labour Chancellor aspirant. Whereas the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland continues to have a song in his heart, the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) has only vitriol in his heart. When I listened to his speech, if one can call it that, it struck me as being one of the cheapest forms of gutter electioneering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-08a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.353.5", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I am submitting to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.353.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.353.5", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I am submitting to the right hon. Gentleman— [HON. MEMBERS: \" Speech.\"] I am asking a question of the right hon. Gentleman about legislation which repudiates the principles of British justice. I shall be content if I may deal with only the third point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.353.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a few weeks ago I spoke to the leaders of this organization and was assured by them that on no account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I went into this question with the Buckinghamshire Police, and it appears that a film was taken for the purpose of showing later in the force's recreational club —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I took the trouble to read the right hon. Gentleman's speech. I may say that I read it all the way through and thought it was most interesting. He made those tax increases for two purposes; first, to pay for the defense programme; and, secondly, to safeguard our exports. We know what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"When? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The point from which I was starting was the point at which we saw that it was necessary to check inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1956?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "e taken as a red light for sterling by the outside world. There are more eyes on our gold reserves than on the gold reserves of any country in the world. If we so manage our affairs that our export prices look likely to become uncompetitive, we cannot stop the rest of the world drawing the conclusion that Britain is heading for an exchange crisis. After all, they saw it happen in 1948 and in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "m being impartial as between the Lord Privy Seal and the Paymaster-General. On the question of the difference between earned and unearned incomes, a family with £50 a week gets £60 a year relief—that is the wording the hon. Gentleman wants—if the income is earned; and £80 a year if it is unearned. What is the justice of this? What incentive does it give to anyone except to have an unearned income?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "r of 1958. These are the changes over five years, in percentages: Germany, +55; France and Italy, +45; Holland, +28, Norway, +27; Sweden, +20; Denmark, +19; Belgium, +16; United Kingdom, +15. To be fair to the Government, I believe, though I have not the figure, that the percentage for the Republic of Eire is rather lower than that for the United Kingdom. It really seems, all party argument apart;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.399.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman ran away from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "ocialist economic philosophy. My right hon. Friend must try to solve the problem in another way. If I knew the solution I would tell him. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite may laugh, but perhaps they will ponder this. It is a great comfort to them, but presents us with great difficulties. No degree of economic control or direction will make an economy \" go \", any more than a rudder will make a ship go", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.459.3", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": " was because he made a number of remarks most apposite about the position of our raw material prices and the structure of Commonwealth economics. I endorse what he said. Secondly, I envy him because he had the pleasure of following in the debate the hon. Lady the Member for Glasgow. Kelvingrove (Mrs. McAlister), who is not now in her place. She was the first Scottish Member to speak in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"The Paymaster-General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "f what would happen in the economy generally during the year. He foresaw the slack, the unemployment and the stagnation, but he still considered that it was necessary to have these because he thought that our external position could not afford any expansion last year. In spite of the speech of the President of the Board of Trade this afternoon and of the speech yesterday by the Postmaster-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-09", "file": "debates1959-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4372ef6e542fdfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "right hon. Member for Battersea, North referred to council house building in his opening speech. The Economic Survey, which I will not quote in detail as time is short, deals on page 59 with the programme for 1958. I should like to tell him that in January and February of this year there was a marked increase in local authority housing starts. It suggests that the rise in output has already begun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-09a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-10", "file": "debates1959-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "e1cfaeb14e60fbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-10a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WILLS, &c. (PUBLICATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "to burglars. On the merits, they have this disadvantage, too, that if other bequests are not revealed a misleading impression can be created. A child may receive a bequest of a Botticelli, but other bequests may be made to other children and a wrong impression may be created if this is the only bequest revealed. I assume from the debate that the main purpose of the Amendments is to wreck the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-10a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-13", "file": "debates1959-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb6ea6169d8cd8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.623.5", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker; that is the kind of advice I would have expected you to give me. Now may I ask my supplementary question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-13", "file": "debates1959-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb6ea6169d8cd8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "On the technical side, there was some delay in producing the Order in Council, and, on the administrative side, the difficulty was that if a great deal of notice were given the number of applications to the Passport Office would be so great that the machinery would break down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-13", "file": "debates1959-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb6ea6169d8cd8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I propose to read what Mr. George Christ, the editor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-13", "file": "debates1959-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb6ea6169d8cd8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "welve years. My right hon. Friend's predecessors effected the cure. My right hon. Friend has since then nursed back our reserves of strength, and we are ready to resume the advance. That is not to say that reflationary and expansionary measures were not taken last year. They were. They are all set out in the Economic Survey and are within the mind of the Committee and I need not recapitulate them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-13", "file": "debates1959-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb6ea6169d8cd8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "Beer, which the right hon. Gentleman has just mentioned in his interjection, is related to this matter in the way the Chancellor told us, because it affects so strongly the cost-of-living index.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-13", "file": "debates1959-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb6ea6169d8cd8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "place as an exporting Power. West Germany passed us last year for the first time as an exporting Power. What a comment that is on the Conservative stewardship of our national economy for eight years. By their deliberate policy of stagnation they have allowed us to fall behind in this most vital of all races. Instead of complacently preening themselves they ought to be hanging their heads in shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-13", "file": "debates1959-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb6ea6169d8cd8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did he resign?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": "ation of expansion and employment themselves basically depend on internal and external stability. It was because of those considerations that the Government adopted the measures which my right hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft) so courageously initiated in 1957, and the improvement in our affairs which has resulted since then is the clearest demonstration of their rightness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-13", "file": "debates1959-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb6ea6169d8cd8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "er. Looking back to the reduction of 1d. per pint made by Sir Stafford Cripps in 1948, I found it was not enough to make much impact on the yield, so I decided upon a 2d. reduction. It enabled me at the same time to carry out a much needed reform in licensing duties. My other reason was that in no other way at anything like so small a cost could I bring about a reduction in the standard of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-13", "file": "debates1959-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb6ea6169d8cd8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "enough to make much impact on the yield, so I decided upon a 2d. reduction. It enabled me at the same time to carry out a much needed reform in licensing duties. My other reason was that in no other way at anything like so small a cost could I bring about a reduction in the standard of living. [HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] Some hon. Members have said that I have confused the cost of living with the index.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-13a.768.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-14", "file": "debates1959-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "196705a1cadfe0bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-14a.798.6", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is getting less.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman kindly inform the House what level of unemployment is necessary, and for how long it must last, before an area of this kind qualifies for assistance under the Act? Is he aware that the proportion of unemployment in Todmorden recently was over 8 per cent. and is now over 5 per cent.? How much higher must it go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-14a.798.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "able that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen should be advised of the actual position of the German Federal Government in relation to some of these matters? For example, are not we in this country displaying rather more enthusiasm for German re-unification than is apparently shown by the Germans themselves? Is there not a difference of opinion in Germany itself on that issue? As regards Question No. 9—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ed Gentleman's attention been called to this: Well, I have just now once again had a very careful check made on whether Great Britain has ever made a precise proposal—and one can only discuss precise proposals. I have established that this theme has always been mentioned in only a very vague manner, so that discussion of it was not at all possible\"? Last night the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ntary questions. I have a Question which was included. We have had an omnibus reply about the Oder-Neisse line and dis-engagement in Europe. Last night, the right hon. and learned Gentleman was asked on the radio by his interrogator: But how about this plan for a freezing of forces … doesn't that exist any more then? The right hon. and learned Gentleman replied: Oh, it is certainly an idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1014.6", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PASSPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " that that Answer was entirely and absolutely unacceptable to the vast number of people interested in extending travel as widely as possible? Will the Foreign Secretary's decision involve an Order in Council, or any Parliamentary procedure which will enable a vote of the House to take place? If not, may I give notice that I shall raise the matter at the earliest possible moment on the Adjournment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1014.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TIBET", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Studholme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Studholme", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware how glad the people of this country will be that he has expressed the concern which is felt at the brutal act of aggression by the Chinese on a small and peace-loving State? Would it not be a very good thing for the world to realise how fortunate the world was during the time of the Pax Britannica, when Britain acted as the policeman of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": " of work for twelve weeks with no chance of getting employment in St. Helens and that he moved out to Partington? I think it is generally understood that a wages grade man who has been out of work for twelve weeks cannot afford to pay travelling expenses and that, where it is possible for him to go home, it is in the interests of those for whom he is responsible that he should be able to get home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "g employment in St. Helens and that he moved out to Partington? I think it is generally understood that a wages grade man who has been out of work for twelve weeks cannot afford to pay travelling expenses and that, where it is possible for him to go home, it is in the interests of those for whom he is responsible that he should be able to get home. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I should like to appeal", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1032.6", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE PRIME MINISTER AND LORD MONTGOMERY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When will that be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. Not when the full facts are known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1032.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX (REPAYMENT OF POST-WAR CREDITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " that the State should be expected to pay what is implied on the face of a document which it has itself issued. There is something to be said for this argument, too, and I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman should not take that argument too far, because the State does repay a great deal of tax which it has never received to dividend strippers in between the times when we block up the loopholes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-15", "file": "debates1959-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f32b92b447bdfc7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX (REPAYMENT OF POST-WAR CREDITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "tween having their credits turned into a negotiable instrument they might be able to dispose of only at a discount, and relying on this and future Governments accelerating outright repayment of the credits they hold. I should not venture to judge what the majority opinion of post-war credit holders would be. Since these credits came into existence, many people holding them have been growing older.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-15a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-16", "file": "debates1959-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "11aabe83685c4fcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-16a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is not my right hon. Friend aware that a little girl of 12", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-16a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-16", "file": "debates1959-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "11aabe83685c4fcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-16a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" 0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "d learned Member proposes in his second Amendment cannot be right, either. That would leave it open for a repetition of what has happened in the case of Sheffield, Banbury and Solihull, and what has been happening recently in Hertfordshire. Various hon. Members have spoken up for their local authorities—and all honour to them—but the Minister, if no one else, must stand up for the private citizen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-16a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-16", "file": "debates1959-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "11aabe83685c4fcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-16a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Where is it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "ments due to the war, but there is the additional matter that there are about 30 acres of land which are not only unusable but a complete eyesore to the local residents. This huge sewer has mounds of earth piled upon it. It is impossible to build upon it for obvious reasons. It is impossible to do anything with it although the L.C.C. — and I pay it a tribute—try to make it as pleasant as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-16a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-16", "file": "debates1959-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "11aabe83685c4fcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-16a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUT FLOWERS (IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will understand that at first glance 1 was rather distressed when I read the Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-16a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-20", "file": "debates1959-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d49911eb31d022d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.34.12", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Marquand", "preceding_text": "unced in those grave and difficult circumstances that there would be £39 million more provided for old-age pensioners. If that could be done in 1951, in those circumstances, surely it could be done now in the present situation of the country. Whatever hon. Members may say about 1951, in that Budget no less than £410 million was provided by means of food subsidies to keep the cost of living stable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.34.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-20", "file": "debates1959-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d49911eb31d022d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Dr. Charles Hill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Dr. Charles Hill)", "preceding_text": "his sum of money, of rather more than £200 million, should have been found by corresponding reductions in the amount which the Chancellor set aside for the remission of taxation. I know that they have made suggestions as to how the Chancellor could have remitted less of this and less of that. Incidentally, it would have taken all the Income Tax remission and more to do what they are now proposing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-20", "file": "debates1959-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d49911eb31d022d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "e figure at 2½ million. I do not challenge the figure—I think it is on the low side—but none of us positively knows what the figure really is. The second, if not the main leg of the argument of the party opposite, is that the retirement pension should not only retain its purchasing power and real value, but the pensioner should share in the increasing prosperity of the community as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-20", "file": "debates1959-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d49911eb31d022d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "e Socialist scheme much larger, in the Tory scheme more modest—from the earners to the same earners when they shall have retired. It is true that the Socialist scheme offers 10s. now—5s. to each of a married couple and 10s. to single people. But it has been commonly agreed by all economists that it can be done only at the cost of great inflation and it is my contention that the transfer is taken —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-20", "file": "debates1959-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d49911eb31d022d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "sea, North (Mr. Jay), said—and we are putting this to the country; we hope that it will be one of the great issues at the next election—we believe it is necessary that the pensioners, the sick and the unemployed should be guaranteed by our community a substantial increase in their share of national income. That is our case, and we put it forward saying, \"Whatever the history of the past has been\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-20", "file": "debates1959-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "d49911eb31d022d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RETIREMENT PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "lly the whole of this debate. I must say that, except at its beginning and in the last few minutes, it has been very far from having the atmosphere of a Motion of censure. Indeed, I thought that the right hon. Member for Middlesbrough, East (Mr Marquand), in his somewhat uncharacteristic attempt to create that atmosphere—and with, if I may say so, his very uncharacteristic violence and unfairness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-20a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-21", "file": "debates1959-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ac38e2d1bac93768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-21a.224.8", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX (REPAYMENT OF POST-WAR CREDITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "would ask hon. Members to bear in mind that we can deal only with categories of hardship that can be defined readily and precisely.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th April, 1959; Vol. 603, c. 62.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "ns further this year. I am aware there are many other people who on grounds of degree of hardship may have claims as strong as those I have chosen. I am sure that he would not wish us to overlook any really deserving category of persons who might share in the extended repayment of post-war credits now proposed. We have satisfied one of the conditions he laid down when, in the same speech, he said:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-21a.224.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-21", "file": "debates1959-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ac38e2d1bac93768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-21a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAYS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Ernest Davies) for his consideration for my conscience. Certainly, my conscience is clear, although I am very conscious of having my withers wrung on all sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-21a.327.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-22", "file": "debates1959-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ea43d6c49e2dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.394.5", "colnum": "394", "heading": "NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS (MANUFACTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. William Yates. Private Notice Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.394.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-22", "file": "debates1959-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ea43d6c49e2dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS (MANUFACTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. In my original submission to you, I pointed out that a number of my hon. Friends wished to put questions and that some of my right hon. Friends did, also. Some of us had refrained from rising because we wished my hon. Friends to be able to put their questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-22", "file": "debates1959-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ea43d6c49e2dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.476.5", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "on motorists for exceeding the speed limit in a built-up area. The House said, \"Many hon. Members are motorists and this is the sort of thing for which they might be pinched.\" Therefore, the House provided that there should be no conviction for speeding except on the evidence of two witnesses. Ever since then, two witnesses have to occupy a police car when a motorist is pulled up for this offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.476.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-22", "file": "debates1959-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ea43d6c49e2dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "It seems an odd attitude of mind to think that anybody who gives evidence for the prosecution is a police informant. If that were said, it would be rather difficult to convict any murderer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.506.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-22", "file": "debates1959-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ea43d6c49e2dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Vickers", "preceding_text": "I am not at all satisfied with what my hon. and learned Friend the Joint Under-Secretary has said, but in view of the fact that I do not seem to be getting much support from this side of the House and of the Divisions we have had earlier, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-22", "file": "debates1959-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ea43d6c49e2dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, Hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "re is to stop street trading in prostitution. The argument that we are indulging in discriminatory sex legislation is not supported. I think there is a real danger in the Bill that it will inevitably drive vice into different channels, with the establishment of the call-girl system on a much more extensive and organised scale than at present. We have not faced the consequences of that in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-22", "file": "debates1959-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ea43d6c49e2dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STREET OFFENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For 4,000 years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Edwards", "preceding_text": "cause I am absolutely certain that the net effect of the Bill will be to take a lot of these girls off the streets and make them do a decent job of work. In the past girls have been able to laze about in the streets and sell their bodies; then they would be taken to court where they were fined £2 and they would not worry about it. I understand that that has been going on for the past hundred years", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-22a.539.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-23", "file": "debates1959-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "8465194b762155c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "May I ask a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.601.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-23", "file": "debates1959-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "8465194b762155c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What a revelation.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir. In view of the completely unsatisfactory nature of the reply, I beg to give notice that I shall raise this matter on the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-23", "file": "debates1959-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "8465194b762155c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I should like to tell the right hon. Gentleman that nothing like two-thirds of the cost of a machine or spindle will be paid in compensation, but only a very small fraction of the original cost. From now onwards the trade unions will be consulted at all stages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-23", "file": "debates1959-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "8465194b762155c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Llewellyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Llewellyn", "preceding_text": " whether any methods of inducement can bring new works to our worst-hit areas with sufficient speed and in sufficient strength. I read a brief report in the Manchester Guardian during the visit of the Leader of the Opposition to South-West Wales which suggested, at any rate to me, that it was his opinion that the problems of unemployment in South Wales could be cured only by direction of industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-23", "file": "debates1959-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "8465194b762155c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twenty-eight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "debate. He spoke in the moderate way that we expect of him, though he was somewhat selective in his references to the Report. Perhaps I should mention that the hon. Gentleman was given his task today by the Welsh Parliamentary Party. He continually referred to \"we\", but it should be known that he was then talking about the members of the Welsh Parliamentary Party on the opposite side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-23", "file": "debates1959-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "8465194b762155c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have not had the chance yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "is hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore indicted the Government and the Government agencies for doing absolutely nothing in this extremely difficult matter. In Wales at present there are 47 industrial projects under construction. They will provide, when they are ready, for a further 9,000 jobs. That does not include the new strip mill in Newport, and no one has mentioned that on the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-23", "file": "debates1959-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "8465194b762155c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " should be able to find opportunities there. I shall laud Wales to the skies and not continually denigrate its opportunities for people outside. The hon. Member for Wrexham very properly referred to the position in North-West Wales. This, of course, is a matter of direct interest to me. There is an extremely difficult situation there which appears at the moment to be not capable of quick solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-23", "file": "debates1959-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "8465194b762155c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A very good man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "y, and near Swansea. Nylons, plastics and silicones are being produced, handbags and fabrics, clocks and watches. There is the extension of the Hoover undertaking at Merthyr, and the go-ahead South Wales Switchgear and South Wales Cables at Blackwood and Aberdare. I am sure that hon. Members would commend the energy of Mr. A. H. Nicholas of South Wales Switchgear who has been going out for orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.647.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-23", "file": "debates1959-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "8465194b762155c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about land drainage?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Hughes", "preceding_text": "It is the Government's duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-23a.681.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-24", "file": "debates1959-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "0178a7a2d67839ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-24a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "preceding_text": "I should like to repeat what the hon. Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins) has said. May I add how much we all appreciate the sympathetic treatment which we received from my right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General in Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-24a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-27", "file": "debates1959-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8ce541a8cd81ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ng it on that basis, there were necessarily occasional local difficulties of supply. Taking as an example Manchester, in which the hon. Member is particularly interested, those concerned notified their requirements of just over 35,000 doses. They then asked for more. They were sent a further 8,500 doses. They then asked for more yet again, all these being additional to their original notification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-27", "file": "debates1959-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8ce541a8cd81ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Norway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he has made a great mistake in adopting this attitude in the House? Is he aware that the six or seven Questions today from hon. Members representing different parts of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.881.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-27", "file": "debates1959-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8ce541a8cd81ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.881.2", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "eat mistake in adopting this attitude in the House? Is he aware that the six or seven Questions today from hon. Members representing different parts of the country—[An HON. MEMBER: \"And Norway.\"]—represent the views of medical officers of health in the country? In view of the fact that the Minister read a statement, may I also read a statement which, I am sure, all hon. Members would like to hear?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-27", "file": "debates1959-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8ce541a8cd81ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.882.5", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "It is within the discretion of the particular local authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.882.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-27", "file": "debates1959-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8ce541a8cd81ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.898.2", "colnum": "898", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "mentioned in Mr. Khrushchev's Note. It is that each side should have the right of a limited number of inspections each year which could not be challenged by the other side. There would be free choice to select for inspection a limited number from the suspicious cases disclosed by instruments at the control posts. On a golfing analogy, each side should have a certain number of bisques, X in number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.898.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-27", "file": "debates1959-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8ce541a8cd81ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": " very happy. I have always thought that of all the attempts which the Soviet Union has made in the last ten years to break up N.A.T.O., the disengagement offer in its various forms was by far the most dangerous because it was by far the most superficially attractive. That is perhaps why the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have fallen for it. It was, of course, first put forward by Rapacki.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-27", "file": "debates1959-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8ce541a8cd81ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.1008.5", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " using the word \"disengagement\", it was the same point. We for our part do not mind if the Government like to protect their amour propre by trying to find another word for what they are doing. What they are proposing in this field, so far as I understand it, is precisely what the Opposition have urged on the Government in every debate for the last two years as the first step towards disengagement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-27a.1008.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "In view of the number of Questions asked by the hon. Gentleman, may I say that my constituents certainly applaud the fact that even a Cornish Member prefers the Devon scene? Would he point out to the hon. Member that such progress has been made on this issue that in fact a compromise has been reached between the bodies concerned, the National Park Committee, the owners of the woodland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1077.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1088.4", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is not the Colonial Secretary aware that there is a great deal of anxiety in this country about the fact that large numbers of Africans are now being arrested in Nyasaland on the ground of belonging to an unlawful organisation and are being found guilty, and in some cases imprisoned, without any more evidence being brought in support of this charge than there has been in this case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1088.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1088.4", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "being found guilty, and in some cases imprisoned, without any more evidence being brought in support of this charge than there has been in this case? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No. \"] No evidence at all was brought in this case, yet this woman was dismissed from her post. Is it not a fact that many African civil servants, being accused in this way, may have the threat of dismissal remaining over their heads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1088.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1089.6", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that no further charge will be made against this lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1089.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS (MANUFACTURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN MEMBERS: \"Two hours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is, perhaps, the key to the point. I understand that the Committee is dealing chiefly with regulations about safety and control. I do not share the views which the right hon. Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) has expressed. The Committee has made good progress, and the Parliamentary Secretary seemed to be, or seemed to the Chairman to he, quite right in moving the Closure after a very long discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. J. E. S. Simon)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. J. E. S. Simon)", "preceding_text": ", was, at any rate, an aid to production.\" —[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th April, 1948; Vol. 449. c. 399–400.] This, again, fits in with the object and pattern of my right hon. Friend's Budget. I do not think that we should minimise its effect on the happiness and contentment of many people. Half the adult population, 20 million people, drink beer and their average consumption is seven pints a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He made a bloomer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "ther about buying new machines if you can get your labour cheap enough.\" \"But, Sir,\" I said, \"What is all that material you have got in your warehouse?\" He said, \"It is red flannel.\" I said, \"Red flannel is becoming out of date.\" \"No,\" he said, \"depend on it, women will come back to red flannel for their bloomers.\" So far as I know they never have done so. He is long since dead and so is the firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How very condescending.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "een a tea room packed with people listening spellbound to a British record of the London Symphony Orchestra rendering the \"Messiah,\" with the Huddersfield Choir singing it. I think that that is a very interesting example of the influence of our music on people abroad. The \"Messiah\" was being sung by the Huddersfield Choir which is a quite good choir, unfortunately not by the Hanley Ceramic Choir —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " My comments are simply these. He proposes to reduce the standard rate from 8s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. in the £, and to reduce the three lower bands from 6s. 9d. to 6s. 3d., from 4s. 9d. to 4s. 3d., and from 2s. 3d. to 1s. 9d. Thus, we are now to have a pattern of Income Tax comprising rates at 1s. 9d., 4s. 3d., 6s. 3d. and 7s. 9d. Among other attributes, I have been blessed with a meticulously tidy mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1197.7", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "s not time this evening to respond to this point, will he tell me at some time the disadvantages of doing what I propose, evidently with substantial support from all parts of the House. I now wish to say a word about Purchase Tax. No speech from me on fiscal matters could possibly be complete without a reference to Purchase Tax. My right hon. Friend is moving slowly and inexorably in my direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1197.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1200.3", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "f beer has recently been falling and may respond to price cuts; moreover, the tax is still very high. At worst, the 2d. off the pint is a piece of pre-Election vote-fishing that need not be regarded with specific gravity. So says the Economist . I believe that if it is a piece of electioneering it is rather old-fashioned in concept. Had I been Chancellor—a position which I hope to occupy one day —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1200.3", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prime Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "off the pint is a piece of pre-Election vote-fishing that need not be regarded with specific gravity. So says the Economist . I believe that if it is a piece of electioneering it is rather old-fashioned in concept. Had I been Chancellor—a position which I hope to occupy one day —[ Laughter .] I never advocate anything in fiscal matters without saying to myself what I would do if I were Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-28", "file": "debates1959-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d031d347fa11bfb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "In this catalogue, should not the right hon. Gentleman mention that Surtax was reduced in 1957?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-28a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-04-29", "file": "debates1959-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4febd84350981ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1260.6", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Give him the whole box.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister not agree that the old type medical officer had a very sharp eye for the scrounger and the \"phoney\"? If this treatment is still available, why is it not applied to lazy layabouts and neurotic nincompoops who seem to get discharged from the Army on the least possible pretext?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-29", "file": "debates1959-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4febd84350981ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1284.4", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "afternoon. A similar Clause appeared on the Notice Paper during the proceedings in the Standing Committee and it was not debated then. Only one thing prevents that Clause from being debated. It is that the Secretary of State has omitted to put a Ways and Means Resolution before the House to enable this new tax—which is what it would be—to be imposed on the occupiers and owners of deer forest land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1284.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-29", "file": "debates1959-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4febd84350981ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1381.7", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I am not talking about crofts. At the moment I am dealing with forests. If one comes to the question of crofts and smallholdings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1381.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-29", "file": "debates1959-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4febd84350981ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1381.7", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I am not talking about crofts. At the moment I am dealing with forests. If one comes to the question of crofts and smallholdings—[ Interruption .] There are too many conversations going on in the Chamber at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1381.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-29", "file": "debates1959-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4febd84350981ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three thousand feet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "g that and then thinking that the Commission would impose costs upon landlords should have his head examined. The composition of the Commission is such as to ensure that no costs will fall upon landlords. The Secretary of State has already fortified himself against anything unreasonable being done. The scheme requires his confirmation, and when he wants to drag us over 3,000 miles of stony ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-29", "file": "debates1959-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "4febd84350981ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "The Lord Advocate was not up to his usual stanlard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-29a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-30", "file": "debates1959-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "61d619af22c41e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-30a.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "While I thank the Minister for that reply, may I ask whether he is aware that the so-called hymn asks for a divine blessing on N.A.T.O. and includes the words: Let N.A.T.O. grow in might, And put its foes to flight.\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-30a.1446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-30", "file": "debates1959-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "61d619af22c41e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-30a.1465.1", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the hon. Member is anxious to replace him, but I am afraid he will have to replace the whole Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-30a.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-30", "file": "debates1959-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "61d619af22c41e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-30a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "p between now and 1962, when we shall have the bulge coming through the schools and the cessation of National Service. The Confederation has suggested that industry should employ another 35,000 apprentices every year during the next five years. This will mean 175,000 extra skilled men at the end of five years. I believe that some hon. Members opposite would be quite happy if this did not come off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-30a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-04-30", "file": "debates1959-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "61d619af22c41e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-30a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "h the rest of society and try to reassert themselves and to show their own individuality. Any hon. Member who has ever been a teacher or had anything to do with welfare work knows that if one has a difficult youngster to deal with it is best to give him something to do. Sometimes in the House if an hon. Member proves difficult he finds his way on to the Front Bench and becomes very nice and quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-04-30a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ar, to the following short passage from that judgment, when the judge said: If he is deported to a foreign land where he has no relatives, friends or acquaintances, it appears obvious that it would be still more difficult for him to earn a living during his declining years. The record indicates that the plaintiff had an honest belief that he was a native born citizen. Whatever views he acquired \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "I am quite sure that my hon. Friends would have the same sentiments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "bout the large investment already made in this country in producing fuel. With respect, I think that that is a very out-of-date point of view. It appears to suggest that when we have invested large sums in producing energy in a certain form we should never produce energy in cheaper forms until that investment has been worn out. That seems to me to be the classic argument for industrial stagnation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agriculture.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "me than to use imported materials. But one just cannot push this argument too far, because there are limits to which it is proper for this country to use expensive home-produced fuel and raw materials rather than to use cheap imported fuel and materials, when we have to compete in a market which uses cheap fuel and materials, when we have to compete in a market which uses cheap fuel and materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.48.6", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "If it is on the same point, I can deal with it now. The argument is that the home production of the agricultural industry would fall below the level at which we wish to see it because it is facing the competition of cheap imported products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.48.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.48.6", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ion of the agricultural industry would fall below the level at which we wish to see it because it is facing the competition of cheap imported products. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, and the party opposite is saying that the same thing is true of coal. Therefore, presumably hon. Gentlemen are saying that we should apply the same remedy. The remedy in the case of agriculture is that of large subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.48.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "gures in the House, two years ago, of the Government's estimate of the likely consumption of fuel in this country in 1965. We then thought it should be a coal equivalent of about 300 million tons. I see no reason why we should depart from that estimate. As I said last December, whether we achieve it in 1965 or later depends on the speed of the industrial upturn, which is only now slowly beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stagnation everywhere.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "short-term situations. We must not, because coal has been piling up in this country, assume that the coal industry is facing immediate disaster. The fact is that in the community of the Six the coal stocks piling up at the pitheads are proportionately larger than in this country. That is a general condition, largely resulting from a slackening in the growth of production throughout Western Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member can read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "sses can we deal with the problem, we come to the question of redundancy. I sat with great admiration the other day listening to the right hon. Member for Blyth making a magnificent speech in the debate on youth employment problems. I should be out of order, I believe if I were to read a passage from that speech, because it was made so recently, but I might be permitted to paraphrase what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitch", "preceding_text": "10s. to 15s. less than our prices. This is a problem to which we should give our urgent attention. I must refer to Lancashire. Of the 36 pits closed last year, one, the biggest, employing 1,300 men, was in Lancashire. I am pleased to say that all those men have been found work in other pits, and I venture to say that had this occurred under private enterprise those men would have been on the dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "blem to himself in this way. In order to avoid any possible misconception, I should say that I am not using these figures as any criticism of the National Coal Board or the miners or anybody in this country, because the conditions are different. But it does not alter the final result. At present, in very round figures the Americans are producing twice as much coal as us, with a quarter of the men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-04", "file": "debates1959-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "72f12930dfe657a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "If that be the situation in a particularly difficult year, I think it is serving no useful purpose to suggest as some hon. Members have done, that we are on the way back to the days of the 1930s, the 1926 strike, and all the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-04a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-05", "file": "debates1959-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cfd40434ee684fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-05a.214.4", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend, the Member for Moray and Nairn (Mr. J. Stuart), to advise me on the memorial to the late Earl of Balfour. The Committee has unanimously recommended that the memorial should take the form of a white marble statue of the Earl of Balfour, to be erected on the pedestal on the right-hand side of the Members' Entrance to the Inner Lobby now occupied by the statue of Sir William Harcourt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-05a.214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-05", "file": "debates1959-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cfd40434ee684fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-05a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MENTAL HEALTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "alists who regard these matters only from the moral standpoint will find it extremely difficult to understand why there has been embodied in an Act of Parliament powers for an individual to exercise the functions of nearest relative in respect of an individual with whom he has been living, although there is no marriage tie. I feel that I know more about life than does the Minister in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-05a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-06", "file": "debates1959-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "70fc1a2b9b3f44d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-06a.383.5", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the most unauthorised voice of Wales is that of the hon. Member for Barry (Mr. Gower), who asked the Question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-06a.383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-07", "file": "debates1959-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "232e2319b1fb6b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that there is a parallel between the two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-07", "file": "debates1959-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "232e2319b1fb6b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.550.6", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "Not at all, but public service and industrial service are different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.550.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-07", "file": "debates1959-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "232e2319b1fb6b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is very true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the second part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-07", "file": "debates1959-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "232e2319b1fb6b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The Colonial Secretary cannot get away with putting words into my mouth which I did not use and which were not in the Opposition Motion. No judicial inquiry was asked for. We asked for an inquiry into the administration of these camps. That is exactly what the right hon. Gentleman now proposes to undertake. Does he not feel that he ought to be considering his own position, in view of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-07", "file": "debates1959-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "232e2319b1fb6b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.573.9", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFFIC CONGESTION (LARGE CITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "tates. More than anything else we need an expert body to co-ordinate opinion and to find out facts. The activities of such an expert body are essential if we are to tackle this problem properly, and I hope that the Minister will give this aspect very serious consideration. It is generally admitted that the set-up in London is deplorable. There are many traffic committees, but no central authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.573.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-07", "file": "debates1959-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "232e2319b1fb6b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFFIC CONGESTION (LARGE CITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The black widow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "have posters saying, \"Good driving pays\". Everyone believes that he is a good driver, and anodyne and platitudinous statements of that sort are not likely to make anyone drive more carefully. I have my own view as to the type of propaganda necessary to have any effect on the public and I think that to some extent it must bring the public up with a jerk and shock them about the danger of accidents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-07", "file": "debates1959-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "232e2319b1fb6b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HALIFAX CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "te a large number of orders for a take-over by a large authority, but they have all been agreed take-overs. I do not want to stir up any bad blood between Halifax and the local authorities in my constituency, but I suggest to the Halifax Corporation that we ought to see more of the spirit of co-operation and a little less of the spirit of compulsion. I do not want to make my criticisms too severe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.654.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-05-07", "file": "debates1959-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "232e2319b1fb6b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD STANDARDS (ICE CREAM)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will, I think, agree that the big manufacturers have attempted to bring dairy cream into their manufacture only since we have had criticism of the proposed Regulations in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-07a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-08", "file": "debates1959-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac6d6d659379fa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-08a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.— (RESTRICTION ON PUBLICATION OF CONTENTS OF WILLS AND AMOUNTS OF ESTATES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "I intervene because I do not know why the hon. Gentleman the Member for Harrow, Central (Mr. Bishop) expressed such a hope in his concluding sentences. I have been studying the Bill and I notice that it was presented by Mr. Kimball. He, presumably, is responsible for the Bill, but I cannot see the hon. Gentleman present. I see that he is supported by Mr. Russell, Mr. Speir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-08a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-11", "file": "debates1959-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b518b206436e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRAQ (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "First of all, I really must say that the Government do not find this an embarrassing statement at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.838.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-05-11", "file": "debates1959-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b518b206436e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN MINISTERS' CONFERENCE (MALTA)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Ask Hungary.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is not this another instance of how colonial peoples are now looking towards an international authority rather than the old imperial authorities which have controlled them in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.845.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-05-11", "file": "debates1959-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b518b206436e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "Amendment. Nevertheless, I appreciate some of the difficulties to which he has drawn the attention of the Committee, and in view of the assurance that this point will be considered again to see whether it is possible to arrive at sonic proposal whereby the small clubs will not find themselves paying more under this proposal that they were doing before, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-11", "file": "debates1959-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b518b206436e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.878.2", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "duties which will bring in something just under £5 million in a full year, and that he has made up the balance by the abolition of monopoly value payments, which amounted to about £720,000 last year. According to the Financial Secretary, what the Chancellor is doing is giving this £720,000 to the public as part of the reduction of 2d, a pint in the price of beer. That argument will not hold water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-11", "file": "debates1959-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b518b206436e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Taylor", "preceding_text": "ther arbitrary fashion. It was obviously unfair that those who ran hotels of the older vintage should get off scot-free, whereas those with new hotels were assessed for monopoly value. Great pressure has been brought to bear for the building of new hotels. Although the establishment with which I am associated had to pay monopoly value, I still feel it right to do away with monopoly value payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-11", "file": "debates1959-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b518b206436e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "hich then agitated the country. I am happy to say that some of them do not agitate the country today. We no longer have the unhappy and unfortunate aspect of widespread drunkenness which occurred when the Conservative Government were in power in the early part of this century. No doubt the Liberal Party helped to cure that in 1906. The licensing laws were obviously designed to deal with licensing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-11", "file": "debates1959-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b518b206436e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Chapman", "preceding_text": "Is not the removal of the monopoly value in this case an open invitation to justices to be more free in the granting of licences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-11", "file": "debates1959-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b518b206436e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "I would have to look into the details to discover whether the verge is private property or part of the highway. In some cases a verge is part of the highway and in others it is not. If the hon. Member will give me the details I will look into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-11a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1046.5", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT, TURKEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "But whilst it may be convenient, is it not extremely risky to use charter planes on this route? Would the Prime Minister at least give an undertaking that no further charter planes will be used for this purpose on this route?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1046.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": " reply to the plain question, put to him by my right hon. Friends the Members for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) and Battersea. North (Mr. Jay), namely: was the Financial Resolution, the last Budget Resolution, drawn in its present form deliberately or inadvertently? Before we part with this Motion we must have a clear reply to that question because the honour and integrity of the Chancellor are at stake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. I understand that now the Chancellor is saying that the Resolution was drawn up inadvertently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " Resolution and so enable the Committee to have the kind of debate which hon. Members wished to have. The Chancellor cannot have it both ways. We are prepared to accept that the Resolution was drawn up in this way either by inadvertence or carelessness or incompetence—I do not say stupidity. I think probably it was because of guile on the part of Treasury officials which hoodwinked the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ind of debate which hon. Members wished to have. The Chancellor cannot have it both ways. We are prepared to accept that the Resolution was drawn up in this way either by inadvertence or carelessness or incompetence—I do not say stupidity. I think probably it was because of guile on the part of Treasury officials which hoodwinked the Chancellor—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I am not criticising anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1072.5", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman does not mind. I may slip again, because certain of my facts in this matter are not as firm as they might be. The Utility scheme was done away with just after the Labour Party left office because it was breaking down. It no longer operated successfully or to the advantage of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1072.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1072.5", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "y slip again, because certain of my facts in this matter are not as firm as they might be. The Utility scheme was done away with just after the Labour Party left office because it was breaking down. It no longer operated successfully or to the advantage of the people. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"] Because there was an artificial ceiling for each article. Let us consider, for instance, a woman's dress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1072.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "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": "t are put forward for reductions of Purchase Tax in various directions. That reinforces the view which I have held for a long time, that when the annual Finance Bill is under discussion, the Treasury for some curious reason or other seems to be out of touch with life in general. I fully understand that revenue must be raised. I do not, however, want to make this a politically controversial speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "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": "t. I have no doubt that tonight we shall not get very much from the Chancellor or the Financial Secretary, but I hope that at least we can have a pledge from them. With that, I would be satisfied. And, although I do not for a moment believe that this would happen, if there is a General Election and we have a change of Government, I would like an assurance also from the other side of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Who lost it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": " is that although there was an agreement, apparently, that there should be no tax on pressings, strange though it may seem the agreement was lost in the Treasury, and because the agreement was lost in the Treasury some seven years ago this tax remains on these items. That seems to me a very peculiar state of affairs, and I hope we may learn a little more about it. There seems to be complete chaos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the agreement?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "Here he is back again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1147.3", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "there would be no tax on the pressings of gramophone records, and it seems that the document has been lost in the Treasury for seven years. It may be that the Chancellor will find it now. I hope he will find it. I do not say that he was responsible for its loss. This speech of mine is a nonparty speech, and I will say that it may have been lost in the days of a previous Chancellor of my own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1147.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-05-12", "file": "debates1959-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "01516ea842f95a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E C. Redhead", "preceding_text": "ence between the Opposition and the Government in their approach to the purpose of this Tax. If he is not responsive to the plea which, I think, is inherent in the whole of this debate, to take a fresh look at this tax and to relate it to the realities of today, we must wait—and I hope not wait too long—for another Chancellor who will take a more realistic view of the necessities of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-12a.1196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-13", "file": "debates1959-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "76ba3922e5ad9078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-13a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman the Economic Secretary, of course, made an agreeable change from his hon. and learned Friend the Financial Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-13a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-13", "file": "debates1959-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "76ba3922e5ad9078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-13a.1367.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He may turn up\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "en to be absent on this occasion, because when, in the past, I have pleaded on behalf of these great shipbuilding and ship-repairing industries he has suggested that the proper approach is the very approach that the hon. Lady is proposing tonight, that there should be a taxation concession. Now that the issue is put and the matter may be tested by Division, however, the hon. Member is not with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-13a.1367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-14", "file": "debates1959-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "80571959d1e9ce5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1413.4", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Non-sense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that his answer is unsatisfactory and is complete nonsense. Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that commerce in general is quite convinced that the Board of Trade has no intention of prosecuting and that it is further convinced that the Board of Trade does not understand what the first Sections of the Act mean and is not therefore willing to prosecute —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1413.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-14", "file": "debates1959-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "80571959d1e9ce5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1414.0", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that where—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-14", "file": "debates1959-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "80571959d1e9ce5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1431.0", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "As this will be the last opportunity that the House will have to hear a statement on this matter for two or three weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-14", "file": "debates1959-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "80571959d1e9ce5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Marmalade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "ecial assistance. Therefore, the special inducements, however they may be devised, should be preferential for the country north of the Border because it has to offset its geographical disadvantages. The Government will probably use the well-worn phrase, \"You will spread the jam too thin\". My answer to that, at a time when we are striving for industrial expansion, is, go and buy another pot of jam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-14", "file": "debates1959-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "80571959d1e9ce5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1537.4", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "rds, if we take an objective over-all view of the situation, we find that we have not achieved what it was intended should be achieved by the Act. Obviously, it would be wrong and uncharitable of me not to pay tribute to those who have worked hard to make the Development Areas the success which they are in one sense, and particularly not to refer to the work of the Labour Government after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1537.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-14", "file": "debates1959-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "80571959d1e9ce5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "nsea and Dundee, suggesting that it was fantastic that these should have been closed two years ago. I looked up the figures and I found that in the eighteen months since those two offices were closed factory approvals in West South Wales and in Dundee have been such as to give rise to a substantially greater number of jobs in each case than in the previous eighteen months when the offices existed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-05-14", "file": "debates1959-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "80571959d1e9ce5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure that I follow the argument of the hon. Member, but I sincerely trust he is not advocating direction of labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-05-14a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-02", "file": "debates1959-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "2c4470ff7436e712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-02a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Popplewell", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman leaves the question of the nationalised industries, may I remind him of the financial difficulty of the British Transport Commission which, consequently, cannot meet the claims of railway superannuitants? As the present Government have led the Commission into such difficult circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-02a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that considerable alarm has been expressed in Stornoway and in the Western Isles about the storage of hydrogen or atomic bombs there? Could the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.169.6", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What assumptions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "We are planning on certain assumptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.169.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.188.5", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "That is a very much wider issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "preceding_text": "e shipbuilding industry is asking for a subsidy now. It is true that a certain amount of limited assistance, which was repaid, was given to some shipowners to enable them to modernise their fleets, but that is not a subsidy to the shipbuilding industry. One might as well say that because a free dental service is available to people in this country, the manufacturers of sweets are being subsidised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A ten-year plan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "ottish Ministers, the hon. Member for Fife, East (Sir J. Henderson-Stewart). He goes further. It is not just aid for private industry that he wants. He wants a commission of inquiry. I wonder what he was doing all those years when he was responsible for these matters in the Scottish Office. The hon. Gentleman wants even more than that, for that is just a means to an end. He wants a five-year plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I do not accept for a minute that the Labour Party's record was any better than ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " an industry that the first thing it asked was not about the problems and difficulties of going anywhere. It asked, \"Is there a roof available and how quickly can we have it?\" It was willing to go anywhere where there was a roof available. The position got progressively more difficult, and that is reflected in the approval figures which I have given, which show the number of people coming forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ularly under the provisions of Sections 3 and 5 of the 1945 Act. Proposals under Section 3 for water and sewerage schemes have been received mainly from the Lanarkshire and Clydeside areas ranging from a few thousand pounds to £3 million. These proposals are at present under consideration. None of them has gone through yet. There is bound to be delay, because it is not easy to get the figures out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "usand pounds to £3 million. These proposals are at present under consideration. None of them has gone through yet. There is bound to be delay, because it is not easy to get the figures out—[ Interruption. ]—I am pointing out the action that we have taken and which is beginning to show results. There have been approvals in some cases and not in others. One derelict factory scheme has been approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "as been approved. On factory development I can say one word more. It is worth getting these facts clear. In the period beginning January, 1958, to the end of May, 1959, industrial development certificates have been issued for 191 projects in Scotland for a total area of 6,651,000 square feet. According to the employers' estimates these new factory extensions should provide jobs for 8,320 workers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-03", "file": "debates1959-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b0809c353e56cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.318.5", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One factory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I shall have to keep moving quickly if I am to deal with all the points that have been made. A number of hon. Members touched on the question of advance factories. We are building this famous factory in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-03a.318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-04", "file": "debates1959-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e387ef2ecaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-04a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept what the hon. Lady says. The knowledge of the Act displayed by my hon. Friend astonishes me every day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-04a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-04", "file": "debates1959-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e387ef2ecaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-04a.363.5", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I cannot allow the hon. Gentleman to evade this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-04a.363.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-04", "file": "debates1959-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e387ef2ecaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-04a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I mentioned in my speech that my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary hopes to deal precisely with the effect on the textile machinery industry and orders coming in. In reply to the last point made by the hon. Lady, I can assure her that there is no intention of abolishing the tariff on textile machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-04a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-05", "file": "debates1959-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "299b76ed89805e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-05a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "PLIGHT OF THE AGED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Dodds", "preceding_text": "the old age pensioners into politics. That may be so, but I would like to refer to the 1951 election in this respect. I have a handbill issued by the Conservative Central Office almost on the eve of that election. On the cover there is an elderly lady and an elderly gentleman, and inside is shown the plight of the old-age pensioners and what a poor deal they were getting under a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-05a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-05", "file": "debates1959-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "299b76ed89805e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-05a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "PLIGHT OF THE AGED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "fic problem. It is the duty of hon. Members to attempt to abolish this fear. We cannot altogether abolish natural fears, but we can mitigate many of them by policy in the House of Commons. Hon. Members have naturally looked at what has been done in their own constituencies. In my constituency of Burton, which is a most progressive town, both in education and in welfare of the aged and handicapped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-05a.572.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-08", "file": "debates1959-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "436d813212690f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-08a.618.4", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that that does not arise on this Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-08a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-08", "file": "debates1959-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "436d813212690f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-08a.631.5", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "I think the suspicious nature of some hon. Gentlemen opposite about the activities of a nationalised industry is extraordinary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-08a.631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-08", "file": "debates1959-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "436d813212690f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-08a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " condition that one could imagine. If we were to use the contracting-out provisions of this Bill in order to regulate a certain aspect of industrial relations—I suggest to the House that that would be a most unfortunate departure from practice in National Insurance—we could not stop here. We should have to take the case, no doubt, of schemes which refuse entry to people on grounds of colour, race—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-08a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-08", "file": "debates1959-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "436d813212690f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-08a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "to use the contracting-out provisions of this Bill in order to regulate a certain aspect of industrial relations—I suggest to the House that that would be a most unfortunate departure from practice in National Insurance—we could not stop here. We should have to take the case, no doubt, of schemes which refuse entry to people on grounds of colour, race—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—political views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-08a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-09", "file": "debates1959-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "5024c334f522ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.787.5", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "It is not at all due to that. Many of the smaller local authorities have stopped building because there is no longer an urgent need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.787.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-09", "file": "debates1959-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "5024c334f522ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.799.5", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "strip coming from the mill there will be in the area industries which will be able to use it? With regard to the second area, is the Minister aware that in an Answer by the Minister of Labour yesterday I was given figures which show that there was a 37 per cent. increase in the unemployed in the area covered by the Shotts Employment Exchange and that, worse still, 73 per cent. of those unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.799.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-09", "file": "debates1959-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "5024c334f522ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.802.4", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Make another rule.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will, I am sure, know that if I could possibly stretch the rule far enough to cover his suggestion I should wish to do so, but the rule is, unfortunately, perfectly definite, that costs which are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.802.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-09", "file": "debates1959-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "5024c334f522ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.815.2", "colnum": "815", "heading": "THE TIMES NEWSPAPER (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "House is correct, The Times has been misleading this country and the whole world. I notice that the right hon. Member for Woodford has now entered the Chamber. I am quite sure that he has come to give me his moral support. My proposal, briefly, is that The Times should become the property of the nation, and that it should be run by a corporation something like the British Broadcasting Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.815.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-09", "file": "debates1959-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "5024c334f522ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "I should like to make it clear that I was referring to the contributions paid by the employee, not the double contribution, so to speak, paid by both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.895.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-09", "file": "debates1959-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "5024c334f522ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "Mr. Reynolds rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-09a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-11", "file": "debates1959-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b1e6e9e794a77745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-11a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They should be here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "They are in various parts of the country. How can they get back?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-11a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-11", "file": "debates1959-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b1e6e9e794a77745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-11a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman why we did not. We believe in playing the game with some members of the Committee. Some members of the Committee were committed in the way we know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-11a.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-11", "file": "debates1959-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b1e6e9e794a77745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-11a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "mme is for 107, which is a very serious fall. Unemployment in the studios is certainly increasing. The question of embarking on new film production is very much a question of confidence. There is a two years' gestation period for the making of a film. It is comparable to that of the elephant. When the Chancellor destroys confidence, or fails to restore confidence, as he could have done last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-11a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-11", "file": "debates1959-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b1e6e9e794a77745", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-11a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Yes. Last year in the Budget it was retrospective from the middle of July until a date in May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-11a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-12", "file": "debates1959-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0f64637aab7fb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-12a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "arliamentary opportunities abused by irrelevancies of the kind that we have heard, when there are very important matters to be taken later on which affect the interests of the community as a whole? The hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Dudley Williams) knows, and if he does not perhaps he will deny it, that there is an intention on the part of those who are sponsoring the Bill ultimately to withdraw it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-12a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-12", "file": "debates1959-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0f64637aab7fb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-12a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "d, the hon. Lady the Member for Cannock made the remark to which I have already referred, and she was answered by Mr. Morgan Phillips, secretary of the Labour Party, who said, \"We do not intend to nationalise the large firms\". It was a fairly effective retort to the allegation that hon. Gentlemen opposite wish to extend nationalisation which, in my opinion, would bring such poverty to the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-12a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-12", "file": "debates1959-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0f64637aab7fb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-12a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "e was answered by Mr. Morgan Phillips, secretary of the Labour Party, who said, \"We do not intend to nationalise the large firms\". It was a fairly effective retort to the allegation that hon. Gentlemen opposite wish to extend nationalisation which, in my opinion, would bring such poverty to the workers. [ Interruption. ] They would have no wages at all, quite apart from having them paid by cheque.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-12a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-15", "file": "debates1959-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "7db2e1446bd89032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-15a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Middlesbrough, East (Mr. Marquand) that this sum will go almost entirely to the elderly? Surely, by right hon. Friend stated that some of it will go to people who are unemployed, the chronic sick and those in other forms of distress, to whom this help will be particularly welcome. Secondly, will my right hon. Friend pay great regard to the question of publicity? Some of us believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-15a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-15", "file": "debates1959-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "7db2e1446bd89032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-15a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "There is very little that I wish to add to what has been said by my hon. Friend the Member for Edmonton (Mr. Albu) in his short speech. I should, perhaps, preface my remarks by saying that I feel a good deal more at home in talking on this Clause than I did on the previous one, which, I gather, had to do with rented suits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-15a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-15", "file": "debates1959-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "7db2e1446bd89032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-15a.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "preceding_text": " of a 100 per cent. subsidiary company the assets were available to the principal company in any case, but the situation is really one of those which sometimes make one feel that the law is an ass. If no distribution were made after 31st March, 1958, and the company, which may have been dormant, which may have ceased trading for some years, starts up a new trade or business, it is beyond question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-15a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-15", "file": "debates1959-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "7db2e1446bd89032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-15a.200.5", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEAMSHIP PASSENGER SERVICE, FISHGUARD AND WATERFORD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "ss the Government. The figures prove it. This case is the classic example, but in 1954, of 118 closure proposals, 116 were ratified and only two were rejected. In 1957–58, of 246 proposals, 12 were rejected and 13 modified. Worked out as a percentage, it means that 93 per cent. of closure proposals brought before the committees were ratified and only 7 per cent. either rejected or modified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-15a.200.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.244.7", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that the reason for this firm being taken over was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.244.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.244.9", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the two reasons for the firm being taken over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.244.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Intended.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "preceding_text": " outcome of that meeting there was a Press hand-out, which appeared in the papers on the following day, which contained this passage: The deaths occurred after they had drunk water from a water cart which was used by all members of the working party and by their guards. I maintain that this is a grossly misleading announcement. It clearly implies, and I apprehend was everywhere understood to mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "Mau Mau detainees is a fact, and some of these men have voluntarily devoted themselves to the task of assisting in the capture and rehabilitation of their former fellows with the same single-mindedness which characterised their former gangster activities. I think it necessary to recite these facts, and I am not doing so in order to cause emotional feeling against the intractable detainees at Hola.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "ment, therefore, with our full approval and backing throughout, rightly chose the second policy—and this is the answer to the right hon. and learned Member for Newport (Sir F. Soskice), because it was a policy which was fully recognised as carrying certain definite risks. They decided to embark on a positive programme of rehabilitation in co-operation with the churches and other voluntary helpers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have not had an answer yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " first arrived, and it was easier then to secure control over them and reject at once those who remained mutinous. The system depended on diluting the recalcitrants with co-operative detainees and working them in small batches under adequate European supervision. The opening of this third phase, the dilution policy—this is another answer to the right hon. and learned Gentleman—brought new dangers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Hola Camp?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ittee of the Red Cross. In accordance with normal practice its report was not published, but it made public the following expression of its views: We think it our duty to state our considered opinion that all has been and is being done to respect the international principles accepted in the custody of detainees and convicts within the rules embodied in the Emergency Regulations. From time to time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "to state our considered opinion that all has been and is being done to respect the international principles accepted in the custody of detainees and convicts within the rules embodied in the Emergency Regulations. From time to time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Hola Camp?\"]—many charges have been made in this House which I have always answered. Whether charges have been made in this House or outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The whole history of Colonel Young's resignation was gone into a number of times in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.274.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Callaghan rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "d women—and by their helpers from the churches and other voluntary bodies. What else could we have done in the circumstances than what we did? I believe reasonable people will feel that on the facts the policy was right and that the techniques evolved were fully justified. It now remains for me to explain how these techniques and this policy were to be applied at Hola Camp, and to that I now turn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.275.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Barbara Castle (Blackburn) rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ave misleading information concerning the events which had occurred at Hola on the morning of 3rd March, 1959, to the then Acting Deputy Commissioner of Prisons … and to the Under-Secretary of Defence. While this disciplinary inquiry is proceeding, I cannot, in fairness to Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Coutts, or Mr. Campbell and his colleagues, or any one else who may be concerned, say more than this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whitewash.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": ", if necessary one by one, thus bringing to an end the threat which they themselves, by their frame of mind, represent to all the people of the Colony. Their release is largely in their own hands—in their desire and ability to prove their willingness to return to society as peaceful and law-abiding people, acceptable to their own people. I have kept the House a very long time, but these are grave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shameful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "trocities which these people had committed. Yet he was in charge of the camp. It was at Aguthi that I inspected the punishment book. The hon. Gentleman opposite also inspected the punishment book, and he knows that in that punishment book at that camp there is recorded a punishment of twelve strokes of the cane to a man for the offence, as written in the book, of writing to a Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the hon. Lady quoting?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "No. I am sorry, but I want to finish as quickly as I can and give other hon. Members a chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Williams", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) gave rather more notice to the Colonial Secretary of what she was going to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then what was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ht be made available for magistrates, Ministers of the Government, and ministers of religion to visit the camp, which is in fact isolated and insulated from the normal currents of outside life. Questions have been put from the other side of the House concerning the so-called \"operation cover-up.\" I fail to understand how anyone can think that the Press statement was in fact an attempt to cover up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "authorities in Kenya, with the support of my right hon. Friend, will ensure that all future orders are clear, precise and detailed, and that any future action will be carried out according to the scale of supervision available at the time. I would like to say a brief word about the position of my right hon. Friend. We are now passing through a very difficult period, when responsibility is passing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Peters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "e state of affairs.\" He would deplore the fact that there was no really independent witness on whom he could rely. But in this case there was Mr. Ezekiel, field assistant to the Ministry of Works, in charge of the irrigation scheme at Hola. He had been there for one and a half years and was quite experienced. He had a man called Anthony John Peters with him. I am not quite sure who was the senior.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e no hesitation in publishing the report of Colonel Young. It is because the Colonial Secretary has known that these things have been going on and because every hon. Member who has taken an interest in them knows that this series of incidents occurred, that hon. Members opposite have had to defend themselves by denying the truth of the matter. They believe that reasons of State are more important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "at this series of incidents occurred, that hon. Members opposite have had to defend themselves by denying the truth of the matter. They believe that reasons of State are more important. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Yes, The object of rehabilitation and of making sure that Kenya gets back on its feet politically is more important to them than doing justice to these men, miserable men though they be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n State. To them the end justifies the means. The political welfare of Kenya justifies injustice to the men in the detention camps. That is their argument. Hon. Members opposite who have been silently conniving at what has been taking place over these years are no better than any totalitarian. It comes to them as it comes to a Communist or—if it appeals to the Colonial Secretary more—to a Fascist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "posite who have been silently conniving at what has been taking place over these years are no better than any totalitarian. It comes to them as it comes to a Communist or—if it appeals to the Colonial Secretary more—to a Fascist. [ Interruption. ] Oh, yes—he is proud of it. His defence of General Franco was one of the classics of pre-war days. Surely he is not going to turn on his old friends now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": "e of beating to compel detainees to work or punish them for not working. He held that the use of batons to prevent attempts to escape was justified, but that beating to compel detainees to work, or to punish them for not working, was \"entirely unjustified and illegal.\" The Government and the Kenya Government entirely accept the magistrate's conclusions, let there be no misunderstanding about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": "oes not reduce its gravity. It is a terrible thing that as a result of the events of 3rd March eleven detainees met their death. It would seem, I am certain, that some, if not all, of them did so as a result of illegal blows, but as some of the violence used by the warders was justified it was not and is not possible to establish whether any particular injury was the result of any particular blow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.368.4", "colnum": "368", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I want to get on to what is, I think, the real point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.368.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-16", "file": "debates1959-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "41f62f3f2bdfe65d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.368.4", "colnum": "368", "heading": "HOLA DETENTION CAMP", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ing is legitimate. The main criticism is directed to the words forced to carry out the task\". The proposals contained in the letter were seen by his superior, the Commissioner of Prisons, by the Minister of Defence and by the Minister of African Affairs. It would hardly be right to place Mr. Cowan alone on disciplinary charges in relation to proposals put before his superiors and approved by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-16a.368.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRANCE (N.A.T.O. BASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "The choice will be very largely that of the Supreme Allied Commander.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the reason why I kept the Question on the Order Paper was in order that I could thank him for that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.437.6", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBIRS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": "May I submit for your guidance Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.437.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ections would be willing to provide on the basis of what they know the Government two-thirds is likely to be, they related it to the machines and said that that would give a fairly accurate picture. The reason why we put the words \"number of machines\" into the Bill was a negative one. It was because we wanted to exclude buildings, for which certain people in those sections would like compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I will deal with the hon. Member for Ormskirk (Mr. Glover) later on, if he will see me outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.521.6", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. Gentleman did not refer to it, he made no reply to it. He did not deal with this extremely important proposition for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.521.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.521.6", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "further from our thoughts.\" We recognsie that it would be monstrous to say to a man who has never had much money in his pocket that we are now making an arrangement which will enable him to pick up £100 and then, when all his plans have been built up, treat him like a man whose winning application for the football pools had gone astray owing to the mishandling of a Conservative Postmaster-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.521.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "May I thank the President of the Board of Trade for the explanation he has given?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.587.6", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": " not need it. Suppose Government assistance were being given to people from the P.A.C. There would soon be Questions asked in the House about why public money was being wasted. In the P.A.C. there is accountancy, and when assistance is given there is a check to see whether it is needed or not. This assistance of £30 million of public money is not insignificant. I shall not keep the Committee long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.587.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-17", "file": "debates1959-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d492daaf7583bad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.603.4", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "Many hon. Members, particularly on that side of the Committee, have been pleading for more diversification. However, to answer the hon. Gentleman's point, we are still, on this Amendment, discussing re-equipment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-17a.603.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.634.4", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept what my hon. Friend says. Every year many thousands of people come to this country ostensibly as visitors but endeavour to dig in and stay as permanent residents. This method of checking that they have overrun their period is effective. It is done at no expense to the taxpayer, and it is most effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.634.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.635.5", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is Billy Graham? What did he say about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary aware that, according to Mr. Billy Graham, and others who have written to me since confirming his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.635.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOXING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What for.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "May I thank my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.657.8", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ses of their own. The number built for them by local authorities in 1954 was nearly 200,000. Since then it has fallen year by year, and last year it was only just over 113,000. The Government have succeeded in nearly halving the number in five years. Meanwhile, the rate of building for private owners who can afford to pay for their own new houses has risen from 88,000 in 1954 to 124,000 last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.657.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hillhead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ntary Secretary and I had an opportunity of talking about housing there the other day. This case relates to the efforts of Newcastle to find enough room to build, because, like other large towns in the country, it just has not got room. The Newcastle Council, then Tory controlled, and the Northumberland County Council between them got an option on a site at Newburn which is just outside Newcastle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "Excuse me, but this is no laughing matter. There is a very serious Parliamentary practice at stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.675.10", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Hoy. The Minister is giving totally wrong facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.675.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.682.3", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "The truth, of course, as we all know, is that many of the local authorities themselves throughout the country, in spite of all their efforts, do not really know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "al authorities from continuing to build even for general needs, nor should they lead to excessive rents. What are the facts? The present Public Works Loan Board lending rate for housing is 5¾ per cent., but, of course, what matters to a local council more than the lending rate at any particular point of time is the average rate of interest which it is paying on its outstanding indebtedness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Bevins", "preceding_text": "I have a rather curious turn of mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "n his party in this respect. The House Purchase and Housing Act which has recently gone on the Statute Book will, I believe, help young couples. The hon. and learned Member asked what we were doing to help young couples. I believe that that Act will he a great help, because in the provinces there is no doubt that the older houses are for sale at the present time at figures in the region of £1,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady had followed the debates in the Committee on the House Purchase and Housing Bill. I think she would have been convinced by hon. Members of her own party, because on that occasion they constantly referred to over-generosity to the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "ern of my right hon. Friend the Minister is simply to encourage the profit motive in housing, is rubbish and nonsense. Everybody who knows my right hon. Friend knows this, too. It was a poor taunt on the part of one hon. Member opposite who suggested that hon. Members on this side were so little interested in the country's housing problem that they had virtually all gone to the Ascot race meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is now a fourth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. Howell", "preceding_text": "We know which horse is running in this race and which horse will be first past the post in the electoral race. May I, however, point out that conditions have now worsened, because there are only three back-bench Conservative Members present for this vitally important matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "as possible to deal with local matters. Council representatives are elected by the ratepayers who have the facility to ensure that the council representatives do their jobs properly. They must have as much jurisdiction as possible in the management of their own affairs. I know the Socialists generally do not agree with this. In the main they believe in the maximum central control from Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.736.7", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": " no homes for them. So we in Scotland are faced with too high a proportion of unbalanced communities. It is in order to retain, or to return to, that balance that the local authorities quite rightly have done what my hon. Friend the Member for Pollok said. We have built to need, and the smaller houses are built for those who need them. We must have them if we are going to get balanced communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.736.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.748.7", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at the time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) was shaking his head about the increase in local authority building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.748.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "I am not saying extend the Rent Act I am now dealing with local authority property. I am going to say something provocative. I believe that we have created a privileged class—the tenant who got a council house some years ago and who now remains in that council house at a subsidised rent. There are many of them who do not need it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.752.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.778.3", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is showing his ignorance. Under the Rent Act, rents in Scotland went up without any condition at all about improvement to the houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-18", "file": "debates1959-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a6bee55462475048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.778.6", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "has proceeded. Here, I think, we come to the real crux of the criticism of the Opposition. In the first four months of 1950, when a Labour Government were in power, the number of houses in tenders approved by the Government for public authorities in England and Wales was 40,098. In 1951, the last year of the Labour Government, it was 42,145. Now the housing need is not so extensive as it was then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-18a.778.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-22", "file": "debates1959-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "94eb017bd621e24c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-22a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reeves", "preceding_text": "rly in the second field. It is right that the leaders of the political parties and of some of the denominations should give their approval to a scheme of such a controversial character involving disputed dogmas, both within and without the Christian community? I am sure that it is not. With the passing of the years the people of the country will regret this truly opportunist alliance. Let me read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-22a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-22", "file": "debates1959-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "94eb017bd621e24c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-22a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reeves", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reeves", "preceding_text": " who believe that the discoveries of modern science have made supernatural religion an anachronism demand the right to ensure that their children are not taught doctrines which cannot stand up to the challenge of modern criticism. But we wish to concede to religious bodies the absolute and uncallenged liberty to disseminate religious doctrines out of school according to their needs. I was reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-22a.931.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-23", "file": "debates1959-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "90112419de781998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1013.6", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "appears to be trying to make a personal attack on me, may I ask the Chancellor if he is aware that the cases to which I referred in the debate were not cases in which I was engaged personally but the details of which were supplied to me by a member of the Bar knowing that I intended raising them in the House, with the intention that I should raise them, and that he gave the information in writing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1013.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-23", "file": "debates1959-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "90112419de781998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) made a charge against my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, North (Mr. MacDermot) saying that he had disclosed facts in a case in which he had himself been involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-23", "file": "debates1959-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "90112419de781998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) made a charge against my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, North (Mr. MacDermot) saying that he had disclosed facts in a case in which he had himself been involved. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] It was a case at which he had himself been present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-23", "file": "debates1959-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "90112419de781998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell us what they say.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "ts, with his name on them and extolling his virtues, which he could deliver all round Ashton-under-Lyne. But it did not prevent the generation after the Chartists from burning his house down. It did not prevent the people in Ashton-under-Lyne from remembering him in another way. 4.0 p.m. A statue was put up and I must say that the ribald in Ashton-under-Lyne still paraphrase what is on the statue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-23", "file": "debates1959-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "90112419de781998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": "ers try to imagine the dereliction that we now have in Lancashire after having given deep-mined coal to this country for so long a period. This matter was mentioned when you, Mr. Speaker, occupied a very responsible Cabinet position. You were Minister of Town and Country Planning, I believe, or something of that kind. I forget exactly what position you then occupied, Sir, but you did it very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-23", "file": "debates1959-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "90112419de781998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "ts a few weeks to spare during the Summer Recess and it might be a good idea if the Prime Minister gave him leave of absence to go to Bagdad. I know that it is a long way off and that you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, will be asking, \"What has Bagdad to do with Lancashire?\" I see that you are looking at me with a baleful eye. I went to Bagdad not long ago and I saw the most fantastic things going on there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-23", "file": "debates1959-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "90112419de781998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£30 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "sary. I think that we shall not throw over the whole concept of the Commonwealth by doing this. When I think of how India, for example, altered the treaties of 1939, I realise that other Commonwealth countries do not regard the position as so immutable as we do. I hope that my right hon. Friend in his capacity as President of the Board of Trade, realising that he is spending a dubious £40 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-23", "file": "debates1959-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "90112419de781998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "f they could prevent it. Furthermore, at that time other people were having it a lot easier than was the cotton industry. There was a demand for light industry all over the country. If Lancashire people had resisted the Government's appeal to them to go back into the cotton industry and rescue the country from the bankruptcy in which the war and twenty years of Conservative Government had left it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-23a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1173.5", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALGERIAN REFUGEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "f whom are living in the open air with no roof over their heads and are looking forward to facing the genuine rigours of the Tunisian winter with no protection from the elements—are receiving food supplied from Communist and Iron Curtain countries direct to Tunisia and direct to Morocco? Apart from the help, which we recognise and welcome, from Her Majesty's Government—we are not critical of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "wing Board, and perhaps I could quote to the House what he wrote, since I have his permission to quote it. My own Committee were particularly concerned on the question of the selection of boys from normal schools who might be handicapped by a weakness in accent and behaviour. He added: The President of the Board and all the members were in all cases very generous in their treatment of such boys.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "r treatment of such boys.\"—[ Interruption. ] This is a quotation from the director of education of a county borough who had himself been anxious, and he wrote: I saw no case in which any boy was put at a disadvantage, and indeed every possible positive quality was brought to the surface by some member of the Board. If the hon. Member still has doubts, perhaps he would himself accept an invitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": "While the whole House will share the delight that a secondary modern school has managed to get a cadet into the Royal Navy, may I call the attention of the Parliamentary Secretary to the figures given by his colleague—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "FOREIGN MINISTERS' CONFERENCE, GENEVA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman ought to know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman accept the congratulations of, I am sure, all parts of the House that he seems to be still in good health after a very fatiguing experience in these negotiations? We all know from our own experience that it is just as tiring to be wrong all the time as to be right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "PROTECTION OF DEER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "l? What discussion has there been? For example, in February, 1949, the House debated the Second Reading of a Bill for the abolition of all forms of hunting. I think that I should say, in parenthesis, that there are some who think that the Bill proposed to be brought in is the thin end of the wedge and that if it were successful it would be followed by other Bills to prohibit other forms of hunting", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "PROTECTION OF DEER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "ary, 1949, the House debated the Second Reading of a Bill for the abolition of all forms of hunting. I think that I should say, in parenthesis, that there are some who think that the Bill proposed to be brought in is the thin end of the wedge and that if it were successful it would be followed by other Bills to prohibit other forms of hunting [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—for instance, fox hunting", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro), because of the observations he makes about Purchase Tax, is the only one who succeeds in moving the Government. In the present case it has been pressure from both sides of the House, and largely from my own party, which has brought about these very important changes. We shall have higher benefits than before and at an important time of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "That is not logical. It does not follow at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "May I return to the Regulations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-24", "file": "debates1959-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5f96bf311ecfea40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1355.3", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "With the agreement of the House, I should like to make a brief comment on the question of war savings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-24a.1355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "I should like to answer the hon. Gentleman, but it would be quite wrong for me to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1394.3", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " understood that it would be the desire of the Opposition, and, I think, of the House, that a debate on foreign affairs should take place, and I think that this will probably take place in the week after that for which I have just announced the business. Perhaps we could arrange through the usual channels the day chosen and also the time, and whether that will be provided by the Opposition or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1397.10", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "ses in Acton to much larger and better premises in Watford. I will let my hon. Friends into a secret. The party opposite has debated the position. It did so last Tuesday night. There were so many broken heads that undoubtedly the party opposite is not capable of turning up at full strength to debate this today. While all the Press was looking round the Labour Party meeting for non-existent splits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1397.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "hey will have upon those employees who have given service far beyond that for which they are being paid—people who have actively co-operated with the managements of their firms and have felt that this was part of their existence, and now find themselves sold down the river to some kind of takeover bidder. This will produce a cynicism among the people, who will have no interest in their industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "gross betrayal of the co-operation and loyalty so generously volunteered by the workers employed and which has contributed so much to the development of a profitable undertaking. We demand that this firm should be withdrawn from sale and retained as a valuable national asset to the Admiralty. I now turn to the astounding performance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Question Time on 16th June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Knock-out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "preceding_text": "We have had a fine, pugnacious, knock-about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will have had a rocket.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "preceding_text": "We have had a fine, pugnacious, knock-about—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Knock-out.\"]—take-over-bid speech of a kind that I would be delighted to make in my own constituency. Whether the hon. Gentleman is wise, on such a hot afternoon as this, to indulge in pyrotechnics of this kind I do not know. One thing I know is that after the smoke and the sound have cleared away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "preceding_text": "hnics of this kind I do not know. One thing I know is that after the smoke and the sound have cleared away—[An HON. MEMBER: \"You will have had a rocket.\"] It will turn out that the rocket and the ammunition used by the hon. Member for Newton (Mr. Lee) have been blank and that the Admiralty's case is as strong as ever. I intend to speak in a very much quieter and calmer way than the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "preceding_text": "e cleared away—[An HON. MEMBER: \"You will have had a rocket.\"] It will turn out that the rocket and the ammunition used by the hon. Member for Newton (Mr. Lee) have been blank and that the Admiralty's case is as strong as ever. I intend to speak in a very much quieter and calmer way than the hon. Gentleman. [ Interruption. ] If I am a little duller, I apologise to the Committee. The plain fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "preceding_text": "en the company and the Admiralty had become strained. The hon. Member suggested that the reason for this was inefficiency on the part of the company. I am sorry to have to tell him that he is wrong. The reason for the deterioration in the relations between the company and the Admiralty was a conflict over war-time priorities and the unwillingness of the company to carry out the Admiralty's wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith)", "preceding_text": "The reason for the deterioration in the relations between the company and the Admiralty was a conflict over war-time priorities and the unwillingness of the company to carry out the Admiralty's wishes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is not the same thing as inefficiency. It was a failure to respond to what the Admiralty thought was the right degree of priority and that is not the same as inefficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "rms of a Defence Regulation. I have been asked what the consequence of that was. The consequence of that, as I see it, was that there was no deliberate intention or wish on the part of the Admiralty to acquire ownership of the company. It just happened it was not something which was intended. When the war was over, the policy regarding S. G. Brown was reviewed by the party opposite, which decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was this the only exception?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " the policy regarding S. G. Brown was reviewed by the party opposite, which decided to retain the company in private ownership. What is interesting about this is that it was contrary to the general policy of hon. Members opposite at that time, which was to return to private ownership companies which had been acquired under the Defence Regulations. An exception was made in the case of S. G. Brown.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " the case of S. G. Brown was because its war potential as a manufacturer of high precision instruments was of great value to the Admiralty. For some time after this, the reason for retaining the firm based on the need for war potential remained valid, but in recent years the advent of the nuclear weapon has altered thinking about the nature of a future war and the need to preserve a war potential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1414.2", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "This is a very important point. I want to be quite precise about it. In 1958, the value of this company's sales was £1,800,000. In that year the value of Admiralty contracts placed with the firm—there would be a time lag between the two—was £60,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1418.5", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "No; there was a capitalisation of reserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Government Department. That is why it is in the best interests of the firm and its employees that it should be sold to someone able to give it proper attention and provide the wider commercial basis which will alone enable it to thrive fruitfully. In conclusion, hon. Members opposite seem to believe that our decision to sell this firm has been primarily actuated by motives of political philosophy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "preceding_text": "ry considerable anxieties when listening to the final sentences of my hon. Friend's speech, but I have had an undertaking that the firm will be preserved as a going concern. I have had a further undertaking that in any transactions that may take place—and do not let us forget that at this stage we are only being served with an intention to sell, and, of course, it may not be quite so easy to sell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member should read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says that it has improved. There was a takeover bid for the Daily Herald by Odhams Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1443.3", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I agree that they are all in the chain. Odhams Press and the Daily Herald love to be associated with \"Comic Cuts\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1443.3", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or false moustaches in Kidderminster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e general public think they feel otherwise. Of course, we must sell S. G. Brown Ltd. It is no part of Conservative philosophy to retain in public ownership such enterprises, which produce goods of a competitive character that are better produced by private industrial concerns, whether it is public houses in Carlisle or gyroscopes in Watford, or the rural buses or the rump of British Road Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1443.3", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not yet\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ofit or earned a surplus year by year, and of retaining in public ownership only such undertakings as made a loss, so that the Tory Party, he said, could demonstrate to the country the fallacies of nationalisation. The hon. Member for Newton was surely gravely inaccurate in his comments. The electricity boards earned a substantial surplus last year. The Tory Party has not endeavoured to sell them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " are involved. Affinity of interest is a justifiable cause for an almagamation or a take-over bid. There may well be in the case of S. G. Brown an affinity of interest with the company which buys it. It may be a question of vertical combination in industry or lateral combination in industry, but there may well he an affinity of interest which Treasury Ministers recognise often improves efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been told to sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "inity of interest is a justifiable cause for an almagamation or a take-over bid. There may well be in the case of S. G. Brown an affinity of interest with the company which buys it. It may be a question of vertical combination in industry or lateral combination in industry, but there may well he an affinity of interest which Treasury Ministers recognise often improves efficiency. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1446.3", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": " are not worth the paper of the brief from which he read them, because the purchaser can come along and certainly sign an undertaking, and honourably intend to carry it out, that he will do his best to maintain the employment of the 940 workers, and so on. But what happens if the product has a slump? What happens if somebody comes along with another take-over bid? What is the guarantee worth then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not the Attorney-General?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Newton (Mr. Lee) this afternoon. We have not had much of an answer from the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, but I understand that we are to have a winding-up speech from the Paymaster-General. I think it was on the Finance Bill about a fortnight ago that I indicated that when the Government have a really bad case the one motto that echoed round Whitehall was \"Send for Reggie\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That would be a revolution.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": ", which were quoted by my hon. Friend. We were told this afternoon that this is not a job for the Admiralty. There was no attempt, however, to answer the question of whether the Government had a responsibility. The Civil Lord was put up to speak for the Government, and if the Admiralty has so narrow a conception of the public interest, an early priority is that we should nationalise the Admiralty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " industrial relations applied in other firms in British industry, Britain would be streets ahead of her industrial rivals. That is our point exactly. This is 4 publicly-owned industry. Despite that great tribute paid to it by the hon. Member for Watford, not only the Government but also the hon. Member for Watford are conniving at destroying this very successful experiment in industrial relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e question put to him, turned to me and said: … I wonder whether the right hon. Member would like to give an assurance that before any further nationalisation he would secure the views of the workers, for example, in the iron and steel industry, and of the shareholders, including the trade unions?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd June, 1959; Vol. 606. c. 24.] I will not deal with that this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Exaggeration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "be handed over to private enterprise to get the pickings and any future inflation of share values. Do we want to see great fluctuations in share values of the firm? Do we want the management to be watching their share values all the time, to be looking over their shoulders at possible take-over bids, instead of getting on with the job of production, at which they have had such a successful record?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": " the firm is predominantly engaged in civil work it is more likely to expand if it is free from Government control. Secondly, we believe that the firm will need great further injections of capital. Even the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) nodded at that. We believe that the firm is more likely to get the capital it needs satisfactorily from sources other than annual Votes by this House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "ies. The third party is the taxpayer. The taxpayer will no longer have to provide money for the firm. As my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir P. Agnew) pointed out, the money which is provided has to be borrowed at a substantial rate of interest. The taxpayer will not have to provide money for investment in a business which, although good, is clearly of a speculative character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "e lies in its competitive strength and nothing else. Those are the reasons why we have acted as we have done, for the benefit of the firm, the Admiralty and the taxpayer. What about the objections that are raised? First, it is said that the employees may suffer. Why? Do hon. Gentlemen opposite really believe that the Government, as a matter of principle, are better employers than private industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MESSRS. S. G. BROWN LTD.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sacrifice?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "company is being disposed of by private treaty. Private treaty means competitive private treaty, like the sale of a house or of any other chattel. There has been a public announcement that it is to be sold. We shall be happy to receive inquiries from anyone and we will hope to dispose of it at a satisfactory price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1509.2", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harold Webbe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harold Webbe", "preceding_text": "ed the problem of London housing not as a matter of figures and statistics, but as a great human problem. That, indeed, is what it is and must be to all of us, on whichever side of the House we sit. We are all familiar with the kind of case that the hon. Member described—the desperate case of people who come out and say, \"What can I do?\" Our answer nearly always has to be, \"We really do not know.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1510.2", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Webbe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Webbe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady was speaking about Central London. To me, that means the City and the West End.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "is that the local authorities' estimate of 20,000 unfit houses in the County of London was an underestimate. I believe that when those have been cleared there will be more to tackle. There has been, however, a sort of undercurrent of suggestion from the Opposition that we are concentrating too much on slum clearance and that it would be better to build for general needs and let the slums continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-25", "file": "debates1959-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b3b5d38e81abd5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "f London was an underestimate. I believe that when those have been cleared there will be more to tackle. There has been, however, a sort of undercurrent of suggestion from the Opposition that we are concentrating too much on slum clearance and that it would be better to build for general needs and let the slums continue. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That was the implication of many of the arguments used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-25a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "No monkeys were mentioned in the Answer given to the hon. Gentleman last week or the week before for the very simple reason that the hon. Gentleman asked me for figures of experiments over a certain period and the period mentioned by him in the Question was one in which no monkeys were experimented on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.34.12", "colnum": "34", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "urse, was Trinidad, when the Prime Minister, in the days when he was a fallible mortal, before his deification, was called to account for his shabby sell-out of a vital Commonwealth oil interest to the Americans. During recent months United States investment in British industry has increased. I want to make it clear that we are not opposed to all American investment. A great deal of it is welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.34.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "over bids, whether they emanated from Wall Street or from Park Lane. One would have thought that they would be particularly concerned about those stealthy operations which lead to a complete change in the control of the undertaking overnight. No; they are not concerned about these things at all. Their concern is purely to play politics, utterly and deliberately to misrepresent Labour Party policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.42.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "stitute of Directors' publication reached Transport House. It may be, of course, that the Institute considers that these firms, or some of them, are prima facie failing the nation. That may be so. If not, that libel is Lord Chandos's, not ours. We are asked what we mean by \"failing the nation\". We made that clear nearly two years ago, when I said: By failing the nation we mean failing the nation\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.50.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "rily just being inefficient. Of course, efficiency will be one test, and an important one, but there are others, such as failing to play an adequate part in the national export effort, abuse of monopoly powers, unwillingness to expand efficiently in the national interest, a lack of drive in investment, bad industrial relations, failure to co-operate in Government planning measures and other tests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.50.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "h matters as employment policy, investment, exports and so on is utterly decisive to the economy. We believe, therefore, that they should be made more amenable to the needs of the public interest by being required to declare in greater detail their investment intentions and their order books, to ensure that their investment plans are harmonised in total, and qualitatively, with the national needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "me thought not. They thought that it might amount to a serious disincentive to saving. Secondly, would it bring in enough revenue to make it worth the serious administrative complications? Hon. Gentlemen opposite are seldom very clear whether, in advocating a capital gains tax, they advocate tax relief at an equivalent rate on capital losses. Would they also apply it to pools prizes, for instance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "That is really unworthy of the right hon. Gentleman. Not only is he taking his quotations from the advertisement of the Institute of Directors, but this particular quotation of the hon. Member for Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.70.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "f the party had decided its final policy on these issues. I know that hon. Members opposite do not understand the workings of a democratic party, but the particular proposal of my hon. Friend was put before the conference and rejected by the conference. Therefore, this quotation, before the party conference, does not represent the policy of the party, and the right hon. Gentleman should know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.73.4", "colnum": "73", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "I will answer that. I say straight away that I was quite prepared to vote against the Cotton Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.73.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "et us be squeamish about words. If the Government buy control of a company, that is a form of nationalising it. Do not let us beat about the bush. No amount of talk or humorous monologue such as that which we had from the right hon. Member for Huyton can conceal that it is the Labour Party's intention to take over a few hundred large companies. The right hon. Member himself said so this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "te Labour and we will tax your pools winnings\". Hon. Members opposite were very cross with me and said, \"But there is no intention of taxing pools winnings. It is only these wicked share take-over bidders, people who gamble on the Stock Exchange. They are the chaps we are after. Good luck to the people who win big money on the pools. They are all right.\" If the party opposite accepts unreservedly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": " workers and we have profit-sharing schemes for workers—the gas industry was a notable pioneer in profit sharing until the industry was nationalised and that was abandoned. We have consortia of private enterprise engaged in work overseas. It would be a major disaster to accept the creeping paralysis of State take-over bids which, in any case, are abhorrent to the British individualist way of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ng political parties to publish their accounts, and the right hon. Gentleman went on to cite the Institute of Directors and like-minded affiliated bodies, associated, as he thought, with the Conservative Party, which, also, should be required to do the same. I should like to know whether the trade unions, while they remain affiliated to the Labour Party, will be required to publish their accounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do the shareholders bring this about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": " mentioned the Dockers case in refuting the claim of the right hon. Member for Huyton that the democracy of the shareholders was all nonsense. But for every case like the Dockers there are hundreds which happen quietly behind the scenes, where, because of a difference of policy, the person who is out of step with the rest of the board quietly disappears in dignified amity without anybody knowing.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": "y that the Trinidad oil takeover was not in the interests of the country. From the little evidence I have, I should say that the Tube Investments and Reynolds Metals take-over of British Aluminium was probably in the interests of the nation. I have no evidence that boot and shoe firms, as the result of the take-over bids, have yet produced improvements in the production or sale of boots and shoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.137.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who ran away?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": " doubt that the escaped dons are very good at it. When it comes to public dirt, the right hon. Member for Smethwick has the palm. The smear campaigns of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are, as I have said, really a last resort, and they are the last resort because of the deep divisions existing on the benches opposite, not only about foreign affairs, but also, of course, about home affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "That is the subject which we are debating. We have not, as some hon. Members opposite have assumed, made a doctrinaire attack on private industry as such. What we have said is something very different—that private industry, in various ways and in various parts of it, has been falling down on the job that it ought to do. It has a rôle to play, and it has not been doing it properly and fully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "the recommendation of the Institute and were the climax to a campaign pioneered in 1954; that it was largely instrumental in securing the introduction of the single rate Profits Tax in 1958; that it was instrumental in getting the rate for controlling-directors' remuneration raised in the 1959 Finance Bill, which is still before us. This is what Pendennis, who presumably informs himself with care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.155.5", "colnum": "155", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Sir David Eccles)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Sir David Eccles)", "preceding_text": "If the Labour Party does not stick to State ownership, it cannot stick together. Unless it can go into the next election committed to extending the area of nationalisation, it goes in disunited. Then comes the dilemma. It knows, as well as we do, that nationalisation in all its varieties is very unpopular. So what is it to do? Like all modern aggressors anxious to seize their neighbour's property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.155.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D, Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D, Eccles", "preceding_text": "at the owner is now in America but to say that the staff and the employees have suffered and that the amount of money now being invested in the wells and refineries is less is certainly not so. The hon. Member also mentioned Sears Holdings, the shoe amalgamation brought about by Mr. Clore. On all the evidence we have in the Board of Trade—I have no acquaintance with Mr. Clore except a nodding one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "What I mean is that the price of shoes compared with other articles of general necessity in the clothing field have kept low—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "at or to the loyalties of those employed, and it is the manner of making those bids, which usually fail, that we do not like. But I must say this about many of the bids that fail. It is not fair to say that they do no good. The bid for Watneys was mentioned, but the important thing is that the bid for Watneys served notice on all the brewery boards that they must make the best use of their assets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "y fail, that we do not like. But I must say this about many of the bids that fail. It is not fair to say that they do no good. The bid for Watneys was mentioned, but the important thing is that the bid for Watneys served notice on all the brewery boards that they must make the best use of their assets—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It cannot be in the national interest that assets should be unused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ndirectly, millions of people are sharing in the rising value of assets in industry. The better the management the better the prospects for the shareholders, the workers and the consumers. When private industry is doing well all of them benefit; those who work, those who spend, and those who save. No family in this country is likely to get any richer by being part owner in a nationalised industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "he prospects for the shareholders, the workers and the consumers. When private industry is doing well all of them benefit; those who work, those who spend, and those who save. No family in this country is likely to get any richer by being part owner in a nationalised industry. [ Interruption .] Do the Opposition think the public prefers being taxed to pay the losses of the nationalised industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "lders, the workers and the consumers. When private industry is doing well all of them benefit; those who work, those who spend, and those who save. No family in this country is likely to get any richer by being part owner in a nationalised industry. [ Interruption .] Do the Opposition think the public prefers being taxed to pay the losses of the nationalised industries—[ Interruption .]—or buying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": " is doing well all of them benefit; those who work, those who spend, and those who save. No family in this country is likely to get any richer by being part owner in a nationalised industry. [ Interruption .] Do the Opposition think the public prefers being taxed to pay the losses of the nationalised industries—[ Interruption .]—or buying—[ Interruption .]—£80 million was the loss on the railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Wilson rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is far too much noise. Too many hon. Members are endeavouring to talk at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.160.2", "colnum": "160", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "If the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I never said anything of the kind, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The taxpayer has to find the money for the loans for the deficit on the railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The taxpayer has to find the money for the loans for the deficit on the railways—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—I wish to repeat: which do the Opposition think the taxpayer prefers; to be able to buy a refrigerator out of the profits of private industry or to be taxed to pay the losses on the nationalised industries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "t all. It is a strange thing that they dislike it when someone makes big money, but they do not mind at all when they win it. If an untaxed gain is due to luck on the football pools or the Irish Sweep, no Socialist objects. One understands why. If one does not win the prize because of bad luck it is no personal disgrace, but on the question of saving and investing and making money, brains come in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.162.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-29", "file": "debates1959-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f10e8170a05879f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "CONDITION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Any more questions?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "Sir D. Eccles rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-29a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-30", "file": "debates1959-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d41439600a303ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.226.7", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is not this really rather silly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.226.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-30", "file": "debates1959-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d41439600a303ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.226.7", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is not this really rather silly? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Does not the Conference at Accra represent a great democratic African movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.226.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-06-30", "file": "debates1959-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d41439600a303ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.240.7", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UGANDA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-30", "file": "debates1959-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d41439600a303ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "ROADS (PARKING SCHEMES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "ction (5) goes on to say: …where such provision is made subsection (3) of this section shall apply with the substitution, for the reference to the period for which payment was made by the initial charge, of a reference to the standard period. In other words, there can be a standard period and a charge made. That is the alternative under the Act, but we were talking about other alternatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-06-30", "file": "debates1959-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d41439600a303ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "ROADS (PARKING SCHEMES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "We should have some information. No doubt it may be desirable, but why has Edinburgh been selected? Is it simply because Edinburgh asked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-06-30a.421.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-01", "file": "debates1959-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "474bb68406444ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-01a.440.5", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Beer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Hurd", "preceding_text": "As this is the first year since the war that, on the whole, food prices in the shops have fallen, would my right hon. Friend tell us briefly which foods in particular have contributed to this result?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-01a.440.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.588.7", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leavey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leavey", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to my hon. Friend for that Answer. Last week, his right hon. Friend said that he would be unable to express a personal opinion. May I ask my hon. Friend whether he would express the official or Ministerial opinion? Is he aware that there are many thousands of hours being devoted to the study of the subject which many people believe are precious hours wasted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.588.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I think that the conservatism of the older universities with regard to their entrance requirements is something which this House should consider seriously because it has very great advantages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.599.5", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ional Union of Teachers, is it not rather surprising that the Parliamentary Secretary is not aware of the alarm? Will he deal with a further point? He will have seen the suggestion in the columns of The Times Educational Supplement that the Minister's intervention was a put-up job between himself and members of the Burnham Committee at the expense of the people whom they are supposed to represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.599.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.614.3", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY (STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ame extent. Nevertheless, I think that there are hopeful signs. I was agreeably surprised to see the tone of the Glasgow Herald supplement, \"Industry and Commerce\" which was published on 1st June. While giving full prominence to the dark spots in also included headlines such as: A change of mood: All set for expansion\". Exports: Scotland's broadening range\". I do not want to make too much of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "more vulnerable to swings of the economic pendulum than before. The right objective to pursue is to strive to maintain Scotland's heavy industries while, at the same time, securing much greater diversification by the introduction both of light industries, some of which could use the products of the heavier industries themselves, and of more commercial firms. This is not a new problem for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have heard that before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " objective to pursue is to strive to maintain Scotland's heavy industries while, at the same time, securing much greater diversification by the introduction both of light industries, some of which could use the products of the heavier industries themselves, and of more commercial firms. This is not a new problem for Scotland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—as I am sure many hon. Members would agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has not been late once.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " new method of charging has been adopted whereby British Railways hire a container to the customer at a flat rate and the customer can put in what goods he likes provided they do not exceed a maximum weight. All that the customer has to do is to put the goods into the container which is taken on one day for delivery in London the following morning at a flat rate. That is a very useful development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Enroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Enroll", "preceding_text": "local government services, £600,000, and a number of other items, bringing the grand total to £9,675,000. This additional expenditure should produce a useful stimulus to employment. Nor is this all. The total of public investment in Great Britain for 1959–60 is £1,607 million. Many of the programmes included in this total cover the whole of Great Britain and the Scottish share is not known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Henderson-Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Henderson-Stewart", "preceding_text": "harting the future course of our economy. It is not enough to say, \"We will put up a few more factories, in the hope that somebody will fill them.\" That-is not a policy. We hope that factories will grow up round the great strip mill development. I fervently hope they will. But this aim will not be achieved by our saying, \"There will be a factory here and another factory there.\" Plans must be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Henderson-Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Henderson-Stewart", "preceding_text": "e House by pursuing the barren argument about whether something is capitalism or Socialism. The truth is that we are faced with very hard conditions which we have to examine and we must produce some severely practical solution. We have long passed the age of laissez-faire ; similarly we have long passed the age of depending on nationalisation which in one election after another has proved no good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Henderson-Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Henderson-Stewart", "preceding_text": "lisation which in one election after another has proved no good—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, the truth is, as hon. Members opposite know perfectly well, that if we are to make a success of the industry of Scotland and indeed of the rest of the country, there will have to be a synthesis of effort, a co-operation of effort—private enterprise, local authority and Government—and we must all play a part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "As for the right hon. Gentleman, I only want to say this of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All nationalised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "y do we not talk more about the tremendous developments at Grange mouth, and of the Finnart extension, just opened, making this the first harbour in Britain to take 100,000-ton tankers? Why do we not talk more about the contracts placed by British Railways with the North British Company for locomotives? Then there are Hunterston and Dounreay. Chapelcross is now supplying electricity into the grid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "say I agree with hon. Members opposite that everything we want to happen in Scotland is not happening. I was puzzled by the final attack by the hon. Member for Kilmarnock. I was not puzzled by his attack, for I knew it would come, but there was a part by which I was puzzled. I was puzzled by the fact that he sounded as though the party opposite has another policy, has a new policy. But what is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.732.7", "colnum": "732", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " party is to direct industry to Scotland. What will right hon. and hon. Members opposite do? They will put forward various forms of inducement in precisely the same way we are trying to do, because that is the practical way of doing it. Let us not, for goodness' sake, get into a political auction ring on this, each party offering a little more than the other and saying, \"We are the better people.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.732.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-02", "file": "debates1959-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "7230cc37059b5e97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.733.8", "colnum": "733", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have been present all the afternoon. I have been here much longer today than the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-02a.733.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-06", "file": "debates1959-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "ea32fde282bf8b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I answered the Question as best I could. I said that I could not give the actual figures of coal stocks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-06", "file": "debates1959-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "ea32fde282bf8b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PRINTING INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "ing to distract the attention of people from the causes of the dispute. As we go further with automation and mechanisation there will be changes. What industry has suffered more than printing from mechanisation? It is true that it has recovered after the initial unemployment which mechanisation caused, but what industry has suffered more from the advent of machinery than has the printing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-06", "file": "debates1959-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "ea32fde282bf8b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "I merely wanted to point out that some hon. Members who have not spoken in the debate would regard it as a tragedy if the Bill did not get a Second Reading, because there are certain things in the Bill which we are not allowed to discuss but which many trade unionists regard as an essential feature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-06", "file": "debates1959-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "ea32fde282bf8b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The congestion begins at midnight when traders are beginning to approach the market in order to get some chance of being served within a reasonable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.999.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-06", "file": "debates1959-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "ea32fde282bf8b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harold Webbe", "preceding_text": "ed against it in this House. I do not want to draw any deductions from that, to assume anything in relation to it or to comment upon it. I merely state it as a fact, and I do not wish to draw any conclusions from the fact. This is a plan which we believe is of value, which we believe is feasible, which can be quickly operated and which has the united support of all the local authorities concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-06", "file": "debates1959-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "ea32fde282bf8b51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "is proposal to foist on the most heavily congested London borough part or whole of Covent Garden Market. I do not want to repeat anything which has been said before, but I tell the House that during the last few weeks I have received by post petitions from all kinds of organisations in Islington, from churches, youth clubs, Islington Trades Council, Conservatives, Labour organisations, Boy Scouts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-06a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The reply to the first part of that supplementary question is that we hope to have the material placed in the Library very soon. With regard to the second part, Mr. Kaunda has give notice of appeal in the matter, so presumably he is satisfied, as the hon. Member will see, with the judicial machinery provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman's Answer very humiliating from the point of view of the British Government and the British Parliament? Is it not the case that a Member of Parliament has been refused permission to go into a British Protectorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "New Clause.—(RELIEF FROM ENTERTAIN MENTS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "xious to accommodate. This is a very important point because, although this year the Chancellor has made a relatively small concession, we all hope that the time will come when whoever is in his place will make a very much larger one. If, as we trust, my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) is in that place next year, we shall have no trouble, because the duty will be abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "New Clause.—(RELIEF FROM ENTERTAIN MENTS DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "It would be ungrateful of me if I did not say how pleased I am to see on the Notice Paper a proposal which I have put forward in this House for many years in respect of the cinema industry. Despite the rather disgruntled view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1256.5", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "New Clause.—(EXEMPTION OF PARKING METER OPERATIONS FROM INCOME TAX AND PROFITS TAX.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it the wish of the House that the Motion be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1256.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "New Clause.—(RELIEF FOR BLIND MAN WITH GUIDE DOG.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do not spoil it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "or is aware that there is strong public feeling about this. The hon. Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Holt) raised the matter at Question Time on 9th June, and when the Chancellor turned down his request there was considerable indignation in the national Press during the next few days. I do not think that I can do better than quote John Gordon, who commented on this in the Sunday Express on 14th June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "New Clause.—(RELIEF FOR BLIND MAN WITH GUIDE DOG.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e of earning a wage or a salary. When the matter was raised at Question Time the right hon. Gentleman said, with some degree of logic, that we did not allow in our tax system any payment for getting to work. We are all in favour, for it would have opened a very wide door. We can imagine company directors and others making hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds a year out of a decision of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "NAVY, ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "No. That sounds wonderful, but I have never heard more words used to less purpose in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "NAVY, ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Here we have the same thing. I am sure many hon. Gentlemen want to get home, and to them it must seem tiresome that one should go on with this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-07", "file": "debates1959-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "6842d84c9324572e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1312.3", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "NAVY, ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The party opposite did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "t expending the money, but the party opposite failed to spend the money on the purpose for which it was voted. I would point out to the hon. Member for South Angus (Sir J. Duncan) that the issue tonight on the question of virement is whether the money was spent on the purpose for which is was voted. The point I am making is that before the war we voted money for tanks which was not spent on tanks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-07a.1312.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-08", "file": "debates1959-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbf922952ba94108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1327.9", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE (UNIFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "le for you to make some inquiries about the policemen on duty round about the House and the very heavy coats they have to wear during this very hot weather. Would it be possible for you to issue some emergency regulations so that they can take off their coats during the very hot weather? No one has spoken to me about this matter, but I have noticed that some of them seem to be somewhat distressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1327.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-08", "file": "debates1959-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbf922952ba94108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ance with it. He has been able to achieve no influence at all by his position. Indeed, we have made it clear on this side of the House, and we make it clear now—I have said so over and over again, and I want to emphasise it so that there shall be no misunderstanding—that it would be a very bad thing to try to misrepresent in the eyes of the world the British Labour Party's position in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-08", "file": "debates1959-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbf922952ba94108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "Name him", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-08", "file": "debates1959-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbf922952ba94108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cousins.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "eral negotiations going again over the whole field of disarmament. We know perfectly well that these are bound to take a very long time indeed. It is foolish to imagine anything else. Meanwhile, we must now face the very real prospect of the spread of nuclear weapons. We have known about this before, but I must confess that I did not perhaps myself appreciate its urgency until two things happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-08", "file": "debates1959-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbf922952ba94108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition objected that this was a package deal, and that we were not prepared to deal with the points individually. Yet curiously enough, that is just what we have been doing for five weeks. The first point to be settled in the package deal is the Berlin problem, and when we have disposed of that no doubt we shall be able then to pass on to the next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-08a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1560.4", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I have not gone out of my way to ignore the Co-operative movement. There are very many people connected with the retail trade who are not represented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1560.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1567.4", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I should like to do so, but we also would like to get away for our Summer Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1567.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1576.4", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANGLO-DANISH AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member is under a misapprehension. The price which may fall as a result of this Agreement if the total quantities of home produce and of imports from all sources are increased is the market price and not the guaranteed price. Under those conditions the subsidy will rise. That is why we have said that any difference in price likely to result under this Agreement will be paid by the taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1576.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANGLO-DANISH AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that arises on the statement I have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1579.4", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANGLO-DANISH AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker Does it arise out of the statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANGLO-DANISH AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put down a Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "y have other ways and means of raising these matters. I have listened to the announcement of the business for next week, and this Session of this Parliament is now almost finished. The point raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for East Stirlingshire (Mr. Woodburn) is the point which I myself wish to raise. What chance are those of us who have an important paper factory in our constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "nsider it and to convey to us the results of their consideration and there is no time for us to draw the attention of the local authorities to what is coming upon them from this Government of wonder men. It is not good enough. I want to know exactly why the Scottish Office continues to be dragged along and deliberately moulded into certain sections of English law. There is no justification for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1653.1", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "SOUTH WALES TRANSPORT BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They never are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ast numbers of vehicles on our roads which are using derv and which will use it more and more, the consumption of 24,000 gallons of derv is not a matter to which we need pay much attention. The argument about pollution of the atmosphere is false. It is common knowledge—and it should be agreed as such—that if a diesel engine is properly maintained and kept in proper order it does not produce smoke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1694.3", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "lanning permission. Does the Clause refer to planning permission to be obtained by a local authority for the use of land which it has acquired? If we can be told whether that is what we are referring to, it would considerably clear the air. We are somewhat confused by the fact that a claim for compensation may be made based upon a use other than that to which the local authority will put the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1694.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-09", "file": "debates1959-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "2974728c95aae500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1758.4", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may resume the speech I was making on the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-09a.1758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-10", "file": "debates1959-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d0709befa5cfed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-10a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. J. E. S. Simon)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. J. E. S. Simon)", "preceding_text": " me for saying so, less cogent and convincing in argument. The hon. Gentleman said that no Chancellor had ever been in so favourable a position to reduce taxation on a massive scale as my right hon. Friend—and that may be so. But that circumstance did not fall like manna from heaven. It is, very largely at any rate, the result of the policy of previous Tory Chancellors and of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-10a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-10", "file": "debates1959-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d0709befa5cfed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-10a.1829.1", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the way that the hon. Member and, I think, his hon. Friend put it. I was not trying to be unfair. I was trying to draw the distinction between that specific and that which commends itself to the rest of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-10a.1829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-10", "file": "debates1959-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d0709befa5cfed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-10a.1829.3", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "arly in August. What we are doing is to say that the tax shall be imposed by Statutory Instrument and, generally speaking, an extremely complicated provision. One has only to look at the bond washing provisions of this year's Finance Bill, or the dividend stripping provisions of last year's Finance Act, to see the intense complication that would be involved in the Statutory Instrument in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-10a.1829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.31.7", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Will the Lord Privy Seal say whether that small number of representations has come from authoritative spokesmen of the pig and bacon interests concerned? While the Government have so effectively nobbled their supporters in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.31.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.31.7", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Will the Lord Privy Seal say whether that small number of representations has come from authoritative spokesmen of the pig and bacon interests concerned? While the Government have so effectively nobbled their supporters in the House—[ Interruption .] —that there was hardly a bleat of protest from them when the Danish Agreement was announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.31.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "PROCEDURE (REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "t can encroach very much on the rest of the Business of the House. I also agree with the suggestion in paragraph (ix) that a week's notice should be given on Ten Minutes Rule Bills. Turning to Recommendation No. (xiv), I am glad to see that the Committee has adopted the suggestion that an hour should be set aside, at the discretion of the Chair, for brief speeches on the occasion of major debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "PROCEDURE (REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "e that discipline which lesser people like us do. Too often, they blow in, blow up and blow out. It has now reached the point of being an abuse, and I hope that this very reasonable idea of leaving it to Mr. Speaker to judge will be found to be enough. The difficulty with any debates such as this, covering such a wide field, is the question of selection, and unless I am to grossly overrun my time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "PROCEDURE (REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What is the matter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "Minister and not have been able to make the magnificent contribution he did towards winning the war. Fortunately, his party stopped applying these sanctions just in time to save a national tragedy which could have been caused through the enforcement of that party's discipline. I hope that hon. Members will bear in mind that this kind of thing is always liable to happen and can happen to any of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "PROCEDURE (REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " not sufficiently important, there will, of course, be cries of indignation from hon. Members opposite at the outrageous suggestion that a matter is not sufficiently important. There would be difficulty for Mr. Speaker in saying that a matter is not urgent. If we leave it to the House to decide whether a matter is sufficiently important, there will always be 50 hon. Members opposite who will rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "PROCEDURE (REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " big step in the right direction, but I hope that evidence will be taken from the town clerks. After the terrible experience of Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester prewar with regard to Private Bills, which I have not time to go into, I hope that we shall be on our guard about that. The suggestion for five-minute speeches is the most insulting undemocratic proposal ever made in Parliamentary literature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "PROCEDURE (REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Call one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": " minutes to four minutes, so that people like myself who are out of training do not have to puff up the stairs in a rather undignified way to get here and be counted as one of the forty. That is an excellent idea. But why do we have to have a quorum of that size? Are there forty hon. Members in the Chamber now? If any hon. Member called a count, I think there would be a little rush from somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "PROCEDURE (REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I was not trying to score off, or to use, the right hon. Gentleman, but I think that he has given me my case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-13", "file": "debates1959-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7749aa592f9da00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PROCEDURE (REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I should not have sat down if I had known the hon. Member for Islington, East (Mr. E. Fletcher) was going to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-13a.154.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-14", "file": "debates1959-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a80991697c375b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-14a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that his reply will give general satisfaction, because in the view of everybody I have met who heard the speech it was a classic example of what such an oration should be on an important occasion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-14a.185.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-14", "file": "debates1959-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a80991697c375b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-14a.213.4", "colnum": "213", "heading": "WHITE FISH AND HERRING INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Would it meet the desire of the House if we discussed this Scheme and the following four Statutory Instruments on the one Motion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-14a.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.386.6", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ly for other Government Departments, but if they do not change it will not be my fault. All I can say is that the savings are in time and money. For example, there will be a reduction in the number of sizes. This will mean lower stocks of paper, and standardisation over the whole country. It will also mean that when the paper is bisected one side will still have the same relationship to the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.386.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "er. From the point of view of old-age pensioners, may I ask the Minister if he is aware that there have been a number of accidents, and that for a considerable time an application has been made for a sub-post office? Is he further aware that there is considerable dissatisfaction about the matter, and will he go into it and see that a post office is provided as speedily as possible? With regard to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "isaster, which has deeply shocked the nation, and still more with the Report on it, which has deeply shocked every thinking person in the country? What does he think the reaction on his own side of the House would have been if a publicly-owned airline had been involved? Does he not think that it is a reflection on his own Department that this kind of murder by private enterprise has to take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not allow his dislike of private enterprise to colour his judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not allow his dislike of private enterprise to colour his judgment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] If the hon. Gentleman studies this matter very carefully he will find that this company had already been prosecuted by my Ministry and that, in fact, another prosecution was pending when the accident occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "hy did the Ministry let it go on flying? Had this firm any trooping contracts on behalf of the Government for the transportation of troops? Is the right hon. Gentleman satisfied that the Ministry comes clean out of this? This was a terrible disaster. I would renew the question which was asked earlier, which is, what would Government supporters have said if this airline had been B.O.A.C. or B.E.A.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to pursue this matter on party political lines. My Department is completely impartial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ioner, who perhaps qualifies at 23 or 24 years of age, should have experience of obstetrics and should spend six months in a hospital studying this specialty before practising, has not been implemented? Why has the Minister allowed two and a half months to pass since saying that he would make a statement? I am glad to see that the Minister is no longer laughing at the matter of the obstetric list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "mes in our programme have already started. I should like to add that, in addition to the new hospital and major schemes, much capital and work goes into improvements at existing hospitals which are directed at getting increased and improved service from those hospitals. For example, new laboratories, operating theatres and X-ray departments have all led to a greater and more efficient use of beds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he has not answered one of my questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "ts have given to it since its inception. I may say, in passing, that I was sorry that the hon. Member for St. Pancras, North (Mr. K. Robinson) revived that ancient red herring about the Tory Party having voted against the National Health Service. It would be just as logical to say, if the Opposition vote against these Estimates tonight, that they will be voting against the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "not an assumption which should be accepted. Lastly, I wish to refer to the position of the general practitioner who, after material construction, represents the most important factor in the National Health Service today. I hope that it will not be misunderstood if I say that the G.P. is not the man he was. He used to be more respected than he is now. He used to be a very good confident and mentor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "exaggerate in order to make my point, but I think that there is some danger of the G.P. becoming almost a medical mechanic, the chap one telephones to give one a certain note or to renew a prescription for mum's favourite medicine. His influence on personal matters is not exactly what it was. I believe that the mutual trust between the public and the G.P. has been somewhat damaged of recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "erstand that the G.P. is paid approximately £1 per patient per year. In the rural areas, such as that which I represent, making four or five journeys in a motor car, ten miles each way, and making five or six telephone calls to local hospitals to find whether there is a bed available for a patient, can soon eat up £1. That patient, if the doctor is being economic, is thereafter a dead loss to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": "ars of the Tory Government ever so much more could have been done in hospital building. There is no need for the Secretary of State to ask, what did the Labour Government do in hospital building? We had the National Health Service from 1948 to 1951, and if one examines what was done during that time one sees that by the time the Tory Party came to power almost all the teething troubles had passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": "have been done in hospital building. There is no need for the Secretary of State to ask, what did the Labour Government do in hospital building? We had the National Health Service from 1948 to 1951, and if one examines what was done during that time one sees that by the time the Tory Party came to power almost all the teething troubles had passed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and then they had the chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Serious flaws.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "hrough considering both what has been said in debate and what is said in follow-up letters. I am puzzled by the fact that, as I understand, there is an intention to divide the Committee. Why? What about? Interesting detailed suggestions have been made and there has been a general recognition that the health of the country as a whole has improved admirably. We know, of course, that there are flaws—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "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": " to the right hon. Lady's opening speech to see what the Committee could be divided upon. That was all I could discover, and it does not justify a Division. The hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North, in winding up the debate, dealt with one point which concerns us all, the provision of new hospital beds, which can never go on as quickly as we would like. Without making a party point of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ogramme will secure the balance that we need and we shall be able to release the beds at Lennox Castle. Perhaps the hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North will forgive me if I do not give detailed figures to show what is happening in North Lanarkshire, but I will send them to her. I referred to the Bellshill proposals and the other additions in that part of the country. I should like to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The trouble is that when hon. Members are given facts which refute their charges they always want to get out of it and try diversionary activities. That is understandable on the part of hon. Members who are in Opposition, but it is not good for a National Health Service debate. I want to say a little more about the Committee to which I have referred. On reading its Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.539.2", "colnum": "539", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but the right hon. Lady cannot expect me to give way again after making a remark like she did. I shall have to leave some of the points with which I was going to deal because my time has been wasted by that interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "e Piercy Committee to provide the advantages of having both medical and industrial rehabilitation facilities on one site in close proximity to an existing hospital. The new centre will be planned jointly by the Ministry of Labour and the hospital authorities and it is hoped to begin building on the site in 1961–62. That is yet another sign of extremely interesting and constructive progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-15", "file": "debates1959-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "88bca38f740984f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "and I shall take my illustrations from Scotland rather than from the United Kingdom as a whole. Do not let hon. Members opposite say that this is too small: the number of staff beds in Scotland has risen from 58,000 in 1948 to 64,000 at the end of 1958. I do not say that those are dramatic figures, but we must realise that the acute problem is to get the best beds at the right place properly used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-15a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-16", "file": "debates1959-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "84a2ad7f32cca0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-16a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ent. Then there is the Britannia. This aircraft was not started under a Conservative régime but under the régime of hon. Gentlemen opposite. The Britannia has received Government finance to the tune of £20 million for its airframe and its engines. It is a beautiful aircraft. It had its teething troubles, but what aircraft has not? It has overcome them, and it is a beautiful aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-16a.618.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-16", "file": "debates1959-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "84a2ad7f32cca0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-16a.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. members", "cue_text": "Read it again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "Let us get this clear. There was a telegram from my right hon. Friend asking that work should be placed in Northern Ireland. It did not tell the right hon. Gentleman which aeroplane to produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-16a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-16", "file": "debates1959-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "84a2ad7f32cca0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-16a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "do not have a policy. In my view, we have the best possible policy, indeed, the only possible policy we could have in this industry. We have to try to pick winners. In the Viscount, because of the partnership between B.E.A. and Vickers which developed it, we had an aircraft which sold well and made a very large profit for the Government as well as for B.E.A. The problem that faced the partnership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-16a.714.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "MILFORD HAVEN (TIDAL BARRAGE) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "In those circumstances, Sir, I beg to move, That the Milford Haven (Tidal Barrage) Bill [ Lords ] stand re-committed to the Committee of Selection with an Instruction that the said Bill be not referred to the Committee to which it was previously referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.841.18"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "I am informed that the hospital authorities have agreed that Podola should leave the hospital. He has been charged with murder and is being taken before a magistrate. In these circumstances, it would not be proper for me to say any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.873.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.873.6", "colnum": "873", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman has no right to say that this man was beaten unconscious, and he has no proof that it is so. This is a matter which I must now leave to the courts, as he has been charged with murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The man has been in hospital because he was not in a fit state to be charged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I have ascertained the facts about that. Podola made no request to see a solicitor, either at the police station or at the hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.874.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend go so far as to say what is the nature of the man's illness or injuries that made it necessary for him to be taken to hospital?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.874.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to prejudice this case. I think that it is unusual, Sir, for questions to be allowed when a man has been charged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.875.2", "colnum": "875", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "sten to the Home Secretary's plea in this regard. It is true that the line between what is sub judice and what is not is sometimes difficult to draw, but it seems to me, speaking from practice, that anything which may be said now about the previous conduct of the police—if that is the line—or the previous experiences of the man since he has been in custody might well have a bearing upon the trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.876.2", "colnum": "876", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not dissenting from the right hon. Gentleman's view as to the importance of this matter, which is one in which the House always takes a very deep interest, a vital interest. I am saying that if the man is charged, all these matters will be in the hands of the judiciary to examine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "As I said before, Podola was thought not to be fit to see a solicitor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Judges' Rules, published in 1912, and amended, I think, in 1930, deal with the admissibility of statements, and that the question of the time when a man is charged and the question of his treatment in the police station are extremely relevant for decision by the judges or the jury as to whether a statement is admissible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.880.4", "colnum": "880", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Neither does the Home Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not know whether there has been a statement made by this man or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "GUENTER PODOLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that that all can be thrashed out by the judiciary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I certainly can, because we intend, by the plans which are well known, so greatly to increase our gross national product that we shall easily be able to carry out our policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "of the roads during the very heavy rainy season. The lovable, charming and loyal people of the Cameroons are among the poorest in Africa. That road was built, not by us, but by the Germans. All the big buildings and houses and bridges in the towns were, in the main, built by the Germans. We have not done a great deal for the people of the Cameroons, in spite of their great loyalty to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Export.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "me of more importance to the world. Research is another item. The hon. Member for Halifax talked about books. I would be the last to deny people, books, but they are not much use to those who cannot read or write. I know that they may be of use to those who teach them. I do not underestimate their importance. I am happy to be associated with the hon. Member in any efforts he makes to import books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.949.4", "colnum": "949", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Beswick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Beswick", "preceding_text": "g too far in the direction of retiring or paying off too many of its skilled engineering staff at this stage, only to find later on that it has to incur further expense by recruiting and training skilled men all over again. I should like to think that a much greater effort was being made to meet redundancy by expanding the services of the Corporation rather than by reducing its engineering staffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.949.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman knows full well, the six-monthly checks of pilots are not mandatory, but something that any airline has to do as part of its proper control over safety and good management. I will explain in a moment the action we took to see that, as far as possible, those six-monthly checks were held, but if one company does not hold them the blame is not necessarily to be laid on the Ministry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": " by Independent Air Travel, of which a director has just entered the Committee My information was that it was necessary for the hon. Gentleman's company to insure the aircraft and that when it made a proposal for the insurance it had to state which was the maintenance firm. The maintenance firm was Independent Air Travel. Lloyds sent a skilled assessor, a technical man, to Hum on 24th March, 1959.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "in fact did far more than they were strictly required to do and no possible criticism attaches to them. I am not seeking to attack them, but am merely saying that the accident was at least in part due to the fact that there was no system in force in the London area to make it essential that one airport shall exchange information with another about an aircraft in distress in its immediate vicinity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor did the Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "dustry the other day showed that he takes a very much more robust point of view of this matter. I am bound to say, in passing, that I regret, and I hope that the country will take note, that from beginning to end in the speech of the hon. Member for Uxbridge he said nothing whatever to encourage the idea that we might get cheaper flying, yet that is the supreme need if this industry is to survive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.994.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-20", "file": "debates1959-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "60ca7f8c182b5a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member reads what is on the Order Paper, he will see that what has been said is perfectly in order. Otherwise, I would have stopped hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-20a.999.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1037.14", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "MILFORD HAVEN (TIDAL BARRAGE) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Milford Haven (Tidal Barrage) Bill [ Lords ] be recommitted to the former Committee and that it be an Instruction to the Committee on the re-committed Bill that they have power to reconsider their decision on the Preamble of the Bill as reported by them to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1037.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1042.8", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "ighley (Mr. C. R. Hobson), and secondly, that there is no intention in the mind of the Committee of restraining the licence which he normally enjoys in the Tea Room? This picture may need better lighting, but it is a beautiful picture and we thought, in view of the fact that the subject is the architect of the Palace of Westminster, that it should be in a place where Members frequently congregate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1042.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1043.9", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "why this control point was agreed to in view of the fact that there is the hub of a great deal of pedestrian traffic, and the parks are mainly for pedestrians? Can he state whether it is or is not the fact that prior to this Question being put on the Notice Paper no particular police precautions were taken and that it is only since it appeared that there has been an attempt to control the traffic?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1043.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1043.9", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " of the fact that there is the hub of a great deal of pedestrian traffic, and the parks are mainly for pedestrians? Can he state whether it is or is not the fact that prior to this Question being put on the Notice Paper no particular police precautions were taken and that it is only since it appeared that there has been an attempt to control the traffic? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Can he further state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1043.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "the Governors of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia consult other persons in those territories, and were any Africans whatsoever consulted before this decision was taken? Secondly, who, if it is not the Governors, will appoint the members of the Commission to come from Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland? Thirdly, who is to appoint the five Africans, and from which territories are they to come? Fourthly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"India?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "itely come from the United Kingdom. As for which countries of the Commonwealth will be involved, we have not absolutely decided that, but we all felt that it would be valuable to draw rather from those countries which are federally organised and have this problem of federation, such as Australia, Canada, the West Indian Federation or even Malaya, rather than those which are of a unitary character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he has said and the spirit in which he has approached this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1086.7", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "PIG PRODUCTION AND THE BACON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "I always like, whenever I can, to begin on a note of common agreement, and I am sure that the whole Committee will agree with me when I say that the House of Commons will be very much the poorer when my right hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams) leaves us, having announced his retirement from Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1086.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "PIG PRODUCTION AND THE BACON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "oodstuffs. We also said—and this is particularly relevant in the present context—that this could not be a substitute for orderly marketing and we should get some undertaking from the Government first that they would tackle this essential problem. Finally, we said that they should not abandon our bulk purchase arrangements with Denmark. I think that everyone in the Government would accept that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PIG PRODUCTION AND THE BACON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I do not want to pursue this at great length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "PIG PRODUCTION AND THE BACON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "tion and to know what happens in the negotiations which are at present proceeding. My complaint is that the industry has not been consulted, that there has been no opportunity for discussion. In fact, I believe that it has been deliberately misled. No one can deny, whatever the merits of this Agreement, that it is a complete renunciation of all the previous Government statements about agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1093.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "PIG PRODUCTION AND THE BACON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "In spite of the Agriculture Act, 1947, and in spite of even the Agriculture Act, 1957, we have the threat of that happening again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1122.4", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "PIG PRODUCTION AND THE BACON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "n HANSARD—in 1957 to 1958 and £21 million in 1958 to 1959. I agree with the Minister in that I do not want us on this side of the Committee to pretend that we are going to pour money into agriculture when we are returned to power. That would be a gross exaggeration, and it would be grossly unfair, but I accuse the party opposite of sacrificing agriculture to the City of London and to big industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "PIG PRODUCTION AND THE BACON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " correct when it is removed. There were many other matters raised by hon. Members which I would wish to have dealt with, but the time is very limited. I will conclude by saying that the debate will, I believe, prove useful, short though it has been, in that it has cleared the air and because it will be shown how groundless are the fears expressed about the future of pig production in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (DISABLED PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "will agree that in that speech my hon. Friend showed a wealth of knowledge, practical knowledge, of this human problem. He spoke with quiet confidence and firmness and brought to this debate a number of practical suggestions. We on this side of the Committee look forward to hearing him speak on many occasions, but we hope that his next speech will be delivered from the other side of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-21", "file": "debates1959-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c94aeed633fd7c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION SCHEMES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"His mind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "mply because they are not running, in preference to mules, which are? Compliments have been paid to the Cotton Board and those associated with it about speed, but they remind me, at any rate, of something that Dr. Johnson once said, if I can think of it. It was that if a man is to be hanged on the morrow, it concentrates his thoughts wonderfully. If anybody can correct me on that, I shall be glad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-21a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1245.9", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "MILFORD HAVEN (TIDAL BARRAGE) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Milford Haven (Tidal Barrage) Bill [ Lords ] be re-committed to the former Committee and that it be an Instruction to the Committee on the re-committed Bill that they have power to reconsider their decision on the Preamble of the Bill as reported by them to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1245.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is there any precedent for this procedure, Mr. Speaker? Here are two Questions of mine, dealing with entirely different matters. While it is true that the Minister made reference to the subject of my Question No. 46 during the debate on Monday, he gave completely inadequate and evasive replies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1257.3", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "May I therefore ask the Minister, on Question No. 46, whether it is not true that the right hon. Gentleman evaded the point in the debate on Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "May I remind the Minister of what Mr. Justice Phillimore also said, which is that it was \"too optimistic\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1258.3", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "ustice Phillimore said that it was \"too optimistic\" to leave these matters to the operating companies themselves? Further, as to my second Question, No. 47, may I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware that he told the House on Monday night that the inquest had been adjourned and that any subsequent adjournment was a matter for the coroner, but that the coroner in fact said on 28th January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1270.6", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. Harrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. Harrison", "preceding_text": "May I reinforce the representations which have been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1270.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "he members of the Commission were African it might be of some significance—were drawn from the leaders of African politics—most of whom, I must say frankly, are at present under detention—that would be one thing. If we have them drawn from the ranks of those people who are known and recognised simply as stooges of the British Government and the local governments it will be quite a different thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1302.3", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ember for Cardiff, South-East and the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition have another purpose, I think, which the right hon. Gentleman developed today. He said that there was a possibility that there might be sufficient constitutional development in the Northern Territories to allow our pledges under the Preamble to be carried out by the Legislatures in those territories themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1302.3", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n from the right hon. Gentleman and his two supporters. However, I do not wish to go into the details of these discussions, because they come out in the points which the right hon. Gentleman made. The right hon. Gentleman made three major criticisms. First, he expressed grave doubt as to whether the Commission would command the assent of the African peoples. That, of course, is an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is inquiry. That is right, for the prime responsibility rests on the United Kingdom Government. But it is surely right and proper—and here I appeal to hon. Members in all parts of the House—that Europeans and Africans, both from the Federation and from the component territories, should have a say in matters which are vital to their future. After all, it is their life and future which are at stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eir future. After all, it is their life and future which are at stake. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] There are those who say that since the ultimate responsibility rests with the United Kingdom Parliament any preliminary work of investigation should be undertaken only by a British Parliamentary Commission. Of course, there is nothing to preclude visits of our Parliamentary delegations at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Mr. John Stonehouse (Wednesbury) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1314.3", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three races.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n long history, in which the concept of Mother India as an all-embracing idea long preceded the British rule. But—and this was the inestimable advantage that British rule gave to India—the principle of a strong central Government was recreated and maintained. In Malaya we have two races, the Chinese and the Malays, almost equally divided, with wholly different backgrounds, character and tradition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Africans?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "or some time to come. Without their co-operation it will be completely impossible for us to do so. As to those who think otherwise, it is just common sense that, whatever the theoretical constitutional position may be, at the moment we in this country can no longer enforce our will by power in Central Africa against the wishes and the consent of the great majority of the European population there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ster told us this afternoon, in a speech which I thought was wholly unrealistic, that it was, of course, foolish to deny the great current of opposition which existed to the Federation in Nyasaland. Foolish to deny it? It has been denied for years from the other side of the House. For years the Colonial Secretary has been telling us that the opposition in Nyasaland was the work of a few agitators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a qualified franchise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "umbers of Europeans registered on the general roll. I do not know what other conclusion can be drawn from that statement. Let us look at what the result was. The total number of African electors for the whole of the Federal roll is less than 6,000. The total number of European electors is 86,000. Is that supposed to represent a special roll for which the Africans can qualify in comparable numbers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ing that the Federation as set up—the main structure—remains unaltered? If that is so, I belive that this venture is bound to fail, and I will say why. Sir Roy Welensky was reported on this subject in The Times this morning, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) said in what, with respect, was a most notable speech showing great grasp and comprehension of the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ey would be the kind of Africans I was speaking about earlier. If there is real objection to the word \"stooge\", I will tell the Government benches what I believe to be the real position of any African from Nyasaland who may serve on the Commission. I will do it by means of an historical parallel. He would be regarded in exactly the same way as the Norwegians regarded Major Quisling during the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-22", "file": "debates1959-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "67161a966d45c394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Once.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "We have just had a very interesting and rather illuminating speech by the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan). His tribute to some of the qualities he claims I possess, I welcome; his reflection on the absence of others can before very long be judged by a more impartial and informed electorate than he on his own could provide. The hon. Member has never held office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-22a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1487.12", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "MILFORD HAVEN (TIDAL BARRAGE) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Milford Haven (Tidal Barrage) Bill [ Lords ] be re-committed to the former Committee and that it be an Instruction to the Committee on the re-committed Bill that they have power to reconsider their decision on the Preamble of the Bill as reported by them to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1487.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1535.0", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION (STOCKHOLM DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that we on this side very much welcome the agreement, not least because the suggestion for this Outer Seven agreement first came from these benches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robots", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robots", "preceding_text": "ster-General, for which he never gives time for us to reply in detail. We are asked, \"Do you believe in consumers' freedom of choice?\" I tell the right hon. Gentleman that we do believe in consumers' freedom of choice consistent with the need to look at the social and economic needs of this nation. When we talk about consumers' freedom of choice I say right away that; we would not want to dictate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that in a moment. One of the principles of public ownership is to co-ordinate the activities of these great industries so that they serve a social purpose as well as an economic purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "In 1955 we spent no less than £80 million, very largely in hard currency, in bringing 12 million tons of coal to this country because our mining output was inadequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1577.5", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has had a close association with these matters for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does the hon. Member call it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "period of office, has proved resolute, perspicacious and intelligent—much more so than many earlier Ministers of Fuel and Power. He is my fuel and power pin-up. Various adjectives have been applied to the coal position today. Incidentally, I see that I have driven my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, West from the Chamber. Some have called the coal position grim, and some have called it hopeless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1579.1", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurrah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will know that pre-war we normally retained one quarter's reserve of coal. This is not £250 million of public money that if locked up, because from that will be deducted distributed stocks paid for by private industry, nationalised industry, merchants and householders at rebated summer prices. For example, my last task before coming to the House today was to order my winter coke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"H. G. Wells.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "We have come a long way since then. The hon. Member's trouble is that he is living in the world of 1935. I am not. I am living in 1975.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1585.3", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "orkers? He said that he would fiscally penalise oil and imperil balanced refinery production, and the £105 million worth of petroleum products which are exported, by putting a special tax on fuel oil. He has advocated that, and the National Union of Mineworkers has supported it. There are many members of the National Union of Mineworkers sitting opposite. Do they support Mr. Jones? I want to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "ank Rate and the fiscal policy imposed upon the economy by the Government, resulting in two and a half years of deflation, have been more responsible than anything else for sinking the mining industry. The economy went soaring away without any control by the Government. Then, they had to impose the 7 per cent. Bank Rate, which has played a bigger part in sinking the industry than any other factor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Speir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rupert Speir", "preceding_text": "I wrote again asking whether there were other Acts under which the Government could take action. The reply which I received, dated 17th July, reads: I will, of course, see that a close watch is kept on the position. I am afraid that there are no other Acts which could be used to assist industry setting up now in Prudhoe. If that is the position, I say that the Government must review the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "tage of coal. For the first time for more than half a century the coal mining industry found itself in the position in which its product was in urgent demand, and the demand exceeded the supply. Never in my lifetime had the industry been in that position. The boot had been always on the other foot. I want to say to the disciples of free competition, because this is one of out charges against them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1646.0", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "or an industry they seem to be frightened by it. Why did right hon. and hon. Members opposite protect the steel industry? They did not say to the steel industry, \"The consumers must have the right of choice. They must have the right to buy cheap Belgian steel if it is cheaper than yours.\" They said that we must have a tariff on steel and keep up prices. Who are they to talk about free competition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1646.1", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except the Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ardiff. Everybody had cheap coal and the consumers had their choice. What did it profit anybody in this country? I say to the industrialists, \"When you had cheap coal at 9s. 7d. a ton, what did you do with it? Did you produce a prosperous and decent Britain?\" The cheapness of coal brought the others down, and the cheapness of coal brought about a Britain of which I am sure everyone is now ashamed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": " most interesting things about this debate has been not so much what has been said from the Opposition benches but what has not been said. We still do not know whether right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite want to cut the nuclear programme drastically to assist coal. We still do not know whether they propose, if they ever have the power, to tax fuel oil heavily in order to help the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "astically to assist coal. We still do not know whether they propose, if they ever have the power, to tax fuel oil heavily in order to help the coal industry. [ Interruption .] It is what right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite did not say which is important. It is very easy to utter long and sentimental platitudes without committing oneself to anything definite. The only two suggestions which were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "g oneself to anything definite. The only two suggestions which were—[ Interruption .] We listened very quietly to the speech of the hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths), and I hope hon. Members opposite will now listen to my speech. We have had only two suggestions. Oddly enough, they came from this side of the House. They came from my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "e or two of them later, but I think it right, at the end of the debate, to bring the House back to the point raised by the Motion upon which we are to be asked to vote. This is not a general discussion of the coal industry—we have had such discussions in the past—but is, in effect, a censure of the Government for not planning. It is to that subject that I want to direct the main par) of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ons in the past—but is, in effect, a censure of the Government for not planning. It is to that subject that I want to direct the main par) of my speech. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I will direct my speech to it, although whether anybody will be able to hear it depends on right hon. and hon. Members opposite. This, of course, is part of the general discussion of Socialism versus the free economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1653.0", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "of my speech. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I will direct my speech to it, although whether anybody will be able to hear it depends on right hon. and hon. Members opposite. This, of course, is part of the general discussion of Socialism versus the free economy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I make no complaint about that. There will always be Socialists as long as there is anything left to steal——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1653.6", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "The main proposition that I want to put to the House is this whole conception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1653.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1653.8", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He cannot take it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I should like to put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that we can conduct these debates with all the cut and thrust that goes with them only of Ministers, and particularly junior Ministers, learn to be at least unoffensive or not so necessarily offensive to those on this side of the House. I want to draw your attention to the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1653.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1653.8", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "so necessarily offensive to those on this side of the House. I want to draw your attention to the fact—[An HON. MEMBER: \"He cannot take it.\"] I can give it, never mind take it. What the Parliamentary Secretary said may not have been an expression that is not to be used in this House, but it was a very offensive remark. He said that there would always be Socialists while there were things to steal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1653.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1654.5", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Lichfield and Tamworth made a very wounding and damaging personal reference to me. He did not take the opportunity to withdraw it. Hon. Members must now take it from me. The main point I want to put to the House, if I am allowed to, is this—and I think it is the main point separating the two sides. The whole notion of planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1654.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1654.5", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": " Lichfield and Tamworth made a very wounding and damaging personal reference to me. He did not take the opportunity to withdraw it. Hon. Members must now take it from me. The main point I want to put to the House, if I am allowed to, is this—and I think it is the main point separating the two sides. The whole notion of planning—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—that one can determine within 5 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1654.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1655.0", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "portunity to withdraw it. Hon. Members must now take it from me. The main point I want to put to the House, if I am allowed to, is this—and I think it is the main point separating the two sides. The whole notion of planning—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—that one can determine within 5 per cent.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—the whole notion that one can determine within 5 per cent., five years ahead——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1654.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1655.7", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "Sir I. Horobin rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1655.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1655.9", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the House wishes the debate to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1655.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.0", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.0", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"] As the right hon. Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) has indicated that hon. Members on these benches were plunderers and as the right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) indicated, or said, that hon. Members on these benches had alrealy stolen all the coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.0", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "preceding_text": " Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"] As the right hon. Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) has indicated that hon. Members on these benches were plunderers and as the right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) indicated, or said, that hon. Members on these benches had alrealy stolen all the coal—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—may we not at last call quits in this matter, and get on with the debate?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "The best efforts that the Coal Board and the Government have been able to make has reduced the amount—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "site try to turn a statistical exercise into a straitjacket. If their policy means anything, it means, that, if the circumstances change, either they will compel people to buy coal they do not want or they will produce a situation in which the coal, or the fuel required, will not be available on. fair terms. The difficulty about this debate, which has been recognised by hon. Members on both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ecognised by hon. Members on both sides—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—is that even those of us on both sides of the House who want to debate it are not in possession of the Coal Board's Plan. That, however, does not mean that we have no sort of picture of what is likely to be happening to the coal industry in 1965. In the last year we were producing about the same amount of coal with many fewer men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": " a substantial number of closures. In \"Plan for Coal\" it was expected that by 1965 the number of pits working would be between 200 and 300 less than now. These closures present a very serious problem for us all but the problem must not be exaggerated. The only chance for men in the industry to keep their livelihood is that the industry, whether nationalised or not—that is not the question tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-23", "file": "debates1959-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f2e835dc012c826d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "1965. The right hon. Gentleman was very confident about those figures. I am equally confident that he will be proved wrong. In the last twelve months—if hon. Members cannot hear they had better stop talking—no very serious unemployment has resulted and the Coal Board has done a very good job. It was possible for it to provide money to finance the extra millions of tons of stocks. Experience shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-23a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.2.2", "colnum": "2", "heading": "MILFORD HAVEN (TIDAL BARRAGE) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Milford Haven (Tidal Barrage) Bill [ Lords ] be re-committed to the former Committee and that it be an Instruction to the Committee on the re-committed Bill that they have power to reconsider their decision on the Preamble of the Bill as reported by them to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.33.6", "colnum": "33", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I heard about this only two minutes before coming into the Chamber, and we cannot agree to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.33.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is a very good mood in which to conduct relations between the two sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Member deny that in pamphlets issued by his party large businesses are described as those with a capital of £34½ million? That is a fact. Those pamphlets go on to say that the large firms or businesses should have a measure of Government control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.57.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.57.6", "colnum": "57", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "which the party opposite has issued. I recollect the name of the rather glossy one. It was called, \"The Future Labour Offers You\". The words \"Government control\" are used in that in relation to the large firms. I was endeavouring to say that there are retail stores with a capital of that size, and that I therefore presumed that hon. Members opposite intend to put Government control on such stores.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.57.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "onnected with the fact that there is no member of the Co-operative movement on the Committee which the Government have set up in connection with consumer protection. I would rather take as a reason the very first line in the Retail Trading-Standards Association Bulletin of April, 1959, which states: The question of consumer protection has a way of entering the political arena around election time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "on which was asked of her was this: In the last few years, for instance, how many specific examples have there been where advertisers have been proved inaccurate, and forced to withdraw or moderate their claims? Her answer was: There have been instances. But you are talking about straight lying, and where there is straight lying there are prosecutions. I am much more concerned with crooked lying\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "han any other? The interviewer, quite rightly, said: Not at sea; I wouldn't. That was in 1959, and, in fact, this particular sea-sickness remedy, to which she referred, is the only one which uses that particular drug hyoscine, and tests had been carried out three years before which showed conclusively that this remedy was twice as effective as any other. I have before me the report on these tests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " absolutely certain is that our decision not to have a successor to the V-bomber was a fatal decision, and those of my hon. Friends who believe in unilateral disarmament should be wholly satisfied because we have unilateral disarmament in this field. I go further. I was inclined to think that the campaign for nuclear disarmament had been subsidised by Transport House and by the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Let me at once tell the hon. and gallant Member for Croydon, North-East (Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallet) that his speech is completely irrelevant to the subject of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "th other countries. That is why I was in at the inception of N.A.T.O., and that is why all along, with my party—because it is Labour Party policy—I have supported the N.A.T.O. organisation. Hardly any information is furnished to hon. Members on the subject of N.A.T.O. If they desire it, they have to talk to General Norstad, the Supreme Commander, as I have done, and incidentally at my own expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ugh it was stronger than we had been led to believe, it was far from being in a condition of overwhelming strength. I have come to the conclusion that there is one newspaper in this country, regarded as a very reputable organ, whose information on the subject of the military strength in other countries ought to be discredited, and that is the Manchester Guardian . I would not give twopence for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.109.7", "colnum": "109", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " one round of atomic artillery ammunition. I believe the figures came from an absolutely irreproachable authority. I gather that one round of artillery ammunition in the last war cost between £25 and £30. Now one round of atomic artillery ammunition costs £250,000. If we have to face that sort of expenditure it is ridiculous to suppose that we can go it alone militarily, much as we should like to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.109.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "rtant that there should be more members than just oneself. It seems to me that a one-man club will end in a soliloquy unless the man has a split personality. I think that hon. Members opposite in desiring to form a non-nuclear club may find themselves to be the only members of the club, and the result will be that they will have an even more split personality on this matter than they have already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is not often that I suspect my right hon. Friend is absolutely wrong, but on that I think that I do. But let us assume that the thermonuclear deterrent exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.135.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " event, they must look forward to a long period of detention. There is the very well known phrase in the West Country, \"Lydford Law,\"which means hanging a man first and trying him afterwards: Oft have I heard of Lydford Law, How in the morn they hang and draw And sit in judgment after. That is the system of jurisprudence which would obviously commend itself to Sir Robert Armitage and his advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peel", "preceding_text": "Those clearly demanded investigation under the strict rules of the Service, and, if the facts warranted it, disciplinary action. It is quite wrong to assume, as I have heard it assumed by hon. Members opposite, that juniors are made the scapegoats for seniors' errors as a general procedure. If orders are not properly carried out or an operation is bungled, then disciplinary measures are justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peel", "preceding_text": "o the Security Council, and that if delay went on any longer the risks of worse trouble were very great and that therefore the best thing was to get on with the operation. It was a question of carrying out efficiently on a departmental basis in a particular case a strategy which had already been proved highly successful. There are obvious risks in dealing with desperate and sub-human individuals,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Leicester, South-East (Mr. Peel) has spoken of the morale of the Civil Service overseas, but I thought that he overlooked the fact that the morale of Africa and of this country is affected by the issues which we are discussing tonight. The very fact that at this hour we have this crowded Chamber is an indication", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " remains safely in Government House. He ought to set an example to the right hon. Gentleman opposite, because I believe that decency compels a call for resignation. What has happened to public life in this country and the Overseas Civil Service? Why are standards falling so much that apparently nothing is enough to shift people whose skin is thick enough to sit there in the face of public opinion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let us have it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " an example to the right hon. Gentleman opposite, because I believe that decency compels a call for resignation. What has happened to public life in this country and the Overseas Civil Service? Why are standards falling so much that apparently nothing is enough to shift people whose skin is thick enough to sit there in the face of public opinion? [ Interruption .] I did not hear that interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "should pass it over conveniently? I believe that in Kenya itself there is a greater desire to have the proper amends than has been made clear in this House. Naturally enough, the whole of Kenya has been content to leave these detention camps to mind themselves—out of sight, out of mind. And in any case, such large numbers of the detainees have been restored to normal life that people were content.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "preceding_text": "tary of State for the Colonies was not prepared to come to the House to answer these allegations. There are few Ministers who come to the Box as repeatedly as he to answer unfounded allegations from the other side of the House. In facing up to the problems of Hola, we must all agree that there is regret and sorrow on all sides of the House that these lives have been lost. That is abundantly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will be well aware that it is sometimes difficult to collect all the necessary evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some Tory heads should roll.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will be well aware that it is sometimes difficult to collect all the necessary evidence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, it is. The hon. Member may not be aware of the fact, but this will not be the first time that a murderer has confessed to a murder and yet no one can prove it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I never sought to disguise that, nor has anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under a Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": " South (Sir R. Robinson) speaks with his great knowledge, his financial knowledge, of the Colonics, one has the assumption that if someone is locked up he is guilty. God bless my soul, the prisons of the world have been full of people we have locked up who have turned out to be some of the great men of the world. Among those whom we have locked up are to be found Mr. Gandhi, Mr. Neru, Dr. Nkrumah—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thirty-five murders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "ko and that of Sir Evelyn Baring on anything connected with Kenya, I would take Achieng Oneko's as more likely to be accurate, honest and correct. He is one of the men locked up, no doubt on the list called \"hard-core Mau Mau\". Have we not reached the time when, if we are going to lock up men, someone should be entitled to know why they are locked up? What information is available about these men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why was it done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "islead. Autopsies were about to be conducted; the C.I.D. had begun its investigation; the truth was certain very soon to emerge. There was no possibility that the truth could be covered up, even if anyone had wanted to cover it up. It really is carrying suspicion of the Government of Kenya to an alto gether unjust extent to believe that this was deliberately designed to give the wrong impression.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ns which had taken place at Hola. Mr. Small, who had been on the mission with him, told the Disciplinary Inquiry that the report was not complete, as it was designed as an agenda for discussion at a meeting of Ministers. I recognise that these notes, read in the light of what we now know to have happened, do not, of course, give a true or a properly balanced picture. Mr. Campbell would, I am sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "d Mr. Coutts, and the Committee believed Mr. Campbell. Nevertheless, I agree that it is extremely unfortunate that the work of this three-man committee was not as effective as it should have been. I have asked the Governor to ensure that when officers are asked to prepare situation reports such as this they are clear as to the objects of their mission and take the greatest care in carrying it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ut deliberately to mislead—which, of course, they were not—they chose a most curious way to set about it. When this affair goes into history, with all the lessons which we have learned, and I certainly have learned, from it, I hope that those who have lent support to particularly vicious suggestions will reflect on the damage they have done to a public service which has served the people of Kenya—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "which has been shown to exist in the Department which is the Secretary of State's responsibility. This is a matter for his own personal conscience. Whether he thinks he can, consistently with the principles of our government in this country, remain in the office that he holds, he must decide, but I am bound to tell him that very large numbers of people, not only in this House, on both sides of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.262.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-27", "file": "debates1959-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9d68da9764aaa1fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hector Hughes rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-27a.272.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.283.7", "colnum": "283", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Milford Haven (Tidal Barrage) Bill [ Lords ] be re-committed to the former Committee and that it be an Instruction to the Committee on the re-committed Bill that they have power to reconsider their decision on the Preamble of the Bill as reported by them to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.283.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This Motion begins by taking note of the Report of the Nyasaland Commission of Inquiry and the despatch from the Governor of Nyasaland thereon, and proposes that this House should extend its thanks to the Chairman and members of the Commission for their work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. and learned Gentleman accepts that one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "May I remind the House of some of the facts the members of the Commission found. They were satisfied that by the beginning of 1959 the extremists had made up their minds to adopt a policy of violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many were killed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " are all recorded in the Commission's Report, and they confirm the correctness of the Commission's finding that at the conference Congress decided to adopt a policy of violence. The assaults to which I have referred, the threats to murder the African servant when they spilt the European blood, the threats to kill Mrs. James and the apparent attempt to kill the African Federal Member of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many were killed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s decided to adopt a policy of violence. The assaults to which I have referred, the threats to murder the African servant when they spilt the European blood, the threats to kill Mrs. James and the apparent attempt to kill the African Federal Member of Parliament—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How many were killed?\"]—all, I suggest, indicate that violence, personal violence, the killing of Europeans and Africans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In the light of these facts and in the light of this information, I submit to the House that the Governor deserves not condemnation or criticism but commendation for declaring the state of emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We accept it all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Commission, as I have said, apprehended that it would be generally agreed that the Government had either to act or abdicate and had to resort to emergency measures. I ask—the House should be clearly told—whether that conclusion is now accepted by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.322.4", "colnum": "322", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Acceptance of the Report means acceptance of this, the Commission's most important conclusion. It means the rejection of the Opposition contention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We should welcome this belated admission of error on the part of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " the Government. The only mistake that the Government have made throughout the whole of this long and tortuous history is to appoint the Devlin Commission. The Commission saw 455 individuals and 1,300 people in groups, read hundreds of memoranda and travelled thousands of miles, and spent weeks upon it. This was the Government's Commission, selected by them, the terms of reference decided by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " unanimous. There can be no doubt about this. In the course of this two-day debate we shall no doubt see tremendous diversionary effort of one sort or another, for the limpid stream of justice must now pass through the turbulent rapids of politics in Parliament.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd February, 1958; Vol. 581, c. 816.] On that occasion both sides of the House accepted the findings of the Tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "of one sort or another, for the limpid stream of justice must now pass through the turbulent rapids of politics in Parliament.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd February, 1958; Vol. 581, c. 816.] On that occasion both sides of the House accepted the findings of the Tribunal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes. I can assure Government supporters that I looked up the terms of our Amendment before I made that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.335.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : What about the Governor's White Paper?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " and others loyal to the Government… Paragraph 64 of the Commission's Report says that this statement is based upon a misrepresentation or misunderstanding of what he said\". Paragraph 14 of the White Paper reads: Dr. Banda made it equally clear … in his talks with Government officials that he was not prepared to compromise\". The Devlin Report states: This last statement is not true\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "d to rely upon the informer's letter for the quotation\". The correct quotation is given in the Devlin Report. It reads: You have heard of the so-called riots. Well, things are hot here. I have the whole of Blantyre and Zomba on fire. Very soon, I hope to have the whole of Nyasaland on fire. The Devlin Report draws attention to the fact that this was a figurative statement, not an actual statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the question of violence and riots later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e, in the Governor's mind, the choice lay between carrying on with Lord Perth's visit, as a means of lowering the temperature, and declaring a state of emergency. While the Governor was still hesitating between these two, Sir Roy Welensky stepped in as the decisive factor. He made up the Governor's mind, but it was on that day, after his intervention, that the Governor decided to cable Lord Perth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the next sentence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "so, I would refer him to the opening words I used at seven o'clock that evening: Since our exchanges earlier this afternoon, and the declaration of a state of emergency in Nyasaland, it has become abundantly clear that the powers which the Governor of Nyasaland asked for are necessary. In my very first sentence, I said that it was becoming abundantly clear that the powers asked for were necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "hat the powers asked for were necessary. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the next sentence.\"] Yes, of course, I will read the next sentence. I will read the whole speech if hon. Gentlemen opposite wish. I still think, looking back on it, it was a pretty good one. Since the declaration of the state of emergency, but not before, rioting has broken out, Is not that true? tear gas has been used\"— Is that untrue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.383.2", "colnum": "383", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "preceding_text": "He was a professional war soldier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.383.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Read the last sentence.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "together he fired three bursts of three shots each. After the first burst he was aware it was not firing on repetition as it should have been. In the half light he assumed that the figures were men, but, in fact, one was a woman with a baby on her back. The woman was killed, but the baby was unharmed. We do not think that this shooting was done wilfully; but we are clear that it was not necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.383.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "opper Belt. These facts are well known to the Nyasas and that is why they look askance to the case for economic advance so often put forward from the benches opposite. That is one of the reasons that they are so determined to get political advance as well as economic advance, so often promised to them, but which actually does not mean much in practice to the Nyasa worker or peasant. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.398.3", "colnum": "398", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "or some twelve years and I have great admiration and respect for what he has contributed in that time. The Governor's reply should have been printed with the Devlin Report, but probably there is some technical reason, apart from the printers' strike, why that was not done. It would have put the Report into better perspective. I do not know whether it is yet too late to do something about that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.398.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "ity between the races and many Africans are therefore high in its councils. It does not eschew politics and many of its ministers are also active members of Congress. On this issue, it feels that it is with the people and against the Government. The Church believes that it raises a matter of principle touching the dignity of man and therefore refuses to regard the economic argument as conclusive\";", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "rtain when he made that speech that the Government was wrong in what they were doing in the matter of Federation and Nyasaland. I want to give a statement of Dr. George MacLeod to the Government. I hope that they will accept what he says. When the Report was published he said: The outstanding issue—remains the future peace of Nyasaland. That is my concern and the concern of all of us on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Acquired?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will have time later to put the case for the Opposition. I shall not give way now. We are the inheritors. My right hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary, the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan), and all hon. Members are the inheritors. We have inherited the responsibility which has come down to us from those persons who acquired this Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": " stage when he can make a sensible judgment, he is not permitted to have the vote. I only hope that we can learn something from the past and that, with the emergence of Africa, Africa will learn a lesson from Europe. Are we to go back to the small warring tribes? Do we want on the great Continent of Africa small nations split up into various pieces and kinds? Our responsibility is to prevent that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "t. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite apparently want that, but they seem to me to be continually going back to what happened in the past. Time is needed to see that Africa should develop in a way that Europe has not developed. Federation holds out a hope, if it is a true partnership, and if it is an ideal sincerely believed in, which I trust and believe that the people of Africa will take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was killed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "at he did not know what was happening around him. I am quite unable to see the distinction between beating and killing Europeans, on the one hand, and cold-blooded assassination, on the other. I do not know what would be the difference to the corpse. I should have thought that where there has been evidence of intention to beat and kill, that would be sufficient to say that there was a murder plot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.412.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Mr. Braine rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.417.5", "colnum": "417", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The hon. Gentleman is repeating statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.417.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Mr. Braine rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "racter of the Commission in the first place. All that we needed to do was to read the Report, on the ground that we should have in it a statement of fact upon which we—as the Commission itself says—could formulate policy. Why has that not been done? Would it not have been much more dignified and honourable for hon. Members opposite for once to forget their party interests and remember the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "or so scrupulously observing the request I made to him that I should have an unusually long time in which to reply. When I asked for that, I thought that this was to be the culmination of a rather bitter personal attack upon me. I have been reading for a long time that it would be impossible for the Secretary of State for the Colonies to remain in office after the publication of the Devlin Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "n Report. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Now however, the grounds of the attack seem entirely to have changed. The right hon. Member has come to the House and said, if only I were prepared to say that the particular interpretation put upon the \"conspiracy of violence\", referred to in the early part of the Report, was correct, all would be well and we could go on living and working happily together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "iracy of violence\", referred to in the early part of the Report, was correct, all would be well and we could go on living and working happily together—[An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that at all.\"]—in what the right hon. Gentleman was pleased to call, in one of his choicest phrases, this \"squalid\" Parliament. I do not believe that this Parliament will go down to history as a \"squalid\" Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "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": "n Administration. If the right hon. Gentleman did not like to say so personally, after five years' experience of such an Administration he would no doubt arrange to do so through the columns of Tribune , and would probably call it \"That dried-up Parliament\". The right hon. Member said at the start of his speech that he had had enough of quotations, but he proceeded to give very lengthy quotations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Empire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "s—[ Interruption .]—one from Lord Malvern and one from Sir Roy Welensky—two quotations not, of course, from the Report, nor, above all, from the Governor's Despatch, to which neither he nor the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) nor scarcely any other hon. Member opposite has referred in the whole of this debate. May I remind hon. Members opposite that if ever the colonial empire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "mains, absolutely legal, but to attempt to assert contrary views by force of arms or by violence creates a wholly different situation. I must apologise to hon. Members for my voice. I hope that all hon. Members can hear me. It would be easier if I had a little more silence for what is, after all, judging by the newspapers, a very important day in my life. I ask hon. Members to be a little quieter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " of the Commission's own long inquiries, and that was one of the reasons why we set up the Commission. The Government had no reports of gagging being used except in one arrest. He was picked up in that particular district. Without knowing the full facts no action could have been taken. Now that they are revealed, I and the Nyasaland Government are very sorry indeed and deeply regret what occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am quite ready to say it. I had hoped to be able to develop at length an argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Police State.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ody who was, as the Commission says, the unquestioned leader of Congress could not possibly have been left in ignorance of what was, in fact, agreed at the meeting of 25th January when, as paragraph 166 disclosed, the extreme elements in Congress went over to a policy of violence. Under those circumstances, there can be no possible suggestion of treating Dr. Banda differently from other detainees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "NYASALAND (REPORT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abdicate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "e State.\"]—and I am pleased to say that the Governor, who is responsible in these matters, will have my full support in ensuring that, while we are all anxious to bring the emergency to an end as soon as we can, there cannot be releases of detainees who are dangerous to the State until that danger has been withdrawn. At the start of my speech I said the Government had either to act or to abdicate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "LEGITIMACY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "o deal with it—Lord Denning introduced it rather attractively, saying that it was, in effect, the last step in amending our laws of marriage and legitimacy. He was talking about Clause 1, but he changed his view when this Clause 2 was introduced. It was he himself—I am only adopting his argument—who pointed out that this new Clause was for the first time introducing polygamy into our Constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-28", "file": "debates1959-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "1cffe761831b50b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "LEGITIMACY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Archbishop?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "hange the whole shape and character of society. I think that I and my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Bolton, East were the only two in the lobby who voted against the Second Reading of the Bill. I am not of the same religion as my hon. and learned Friend, but, nevertheless, I find it difficult to understand how, in a Christian society, the proposal embodied in Clause A can find acceptance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-28a.466.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the Committee on the re-committed Bill that they have power to reconsider their decision on the Preamble of the Bill as reported by them to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ve these Committees in the House of Commons, it is important that they should be treated with respect? I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that instead of coming here and saying that he has nothing whatever to apologise for, would it not be better if he had a little Parliamentary docility and humility and said to the House of Commons that he is sorry he did what he did in the heat of the moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear from that reply and from the earliest exchanges which have taken place that the Minister still does not regret the fact that he made this speech outside the House and that these so-called apologies which he has made are really those of a petulant child whose vanity has been offended?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Richard Nugent)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Richard Nugent)", "preceding_text": "r of great progress in mechanical and engineering development as the Report records. Indeed, our own eyes now confirm it wherever we go throughout the country on our rail services. I should like to say a word of praise to the Commission and to the railwaymen, from top to bottom, for the tremendous job that they are carrying out in modernising services and, at the same time, keeping them operating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "g their general policy of supporting the Commission in completing the modernisation of the railways. Perhaps the outlook is less promising than it was, but we are still convinced that this country needs a rail service and needs it modernised as quickly as possible. We believe that the prospect now given is firm enough to build on. Here, perhaps I might say to hon. Gentlemen on the Liberal benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "dernisation of the railways in their day. I should imagine that it was because they did not have the financial resources available. It is useless to say that this is simply a matter of years. They governed according to their political beliefs and the result was that the nation's earning power was restricted. The nation's earning power has expanded in the last four years under good Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "n us some indication in the past of his ideas on future policy for the railways. I hope that we are going to hear a very full explanation today. If hon. and right hon. Members opposite put down a hostile Amendment let them describe how they would carry on the programme for the future. What the hon. Member has told us before is that his party would renationalise road haulage and control C licences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "ill go into more detail and tell us how it is to be brought about The more the hon. Member talks about it the better we shall be pleased, because it will find no favour in the country. Already, the nation has voted twice to show that it will not have it. Obviously, it is determined to do so for a third time, so I hope that hon. Members opposite will give us a very full dissertation on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "ort-term advantage because, of course, that would clip the wings of road haulage and give a share of its present traffics to the railways. But even that advantage would be brief, because the record shows quite clearly that a Government committed to policies of nationalisation will quickly be in financial disaster again. Then there will not be the capital resources to modernise the railways at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "olicy on workshops. I shall not go into that in detail now. I am sure that hon. Members interested will make speeches on that. My right hon. Friend and I have had representations from hon. Members on both sides of the House about both the railway workshops and the private workshops. We have been told by hon. Members on both sides that both of these are being treated more favourably than the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ssion publishes diagrams comparing present results with those of before the last war, and that, I think, is the significant period. That result is certainly not true of any consumer goods produced by private enterprise. This is a nationalised industry which, in real terms, has succeeded in keeping the cost of its services below the pre-war cost. That, of course, is due to the increased efficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": "That has not been the experience in France, which has probably the most efficient railway service in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "preceding_text": " other words, the mere integration of public services would not be enough. There would still be very great difficulties. Unless hon. Members opposite are prepared to go much further than saying that they will increase the charge for the C licences, which was the policy suggested by the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Lindgren), and are prepared to set up what would virtually be a police State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "preceding_text": "rom taking the steps which any ordinary businessman conducting his own business would have been allowed to take. I remember the famous occasion of the London County Council elections when the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) refused to allow fares to be raised when the Commission had made out a complete case for raising the fares. He was playing party politics with the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "have seriously underestimated railway deficits. Nothing was said about this from the Opposition benches, but it is only fair to Sir Brian Robertson and his colleagues to say that the plan on which the House lent the Commission a great sum of money would still be running very much as it should have been had it not been for the complete failure of the nationalised coal industry to sell its products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-29", "file": "debates1959-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f8a3f5a6a20603b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ay man and the hope of a railway system that will in the end pay its way. I accept that the Socialist Government may have been in financial difficulties that did not allow them to do as much as they wished for the railways, but I must say in fairness to the railways that had more modernisation been done in those early years after the war, their position today would have been immeasurably improved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-29a.622.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-30", "file": "debates1959-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f22a6c065bbe820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.649.7", "colnum": "649", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Milford Haven (Tidal Barrage) Bill [ Lords ] be re-committed to the former Committee and that it be an Instruction to the Committee on the re-committed Bill that they have power to reconsider their decision on the Preamble of the Bill as reported by them to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.649.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-30", "file": "debates1959-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f22a6c065bbe820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "While we agree very much with the last words of the Home Secretary's statement, is it not the case that in a matter like this in which there is genuine difference of opinion, it is a great pity to try to drag party-political issues into it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-30", "file": "debates1959-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f22a6c065bbe820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "SCOTLAND (PAPER-MAKING INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "When we were discussing the Free Trade Area for the 17 countries, we had consultations with the papermakers, who told us that, after giving the matter a good deal of thought, because Sweden was in the 17, on balance, they were in favour of the Free Trade Area of the 17 countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-07-30", "file": "debates1959-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f22a6c065bbe820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "SCOTLAND (PAPER-MAKING INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ce it includes the biggest paper exporters in Europe, but excludes the big consuming countries of the Common Market. I believe that these fears are exaggerated. About one-fifth of the United Kingdom paper industry's output is newsprint, which is duty-free and will not be affected at all. At the other end of the trade, there are whole ranges of specialist papers which are proof against competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.727.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-30", "file": "debates1959-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f22a6c065bbe820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, MILFORD HAVEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Donnelly", "preceding_text": ". Deputy-Speaker, I have had nothing but kindness, courtesy and fairness from you while you have occupied that Chair. If the shadows of a General Election should fall before I have an opportunity of addressing you again in that old familiar place, I should like you to know that you will always occupy a very warm place in the hearts of hon. Members in all parts of this House over which you preside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.731.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-07-30", "file": "debates1959-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f22a6c065bbe820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, MILFORD HAVEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Taylor", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will allow me to intervene, as you know, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, it is not customary for brother Scots to compliment each other, but I should like to join my hon. Friend the Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) and associate my hon. Friends from Scotland with the sentiments which he has expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-07-30a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-09-18", "file": "debates1959-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3b7dcfe55b4abb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-09-18a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "RETIREMENT OF MR. SPEAKER MORRISON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "sion, when we are passing from the sphere of performance to the land of promises, I should like to seek your advice, and I crust that you will forgive me if I should try very briefly indeed to outline the background in which your advice is sought for the last time so far as you are concerned but not so far as I am concerned. Since we rose, in my Division redundancy has been increasing continually.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-09-18a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-09-18", "file": "debates1959-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3b7dcfe55b4abb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-09-18a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "RETIREMENT OF MR. SPEAKER MORRISON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "mongst the draughtsmen and threatened amongst the miners, but that this redundancy does not accord with the promises that the Prime Minister has been making so lavishly. Might I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he will now tell the House how his promises, so lavishly given, accord with the actual facts of the situation that present themselves to me in my Division and throughout Scotland as a whole?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-09-18a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-20", "file": "debates1959-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ee41f0b6022c1b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "preceding_text": "om the Sovereign having been delivered in another place, it is our duty to elect our Speaker from among our Members. I therefore beg to move, That the right hon. and learned Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton Hylton-Foster do take the Chair of this House as Speaker. The office of Speaker is the highest office that we can offer to any man. It is most important, therefore, that we should deliberate together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-20", "file": "debates1959-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ee41f0b6022c1b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "preceding_text": "y man. It is most important, therefore, that we should deliberate together—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—to find the right man. Historically, this office originally was an office of the Sovereign and, in the days gone by, for the Speaker to be a messenger from the King to this House rather than a messenger from this House to the King. As time went on, the office of Speaker tended to become a party matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-20", "file": "debates1959-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ee41f0b6022c1b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.3.1", "colnum": "3", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "preceding_text": ", and he has won the argument every time. I believe that this saving grace of wit and humour, which is so essential to turn away wrath, is pre-eminently an essential part of my right hon. and learned Friend's character. For all these reasons, Sir Edward, I believe that the House, in spite of all the difficulties regarding consultation, will come to the conclusion that here, in our own strange way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.3.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-20", "file": "debates1959-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ee41f0b6022c1b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Cary", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Cary", "preceding_text": "ved so generously, ably and sincerely by my hon. Friend the Member for South Angus (Sir J. Duncan). This is the third occasion on which I have had the privilege of participating in the proceedings and ceremony of the House in electing a new Speaker and selecting from among our midst one whom we deem most fitting. Anyone outside, uninstructed and uninformed, may think that this is a mere formality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-20", "file": "debates1959-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ee41f0b6022c1b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "n. Members opposite, was, as I told him at the start, very unlikely to accept; and, as I think is generally known, my right hon. and learned Friend decided to decline the honour of allowing his name to go forward. What the Leader of the House was saying to me in so many words was that there was only one Member of our party who in the opinion of hon. Members opposite was fitted to occupy the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-20", "file": "debates1959-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ee41f0b6022c1b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rty issue in which there is a party battle on our very first day. Had it been in order, we should have divided against the proposal to elect the right hon. and learned Member for the Cities of London and Westminster, not for any personal reasons whatever but simply on principle, because we feel that the procedure has not been what it ought to have been. In fact, it is not in order for us to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-20", "file": "debates1959-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ee41f0b6022c1b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "I hope that no one on the other side of the House will mistake the very deep feeling which we all have on this side upon this issue. We consider that this has been made a purely political appointment, and that the Leader of the House has been rather smug about it. He made an offer to one person from this side of the House who, after all, could not accept in the long run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-20a.11.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Do not pull it over your eyes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "preceding_text": " this House I proudly represent Bradford, a city of workers, a city of industry. There are those who scoff at the grime of our industrial cities with their factories and their mill chimneys, but there is beauty in honest toil, beauty in honest sweat and beauty in the honest striving to maintain a family, just as surely as there is in any painting. The name of Bradford stands for wool and textiles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "nts and a continuing improvement in standards of living based on increasing production and a rising rate of investment. I think that nobody is likely to challenge all those things as an aim. The question is whether they are really a pious hope or a serious prophecy. I am bound to say, on the basis of our experience of the last few years, that it looks to me as though they will remain a pious hope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "f we look back over these last four years, I must remind hon. Gentlemen opposite that we have had no fewer than three balance of payments crises, in 1955, 1956, and 1957; that the record for production in the four years 1955 to 1959 is just about the worst of any industrial country in the world; that after stagnation for three years we then went into the worst period of unemployment since the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "done, and done quickly, and should be accompanied by a similar increase in the other insurance benefits. Reference is made in the Gracious Speech to housing. There is a promise that we are to have more houses. What is the intention of the Government with regard to council houses? It is more council houses that are wanted if we are to clear the slums quickly and if we are to deal with overcrowding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " Youth Service and so on, but the crucial issue here in the field of education, and the issue which divides the House, is the simple one as to whether we are to go on with the 11-plus examination. I ask the Government for their views on it. In my opinion it must be done away with. I do not think that either parents or children like it. I think it is a bar to genuine equal opportunity in education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d progress and it is that policy which my colleagues and I tried to put before the country at the election, and it is that policy which we propose in the House to develop during the next five years. Perhaps the most significant feature of our economic affairs at home, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, has been the achievement at one and the same time of stable prices and full employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "icularly buoyant feeling right through that great industry. Savings, which are the essential complement, indeed the foundation, of investment expenditure, the only safe foundation of investment expenditure, are continuing to show the buoyancy of recent years. During the last nine months, employment has risen by 350,000. There has been a fall in unemployment from 2·8 to 1·9 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.72.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.105.4", "colnum": "105", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "I am talking about the manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.105.6", "colnum": "105", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "cil houses. There is one thing that could be done in this respect, and I think that I shall get the hon. Gentleman's agreement about it. Why do not some of the local councils take much stronger steps to remove from council houses people on a higher income level who have no right to occupy them at all? It is really a disgrace to see, as I did recently, a Jaguar car standing outside a council house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.105.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "I can easily answer that but I do not want to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "ging back corporal punishment. I can assure hon. Members that I am not exaggerating the strength of the public indignation and the strength of feeling in Manchester on the question of these crimes. The question I was asked over and over again during the election, and have been asked since, almost to the exclusion of anything else was, \"Are the Government going to bring back the birch and the cat?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Even if I accept that the pension today has the same purchasing power as 26s. in 1947, which was the highest purchasing power it ever had when hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite were in power, then in that case—and I am for the moment giving the hon. Gentleman his figures, which, in fact, I do not agree—our record is equal to their own at its highest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.183.11", "colnum": "183", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Being quite objective? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "on which perhaps we shall find more unanimity. I really think that if we cannot do better with our radio and television political programmes than we did this time we ought to drop them altogether next time. Speaking for myself—and here I am not singling out one party as against another—I did not see all the programmes, but those I saw were puerile, infantile and some of them positively nauseating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.183.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.183.11", "colnum": "183", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "s, but those I saw were puerile, infantile and some of them positively nauseating. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Being quite objective? \"] I heard it suggested, I believe by Mr. Morgan Phillips, that it would be a good plan if the party leaders at the next election had to face questions from their political opponents and had to defend their policies against criticism. That sounds to me to be a very good idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.183.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-27", "file": "debates1959-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "07812199e09f4b12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "ROYAL AIR FORCE, ADEN (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Mason", "preceding_text": "not my intention to speak for as long as I should like. I have previously raised the question of conditions of service in Aden with the Minister. Let me first say to the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. John Hall) that to say that we had a vague impression when we left that all was not well is a masterly understatement. To say that morale is high among officers and men is contrary to my point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-27a.198.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.211.4", "colnum": "211", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might open my remarks by expressing on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends, and, I am sure, right hon. and hon. Gentlemen in all parts of the House, our felicitations to the Home Secretary upon his marriage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Therefore, I would suggest, in an entirely non-party spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The best single way of accomplishing that, in my opinion, is to allow the backbench Members of the House of Commons to have a chance of moving Motions on a Wednesday when we are likely to get an audience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": " in our respective lobbies. That is quite a valid criticism, especially during the last ten years since I have been a Member when party majorities have tended to be rather small and precarious. We have had to accept these things; but the power of the Whips can be very frustrating indeed to back benchers. They like us to be seen in the Division Lobbies but they do not like us to be heard in debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Free vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": ", to bring forward more legislation for our benefit. I do not believe that after eight years and with four or five years to come there is such a mass of important Government legislation that we cannot be spared a day for Motions as well as for Bills. For these reasons, I must honestly say that I cannot vote for this Motion. For the present Session, inasmuch as the Government have made their plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A, Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption ,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A, Butler", "preceding_text": "s less. The Committee did not do the mathematics: they are mine. It said that this was a small loss, but did not take into account the inroads which opposed Private Business used to make into the time of private Members. The result is that under the Motion I have moved today there is approximately the same amount of time for private Members as there would be if we returned to Standing Order No. 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "—yet, during the General Election, they said that they had put wages up. There is another reason why they cannot fall back on the gambit of wage restraint. During the election they have all preached the doctrine of the free-for-all, the unqualified laws of supply and demand, every man for himself—not planning but the doctrine of greed, of naked economic power, and the \"Damn you. Jack\" philosophy.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "of us who have any knowledge of shipbuilding—like the hon. Member for Sunderland, South, I have a considerable number of shipbuilding workers in my constituency—and know the problems, realise that the industry is moving into a deeper and deeper depression. The House will have to debate the industry before very long, and I hope that the Government will give us some hope that something will be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "rase which he used; I took it down. If we look at the facts, where has the expansion been? Compared with last year, cotton textiles are up 4 per cent., wool textiles 14 per cent., made-up clothing 14 per cent., motor cars 19 per cent. and commercial vehicles 44 per cent. In steel and chemicals, both basic industries, output is more than 15 per cent. up in both cases. It is not an accurate picture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": ". According to the right hon. Gentleman the Government had said that it was impossible to provide a bare minimum of subsistence for the old-age pensioner. Once again, I remind the right hon. Gentleman, as we have done in the past, that the real value of the old-age pension today is worth more than 10s. a week more in genuine purchasing power than it ever was when he and his colleagues held office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ver was when he and his colleagues held office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] That is statisically provable and cannot be denied. Looking at the figures, one sees that the increase in the purchasing power of the old-age pensioners as a group has kept almost exactly in line with the expansion in the purchasing power of the community as a whole. We have kept faith entirely with the old-age pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. H. C. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Labour League of Youth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. H. C. Leather", "preceding_text": "n, in the critical years between the ages of 15 and 17, the environment of a factory of some kind is probably the most important influence on the lives of these young people. If they are fortunate enough and, thank God, the majority are, to have good and wise parents, to belong to a church or some youth organisation, even fortunate enough to belong to the Young Conservatives, they have some guide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "r for East Stirlingshire (Mr. Woodburn)—in conveying the sincere feelings of the House to the hon. Member for West Stirlingshire (Mr. Baxter) and congratulating him in the first place upon his maiden speech. We congratulate him much more on the great fortitude and courage he showed under adverse conditions and give our assurances to him that we look forward to hearing him again on other occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "t Bench opposite this afternoon we heard nothing about the actual direction of industry, which everyone knows inevitably means also the direction of men and women in time of peace. Therefore, if hon. Members opposite have either not made up their minds on the subject, or will not declare themselves on the subject, they must support the Government's proposals for attracting industry to those areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-28", "file": "debates1959-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "0c47a3f5f8e0ab4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's grumble, as I understood, was that now unemployment has been created in the coalfields by the Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-28a.350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who opposes it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "We should be perfectly willing to do so, the moment the matters concerning control posts are settled—and I think that they can be settled quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Or Mr. Khrushchev.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "nterested to notice yesterday at the atomic test talks in Geneva that Mr. Tsarapkin was asked a question which I asked the Prime Minister here in the last Parliament, namely, what would be the effect of any agreement to stop atomic tests which was made between Britain, the United States and Russia if France began tests? He was unable to give a reply, as was the Prime Minister unable in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Antony Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Antony Head", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) has made a highly controversial maiden speech from the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman. I knew he initiated a debate. I did not attend, but I read the debate and I had made a rather lengthy speech on this same subject in the defence debate just before. We do not want to score points off one another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The Government's.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "e? When I came back from Asia I thought I would go to see people about this. But who to go to? Who had responsibility? The Colonial Secretary?—a bit. The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations?—a bit. The Foreign Secretary?—a bit. The Treasury?—a bit. Suppose this House were to rise in its wrath and say, \"The British effort and our approach to the problem is disgraceful.\" Whose fault is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.425.7", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "er, but then, at the last General Election, I fought them. At the General Election the right hon. Gentleman sheltered under their umbrella. He now pretends for the second time that he has now seen a great light on the road to Damascus, he now sees how to appeal to those people in the East. He sees the Russians' master plan. He lectures to us about it. Goodness gracious me, we knew a long time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.425.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.425.7", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "dy on that side of the House will listen. This idea on the other side of the House that this is something one discovers when one is sacked from office, and is short of something else to do, really will not do. It is a matter of political philosophy and the Opposition fought the election on this. We undertook to provide 1 per cent. of the national product every year for the benefit of these people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.425.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not more?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I wish hon. Members opposite would listen. They do not understand. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carshalton was attacking them. I am now answering the attack which he made upon them. We undertook to provide 1 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.426.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and learned Gentleman reads his own speech in HANSARD, and if he has not changed it in the interval—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. John Profumo)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. John Profumo)", "preceding_text": ", the speeches have been constructive, and I should like to give the House an undertaking that if I am not able to mention them all they will be studied with the greatest possible care. I listened with the closest attention to the speech of the hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey). If I may say so, it was a Cassandra-like speech. He went all round the world making mischief and prophesying woe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profomo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profomo", "preceding_text": "he House some examples so that it can judge whether or not I am being unfair. The hon. Gentleman talked about the dangers of a Summit Conference. Indeed, there are dangers, but as my hon. Friend the Member for Bute and North Ayrshire (Sir F. Maclean) said, it was really the party opposite which has been putting forward for so long the view that the answer to every problem lies in a Summit meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-29", "file": "debates1959-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2b2f82b18798625e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "ls, it would be my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy. If it was a question about investment in underdeveloped countries and it was a foreign country, my right hon. and gallant Friend should address his inquiry to my Department. If it concerned a Colonial Territory, it would be the Colonial Office, and if it concerned a Commonwealth country it would be the Commonwealth Relations Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-29a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-30", "file": "debates1959-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "fe587b435d52c948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hill", "preceding_text": "than is being done at the moment, but because that tax is there they are unable to do so. I represent the County of Midlothian, the premier county of Scotland, a county which has great political traditions, the county that returned to this House one of the greatest Premiers Great Britain ever had, Mr. Gladstone. I should like to make a passing reference to my predecessor, the late Mr. David Pryde—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-30", "file": "debates1959-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "fe587b435d52c948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hill", "preceding_text": " Midlothian, the premier county of Scotland, a county which has great political traditions, the county that returned to this House one of the greatest Premiers Great Britain ever had, Mr. Gladstone. I should like to make a passing reference to my predecessor, the late Mr. David Pryde—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"]—who, I understand, was a very respected Member of this House, respected on both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-30", "file": "debates1959-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "fe587b435d52c948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Trying to get away?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "in 1938. Now it could come out of the pigeon-holes and nobody would be very upset. It would be very helpful if during the next five years the Government would care to look at the problem of a by-pass, not only there, but also in Dawley. This brings me to another reason why we are particularly proud of Shropshire. After all, the first man to swim the English Channel—Captain Webb—was born in Dawley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-30", "file": "debates1959-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "fe587b435d52c948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "e British Railways, or the Government via British Railways or the Transport Commission, present a Bill to install this marshalling yard at Walcot contrary to the wish of the entire farming community, the local residents and the county N.F.U., I shall have to do something that I have not yet had the pleasure of doing in this Parliament, and that is to go into the necessary Lobby to vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-30", "file": "debates1959-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "fe587b435d52c948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.609.3", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "e wider topic of leisure, which, of course, concerns every one—the old even more, perhaps, than the young, and people of all professions, trades and jobs. The point that I want to make is simply that in the future, once we have got away from the fear of unemployment, once full employment is really established in this country, which I believe can happen only when there is again a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-10-30", "file": "debates1959-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "fe587b435d52c948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Donald Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Donald Johnson", "preceding_text": "e can possibly represent that it is an ideal place in which to spend one's leisure hours. In fact, I think that one of my most barren memories is when I had a complete day's leisure in Manchester, and I was possibly prevented from going up and down coshing old ladies only by the fact that I had a very charming lady companion with me. I remember that in desperation, for want of anything else to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-10-30a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-02", "file": "debates1959-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "be3eda15bf4709ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I shall, of course, consider any practical and sensible proposal which is; put before me from any quarter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-02", "file": "debates1959-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "be3eda15bf4709ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " Governors in a few days' time. I think I am right in saying that the anxiety that lies behind the Amendment, and which was expressed by the Leader of the Opposition in the speech to which I have referred, is essentially the same as the anxiety behind the proposals that were put forward by Congress leaders in September 1957. Paragraph 28 of the Report of the Devlin Commission puts it very clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-02", "file": "debates1959-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "be3eda15bf4709ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ution. It seems to me that at this distance in time it would certainly be premature to indicate how the delegations from the Northern Territories to this Conference may be chosen, but it is equally premature to assume, as I thought the Opposition Amendment did—perhaps I am wrong—that any such delegation would be drawn solely from the Government Benches in the Legislatures of those two Territories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-02", "file": "debates1959-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "be3eda15bf4709ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " light of the information provided by the Committee of Officials and of any additional information the Commission may require, to advise the five Governments, in preparation for the 1960 review, on the constitutional programme and framework best suited to the achievement of the objects contained in the Constitution of 1953, including the Preamble. The last three words are of very great importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-02", "file": "debates1959-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "be3eda15bf4709ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "e, would it not be possible to repeat the same experiment as in Nyasaland and have perhaps Barotseland and Bembaland as predominantly African states, again within the Federation? That is in some degree a confession of failure of the idea of multi-racial partnership but I believe that it is a possibility to which we should not close our minds. The Amendment on the Order Paper talks about secession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-02", "file": "debates1959-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "be3eda15bf4709ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Beamish", "preceding_text": "I noticed that Guinness shares went up as soon as my right hon. Friend the former Colonial Secretary left the Government and rejoined the Guinness board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.731.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-02", "file": "debates1959-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "be3eda15bf4709ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.767.5", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It can be said on two counts that the party opposite bears a very heavy responsibility for the African opposition which exists. First, instructions were given to our representatives on the spot in those two territories in 1950–51 not to explain federation to any African who wanted to know what it was all about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.767.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-02", "file": "debates1959-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "be3eda15bf4709ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hola.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "in the Colonial Territories as well. The problems of Africa certainly provided a major plank in its political platform, and I would remind hon. Members opposite that we would be entitled to assume that the result of the General Election meant rejection of the policy put forward by the party opposite and justification of the policies followed by Conservative Governments during the last eight years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-02", "file": "debates1959-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "be3eda15bf4709ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "AUCHENGEICH COLLIERY, LANARKSHIRE (DISASTER FUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ffected because either the dead or their dependants lived in these areas or in contiguous burghs, and it was this fact which created an interest in the sense of Section 339 of the Act. As the hon. Gentleman knows, approval has been refused to the County Council of Fife and also to the County Councils of Midlothian, East Lothian and Clackmannan, and the Town Councils of Dundee, Lochgelly and Doune.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-02a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.825.6", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ng time and nothing has been resolved. Is the Minister aware of the operatives' position? First, if they leave a firm without written permission they may forfeit the whole of their right to compensation, even if they leave because they are told that the firm intends to close. Secondly, if they want to leave and have another job, the employer is entitled to refuse them permission to leave. Thirdly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.825.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.842.6", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Before we go on to Question No. 25, Mr. Speaker, may I ask for your guidance on Question No. 24.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.842.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "rty opposite has been consistent with the national well-being. The party opposite has won victories before and the consequences for the nation were calamitous. It won in 1931 and its massive majority here presided over massive industrial decay in the country. The party opposite won in 1935 by a very large majority and made its peculiar contribution to the policies that led to the Second World War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "y and made its peculiar contribution to the policies that led to the Second World War. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I had not thought it necessary to arm myself with the quotations, because I thought that the speeches of the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) were familiar to Members on both sides of the House. I could also have armed myself with the speeches of the present Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " representative government with setting aside sufficient of the national income in order to expand productive resources. I say at once that the party opposite has failed as signally as we failed because its Parliamentary majority has been consistent with industrial stagnation. It has solved half the problem. It retained political popularity at the expense of the industrial resources of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And I.T.V.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "se. In fact, there has been nothing more humiliating than to see Members of Parliament in responsible positions selected by unrepresentative persons to have an opportunity of appearing on the radio and the television. In my opinion, there is something essentially squalid—I use the term \"squalid\"—in Members of Parliament beginning increasingly to rely upon fees provided by bureaucrats in the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "ating than to see Members of Parliament in responsible positions selected by unrepresentative persons to have an opportunity of appearing on the radio and the television. In my opinion, there is something essentially squalid—I use the term \"squalid\"—in Members of Parliament beginning increasingly to rely upon fees provided by bureaucrats in the B.B.C. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And I.T.V.\"] Yes, and I.T.V.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.860.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "because I recollect very well that when the Prime Minister was on the back benches he used to make a series of very interesting speeches. I have a copy of one here. I can remember listening to it. It could almost have been said in relation to the present Address. On 14th November, 1938, speaking about the party to which he belonged—I am not certain whether he had not resigned from it at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is nothing new.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ill have to face the facts more and more. Industrial organisations all over the country, and the membership of the trade unions in particular, have taken their own note of what has been happening. If employers are entitled, in effect, practically to set aside the law of electoral expenses then they themselves are entitled to hit back in their own way. I am bound to say it. I know it is unpleasant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "Yes, but it was agreed by all parties that after the war a major step forward was justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.892.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why did not the hon. Member say this before the election?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "e position at home, what do we find? The hire purchase debt has increased by £800 million since the credit squeeze ended, which should be a warning signal to us all. I wish to ask my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, through my right hon. Friend, whether, if inflation really starts again in this country—and I fear it—he will reimpose credit restrictions and increase the Bank Rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "emand of you.\" That problem has not been solved, and the prospect of offering something extra for nothing to the old-age pensioners was rejected at the last election. I appeal to hon. Members opposite in this way May I put this to them and to the right hon. Gentleman? His party will never get the ear, the voice and the vote of the people of this country until it can recapture its earlier idealism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They can switch off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "fficulty, something that he himself referred to only the other day when he warned hon. Members, and particularly new Members of the House, of the: … endless hours of infinite boredom, almost limitless stretches of arid desert …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 28th October, 1959; Vol. 612, c. 215.] stretching in front of them. I think it is a little unfair to unload all that on the general public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-03", "file": "debates1959-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b3ed072c411f766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.963.7", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " 8 million people; that is to say, between one-fifth and one-sixth of the total population. I have no time to go into this in detail tonight and I will say only one thing about one class: one of these classes of people living in less fortunate conditions than the rest of us are those who are living in bad housing conditions. Here I must point to the slow rate at which slum clearance is proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-03a.963.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-04", "file": "debates1959-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "f5d65b1840ab43a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1009.4", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I shall do my best, but I do not think the hon. Member need worry unduly, because Tories have always kept their election manifesto promises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1009.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-04", "file": "debates1959-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "f5d65b1840ab43a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1016.4", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "preceding_text": "May I ask a supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1016.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-04", "file": "debates1959-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "f5d65b1840ab43a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the very unsatisfactory answers that the Minister has given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-04", "file": "debates1959-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "f5d65b1840ab43a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the very unsatisfactory answers that the Minister has given—[ Interruption .]—I am sorry but, indeed, we do think that they were unsatisfactory—and in view of the present unsatisfactory position whereby we are not able—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-04", "file": "debates1959-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "f5d65b1840ab43a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the very unsatisfactory answers that the Minister has given—[ Interruption .]—I am sorry but, indeed, we do think that they were unsatisfactory—and in view of the present unsatisfactory position whereby we are not able—[ Interruption .]—under the present rules to press him on this kind of subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-04", "file": "debates1959-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "f5d65b1840ab43a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I am asking a simple question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-04", "file": "debates1959-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "f5d65b1840ab43a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Ministers collectively are responsible for these negotiations, of course. That is the answer that the hon. Member must have known that he would get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-04a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-05", "file": "debates1959-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7b9e69766d7f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is quite correct. That was stopped in 1949. I will note what he has to say, but I am not quite certain that the public would relish the idea of a twice-yearly register, which would inconvenience them in many respects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-05", "file": "debates1959-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7b9e69766d7f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1192.3", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "It is a long-standing principle that electors should vote in person except where circumstances more or less outside their control prevent it. What my hon. Friend suggests would be a far-reaching and dangerous proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-05", "file": "debates1959-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7b9e69766d7f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1202.4", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Rigged by means of vast expenditure of money in the possession of the wealthier members of the community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1202.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-05", "file": "debates1959-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7b9e69766d7f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1202.5", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Threats.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Rigged by means of vast expenditure of money in the possession of the wealthier members of the community? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members will permit me to put my supplementary question. Is it not a fact that if we cannot retain the authority of the House, then, of course, people will try to redress their wrongs in other ways?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-05", "file": "debates1959-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7b9e69766d7f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "We have two days and that should be sufficient time for the Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-05", "file": "debates1959-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7b9e69766d7f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1246.3", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "atures of the makers of British films? The Clause is rather long-winded. Why should a British film be obliged to state the place where it was made and the name of the person who made it, which may not convey a great deal to an audience? Why should it not say, wherever it is shown, \"This is a British film\"? What is the objection to that? I think that I have said all that is necessary at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-05", "file": "debates1959-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7b9e69766d7f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1269.4", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "ting out to do in the Bill. Several hon. Members raised the point that the passage of this technical Bill will leave the film industry subject to three different Acts of Parliament. This is confusing and I am glad, therefore, to inform the House that we intend, shortly after the passage of the Bill, to introduce a consolidating Measure, which, I hope, will give pleasure to both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-05", "file": "debates1959-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7b9e69766d7f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "automatically he pays no Income Tax on the sum which is given to him? If that may appear, as I have suggested, to be a grudging attitude, how can we get round it? I suggest that the way to get round it is simply to allow the Lord High Commissioner to incur what he looks upon as necessary expenses for his ceremonial affairs, and to send the bill to the office of the Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-05", "file": "debates1959-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "6b7b9e69766d7f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": " will be two Assemblies in Scotland. That means additional expense. Even though the second Assembly will possibly be for only a matter of two or three days it involves opening up Holyrood. As someone raised the point, I should make it clear that the cost of opening up Holyrood for the Lord High Commissioner to go into residence is not an expenditure that could be charged to Ministry of Works Vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-05a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-06", "file": "debates1959-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "2130245eb4aa934d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-06a.1343.8", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Robert Allan)", "preceding_text": " than those who speak for the Foreign Office from this Bench, particularly, perhaps I may say, by those who have to answer his searching questions on the subject. That the right hon. Gentleman has received the Nobel Prize for Peace will give great satisfaction to his many friends and admirers on both sides of this House and far outside it, and I should like to offer him my warmest congratulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-06a.1343.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.28.5", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that this is a scandalous position, that the McNair Report was issued years ago and that the recommendations for new schools were made very forcibly? Is he not going to do something, even in this age of successful effort on the part of his Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.28.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "May I say to the Minister that it is no good fobbing this matter off by talking about emphasis in that way. He is emphasising the fact that he is looking after the teeth of the people of the country. Why does he not see that funds are provided for those who have to educate the people in the proper use of their teeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": " employment generally, but to deal with the special problems of individual areas. We believe that we should start from the assumption that the economic and industrial expansion of the country should proceed freely in response to growing and changing consumer demand and that it should proceed on the principle of the most effective use of our national resources, especially in competitive conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "e matters is to mitigate, for social and human reasons, some of the industrial consequences which might normally flow from an entirely free expansion of the trade and industry of the country in competitive conditions in an endeavour to meet changing consumer demand. What are the assumptions upon which we must work? We must first assume that one cannot direct a particular industry to any set place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give a date for that. I think it right for us to get the powers first before we start to use them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend leaves the problem of the menace of great conurbations, will he make it clear that in London there is a very real problem that we are not attracting the newest industries; that we are already deprived of the opportunities of training the young; that it is about ten times as difficult for a school-leaver to get an apprenticeship or a job leading to a skilled occupation in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "entral planning. In the end, it means Government planning, and I hope that we may now see an end of this arid, sterile debate between those who are for and those who are against public control, for it seems, if we are to judge by what the Prime Minister said twenty-odd years ago, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer said last week, that we are all in favour of strategic planning and public control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.96.3", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ndustry may be lying fallow for a particular purpose, uncompetitive for the moment but with prospects in two or three years—is it right that the Board of Trade should waltz into that situation—it may be a dingy old factory not employing many people—and take it over by compulsory purchase and give it to someone else who comes along and who may be closely associated with or a friend of the Ministry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.96.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.96.3", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "hought, was coming to an end. Do we want to use the taxpayers' money in order to stuff new industries into these demarcated areas, or do we want today, in a more enlightened and open age, to redistribute industry from those towns, to take the old industrial heart out of the town and put some playing fields, some open spaces, some beauty and gaiety in its place? Do we want to use the State's money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.96.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": " much from the hon. Member for Barry about the new powers and how flexible the new legislation is. The Explanatory Memorandum states that The Bill repeals the Distribution of Industry Act, 1945 to 1958, and replaces their provisions by increased powers for providing employment in any locality. … I have looked carefully at the Bill and I do not see any increased powers affecting my own area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.112.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-09", "file": "debates1959-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e273df48d71e6649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "That is the same thing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "What my right hon. Friend said was that the global figure would not differ greatly from the present one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-09a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.180.6", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "But surely my right hon. Friend will agree that few of us want the fantastic prizes offered by the pools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.180.6", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "But surely my right hon. Friend will agree that few of us want the fantastic prizes offered by the pools—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—nor, indeed, would it be good for us to have them, but £10,000 would come in very handy to all of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "r for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser) has made a speech which, I admit, has put more life into this debate than there was yesterday. I listened carefully to the hon. Gentleman to discover whether there was substance in his speech. What did he do? He went over history, as I also will do, and then talked of all the things that we want done in Scotland, but not once did he explain how he would achieve them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "My speech must develop in its own way. Why, with all the great thinking done by the Opposition during the last eight years has it not moved one step forward from where it was when it left office? It is because it has no constructive suggestions to make. Let me make this clear, too. It is recognised in Scotland that the Labour Party has nothing constructive to offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look at the benches behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ecause it has no constructive suggestions to make. Let me make this clear, too. It is recognised in Scotland that the Labour Party has nothing constructive to offer.[ Laughter .] Yes, I have heard remarks made already in this Parliament about the sweeping Labour victory in Scotland. I suggest that those who use that phrase should look at the figures of total votes cast between 1950, 1951 and 1959.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is not an election speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " offer.[ Laughter .] Yes, I have heard remarks made already in this Parliament about the sweeping Labour victory in Scotland. I suggest that those who use that phrase should look at the figures of total votes cast between 1950, 1951 and 1959.[An HON. MEMBER: \"Look at the benches behind you.\"] If hon. Gentlemen opposite will only listen for one minute, and will study the figures of all those years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "nd you.\"] If hon. Gentlemen opposite will only listen for one minute, and will study the figures of all those years—[An HON. MEMBER: \"This is not an election speech.\"] The hon. Gentleman says this is not an election speech, but what was said by his hon. Friend was very close to being an election speech. The Labour Party today is still between 70,000 and 80,000 votes down on its total vote in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "That may be so in particular areas, but I am demonstrating that our methods are producing results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.234.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "How can the right hon. Gentleman possibly say that it would not be appropriate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "The provision of additional employment. This is a point which can be carefully discussed in Committee. I am sorry that I have gone on longer than I intended, but the hon. Member for Hamilton made some very provocative remarks in his speech, and he would expect to be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": "debates, I feel that he was rather less than fair to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and also less than fair to the Bill, especially in view of the fact that, as far as I know, hon. Members opposite do not propose to divide against it. I thought that the hon. Member for Hamilton made a very violent attack on a Bill of which, as far as I know, hon. Members opposite approve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "to show that that legislation is not now appropriate to the new sort of problems which we face. I ask the Government to think again on this. In Committee, we will try to amend the Bill broadly along the lines that my hon. Friends and I have discussed during Second Reading. I suggest, however, that now they have won the election the Government should forget all about the things they said to win it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "from the operation of the 1958 Act, and have tried to embody some of those lessons in the Bill. There has been much criticism from hon. Members opposite about the extent to which the legislation was used in the early years, from 1951 onwards, but if one looks at the figures of unemployment in those years—from 1952 right up to 1957 and the beginning of 1958—one finds that they were very low indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " be the upper ceiling? We are entitled to know why no figure is mentioned and, before we give the Government the right to take moneys for the purposes of this Bill, to be told how much money they think will be spent. I could go further. I think that I am entitled to ask how much money is to be spent on ( a ), ( b ), ( c ), ( d ), ( e ), ( f ) and ( g ), but I have no desire to delay the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " appropriate to the needs of the locality. I should like that to be cleared up. I should like to know which is the correct interpretation—the interpretation of the President of the Board of Trade yesterday, or that of the Secretary of State for Scotland today, neither of whom, I would add, was very clear. However, that would be the fault of the brief rather than of themselves. Now I come to ( f ).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-10", "file": "debates1959-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a059741e647d49db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "terms of this Money Resolution, because in one of the paragraphs of the Resolution it says: making, in accordance with recommendations of an advisory committee, loans or grants for the purposes of undertakings carried on or to be carried on in any such locality. I trust that the right hon. Gentleman is not telling the Committee at this stage that those undertakings would exclude public enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-10a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-11", "file": "debates1959-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "90ee7d0e968d46c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" The Guardian \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "According to the Manchester Guardian —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-11", "file": "debates1959-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "90ee7d0e968d46c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "is predecessor and by the Home Secretary in the House, both in the course of considered policy statements and in reply to Questions? Is he not aware that his predecessor repeatedly declared, in the most categorical terms, that there was no possibility of defending the civil population of this country in the case of nuclear attack and that therefore defence would have to be limited to the airfield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-11", "file": "debates1959-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "90ee7d0e968d46c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "r repeatedly declared, in the most categorical terms, that there was no possibility of defending the civil population of this country in the case of nuclear attack and that therefore defence would have to be limited to the airfield—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—whereas the Home Secretary, when he was asked what bearing this statement had on civil policy, said in the House in reply to a Question by me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-11", "file": "debates1959-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "90ee7d0e968d46c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "d the Committee that what we on this side have been saying for a long lime is quite practical and that if the farmers like properly to use the adult labour which is available and to study the economics and proper organisation of the job, they not only can lift the potato harvest, but they can do it more cheaply and leave the children at school. That is the case we have been making year after year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-11", "file": "debates1959-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "90ee7d0e968d46c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.559.5", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON-YORKSHIRE MOTORWAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "Up to that time we had all been unable to agree. I think that Yorkshire Members and the people in Yorkshire generally have been very disappointed at the delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-11a.559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-12", "file": "debates1959-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "f7371c6e54737acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.571.4", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not help his case by his vehemence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.571.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-12", "file": "debates1959-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "f7371c6e54737acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.572.7", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I have answered the Question on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.572.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-12", "file": "debates1959-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "f7371c6e54737acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.575.5", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "articularly into the use of electronic controls on machine tools; that there is increasing competition from Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the United States and especially from Russia, where they are commencing the mass production of automatic machinery; that the British industry employs far too few university graduates, having recruited two last year when the German industry recruited five hundred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.575.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-12", "file": "debates1959-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "f7371c6e54737acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "Relating to business, does not the putting down of a Motion of censure on a trumpery police case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-12", "file": "debates1959-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "f7371c6e54737acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mr. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT (ANSWER TO ADDRESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "the Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell). Why is it that a Member of Parliament can work very hard in this House for twenty or thirty years—and, in the case of one man I know, can become a Minister—and find that when he leaves it through no fault of his own, probably because of boundary redistribution, because of his age he is unable to get a job, whether a governorship, or some other sinecure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-12a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.788.5", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Those are two rather different questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.788.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO PARIS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "In my talks with General de Gaulle I did not discuss that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A free vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ts against their being led into excess. Social legislation of this kind must take into account the great variety of ways of thought, temperaments and modes of conduct to be found among ordinary people. No Government could claim that in this they had any monopoly of expertise and it is natural that we should look to the collective wisdom of Parliament for much assistance in the shaping of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.842.3", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "dustry which directly touches the lives of more people than does any other industry in the country. Its ramifications are beyond description. The Press and publicity organs like radio and television all pander to the power of the gambling industry. We had a recent illustration. Even the B.B.C., by announcing the betting odds at the beginning of a race, or by announcing the starting price, I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "g greater anomalies. When people ask why it should be wrong to make a cash bet with a runner whom one knows, in the corner of a public house that one frequents, while it is right to telephone a bet to a man whom one has never seen, of course they are right in saying that it is an absurd position. I do not seek to defend it. I start off, as I explained, as a Nonconformist regarding sin as a gamble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "is Bill—this person knew the bookmaker; she called him by his name, which I will not repeat—and going up to town and giving the money to an agent or to someone she has never seen? Is this tidying up the law? Does this deal with the problem? This is only playing into the hands of the big moguls of the gambling world. The betting shops, I believe, will add to the domain of the big gambling emperors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.847.8", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ure to which they give high priority, bringing it forward so soon in the Session. Another point to which I wish to refer is the character of the relationship between the police and gambling. Everyone knows that it is a happy relationship at present. It is a strange man or a very innocent one who does not know of the assignments and appointments that are made. I am not criticising the police force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.847.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morrison", "preceding_text": "hance of winning the Derby and other big races, and I think if would be a great pity for the sporting traditions of this country if that were not possible. Before coming to one or two matters arising out of the Bill itself, I would observe that the hon. Gentleman the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) is not with us in this Chamber. I am sure that all hon. Members regret that he is unable to be present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morrison", "preceding_text": " the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) is not with us in this Chamber. I am sure that all hon. Members regret that he is unable to be present. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Many years ago now I followed him in debate and congratulated him on his maiden speech. I have not always since then agreed with him in debate, but he has had a serious operation, and we all wish him a speedy return to this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-16", "file": "debates1959-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "6335c573f3a94449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "f breaking the law. The fact is, however, that, broadly speaking, all off-the-course bookmakers betting in any public place or on their own premises face to face, so to speak—and not remotely by telephone, telegram, or post and on credit terms—have been and are breaking the law. One particular bookmaker may have been charged, and convicted, another may not. That is more or less a matter of chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-16a.867.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How long?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "It is because all these matters seemed to me to need looking into that I appointed the Pritchard Committee last year to present a report to me. That Report was published a few months ago. It was unanimous. It is now under consideration and we are anxious to receive the views of all interested bodies or individuals before reaching a decision on what legislation may be necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.960.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he has a very bad name in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, notwithstanding all these fine assurances, the housing situation in London is worse now than it was in 1951?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.968.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many landlords are now demanding extortionate rents, and, because of the housing shortage, can get them? For instance, a house in Salford rented at 8s. 9d. without bath, hot water or inside toilet rose to 15s. 4d. under the Rent Act, a new tenant came in and the landlord is now demanding and getting £2 10s., a week plus repairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.974.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.974.9", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I should doubt that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.974.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Prime Minister is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You will recall, Mr. Speaker, that this is the third occasion now in two weeks when I and, I suppose, a large number of other right hon. and hon. Members have come here to listen to the Prime Minister answer Questions addressed to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Might I put this for your consideration, Mr. Speaker? Since this problem will arise whichever Minister is answering first at Question Time, is it possible for you to consider with the usual channels whether some of the Questions which are purely constituency Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Might I put this for your consideration, Mr. Speaker? Since this problem will arise whichever Minister is answering first at Question Time, is it possible for you to consider with the usual channels whether some of the Questions which are purely constituency Questions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and cannot be as important to the whole House as Questions on international affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two runners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "ll wasting our time. This is a thoroughly bad and unworkable Bill, as almost everyone who has spoken so far has said. It is a Bill which I accept on Second Reading because, in my view, the present law is extremely bad and we have here an opportunity to put it right. But we shall never do that if we cannot have the Minister there. Without the Minister, there will be two lumps of inertia against us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is the runner?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "as simple and as uncomplicated as possible. To do that, we should legalise street betting. It should no longer be an offence. I do not believe for one moment that to do that would lead to an increase in betting. Anyone who wants to bet will find the means to do so. Even in this Palace of Westminster it is not unknown for anyone to be able to get a bet on at any time of day should he wish to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "py to say, has gone from our midst. There are certainly vested interests, but the really delightful thing is that there is practically nobody representing those vested interests in the House of Commons today, except, perhaps, a few racehorse owners, and we know who they are, and they are a very nice crowd, and they have been open and fair about it. We are in that remarkable position. The third is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": "es not interfere with a man's work, which is something that can happen with horse racing, and, by and large, I consider it the lesser of the two evils, if one is prepared—as apparently is the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. G. Thomas)—to think that anyone who enjoys himself is doing something wrong. The hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) gave us a long lecture tonight and said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are you on the Committee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": "e racing, and, by and large, I consider it the lesser of the two evils, if one is prepared—as apparently is the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. G. Thomas)—to think that anyone who enjoys himself is doing something wrong. The hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) gave us a long lecture tonight and said—[ Interruption .]I am afraid I have only a minute or two more in which to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": " wrong. The hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) gave us a long lecture tonight and said—[ Interruption .]I am afraid I have only a minute or two more in which to speak—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Are you on the Committee?\"] I have no time, I have got to go racing. I used to go racing a lot when I was a soldier, but since I became a politician I hardly go to a race meeting at all, except Ascot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-17", "file": "debates1959-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "5b2488ba400d4048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why have them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "ore people will be apprehensive, but, equally, in this debate the view has been expressed that these betting offices will not catch on. I am certain that owing to the extent and increase of credit betting, the use of the telephone and of the factory runner there will be nothing like the same need for betting offices in this country as there is in other countries where they are already established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-17a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That kind of supplementary question makes me wonder whether the hon. Gentleman is trying to make mischief,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "With great respect, that is not a reply to my Question. Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman accept the three points laid down by the Minister of State on 19th February—first, that Germany should be reunited within a framework to be agreed and guaranteed by the four Powers\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "With great respect, that is not a reply to my Question. Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman accept the three points laid down by the Minister of State on 19th February—first, that Germany should be reunited within a framework to be agreed and guaranteed by the four Powers\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I am quoting. Secondly— It is not our position\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": ". and learned Gentleman accept the three points laid down by the Minister of State on 19th February—first, that Germany should be reunited within a framework to be agreed and guaranteed by the four Powers\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I am quoting. Secondly— It is not our position\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I am quoting. I am entitled to quote. We must get an answer to this very important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": " particular, I notice that it has been said, in the Press, at any rate—it has not yet been repeated, though it may be later—that if an ex-Speaker is offered another post under the Crown the expectation that this might happen to him might injure his impartiality in his great office. I would say in advance, in case this is aired again during the debate, that that innuendo should be utterly rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "f the annuity, and often the two are linked together. On the annuity, I will take the comparable example of an ex-Lord Chancellor, who receives £5,000. When the first Earl of Birkenhead retired from the position of Lord Chancellor he was criticised by the Socialist Party of the day not because he undertook any public office, but because he went into the City and took up a great many directorships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": ". He quoted various examples of law lords who, in the past, had drawn the whole of their pension without undertaking any judicial duties. He quoted one law lord in particular who had given up the annuity for a time for private reasons and had then claimed the whole pension. Lord Birkenhead concluded that neither in law nor in morality was a pension conditional upon the future discharge of service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "e Labour Party. To quote Lord Birkenhead again, a very distinguished predecessor of hon. Gentlemen opposite wrote to him: My dear Birkenhead, I am sorry to hear that you are leaving our goodly company of unjust men making other people perfect. May you make money and find peace. If you do, pray let we know, for it is high time that I began the same quest. That letter was signed by Ramsay MacDonald.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1188.8", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman cannot help but be mealy-mouthed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "he same way as I voted for the pension of your distinguished father-in-law, Mr. Speaker. I believe that that is the view of all hon. Members on this side of the House. Mr. Speaker Morrison himself has said that the House must decide. Therefore, the House will not expect me to be mealy-mouthed about this matter; nor can Mr. Speaker Morrison, after appearing on television, expect to be thin-skinned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1188.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1188.8", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "goes on to enumerate a considerable amount of expenditure which is allowed. I appreciate that it is no use quoting these figures out of their context. I appreciate the hon. Lady's knowledge on this subject, but I put it to her that the governor-generalship should be offered in such terms that anyone, whatever his means might be, could receive it without the idea that he would be approaching penury", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1188.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Any appointment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": " about what has happened on this occasion. Very often in Parliament we have to say to ourselves, \"Well, I would have liked this or that to happen, but as circumstances are it cannot happen. How within the forms of the House can I best and most honestly express what is in my own mind?\" For myself, I consider it most unfortunate that an ex-Speaker of this House should have accepted this appointment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "entioned in this debate, and it is very relevant. When the Deputy-Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means retired, nobody asked what would happen to him. As the last Deputy-Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means was Sir Charles MacAndrew, who was also a Member for Ayrshire, I want to suggest that Sir Charles MacAndrew did a very great deal of sheer drudgery work in this Chamber for very many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ord Shawcross. To my surprise they confirmed the opinion that I had given. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will make it quite clear that in these matters each Dominion approaches the Crown direct. I am sure that it would be a grave embarrassment to Her Majesty's Ministers in Australia, in Ghana, and elsewhere if it were thought that the approach to the Crown was through Her Majesty's minions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1212.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GARRATT v. EASTMOND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "de Union movement, when solicitors act for members of a trade union they will not settle any case, whatever the union may think, without taking written instructions from their client. In this case we are entitled to ask, in view of the special position that the officer obviously is in, being under the authority of a superior officer, whether written instructions were taken from the police officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1249.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1250.7", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GARRATT v. EASTMOND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "n the one hand, denying that one is liable and, on the other hand, conceding the plaintiff's claim to the extent of paying him money. I realise the difficulty which hon. Members are in, but I am advised that it is not an uncommon situation in litigation. The position is that there was not and is not an admission of liability. That, as any lawyer will know, is an exact description of what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1250.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GARRATT v. EASTMOND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has rights too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "in anybody—in the right hon. Gentleman, in an inspector, or in a chief of police—to refuse a charge of a constable? The essence of a constable's office is the authority and right to prefer a charge. What about Mr. Rix? What has happened to the charge against Mr. Rix? Why has it not been proceeded with? Was he or was he not exceeding the speed limit? Also, what about the charge against Mr. Garratt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GARRATT v. EASTMOND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No one has said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "ay, except that I should like to add that I think we should all welcome the statement which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has made today. We ought also to recognise the courage required to make it. There will be people who will say—I hope that no one in this House Will say it—that his decision to have an inquiry into the whole subject is a method of getting out of this Motion of censure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GARRATT v. EASTMOND", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "There may be some hon. Members who would like to say it. At any rate, I sincerely hope that will not be the view of the House. Those hon. Members who have put their names to this Motion, those very important gentlemen who have signed their names, are not present at the moment and probably they will not be in the Chamber during the rest of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GARRATT v. EASTMOND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who was the constable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "r Mr. Plesner is lying or the policeman is. The jury acquitted the motorist and the remaining charges which had been adjourned at the magistrates' court were never proceeded with. That case lasted three days in March, 1958. It cost the innocent motorist nearly £200 to get himself acquitted. Mr. Plesner's counsel, incidentally, was Mr. Richard Body, who was then Member of Parliament for Billericay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-18", "file": "debates1959-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1d8eccc5eb0b492c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GARRATT v. EASTMOND", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He jumped?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": "uage, because the evidence as to what occurred was disputed. If I may give a short example, it was said by one of my hon. Friends that Police Constable Eastmond assaulted Mr. Garratt. Police Constable Eastmond's version, in fact, is very different, but there is no independent evidence and no independent witness of what led to Mr. Garratt being in the hedge. The versions are entirely contradictory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-18a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-19", "file": "debates1959-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "331cb87627155b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-19a.1318.5", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "No I will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-19a.1318.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-19", "file": "debates1959-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "331cb87627155b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-19a.1322.11", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is not present.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer the hon. Member straight away. I shall have to look into the matter and then I will do so. Wing Commander Bullus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-19a.1322.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-19", "file": "debates1959-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "331cb87627155b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-19a.1339.9", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Daltons.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "Will the Economic Secretary agree that any loss which has been suffered by trustees in this investment is entirely due to the Government's financial policy which has caused a catastrophic drop in the price?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-19a.1339.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-23", "file": "debates1959-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "62dd0be864d53df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "No, satisfactorily to all except the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-23", "file": "debates1959-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "62dd0be864d53df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I repeat that I claim a certain paternalism in connection with this document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-23", "file": "debates1959-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "62dd0be864d53df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e figures which I have no doubt my right hon. Friend will readily confirm. In 1956, 218 million tons of coal were used for inland purposes in Great Britain. This year, according to Sir James Bowman, 196 million tons will be used, but Sir James is generally wrong in his arithmetic According to Nabarro it will be 191 million tons. I expect to be right on 31st December when the figures are looked at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-23", "file": "debates1959-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "62dd0be864d53df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rot-phrase \"industrial stagnation\". In fact, the level of industrial production today is about 6 per cent. higher than last year, and last year it was about 2 per cent. higher than in 1956. Therefore, between 1956 and 1959 there has been an increase of about 8 per cent. in industrial production. The interesting thing is that the only industry which has not taken advantage of that increase is coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-23", "file": "debates1959-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "62dd0be864d53df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.118.3", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "y be burned smokelessly in a modern boilerhouse providing the proper kind of chain grate mechanical stoker is in use. For the most part these are low-grade coals that we have in stock. They are all capable of being used, but not at these prices. My proposition to the Minister is therefore this, that a reduction of 1 million tons in these stocks next year is futile and nugatory—futile and nugatory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-23", "file": "debates1959-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "62dd0be864d53df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Mr. J. C. George)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Mr. J. C. George)", "preceding_text": "t the proposition that this great industry should be handed out dole. The upward swing of industry will bring the coal industry back into a proper position and keep it on the right financial road. It is vitally important that the House should appreciate what has been done. The hon. Member for Bosworth (Mr. Wyatt), in most exaggerated language, said that the Government had the miners by the throat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-23a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.194.7", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UGANDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult to calculate the degree of political freedom existing in any society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.194.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. LEONARD HACKETT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "eman address himself to the contents of the Lord Chancellor's letter to me, in which the Lord Chancellor gave as his excuse for taking no action, first, that Mr. Hackett had been misreported and, secondly, that he himself had no intention of suggesting that the boy should be beaten? As the two bases on which the Lord Chancellor decided to take no action have been proved to be false and misleading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, the representation. We have, of course, discussed this together. I think that it is desirable that we make the representation of Privy Councillors", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, the representation. We have, of course, discussed this together. I think that it is desirable that we make the representation of Privy Councillors [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] We have discussed that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, the representation. We have, of course, discussed this together. I think that it is desirable that we make the representation of Privy Councillors [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] We have discussed that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because I think that it would be wise to do so and helpful to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The terms of reference have been agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sure that it is the wish of the House that a solution should emerge acceptable to all the races in the territories concerned. The terms of reference, in my opinion, give the Commission full scope to advise us on how best that object can be achieved, but, of course, if the Commission thinks that it could not fulfil its task to its satisfaction within the terms of reference no doubt it would say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "CENTRAL AFRICA (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the announcement of the members of the Commission will bring great disappointment to Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "y Mr. Whitbread's horses, because it had long been a custom for the Speaker of the House of Commons, usually prior to taking office, to hold a brewery directorship. He went on to say that it seemed rather symbolic at that time, when the brewing industry was rampant in the country, that they should drag the Speaker's coach. I do not know, but probably the brewing interest is not so strong nowadays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MR. SPEAKER MORRISON'S RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Gordon. The effect of this Amendment would be to debar future ex-Speakers from accepting any form of work and putting themselves in the labour market. In effect, it is an earnings rule. If they earn a certain amount, whether from an office under the Crown or an office in a private undertaking, they would be debarred from taking their pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL PENSIONS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "e not asked, what sum it is suggested would be taken out in regard to paragraph ( a ). There is nothing to prevent me asking. The same thing applies to paragraph ( b ), but when it comes to paragraph ( c ) we are dealing with something which is specific and is known. How many judges retired before 9th July, 1959, what pension are they now receiving and how much is the Treasury prepared to pay out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL PENSIONS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lobby fodder.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " made brave speeches on the hustings on such expenditure. I sincerely hope we shall find that some of those jubilant and joyful perorations which they have put behind them will cause them to ask what this is going to cost, but I am afraid they will get the same answer as I am getting, that the Government do not know. Hon. Members opposite are going gaily to pass this without knowing what it costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-24", "file": "debates1959-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d0f4979e19e78fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL PENSIONS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "question of Lobby fodder, but of the kind of speech they make to their constituents and what they do when they come here. They are entitled to know what this will cost under paragraph ( c ). I return to this point and we can repeat it as often as we like until we get an answer. This is why a Money Resolution comes before a Committee of the whole House. It is to enable us to probe what is involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-24a.316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-25", "file": "debates1959-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57323be6917b97e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.352.8", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I think that everybody would agree that the Admiralty Interview Board is right in bearing in mind not only academic standards, but the other standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.352.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-25", "file": "debates1959-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57323be6917b97e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (COMPENSA TION FOR REDUNDANCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "which was of interest to about 50,000 workers. But, also, I understand that there is much delay and anxiety. The position of hon. Members representing textile constituencies is rapidly becoming intolerable, because we cannot get any information and we are inundated with questions to which we cannot given an answer. I do not wish to direct any criticism to the President of the Board of Trade today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-25", "file": "debates1959-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57323be6917b97e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPBUILDING (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "merely asking what his attitude will be. The right hon. Gentleman has asked for power to administer these matters. He is asking for powers which hitherto have been possessed by the Admiralty. I am not anxious to give him these powers until I receive an assurance that he will exercise them in the way that I should wish him to. I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to go on for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-25", "file": "debates1959-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57323be6917b97e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPBUILDING (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has had a lot to say to the House already and has been out of order. I think it most desirable that this transfer of functions should take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-25", "file": "debates1959-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "57323be6917b97e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.509.2", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPBUILDING (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "use it would be folly to try. I shall do my best, and if I cannot succeed I shall be frank, because it will be nothing to be ashamed of if I find that the job is too big a burden. I am not taking it on for the sake of empire building or because of Parkinson's law. I shall do my best in the three departments—road, rail and shipping—and if I find it is too much I shall go at once without hesitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-25a.509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.538.4", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For coal and oil, for instance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Figures can be made to mean anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but my right hon. Friend has joined with me in the last few years in agricultural areas in encouraging the production of quality pigs for both pork and bacon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "The causes of the problem are world-wide, and one important piece of help the Government can give is to pursue policies designed to promote an increase in world trade as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.551.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If I remember aright, this question was widely discussed during recent weeks, in the course of the autumn, and the conclusions reached by the electors were abundantly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.556.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not think that is a very good supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.559.6", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his visit to the Union has been interpreted very frequently as meaning an endorsement of the apartheid system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "we have this Committee\", and then, when the Committee produces its report, the Government say a few well-chosen words about it, reject its main conclusions and go on as before. There have been even more spectacular illustrations of that in the course of this year's history. Our approach is that this is a most valuable Report. We are certainly not committed to all its details or lines of reasoning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "a is a sharp and brutal change of gear; we must have a big rise in the Bank Rate.\" The Chancellor of this profligate Government might say, \"No. We know much better than that nowadays and we will not have such an increase\". In the end, of course, the will of the Chancellor must prevail. Under our Constitution, the Government, backed by the House of Commons, can do anything not naturally impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Paraphrase.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman will be able to go over there, here and now, and put himself right in the eves of his theoretical master who guided the feet of the trio and so led to their promotion from the Government Front Bench to the sincerity and candour that is found alone on the back benches. Lord Robbins said, when attacking those who wanted to leave interest rates artificially low—or even naturally low—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "is interest rate, and push it up so that savings will become attractive and the small saver will put his money into Government bonds. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Flint, West (Mr. Birch) says that he has been swindled, presumably mainly by Conservative Governments, but it is said we must have a rate that will encourage everybody to save. This is not at all in accordance with experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "But our professional economic ritualists, rather than upset an old-established rule that a Treasury bill is a Treasury bill and the bank is entitled to lend three times the amount of a Treasury bill once it has got it, drive the local authorities to this ridiculous borrowing which has forced up interest rates, raised the rents of council houses, and dislocated the finance of all local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Normally.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "Yes. I have said that the Governor will be free to consult the Committee of Treasury and seek its advice on policy, but will not normally discuss with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ad to say when he was winding up. It is a fact that local authorities benefit from these arrangements because they are paying a lower rate on these short-term moneys than they would be paying if they were borrowing on long term from either the market or the Public Works Loan Board. It is, to some measure at least, because local authorities choose to borrow short that their short-term debt is high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-26", "file": "debates1959-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "6a697bf3943dacdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "SCOTLAND (TRAINING OF TEACHERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Niall Macpherson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Niall Macpherson)", "preceding_text": "that matter, I trust, that the House will direct its attention. I do not think that we can properly argue that these Regulations should not be made, or should not be confirmed, merely because something else might be done, or because some people think something else should be done. I think that we must treat these Regulations on their merits. Perhaps I may be allowed to tell the House what they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-26a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-30", "file": "debates1959-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "557d9f6cea113064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the importation of liquid methane and I was merely saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.844.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-11-30", "file": "debates1959-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "557d9f6cea113064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I hope for some finality soon, but these are delicate negotiations and the less said the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-30", "file": "debates1959-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "557d9f6cea113064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.861.7", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I have received a letter from the Association in which it said that it was writing to me at the express request of the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.861.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-30", "file": "debates1959-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "557d9f6cea113064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "It was Edward VIth's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-30", "file": "debates1959-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "557d9f6cea113064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Robinson", "preceding_text": ". I do not think that any hon. Member so far has reminded the House that more than four years ago there was a solemn promise by the party opposite in its 1955 election manifesto. It read as follows: We shall introduce legislation to give effective status to those, known as medical auxiliaries, who assist doctors in investigation and treatment. That is on page 25 of \"United for Peace and Progress\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-11-30", "file": "debates1959-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "557d9f6cea113064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Edith Pitt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three hours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Edith Pitt)", "preceding_text": "ed to find—that there is general support for the Bill on all sides of the House, but one of my difficulties in a Bill that is not politically controversial is that it stimulates interest in other directions. Hon. Members seek further information or add their particular knowledge, and I am left with such a crop of questions that I doubt whether I have time to answer them all in a winding-up speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-11-30a.938.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.999.7", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "he Minister aware that that Answer shows complacency? Is he aware of the steadily increasing decay in children's teeth throughout Scotland? What positive steps is the Secretary of State prepared to take so that we may get the requisite number of qualified dentists staffing our schools throughout Scotland? The figure is much below what the Secretary of State has indicated to the House is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.999.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister realise that his very visit to South Africa is in itself taking up a position about this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "FRENCH CAMEROONS (POLITICAL REFUGEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Further to that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC AND UNITED KINGDOM (DIPLO- MATIC RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "on of the quality of modesty. With regard to Mr. Zarb, I gave an Answer to the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Peart) the other day, to which I have nothing to add. I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman associated the Opposition with my tribute to the Swiss authorities. The balance sheet of the past I have discussed on a number of occasions on certain public platforms during the last two months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC AND UNITED KINGDOM (DIPLO- MATIC RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "By protecting people from the consequences of nationalisation I should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "who live in those areas who have a great interest in maintaining and improving the level of employment. I want to say this, because I think that it is very important indeed. The County Borough of Tyne-mouth has exercised the powers that have been conferred under the various Acts. I might point out that the original creative idea arose from the then Conservative Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I see the hon. Member's point, but it would not be fair to do that, because in the first few years after the war—after six years of war, the frustration of new development, and the destruction of much property—it was natural that there should be a larger burst of new factory building and new businesses wanting to start up than in the years since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Sunderland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " many other statistics that I could have used. I moved the Amendment with the minimum amount of statistics, and dealt with it in more general terms, but I honestly believe that if hon. Members opposite were free to vote as they would like, they would vote for the Amendment. The electors who only recently participated in a General Election, the electors in Lanarkshire, in the Highlands of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. C. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. C. Manuel", "preceding_text": " my apologies. The Government did not take the action which they should have taken in connection with the decision of the National Coal Board to cease exporting 250,000 tons of coal a year from the Port of Ayr to Northern Ireland. Because of that there will be more pits closed in Ayrshire and mining villages will be bereft of employment. I wish to quote a letter, one of many which I have received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLUB, CAPEL CURIG (PLANNING APPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many on licensed premises?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Six of the appeals were in North Wales. Seven of them were dismissed and seven were allowed. I have made inquiries and, so far as I can see, out of the seven allowed in different parts of Wales only on one was there any kind of complaint or representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-01", "file": "debates1959-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7463ec7dc5c8843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLUB, CAPEL CURIG (PLANNING APPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "o far as I can see, out of the seven allowed in different parts of Wales only on one was there any kind of complaint or representation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How many on licensed premises?\"] That is not relevant here. I cannot accept for a moment that I should regard as relevant whether the bungalow was in the grounds of licensed premises or elsewhere. That certainly is not what I can take into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-01a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, he did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "With all respect to you, Mr. Speaker, there was an altercation in the House. The point of order was raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Brixton (Mr. Lipton), and you then said, \"This is not a point of order. It does not concern me.\" You then immediately called the Prime Minister, who did not respond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1186.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "t of order for the Chair, I proceeded to the next business, and called the Prime Minister. It was not done with the view of frustrating any other business, but only that I was unaware that any hon. Member desired to raise an intervening point I had called the Prime Minister. That was acknowledged in the conventional manner. Accordingly, the Question is, That the Proceedings on Government Business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1188.5", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend get the newspaper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1188.5", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend get the newspaper? [Interruption. ] Further to this point of Privilege, Mr. Speaker. What you have said about the necessity for the production of the whole of the document is highly interesting. Would you give us this further Ruling? In view of the necessity to produce the whole document, is there also a necessity to read the whole document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I am not giving any assurances on individual areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1248.2", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hotels.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " into the Bill the words \"whether seasonally or generally\". If the Government had wished to deal with the problem of seasonal unemployment, after the passage of the Bill they could have done so in any case. I cannot envisage the kind of industry or undertaking which the Government have in mind for areas in which there is seasonal unemployment. What kind of industry can operate on a seasonal basis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ing about persons. We shall be talking about persons at a later stage, I have no doubt. Is it really suggested that the state of the hotel industry in this country is now so grave that hotel keepers can expect to be included within the pro- visions of the Bill? Are we really to use these words \"whether seasonally or generally\" to assist certain hotels in the centre of Britain and round our coasts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Has happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Rhodes) said, in some of the new trading circumstances we are facing in Europe. If one were to say that action should be taken in every possible threat of unemployment we should get real difficulty. We think this word \"imminent\" is best because it covers any threat, as I tried to explain on the Second Reading, where something definite has happened which inevitably would lead to unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "nemployment has climbed to 6·4 per cent. Workers have to travel to Glasgow from Irvine and the town clerk of Irvine told me only a fortnight ago that they were having great difficulty because, after paying their fares, they were left with only £6 per week. That is the sort of difficulty we want cleared up. That is why I support the Amendment. I put this question to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Forest of Dean.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ahead. The most important case of all is the expected closure of coal mines by the National Coal Board in view of the decline in the demand for coal. Here is a case, surely, where there is both need and opportunity for really effective planning. It is perfectly possible, and I have no doubt that there are such cases, that the Coal Board knows that in four years' time a pit is certain to be closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "f the word \"seasonally\". I believe that one of the great things which the Bill will achieve will be to bring about, for the first time in the history of this country a realisation that the pattern of industry is changing. Some hon. Gentlemen opposite remember the old Development Areas, which were the notorious areas of unemployment in 1929 and 1930. Believe me, we are the depressed areas of today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never had it so good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "rn of industry is changing. Some hon. Gentlemen opposite remember the old Development Areas, which were the notorious areas of unemployment in 1929 and 1930. Believe me, we are the depressed areas of today. [ Laughter. ] We are, it is the fact. Do hon. Gentlemen opposite realise that there are more people on National Assistance in my constituency today than in any other part of the United Kingdom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "n are not going to be the young people or the pensioners, but the older people fit to work who are going to be left stranded in these places. I would suggest one thing to the Committee. We have had most interesting debates today. I have been listening to them. But we are still in the middle of Clause 1. If it is to be finished at all, I wonder whether we could come to a decision on this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or co-partnership.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "s not the whole logic of that experience—and the failure of the other method and of other people—that we should extend direct Government action? That is what the Liberal Party should be advocating as well as the Labour Party. Is not that what all parties should be concentrating on doing? One cannot get private enterprise to go to the Highlands. There are not enough big, quick profits in this area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1319.2", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "terday by the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Sir D. Robertson), the industrial belt up towards Dundee, and even there it is to be found in certain parts. Does the Secretary of State really say that he is not concerned with depopulation? Does he agree with his right hon. Friend that we have not in this country sufficient resources to do anything about this problem? That is what was said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1319.2", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "d that we have not in this country sufficient resources to do anything about this problem? That is what was said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] We are entitled to know. The people of Scotland are entitled to know. I ask the Secretary of State this direct question. Does he say to the people of Scotland that the Government cannot find any resources to deal with this overwhelming problem of depopulation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1324.0", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman ought to look at what has been said. He ought to look —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1324.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": "osition is that he really wants the Amendment but has been refused it by him right hon. Friend. Perhaps it is for that reason that he came to the Dispatch Box a few minutes ago and did not say a word against it. I wonder if the Secretary of State would answer this question. Does he not think that the powers being given in the Bill should be exercised in the Highlands to avoid further depopulation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-02", "file": "debates1959-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a187c9a7f8a2c427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I do not want there to be any misunderstanding about my position in this matter. I agree with everything that my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-02a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mi. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mi. Barber", "preceding_text": "The two cases are not comparable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Speaking for myself, I was not impressed by the impartiality of the Observer article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "TELEPHONE CONVERSATION, READING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was privilege not claimed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "tside bodies. Here we have an example of the police indulging in criminal investigation and taking action which I regard, and I have so stated, as being exceptional with the agreement of one of the parties concerned, namely, the subscriber. When the subpoena arrived, the police had no alternative but to submit the document unless I claimed privilege for it, and that was when the matter came to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1384.0", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "TELEPHONE CONVERSATION, READING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "My information is that the suggestion was put to the lady by the police and that she agreed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1385.2", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "TELEPHONE CONVERSATION, READING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Will not the Home Secretary accept that, whatever legal difficulties he may have encountered in this case, it was generally understood by the House that this was exactly a case which came under the Government's undertaking on the Report of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "TELEPHONE CONVERSATION, READING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I did not say that I would automatically accept the advice of the Law Officers. I said that I would consult the Law Officers and the Lord Chancellor, who made the original statement in 1955, about the application of privilege, because there are two sorts of privilege in cases like this. I think that that is an offer which it is reasonable for the House to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1394.3", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Take the Motion off.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "as no power, and no other court has any power, to order you to be so punished. However, I have no doubt that if you continue in your present way of life this punishment you will receive, and it will not be ordered by a court of law but by other men in whose society you will find yourself\"; and this House is therefore of the opinion that Mr. Hackett should be removed from the list of magistrates. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1396.3", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I have leave to put a question to the Leader of the House, with apologies to the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Gresham Cooke)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1396.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1482.4", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "t any time there, because of late the office has been dealt with on the basis of granting him a peerage on his appointment. He is not only a politician, but a party politician. This is where it becomes difficult to avoid referring to the fact that no person has been more of a party politician than the present holder of the office. I remember the Lord Chancellor when he was in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1482.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-03", "file": "debates1959-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "1216e9e90f3e10cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1503.0", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ustified in saying that we can reconsider this matter, because it might mislead the Committee into thinking that we regarded it as an open point. I think that it would be much more candid with the Committee to say that this is a matter to which we gave consideration in drafting the Bill. I think, therefore, that it would be wrong of me even to be as forthcoming as hon. Members have asked me to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-03a.1502.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-04", "file": "debates1959-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "2a89abddd821f93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-04a.1593.2", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "INLAND WATERWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "form of water in the countryside fenced around with impenetrable barriers. That would be inordinately expensive and should be unnecessary. Parents and guardians, and all those having responsibility for children should exercise that responsibility and see that they do not get into such places of danger. We come now to what must be done. I would say, transfer the whole system to a conservative body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-04a.1593.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "PIGS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows far more than he pretends. To say, when one is engaged in agriculture production, that one should merely pay attention to the last two months, without taking a period of time in a market as fluctuating as the pig market, is folly and not worthy of the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman is in a responsible position. As Miss Perham pointed out in a remarkable letter in The Times last week, this is not a private enterprise venture on which the Prime Minister is engaged. This is a matter in which there are very great hazards. The Prime Minister is a master of the art of propaganda. We saw the way in which he used President Eisenhower when he was in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is dead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " hazards. The Prime Minister is a master of the art of propaganda. We saw the way in which he used President Eisenhower when he was in this country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] By all accounts it was the most successful political party broadcast of them all. I do not know why hon. Members opposite should take exception to what I say. I hope that the Prime Minister will not find himself used by Dr. Malan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.112.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nyasaland.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "position advanced in the first operative paragraph,\"— which dealt with the observance of human rights— is one with which we have, on our record, always been associated. In the territories for which my Government are responsible, our policies are, we believe, clear and unequivocal. We are helping the people of those territories to move to nationhood in freedom, regardless of race, colour and creed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chataway", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chataway", "preceding_text": "th nothing to lose demand racial tolerance from others at pistol point, so to speak. That sometimes seems to be the attitude of hon. Members opposite. The hon. Member for Eton and Slough (Mr. Brockway) twice last year introduced a Bill to make any racial discrimination in this country punishable by law. I think that this suggestion was again put forward this afternoon by the Front Bench opposite —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": "ur-minute mile I have been a great admirer of him; and not only for his athletic prowess, but also for the consistency to which he has stood against racial discrimination in his profession in connection with television. It is a great delight to be able to express the appreciation of the House on the sincere and thoughtful speech, a speech which reflects personality, which he has delivered tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "ded merely on the legalistic arguments about which we have been hearing this evening. Tonight, I urge the House to realise that we must face this issue in the United Nations in a new way. I am so tired of the argument from one side of the House and the other of the way a party voted in 1946. This issue is not one between two sections of this House who want to score party points against each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "world. Even if this means that on occasions delegates of Governments may walk out of the Assembly because of the protest that has been made, in one instance after another it has been shown that the influence of that vote has been good upon those countries. If one may illustrate it from one's own country, is there any doubt that the vote of the United Nations on the issue of our aggression in Suez—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might have listened to the debate. What I said was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "That was not the question which was put by the Guardian. It asked what would be the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-07", "file": "debates1959-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "f82e317eb88ad1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1959–60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read the Observer editorial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "he plight of, for instance, the Baltic States and Hungary. Mr. Gaitskell went even farther astray in his questions to Mr. Macmillan. For the second time in a few days Parliament has heard the Leader of the Opposition calling upon the Prime Minister publicly to announce in advance of his meeting Dr. Verwoerd, that he proposed to take the opportunity of lecturing his host on the evils of apartheid.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-07a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will know what is contained in the Bill at present being debated in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I never suggested any precise date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICA (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the attitude of the Opposition and the suspicion of public opinion in the country generally about the Monckton Commission are due to the fact that before it starts it appears to be a packed and not an impartial Commission? Since the Commission will not enjoy the confidence of 95 per cent. of the people who live in the Protectorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "Yes. But I should have thought that the Board of Trade, with its expert knowledge of this problem, was better equipped to make decisions of this kind without the political pressure that must ensue from many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Barry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "The speech of the hon. Member for Gower was one of the most astonishing that I have heard in this Chamber for some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "f the Board of Trade if we were to put this definition and distinction into the Bill. The Government have been accused of trying to sell the Committee a pig in a poke. They have also been asked to let the cat out of the bag. I have been trying to decide exactly what that cat or that pig may be. As far as I can see, only an expansion of industrial perfec- tion will cure the problem of unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the Bill is to cure unemployment in the country, but from the remarks of hon. Gentlemen opposite I understood the pig in the poke to be a definition of the areas. I do not think it possible to give such a definition at present.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": " to wish to avoid putting on him the obligation of writing all those areas into this Measure. Furthermore, I am absolutely confident that when areas are to be added or taken away—and that is obviously the more difficult decision to make—my right hon. Friend's decision will be made in such a way as to allow the House every opportunity of arguing against it, if necessary. That is all we can ask for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "A very good one—the hon. Gentleman always speaks very well—but I hope that he will not expect me to be diverted by every point he makes. His comments about the 1958 Act would not really be proper for me to discuss at this moment; I cannot go into the merits of that Act now. I believe it to have been a very good Act which has worked very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I think that when I give way to a right hon. Member to make an intervention he should not try to make a further speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are in Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I think that when I give way to a right hon. Member to make an intervention he should not try to make a further speech. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I had spoken myself for only a few minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.296.2", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "purpose which hon. Members opposite have outlined as being necessary. It would not enable the House of Commons to decide all these matters. All that would happen in the case of the initial list, would be that it would come before the House on an affirmative Resolution. There would be no additions to, nor deletions from, the list. It would be in the nature of turning Parliament into a rubber stamp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.331.2", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "the whole system of the working of the British system of Cabinet Government. I think that I would be out of order if I went into that this evening. I do not believe that the insertion of my name, as suggested by the Amendment, would add to the ability of any Secretary of State for Scotland to do the job that must be done in Scotland in relation to the Bill. I suggest that it has some disadvantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman at all in that interpretation. Clearly we have to endeavour to provide employment appropriate to the needs of the locality, because the power, in so far as it is exercised—and we assume that it is to be exercised, otherwise we are talking about nothing—must be exercised to provide employment appropriate to the needs of the locality. We cannot determine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.381.6", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "That is a very important Clause, and I have one or two questions to ask in relation to it. Seldom have we been able to say that any Clause has been discussed at such length and received such a battering, and such a lack of support from the benches opposite, and yet come out unscathed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.381.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I reinforce the plea made earlier. I want to speak specifically about the exercise of powers under Clause 1. Before we approve of the Clause, I should like to know how the powers will be administered in my own area. I am certain that hon. Members opposite will not mind my asking this at this later hour, although it was mentioned in earlier discussion of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.390.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.412.2", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will be too late then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "at I said that things like playing fields might well come within the compass of the Bill. The point is not whether the provision of playing fields provides employment, but that we must be satisfied that they will make the areas concerned so much more attractive to industry that there is a reasonable likelihood of industry coming to the area. But we can discuss that matter when we come to Clause 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.412.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser) has made a reasonable request to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "d that the Government should look at this provision again with a view to taking it out of the Bill. Surely the Government have not reached so high and mighty a position that they cannot look at a provision a second time. Surely they are not so inflexible when they come to the Committee that they are unable to say now and then, \"We will look at this again\". What is the point of all this discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in the Western Isles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "\"estimated\" in both cases is to enable figures to be worked out as soon as an industrialist is interested. We can work out the figures and tell him what he will get by way of grant at the outset, so that he knows quite clearly what he is going to get. Let me give the Committee an example briefly. The cost of building, shall we say, is roughly the same anywhere in Great Britain at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.439.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "e cost of transportation can vary so much that it may be a very costly business over and above the estimate. So it may cost £125,000. The estimate contained in this Bill which will ultimately become an Act and on which the Government base their calculation will not be found accurate in fact, and in my contention they will have to give extra money to the person building the factory. Is not that so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I should strongly press for the same provision for England and Wales as we are seeking for Scotland, and I hope that my hon. Friend will be as active about it as Scottish Members have been in pressing for representation by local authority nominees. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will look at the question again. We do not want to be difficult about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "he conditions in which a firm will make use of the Clause, he can apply this provision about imposing conditions which the Board thinks fit, not which the Board thinks practical, for securing that the building or extension will continue to serve the purposes of this Part of this Act\"? It is just as well we have the word \"may\" here, because that is a get-out. In fact, it is just a piece of padding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-08", "file": "debates1959-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b23d06639fc1d308", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "successful\"? Was he using that expression in the context accepted by capitalism and private enterprise? An enterprise can be carried on successfully in a quite different context. I remember Sir Stafford Cripps, many years ago, replying to a Conservative Member and saying that the test of a successful publicly-owned industry was quite different from that of the success of a privately-owned industry", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-08a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Air conditioning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Yes. I was asked whether I would do something to improve conditions. There are quite a lot of things I should like to do to improve conditions in Aden, I quite agree, but I cannot do anything about the heat and the humidity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.497.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.522.2", "colnum": "522", "heading": "BROUGHTY FERRY LIFEBOAT (LOSS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The men have been taken off.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Henderson-Stewart", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that not more than two hours ago I was informed from Fife that the lightship is, as he said, off the rocks at Kingbarns, that only one line is holding the vessel from being swept right on to the rocks and that the lives of eight men are at stake, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He gets his share.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "he Ministers. Acres and acres of industrial slum heritage are out of use to the nation, and this Clause endeavours to bring some of them back into use. The Clause itself is printed rather differently from the rest. We get the italicised warning that it has something to do with what the noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke) has so felicitously described as \"State lolly\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.549.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.597.2", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "een as reasonable, decent and harmonious as it was possible for it to be, and had the Leader of the House been present all day today he would have been very pleased with the way we were all getting on together. A delay arose, and I admit that, and I saw the annoyance expressing itself in the indignant look on the face of the Patronage Secretary. I saw him look at the Chair and speak several times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.597.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether I am right, but I think that there is some confusion here. The existing development companies, as I understand it, will still continue, while the corporation provided for under the Bill will be entirely distinct from the local corporations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.619.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is still a national matter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "same benefits should be available to all areas which qualify by reason of their unemployment conditions. It is consistent with that that we should seek, as the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South said, national uniformity in administration. However, I admit that we are not being wholly logical, because we have separate arrangements for Scotland and Wales, but I should have thought that this was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.641.2", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "nd its talents to the wealth of the nation. The Minister says that it is difficult to persuade industrialists to go beyond Swansea. It is even more difficult to get them to go to Caernarvonshire where the same problem arises and where there is desperate need. It is the same in Anglesey and the whole of North-West Wales, and, no doubt, the same could be said of Scotland, particularly the Highlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "the Board of Trade. The City of Stoke-on-Trent has had nothing but discouragement from it 10.30 p.m. This is a new start, and people who exert voluntary effort and civic effort are worthy of more encouragement from the central Government than they have had up to the present. I look upon the Minister as a big man. He is relatively young. He has got to his present position on merit. He is all right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.686.5", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": " burden is imposed on you, then in no circumstances will we issue a development certificate for the area in which you want to go. You must go to the area which we say needs industry, or you will not go anywhere at all.\" During the last two days, I have developed a respect and admiration for the way the President of the Board of Trade has handled the task with which he has been presented this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.686.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-09", "file": "debates1959-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fb59af809b696a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.698.5", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "We have made a lot of progress recently in an atmosphere of harmony and I should be very sorry to spoil that harmonious atmosphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-09a.698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-10", "file": "debates1959-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "cf12d0c05d7bb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-10", "file": "debates1959-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "cf12d0c05d7bb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "500 people being affected. If the Observer is correct in its report of May this year, only 2 per cent. still of the office workers in London are in organised staggering arrangements. Thirty per cent. are still discharged on the dot of 5.30. It seems to me that far greater efforts must be made to make sure that staggering arrangements are established. The Labour Party staggers from Transport House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-10", "file": "debates1959-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "cf12d0c05d7bb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "on is given a ticket for the first time he goes to the police station and pays £1 and the offence is noted in the book. For the second offence, he is fined £3. He is allowed three offences in the year. For the third offence, the fine is £8, and then he has to go to court. I wrote asking how effective this system was. I was told that it was extremely effective—no one ever parked in the wrong place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-10", "file": "debates1959-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "cf12d0c05d7bb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albert Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albert Evans", "preceding_text": "I am sure the right hon. Gentleman is not casting any reflection on the London local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-10", "file": "debates1959-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "cf12d0c05d7bb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who raided it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Awbery", "preceding_text": "aid into that fund to make provision for the maintenance of the roads. If there is no money in the fund there is nothing to prevent the Government from providing a Road Fund. In 1926, the Road Fund was raided by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, who took £5 million from it. But the Fund was established as a horse- power tax on cars and the proceeds were assigned to the newly established roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-10", "file": "debates1959-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "cf12d0c05d7bb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Ledger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Ledger", "preceding_text": " not think that this idea of providing car parks will necessarily do it, even if we provide car parks right outside the tube and railway stations. I do not believe that for the reason that a man is not going to buy a car and pay all the expenses connected with it, and, on top of all that, pay fares. I therefore suggest to the Minister that there should be no payment for travelling on the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-10", "file": "debates1959-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "cf12d0c05d7bb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "sent, when a road is to be repaired it is dug up, and at five o'clock in the evening a lamp is put there to mark the site and the workmen go home. The result is that the street becomes congested. At eight o'clock the following morning the workmen arrive. They then go off for tea and all the other things that the average workmen goes off for during a normal day. Why do they not work in the evening?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-10", "file": "debates1959-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "cf12d0c05d7bb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who controls the parks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I cannot argue with the hon. Member on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-10", "file": "debates1959-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "cf12d0c05d7bb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "h all manner of things which we have put there, or have allowed to be there and which impede the free flow of traffic. There are traffic islands, refuges, and lamp standards in the centre of the road and there are pedestrian crossings. I am not decrying these crossings, but they slow the traffic flow. We allow vehicles of all kinds to load and unload, we allow buses to stop and pick up passengers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-10a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.963.4", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "I know that my hon. Friend is anxious to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, and I am sure that he will make his speech when he succeeds in doing so. I was about to deal with the question of welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.963.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "f the Bill. The hon. Member for Greenwich, quite rightly, asked hon. Members not merely to address their arguments against the Bill. In the last Parliament, the hon. Member for Walthamstow, West introduced a Bill setting out rigid minimum requirements. In this Bill the hon. Member for Greenwich, as he himself admits, goes to the other extreme in that he leaves everything to be done by regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.972.5", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why selected authorities?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vosper", "preceding_text": "aid in this debate, there is little specific evidence about the conditions in offices in general. As a matter of course, the Government will study what has been said in the debate today. In addition, however, they feel that further up-to-date information is required about office conditions and they propose therefore to ask selected local authorities to report on the situation as they see it today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.972.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.981.5", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. W. Bishop", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Somebody needs to do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. W. Bishop", "preceding_text": "hat he had had a complaint that a number of men in the office had as a sanitary convenience nothing but a chamber pot, which then was emptied down a lavatory bowl where the woman was accustomed to make the afternoon tea. I am sorry to trouble the House once again with such a shocking instance, but it is necessary to do so. The hon. Member should not have presented a case of that kind to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.981.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Most unsatisfactory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "Of course, I do not feel that that is completely satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "oddest from a practical point of view, is the provision requiring the employees in an office where facilities are provided for them to make use of them. It makes it mandatory on the man who is provided with drinking water and a glass from which to drink, to have a drink, I suppose, when he goes into the lavatory or to use the cake of soap that is provided by his employer instead of taking his own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "ees in an office where facilities are provided for them to make use of them. It makes it mandatory on the man who is provided with drinking water and a glass from which to drink, to have a drink, I suppose, when he goes into the lavatory or to use the cake of soap that is provided by his employer instead of taking his own. [ Interruption. ] It may be that hat is reducing the thing to an absurdity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "preceding_text": " interests. Certainly, we shall look forward to hearing him again from time to time, assuming, of course, that our Scottish friends enable any of us to say very much. Indeed, I am astounded to see that at least one of them has got himself left over on a Friday. We will assume that there is no Whip on either side on this Bill. I should like to say that I am not prepared to vote for this Bill today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "preceding_text": "om time to time, assuming, of course, that our Scottish friends enable any of us to say very much. Indeed, I am astounded to see that at least one of them has got himself left over on a Friday. We will assume that there is no Whip on either side on this Bill. I should like to say that I am not prepared to vote for this Bill today. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] I am equally not going to vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-11", "file": "debates1959-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c5b622f5403b1c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "tion among the ratepayers against it. We cannot have it both ways. Therefore, I think a strong case exists for considering the position of those office workers who have not benefited from the undoubted improvements that have taken place over a large sector of the economy during the last few years. Let us face the point fairly and squarely that the Government stand pledged to do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-11a.988.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1029.3", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Silly old man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1029.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member should know, these appointments are not a matter for the Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1044.5", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "All the regional hospital boards administer their services as agents of the Minister under the terms of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1044.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1044.5", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ervices as agents of the Minister under the terms of the Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Certainly. It is no doubt for that reason that the Question is rightly on the Order Paper. Nevertheless, Part II of the Third Schedule is quite specific as to the methods of appointment. This is an appointment of the board, and is in no way an appointment of mine. I have no doubt that it is a very good appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1044.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I think that the whole House will agree that these imputations are wholly out of place in a movement in which all service is given in a voluntary capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1046.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "The point I was putting, which I now put standing, is that the Minister's pompous remarks come ill from him, since he and the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "The point I was putting, which I now put standing, is that the Minister's pompous remarks come ill from him, since he and the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"]—I am asking him if he is not aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1047.4", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman can identify in a speech by me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1047.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": "elves and the rest of the O.E.E.C. countries with the Common Market for over two years. That was, indeed, the object of the Free Trade negotiations to which I have referred, and it was an object which was approved by the Opposition, too. Here, I should like to pay a tribute to the devoted work of the late John Edwards in the cause of closer European understanding. His work will be long remembered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ive us some idea of the figure when he replies to the debate. I cannot help feeling, in the same way as other right hon. and hon. Members who were in this House before the war cannot help feeling, that once again the Government are displaying the apathy and lethargy which the Government of the day displayed in the negotiations with other countries, particularly Russia, which ultimately led to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "we can with Europe to allow these things to come in. But this is part of what would have to be bargained for. It is relevant to this extent, that, of course, countries in the Far East wish to export a great deal more to Europe. Whether they particularly want to export textiles to Europe or other things is another matter. It is more likely that other products will be developed for export to Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "ontrary. If Britain stands aside from the main stream of European development, the Commonwealth will become less and less interested in London and this country and will turn to developments in Europe, because there will be a large expanding market with which the Commonwealth will wish to trade. Apart from all that, of course, the political implications are even more important. Before I close down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-14", "file": "debates1959-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4f03e5695a0c4da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1150.5", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "I was about to complete my speech, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-14a.1150.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1231.3", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member asked why more houses could not be built by the Scottish Special Housing Association. The reason is that the extension of the Association's assistance to any local authority depends on that authority's relative housing and financial need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1233.2", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "I certainly endorse the fact that the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, which is not exactly a nationalised board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1242.2", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "It is not getting on at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1242.6", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has just told us amid the din—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1242.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And answers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In answer to the hon. Baronet, it is apt to be time wasting if one pulls up hon. Members for long supplementary questions all the time. I would prefer to renew my request to the House to keep its own watch on supplementary questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1259.3", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "preceding_text": "What the proposed Bill does is to make it much harder for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to manage the gilt-edged market. It would undoubtedly have a budgetary effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1289.2", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend being a Scot.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1329.4", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " by one operator which may undermine the soundness of the chosen operator for any route. All we ask is that the Minister should be equally firm and sensible. We hope that he will be. If he takes that line the independents will have nothing to complain of. They already have some advantages not possessed by the Corporations. For instance, they are allowed to do trooping and the Corporations are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1329.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1379.0", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE SCHEME (NON-PARTICIPATION REGU- LATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Tiley", "preceding_text": "I should like to clear up one point in the hon. Gentleman's mind. A lot of valid argument has been put forward in the debate, but I wish that hon. Members opposite would remove from their minds their ideas about the poor employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE SCHEME (NON-PARTICIPATION REGU- LATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "ster should not believe that it is the responsibility of agents of Moscow if wild-cat strikes occur. The responsibility will lie at the Minister's door. The wheels cannot be kept turning in British industry today on the basis of making fish of one and fowl of another. In matters of this kind, in particular, where it is a question of reward for services rendered, all employees ought to be embraced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-15", "file": "debates1959-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c1c82cff8c5d256e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1396.4", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE SCHEME (NON-PARTICIPATION REGU- LATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "My verdict on the right hon. Gentleman's speech is that he has been too stubborn and argumentative over a matter which he could have disposed of quickly and easily had he taken a simple alternative course. Secondly, he was unduly sarcastic about the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-15a.1396.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-16", "file": "debates1959-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "45c388e124d0c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1437.0", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that, according to the recent Parliamentary delegation to Aden and other visitors, a large number of R.A.F. families are living in conditions which are so sordid and degrading as to be a national scandal, and that some families are living cheek by jowl with Arabs on the lowest Arab standards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1437.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-16", "file": "debates1959-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "45c388e124d0c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1439.4", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "As to all intents and appearances it seems as though the Air Ministry is being extremely slow in this matter, would not my right hon. Friend think it a good idea to send out to Aden a woman who does know something about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1439.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-16", "file": "debates1959-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "45c388e124d0c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1449.8", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Could the Leader of the House assure us that in no circumstances will he wander into the bogs of Ireland during the Recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1449.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-16", "file": "debates1959-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "45c388e124d0c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1461.4", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "PROCEDURE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME AND SELECT COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Are the right hon. Gentleman's recommendations fixed and firm? Can they be altered at all? If so, can we write to my right hon. Friend during the Recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-16", "file": "debates1959-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "45c388e124d0c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1481.3", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send him a letter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ffairs in Scotland, so that the economic needs of Scotland shall not be neglected. How are we to do that if the House is not even meeting? How are we to put other rather pertinent questions? We wish to put them not to the Home Secretary, but to the Ministers responsible for Scotland. How are we to put our case before the President of the Board of Trade on matters of economic paramount importance?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-16", "file": "debates1959-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "45c388e124d0c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ple of Scotland, as expressed through their representatives in this House, is not in favour of adjourning the House for six weeks and denying Scottish hon. Members the right to put to the Government important matters relating to Scotland. I have been questioning the Prime Minister. I went to see him with a delegation from Ayrshire, which included the hon. Baronet the Member for Ayr (Sir T. Moore)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-16", "file": "debates1959-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "45c388e124d0c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1492.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-16", "file": "debates1959-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "45c388e124d0c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "TELEPHONE TAPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the right hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "se conducting criminal investigations. Under the constitution, the police possess a measure of independence and autonomy, and any politician who attempted to take that away would be the biggest enemy of personal liberty and justice in this country. Having made the constitutional position clear, I can tell the House that I have no reason to think that there is widespread listening-in by the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-16a.1534.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-17", "file": "debates1959-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36cbcea0e009b063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-17a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICA (ADVISORY COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nk we add to that at this moment by trying to take one statement against another and trying to make political capital out of it, for that is what the right hon. Gentleman is doing. I said that I believed that this Commission will do a great piece of work, and I also believe that it is the wish of a great number of Members on that side of the House—of the right hon. Gentleman's party—to join in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-17a.1647.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1959-12-17", "file": "debates1959-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36cbcea0e009b063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-17a.1655.0", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is the hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) aware that her own five-minute speech on a point of order and, prior to that, another question which was entirely out of order for another two or three minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-17a.1655.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1959-12-17", "file": "debates1959-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "36cbcea0e009b063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-17a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is the hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) aware that her own five-minute speech on a point of order and, prior to that, another question which was entirely out of order for another two or three minutes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—prevented my asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1959-12-17a.1655.0"}
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